Re: Problem with the draft-all aliases

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Tue, 03 January 2017 20:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: Problem with the draft-all aliases
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> On Jan 3, 2017, at 3:39 PM, Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> wrote:
> 
> I just copied the review directly to the authors' individual addresses, and
> they received it fine. But obviously, something is wrong in the IETF's
> guidance to reviewers, or in the implementation of these expansion lists.
> The simple "exploder" function just does not work if the sender is left to
> the original "from" address. That exploder function is not compatible with
> SPF, or presumably with DMARC. Who would be a good contact to discuss
> improvements?

IIRC Glen from AMSL reads this list, in which case the message has already
reached the right ears.  As for possible remediation, if the lists are
implemented as local aliases(5) in the ietf.org Postfix server, then assigning
an "owner-" alias to the list is sufficient to avoid trouble with SPF and simple
forwarding should not break DKIM or DMARC.

The aliases(5) file (or its database representation) would then contain
something along the lines of:

	document.all: author1@a.example, author2@b.example
	owner-document.all: postmaster@ietf.org

-- 
	Viktor.