On Tuesday, April 28, 2015 6:11 AM [GMT+1=CET], Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> J. Gomez writes:
> 
> >     That would force DMARC-compliant Mediators to reject (or accept
> >     but not resend) incoming email from p=reject domains,
> >     irrespective of whether such mail passes or not the initial
> >     incoming DMARC checks.
> 
> Yahoo! and AOL are bigger than MLMs.  MLMs would bear the brunt of
> user rage at that treatment.

So do you think it is proper for an email actor to knowingly inject 
DMARC-rejectable messages into the public email infrastructure? Because that is 
exactly what mailing lists are doing when: (a) they check DMARC for incoming 
email (therefore, they are DMARC-aware), and (b) they then reinject into the 
public email infrastructure messages whose original Author's domain has 
declared p=reject.

That case I think looks like utter disregard for a standard they know about 
(DMARC), in the name of convenience. If a mailing list was DMARC-agnostic, i.e. 
it didn't care about DMARC and didn't check it for incoming email, I would have 
no problem with such mailing list also disregarding DMARC when reinjecting 
messages. However, if a mailing list cared about DMARC when receiving, I think 
it SHOULD also care for DMARC when sending (and therefore NEVER reinject 
DMARC-rejectable messages into the public email infrastructure).

> I'm quite sure that the market test will give the answer "knuckle
> under", regardless of whether the majority of AOL and Yahoo! users
> would prefer to keep the current MLM features or not.  They don't pay
> for AOL/Yahoo!/GMail/Hotmail MUA dev costs, so those providers have
> very little incentive to respond positively to their requests to
> support MLM features better.  And, in fact, they WONTFIX them
> regularly (dunno about Hotmail, but GMail is as bad as the others in
> this respect).

Who knows? Perhaps Yahoo and AOL would suffer "user diaspora" if they kept 
publishing p=reject and MLMs decided to be DMARC-compliant when reinjecting 
messages.

Regards,
J.Gomez

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