Re: DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large open-source lists

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> Mon, 14 April 2014 04:41 UTC

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On 4/13/2014 7:49 PM, John Levine wrote:
>>> Meanwhile, I'm still not proposing that we train users, or even
>>> anti-spam software to "recognize" or "validate" mailing list addresses.
>>> What I'm proposing is a way to send mail from a list with From:
>>> @domain-of-list.tld so that it can pass DMARC/SPF/DKIM, and allow the
>>> left side of the @ sign to identify the actual sender of the message.
>>

Sure would be nice if current mailers still recognized bang paths -- 
rewrite
From: user@yaho.com
to
From: yahoo.com!user

Sigh...

Miles Fidelman


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