This question probably has an obvious answer, but asking for clarification on this - Policy difference aside, in this example provided, does this mean with the Treewalk behavior, cuny.edu's DMARC feedback addresses that differ from the subdomain's would stop getting the sub's DMARC reports?

- Mark Alley

On 2/23/2023 6:13 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
I haven’t done extensive research but here is a live example where treewalk will cause a result change.
From: is in the domain Ret.bmcc.cuny.edu which has no DMARC record.
_dmarc.bmcc.cuny.edu.    300    IN    TXT    "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; fo=1; rua=mailto:[email protected]; ruf=mailto:[email protected]";

_dmarc.cuny.edu.    3325    IN    TXT    "v=DMARC1;" "p=none;"
"rua=mailto:[email protected],mailto:[email protected];"; "ruf=mailto:[email protected],mailto:[email protected];"; "fo=1"

Good catch, although in this case I think the most likely result is that the people at bmcc.cuny.edu will say "who set up Ret.bmcc.cuny.edu?"  I see that bmcc.cuny.edu and cuny.edu both use Proofpoint in front of O365, while Ret.bmcc.cuny.edu goes directly to O365.  There's some other strangeness; www.cuny.edu is a CNAME for web.cuny.edu which has an MX to mail-relay.cuny.edu. which has 7 A records pointing to machines running sendmail.

It might be interesting to set up a web page where you can put in a mail domain and it'll tell you whether its treatment will change with the tree walk.

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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