So in this scenario, how is O365 denoting the DMARC failures? Is it
alerting, or is it something visible only when viewing the message
headers?

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Ivan Kovachev via dmarc-discuss
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> Hello Roland,
>
> thank you for the reply.
>
> I found this on Microsoft's website:
>
> "If you have configured your domain's MX records where EOP is not the first
> entry, DMARC failures will not be enforced for your domain.
> If you're an Office 365 customer, and your domain's primary MX record does
> not point to EOP, you will not get the benefits of DMARC. For example, DMARC
> won't work if you point the MX record to your on-premises mail server and
> then route email to EOP by using a connector. "
> I guess this is why we are currently not seeing any reports being sent by
> Office 365 if it has Mimecast in front of it and as part of the MX record
> for receiving domain.
>
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> From: Roland Turner <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [dmarc-discuss] Mimecast and Office 365
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> On 11/04/18 22:07, Ivan Kovachev via dmarc-discuss wrote:
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> Hello guys,
>
> I have three questions for you that I am unsure about and hoping that
> someone at Microsoft will be able to help:
>
> First two questions are related to Mimecast acting as inbound security
> gateway to O365:
>
> 1. When Mimecast acts as inbound gateway solution and it receives an
> email, it does DMARC checks and lets the email through to O365
> environment. Even if an email passes DMARC checks at Mimecast and the
> email is let through, then O365 also seems to also be doing DMARC
> checks but both SPF and DKIM fail because of the change that Mimecast
> does. As a results DMARC fails. My questions is, what is the best
> practice here in this scenario? Is there a way to turn off DMARC
> checks at O365? Mimecast suggest that it is whitelisted in O365 but
> that means that all the spam will be let through as well.
>
>
> DMARC checking should only occur at the host referred to be the MX
> record as SPF is still relevant for at least some email. I believe
> Office 365 has a trusted inbound relays option (i.e. Office 365 trusts
> the specified hosts to filter their email) although I can't quickly find it.
>
> Mimecast is apparently unwilling to change their service to stop
> damaging incoming messages that don't breach the policies being enforced
> (they unconditionally unpack and then repack every message, rather than
> only those whose contents they have reason to modify).
>
> 2. Would O365 send DMARC reports back to the sender in the above case?
> And, if O365 sends DMARC reports back to the sender then emails will
> be shown as originating from Mimecast but failing DMARC.
>
>
> Yes and yes if you've not listed Mimecast as a trusted inbound relay.
> (Assuming that the trusted inbound relays setting is not a figment of my
> imagination, one would hope that Office 365 would not set feedback in
> this case.)
>
> 3. Would O365 do DMARC checks for internal emails ie. O365 tenant
> employee to another O365 tenant employee? And would it send DMARC
> reports in this case?
>
>
> Yes and hopefully yes.
>
> - Roland
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