# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Email auth=pass verdict not recognized from trusted MTAs

## Open now

- 1 issue, 1 PR open on GitHub.
- #133298: \[Bug\]: Email gateway drops all PurelyMail senders — auth=pass Authentication-Results verdict unrecognized
- PR #133813: fix(email): authenticate senders whose receiver stamps only auth=pass

These issues and fixes concern email authentication logic failing to recognize the 'auth=pass' verdict in Authentication-Results headers stamped by trusted MTAs, causing senders (notably PurelyMail) to be incorrectly dropped or treated as unauthenticated.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 1 open issue(s), 0 closed issue(s), 1 open PR(s), 0 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- No fix has been merged to main; one or more PRs were attempted (see below).
- **Recommended:** review the prior/competing PR(s) below. A fix was attempted but not merged; your case may extend or revive that work.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `unresolved`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Open related issues

- #133298: \[Bug\]: Email gateway drops all PurelyMail senders — auth=pass Authentication-Results verdict unrecognized

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#133699: fix(email): accept auth=pass in Authentication-Results from trusted MTA**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `implemented_elsewhere`; implication `superseded`; refs `309ec2700b8539608849519ef98f1f7b3139962a`, `206102314a811b01abb27d24ca6d05fdd1b977b5`, `b35e72111b4e7fc79121420a139cd0348878ba70`, `#40016`
- **#133813: fix(email): authenticate senders whose receiver stamps only auth=pass**. open
  - maintainer direction: category `uncategorized`; implication `needs_llm`
  - files: `plugins/platforms/email/adapter.py`, `tests/gateway/test_email.py`

## Fix status

- No merged fix on record.
- Subsystem: `gateway`