Thanks Harold for taking care of this list. Obviously this is not an easy task.
What would our community be without people who care like you do ? Christine On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure what's exactly triggering this issue from Raffi's emails, > but it happened again. > > Yesterday 191 accounts were disabled when Raffi's email was bounced. They > all seemed to be Google emails. I think I reinstated all those accounts. If > you are getting this message - no need to do anything. Alas, if you're not, > ... not much I say here will make any difference. > > But Raffi emailed the list again today. Another festival of bounces in my > inbox. This time, the google/gmail accounts seemed to be ok. But many > Yahoo, MSN, Sympatico, Comcast and other accounts bounced Raffi's email - > and the OSList disabled their accounts. Again, one by one, I re-enabled > them today. If you see this email - no action needed. > > The email companies like Google, Yahoo, etc. are implementing something > called DMARC to prevent spam. Gory details: > http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690 > > Apparently this is not an easy thing to fix. More gory details. > http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/DMARC. For now - I have changed Raffi's > account so I have to moderate anything he sends. I'm trying another > experiment where the From field is changed - so this note doesn't say From > Harold in your email program. I don't think this is acceptable - but I'm > testing it. > > It looks like there is a better solution in a newer version of the > software we are using for the OSList. I'll see if I can get our web hosting > company to deploy that software - but it might take a while. > > Alas, I wish I could guarantee no further glitches. I'll keep you updated. > > Regards, > Harold > > > -- > Harold Shinsato > [email protected] > http://shinsato.com > twitter: @hajush <http://twitter.com/hajush> > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >
