[WT-support] Please read if you post to this reflector from Yahoo or AOL accounts

Bob Wilson, N6TV n6tv at arrl.net
Sat Jul 5 02:55:32 CEST 2014


Yahoo and AOL have implemented a "DMARC" policy in an effort to reduce spam
originating from "forged" yahoo.com and aol.com email addresses.

For details see,

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/yahoo-dmarc-policy-sln24050.html?impressions=true

http://postmaster-blog.aol.com/2014/04/22/aol-mail-updates-dmarc-policy-to-reject/

When a user of AOL or Yahoo mail sends a message to the Win-Test mailing
list, the list server software "reflects" it to all subscribers, but it
"forges" the "From:" address (it changes it to *your* email address).

Because of the new DMARC flag added to email sent from Yahoo or AOL,
recipients of such reflected messages may now auto-file them as Spam.  This
is particularly true of Gmail (which I use exclusively).

The Win-Test list server software has to be modified to fix this, using
"From: support at win-test.com", with a "Reply-To:  your email address".  But
that is not likely to happen soon.

So please keep that in mind when posting to this reflector from AOL or
Yahoo accounts.

73,
Bob, N6TV
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