On Tue, 2025-06-17 at 10:54 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > My "From:" address always comes back as "Community > support for Fedora users". Is this on purpose? > If not, is there a way to get my name on it instead?
Your actual address is included as a CC, so people can directly reply to you, and probably are automatically doing so without even noticing. As a link further down the chain responded, it's due to part of spam busting. Your emails (mine, and others) going through the list server get changed in a way that triggers some servers anti-spam handling. Rewriting the email to have come from the list server, instead, sidesteps that. a) It will depend on what you send from. If your own mail server says that only *it* is authorised to send your mail (mail "from" you), then *everything* else is unauthorised. That is the norm, these days, and generally a good thing. It can stop spammers fraudulently using your from address. Amongst various bits of instructions that can be applied to your DNS records, SPF has two basic options regarding such unauthorised mail: It can tell recipients of it to treat it with suspicion (flag it, but pass it through). Or it can say that unauthorised mail should be a hard fail (e.g. destroy it). b) It will depend on what receives it. Each server that receives a message *can* check various DNS records, and other email headers, looking for info that validates or invalidates your mail. They *can* take action, such as: Refuse to accept it (and the sender will get a error). Let it through and flag it is a potential spam, and let you decide what to do with it. Let it in and quarantine it (making you have to specially log into them to check for quarantined mail, and without any notification to you that you needed to do that). They could spam folder it, and it may appear in a folder that you can easily check when doing your mail (if you were doing webmail or IMAP). They can destroy it on site (with or without any notification to senders or recipients. They *can* do nothing at all. Because there's a lot of a mail server *may* do this, and fewer of the server definitely *will* do this, managing it this is not very straightforward. A list server may have to deal with a lot of errors from Yahoo and Gmail (amongst others) not wanting to accept list mail that the list has adjusted in some way (adding addresses in headers, adding footers to message bodies), and a list's admins may decide that the simplest solution is to rewrite the messages so they're from itself. I'm quite okay with that, I don't want private replies, and private replies aren't much use to other people studying the same problem on a list. Though it might be an advantage if the list set the FROM address with the poster's name and the list's email address, rather than my reply to Todd automatically being addressed to "Community support for Fedora users" and not grab his attention in his list of emails. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
