Re: [CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote:
 On 04/04/2015 09:59 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
 Did we work out the technical reason why some users that post to the list
 are getting dumped into gmail spam?

 .  I believe that if, in your gmail account, you keep marking as NOT
 SPAM any false positives it will send more of these messages to the
 right folder.

No, I don't think it will ever learn from that,, but there is a way
you can set a rule to 'never mark as spam' based on the sender. Which
wouldn't be fun on a list with a lot of yahoo.com members.

 There has been an abundance of discussions in the past about these
 issues on the various mailman, dmarc and dkim mailing lists as well as
 in many other places.  This whole issue hit the fan early in 2014 when
 yahoo and aol changed their DMARC policy to reject incoming mail that
 failed the DMARC test.

It was discussed here, I think both before and after the mailman
changes were available.

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Re: [CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-08 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2015/04/08 17:50 +0200, Les Mikesell a écrit: 
 No, I don't think it will ever learn from that,, but there is a way
 you can set a rule to 'never mark as spam' based on the sender. Which
 wouldn't be fun on a list with a lot of yahoo.com members.

FWIW, I recently solved one reason GMail was always marking my emails as
spam: my MTA has IPv6, and to send emails, it was by default using the
rfc3041 temporary addresses as source, so each time a different address
when connecting to Google's MX's.

As soon as I set it up to use the propre static IPv6, marking them as
«not spam» in Gmail subsequently worked. So it looks like they also keep
track of the sender's MTA address, not only of the email address.

Obviously not the reason for everybody, but hopefully it can help others :-)

Laurent
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Re: [CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-08 Thread Nataraj
On 04/08/2015 09:40 AM, Laurent Blume wrote:
 Le 2015/04/08 17:50 +0200, Les Mikesell a écrit: 
 No, I don't think it will ever learn from that,, but there is a way
 you can set a rule to 'never mark as spam' based on the sender. Which
 wouldn't be fun on a list with a lot of yahoo.com members.
 FWIW, I recently solved one reason GMail was always marking my emails as
 spam: my MTA has IPv6, and to send emails, it was by default using the
 rfc3041 temporary addresses as source, so each time a different address
 when connecting to Google's MX's.

 As soon as I set it up to use the propre static IPv6, marking them as
 «not spam» in Gmail subsequently worked. So it looks like they also keep
 track of the sender's MTA address, not only of the email address.

 Obviously not the reason for everybody, but hopefully it can help others :-)

 Laurent
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Gmail has many different criteria that it uses for detecting spam.  One
of the things they do is to keep a credibility score based on the IP
address of a mailserver.  In general, they like to see all of the mail
for a domain coming from a single IP address.   Since mail.centos.org
uses a single IP address, this is not the problem here.

If one wanted to improve this situation, my sense is that the next thing
to do would be to strip off the DKIM signatures which have incorrect
checksums.

After that, the next thing that would improve gmail's spam scoring of
list mail would be to add a valid DKIM signature, but that is messier
for a mailing list because it would mean ugly rewriting of the from
header.  It is possible that simply stripping the original senders
DKIM's would solve the problem.

Nataraj

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Re: [CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-04 Thread Nataraj
On 04/04/2015 09:59 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
 Did we work out the technical reason why some users that post to the list
 are getting dumped into gmail spam?

 Ta,

 Andrew
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It is most probably due to the various issues around dmarc, dkim and
mailing list servers for which there is currently no great solution to
the problem.  If, for example I look at the your message (in this case,
the one I am responding to), I see the following:

 1. The message has intact a dkim signature from gmail, so the Centos
mailman server is not stripping the dkim sig from the original
sender, which recent versions of mailman can be configured to do.
 2. The CentOS mailman server adds its own footer, changing the checksum
of the message, so the dkim signature is no longer valid, therefore
when any receiving mail server checks the DKIM sig it fails as it
did with my own mailserver.
 3. The centos server does NOT add its own DKIM sig and appears to have
no DMARC record in the DNS (dig txt _dmarc.centos.org.)  These are
not necessarily a good idea anyway for mail coming from a mailing
list server because in order to add a DKIM sig the from of the
message would have to be changed to n...@centos.org since the
mailman server can't itself sign for a sender from another domain.

I'm not suggesting that DKIM or DMARC are a good solution to anything,
however several of the FREEMAIL providers do pay attention to these
things, so the CentOS mailserver admin might want to consider having
mailman strip existing DKIM sig's from the mail (or alternatively not
adding a footer).  You can check the mailman doc/mailing list for other
relevent options for working around these problems.

.  I believe that if, in your gmail account, you keep marking as NOT
SPAM any false positives it will send more of these messages to the
right folder.

There has been an abundance of discussions in the past about these
issues on the various mailman, dmarc and dkim mailing lists as well as
in many other places.  This whole issue hit the fan early in 2014 when
yahoo and aol changed their DMARC policy to reject incoming mail that
failed the DMARC test.  Gmail, however, does not enforce the reject in
others DMARC policy, but instead sends the email to the spambox (gmail
also may send email to the spambox if it has no DKIM signature at all). 
I found that when I added (valid) DKIM signatures and a DMARC record for
my domains, recipient freemail users messages started going to their
inbox instead of their spambox.

Nataraj

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[CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
Did we work out the technical reason why some users that post to the list
are getting dumped into gmail spam?

Ta,

Andrew
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Re: [CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-04 Thread Hal Wigoda
I get that too.
How do you turn this off?
They could be using an email server that is on a blacklist.

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Andrew Holway andrew.hol...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Did we work out the technical reason why some users that post to the list
 are getting dumped into gmail spam?

 Ta,

 Andrew
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