> On May 3, 2022, at 7:09 AM, Cedric Amand <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did not investigate this much ; but I would look at the DMARC and « from » 
> problems 

DMARC is definitely one -- potentially the main -- issue here.  If someone with 
a strict DMARC record submits a message to the list for broadcast, many list 
recipients will quarantine or reject the message unless the From: header is 
munged.

Mailman has some potential mitigation strategies against this[1], none of which 
are great, but DMARC fundamentally broke the way email works by pinning its 
mechanism on the From: header.[2]

[1] 
https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/handlers/docs/dmarc-mitigations.html

[2] RFC7489 §5 says, essentially: requiring trust in From: was the only way to 
make DMARC go.  It doesn't actually justify doing so beyond saying (in §6.7) 
acceptance is a local decision.  The RFC takes no responsibility for 
establishing a de facto status quo that is broken.

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