[OSList] OSList bounces

[christine koehler via OSList]

Thanks Harold for taking care of this list. Obviously this is not an easy
task.

What would our community be without people  who care like you do ?

Christine

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

>  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 It looks like there is a better solution in a newer version of the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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