[pressgang] List Problems now hopefully fixed!

[Matt Saunders]

Hey folks,

So what actually happens now is that the mailing-list software re-writes
the "from" address to something like "Calum Benson via pressgang
<pressgang at lists.yoyo.org>".  This is because email providers have
tightened up spam filters so - for example - email coming from my Yoyo
server but with Calum's email address on it is now more likely to end up
in a spam filter due to "DMARC", or, in fact, lead to the problem we had
where everyone on Gmail got unsubscribed as Google started refusing our
messages.

So now what happens is that your email client sees an email from
pressgang at lists.yoyo.org and says "ah! that's in your personal address
book as "Press Gang Mailing List" so I'll show the sender as that to be
helpful!

Having said all that - there's another option that I've just enabled for
the list which 'wraps' each message more verbosely as it sends it.
Let's see how that works out for us.  If it's obvious that this message
is from me then we're winning. ;-)


Cheers,
Matt.


On Feb 20, Calum Benson via pressgang wrote:
> Same, and yes, that's new… the "from" just shows in my mail client as "Press Gang Mailing List" rather than the author's name. I now have to dig into the full headers to see who really sent it.
> 
> —Calum.
> 
> 
> > On 20 Feb 2025, at 12:42, Dipskit Comedy via pressgang <pressgang at lists.yoyo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I don’t know if this is a new thing, but the last 2 messages have nothing showing who wrote them, except now that I’ve hit Reply I can see in the trail that Matt and Kevin wrote them. But still nothing shows when I look at the original emails.
> > 
> > Claire
> > 
> >> On 20 Feb 2025, at 23:37, Matt Saunders via pressgang <pressgang at lists.yoyo.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Oh that's interesting - I never knew that was actually a thing it did.
> >> Glad that my random fiddlings have proved more useful than I expected.
> >> ;-)
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Feb 19, prydonia via pressgang wrote:
> >>> Fun fact...I can now actually get confirmation that the system actually receives my mail for the first time in over a year!   
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Sent with Proton Mail secure email.
> >>> 
> >>>> On Friday, February 14th, 2025 at 6:07 AM, Matt Saunders via pressgang <pressgang at lists.yoyo.org> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hi there,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Due to some very boring reasons (search for "mailing list DKIM" if
> >>>> you're actually interested), everyone using Gmail was temporarily
> >>>> and accidentally removed from the list. You should all be back on it
> >>>> now and this shouldn't happen again.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I've also now fixed the list info page here: https://lists.yoyo.org/mailman/listinfo/pressgang
> >>>> And the archives here: https://lists.yoyo.org/pipermail/pressgang/
> >>>> 
> >>>> These had been broken for quite some time, apologies (search for
> >>>> "migrate from Apache to nginx" if you're actually interested).
> >>>> 
> >>>> Big thanks to Rachel for pointing this out!
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hopefully normal service, most of all Kevin's QOTD, should now be
> >>>> resumed. And remember folks, final paste-up is in half-an-hour, and
> >>>> there are crocodiles.
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Matt.
> >>>> --
> >>>> Matt Saunders
> >>>> 07506 857125
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> Press Gang Mailing List - pressgang at lists.yoyo.org
> >>>> https://lists.yoyo.org/mailman/listinfo/pressgang
> >>>> 'Reply' will send your mail to the list, not to the message author
> >>> 
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Press Gang Mailing List - pressgang at lists.yoyo.org
> >>> https://lists.yoyo.org/mailman/listinfo/pressgang
> >>> 'Reply' will send your mail to the list, not to the message author
> >>> 
> >> --
> >> Matt Saunders
> >> 07506 857125
> >> 
> >> 
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Press Gang Mailing List - pressgang at lists.yoyo.org
> >> https://lists.yoyo.org/mailman/listinfo/pressgang
> >> 'Reply' will send your mail to the list, not to the message author
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> >  Press Gang Mailing List - pressgang at lists.yoyo.org
> >  https://lists.yoyo.org/mailman/listinfo/pressgang
> >  'Reply' will send your mail to the list, not to the message author
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
>   Press Gang Mailing List - pressgang at lists.yoyo.org
>   https://lists.yoyo.org/mailman/listinfo/pressgang
>   'Reply' will send your mail to the list, not to the message author
-- 
  Matt Saunders 
  07506 857125