> On Jan 31, 2016, at 5:16 AM, Ben Greenfield via dmarc-discuss 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I finally got my google reports for the past 2 days and I was able to run 
> them through dmarcian.com.
> 
> I would say it takes about a week for a newly dmarc’ed domain to be pulled 
> from the spambots to drop a domain.
> 
> Since configuring dmarc started out with 4260 forwarders threat/unknown’s on 
> 1/21  to a high of 10,025 on 1/27 moving to 181 for 1/30.

That 81 has no morphed in 2034 and for 1/31 I’m up to 2579 forwarders and 
threats unknown.

Ben


> 
> I like that trend.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
>> On Jan 27, 2016, at 7:45 PM, John Corey Miller via dmarc-discuss 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Tim!
>> 
>> I currently don’t have a dmarcian account, I just use the site as a resource 
>> for your tools and information.  I could join up tomorrow when I get into 
>> work if it would help you solve this problem.  Our DKIM records had to be 
>> changed just  a couple of days prior to going to full reject if that might 
>> have caused this… but drastic measures had to be taken as our dmarc reports 
>> were showing something like 80-95% was straight up junk.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> John Miller
>> 
>>> On Jan 27, 2016, at 6:51 PM, Tim Draegen via dmarc-discuss 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 26, 2016, at 10:36 AM, John Corey Miller via dmarc-discuss 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> We have Google Apps for Business set-up with our domain name for our 
>>>> business.
>>>> 
>>>> Since making the change to fully reject mail that fails dmarc, the number 
>>>> of messages counted as coming through "Forwarders" on our dmarc reports 
>>>> when run through this tool https://dmarcian.com/dmarc-xml/ has drastically 
>>>> increased.  In many cases these new "Forwarders" are the same IPs that 
>>>> previously were coming through as "Threat/Unknown" (clearly fishers.)
>>>> 
>>>> Does this mean that after seeing that google started rejecting their 
>>>> e-mails they changed something about how they're sending them to attempt 
>>>> to circumvent these rejections?  If so, does any action have to be taken 
>>>> to prevent this circumvention?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi John,
>>> 
>>> FWIW, you can email [email protected] with any dmarcian-related 
>>> questions.  I spend a lot of time there answering questions.. which is a 
>>> bit easier as then I can look & comment about your data!
>>> 
>>> That said, some replies to this thread are likely true.  If you're seeing 
>>> the "forwarded" flag explicitly set, then this means the receiver in 
>>> question accepted the email regardless of your published policy, as they 
>>> understand the email to..well, be forwarded.
>>> 
>>> It is not exactly common, but over the past few years certain 
>>> spammers/phishers have figured out how to exploit servers that are being 
>>> recognized as "forwarders" by the big players.  Once these servers are 
>>> identified, they try to deliver as much crap as they can before being 
>>> stopped.   And... the cycle continues.
>>> 
>>> A different idea is that "reject" happened after putting in place DKIM 
>>> signatures.  The dmarcian site does a better job identifying "Forwarders" 
>>> (as a category, and not as a flag in XML) when DKIM is in place.  So if you 
>>> did DKIM and reject at ~same time, this might be a factor.  However, if 
>>> you're seeing junk from all over the world, it's worth dropping a note to 
>>> [email protected] and we'll package up your data along with a note to 
>>> the bigger players to plug their holes.
>>> 
>>> =- Tim
>>> 
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