[ I'm copying this to some of the possibly-relevant people because it's
not at all clear that just sending it to the mailing list will reach
anyone.  My apologies if I've included some of the wrong people. ---rsk ]

One of my users is on this mailing list and forwarded this to me.
(I run the mailing lists for several LUGs as a free service to the Linux
community, and my user base has a bunch of Linux, Unix, open-source,
etc. people.)

As far as I can tell, this instance of the mailing list is very badly
broken.  So far I've noted:

1. The host it's coming from fails FCrDNS checks.  That means
that a lot of operations won't allow mail from it.  FCrDNS
compliance has been a baseline requirement for legitimate mail
systems for ~20 years.

2. The List-ID header is completely wrong.

3. The other RFC 2369 headers are missing.

4. The Sender field is missing, thus the originators of messages
aren't identified.

5. I need to double-check this against the RFC, but it looks to
me like the Message-ID fields are malformed.

There's probably more, this is from a quick glance.

I don't know who's changed what or why, but I would suggest reverting
that change ASAP.  If you need help doing that or setting this up or
whatever, I'm willing to assist: I've been running mailing lists for
something like 40 years (manually, then with Majordomo, then with Mailman)
and currently run about 30 of them across 6 different domains.

---rsk/Rich Kulawiec/[email protected]





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