On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 1:53 PM Seth Blank <seth= [email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:49 AM John Levine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As far as I know, the point of DMARC reports is to help domain owners >> understand who is sending mail that purports to be from them. In a >> large organization it can be remarkably hard to track down every mail >> server in every department or every subcontractor that might be sending >> real mail with the domain in the From: header. >> >> The domain owners use the reports to do things like update SPF records >> to include all of the sending hosts, update server configs to add DKIM >> signatures, or to fix servers that are adding invalid signatures, and >> often to shut rogue servers down that shouldn't have been sending mail >> in the first place. >> >> I can't see how spam scores would be of any use for any of these tasks. >> > > +1000 > > The point of DMARC reports is to understand what is not authenticating in > an aligned fashion, so that you can get those mailstreams authenticating > properly and verify things are now correct. Spam, nor insight into receiver > mechanisms to combat spam (which change daily, per Brandon), is out of > scope of DMARC reporting. > > Seth > > Absolutely agree with the sentiments expressed by John and Seth. Michael Hammer
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