On Apr 29, 2013, at 12:28 PM, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

>> To my mind, this doesn't create a privacy problem any different from
>> the existing ones around spam filtering, DLP, or NDRs: somebody in an
>> administrative position may end up looking at message contents.
> 
> It's worse than that, since it sends reports to people who may have
> not been anywhere in the mail path.  For example, if one of my users
> forwards her mail to a Gmail or Yahoo account, and sets up that
> account to send mail using the From address in my domain, an ruf could
> provide me with copies of every message she sends, even though
> I operate none of the systems through which the mail sent.
> 
> For the institutional domains that are DMARC's main target, there's no
> problem since there's no mail from individual users, but for domains
> with people, and particularly domains where the people are not
> employees of the domain operator, the privacy issues are worrying.
> 
p=none is used on all kind of domains.

Per the spec, the sending of a failure report is not tied to any p=, only that 
the email fails dmarc.



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