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[Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond



On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 07:36:20PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
> > It seems, the solution is to enable "from_is_list" so the message
> > will actually send "From: Edward Ned Harvey via The List" and
> > "Reply-To: Edward Ned Harvey <myemail at nedharvey.com>"
> 
> Insert "Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful" rant here. Not that the
> folks at DMARC.org care; they're a rogue body.

Note that it's only munging if it is actually munging; i.e. if they do
this when reply-to is already set that's bad; if they are *adding* the
header to point to the original sender when it did not previously
exist, they are using it (more or less) as intended: to ensure that
responses intended for the author are routed as such.  That should be
fine unless the author has already done that.

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