Back in October 2019, Microsoft included ARC support in their Microsoft 365 Roadmap, stating that “[ARC] is now enabled for Office 365 hosted mailboxes.” But at that time it could only be used between Office 365 tenants, or from Microsoft’s in-house services. However in June of 2022 they made it possible for each tenant to […]
The Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) was designed to address situations where email messages that are forwarded, and in some cases altered, will no longer pass email authentication checks. After spending 3 years as a work item in the IETF‘s DMARC Working Group, the specification was published as RFC 8617 (HTML, PDF, plain text) on July […]
The interoperability testing event mentioned when ARC was announced in October (see this press release) has been scheduled for Friday, February 19th, 2016 in San Francisco. Parties implementing the ARC protocol in their product or service by that date should consider participating in the event. Those parties should join the arc-discuss mailing list if they […]