On 6/25/20 12:12 PM, John Levine wrote:
> Any sensible mail provider will do its usual reputation checks on the
> validated identity, whichever header it is, and decide whether to
> deliver the message or not. I believe that Dave's point is if you're
> going to do that, validating the sender gives you useful flexibility
> without a lot of loss of security.
I'm not sure what validating the sender (either) accomplishes.
>
> On the other hand, if you're going to do that, why do you need DMARC
> at all? You use the d= in valid DKIM signatures.
>
+1, although there's also the reporting piece of DMARC, which can be
used to alert the domain to authentication breakage and perhaps certain
types of abuse.

-Jim

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