Totally the wrong thread, so I'll apologize profusely now. GMail is set to turn on DMARC reject strict by sometime early next year [1] being one of the last big web mail providers to do so; so, Mailman "From:" rewriting (or turning on the ability for IETF list subscribers to toggle this for their sends) might need to be done for IETF lists. best, Joe [1]: https://threatpost.com/google-moving-gmail-to-strict-dmarc-implementation/115125/ On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Robert Sparks <rjsparks@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks - > > We have been testing IMAP access to the IETF archives for several days now, > with volunteers from the tools-discuss and ietf chairs lists, and it's been > going well. Thank you if you've been helping test already (and please > continue to do so)! > > Now we need more testers. We'd like to get a simple measure of load, so we'd > like to have as many folks as are willing accessing the test instance at the > same time with various clients during the next week. It would be > particularly helpful to have several people using the system next Thursday. > > If you're willing to take the time to do this, please drop me a note > directly (I've set reply-to on this message) so I have a feel for how many > people are participating. > > Instructions for accessing the test instance are below. > > Please report any issues you find directly to me. Do not open tickets with > the secretariat. Be aware that there are known issues with the data on the > test instance (some lists have blank or truncated messages) that have not > yet been addressed - it would be good to report any more you find to me, but > they won't get fixed immediately. > > Please use tools-discuss@xxxxxxxx for general conversation. If you have > feature requests, that's a good place to send them. One request we've had > from a few testers so far is to provide an additional shared folder with a > mailbox for each list that has only the "recent" messages from that list - > perhaps the last 6 months. It would be good to hear from folks, after > they've tried what's there now, whether that would be useful to spend > development time on, or if that time would be better spent elsewhere. > > The test instance is getting mail with only a slight delay after it comes > through the lists - you should see current traffic. > > Please resist the temptation to download the entire archive of every list. > I've done it - it's huge (~28G when MailMate does it) and it it's a severe > torture test for clients. Interrupt your client if it starts trying to do > that to you. Caching a copy of this test instance will not be useful when we > deploy the production instance. > > Instead, what would help us the most is to configure your client to access > those lists you normally subscribe to, and to spend some time next week > browsing and searching those lists and exploring a few lists that are new to > you. > > You can find the details for where the test instance is listening, and > rudimentary instructions for setting up a few clients, at > <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/tools/trac/wiki/ImapTesting>. Please > improve that page as you see the opportunity. > > Thanks in advance for any time you can give this. > > RjS > > > > > > -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Chief Technologist Center for Democracy & Technology 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 Washington DC 20006-4011 (p) 202-407-8825 (f) 202-637-0968 joe@xxxxxxx PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key fingerprint: 3CA2 8D7B 9F6D DBD3 4B10 1607 5F86 6987 40A9 A871