Re: How to use Gmane

Ninguém writes:

> if I want to *send* a mail there, I am currently thinking that just
> posting an NNTP post to Gmane would result in a mail being sent on my
> behalf to the ML's address (and then retrievable by gmane users, like
> myself). But for that to happen, The Gmane server would have to send a
> real mail faking my identity.

That's exactly what mailing lists also do¹.

You send an email til whatever-list@somedomain and the server for that
mailing list sends a copy to everybody who is subscribed to the mailing
list.

When you post an article to a newsgroup on Gmane, Gmane sends a copy of
that article to the corresponding mailing list,
whatever-list@somedomain, which then sends a copy to all the
subscribers.

Gmane is one of the subscribers, so when your post arrives as an email
from the mailing list to that specific subscribed Gmane email-address,
Gmane puts it in the newsgroup.

The problem with SPF/DKIM/DMARC is no different for mailing lists and
Gmane.


  Best regards,

    Adam


¹ The term "real mail faking my identity" is a little odd in my opinion -
  you're the one sending the article and Gmane is passing it along, just
  as a mailing list, mail server, or any other service passing what you
  type along.

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