On May 21, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Ronald Beatteay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  What's "Valdis"?    A google search with that term 
> doesn't turn up anything related to email.

Valdis is the name of someone who replied to your question the other day.  You can see that response here:

	http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-PEACH.exe?A2=LSTSRV-L;90809479.1505

As far as the question of what free email service provider people should use, this is my take.  This goes over some ground that’s already been covered, so I apologize for that duplication.

AOL and Yahoo are the only major email providers that I know of that have a DMARC ‘p=reject’ record, though of course others may decide to implement a similar policy later.  The reason that LISTSERV rewrites the ‘From:’ addresses on messages it distributes from these domains can be found here:

	http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/LISTSERV16.0-2014b_WhatsNew.pdf

As you noted, GMail has a weird issue with REPRO,  If you want to be able to document that this is the result of a Google policy (and not some problem on LISTSERV’s end) you can refer them to this Google support document:

	https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6588?hl=en

as well as this discussion of the policy in gmail’s user forums:

	https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/Ho0jq6jDMRQ%5B1-25%5D

Of the big free email providers, I think that pretty much leaves Hotmail/Outlook.com.  I’m not aware of any serious weirdness there, or at least not at this point in time.  (I don’t like the way it displays ‘Sender:’ headers, but I can’t really say it’s wrong, and there are partial workarounds anyway: <http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/owner-faq.stm#_Toc81722895>)

But just because a free email provider works one way today doesn’t mean that it will work the same way tomorrow, so making this sort of recommendation is tricky.

-jwgh

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