[Dnsmasq-discuss] DKIM / DMARC emails.

[Simon Kelley]

On 17/02/2021 13:54, Etan Kissling wrote:
> When submitting a patch I noticed that the Dnsmasq mailing list modifies
> the subject of the email (prefix [Dnsmasq-discuss]) as well as appends
> 'Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list' information to the end of my message.
> 
> These modifications break DKIM signatures of our emails, leading to them
> being filtered into Junk folders. DMARC is a security standard for 
> accessing email authenticity.
> 
> See my earlier patch:
> - [PATCH v4] Connection track mark based DNS query filtering.
> 
> Other mailing lists such as netfilter-devel at vger.kernel.org 
> do not share these DMARC problems.
> 
> What is the preferred approach here to get my patch reviewed?
> 
> Etan
> 
> 
> 

There's no particular reason for that behaviour, I guess it was the
default on whichever antediluvian version of mailman was first used to
host the mailing list. It appears to be trivial to turn both features
off, and I can't see any particular reason not to. Anyone object?


Simon.