* Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop: > No RFC *obligates* any recipient to honor DMARC *at all*.
Obviously, so why the emphasis? RFCs have only ever been attempts to establish a reasonable consensus, or as Captain Barbossa put it, "a RFC is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules." > You cannot treat "not applying policies at all" as anything bad. Actually, I can do whatever I please with my mail servers, as can other entities. For example, Google won't accept our mail unless we properly set up DMARC. That's their prerogative, and it does not matter if I like it or not (I actually do). I choose not to accept mail from certain dialup connections. However, the freedom of choice is beside the point I was trying to make. I wonder if a sending party is worse off if (a) their DMARC policy is ignored altogether or (b) the policy is not honored in its entirety, including a sampling percentage. For me personally, (b) is worse because it might cause mail sent from my servers to not reach the intended recipients. -Ralph _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
