[Cake] cake for net-next 4.8

Neil Shepperd nshepperd at gmail.com
Mon Oct 3 17:17:28 EDT 2016


Gmail spam team got back to me; they have apparently "fixed the problem",
which I guess means messages here should stop being marked as spam soon.
Because gmail's spam filters are top secret business, I couldn't tell you
anything else :)

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 at 17:10 Dave Täht <dave at taht.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 9/30/16 1:37 PM, Neil Shepperd wrote:
> > Disabling ipv6 (at least in the mail server, in outgoing direction) is
> > probably the easiest option...
>
> It looks like the simplest thing I could do to allow inbound while
> stopping outbound ipv6 would be to:
>
> /etc/postfix/main.cf:
>     smtp_bind_address6 = ::1
>
>
> > I see on most messages here DKIM-Signature headers apparently from
> > gmail: "v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com
> > <http://gmail.com>; s=20120113;". These signatures are failing because
> > of the added message footer. No sign of a DKIM-Signature
> > for lists.bufferbloat.net <http://lists.bufferbloat.net>. You'd need to
> > set that up in the list MTA.
>
> Honestly my "email-fu" has declined considerably in recent years.
> Despite the apparent simplicity of this idea, my brain just crashed
> multiple times on setting it up with postfix + mailman 2.
>
> And thank you for poking so deeply into this, I was A) really annoyed by
> the bloat-list-as-spam thing and B) clueless.
>
> > On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 at 15:42 Dave Täht <dave at taht.net
> > <mailto:dave at taht.net>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     On 9/30/16 1:02 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> >     > Neil Shepperd <nshepperd at gmail.com <mailto:nshepperd at gmail.com>>
> >     writes:
> >     >
> >     >> I think I have now accumulated enough spam/nonspam classified
> emails
> >     >> to make a statistically signification observation: it seems like
> all
> >     >> emails classified as spam from these lists were send from ipv6:
> >     >>
> >     >> SPF: PASS with IP 2600:3c03:0:0:f03c:91ff:fe61:86ce
> >     >>
> >     >> All emails from bufferbloat.net <http://bufferbloat.net> lists
> >     are failing DKIM (because of the
> >     >> mailing list footer breaking the DKIM signature) which might be
> worth
> >     >> fixing, and failing DMARC because all mailing lists fails DMARC
> >     >> (however google does not have a strict DMARC policy so that
> shouldn't
> >     >> matter, I hope).
> >     >>
> >     >> By the way, it's not just you, either. I have emails from others
> on
> >     >> these lists in my spam folder.
> >     >>
> >     >> The distinguishing factor seems to be whether the email was sent
> from
> >     >> the lists.bufferbloat.net <http://lists.bufferbloat.net> ipv6
> >     address. Unless this address
> >     >> corresponds to some kind of tunnel broker possibly also used by
> >     >> spammers, I can only assume this is some kind of bug (after all,
> it
> >     >> was spf validated so the address shouldn't matter at that point?).
> >     >
> >     > Indeed, gmail requires extra measures for IPv6:
> >     > https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126 (scroll down to
> >     "Additional
> >     > guidelines for IPv6").
> >     >
> >     > Fixing DKIM might be worthwhile :)
> >
> >     But it passes the spf check?? And the reverse lookup is correct.
> >
> >     How about I just disable ipv6?
> >
> >     Have no idea why dkim doesn't work.
> >
> >     >
> >     > -Toke
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