On Jul 31, 2014, at 3:31 PM, Norman, Jean Marie via dmarc-discuss 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Has anyone experienced unauthenticated emails being delivered to Google 
> recipients despite having a DMARC policy (quarantine or reject) in place? We 
> have seen evidence that unauthenticated emails (not passing both SPF and 
> DKIM) are being delivered to Google, despite a DMARC policy, when messages 
> pass through a ‘forwarder’, as noted by Google. We are trying to better 
> understand this behavior and whether or not anyone has found a solution? Any 
> insight or recommendations would be appreciated.

Several large entities have published inappropriate DMARC records, leading to 
wanted mail from those entities not being authenticated when it ends up at the 
recipients inbox. Because of that, Google (and others) are unlikely to blindly 
follow DMARC policies.

(It was always true that a DMARC record was no more than a recommendation to 
the receiving ISP, but the widespread misuse of DMARC means that it's now just 
a very mild suggestion).

If you're, for example, a major financial institution there are a couple of 
things you could do. One would be to talk to Google and others to special case 
mail from your domain. Longer term, you could help with an 
alternative/extension to DMARC that is suitable solely for high-value 
transactional email, one that isn't self-published and so open to misuse (that 
would likely involve third-party managed whitelists with entry to them 
controlled by industry-specific or governmental groups).

Cheers,
  Steve


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