On 9/27/23 23:11, Don Armstrong wrote:
The problem with this specific From-rewriting is that it breaks replying
to the sender instead of just the bug (though maybe that's not a huge
deal).
Ideally we'd be able to oversign the messages, but DMARC and DKIM
weren't engineered to allow that.
I mean, ARC was sort of intended to address this, but it doesn't really
because receiving servers have to explicitly decide which ARC signers
they trust, which honestly makes it only useful for the really big email
providers. Few sites are going to bother maintaining a trusted ARC
signers list that is sufficiently large and granular that it has email
senders like Debian on it. ARC has always felt kind of dead in the water
to me because of that, but maybe I'm unaware of some clever advance
they've come up with that is going to solve this problem.
I've personally been ignoring it
because I've been hoping that the standards would get fixed, but if it's
impacting enough Debian contributors to matter, I don't mind accepting a
patch.
I'm happy to work on a patch as my time permits, but there are two
unknowns here that make me reluctant to just jump in:
(1) I don't know what "impacting enough Debian contributors to matter"
or who's going to make that determination.
(2) As discussed above, there are numerous ways to do this, and I don't
know which of them will be considered acceptable by the BTS maintainers
or how to make that determination. I'm reluctant to just "take a stab at
it" and hope that whatever I implement gets accepted.
jik
