Bug#1052624: debbugs: forwarded messages break DMARC, DKIM, SPF

Don Armstrong <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:11:03 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.debbugs
Message-ID <20230928031103.3ao2xsphox457wyx__5542.9639456392$1695871294$gmane$org@qor.donarmstrong.com>
Control: reassign -1 bugs.debian.org
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2023, Jonathan Kamens wrote:
> The most obvious solution to this is straightforward: the From line in
> these messages should be modified to contain the email address of the
> bug, not the email address of the original sender. The original
> sender's address can be put in Reply-To and/or indicated in the header
> in a number of other ways. For example, sometimes something like this
> is done:

The problem with this specific From-rewriting is that it breaks replying
to the sender instead of just the bug (though maybe that's not a huge
deal).

Ideally we'd be able to oversign the messages, but DMARC and DKIM
weren't engineered to allow that. I've personally been ignoring it
because I've been hoping that the standards would get fixed, but if it's
impacting enough Debian contributors to matter, I don't mind accepting a
patch.