[Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Siniša Burina
Hello! I believe there's no need to elaborate on the problems recently introduced by Yahoo, changing their DMARC DNS record and rendering many mailman lists unusable for Yahoo mail users. I see the solution to this problem in changing the From: field to mailing list's address, but keeping the

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Joseph Brennan
They're breaking RFC 822 / 5322. The From: field specifies the author(s) of the message, that is, the mailbox(es) of the person(s) or system(s) responsible for the writing of the message. [...] In all cases, the From: field SHOULD NOT contain any mailbox that does not belong to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Siniša Burina
On 10/04/14 16:25, Joseph Brennan wrote: They're breaking RFC 822 / 5322. The From: field specifies the author(s) of the message, that is, the mailbox(es) of the person(s) or system(s) responsible for the writing of the message. [...] In all cases, the From: field SHOULD NOT

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I hate to say it, but the days of the kinder, gentler internet when everyone played strictly by the RFCs are passing as operational control of internet services comes increasingly under the control of fewer, bigger players who can do as they wish. This isn't to say that Mailman should break RFCs

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Joseph Brennan
Lindsay Haisley fmo...@fmp.com wrote: SPF inherently breaks mailing lists No, it doesn't. SPF checks the envelope sender, and when the list host is, say, lists.example.com, the envelope sender is something like listname-boun...@lists.example.com, and that can pass SPF. Mailman, Listserv,

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Siniša Burina
On 10/04/14 17:18, Lindsay Haisley wrote: This is the first I've heard of this issue, but it doesn't surprise me at all. Basically, Yahoo insists that their own mail servers are the only ones that can originate the message with @yahoo.com domain in the From header. Not Return-Path, Not the

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 10, 2014, at 03:09 PM, Siniša Burina wrote: I believe there's no need to elaborate on the problems recently introduced by Yahoo, changing their DMARC DNS record and rendering many mailman lists unusable for Yahoo mail users. It *is* a shame that these anti-spam defenses knowingly break

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:18:33AM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I hate to say it, but the days of the kinder, gentler internet when everyone played strictly by the RFCs are passing as operational control of internet services comes increasingly under the control of fewer, bigger players who

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Adam McGreggor adam-mail...@amyl.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:18:33AM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I hate to say it, but the days of the kinder, gentler internet when everyone played strictly by the RFCs are passing as operational control of

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Siniša Burina writes: Basically, Yahoo insists that their own mail servers are the only ones that can originate the message with @yahoo.com domain in the From header. Not Return-Path, Not the envelope sender, but exactly the From header in the message itself. If this practice gets

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Siniša Burina
On 10/04/14 19:57, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Or just bounce them with a message stating that Yahoo no longer permits its users to post to mailing lists, so please use a different posting address. I realize that most sites can't do that, but mine can (and will if I get any complaints about

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Siniša Burina s...@burina.net wrote: On 10/04/14 19:57, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Or just bounce them with a message stating that Yahoo no longer permits its users to post to mailing lists, so please use a different posting address. I realize that most sites

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 11, 2014, at 02:57 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The straightforward thing for Mailman to do is to wrap mail from yahoo addresses in a multipart/mixed with a text part explaining that Yahoo is knowingly interfering with the mail service of their users, and the mail itself in a

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/10/2014 07:25 AM, Joseph Brennan wrote: They're breaking RFC 822 / 5322. The From: field specifies the author(s) of the message, that is, the mailbox(es) of the person(s) or system(s) responsible for the writing of the message. [...] In all cases, the From: field SHOULD NOT

[Mailman-Users] DMARC and Mail Lists open space at Pycon

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
I have tentatively scheduled an open space for Friday, 11 April at 18:00 in room 523B at Pycon to talk about DMARC and mail lists. All available interested parties are invited. If the time doesn't work, we can reschedule. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread mail.ulticom.com
On Apr 10, 2014, at 20:25, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: On 04/10/2014 07:25 AM, Joseph Brennan wrote: They're breaking RFC 822 / 5322. The From: field specifies the author(s) of the message, that is, the mailbox(es) of the person(s) or system(s) responsible for the writing of

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/10/2014 06:09 AM, Siniša Burina wrote: I see the solution to this problem in changing the From: field to mailing list's address, but keeping the poster's name or address in the description part of the same field. For example: ... I'm using Mailman 2.1.13, and can not upgrade to

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/10/2014 05:35 PM, mail.ulticom.com wrote: At least as of iOS 7 it can show messages inside messages. Thanks for the tip. I'll check with my users and see what they're using. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC issues

2014-04-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Unfortunately, when I actually turned this on in response to Yahoo's change in DMARC policy, I got complaints from users of Apple iOS iThings that their mail clients do not deal well with this message, The iOS 6 mail client was just plain unusable, and in very limited