Re: "Extern" on email address

On 06/07/2016 08:53 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greg,
>
> * Greg Sabino Mullane (greg(at)turnstep(dot)com) wrote:
>>> For instance, at some point in the not too distant
>>> future, we're likely to remove the [HACKERS] subject tags and the
>>> footers we currently add, also.
>>
>> Ugh, really? The change of subject line in particular would be really
>> unfortunate. Please run that change past -general before you make it. :)

> Unfortunately, it's not optional. As much as the comment is that we're
> "likely" to remove them, we really don't have a choice. Before too much
> longer, DMARC is going to be used and respected and required by big
> email organizations (eg: GMail ...) and if we change the Subject (or a
> number of other headers, or the body of the email) then the DMARC will
> fail and the email will be rejected.
>
> We're going to have to remove the subject tags and the footer from all
> of the emails due to this.

Outside of a warning to the lists that it is going to happen, this isn't
a big deal. The only real concern is filters and you the email address
isn't going to change, so we can filter on that.

JD

>
> Thanks!
>
> Stephen
>

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