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

[David]

On 6/2/2014 3:30 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> 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.
> 


The only mailing list emails that Gmail sends to spam, for me, are those
that come from Linux users that have their own email server(s). And all
of those come from post to Linux mailing lists.

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  David