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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by mike_hearn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:45PM (#50417017)
No, not delivering is much better. You get a clean error message that tells you exactly what to do, it can be fixed in minutes. Spamfoldering email for not having DMARC would be a mistake, it might be years before low volume senders notice and figure out what's wrong (if they ever do).
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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by anonymous908213 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:53PM (#50417119)
> You get a clean error message that tells you exactly what to do

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.

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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by mike_hearn on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:01PM (#50417196)
Are we? Microsoft is bouncing emails with instructions on what to do.

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

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