mailinglist issues (Was: Fedora-like Linux for 1.99GB RAM?)

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 03:28:24PM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> writes:
> > On 06/01/14 10:14, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> >
> >     
> >         Off topic. Is this email sent from your personal email server?
> >     I am asking because Google shows a warning that they can't verify
> >     if this message was sent by the wsrcc.com.
> >
> > You get this warning because of this header in the email.....
> >
> > Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
> >        spf=pass (google.com: domain of users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org designates 209.132.181.2 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org;
> >        dkim=neutral (body hash did not verify) header.i=@;
> >        dmarc=fail (p=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=wsrcc.com
> 
> Bingo.  Right on the money.
> 
> > I've not looked into it....but I don't think dkim/dmarc works very
> > well with mailing lists.
> 
> It can.  Mailman has already been changed to take ownership of the
> "From:" line pointing it to some list-owned address and injecting a
> reply-to optionally to allow unicast msgs to work too.
> 
> The problem is that mailing lists forging From addresses looks the same
> to software as a spammer forging the same.  No progress is going to be
> made till mailing lists stop doing that.

I guess this explains why a lot of mailinglist posts started going to
spam on Gmail recently (including this message).  This started about 2
months ago.

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Suvayu

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