On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:15 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 4:05 PM, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: >> I'd say it's pretty badly broken if Yahoo intends for their web mail >> to continue to be a general purpose mail system for consumers. If >> they want to make it something else, that's certainly their right, but >> it would have been nice if they'd given us some advance warning so we >> could take the yahoo.com addresses off our lists. > > Meh. This just means list software will have to rewrite the From > header to "From: John Levine <nanog@nanog.org>" and rely on the > Reply-To header for anybody who wants to send a message back to the > originator.
Or perhaps DMARC can go back to it's original goal. Go here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kucherawy-dmarc-base/ Notice the early versions of the spec contained the word "transactional", notice the current version has it removed. Also notice that one of the authors is from Yahoo!. > Maybe this is a good thing - we can stop getting all the "sorry I'm > out of the office" emails when posting to a list. The OoO problem is a Client/MUA problem. Most (other than Lotus Notes, and some older copies of Outlook) properly tag OoO emails with well-defined headers (RFC 3834). -Jim P.
