The reason this matters is that over the weekend Yahoo published a
DMARC record with a policy saying to reject all yahoo.com mail that
fails DMARC. I noticed this because I got a blizzard of bounces from
my church mailing list, when a subscriber sent a message from her
yahoo.com account, and the list got a whole bunch of rejections from
gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Comcast, and Yahoo itself. This is definitely
a DMARC problem, the bounces say so.
The problem for mailing lists isn't limited to the Yahoo subscribers.
Since Yahoo mail provokes bounces from lots of other mail systems,
innocent subscribers at Gmail, Hotmail, etc. not only won't get Yahoo
subscribers' messages, but all those bounces are likely to bounce them
off the lists. A few years back we had a similar problem due to an
overstrict implementation of DKIM ADSP, but in this case, DMARC is
doing what Yahoo is telling it to do.
Suggestions:
* Suspend posting permission of all yahoo.com addresses, to limit damage
* Tell Yahoo users to get a new mail account somewhere else, pronto, if
they want to continue using mailing lists
* If you know people at Yahoo, ask if perhaps this wasn't such a good idea