Or, this is to avoid SPF/DKIM authentication failure. As an example, I have an email server with DKIM enabled for the domain name slint.fr that I own and use for the Slint distribution, cf.: https://slint.fr So, the receiver of an email sent with a From: address with the domain name slint.fr can authenticate it checking that the email was sent from my server's IP address and not further modified if re-sent by a mailing list to all registered users. Many mailing lists keep the From: field as is (for this email that would be: didier@xxxxxxxx) but modify its content, like to add a footer. Then the email will fail the authentication failure by the server that receives the email sent by the mailing list, and possibly reject it or put it in a spam folder, according to their policy and the instructions given by the initial sending server, written in a DMARC record. I don't know if this the main reason, but not writing the initial poster's email address in the From: field prevents authentication failures. To cope with this policy, let's identify ourselves in the body of the emails we sent to the list. I do it below: Didier Spaier Slint maintainer Le 14/06/2020 à 22:56, Linux for blind general discussion a écrit : > I think many years ago there were lots of spam which came through this list, so they altered to this current way > Chime _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list