So all of our email should be coming from drbott.net.  I checked out that SPF 
tool and that actually uncovered a few more things about our zone record I 
didn't realize.  Thanks.

I went back to review some of the DMARC reports from Hotmail and realized that 
it wasn't explicitly saying it was failing DMARC like I thought it was.  I 
think I was thinking of a different DMARC report I had been looking at around 
the same time.  The other part of the puzzle is that when Hotmail sends back 
their forensic reports, they make it sound like it was a message being reported 
as spam.  Below is their wording:

This is an email abuse report for an email message received from IP **Removed** 
 on Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:09:54 -0800.
The message below did not meet the sending domain's authentication policy.
For more information about this format please see 
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5965.txt.

So it makes it sound like the message was either quarantined or rejected.  Does 
anyone know if Hotmail treats messages that fail either authentication checks 
more harshly?

Dan West: Systems & Database Specialist | Dr. Bott LLC, "The Gateway to the 
Digital Lifestyle"
877.611.2688 | 9730 SW Hillman Ct, Ste 600, Wilsonville, OR 97070 | 
www.drbott.net

On Jan 17, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Franck Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> What is your domain?
> 
> try this tool: http://dmarcian.com/spf-survey/
> 
> 
> From: Dan West <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:23 AM
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [dmarc-discuss] DMARC auth-failure: DKIM passes, SPF Fails
> 
> I am receiving DMARC reports back from Hotmail that show that some of our 
> email is passing the DKIM check, but not the SPF check.  The result is that 
> the message is failing DMARC and getting quarantined.  From everything I have 
> read, a message must fail both SPF and DKIM checks to also fail DMARC.  The 
> report sent on 12/7 shows that the only thing that failed was SPF.  I believe 
> this is because the email got auto-forwarded from another account.   I 
> believe that since alignment and DKIM were still valid, it should have still 
> gone through.  Is there something I am missing from this report?  I am not 
> having this problem from Gmail or Yahoo.  Below are the details of the report 
> with private info **removed**:
> 
> Feedback-Type: auth-failure
> User-Agent: XMR/2.2
> Version: 1.0
> Original-Mail-From: <**removed**>
> Original-Rcpt-To: **removed**
> Arrival-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:09:54 -0800
> Message-ID: <**removed**>
> Authentication-Results: hotmail.com; spf=fail (sender IP is **removed**; 
> identity alignment result is pass and alignment mode is strict) 
> smtp.mailfrom=**removed**; dkim=pass (identity alignment result is pass and 
> alignment mode is strict) header.d=**removed**; x-hmca=pass
> Source-IP: **removed**
> Auth-Failure: spf
> Reported-Domain: **removed**
> DKIM-Domain: **removed**
> DKIM-Identity: **removed**
> DKIM-Selector: dk1
> 
> So what I am hoping to find out is, does Hotmail have a stricter DMARC policy 
> than other email providers such as Google and Yahoo?  Is there anything else 
> I can do to improve the reputation of forwarded emails?  Would changing the 
> SPF parameter from strict to relaxed affect this? 
> Dan West: Systems & Database Specialist | Dr. Bott LLC, "The Gateway to the 
> Digital Lifestyle"
> 877.611.2688 | 9730 SW Hillman Ct, Ste 600, Wilsonville, OR 97070 | 
> www.drbott.net
> 

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