Out of Office Messages from Mimecast going to Defender Anti Phishing Quarantine

This organisation had a A DMARC “p=quarantine” policy DMARC record

When an Automatic Reply is sent , it actually leaves the Env Sender (RFC5321.MailFrom) Blank ( Null )

It still has the Header From

The reason for DMARC failure on Automatic Replies \ Out of Office is SPF alignment check; The Env Sender (null) and the Body Sender (yourdomain.com) 

The work around for this is DKIM which should be added to it anyway to get around SPF Failure. For some reason Mimecast has not tagged the DKIM signature on the Automatic Reply, which is an alternative way to verify the authenticity of the message, is not in the mail header.

spf=none (sender IP is 103.96.21.223) smtp.helo=au-smtp-delivery-223.mimecast.com; dkim=none (message not signed) header.d=none;dmarc=fail action=quarantine header.from=xxxxx.com.au;compauth=fail reason=000

The Mimecast DKIM Policies were set to tag only on  the Return AddressFrom (Blank on SPF ) ( Not the Header ) 

Changing this to Both Resolved this

Failing that you could always enable DKIM on 365 as well as Mimecast

Automatic replies should have a Auto-Submitted: header that you can key an exception rule on.

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