gmail dropping mesages

Franck Martin fmartin at linkedin.com
Fri Apr 22 23:01:01 UTC 2011


On 4/23/11 10:41 , "Alex Brooks" <askoorb+nanog at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Franck Martin <fmartin at linkedin.com>
>wrote:
>> What is the DKIM check result for those messages?
>
>Non existent, it's SPF only.

My point.

>
>This is what GMail sees:
>
>Received: from s0.nanog.org (s0.nanog.org [207.75.116.162])
>        by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id
>h1si7255610ibn.43.2011.04.22.13.42.53
>        (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
>        Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:42:53 -0700 (PDT)
>Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of
>nanog-bounces+askoorb+nanog=gmail.com at nanog.org designates
>207.75.116.162 as permitted sender) client-ip=207.75.116.162;
>Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: best
>guess record for domain of
>nanog-bounces+askoorb+nanog=gmail.com at nanog.org designates
>207.75.116.162 as permitted sender)
>smtp.mail=nanog-bounces+askoorb+nanog=gmail.com at nanog.org
>
>>
>> May be time to get nanog mailing list DKIM aware?
>>
>> On 4/22/11 13:24 , "Bill Blackford" <bblackford at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I've recently observed gmail dropping messages or not forwarding all
>>>messages/posts  from the nanog list. This is rather annoying.
>>>
>>>Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any insight as to
>>>why?
>
>Yes,  for example, the message I'm replying to had this at the top of it:
>
>"Due to a filter you created, this message was not sent to Spam. Edit
>Filters"
>"Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of
>following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal
>information.  Learn more"
>
>So GMail thinks it's a phishing message :-/

Because from: may be from a domain which is known to DKIM sign
everything.... (like gmail).

>
>Quite a lot of my Nanog messages are marked as spam, which is why I
>created a filter to not send any messages with a list ID header with
>nanog.nanog.org in it to spam at all.
>
>The only way for Nanog to get round this would be for the mail
>administrator to follow *every* step at
>https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81126  which
>basically is:
>- Explicit SPF with hard fail.
>- Signing with DKIM or DomainKeys.
>- Useing a consistent IP address to send bulk mail.
>- Keeping valid reverse DNS records for the IP address(es) from which
>mail is sent, pointing to the sending domain.
>- Use the same address in the 'From:' header on every bulk mail that is
>sent.
>- Using the "Precedence: bulk" header.
>- Up-to-date contact information in the WHOIS record, and on abuse.net.
>
>But the list administrator would have to do all of that faff.

No, it is mailman, just upgrade mailman. Recent versions are more DKIM
aware...

More info: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dkim-mailinglists-06





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