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Re: Google.com hops on the DMARC bandwagon

2014-04-29 17:20:11
On 04/29/2014 11:36 PM, Ned Freed wrote:
On 04/29/2014 11:00 PM, Tony Hansen wrote:
> On 4/29/14, 4:55 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 3:16 PM, John R Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I see that google.com now publishes a DMARC policy of p=quarantine.
>>>>>
>>>>> While this won't bounce people off lists like p=reject does, it still
>>>>> makes it fairly pointless to post to this or any other list from a
>>>>> google.com
>>>>
>>
>> Ahh... so we can't expect to see Vint in any of the ietf discussions
>> in the near future!
>
> Anyone with mail servers that look at the dmarc settings won't see
> postings. People behind mail servers that do NOT look at the dmarc
> settings will see the postings just fine.

No, because those postings will bounce, and cause those users to get
unsubscribed from the list.

But in this case, we're talking about the p=quarantine policy that Google published for google.com... No bouncing (and hence no automatic unsubscription, unless a receiver interprets p=quarantine as 'please reject').

/rolf