On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:08 AM, John R Levine <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe it is time to rethink this, or open a more official dialogue.  I
>> understand folks don't want to send reports.  I understand the privacy
>> issue.  However, without these reports, or at least *some* information
>> sent
>> regarding the unaligned emails, we are at an impasse to migrating to a
>> 'reject'.
>>
>
> Nothing you can say will make people send you reports if they're not
> already inclined to send reports.  To put it bluntly, your problems are not
> their problems.
>

The intent of this thread is not to make folks send reports, it is to
change the thinking about sending reports through
dialogue/education/conversation.  Your statement "your problems are not
their problems" is contradictory to the entire premise of promoting DMARC
as a solution to the problems of forged emails.  Is this not a community
effort?  Are we not to think continually on how we can improve upon the
process instead of putting our heals in the ground stating "its not my
problem"?

>
> The aggregate reports they do send include the IP addresses of hosts
> sending mail that fails SPF or DKIM, and I've usually found it pretty easy
> to figure out whether it's just spam, a mailing list, or something else
> legit.


You've found it easy to determine the validity of unaligned emails coming
from legitimate senders?  I've found it very difficult especially when the
sender is not technically adept on DMARC/emailing, or if they are, dealing
with the bureaucracy.

>
>
> For certain environments (e.g. financial), we cannot reject *any*
>> legitimate emails and therefore require verification of all emails that are
>> rejected.
>>
>
> Since there is no possible way that DMARC can describe all legitimate
> e-mail, you'll never be able to reject anything.  I wouldn't want the job
> of doing your organization's spam filtering.
>

Spam filtering provides logging and email data for easy verification unlike
current DMARC receiver preferences.  If a user indicates that they should
be receiving emails, at least with spam filters, the logs can be reviewed
to determine whether their inquiry is on our end or not.

>
> Regards,
> John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
> "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly.
>
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