[CentOS] To James B. Byrne

[Valeri Galtsev]

On Wed, November 12, 2014 8:50 am, James B. Byrne wrote:
>
> On Tue, November 11, 2014 19:33, Igor Zubkov wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Alexander Farber wrote:
>>> Dear James,
>>>
>>> everyday I look into my Gmail SPAM folder and your mails (sent to
>>> Centos list) are there. Noone else is there but you.
>>>
>>> Please finally fix your MX records or whatever is needed. No offence
>>
>> I bit a tired of this too.
>>
>> James, be the Man and fix your mail server. Or what else.
>>
>>> Greetings from Germany
>>> Alex
>>
>> Greetins from Ukraine (Donetsk).
>>

As I said, James, don't argue with the ones who have no idea what they are
talking about (sorry for posting above your reply to him). This particular
one did set me off, and the only thing that held me from answering him was
the "wisdom" I mentioned in another reply.

Valeri

>
> But, the mail server is not broken.  It is entirely to RFC specifications.
> Google decides how to treat the resulting confusion respecting mail
> forwarded
> by the CentOS list. Yahoo I understand simply drops it into the bit bucket
> and
> the recipient never knows.
>
> Your complaint would be better directed at the consortium of Email
> providers,
> including Google and Yahoo, who forced DMARC on the IETF; or rather
> entirely
> by-passed the IETF and put this Rube Goldberg hack into play regardless.
> The
> people who run mailing lists screamed blue murder but it happened
> nonetheless.
>
> In any case the fix to this for Mailman already exists.  It just needs to
> be
> accepted by RedHat and rolled out as an update.  I tried to build it
> myself
> and succeeded in getting a working version on CentOS6.  But, the source
> package layout does not fit the HFS used by RedHat and I could not deploy
> it
> for that reason.  Nor could I figure out the patches necessary to
> restructure
> the project layout into something resembling HFS.  Nor could I figure out
> the
> interim changes between the current Mailman version and that shipped with
> CentOS to back-port the fixes in a systematic way.
>
> I apologise for the number of messages presently originating from me.
> This
> one included.  Once I get past my ignorance with CentOS7 and can manage on
> my
> own I will stop annoying the list with questions and replies.
>
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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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