Re: DMARC and yahoo

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On Apr 21, 2014, at 4:00 AM, Christian Huitema <huitema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> The issue with @yahoo.com and DMARC is not the @yahoo.com users' ability 
>> to receive mail, it's their ability to send mail to the list with From: 
>> *@yahoo.com and have it be received by list subscribers who implement 
>> strict DMARC policies which honor Yahoo!'s p=reject.
>> 
>> It's not clear how setting the @yahoo.com users to digest mode helps 
>> this situation at all.
> 
> It probably does not. Trying analyze the various positions with a cool head, the obvious conclusion is that hard problems don't have easy answers.
> 
> The current mailing list practice has the mailing list as sender, and the original message composer described in the From field. The receiver sees something like:
> 
>   Sender: ietf <ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> 
>   From: Christian Huitema <huitema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>   …
> 
> Of course, that particular construct could easily be abused. A phishing message does not differ much from a mailing list message:
> 
>   Sender: postmaster <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>   From: Christian Huitema <huitema@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>   …

Right. As a mailing list provider, we have a way to make our lists work:

 From: IETF mailing list on behalf of Christian Huitema <ietf@xxxxxxxx>

 ...

The downside is that clicking “Reply” sends a message to the list rather than to Christian, which seems OK, but is a change of behavior. In fact it gives no natural way to reply directly (and off-list) to Christian, unless the original sender is added in CC: or Reply-To: fields.

Yoav






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