[ih] Email from Yahoo

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 11-Feb-24 08:37, Andrew G. Malis 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.

That's irrelevant (see my previous message).

> 
> 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.

Rewriting the sender is the only surefire way of being DMARC-proof. The
IETF method is superior, IMHO. Once the IETF has achieved its conversion
to Mailman 3 (due on Monday), maybe Joe could consider petitioning the IETF
to host this list?

Gmail is still reasonably user-friendly. Yahoo, not so much.

     Brian

> 
> 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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