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I'm not sure what's exactly triggering this issue from Raffi's
emails, but it happened again.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
The email companies like Google, Yahoo, etc. are implementing
something called DMARC to prevent spam. Gory details: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690">http://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690</a><br>
<br>
Apparently this is not an easy thing to fix. More gory details. <a
href="http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/DMARC">http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/DMARC</a>.
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.<br>
<br>
It looks like there is a better solution in a newer version of the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.<br>
<br>
Alas, I wish I could guarantee no further glitches. I'll keep you
updated.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Harold<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Harold Shinsato<br>
<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a><br>
<a href="http://shinsato.com">http://shinsato.com</a><br>
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