Joe, It's easier to change the subject field than to apologise. Experts, Will the problem with Mailman distribution of DMARC-contaminated messages be fixed in time for this,or must we gmail users start to look for a more reasonable provider? Regards Brian On 22/10/2015 07:57, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> > > >