On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 04:27, <errordevelo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:09:09AM +0200, András Murányi wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 23:29, <errordevelo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Firstly, I cannot see this being relevant to anyone on the list. > > > > > > > > It is - I see the warning attached to many people's mails (on this > mailing > > list). Actually your mail has arrived with the warning: "This message may > > not have been sent by: errordevelo...@gmail.com - Learn more - Report > > phishing" > > Yes, that's because the message was sent via the list server. > SPF won't help, the warning which you is an awfull non-sense. >
I get the warning with many people's mails on the list, but definitely not all of them. > > > > Secondly, from my personal experience SPF doesn't help very much - > > > you will need DomainKey and that need to be setup in the MTA. > > > > > > > > I'll need to see if SPF has a positive effect on this - at the moment, I > > just thought this is an emerging issue and people better hear about it > from > > a mailing list than having person-to-person mails lost in nowhere. > > Nope, you had been mislead by those silly warnings. > I am not going to explain how email delivery works. > > As I said, the reason why this sort of warning may > come-up, is because the message from the list arrive > with senders address in 'From:' from field, however > it goes via the mailing list server, hence other > fields do not match the domain name of the sender. > > Whoever coded the software you are using, haven't > placed an exception for mailing lists. There are > RFC-coliant header fields which must be looked at > by that software, but they are being ignored, which > is wrong. > > Google coded the software - I'm using Gmail. I agree that these warnings are way unnecessary (so far 100% of them), but as I said, if they joined the hype, there's a risk that others will join it too and the nonsense will become a general practice. I didn't want to annoy you or anyone, however.... :o) Andras
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