[Mailman-Users] DMARC and Gmail

[Jim Popovitch]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Joseph Brennan <brennan at columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> [DMARC's words]
>
>>    o  A "silent discard", wherein the SMTP server returns a 2xy reply
>>       code implying to the client that delivery (or, at least, relay)
>>       was successfully completed, but then simply discarding the
>>       message with no further action.
>
>
> Naturally the people who can't read RFC5322 and understand that the From
> header line represents the writer of the message also can't read RFC5321 and
> grasp that a 2xy code signifies a responsibility that is well defined (sec
> 4.2.5).
>
> They're just making stuff up.  And companies that fall for it betray their
> cluelessness.
>
> Joseph Brennan
> Columbia University Information Technology
>
> (N.B. They were so proud of using "wherein" that they got lost later in the
> sentence-- s/b "discards" not "discarding".)
>

+10  ^^ This is by far the best description of the situation.

-Jim P.