<div>And if SPF does not pass with identifier alignment, the requested DMARC policy will apply. So the SPF policy is essentialy ignored by DMARC.</div>
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<div>An SPF policy of "~all" (soft-fail) seems like a good choice if you don't want receivers to enforce on SPF alone, to prevent false-positives with forwarding. With DMARC a forwarded message that has a valid, aligned DKIM signature will still pass.</div>
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<div>Maarten</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Tim Draegen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tdraegen@agari.com" target="_blank">tdraegen@agari.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Mar 4, 2012, at 11:10 PM, Brian Clark wrote:<br>> I read somewhere that DMARC requires a hard fail, but I can't find that at<br>> the moment. Can someone else confirm that?<br><br></div>Hi Brian,<br><br>
Not true. DMARC is looking for affirmation that a message originates from a domain. From the DMARC check's perspective, all results that do not end in "SPF passing with identifier alignment" are considered failures.<br>
<br>HTH,<br>=- Tim<br>
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