It appears that Michael Thomas via NANOG <[email protected]> said:
>There is no requirement that a mailing list honor or even care about 
>DMARC. That's true of all of this: it's purely informational to the 
>receiver to use as they will (or not). Expecting mailing lists to do 
>anything in particular is a mistake.
>
>> So mailing list software today typically checks the originating domain's
>> DMARC configuration.  If that has a policy other than "none" (which says
>> to deliver email even if it fails both SPF and DKIM), it will send the
>> email "From:" the list, and not the originator.  The email then nicely
>> passes the mailing list's own SPF, of course.  Additionally, the mail
>> server sending it out from the list software will normally DKIM sign the
>> outgoing email, so it ends up properly authenticating as coming from the
>> mailing list software.
>It would be nice if this were more uniformly true, but alas I don't 
>think you can really count on it. Even IETF mailing lists don't resign 
>(somebody has claimed this is a bug, but it's been a bug for a very long 
>time, from what I can tell).

Really, it was a bug. A bunch of stuff broke when we moved to the new
mail server earlier this year, and it's fixed now. (I checked.) The
DMARC rewrite stuff that I added broke at the same time, haven't
checked whether it's back yet.

R's,
John
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