DMARC settings seemingly not working as described in documentation

[laerm]

Version

6.2.48 on RHEL 7.6

Installation method

Via http://Sympa-JA.org/ repo

Expected behavior

According to the documentation here: https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/customize/dmarc-protection.html, setting dmarc_protection_mode dmarc_reject should:

1. their DKIM and DomainKey signatures will be removed
   

2. the From: field will be changed to a value you will set in the dmarc_protection_other_email parameter. You can define a value for this email or leave it blank. If so, the list email address will be set instead of the original sender address.
   

3. previous value of the From: header field is saved in an X-Original-From: header field for later inspection
   

4. previous value of the DKIM signature is saved in X-Original-DKIM-Signature: field for later inspection.
   

For emails from domains whose policy is to reject any mail not respecting its DMARC policy.

My sympa.conf configuration contains the following lines:
dmarc_protection_mode dmarc_reject
dmarc_protection_phrase name_via_list

Actual behavior

From: header no longer modified to be mailing list email, like point 2 above specifies (I've tested with a yahoo.com email for example), no X-Original-From: or X-Original-DKIM-Signature headers added. Emails sent from domains whose policy is to reject any mail not respecting its DMARC policy are being rejected.

Additional information

This seems to be a recent change, since 6.2.44 to 6.2.48 possibly.

Thanks for looking into it!

[ikedas]

Hi @laerm,

Could you please show us the setting related to DKIM/DMARC/ARC of the list you checked?

[laerm]

Hi @ikedas

The settings of both lists I tested are identical. No DKIM setting, No ARC setting, and for DMARC they are set to dmarc_reject and name_via_list.

[laerm]

I've tried changing the DMARC setting to dmarc_signature, or dmarc_any and same thing, the from is not rewritten.

[pkissman]

Hi @ikedas and @laerm ,

I updated from 6.2.44 via 6.2.46 to 6.2.48 a couple of weeks ago and now am seeing similar behavior. Emails originating from yahoo or aol are being bounced for gmail, comcast, verizon, recipients. I have made no changes to my config files or my lists.

It appears that the from address is not being rewritten at all, just the sender address.
I install from source on Debian squeeze.

[Philippe34]

Hi,

My sympa version : 6.2.44
I had configured sympa with DKIM and arc, but not the dmarc protection.
In this configuration, a Yahoo subscriber who was sending an email did not receive his posted message. The other subscribers, yes.

Now, as suggested by laerm, I added in sympa.conf : dmarc_protection_mode dmarc_reject
I did not know before dmarc protection.
Now for me, it works very well with yahoo subscriber. He can receive the message he sent to the list !

I can see the added headers :
X-Original-DMARC-Record: domain=yahoo.com; _dmarc.yahoo.com. 1800 IN TXT "v=DMARC1; p=reject; pct=100; r....
X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1573749286; b...
X-Original-From: PX PX pX.pX@yahoo.com

If it helps ...

[pkissman]

@ikedas and @laerm ,

I eventually changed my dmarc protection "mode" selection from "dmarc_reject" to "all" And that seems to have solved my immediate problem with mail being rejected from major providers such as gmail, comcast and yahoo.

However, I want to reiterate that there definitely has been a change in behavior between 6.2.44 and 6.2.48 if dmarc configuration settings have not been touched.

6.2.44 was fine for me with a mode of dmarc_reject and 6.2.48 was not.

[ikedas]

Hi @pkissman, could you please apply this patch and check if the problem with "dmarc_reject" mode will be solved?

[laerm]

Hello @ikedas ,

The patch has fixed the issue for me. I'll let @pkissman confirm! Thank you again for your work!

[pkissman]

Hi @ikedas and @laerm ,

Yes! The patch worked for me as well. Thanks for sorting this out.

[ikedas]

Thanks @laerm and @pkissman for confirming fixes! I'll merge it with additional changes.

Thanks again for improving Sympa!