[Mailman-Developers] feature request: one-click setting to preserve DKIM

[Barry Warsaw]

On Dec 06, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Terri Oda wrote:

>As a developer, this sounds the makings of one of those life-sucking projects
>you shouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole unless you're getting paid to define
>and defend a standard.  There's no guarantee that anything we choose to do
>will ever be considered correct, and it could wind up being a lot of arguing
>and wasted effort at a time when I think we're better off just getting
>mailman 3 out the door.

I agree completely. (he says, still struggling with REST
authentication/authorization :).

>Which is a pity, because this seems like a great opportunity for us to
>trailblaze and help correct a mistaken assumption in DKIM.  Maybe the other
>developers are a lot more excited about that than I am and willing to take
>the risk of implementation, but maybe we should just keep an eye on the
>expansion of DKIM and revisit this issue after Mailman 3 is released?

What Mailman 3, and to some lesser extent MM2 can do today, is to provide a
framework for experimentation, for those folks who are motivated to improve
the current situation.  Fortunately, I think MM3 has everything you'd need to
do that.  A team working on improving things should be able to distribute a
plug-in that implemented their experiment for sites that wanted to
participate.

-Barry