Totally the wrong thread, so I'll apologize profusely now.
GMail is set to turn on DMARC reject strict by sometime early next
year [1] being one of the last big web mail providers to do so; so,
Mailman "From:" rewriting (or turning on the ability for IETF list
subscribers to toggle this for their sends) might need to be done for
IETF lists.
best, Joe
[1]:
https://threatpost.com/google-moving-gmail-to-strict-dmarc-implementation/115125/
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Robert Sparks
<rjsparks(_at_)nostrum(_dot_)com> wrote:
Folks -
We have been testing IMAP access to the IETF archives for several days now,
with volunteers from the tools-discuss and ietf chairs lists, and it's been
going well. Thank you if you've been helping test already (and please
continue to do so)!
Now we need more testers. We'd like to get a simple measure of load, so we'd
like to have as many folks as are willing accessing the test instance at the
same time with various clients during the next week. It would be
particularly helpful to have several people using the system next Thursday.
If you're willing to take the time to do this, please drop me a note
directly (I've set reply-to on this message) so I have a feel for how many
people are participating.
Instructions for accessing the test instance are below.
Please report any issues you find directly to me. Do not open tickets with
the secretariat. Be aware that there are known issues with the data on the
test instance (some lists have blank or truncated messages) that have not
yet been addressed - it would be good to report any more you find to me, but
they won't get fixed immediately.
Please use tools-discuss(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org for general conversation. If you
have
feature requests, that's a good place to send them. One request we've had
from a few testers so far is to provide an additional shared folder with a
mailbox for each list that has only the "recent" messages from that list -
perhaps the last 6 months. It would be good to hear from folks, after
they've tried what's there now, whether that would be useful to spend
development time on, or if that time would be better spent elsewhere.
The test instance is getting mail with only a slight delay after it comes
through the lists - you should see current traffic.
Please resist the temptation to download the entire archive of every list.
I've done it - it's huge (~28G when MailMate does it) and it it's a severe
torture test for clients. Interrupt your client if it starts trying to do
that to you. Caching a copy of this test instance will not be useful when we
deploy the production instance.
Instead, what would help us the most is to configure your client to access
those lists you normally subscribe to, and to spend some time next week
browsing and searching those lists and exploring a few lists that are new to
you.
You can find the details for where the test instance is listening, and
rudimentary instructions for setting up a few clients, at
<http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/tools/trac/wiki/ImapTesting>. Please
improve that page as you see the opportunity.
Thanks in advance for any time you can give this.
RjS
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