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From: Kevin Rehberg <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:56 PM
To: Mike Jones <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [dmarc-discuss] General Question on DMARC application

Hi Mike,

Thank you so much for your prompt response. They are not sending any legitimate 
mail from that subdomain – spam.client.com. Is there a URL or site you 
recommend that gives instructions on how to publish a DMARC reject policy?

Thanks,

Kevin

From: Mike Jones [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:33 PM
To: Kevin Rehberg
Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [dmarc-discuss] General Question on DMARC application

Hi Kevin,

Does your client send any legitimate email from the sub-domain currently being 
abused, spam.client.com<http://spam.client.com> in your example? If the answer 
is no, they do not send any legitimate email from that sub-domain, then they 
can certainly publish a DMARC reject policy for 
spam.client.com<http://spam.client.com> without doing anything related to SPF 
or DKIM.  It might be advisable to take the additional step of setting up an 
empty -all SPF record for this sub-domain though, again only if they send no 
legitimate email from it.

The answer to your next question is that nothing is to stop them from just 
switching to another sub-domain and they will probably do that if that domain 
is valuable enough to spoof.  But a DMARC policy published the organizational 
domain (or parent domain) of client.com<http://client.com> is inherited by all 
sub-domains unless a sub-domain has it's own DMARC record explicitly published. 
 A DMARC record at the parent domain level can be published with a separate 
sub-domain policy as well using the 'sp=' tag.  Then that policy will be 
applied to all sub-domains unless a sub-domain has it's own DMAC record 
explicitly published.

Hope this helps!

Mike

Mike Jones
Director, Product Management & Receiver Services
Agari
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Skype: jnzmike1
703-728-3978 (cell)

On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Kevin Rehberg 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


Hi,

I have a client who would like to implement DMARC to offset spoofing. Spammers 
are sending from one of their subdomains, let’s call it 
spam.client.com<http://spam.client.com>.

My understanding is they would need to apply SPF and DKIM to that subdomain 
before setting up DMARC. They already have SPF and DKIM in place from their 
actual sending domain, send.client.com<http://send.client.com>.

My question is if they go through the trouble to set up DKIM/SPF/DMARC on the 
spam.client.com<http://spam.client.com> domain what is to stop the spammer from 
just changing to another domain like 
spammers.client.com<http://spammers.client.com>?

If I apply the DMARC to their parent domain (client.com<http://client.com>), 
would that cover all subdomains?

Thank you for your help!


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www.bluehornet.com<http://www.bluehornet.com/>

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