[BBLISA] ISPs with p=reject DMARC policies?

Dan Ritter dsr-bblisa at randomstring.org
Wed Oct 5 10:06:14 EDT 2016


On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 11:59:44AM +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (bblisa4) wrote:
> > From: bblisa [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of John Miller
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 3:59 PM
> > 
> > We operate tons of mailing lists here at Brandeis, and occasionally we
> > get a Yahoo or AOL user trying to send to one of them.  SInce both
> > yahoo.com and aol.com have p=reject in their DMARC records, their
> > users' mail will bounce.  No news there.
> 
> Not an answer to your question, but just to make sure you're aware, you *can* support users coming from restrictive dmarc domains:
> https://wiki.list.org/DEV/DMARC

>From that page:

  Mitigating the effects of the DMARC reject policy are difficult.
  All known mitigation techniques break some user expectations
  and/or degrade the user experience.

In general, I prefer to recommend to people that they avoid
Yahoo and AOL -- all the more so in the light of the news that 
Yahoo set up a special email search facility for the government.

Obviously not everyone can do that.

-dsr-



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