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How do mailing lists work?

What's the difference between a VM set up by a real person to handle their email and a VM set up by a spammer to spam you?



> How do mailing lists work?

If they keep the original From: header they would not work, as the sending (mailing list) server would look like a forger, so the ML software would have to do a rewrite that header.

If you wish to keep original From: headers, then ARC would have to be incorporated into this proposal:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_Received_Chain




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