19 Feb
2015
19 Feb
'15
1:46 p.m.
Dear Erik & all involved,
a big THANK YOU for your work on this, and for so clearly describing the changes. Personally I'm very happy about them - not just because they increase the chances of mail going through, but also because the new configuration just looks cleaner to me. (I like as much end-to-end transparency as I can get :-)
Best regards,
--
Simon.
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> Changes to mailing list headers and footer
> ==========================================
> Google is tightening their DKIM validation; most of our mailing lists cause
> invalid DKIM signatures on out-going mails:
> * Adding the Subject prefix '[<mailing list>]' invalidates the DKIM
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> * Adding the e-mail footer may invalidate the e-mail's DKIM signature
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> * No longer add the mailing list footer
> * Add the List-* headers as per RFC-2369,
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> Change to moderation expiration
> ========================
> Additionally, we've found that many mailing lists have been set to not expire
> mails in the moderation queue, resulting in a moderation queue of 10-thousands
> of mails some more than 8 months old. Recognizing most of these mails are
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