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

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