Mailing list administrivia

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Sat Apr 25 15:52:00 PDT 2015


On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 05:00:41PM -0400, filePro Mailing List thus spoke:
> | >
> | >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.

My $0.02?  Put it back to sane, and screw those email addresses.  Those
DMARC rules were obviously ill-conceived, if they don't properly accomodate
mailing lists in the traditional fashion.  Let the users complain to their
providers, or seek sane providers for their email.

I personally think it makes mailing lists a lot less viable.

mark->


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