Yes, most certainly. While generally the override’s minimize false positives by 
delivering legitimate mail which is failing SPF/DKIM due to forwarding or 
mailing lists, there are cases where the overrides are applied to malicious 
mail. The details vary from sender to sender, malicious campaign to malicious 
campaign, month to month and receiver to receiver. There have been roughly two 
years or investigations, bug fixes and analysis to try to improve the situation 
across a number of receivers. It will continue.

I’d encourage folks not to overly generalize based on a limited number of data 
points. I’ve seen cases of terribly erroneous delivery of malicious email due 
to overrides and I’ve seen miraculous overrides that avoided rejecting mail 
from a critical sender. The real world is not status nor simple.

The good news is that (absent a host of bugs and reporting details) the senders 
have visibility into overrides as they are reported in detail in the aggregate 
data. You can monitor overrides, be alerted, see what’s being overridden, etc 
etc so you have full visibility.

pat

On Jul 31, 2014, at 3:31 PM, Norman, Jean Marie via dmarc-discuss 
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> 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.
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