[ale] ALE Mailing list failures

Jerald Sheets questy at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 12:03:18 EDT 2017


Probably not.

To this day I get email rejections from spammers using my email addresses all over the internet as their sending address.  That’s not an ALE problem… That’s a “how it goes on the internet” problem.

—j



> On Jun 22, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 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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