[fdo] PSA: Mailman changes, From addresses no longer accurate

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 at 15:29, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 23:38, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > Mailman has also now been reconfigured such that if it spots a
> > potential DMARC violation, it rewrites the From address to be
> > @lists.freedesktop.org, keeping the original author in Reply-To. It
> > also strips DKIM headers. This seems to be about the best we can do,
> > unless and until the major mail service providers offer us some
> > alternate way to send mail. If you are replying privately to someone,
> > you should check very carefully that you are replying to them and not
> > to the list.
>
> Thanks a lot to everyone who has offered help with our woes. After
> some configuration changes, we are reverting back to always sending
> email with the From: address of the individual sender.
>
> I've done this on a Sunday afternoon as the lists are quiet: I'm
> intending to monitor them through the evening and Monday to see what
> our failed-delivery rates look like, and if we can continue to send
> messages. In the longer term, we're also looking at enabling things
> like ARC.

At the moment, things are not looking too bad. For whatever reason
Google seems to reject most of our list digests as spam, but at least
normal delivery is mostly working.

Cheers,
Daniel