Re: [dmarc-ietf] Domains

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com> Wed, 02 December 2020 19:48 UTC

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From: "Murray S. Kucherawy" <superuser@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2020 11:48:02 -0800
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To: Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu>
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Subject: Re: [dmarc-ietf] Domains
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On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 5:44 PM Joseph Brennan <brennan@columbia.edu> wrote:

> I want to ask again why DMARC should consider any domain other than
> the one in the Header From. The purpose of DMARC should be stated
> right at the top of the proposed standard. It is intended to control
> use of a domain in the Header From. If the Header From has
> blabla@example.com, the DMARC record for _dmarc.example.com should
> apply.
>
> It does not make sense to me to say that if the Header From is
> user@alpha.example.com, and there is no _dmarc.alpha.example.com
> record, then recipient systems should continue to look for
> _dmarc.example.com and apply the dmarc rule there. I know of no other
> standard that requires this type of relationship. This is something
> new. It will require administrators to continually check what their
> sub- and supra-domains are doing in order to escape interference by
> DMARC records they did not create. I think this is unreasonable. Only
> domains interested in applying DMARC should be involved with DMARC.
> Others should be able to do what they want. I know that otherwise will
> out rule out DMARC for the "columbia.edu" domain that I administer.
>

If DMARC is thus constrained and you have a "p=reject" on "columbia.edu"
only, then nothing stops me from generating unauthenticated email with a
>From field indicating "foobar.columbia.edu" for any subdomain "foobar",
whether or not it actually exists in the DNS.

-MSK