The mailing list question can be a bit tricky. Yeah, the DKIM
signature is supposed to transport just fine, unless your MLM rewrites
any header or content that breaks the signature. And when you deal
with that, eventually you're going to run into list subscribers whose
posts get rejected by some other subscribers, due to the poster's
domain having a P=reject DMARC policy.

I would say there's not a clear consensus on how best to handle
mailing lists in a DKIM+DMARC world. A bunch of email folks are
working on a standard called Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) that
would in theory help to address issues with mailing lists. (See
http://arc-spec.org/ ). But, we're a ways from being able to call that
a solution.

I'm a mailing list operator myself, at probably about the same level
you are. (Instead of Mailman, I run a custom MLM that I wrote myself,
mostly as a programming exercise.) What I have chosen to do is strip
an existing DKIM signature, rewrite the from address if it appears to
be a domain that has a restrictive DMARC policy, and then sign it with
DKIM as the list domain. This works well for me, but not everybody
agrees that it's the best path. I'm not the only one to have done
something similar; Yahoo Groups, Google Groups Mail-list.com and
OnlineGroups.net all send as the group instead of as the poster either
all the time or as needed; and mailman can be configured similarly.

Here's a link to an overview of the various issues in play for mailing
lists, and info on what I and others have chosen to do to address it.
http://www.spamresource.com/2015/02/dmarc-mailing-lists-roundup.html

Here's where to go to learn more about what you can do with Mailman:
http://wiki.list.org/DEV/DMARC

Note: There will probably be at least one really angry reply to this
post telling me how horrible this is and that I broke mailing lists.
It'll be a rehash of an argument from more than a year ago. Truth be
told, somebody else broke mailing lists; this is just how I personally
decided to implement a fix that seems to work well for me. YMMV.

Regards,
Al Iverson

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Al Iverson - Minneapolis - (312) 275-0130
Simple DNS Tools since 2008: xnnd.com
www.spamresource.com & aliverson.com
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