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Author: Narcis Garcia
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Excessive bounces
1. SPF is a friendlier solution and enough for this.
3. GPG signatures is more standard and friendlier solution for this.

This kind of tricky solutions (as DKIM) only make people to move to
other easier but non-neutral technologies, hosted services such as
WhatsApp or web-based.



El 03/08/17 a les 00:44, Daniel Abrecht ha escrit:
> I'm sorry, I'm using DMARC, and I didn't get the DMARC report about the
> bounced mails, probably because I forgot a DMARC DNS entry for the
> report receiving mail address. I have changed my DMARC policy from
> reject to quarantine for now.
>
> That said, I won't remove the DMARC record completely, and I plan to
> switch my DMARC policy back to reject after this issue has been
> resolved. A lot of people claim that DMARC won't work with mailing
> lists, but this isn't correct, it's just that most mailing lists aren't
> configured in a way that makes DMARC usable, (and no, changing the from
> address isn't the correct solution.)
>
> I use DMARC and believe it to be necessary because it allows me to:
> 1) Make sure nobody can use my E-Mail address to impersonate me or send
> spam
> 2) I will be notified if anyone attempts to do so
> 3) The recipient can check if the message content was changed
>
> That said, the correct way to deal with DKIM, SPF and DMARC protected
> mails is to:
> 1) Provide an SPF record. This mailing list doesn't seam to have one
> 2) Don't change anything from the message below the DKIM headers, add
> the other headers before the DKIM signature instead. This will also
> solve the problem that some mail clients like the android mail client
> don't display text-only mails correctly.
>
> In think the email body, subject and from header shouldn't be altered
> anyway. Of course, changing the from header and removing the DKIM header
> would avoid the problem as well, but I'm against that solution since it
> obscures who wrote the mail.
>
> I haven't done much with mailman yet, so I don't know how it needs to be
> configured or if it can even be configured that way. I'll take a look at
> mailman in a few weeks.
>
> I've attached two versions of an email I've sent to the list earlier.
> The first one contains the message as I received it again from the list.
> The second one is edited in such a way that the added headers and the
> original message body are preserved and the DKIM check succeeds, only
> the added mailing list signature was removed.
>
> Daniel Abrecht
>
>
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