Indeed, an email will only be rejected if it has DMARC setup as reject.

I can attest that personal email services such as Outlook / MSN do reject
email properly (in case of DMARC fail and the FROM domain has a reject
policy).



On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 7:43 AM Matthäus Wander via mailop <
mailop@mailop.org> wrote:

> Benoit Panizzon via mailop wrote on 2023-05-23 15:35:
> > Hi List
> >
> > I'm surprised...
> >
> > six-group.com is the biggest payment platform in Switzerland. Of course
> > they use SPF to protect their domain from being abused by phishers.
>
> six-group.com does not use DMARC, so I would say there is room to
> improve the anti-phishing measures.
>
> > It looks like GV0CHE01FT013.mail.protection.outlook.com is happily
> > accepting phishing emails which, according to SPF should get rejected.
>
> As SPF does not work in legitimate mail relaying scenarios, it is wise
> to not reject every message that fails SPF, but rather use it for spam
> filter scoring.
>
> Regards,
> Matt
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
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University of California, San Diego
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