Mailing list administrivia

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015, Jean-Pierre A. Radley via Filepro-list wrote:
...
>| I've seen no other messages on the fP list since this one.  Did the
>| change to Mailman cause an outage?
>| 
>| -- 
>| JP
>
>OK, no outage, my message came through; but as promised, it shows in my
>MUA's list of the messages in my mailbox as being from "filePro Mailing
>List", not as being from me. When I reply to the message, you see above
>that my MUA then uses "filePro Mailing List", not my name, to show who's
>being quoted.
>
>This should not abide.

I don't like it either, but without munging the From: header,
several large services that use strict DMARC rules which prevent
them from accepting email where the IP of the machine sending the
list traffic isn't listed as a valid IP for the domain of the
Sender.  Services using this include Comcast, Yahoo! and others I
don't remember offhand.

The first attempt to handle this with the Mailman MLM was to
guess which receiving hosts did DMARC testing, but that wasn't
reliable so they modified the behaviour to do it for all list
traffic.

On the other hand, I'm replying to this list message with mutt's
'L' to send to the list, and the outgoing headers look perfectly
normal to me.

Bill
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