I'm trying to understand the practical value of continuing to honor legacy
policy mechanisms.  If you don't have a spoofing problem, what does your
SPF record actually do, aside from acting as a deterrent?


On 7/6/12 1:54 PM, "Scott Kitterman" <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Friday, July 06, 2012 08:24:16 PM Franck Martin wrote:
>> So when you have so many policies to choose from, it is better to remove
>> ambiguity and as DMARC is built on top of SPF and DKIM and more recent,
>> then best to ignore the policy components of the underlying protocols.
>
>This worries me as a sender.  All I want from DMARC is the feedback bit.
>
>As it stands, SPF works very well for my use case (small domain sending
>to a 
>modest number of receivers who only very rarely use transparent
>forwarding).  
>I am, however absolutely NOT a candidate for any kind of DMARC policy
>other 
>than monitor.  
>
>In my last DMARC report from Google, kitterman.com listed 3,130 messages
>from 
>136 IP addresses.  100% fail the SPF portion of DMARC due to lack of
>alignment 
>(the are all either web generated or email lists).  Only 7 of 3,130 had a
>DKIM 
>signature survive and be aligned.
>
>Absolutely none of those messages would have been rejected due to my -all
>SPF 
>record.  None of those messages were abusive as far as I can tell from
>the 
>provided information.
>
>A DMARC monitor policy should mean precisely that.  Monitor and provide
>feedback.  Trying to tell people to ignore my SPF record because I also
>have a 
>DMARC record that says not to do anything is just wrong.
>
>If people don't want mail rejected due to SPF or ADSP, then they
>shouldn't 
>publish DNS records inviting that.  DMARC absolutely should not change
>that.  
>If it does, then I don't want to do anything with it.
>
>Scott K
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