[ale] ALE Mailing list failures

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

"Bryan L. Gay" <ale at bryangay.com> writes:

> WOW! I've gotten several DMARC rejections related to ale.org attempting to
> deliver emails to google, comcast, yahoo, and fastmail with my domain as the
> sender. Since I have all the proper SPF and DMARC settings configured to keep
> any bots from spamming recipients using my domain name as the sender, I was
> wondering if this was a legitimate message that was rejected due to some
> misconfiguration of the ale.org mailing list software, or if someone was
> somehow attempting to exploit the ale.org mailing list.

If you have DMARC Hard Failure set up, then it's a you+mailman issue.
I don't think ALE is set up to munge the From address of DMARC-Hard-Fail
senders, which is required to prevent bounces.

> Has anyone else seen this issue?

-derek

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