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by ericpauley 20 days ago
Best way to go about this is just blackhole SPF so it never passes, then set your DMARC alignment to strict. This approach prevents SPF from satisfying DMARC on the vast majority of providers [1].

[1] https://taejoong.github.io/files/publications/hamza-2026-dma...

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In theory, yes, in practice this will currently result in deliverability issues, both for servers which don't speak dmarc and for spam signals. I have tried this :)

If this mode of operation was an explicit choice, this would give me the option to have a fallback SPF record for legacy mail systems, but most up-to-date servers will use the more secure and (for my use case) operationally simpler verification.