Re: DMARC methods in mailman

["John R Levine" <[e-mail]>]

> This starts getting more complicated, but the mailing list could try
> intentionally sending a message which fails DMARC (e.g., with a
> claimed from address of [e-mail]) to the mailing list
> subscriber and see if it gets bounced, and use that to set the default
> for that setting automatically?

Without exception, every suggestion made in this discussion has already 
been brought up and addressed on the Mailman developers' list, or the 
DMARC discussion list at dmarc.org.  Perhaps people who find this topic to 
be of interest could learn more faster and save everyone else's time by 
reading the archives.

Among the reasons this particular approach won't work is that at some mail 
providers, notably Gmail, the DMARC treatment varies both by sender and by 
recipient.  Sometimes they reject, sometimes they accept and deliver, 
sometimes they accept and file as spam.  Whatever they do to a test 
message may or may not be what they do to real messages.  Furthermore, 
providers change their DMARC mail handling every day (which as, we may 
recall, is why we have this problem in the first place.)  If an operator 
ignores DMARC failures today, they may do something else next week or next 
year.

Regards,
John Levine, [e-mail], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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