[170797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo DMARC breakage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Apr 9 17:16:52 2014
In-Reply-To: <20140409200558.3314.qmail@joyce.lan>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 17:15:59 -0400
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:05 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> I'd say it's pretty badly broken if Yahoo intends for their web mail
> to continue to be a general purpose mail system for consumers. If
> they want to make it something else, that's certainly their right, but
> it would have been nice if they'd given us some advance warning so we
> could take the yahoo.com addresses off our lists.
Meh. This just means list software will have to rewrite the From
header to "From: John Levine <nanog@nanog.org>" and rely on the
Reply-To header for anybody who wants to send a message back to the
originator.
Maybe this is a good thing - we can stop getting all the "sorry I'm
out of the office" emails when posting to a list.
-Bill
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