On 7/6/12 7:55 AM, "Chris Lamont Mankowski" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>The use case that I'm trying to address is when a sender is sending to
>DMARC enabled receiving MTAs and also to non-DMARC enabled MTAs.  My
>understanding is that SPF ~all and -all (as well as ADSP) are
>currently not stringently adhered to by receiving MTAs.  Those
>directives may only end up being a weight in the grand scheme of
>things.
>
>The use case is when the sender is in this co-existence mode and also
>wants to have a DMARC policy for MTAs that can handle it.
>
>This assumes that the final disposition of the message in DMARC
>processing is different that SPF (which is more heuristic based)
>

Right, I think between your comments and Scott's that we should revisit
the cited text. Your premises above are correct, namely that many sites
that check SPF and/or ADSP don't actually enforce bounce requests from
those protocols for fear of false negatives.  But in the opposite case,
where one of them insists on a bounce but DMARC insists on lighter action,
I'm not sure DMARC should be an absolute override.

We may as well assume that all senders are in co-existence mode, since
it's very likely that only a subset of the receivers will actually be
DMARC participants.

-MSK

>


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