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DMARC -> CERT?



On 04/16/2014 09:19 PM, Private Sender wrote:
>
> I'm sorry but is there a fundamental misunderstanding of dmarc going on
> in this thread? Yahoo doesn't want you to be able to send "@yahoo.com"
> email from anything other than THEIR servers which contain the private
> key that corresponds to their DKIM implementation, and conversely dmarc.
> "p=reject" tells the receiving domain to reject the message if it isn't
> signed by the private key that corresponds with the public key that is
> in the dkim txt record for "yahoo.com"
>
> Isn't this the whole point of dmarc? Stop spammers from sending email
> with "@yahoo.com" that doesn't originate from a valid yahoo email server.

There fundamental misunderstanding is the assumption that DKIM signatures
are never broken for valid uses of mail. They are. Would things be so 
simple.

Mike