Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 21:10:33
Message-Id: robbat2-20150511T203706-263041045Z@orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail by "Charles Nérot"
1 On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:27:12PM +0200, Charles Nérot wrote:
2 > Lot of thing are done for fighting spam : dnssec, dane, spf, dkim,
3 > dmarc... All of this for "trusting real sender".
4 > Some of them break smtp built in fonctionnality : spf break forwarding [1].
5 DANE does nothing for spam, there are spammers that pass DNSSEC, DANE, DKIM,
6 SPF. DMARC breaks mailing lists badly for domains with reject as their policy [1].
7
8 > If you beleive in spf (gentoo.org have an spf dns entry) , two ways need
9 > to be looked at :
10 > - fixing real sender with SRS [1].
11 SRS was NEVER approved to an RFC. Does Google actual handle it properly without
12 violating DMARC?
13
14 > - stop forwarding mail and do POP (gmail can do it) or IMAP from your
15 > favorite (web)mail client.
16 See prior in the thread, that this is NOT feasible for many users.
17
18 > Dmarc dns entry with report activated can help you understand why google
19 > blacklist you.
20 We are NOT blacklisted. We are throttled, and there is a major
21 difference there.
22
23 A62D234090F 4425 Mon May 11 17:19:24 bugzilla-daemon@g.o
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30 Email Senders Guidelines. k5si11246054pdl.3 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA
31 command))
32 ${CENSORED}@gmail.com
33
34 [1] I previously wrote about how this breaks lists:
35 http://robbat2.dreamwidth.org/238457.html
36
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38 Robin Hugh Johnson
39 Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead
40 E-Mail : robbat2@g.o
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