Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists (was: Can we fix this DMARC thing?)

2019-12-28 Thread Rick Moen
One note about my advice to OSI on December 1, 2018: That was, IIRC, my earliest attempt to advise fellow GNU Mailman listadmins about how to contend with the DMARC problem. A probably-mistaken small datum in what I said to OSI now sticks out: > Yahoo and Gmail are examples of sending domains w

Re: [DNG] Can we fix this DMARC thing?

2019-12-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Adrian Zaugg (devuan@mailgurgler.com): > In the DMARC FAQ, Section "Receiver Questions" they say: "If emails from > mailing lists are important to your users, you may therefore consider to > apply specific rules for emails coming from mailing lists." [1] This is > the situation right n

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists

2019-12-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Andrew McGlashan via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > They screw up greylisting, they screw up SPF and they screw up DMARC. They didn't screw up SPF. If you as the domain stakeholder of an SMTP-sending domain deterministically know and can specify in SPF's flexible spec format for DNS TXT rec

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists (was: Can we fix this DMARC thing?)

2019-12-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > In my wildest imagination, I never dreamed that Mailman wouldn't give > the admin control over the text assembly of the munged from. Then, possibly you can suggest how. Why don't you test your solution on a test GNU Mailman installation, and ad

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists

2019-12-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting 'smee via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > Is there a clear rule about when the sender displays as an individual, > vs "individual via DNG"? Herewith, a repost: Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 02:02:30 -0800 From: Rick Moen To: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Dng now alters (some) posts to compensate fo

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists

2019-12-28 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Mark Rousell (mark.rous...@signal100.com): > Even without having to submit a patch or knowing the full ins and out of > Mailman's DMARC mitigation, it strikes me that Steve's request was a > reasonable one. OK, cool, I nominate you to handle everything about this situation, from this po

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists

2019-12-28 Thread 'smee via Dng
Is there a clear rule about when the sender displays as an individual, vs "individual via DNG"? Just during this discussion I've seen it both ways. It hasn't been a problem for me, likely because I seldom participate (that won't always be the case), but I can see it being a hassle for a regular c

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists (was: Can we fix this DMARC thing?)

2019-12-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:34:09 -0800 Rick Moen wrote: > Are you in the middle of submitting a patch to GNU Mailman, then? I'm > expect they will give it appropriate consideration, and give you > expert feedback (which, possibly, the rest of us will appreciate > hearing). > > OTOH, expecting Dyne

Re: [DNG] Can we fix this DMARC thing?

2019-12-28 Thread Adrian Zaugg
Hi Steve In the DMARC FAQ, Section "Receiver Questions" they say: "If emails from mailing lists are important to your users, you may therefore consider to apply specific rules for emails coming from mailing lists." [1] This is the situation right now with the DNG list: It's up to the people who do

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists (was: Can we fix this DMARC thing?)

2019-12-28 Thread Simon Hobson
Steve Litt wrote: > ... we could at least > change the munge string from: > > Firstname Lastname via Dng > > to: > > GOES TO DNG (IRT Firstname Lastname) > > So when you do "return to sender" and it crazily puts > dng@lists.dyne.org in the To field, at least that To field won't be > disguis

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists

2019-12-28 Thread Mark Rousell
On 28/12/2019 15:02, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 13:16:19 +, Mark wrote in message > <5e0755a3.80...@signal100.com>: > >> That said, the mail list *does* seem to work as Steve wants. > ..you almost nailed it with the above observation, I'd go > "the mail list does *seem* to wor

Re: [DNG] Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd'

2019-12-28 Thread Clarke Sideroad via Dng
On 2019-12-28 5:03 a.m., Alexis PM via Dng wrote: My comments: A mediocre result, neither good nor bad. The best option for people who don't want to use systemd, Option 6 "E: Support for multiple init systems is Required", came in last. But Option 1 "F: Focus on systemd" came in second place, i

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists

2019-12-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 13:16:19 +, Mark wrote in message <5e0755a3.80...@signal100.com>: > That said, the mail list *does* seem to work as Steve wants. ..you almost nailed it with the above observation, I'd go "the mail list does *seem* to work as Steve wants", which is how and why Steve got

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists

2019-12-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan via Dng
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 29/12/19 12:01 am, Mark Rousell wrote: > On 28/12/2019 07:01, Steve Litt wrote: >> So, if we insist on assisting Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and their >> ilk, and all their users, by incorporating DMARC > > Really, it's surely not a matter of willing

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists

2019-12-28 Thread Mark Rousell
On 28/12/2019 08:34, Rick Moen wrote: > Are you in the middle of submitting a patch to GNU Mailman, then? I'm > expect they will give it appropriate consideration, and give you expert > feedback (which, possibly, the rest of us will appreciate hearing). > > OTOH, expecting Dyne.org people to hand-

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists

2019-12-28 Thread Mark Rousell
On 28/12/2019 07:01, Steve Litt wrote: > So, if we insist on assisting Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, and their ilk, and > all their users, by incorporating DMARC Really, it's surely not a matter of willingly helping them. It's more a matter of survival at all in a world where they carry a significant pro

Re: [DNG] Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd'

2019-12-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan via Dng
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 28/12/19 9:03 pm, Alexis PM via Dng wrote: > A mediocre result, neither good nor bad. The best option for people > who don't want to use systemd, Option 6 "E: Support for multiple > init systems is Required", came in last. But Option 1 "F: Fo

Re: [DNG] Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd'

2019-12-28 Thread Alexis PM via Dng
My comments: A mediocre result, neither good nor bad. The best option for people who don't want to use systemd, Option 6 "E: Support for multiple init systems is Required", came in last. But Option 1 "F: Focus on systemd" came in second place, if it had won it would have been a tragedy. We re

[DNG] Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd'

2019-12-28 Thread Alexis PM via Dng
Result of the Debian vote 'General Resolution: Init systems and systemd' https://www.debian.org/vote/2019/vote_002 The voting period ended on Friday 2019-12-27 23:59:59 UTC Result https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_initsystems/results.txt The winners are: Option 2 "B: Systemd but we suppor

Re: [DNG] Again, again: DMARC is a no-win problem for mailing lists (was: Can we fix this DMARC thing?)

2019-12-28 Thread Rick Moen
Hi, Steve. First, apologies last night if I was a bit peeved. It's just that I really had put quite a lot of effort into making sure Dyne.org people and the Dng community understood the problem, and that my recommendation was to enable a least-bad mitigation within GNU Mailman that 'munged' _on