[CentOS] [OT] mail address - centos mail list

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Sat, November 8, 2014 4:02 pm, Always Learning wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 13:01 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
>> The reason that my emails from the CentOS list are marked as spam by
>> Google is
>> that our domain employs DKIM and SPF for outgoing SMTP traffic.  The
>> CentOS
>> mailing list manager is the stock Mailman package provided with CentOS.
>> That
>> version mangles the originator's mail headers and body, thus
>> invalidating the
>> DKIM signature.  It then sends the message out as originating under the
>> original sender's domain but from an unauthorised SMTP server address,
>> thus
>> triggering the SPF failure.
>
> If I understand the problem correctly your emails sent out by the Centos
> mailing list (using Mailman) are considered by Google et al to be spam.
> The fundamental reason you believe is be your site's usage of DKIM.
>
> Why can't your site get a cheap VPS anywhere in the world and route
> outgoing emails, without DKIM, through the VPS ?  Cost in EU is less
> than GBP 80 per annum (circa EUR 96 p.a.)   It is easy to achieve using
> Exim.
>

But logically that will defeat the whole reason of using DKIM, won't it?

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
Sr System Administrator
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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