On 8 May 2014 at 11:23, John Lussmyer via EV wrote: > Why are the list "From:" addresses of the form: > > From: Persons Name via EV <[email protected]> > > Rather than the users "normal" email address? >
The mail format changed with last night's upgrade of the listserver software. With new mail security policies now in place at Yahoo, AT&T, AOL and Microsoft, the former practice of the listserver using the sender's name as FROM was causing problems. The listserver used to take the email address of the sender and copy it into the FROM field in place of its own address (this is called "address munging"). All listservers work this way - or rather USED to work this way. Yahoo changed their security policies in early April, and the others soon followed. After that, when the listserver forwarded messages from a Yahoo, AOL, AT&T or Microsoft user to addresses in these same domains, their servers would "think," "This message says it's from Yahoo, but it's not sent by a Yahoo server - it's from evdl.org instead. Huh. Must be spam. Reject!" A week or two ago, I noticed that users were starting to get suspended from the list because their accounts were bouncing excessive amounts of mail. I tried various fixes. The error message on one of the bounced messages led me to the real reason, but it took a little while to get the fix in place. With the modified list software, instead of sending a message from (for example) [email protected], the listserver sends a message from [email protected], on behalf of [email protected]. This is OK with Yahoo, AT&T, AOL, and Microsoft, so the message gets delivered. The reply-to field now contains both the list address and the message originator's address, so replying to a message should still work as before. This is a permanent change - or at least until some big mail operation screws things up again and we have to find yet another workaround. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
