[Mailman-Users] Yahoo Groups' From munging and X-Original-From

[Peter Shute]

I'm not comfortable with an email address in the display name not matching the real address. If I saw that in a non list email, it would look spammy to me.

I don't like the idea of users getting used to seeing that sort of thing as normal, and there's the problem that lots of mail clients will only show the first few characters of the long display name. Would this be better:
From: " [some-mail-list] Mark Rousell markr at signal100.com <some-mail-list at yahoogroups.com>

Peter Shute

Sent from my iPad

> On 26 May 2014, at 1:49 am, "Mark Rousell" <markr at signal100.com> wrote:
> 
> What do you think of Yahoo Groups' From munging style and their
> X-Original-From header?
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> X-Original-From: Mark Rousell <markr at signal100.com>
> From: "Mark Rousell markr at signal100.com [some-mail-list]"
>    <some-mail-list at yahoogroups.com>
> 
> 
> I feel this is one of the better combinations of munging and new
> headers. All the information is there (and is very clear) and the
> X-Original-From header could (in due course) be recognised by mail
> clients and mailing list archive software.
> 
> I realise that this falls foul of
> http://www.dmarc.org/supplemental/mailman-project-mlm-dmarc-reqs.html
> and yet it does seem to offer many benefits, especially the
> X-Original-From header and the promise it holds for automated recognition.
> 
> It is also possible to add X-Original-From to the .INVALID/.REMOVEME
> munging that some prefer too:
> 
> X-Original-From: Mark Rousell <markr at p-reject-domain.com>
> From: "Mark Rousell [via some-mail-list]"
>    <markr at p-reject-domain.com.REMOVEME>
> 
> 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark Rousell
> 
> PGP public key: http://www.signal100.com/markr/pgp
> Key ID: C9C5C162
> 
> 
> 
> 
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