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Re: [ietf-smtp] homework, not an experiment, draft-crocker-email-deliveredto

2021-08-02 20:34:46
It appears that Viktor Dukhovni  <ietf-smtp(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org> said:
In particular, it is not unreasonable for the LDA to record an encoded
HMAC of the recipient address in the localpart, thereby making more
difficult abuse of "Delivered-To:" to elicit bounces of the message to
the purported envelope sender (because it is then harder for the
attacker to predict the magic "Delivered-To:" value).

Huh, interesting point.  Do you know of an LDAs that actually do that?  If so 
we should
add it to the description of the existing practice if we do a draft.

When I look at Postfix and qmail, they both appear to use the plaintext
locally rewritten recipient address, which may not make much sense to
software other than the MTA.

R's,
John

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