[ih] Email from Yahoo

Bob Hinden bob.hinden at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 12:07:48 PST 2024


Andy,

I asked Joe if the list could be changed so the sender would show the real sender (not the list name).   All of the other lists I subscribe to show the real sender (and I subscribe to a lot of lists, many use mailman).    

It seemed odd to me that this list was different.    

Bob


> On Feb 10, 2024, at 11:37 AM, Andrew G. Malis <agmalis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Gmail, I just compared my inbox with the archive. I've received every
> email that's in the archive. That said, I was explicitly copied on a number
> of them, so I'm not a good test case.
> 
> Also, neither I nor the archive received the reply that Alex M. claimed to
> have sent, although we both received his follow-up.
> 
> I did not receive Bob's image. My setting for images in digests had been
> "plain", so I've now changed it to MIME.
> 
> Even though it seems to be working for Gmail reception, it might be best to
> put it back the way it was, it seems much safer that way. I didn't mind the
> sender being rewritten, it's still clear who the author is of each email.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 2:29 PM Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/10/2024 11:16 AM, Jack Haverty wrote:
>>> As far as I have found, the only way to avoid such rejections is for
>>> you, the sender, to change your SPF/DKIM/DMARC settings
>> 
>> 
>> SPF is the only one of those that 'authorizes' transit hosts.
>> 
>> DKIM just creates a signature that might or might not get broken in
>> transit.  (For a mailing list, the might get changes to will get.)
>> 
>> ARC was created to permit mailing list transit.  It is complicated and
>> has had limited adoption.
>> 
>> d/
>> 
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