On April 28, 2020 8:42:20 AM UTC, Philip <phi...@list.199903.xyz> wrote:
>Hello
>
>I sent a message from mail.ru, who has p=reject setting in their DMARC
>record, to an email account at OVH.
>
>OVH forwards this email to gmail, as we know during the forwarding OVH
>doesn't implement SRS. So after receiving the email, gmail shows SPF
>failed.
>
>This is the message header in gmail:
>
>Subject: DMARC testing
>SPF: SOFTFAIL with IP 178.32.228.79 Learn more
>DKIM: 'PASS' with domain mail.ru Learn more
>DMARC: 'PASS' Learn more
>
>
>My question is, since SPF got SOFTFAIL by gmail, why it still says
>DMARC
>PASS? Shouldn't SPF failed cause DMARC failure?
No. See RFC 7489, Section 4.2, last paragraph.
Scott K
