> On Apr 7, 2024, at 6:20 PM, Scott Kitterman <skl...@kitterman.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On April 8, 2024 1:02:53 AM UTC, Neil Anuskiewicz 
>> <neil=40marmot-tech....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> On Apr 7, 2024, at 7:00 AM, Neil Anuskiewicz <n...@marmot-tech.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 7, 2024, at 6:54 AM, Tero Kivinen <kivi...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Scott Kitterman writes:
>>>>> I hear you. Your operational issue is my system working as designed.
>>>>> DMARC works on top of SPF, it doesn't change it.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, DMARC works on top of SPF, and DKIM and provides policy layer. We
>>>> are trying to change the fact that people rely purely on SPF, and try
>>>> to get them moved to use DMARC istead, and we are trying to explain
>>>> that if you do SPF inside the DMARC context, you get exactly same
>>>> policy results you get as when you do SPF before, except you get it
>>>> better, as you have more data available. Using -all would be
>>>> completely ok if everybody would be doing DMARC, but as there are some
>>>> systems which do SPF outside DMARC, and there having -all might
>>>> shortcircuit DMARC out from the equation, we should provide guidance
>>>> to those people how they can get best results in current environment.
>>>> Thus the best current practice should be use to use ~all instead of
>>>> -all if you are trying to use DMARC, and want other systems to
>>>> actually act based on your DMARC policy.
>> 
>> The problem I see is that some receivers never got the memo and still 
>> enforce just on an SPF hard fail which only creates fear, uncertainty, 
>> doubt, and annoyance.
> 
> 
> If there's FUD, it's due to claiming it is a significant problem for DMARC.  
> Everyone has a different mail stream, so YMMV, but in my experience this is 
> approximately never an issue.  This is only even potentially an issue when 
> Mail From aligned and SPF is fail.  I don't recall the last time I saw that 
> happen for a message that also passed DKIM (and d= was aligned).
> 
> What is the overwhelming case for me is Mail From is not aligned (like this 
> mailing list) and SPF is pass, none, neutral, etc.  Even if the receiver 
> rejects SPF fail, it almost never comes up.  Then the DMARC result is a 
> function of the DKIM signature verifying and being aligned.  The fact that my 
> domain has a -all SPF record virtually never matters for DMARC.
> 
> So let's move on...

Let’s move on.
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