Re: Subject Line Prefix Missing

[Bastian Bloessl]

Hi,

FWIW, I filter mailing lists based on the List-Id field, which still
works fine.

Just found out that this seems to be a thing :-)
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2919.txt

Best,
Bastian

On 10/30/19 3:21 PM, Johannes Demel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering about that mailing list behavior as well.
> 
> My solution
> 1. If "Mail From 'address@hidden'"
> 2. If "Mail To 'address@hidden'"
> In my case: move to folder.
> 1. covers original mails
> 2. covers replies.
> 
> I had to split this into 2 separate rules but that's due to my email 
> service provider.
> This solution is more verbose about who receives such an email. e.g. 
> off-list replies should not end up to be caught by these rules.
> 
> Anyways, I just wanted to share my 2 cents on that. Maybe someone finds 
> this info useful.
> 
> Cheers
> Johannes
> 
> 
> 
> On 30.10.19 15:11, Müller, Marcus (CEL) wrote:
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> "deliberate" would be wrong. Surprising, not really, if we'd have read
>> the info mails from the gnu.org mailing list admin more carefully:
>>
>> In the process of respecting DMARC in the ML infrastructure, they
>> disabled rewriting of the subject line for outgoing mail servers that
>> signal strict DMARC compliance. The mailing list seems to think your
>> server does (I don't know why, to be honest, can't seem to find those
>> DNS entries).
>>
>> So, for now, my understanding is that there's nothing *we* can do about
>> it. (We should be able to change the settings of the ML; but in which
>> range, and what we'd break on the way, isn't quite clear to us at this
>> point.)
>>
>> For some reason, my university mail server seems to sort these mails
>> correctly, and so do GMail instances. Probably a list header?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Marcus
>>
>> On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 09:17 -0400, Ed Criscuolo wrote:
>>> I've noticed that recent postings to the list are missing
>>> the "[Discuss-gnuradio] prefix that was automatically
>>> added to the subject line.
>>>
>>> Was this  a deliberate change? I hope not, as I find that
>>> feature very useful in picking out the list messages
>>> from amid all the spam.
>>>
>>>
>>> @(^.^)@  Ed
>>>

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