Richard James Salts:
> On Thursday, 7 November 2019 4:23:20 AM AEDT Dominic Raferd wrote:
> > ...
> > The main problem with DMARC is that some mailing lists (not this one,
> > I believe) mess it up, so I would suggest not to use it with
> > p=quarantine or p=reject on any domain where users are likely to post
> > to mailing lists. One such is (or was) the opendmarc mailing list -
> > something of an own goal.
> 
> Although Wietse has taken steps to minimize the impact of the
> mailing list on DKIM signatures it will depend on the headers that
> were signed in the original message,

In particular, the list server overrides the Sender: header
with the list's address ([email protected]).
I'm no aware of other changes that may break DKIM signatures.

        Wietse

> and this is the best you can expect from a mailing list as most will 
> alter the subject or add a footer to the message body. Many other lists have 
> taken the decision to work around the damage of poorly considered DMARC 
> policies by rewriting the From header and putting the original author's 
> address in Reply-to (which isn't without it's downsides given there were 
> existing practices about Reply-to and mailing lists). I would highly 
> recommend 
> stopping at quarantine for DMARC policy if your domain is anything other than 
> a source of transactional emails (e.g. password resets, promotional offers, 
> etc). Once real humans have mailboxes on the domain and use the corresponding 
> email address in their outgoing mail you're going to have some collateral 
> damage from p=reject.
> 
> 
> 

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