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[Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond



On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:05:12PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:55:13PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> > With the caveat that I did not list Mutt by name but that's quibbling.
> > Point is, as you've experienced yourself, Mutt's behavior is not
> > consistent when improperly-set Reply-To fields are in play.
> 
> I admit I'd forgotten this; for the longest time I had a patch which I
> wrote to fix this applied to my mutt; Mutt dev being what it is
> (basically dead) the maintainers didn't have any interest in applying
> it.  I have no use to maintain patches forever so I stopped bothering.

I meant to also comment that with list-reply functionality, it's
(currently) largely a non-issue since reply-to is rarely set by anyone
except for some mailing lists which still think this is a good idea,
of which I am currently subscribed to zero.

However, as mailing lists adapt to increased usage of DMARC I guess
that could become more of a concern; I've already posted to mutt-dev
about getting that fixed.  Though, again, with proper list-reply
functionality, it should still not really a big issue.

Though, much as I like Mutt, the reality is I would no longer really
recommend new users try it, unless they expressed a strong desire to
solve a particular need that Mutt uniquely solves (which these days is
a really dwindling use case).  It's just not modern enough; and
development, while still technically ongoing, may as well be
considered dead.

However, it does appear that properly configured, Thunderbird will do
what's required.  I thought I heard that development on that was also
dead though...

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