[opendmarc-users] OpenDMARC next release discussion

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, February 23, 2015 11:11:44 PM Christian Rößner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for duplicate message; took wrong sender address :-(
> 
> > I'm going to begin planning the next major release of OpenDMARC soon.
> > There's no particular schedule to complete this, thought it might be good
> > to do something in support of what the DMARC working group at the IETF is
> > doing.
> > 
> > In any case, there are nine open feature requests in the SourceForge
> > tracker (https://sourceforge.net/p/opendmarc/tickets/).  Other than the
> > people that opened them, does anyone see something in that list that
> > would be really helpful to have in the next release?  Are there any other
> > features that would be good to have which aren't listed on that page?
> > 
> > Things like survivability of DKIM across lists would be interesting to
> > have here, but I consider them out of scope here at least until there's
> > some experimental adoption of new techniques on the DKIM side of things.
> > Those will probably appear in OpenDKIM as options at some point, once
> > I've had time to code them up.
> > 
> > If you're curious, there were several recent proposals:
> > 
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-dkim-delegate/
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-dkim-list-canon/
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-levine-cdkim/
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-levine-dkim-conditional/
> 
> there is one feature request that I want to ask for:
> 
> Currently a remote domain owner can define quarantine in the DNS settings
> and the current milter leads to HOLD messages in Postfix. Unfortunately
> there are nearly every day mails that get on hold, because some providers
> have set quarantine. So it really, really would be helpful to have an
> option to let mail pass (or reject) instead of being put in quaratine (or
> Postfix HOLD queue).
> 
> There are no plans for Postfix to workaround this issue. So a configuration
> parameter would be the only way.
> 
> Please @Andreas, if you can confirm this, … :-)
> 
> Or other Postfix people here having the same issues?
> 
> Maybe something like:
> 
> QuarantinePolicy: accept/quarantine/reject (default: quarantine)
> 
> Is that possible?

It might be useful to be able to specify a different destination for mails that 
meet the DMARC criteria for quarantine.  The hold queue isn't a very useful 
place for them.

Scott K