Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Franck Martin writes: > As they say at IETF: Read the spec! :P I have (probably three times carefully by now), and I still can't understand why you think DMARC makes any sense at all for mailing lists. (I have no trouble at all understanding why Citibank thinks it's great. But that's a complet

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Franck Martin wrote: > > Then wait for the final cut before submitting patches... The only reason there is a patch is because someone (ahem, cough cough) implemented a trial spec into a production email address used to send email to a spam fighting mailinglist whic

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Jim Popovitch" > To: "Franck Martin" > Cc: Mailman-Developers@python.org > Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 4:59:38 PM > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you > think!)

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Franck Martin wrote: > > - Original Message - >> From: "Jim Popovitch" >> To: Mailman-Developers@python.org >> Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:49:30 AM >> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Jim Popovitch" > To: Mailman-Developers@python.org > Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 11:49:30 AM > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you > think!) > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:27

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread J. Trent Adams
Jim - On 11/7/13 3:27 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:12 PM, J. Trent Adams wrote: >> should provide an option to participate in as secure communication as >> possible. > Randomly applying security distinctions, to RFC de'jour, is not really > helping. Well, here we disag

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:12 PM, J. Trent Adams wrote: > should provide an option to participate in as secure communication as > possible. Randomly applying security distinctions, to RFC de'jour, is not really helping. If you want true message security, then PGP/GPG is the only universal way.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread J. Trent Adams
Jim - On 11/7/13 12:58 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:23 PM, J. Trent Adams wrote: [snip] > Now we're left participating on mailing lists using personal mail > accounts. As you can imagine, that makes many departments in the > organization really nervous for a variety of obv

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:23 PM, J. Trent Adams wrote: > > Jim - > > On 10/20/13 4:17 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Having read the archives, I see that (at least 6 of) you are aware of >> DMARC, or as I like to call it YAPFS. (Yet Another Panacea For Spam) >> :-) > > Heh - If only DMARC

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Franck Martin wrote: > To be noted, the procedure, in this patch, to find the policy record in the > DNS, is not in line with the best current practice specified in the DMARC > spec, far from it. Care to offer some insight? > Also, what about p=quarantine? I thin

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread J. Trent Adams
Jim - On 10/20/13 4:17 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: > Hello, > > Having read the archives, I see that (at least 6 of) you are aware of > DMARC, or as I like to call it YAPFS. (Yet Another Panacea For Spam) > :-) Heh - If only DMARC was as successful at stopping spam as it is in shutting down spoofed

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Franck Martin
spec, far from it. Also, what about p=quarantine? - Original Message - From: "Jim Popovitch" To: Mailman-Developers@python.org Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:17:17 PM Subject: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!) Hello, Having read the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Andreas Schulze" > To: mailman-developers@python.org > Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 11:28:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you > think!) > > > Zitat von Jim Po

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-11-07 Thread Andreas Schulze
Zitat von Jim Popovitch : ... that mailing lists, like MTAs, have no business modifying the From header; I fully agree with these opinions an like to add "should not modify the messagebody" nor should mailing lists accept mail that they knowingly can't reflect. "reflect" is a really good

[Mailman-Developers] Mailman DMARC Support (it's not what you think!)

2013-10-20 Thread Jim Popovitch
Hello, Having read the archives, I see that (at least 6 of) you are aware of DMARC, or as I like to call it YAPFS. (Yet Another Panacea For Spam) :-) Earlier this year Mark asked me to run by MM-Dev a patch that Phil Pennock and I collaborated on. Mark, thank you for your valuable feedback, I ha