Email Authentication Status Codes
RFC 7372
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(September 2014; No errata)
Updates RFC 7208
|
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|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Murray Kucherawy | ||
| Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
| Replaces | draft-kucherawy-email-auth-codes | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
| Document shepherd | S Moonesamy | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2014-07-11) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7372 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Barry Leiba | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Kucherawy
Request for Comments: 7372 September 2014
Updates: 7208
Category: Standards Track
ISSN: 2070-1721
Email Authentication Status Codes
Abstract
This document registers code points to allow status codes to be
returned to an email client to indicate that a message is being
rejected or deferred specifically because of email authentication
failures.
This document updates RFC 7208, since some of the code points
registered replace the ones recommended for use in that document.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7372.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Key Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. New Enhanced Status Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. DKIM Failure Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.2. SPF Failure Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3. Reverse DNS Failure Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4. Multiple Authentication Failures Code . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. General Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Appendix A. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1. Introduction
[RFC3463] introduced Enhanced Mail System Status Codes, and [RFC5248]
created an IANA registry for these.
[RFC6376] and [RFC7208] introduced, respectively, DomainKeys
Identified Mail (DKIM) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF), two
protocols for conducting message authentication. Another common
email acceptance test is the reverse Domain Name System (DNS) check
on an email client's IP address, as described in Section 3 of
[RFC7001].
The current set of enhanced status codes does not include any code
for indicating that a message is being rejected or deferred due to
local policy reasons related to any of these mechanisms. This is
potentially useful information to agents that need more than
rudimentary handling information about the reason a message was
rejected on receipt. This document introduces enhanced status codes
for reporting those cases to clients.
Section 3.2 updates [RFC7208], as new enhanced status codes relevant
to that specification are being registered and recommended for use.
2. Key Words
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
[RFC2119].
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3. New Enhanced Status Codes
The new enhanced status codes are defined in the following
subsections.
3.1. DKIM Failure Codes
In the code point definitions below, the following definitions are
used:
passing: A signature is "passing" if the basic DKIM verification
algorithm, as defined in [RFC6376], succeeds.
acceptable: A signature is "acceptable" if it satisfies all locally
defined requirements (if any) in addition to passing the basic
DKIM verification algorithm (e.g., certain header fields are
included in the signed content, no partial signatures, etc.).
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