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It looks like there is a better solution in a newer version of the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
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