>> You may be aware of modern spam protection mechanisms like SPF, DKIM >> and DMARC. > Yes and they are broken by design because they cause problems for > mailing lists and they do not test whether a message is spam.
No silver bullet exists AFAIK that deals with all e-mail problems. At least, these try to address the e-mail forgeries that plague e-mail systems, and in some way, make phishing easier when aimed at non-technical users; especially nowadays when spammers steal addressbooks and make it appear that mail comes from a contact. > Is it not serious that it's no longer possible to sort list emails by > sender, or to use the "Reply To Author" commands/buttons in email > clients to reply to the author? You've noticed the textual part from the “From:” header still points to the username; your mail client should be able to sort properly. I guess most mailing lists will proceed as Sympa does, by adding a “X-Original-From” header. It wouldn't be *that* hard for MUA to adjust to this, and still offer users the possibility to reply to the original poster. Then again, I'm not holding my breath; how many years since the adoption of standard mailing-list headers for subscription management, and how many mail clients support it? :) -- Patrice Levesque [email protected] :: +1.514.447.4918 *140 :: http://inverse.ca Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (http://sogo.nu) and PacketFence (http://packetfence.org)
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