[FFML] [ADMIN] Server level changes instituted due to mail policy changes elsewhere

[Adrian Tymes]

Your posts have been showing up.  They might not be echoed back to you, but
I have seen them.

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:25 AM Ariel Schnee <arielschnee3 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Carr" <dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.net>
> To: <ffml at chez-vrolet.net>
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 11:12 PM
> Subject: [FFML] [ADMIN] Server level changes instituted due to mail policy
> changes elsewhere
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> > Heya.  Friendly neighborhood server op guy here. =)
> >
> > For this one there's a short version and a longer version
> >
> > tl;dr: I am NOT ending the list; policy changes out on the internet at
> > large that I didn't get the memo on caused several bounces; server level
> > changes here have been instituted; also, if you want off the list,
> > please just unsubscribe, I won't sell your email.
> >
> > So what's the skinny?
> >
> > Well, first off - no, I'm not ending the list.  =)  If the time comes
> > that the server has to end, then I'll end the list at that point.
> >
> > Recently, policies have been becoming more rampant on the internet at
> > large to prevent email spam - the long and short is that email
> > providers (me included) are bloody sick of this garbage and want it to
> > stop, so new standards at the admin level are always taking root.
> >
> > Well...I didn't get the memo on how to institute one of them, and
> > suddenly several dozen of you got bounced out and mistaken for
> > unsolicited email, primarily on Yahoo's stuff.  The side effect is that
> > some of you were bounced out into no-mail mode.
> >
> > (Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming yahoo.com in the slightest.  I
> > don't blame them.  And frankly, I should have kept up on this - so I
> > bear at least some of the fault here as a server operator.)
> >
> > One of the critical changes - called DMARC - have been implemented.  I
> > basically have to tell providers how they should handle mail that says
> > it comes from chez-vrolet.net but did not actually come from my
> > server.  Another change for the very near future will be DKIM, which
> > basically provides a public-private key exchange to further validate
> > email sources. (SPF, for what it's worth, is a little different - that's
> > more along the lines of telling receiving servers where email can be
> > expected to and/or is permitted to come from given a domain name.)
> >
> > (For the curious, a quick search on your favorite search engine will
> > turn up information on DKIM, DMARC, and SPF.  If you don't run a
> > server, it's not something you ever need to really do anything with
> > beyond satisfying your curiousity - but your email provider likely
> > already has at least one of these implemented, so kudos on them. =^_^= )
> >
> > I've cleared the no-mail bits from those who bounced out so
> > unexpectedly - so if you can read this, things are at least fixed on
> > that front.  Why it so suddenly happened is partially beyond my ability
> > to know, but it seemed a little bit random - it wasn't everyone on this
> > list who's on Yahoo or the addresses it now serves who were affected.
> >
> > To that end, if it was because somebody reported this as spam, please
> > don't do that - the side effect is that people who *do* want this find
> > themselves not getting this.  It's worth noting that, one way or
> > another, you (the reader) had subscribed to this list at some point
> > in time over the past 20+ years this list has existed - it's a pretty
> > manual process, and somebody at the subscribing email address must
> > confirm that they did so by replying to a message following the
> > subscribe request.  (This has, in fact, been true for as long as I
> > remember through the various address changes I've gone through.  Even
> > when legacy addresses were brought in over here twelve years ago, it
> > was a list of addresses from anifics that was given to me.) So if you've
> > forgotten that you have subscribed in the past, then that's alright, it
> > happens - I do the same thing once in a while. But please, if you don't
> > want to be on this list, just unsubscribe - either through the web UI or
> > through an email to ffml-unsubscribe at chez-vrolet.net (please, not to
> > the list itself) - and expect to reply to the confirmation if you do so
> > through email.  To note, I will never sell your email address because
> > spammers disgust me as well.
> >
> > If you have questions, comments, complaints, or anything else so
> > related, please ensure that the reply is sent directly to me
> > (dennisthetiger at chez-vrolet.net) or is sent to ffml-admins.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Dennis
> > (First human of Chez Vrolet Secret Labs, a keeper of the older
> > technology, support engineer of enterprise grade networks, fan of
> > dragons, lover of kitty cats, amateur Flemish painter, and irregular
> > customer of Starbucks who wishes his local espresso stand would sell
> > him a regular cup of black coffee)
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