And a few others too, but then they contain the words "out of office" and even a special header and most of the time they don't carry much useful information unless you believe email is a reliable instant form of communication.
Toute connaissance est une réponse à une question. On Mar 30, 2013, at 6:42 AM, "Rolf E. Sonneveld" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/30/2013 02:20 PM, J. Gomez wrote: >> 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. > > Tell this to Microsoft and have them fix their installed base of MS > Exchange... > > /rolf > > _______________________________________________ > 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
