Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-23 Thread Tom Lieuallen
The wiki page looks great and thank you for the other replies. thank you Tom Lieuallen On 4/16/14, 2:22 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 04/16/2014 01:30 PM, Tom Lieuallen wrote: Thank you very much for the summary of solutions. I was about to suggest/request it. It may be helpful to add to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jim Popovitch writes: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.orgwrote: So maybe it does, but in my spamtrap I have only 67/4359 (1.5%) messages from Yahoo (based on grepping for ^From:.*yahoo and ^From: respectively), vs. 658/38748 (1.7%) in my saved

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/17/2014 09:13 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: Someone, maybe it was you, posted on this forum earlier that perhaps 90% or more of spam with a yahoo.com origin (or one of their international DNs) actually _does_ come from Yahoo and that their response to abuse notifications is abysmal to

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 16:23 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 04/17/2014 09:13 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: Someone, maybe it was you, posted on this forum earlier that perhaps 90% or more of spam with a yahoo.com origin (or one of their international DNs) actually _does_ come from Yahoo and

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 15:34 -0500, Mike Starr wrote: I know there aren't any teeth behind RFCs but it might at least get their attention. The real problem is that RFCs are based on working practice, preferably acknowledged best practice. DMARC is an experiment

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Larry Kuenning writes: Query: On a very low-traffic mailing list (i.e. one where the list admin doesn't think it too much trouble), would it be a reasonable workaround for the list admin to paste the content of a message-to-be-moderated (i.e. one From: a yahoo address) into a new

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 15:24 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Their understanding (and knowledge) of accepted best practices regarding email and mailing lists is woefully limited. I rather doubt that. The DMARC I-D has gone through several editions (I-Ds have a life-span limited to 6

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Mike Starr
I can't answer your specific question but a number of years ago I created a Yahoo account which required the creation of a Yahoo email address. I have never used that email address nor have I divulged it to anyone. Oddly enough, thousands of spam email addresses land in that Yahoo email

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: Stephen, thanks for your generous reply, and your insights. It does seem to me, though, that when megabucks are riding on additional bandwidth, and if Yahoo is serious about controlling spam, they might start by putting some resources behind putting their own

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.orgwrote: Lindsay Haisley writes: Someone, maybe it was you, posted on this forum earlier that perhaps 90% or more of spam with a yahoo.com origin (or one of their international DNs) actually _does_ come from Yahoo

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Jose I. Rojas
We have a community group mail list which we run using Mailman and have lately had a problem getting our emails to members who have Bellsouth and Yahoo email addresses. I've seen the posts about DMARC but am not that tech-savvy to figure out what this means and how to resolve. Some of our

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I'll jump in here and offer the quick solution that I'm using at FMP. The primary culprit here is Yahoo, which publishes a DMARC p=reject policy via DNS. To the best of our knowledge, so far, no one else is doing this, although sbcglobal, att.net, comcast.net, Hotmail and a number of other email

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jose I. Rojas writes: We have a community group mail list which we run using Mailman and have lately had a problem getting our emails to members who have Bellsouth and Yahoo email addresses. I've seen the posts about DMARC but am not that tech-savvy to figure out what this means and how

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Kuenning
On 4/16/2014 12:51 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: What I'm advising list admins here, which puts a band-aid on the problem, is to put all yahoo.com subscribers on moderation, effectively making them read-only subscriptions. Also go through your membership list and clear any nomail disablements

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/16/2014 10:57 AM, Larry Kuenning wrote: Query: On a very low-traffic mailing list (i.e. one where the list admin doesn't think it too much trouble), would it be a reasonable workaround for the list admin to paste the content of a message-to-be-moderated (i.e. one From: a yahoo

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread jdd
Le 16/04/2014 19:57, Larry Kuenning a écrit : also advising yahoo.com list subscribers to get a Gmail account (as free and easy to get as a Yahoo account) so to be sure all your mail a read by google :-) (of course may be yahoo do the same - why people can't use they ISP's mail?) jdd --

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/16/2014 11:11 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: (2) You can break your mailing lists by using the author_is_list option in Mailman 2.1.16 and later. This option will only be available if the site configuration has ALLOW_AUTHOR_IS_LIST set to Yes. This will cause the list to

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:31:25 +0200 jdd jdani...@free.fr wrote: Hello jdd, (... why people can't use they ISP's mail?) In case that's not a rhetorical question: Because every time you change provider, you would have to change email address too. When you're subscribed to over one hundred

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Kuenning
On 4/16/2014 1:57 PM, Larry Kuenning wrote: Query: On a very low-traffic mailing list (i.e. one where the list admin doesn't think it too much trouble), would it be a reasonable workaround for the list admin to paste the content of a message-to-be-moderated (i.e. one From: a yahoo address)

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Tom Lieuallen
Stephen, Thank you very much for the summary of solutions. I was about to suggest/request it. It may be helpful to add to the wiki as it seems quite important and complicated. I'd be interested in more mails like this, helping those of us move forward and alleviate the issues. Unless I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/16/2014 01:34 PM, Larry Kuenning wrote: I've since thought of a third difficulty besides the two I mentioned. If the post-to-be-moderated is itself a reply to an earlier post, then mailman's archive threading will be broken unless the list moderator goes to the trouble of setting up

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread jdd
Le 16/04/2014 20:59, Brad Rogers a écrit : On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:31:25 +0200 jdd jdani...@free.fr wrote: Hello jdd, (... why people can't use they ISP's mail?) In case that's not a rhetorical question: Because every time you change provider, you would have to change email address too.

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/16/2014 01:30 PM, Tom Lieuallen wrote: Thank you very much for the summary of solutions. I was about to suggest/request it. It may be helpful to add to the wiki as it seems quite important and complicated. I'd be interested in more mails like this, helping those of us move forward

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:19:29 +0200 jdd jdani...@free.fr wrote: Hello jdd, Le 16/04/2014 20:59, Brad Rogers a écrit : Because every time you change provider, you would have to change email address too. does this occur often? It can, yes. In the past year, I've changed provider twice. If

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Mike Starr
If one is interested in maintaining one's identity, using an ISP's email makes it a pain to change ISPs. Of course, that does make the ISPs very happy. This is a fascinating discussion and as administrator of two very small lists, it's giving me an awful lot to think about. However, being a

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 15:34 -0500, Mike Starr wrote: I know there aren't any teeth behind RFCs but it might at least get their attention. Doubtful, but the sentiment is noble. My guess is that the people at Yahoo who implemented this, and possibly also the designers of DMARC, don't fully

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-16 Thread Larry Kuenning
On 4/16/2014 4:51 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote (about my suggestion of manually moderating posts from Yahoo users): But what you are suggesting is essentially what the Wrap Message option introduced as a site option in 2.1.16 and expanded in 2.1.18 does. Well, yes. But: -- if you're working with