On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Matt Simerson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Steve Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 24, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Franck Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> All the apache.org mailing lists are fine as for one example.
>>> 
>>> http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html
>> 
>> What is it about the apache lists that makes them DMARC aware? They don’t 
>> seem to rewrite the 5322 From: address, and they do appear to rewrite the 
>> Subject line (presumably breaking DKIM signatures). I’d expect that to 
>> provoke DMARC rejections, if any typical user were to interact with the list 
>> from a domain that used DMARC.
>> 
>> (Random example mail: 
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/201401.mbox/raw/%[email protected]%3e
>>  )
> 
> Most Apache lists aren't DMARC aware, they're DMARC agnostic. Most of the 
> Apache lists use Ezmlm, same as I do. I read somewhere that Apache doesn't 
> append body trailers, which would leave only the Subject prefixing lists with 
> any issue DMARC related issues, and then only from domains that sign the 
> Subject header.

The example mail I linked to - from the apache webserver list - is ezmlm, but 
appears to prefix the subject line and add a trailer to the body.

> For those sender domains with mailing list users, they could just drop 
> Subject from the list of fields they sign. I'm not sure if anyone does that. 
> On my lists, I just dropped the subject prefixes.

Subject prefixes are a fairly significant mailing list feature - especially for 
those 99% of users who don’t have hand-crafted filters routing mailing list 
mail to it’s own mailboxes - I’d hope that mailing list operators wouldn’t drop 
them for something as minor as working around misuse of DMARC.

Cheers,
  Steve


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