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		dataflow on Sept 7, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Spam Filtering Works: From SPF to DKIM to Blac... How is the message considered forged when it passes DKIM though?

Ionlyprograminc on Sept 7, 2018 [–]

A message can still be considered a DMARC failure since the check depends on both SPF and DKIM. You can have various failures like recipient rewrites and general SPF/DKIM failures which will fail DMARC a significant amount of the time.

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