Yes. In the first place, this should not even be a thing. Two corporations should not be in control of who can send e-mail. If they want to mark not having DMARC as spam, mark it as spam, but these games with refusing to deliver are just bullshit and essentially force a monopoly where other e-mail providers cannot compete because their e-mails aren't delivered.

We are literally talking about a situation where this is not happening! And the problem is that it's not just this. Once you give them a license to police e-mail, they start policing e-mail for all kinds of arbitrary and inscruutable reasons. If this were going to be done, it should really be formalized as an industry standard by an independent consortium, not up to the whims of Microsoogle.

DMARC, DKIM and the rest are industry standards set through an independent consortium (it's called the MAAWG iirc)

That said checking for these things is a good idea, the only problem I see is dropping the mail on the floor, rather than rejecting it at SMTP time - at least that lets the self-hosting users who haven't got things configured know their email is being rejected, and to pick up the phone instead.

There's nothing worse than sending an email, it being accepted, and then later discarded with no clue to either sender or recipient.

Maybe 1 in 5 emails I get is spam, and because I use a different address with every sender I know who sold "my" address to a spam list.

En contraire, I think not delivering mail is the fastest way to adoption. People will use an old system for as long as it works. It now does not anymore.

Maybe you're right that just enforcing it is the way, but I don't agree with doing that with no heads up.

We have seen a massive erosion of the latter aspect of the web in the past few years, and I think it's useful to frame conversations in terms of that loss. The web used to be fun, and now it's become, more than ever, a professional enterprise. You often can't stand up a website without having to buy into Cloudflare's DDoS protection or something equivalent. I think this is absurd, and it's not the only such case, though these changes are obviously reactions to how usage of the web's evolved over the years.

I wonder if we can get the old web back in some way, shape, or form, cause I think we've lost something with the corporatization of the internet.

And for what it's worth, yeah, I think grandma should be able to run a mail server. Why not?