Re: Mail system status: some problems solved (and some not)

Apparently, I misunderstood the situation, because the submission of the
email below caused a flood of "subscription disabled") notifications to the
mailing list owner...

Regards,

Erik.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 12:38 PM Erik Huelsmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Introduction of ARC signing and a DMARC DNS record seem to have satisfied
> Google's bulk sender requirements again: the domain reputation has gone
> back to High (from Medium since mid-June). Also, mails to GMail addresses
> from our mailing lists are not being blocked by GMail anymore.
>
> So far, so good. What's not working yet, is the mail forwarding service
> where users have an @common-lisp.net address where the forward address is
> hosted by Google. These mails are not being ARC signed; while Exim has an
> (experimental) feature to apply ARC signing to mails, the maintainer(s) at
> Debian will not consider enabling it (
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058808).
> There are mail-filters (milters) in the Debian ecosystem which *will*
> allow ARC signing for this mail flow, but Exim doesn't support milters
> under the pretense that it is sufficiently extensible not to need that.
> Which is probably true since they embed a Perl interpreter (why?!). On the
> other hand, since milters are a generally accepted extension mechanism for
> mail servers, the combination of positions taken by the Exim developers and
> the Debian Exim packagers, is rather unfortunately resulting in the fact
> that we can't forward mail to Google...
>
> I'm open to ideas or options that I may have missed while doing my
> research for solutions.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Bye,
>
> Erik.
>
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Bye,

Erik.

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