On May 4, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Ben Parker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2014 12:19:20 -0700, Michael Feldman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>> On any email from a ListServe member who uses Gmail I am receiving a phishing >>> warning. > > Yahoo.com and AOL.com recently published a DMARC policy of "p=reject" which > tells any receiving site that implements DMARC inspection of incoming mail > to reject any incoming mail from their domains if it fails inspection. Mail > coming via a LISTSERV (or other) mailing list will fail by definition since > the mail does not (and cannot) come directly from Yahoo or AOL mail servers. > > At about the same time Google/Gmail published their DMARC policy as > "p=quarantine". This means that instead of rejecting the mail outright > (like Yahoo and AOL) receiving domains should handle it 'carefully' and may > choose to deliver it, but with cautionary notices. Thus the phishing > warning. Again the problem is the mail coming via a LISTSERV (or other) > mailing list will fail by definition since the mail does not (and cannot) > come directly from Gmail servers. > > It is really the same mechanism at work. But the results in one case > prevent participation in the list by outright rejection of messages and in > the other case lead to side-effects such as these warnings. I’m really puzzled here. About half of my list members use gmail (many are refugees from AOL and Yahoo). I have not gotten phishing warnings on any of their posts. And our volume is typically 50-100 messages per day. best regards, Larry -- Larry Finch [log in to unmask] ############################ To unsubscribe from the LSTOWN-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?SUBED1=LSTOWN-L&A=1