Nobody is unsubscribed

Adam Lindberg hello@REDACTED
Mon Nov 4 17:15:44 CET 2019


Have to admit I only tried typing https://erlang.org and noticed the errors.

Cheers,
Adam

> On 4. Nov 2019, at 13:44, Raimo Niskanen <raimo+erlang-questions@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 11:53:16AM +0100, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
>> For erlang.org itself there's two problems currently: no automatic 
>> redirection from http to https;
> 
> That seems to be the industry standard now, but I would like content to be
> accessible without having to use https.
> 
> The redirect for http://erlang.org and https://erlang.org goes to
> $scheme://www.erlang.org, which redirects to https://www.erlang.org.
> 
> Unfortunately the redirects back from e.g https://www.erlang.org/doc
> changes to http://erlang.org/doc because https for erlang.org did not work
> until 10 minutes ago.
> 
> Would it be sufficient to make those redirects from www.erlang.org to
> erlang.org not change from https to http?
> 
> That, and the answer 20 lines down...?
> 
>> 
>> And this:
>> 
>> Your connection is not private
>> This server could not prove that it is erlang.org; its security 
>> certificate is from www2.erlang.org. This may be caused by a 
>> misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.
>> 
>> NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
>> Subject: www2.erlang.org
>> 
>> Issuer: DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA
>> 
>> Expires on: Oct 22, 2021
>> 
>> Current date: Nov 4, 2019
> 
> A new certificate is in place, so this should be fixed.
> 
> / Raimo
> 
> 
>> 
>> Keep up the good work.
>> 
>> On 04/11/2019 11:34, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 10:47:03AM +0100, Adam Lindberg wrote:
>>>> Speaking of servers and domains, when is HTTPS coming to erlang.org and it’s sub-domains?
>>> 
>>> HTTPS has been active for www.erlang.org and bugs.erlang.org for years.
>>> The recent web server upgrade enabled it for erlang.org as well;
>>> we are working on it...
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> / Raimo
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Adam
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2. Nov 2019, at 09:14, Raimo Niskanen <ratmapper@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes it does. It applies to all mailing lists.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ericsson has got its eyes on mailing lists at erlang.org since it owns the domain.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>> / Raimo Niskanen
>>>>> 
>>>>> Den lör 2 nov. 2019 02:47Richard O'Keefe <raoknz@REDACTED> skrev:
>>>>> Does this apply to the EEPS list as well?
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, 2 Nov 2019 at 04:25, Joe Harrison <joe@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for doing all of this, regardless.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There's no perfect way to do mailing lists in a DMARC/DKIM/SPF compliant
>>>>>> way that doesn't break some client's "From:" field, subject line, or
>>>>>> "Reply:" button in some way, but this seems like the least bad option.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I hope my emails make it through to the list now ^_^
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> OT: Be careful of organisations' web contact forms which ask for your
>>>>>> email address. Sometimes their web servers generate an email from the
>>>>>> form using your email address as the "From:" address, which will break a
>>>>>> lot of DKIM/DMARC/SPF stuff.
>>>>>> I know of at least one local authority (council) website in the UK which
>>>>>> is guilty of this.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - Joe
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 26/10/2019 07:57, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
>>>>>>> It is mainly "the big ones" that have been affected by stricter DMARC
>>>>>>> policies.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> When a subscriber sending from e.g Yahoo gets received by Gmail then
>>>>>>> Gmail rejects that message since Yahoo's DMARC policy says so (also vice
>>>>>>> versa). So the list gets a bounce and eventually blocks the Gmail
>>>>>>> subscriber, if enough in a row happens to send with strict DMARC policies.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So for some it has worked, some gets an annoying list probe every now
>>>>>>> and then, some do not get many posts, but the final nail in the coffin
>>>>>>> was Ericsson (Erlang/OTP's home corporation) that tightened its DMARC
>>>>>>> policy and at the same time told us to get our act together and stop
>>>>>>> sending "unhygienic e-mail".
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> All the best
>>>>>>> / Raimo
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Den fre 25 okt. 2019 16:58Chris Rempel <csrl@REDACTED
>>>>>>> <mailto:csrl@REDACTED>> skrev:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     Not having the subject contain [erlang-questions] or some other
>>>>>>>     obvious indicator is quite unfortunate.  I guess many people were
>>>>>>>     affected by not being DMARC compliant?  It seems to have been
>>>>>>>     working just fine for quite some time... ie it "works for me" as it was.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     That said, thanks for maintaining the list, and keeping it going.
>>>>>>>     It is a most useful resource.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     Chris
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     *Sent:* Friday, October 25, 2019 at 7:38 AM
>>>>>>>     *From:* "Raimo Niskanen" <ratmapper@REDACTED
>>>>>>>     <mailto:ratmapper@REDACTED>>
>>>>>>>     *To:* erlang-questions@REDACTED <mailto:erlang-questions@REDACTED>
>>>>>>>     *Subject:* Re: Nobody is unsubscribed
>>>>>>>     To achieve DMARC compliance we have stopped changing the Subject:
>>>>>>>     field and no longer add the mailing list footer to the messages.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     This is because From: Subject: and mail body among other fields are
>>>>>>>     often DKIM signed, so if we should change them we would not pass DKIM
>>>>>>>     signature check and thereby not be DMARC compliant.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     Sorry for the inconvenience, we do not make the rules...
>>>>>>>     / Raimo Niskanen
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:23 PM Raimo Niskanen <ratmapper@REDACTED
>>>>>>>     <mailto:ratmapper@REDACTED>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The reason we changed mailing list servers was to get better DMARC and
>>>>>>>> DKIM compliance. This is a test post for us to inspect its headers...
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Raimo Niskanen
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Loïc Hoguin
>> https://ninenines.eu
> 
> -- 
> 
> / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB




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