> What MTAs do not honor this?

sorry, i don't know what's sending when this happens

> How does 550 after DATA result in backscatter?

perhaps because domain is 'old' spammers sometimes spam from $random@

those messages hit various providers which do *not* check dmarc, but
then forward (either as a forwarding service or an internal system) to
places that do check dmarc

that causes bounces to be generated inside their systems which come
back to me

sometimes i go for days without seeing them, sometimes i get 100s an
hour

now i added code to detect this at the smtp level and 5xx respond

> Not returning a 250 OK after DATA is still well within limits of the
> SMTP dialog. How else are you supposed to reject a mail that could
> be saved because of its size or because it has a virus?

most software is pretty terrible

more frequent of a problem are things that don't retry on a 4xx from
greylisting

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