Re: [Davmail-users] DMARC Compliance?

[Ingmar L. <in...@in...>]

Thanks all for your comments!
I shall now look forward optimistically to the new DMARC use of my 
organisation.
All best!
Ingmar

On 07/01/2023 16:38, Geert Stappers wrote:
> 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