[TriLUG] From field munging

[Kevin Otte via TriLUG]

I raised objections to this policy when it was first implemented but was
told it had already been decided and that my input would not be considered.

As the list admin for linux-ham@ I did a little poking around.

The setting in Mailman to munge the From field says:
"If setting this to Yes, it is advised to set the MTA to DKIM sign all
emails."

TriLUG does not do this. In fact, your post still bears the DKIM
information for troubleshooters.com, which caused my spam filter to
raise the score (not enough to tag it thankfully) due to the mismatch.

There is another option in the configuration to wrap the original
poster's message as MIME message/rfc822. This does require opening the
nested message to reply to the right place. I'm not sure how desirable
this will be from a UX standpoint.

I have enabled this on linux-ham@ for a test. Will advise if I hear
about any undesired side effects.

-- Kevin

On 02/20/2017 03:15 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Aaron Schrab sure called it right in the following post:
> 
> http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20150209/073359.html
> 
> A few minutes ago I accidentally sent a private reply to the whole
> list. I'm very sorry. 
> 
> I spoze I could have been extra careful, but on almost all my other
> mailing lists, clicking "reply to sender" actually replies to sender,
> like it's supposed to do. TriLUG munges the sender field, so unless
> extreme care is used, private replies will go to the whole list.
> 
> If From Field Munging is the only way to implement dmarc, I'd suggest
> not implementing dmarc, and if people with Yahoo and AOL accounts can't
> post, oh-well. I mean, what serious Internet person doesn't have an
> account with someone other than Yahoo or AOL?
> 
> I'm sorry to have sent a private reply to the whole list, and will try
> my best to remember that when responding to TriLUG posts, my email
> system works differently.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt 
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