Re: [dmarc-ietf] not ADSP, was is DMARC informational?

Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> Mon, 07 December 2020 05:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] not ADSP, was is DMARC informational?
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On 12/6/20 9:18 PM, John Levine wrote:
> In article <CAL0qLwb3pLVFkOiuKeY38Kk9wEiesbyZCiBy72Ls5yRwN6EpdQ@mail.gmail.com> you write:
>
>> As I recall, people took a run at trying ADSP and it was largely
>> unsuccessful.  I recall at least Yahoo, PayPal, and Google trying it but
>> finding that it interfered with their employees' participation in lists, so
>> they each invented new domains for their employees to use as separate from
>> their operational public services.  This basically led to its demise.
> Among ADSP's shortcomings was that there was no way to test it other
> than to turn it on and see how much damage it caused.  The answer was
> frequently a lot, so they turned it back off and that was that.
>
> DMARC certainly has its problems but the reporting is great. It makes
> the surprises when you turn DMARC on a lot less, at least if your name
> is not AOL or Yahoo.

but apparently y! is doing DMARC in the face of its inadequacies anyway. 
i really like the reporting capabilities as an auditing tool as well, 
but it doesn't change much on the ground with the basic problems. it 
just confirms that it's a bad idea to use p=reject in many cases. there 
are clearly many use cases where that isn't a problem -- like bank 
transactional mail -- and ADSP was just fine for that. nothing much has 
changed on that front in 15 years. I find it amusing to be talking about 
this all these years later, with all kinds of companies trying to 
capitalize on the new and mostly unimproved dmarc.

Mike