[opendmarc-users] Rejecting Messages

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Marcos wrote:
> I am testing a domain with an SPF record that ends with a hard fail 
> mechanism. When the SPF validation fails, the message is rejected. I 
> would like to know if I should allow the message to be received and then 
> let OpenDMARC to be responsible for generating the report data, etc, or 
> leave the SPF filter to reject it at once? What do you advise?

This is entirely a local policy matter.  You need to decide if enforcing 
"-all" is more important than DMARC reporting, or vice-versa, and then set 
your software up accordingly.

-MSK