Re: [Davmail-users] DMARC Compliance?

[Geert S. <sta...@st...>]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 10:13:48PM +0100, Ingmar Lippert wrote:
> On 06/01/2023 21:30, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:24:52PM +0100, Ingmar Lippert wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > Hi,
> Hello,
> thanks for your reply!
>
> > > without any expectations, but with optimism, I like to ask, whether DavMail
> > > (a wonderful gateway!) already supports DMARC Compliance or might in the
> > > future >
> > Please spend some effort in explaining
> > which benefits DMARC support bring to DavMail.
> 
> here is my use story:
> I use DavMail to connect to my organisation's O365 service. The organisation
> is now approaching implementing its government's policy that is expected to
> force public authorities to use DMARC (which occasioned me to write).
> 
> The reasoning of my organisation, which is a public authority, is that
> occasionally, its name is misused as an alleged sender to increase
> credibility and to render phishing attacks more likely successful.
> 
> To counter such misuse, so the reasoning by the organisation is, DMARC is to
> be used, which they expect will effectively decrease the number of fake
> emails.
> 
> Whether that promise will be realised or not, DavMail as a Third Party
> system with which I access the O365 server, will not be able (as far as I
> understand it) to signal effectively to the recipient that it my message is
> not spam.

Somehow I do read that
as  "the problems are nails and a hamer is the solution"

The picture at https://davmail.sourceforge.net is still a good picture,
that it lacks where evil can harm it, doesn't matter.


> So, with DMARC capacity, in my understanding, DavMail would be able to
> ensure that receiving servers that conduct DMARC checks would validate my
> messages as indeed belonging to my organisation's O365 system.
> 
> Ok, I hope this effort helps to provide the relevant context, if not I am
> happy to try to answer more specific questions. And I like to apologise in
> case my understanding is so minimal that all this conext "obviously" does
> not make sense.
> 
> Thank you for your reading!

Thanks for expressing a possible improvement.  That I'm farely sure that
DMARC does NOT add value to Davmail, doesn't matter.

 
> Ingmar

Groeten
Geert Stappers
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