On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:21 PM Dotzero <dotz...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:06 PM Neil Anuskiewicz <n...@marmot-tech.com>
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>> Tunable! You said the magic word I have a client now getting spoofing.
>> Tightening above p=none is a non starter as about 100% of MajorCRM emails
>> fail SPF (foo.majorcrm is the RFC5321.from), 62% of MajorCRM mail fails
>> DKIM, and 100% of MajorCRM Marketing * fails SPF (bar.some-esp.com). Oh,
>> and some local office has a random MailChimp account not authenticated.
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>> We can't turn the knob on policy and MajorCRM support says you can't have
>> your own mail from. Normally, with a client we would get on a screen share
>> with Bob (the doer of all things) at a company or some other efficient
>> arrangment to be able to make changes in applications, update DNS, test,
>> monitor.
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>> Here, there's this dept with control of the CRM, another for marketing,
>> another controls DNS, and a vendor says something isn't possible.
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>> So what you are saying is that you want an IETF working group to write a
> standard that papers over poor self control on the part of your
> organization.
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Not my organization. I'm a freelancer. No, I'm saying that the IETF should
write a standard that helps people in the field solve problems.

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>> My point is that it sure would be nice to be able to tune so that BigCRM
>> and BigCRM Marketing * mail would pass DMARC comfortably, and we could then
>> turn the dial on policy to cut off the spoofers without breaking legit mail.
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>> Yes, I know that this isn't the mailing list issue but tuning could solve
>> that problem, too.
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> The way you solve the problem described above is to get control of your
> mail flows. I've worked with various "big CRM" vendors and they will gladly
> accept a delegated subdomain (they control DNS and therefore SPF and DKIM
> signing as well as publishing DMARC. There are other approaches as well.
> Your post illustrates one of the problems with the discussion on this list.
> People are conflating internal organizational issues with requirements for
> interoperability. You could always publish 0.0.0.0 -all for your SPF record
> and solve all your DMARC assertion issues very easily.
>

I set up subdomains for clients to use for their mail streams all the time
so I agree. It's just the standard that sometimes stands in the way of
cutting off spoofers. And that's ultimately the goal of the standard. Allow
legit mail, stop bad guys.
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