[OSList] OSList bounces

[Harrison Owen via OSList]

Harold, You are a Saint! I can't thank you enough for "being there" -
wherever "there" is these days.

 

Harrison

 

Ps - love Raffi as I do - Quarantine may be in order. Not quite Ebola, but
certainly having a similar effect on poor old OSLIST.  

 

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From: OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of
Harold Shinsato via OSList
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 4:06 PM
To: OSLIST
Subject: [OSList] OSList bounces

 

I'm not sure what's exactly triggering this issue from Raffi's emails, but
it happened again.

Yesterday 191 accounts were disabled when Raffi's email was bounced. They
all seemed to be Google emails. I think I reinstated all those accounts. If
you are getting this message - no need to do anything. Alas, if you're not,
... not much I say here will make any difference.

But Raffi emailed the list again today. Another festival of bounces in my
inbox. This time, the google/gmail accounts seemed to be ok. But many Yahoo,
MSN, Sympatico, Comcast and other accounts bounced Raffi's email - and the
OSList disabled their accounts. Again, one by one, I re-enabled them today.
If you see this email - no action needed.

The email companies like Google, Yahoo, etc. are implementing something
called DMARC to prevent spam. Gory details:
http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690

Apparently this is not an easy thing to fix. More gory details.
http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/DMARC. For now - I have changed Raffi's
account so I have to moderate anything he sends. I'm trying another
experiment where the From field is changed - so this note doesn't say From
Harold in your email program. I don't think this is acceptable - but I'm
testing it.

It looks like there is a better solution in a newer version of the software
we are using for the OSList. I'll see if I can get our web hosting company
to deploy that software - but it might take a while.

Alas, I wish I could guarantee no further glitches. I'll keep you updated.

    Regards,
    Harold



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Harold Shinsato
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