Re: [Qemu-devel] DMARC/DKIM and qemu-devel list settings

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:30 PM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 20:11, Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org> wrote:
> > I don't know who has the Qemu-devel list admin password, but whoever has
> > it can adopt the unmodified message fix by changing
> > dmarc_moderation_action to Accept here:
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/admin/qemu-devel/privacy/sender and
> > remove subject_prefix here
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/admin/qemu-devel/general
>
> I'm one of the list admins, at least for the main qemu-devel
> list; some of the sublists have different admins (and
> perhaps different settings -- there's no way to conveniently
> say "manage all 5 of these lists with the same policies,
> so it's easy for them to get out of sync, deliberately
> or accidentally).
>
> I have been considering whether we change how we're handling
> the DMARC problem for the list. I picked munge-the-email
> initially because I think we didn't really understand the
> consequences in terms of patchmail, and also because there
> was a group of subscribers who complained that they liked
> the [qemu-devel] tag, used it for filtering email, etc.
> I think overall my opinion has shifted to thinking that
> the downsides of munge-the-email are too great and we should
> indeed switch to not modifying the message at all.

Yes, I think so too.

Thanks for notifying us, Ian!

Stefan