[postgis-devel] DMARC/DKIM mitigation on maling lists

[Regina Obe]

> Modern email spam-prevention policy use email signing and modifying email
> body (and sometimes headers) breaks the signatures, resulting in mailing
list
> messages sometime going to spam folders of subscribers.
> 
> I'm planning to experiment changing the Mailman configuration for the
> postgis-tickets mailing list [1] to serve as a kind of testbed for
signed-email-
> handling improvements.
> 
> The change would be:
> 
>   - Stop adding a [postgis-tickets] suffix in the subject line
>   - Stop adding a footer to every email
> 
I like having postgis-tickets and postgis-development as part of the subject
line.


> The rationale is that the same information is already included in the
messages
> in form of RFC822 headers:
> 
>   - List-Id
>   - List-Unsubscribe
>   - List-Archive
>   - List-Post
>   - List-Help
>   - List-Subscribe
> 
These are hidden metadata no, that I'd then need to setup rules to handle.
I like my subject to have the prefix, cause I look for that.  I'm a human
you know. 


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