Mailing list administrivia

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Campbell via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 8:20:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Mailing list administrivia
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015, Jean-Pierre A. Radley via Filepro-list wrote:

> >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.

This was a standard 'R'eply with Zimbra 6, and not only is the attribution
usable, if not perfect, but the "To" isn't the list, as usual.  (Zimbra
doesn't do Reply To List)

Cheers,
-- jra
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