Change in mailing list configuration

Javier Jimenez Shaw j1 at jimenezshaw.com
Thu Jan 11 13:32:06 PST 2024


Hi Sandro

It is surprising, but this is the first email from "discuss" that Gmail is
suggesting it could be spam. It says

"Be careful with this message
The sender hasn't authenticated this message, so Gmail can't verify that it
actually came from them."


On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 at 19:31, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:

> We've changed the configuration of this mailing list to respect the
> recomendations from the SysAdmin team:
>
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:Mailing_Lists#Configuring_the_mailing_list
>
> Notable changes are:
>
>   1. No more [OSGeo-Discuss] prefix in email subjects
>   2. No more added footer
>   3. Real sender address in the From field
>   4. DKIM signed emails will not be considered maliciously tampered \o/
>
> For filtering the emails or finding mailing list address to change
> user preferences you will be able to use the email headers.
>
> Many mail user agents should be able to figure this out by themselves,
> others might need manual configuration.
>
> Just as an example, my mail configuration for the PostGIS Developers
> looks like this (procmail recipe):
>
>   :0
>   * ^List-ID:.*postgis-devel.lists.osgeo.org
>   * !^X-List-Administrivia: yes
>   .postgis-devel/
>
> Happy mailing !
>
> --strk;
>
>   Libre GIS consultant/developer
>   https://strk.kbt.io/services.html
>
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