David Jones <djo...@ena.com> wrote:
SA could be the large force that helps improve the mail standards like DMARC -- SPF + DKIM with a little extra on top.
DMARC is not a standard according to RFC 7489, "Status of This Memo". It's just informational, for those who want to play the game. DMARC is destroying forwarding and mailing lists, and I'm sorry to see the elephants in the email room implementing it-- though Gmail still does not always reject based on DMARC reject, as if they use that plus some internal system to make the call.
The New York Times nytimes.com has a SPF record with too many DNS lookups. Are you willing to block that? That one amazes me since SPF is the simplest of these ventures to implement correctly, and since the Times's frequent mailings of news updates evidently are not affected enough by SPF fail for the Times to go fix it.
Joseph Brennan Columbia University IT
