[plug] Mailing list changes

[Gregory Orange]

Great news, thank you Ben, Nick, Tim and I imagine a humble James since he is the spokeperson here!

Tech debt is decided unsexy to deal with, but great when it's done - even partially. Any bets on which year the energy will be available to get to mailman v3? Then we can conquer the world!

Greg.

--
Gregory Orange


On Sunday, 12 October 2025 at 2:00 PM, Harry McNally via plug <plug at plug.org.au> wrote:

> On 12/10/25 13:55, James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> > 2. We are running a slightly newer version of Mailman (although still
> > a 2.x release), which mitigates some issues with DMARC. This will
> > result in the "From:" address of some emails being rewritten to the
> > list address (something like "Original Sender via plug") if they have
> > a strict DMARC policy.
> > 
> > 3. We are signing outgoing emails with a @plug.org.au "From:" address via DKIM.
> 
> 
> Great news James
> 
> Some people may not have seen an email from me for a while.
> 
> Both Onno and I have a DKIM policy that requested modified emails from us are
> rejected.
> 
> This meant that gmail and others would dutifully fail to deliver our mail that
> had been rewritten by the PLUG mailing list.
> 
> The new iec.plug.org.au server does some header rewrite magic and replaces the
> DKIM so messages say:
> 
> From: Harry McNally via plug plug at plug.org.au
> 
> 
> If you want to use strict DKIM policies then PLUG will now deal with them
> politely.
> 
> All the best
> Harry
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> https://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.org.au
> PLUG Membership: http://www.plug.org.au/membership