[Simh] Mailing list administrivia

[Rhialto]

On Fri 05 Sep 2014 at 23:00:32 +0000, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
> In particular, Mark Pizzolato warns me that there are some quirks with
> how Mailman may change subject lines and some of the more modern mail
> certification protocols.

That probably refers to Yahoo's recent(?) absurd requirements. It seems
that they want that a mailing list doesn't keep the originator's From:
header but forges it to be its own. 

The problem with what Yahoo and other sites are suggesting is that the
Internet Engineering Task Force, in the Internet Message Format RFC
(RFC2822, found at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt) specifically
states

    In all cases, the "From:" field SHOULD NOT contain any mailbox that
    does not belong to the author(s) of the message.  See also section
    3.6.3 for more information on forming the destination addresses
    for a reply.

And on
http://yahoomail.tumblr.com/post/82426900353/yahoo-dmarc-policy-change-what-should-senders-do
they actually admit they are really breaking all mailing lists:

    As of this publication, no common mailing list packages provide
    straightforward configuration options that produce DMARC
    compatibility,

I vote for the Usenet Death Penalty for Yahoo.

-Olaf.
-- 
___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for
\X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl    -- 'this bath is too hot.'
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