It fails DMARC verification. AOL has published. Google knows the original sender was an AOL.COM address. It faILS.
Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter > Coghlan > Sent: 01 February 2017 10:36 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [[email protected]: confirm > 38290c8a992491eda604beff5a06ff20cd7e85f5] > > > > > It's COURYHOUSE[sic]'s fault. His email setup doesn't comply with best > > practices and so Gmail and other mail systems reject messages from him. > > > > What you say may be true but I do not believe this is the root of the problem. > (I also find it hard to see how you know whether Gmail and other mail > systems reject messages from him unless he told you this. There is a big > difference between "messages from him" and "messages posted by him to a > mailing list".) > > > > > Ask him to fix his email setup. I think it's because he is essentially > > spoofing the from address and using a different SMTP relay? I don't > > remember. > > > > By the time Gmail gets to see postings to the mailing list, they are coming > from the cctech mailing list server, not from an AOL mailserver or my > mailserver or anybody else's mailserver. If Gmail is noticing that mails > with an > AOL from address are coming from a non-AOL mailserver, they should be > noticing the same thing about all the other mails posted to the mailing list. > None of them (except maybe postings from Jay) are coming from the > mailservers associated with the from address - they are all from the cctech > mailing list server. > > Should Gmail should be regarding all cctech mailing list mails as having > spoofed from addresses because the from addresses are not in the > classiccmp.org domain? If not, why only some of them? > > Does Gmail have tech support that might explain exactly why they are > bouncing mailing list emails for you when other mailing list subscribers are > able to receive them with no problems? > > I guess when you use a free mail service like Gmail, you get to put up with > whatever way they want to do things and they feel they are not under any > obligation to tell you what they are doing in any great detail or to justify > it > other than to say "we think it works great". > > Regards, > Peter Coghlan
