Re: Google Gmail mailing list bounces

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

> Noam Postavsky wrote:
>> It seems that Google doesn't like something about Emanuel's emails, so
>> it rejects them as spam (I notice that I sometimes do get messages
>> from Emanuel, but they always land in the spam folder). Then
>> help-gnu-emacs sees all the rejected messages and decides that the
>> subscribed address is no good, and disables the subscription.
>
> That is exactly correct.  The problem is sending domains that are
> setting a strict DMARC policy.  And receiving sites are also setting a
> strict DMARC policy.
>
> https://wiki.list.org/DEV/DMARC discusses the woeful situation.
>
> The current wisdom has appeared that mailing lists must perform what
> the Mailman configuration calls a Munge From policy action.  Here is
> what Mailman says about it.

Oh, that's interesting! I was considering setting a stricter dmarc
policy on my own mail server, maybe I'll hold off on that. Thanks for
the background.