Okay. That was my understanding, but wanted to make sure it was crystal
clear. Thanks for the clarification.

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 2:53 PM John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:

> It appears that Mark Alley  <mark.al...@tekmarc.com> said:
> >-=-=-=-=-=-
> >
> >This question probably has an obvious answer, but asking for
> >clarification on this - Policy difference aside, in this example
> >provided, does this mean with the Treewalk behavior, cuny.edu's DMARC
> >feedback addresses that differ from the subdomain's would stop getting
> >the sub's DMARC reports?
>
> Yes, that's a feature. If you want your subdomains to send reports to
> some particular place, tell them to do that. If you don't, that's OK
> too.
>
> Any domain can put a "rua" tag into its DMARC record so this isn't
> really anything new.
>
> R's,
> John
>
> >On 2/23/2023 6:13 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
> >>> I haven’t done extensive research but here is a live example where
> >>> treewalk will cause a result change.
> >>> From: is in the domain Ret.bmcc.cuny.edu which has no DMARC record.
> >>> _dmarc.bmcc.cuny.edu.    300    IN    TXT    "v=DMARC1; p=quarantine;
> >>> fo=1;
> >>> rua=mailto:dmarc_...@emaildefense.proofpoint.com;
> >>> ruf=mailto:dmarc_...@emaildefense.proofpoint.com";
> >>>
> >>> _dmarc.cuny.edu.    3325    IN    TXT    "v=DMARC1;" "p=none;"
> >>> "rua=mailto:dmarc_...@emaildefense.proofpoint.com,mailto:
> post.mas...@cuny.edu;"
> >>>
> >>> "ruf=mailto:dmarc_...@emaildefense.proofpoint.com,mailto:
> post.mas...@cuny.edu;"
> >>> "fo=1"
> >>
> >> Good catch, although in this case I think the most likely result is
> >> that the people at bmcc.cuny.edu will say "who set up
> >> Ret.bmcc.cuny.edu?"  I see that bmcc.cuny.edu and cuny.edu both use
> >> Proofpoint in front of O365, while Ret.bmcc.cuny.edu goes directly to
> >> O365.  There's some other strangeness; www.cuny.edu is a CNAME for
> >> web.cuny.edu which has an MX to mail-relay.cuny.edu. which has 7 A
> >> records pointing to machines running sendmail.
> >>
> >> It might be interesting to set up a web page where you can put in a
> >> mail domain and it'll tell you whether its treatment will change with
> >> the tree walk.
>
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