Re: [PATCH] docs: document workaround for DMARC countermeasures

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On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 11:23:00 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé via Devel wrote:
> From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If a contributor's email domain has a DMARC policy of 'p=quarantine'
> or 'p=reject', mailman will apply DMARC countermeasures on all mails
> sent to lists.libvirt.org rewriting the "From" header to remove the
> sender's email address. e.g.
> 
>   From: Your Name via <lists.libvirt.org>
> 
> If these countermeasures were not applied, affected mail would either
> have gon directly to SPAM, or have been entirely rejected. Mailman3

s/gon/gone/

> is unable to be configured to guarantee no mangling of the mail body
> so these countermeasures are unavoidable for lists.libvirt.org.
> 
> Amongst the various downsides, the From address rewriting has the
> bad effect of mangling git commit author attribution.
> 
> To avoid this it is required to add two additional git config
> settings:
> 
>   $ git config --global format.from "Your Name <your@xxxxxxxxx>"
>   $ git config --global format.forceInBodyFrom true
> 
> Note, *both* are required, even if your ``format.from`` matches
> your existing git identity, because the latter only takes effect
> once the former is set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot.

Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@xxxxxxxxxx>




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