On Jan 22, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Steve Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Franck Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Andreas Schulze <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I think about starting to reject messages failing the DMARC test for 
>>> domains announcing p=reject.
>>> I'm unsure about losing messages or auto-unsubscribing some people from 
>>> lists because
>>> OpenDMARC has currently no ability to exclude known, list managers like 
>>> this server.
>>> (as far as I know)
>>> 
>>> How do you handle this situation?
>>> Opinions / Suggestions ?
>>> 
>> 
>> Help by whitelisting all the mailing lists you are subscribed to, but do not 
>> worry too much about the consequences this is a problem with the sender, not 
>> the receiver.
>> 
>> from http://www.trusteddomain.org/opendmarc/opendmarc.conf.5.html
>> you can use:
>> IgnoreMailFrom
>> IgnoreHosts
>> 
>> tho the later is better me thinks.
> 
> IgnoreMailFrom is based on the visible From: - which would be very much the 
> wrong thing - I think?

yes indeed, don't use this one :P

> 
> More generally, I don’t think you should ever whitelist domains that are 
> requesting p=reject. If you’re going to comply with p=reject requests, comply 
> with them from every source. That will, briefly, cause problems for mailing 
> list operators, but only until they put the (fairly well understood) fixes 
> for that in place. Ad-hoc whitelisting of IP addresses is a band-aid that 
> won’t help much, and a horrible security hole, and a management nightmare.
> 

Large mailbox providers know when mail come from a mailing list, so 
whitelisting at large scale does not seem much of an issue
For small domain, like the one I suspect Andreas manages, knowing all the 
mailing lists his users are on, should not be too much of a drag

The middle ground is a bit more complicated.

I don't think It is much of a security hole if implemented as indicated in the 
ticket, little malware come from mailing lists. Mailing lists are not usually a 
threat vector, list admins do well their jobs.

But yes, this is ad-hoc and pragmatism helps here.

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