On Saturday, March 30, 2013 9:17 AM [GMT+1=CET],J. Gomez wrote: > I hope some solution to this problem with mailing lists is found. > Maybe mailing list software should evolve and take ownership of the > RFC5322.From header and put in there the list's own email address > while retaining the original poster's descriptive name?
I see (*) that mailman already has an option for the mailing list address to take ownership of the RFC5322.From header (see "Hide the sender of a message, replacing it with the list address" in section "Spam-specific posting filters"): http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html (*) Although I'm not really sure if that is a Mailman general feature, or some local feature implemented just in Aurora University's installation of Mailman. Also, I see that in the Mailman Wishlist it is said "Allow admins to control and set individual headers, adding, removing, or overriding those in the original message (sometimes very useful, but could be dangerous!)": http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/todo.html Therefore it looks like we are already half way there. So, imagine a lists subscriber who sends email to a mailing list with this RFC5322.From header: From: "Sam Spade" <[email protected]> Then the mailing list software would rewrite the RFC5322.From header when forwarding the email to all its subscribers to look like this: From: "Mailman-Sam Spade" <[email protected]> And now, imagine this behaviour becomes the default for the majority of mailing list software... How crazy is that suggestion? Regards, J. Gomez _______________________________________________ dmarc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://www.dmarc.org/mailman/listinfo/dmarc-discuss NOTE: Participating in this list means you agree to the DMARC Note Well terms (http://www.dmarc.org/note_well.html)
