[CentOS] To James B. Byrne

Wed Nov 12 14:50:56 UTC 2014
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

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).
>

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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