On Saturday, March 30, 2013 12:35 PM [GMT+1=CET],Rolf E. Sonneveld wrote: > On 03/30/2013 09:58 AM, J. Gomez wrote: > > 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... > > and then have all out-of-office replies etc. being bounced back to the > list... > > /rolf
Out-Of-Office replies are DSN and therefore should have a blank sender. No mailing list should accept posts with a blank sender. So I see no problem there. _______________________________________________ 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)
