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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:31 PM, aron schoppert <norapo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm seeing this problem on my gmail address too...
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Ken <k...@bleep43.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm no techy. But we've been using g groups privately for years now. It's
>> watertight. Of course the need to migrate would be offensive for a lot of
>> subscribers, though, I guess.
>>
>>  Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>   *From: *kent williams
>> *Sent: *Friday, 25 April 2014 15:50
>> *To: *Matthew Kane
>> *Cc: *list 313
>> *Subject: *Re: (313) EZMLM problem
>>
>> Yeah we'll see what Brian decides. Switching over all the hyperreal.orglists 
>> will be kind of a chore.
>>
>> I'd just switch to a google group if I didn't think that would cause
>> other problems.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Matthew Kane 
>> <m...@hydrogenproject.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Mailman 2.1.16 has the Threadable change.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:12 AM, kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Apparently there is a problem with something called DMARC that big
>>> e-mail
>>> > providers are implementing.  I've quoted the e-mail from Brian
>>> Behlendorf
>>> > (who is the man behind hyperreal.org) on the subject.
>>> >
>>> > The big problem is people with yahoo.com e-mail addresses. The way
>>> EZMLM
>>> > works is that it takes your e-mail and resends it to all the list
>>> members.
>>> > Any mail server implementing DMARC rejects e-mails where the FROM:
>>> address
>>> > is x...@yahoo.com, but it doesn't come from a yahoo mail server.
>>> >
>>> > This has resulted in people getting bounce notices from hyperreal. It
>>> has
>>> > happened to me, and I don't even have a yahoo.com e-mail address.
>>> >
>>> > Bottom line is the hyperreal team is working on a solution, but this
>>> will
>>> > likely screw up 313 emails for the near term.
>>> >
>>> > If you're an e-mail list wizard and can suggest a linux based mailing
>>> list
>>> > server that can circumvent this stupidity, please let me and
>>> > (br...@hyperreal.org) know.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > If you list is still active and hasn't been swept away by folks moving
>>> to
>>> > Facebook or whatever, you might have heard complaints from
>>> yahoo.comusers,
>>> > or possibly even folks who have started to see strange bounces where
>>> > yahoo.com senders are involved.  This is due to a current hullabaloo
>>> about
>>> > an anti-spam tech called DMARC and Yahoo's recent and strict
>>> implementation
>>> > of it.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://thehackernews.com/2014/04/yahoos-new-dmarc-policy-destroys-every.html
>>> >
>>> > DMARC is a system designed to allow domain owners to specify policies
>>> and
>>> > rules regarding how to deal with email from senders using that domain.
>>> For
>>> > example, for an email with a From header like:
>>> >
>>> > From: Brian <brianbehlend...@yahoo.com>
>>> >
>>> > Yahoo published a policy that says unless that email came from Yahoo's
>>> > servers, it should be rejected.  This is a great anti-spam technique
>>> given
>>> > that lots of spammers use yahoo.com addresses fraudulently (I
>>> guess?). But
>>> > what it means for senders to mailing lists like those we host at
>>> Hyperreal,
>>> > when that mail goes through Hyp and comes back to Yahoo's servers, it
>>> > bounces.  Not only that, but that Yahoo sender's mail bounces at Gmail
>>> and
>>> > other mail service providers who implement DMARC.  Those bounces can
>>> cause
>>> > chaos, of course.  Ezmlm/qmail will keep track of those bounces and at
>>> least
>>> > let subscribers know they're missing messages and why, and shouldn't
>>> unsub
>>> > those users automatically, but it still causes chaos.
>>> >
>>> > More details on technically why this is wrong:
>>> >
>>> > http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg87153.html
>>> >
>>> > Yahoo appears to not get why this is a big deal:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/82426971544/an-update-on-our-dmarc-policy-to-protect-our-users
>>> >
>>> > There is no good fix here.  Changing the From: header to say something
>>> like
>>> >
>>> > From: Brian Behlendorf via <sfra...@hyperreal.org>
>>> >
>>> > seems wacky, but it's what Threadable did, specifically for
>>> DMARC-checking
>>> > recipients and DMARC-policy-publishing sender domains:
>>> >
>>> > http://blog.threadable.com/how-threadable-solved-the-dmarc-problem
>>> >
>>> > Sadly, though, no open source mailing list manager has implemented this
>>> > well.  Mailman seems to have implemented this partially, but no one's
>>> even
>>> > talking about this for ezmlm and I doubt it'll happen.  I've not
>>> decided
>>> > whether to move the Hyperreal mailing lists to Mailman or something
>>> else,
>>> > but clearly we need to move off of ezmlm anyways.  I was hoping to be
>>> able
>>> > to choose between a couple of them, but now that choice seems much more
>>> > narrow (and not necessarily the best - Sympa was looking promising
>>> too).
>>> >
>>> > Anyways - I am sad that this is how things have played out, that I
>>> can't
>>> > provide a quick resolution to this.  For now all I can suggest is
>>> asking
>>> > youryahoo.com users to switch to another domain if they want to
>>> participate.
>>> > But that sucks as an answer.  If anyone has better ideas (or
>>> > programming/migration talent to contribute) let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> matt kane
>>> twitter: the_real_mkb / nynexrepublic
>>> http://hydrogenproject.com
>>>
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