Public bug reported: Feature Freeze Exception (FFe): -------------------------------
To avoid a component mismatched issue, libmail-dmarc-perl was demoted to Suggested from Recommends in spamassassin version 4.0.0-7ubuntu1 on mantic. A MIR process has been carried out to promote libmail-dmarc-perl to main (LP:2023971), which has been ack recently. I reproduce the rationale we gave there: tldr; DMARC support in SpamAssassin is important for stronger spam filtering. Spam email is an ever-present and ever-evolving presence in our online lives, and SpamAssassin is a key tool for end users and service providers to identify likely spam for filtering. SpamAssassin 4.0, introduced in Ubuntu "lunar" 22.10, introduced a number of major new features including three new plugins, the most significant of which is the DMARC policy checker. DMARC (or "Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance" https://dmarc.org/) is a new convention for email service providers to communicate to email recipient programs about how to handle authentication failures. It builds on prior protocols (namely, SPF and DKIM) to address their limitations. Essentially, DMARC protects against direct domain spoofing, such that when an email purports to be from a given domain (say, @gmail.com or @irs.gov) but fails proper authentication using the authentication methods published by that domain, it tells the email receiver whether to reject the email as spam, quarantine it for evaluation, or something else. DMARC also establishes a way for the email receiver to give feedback back to the sender about emails that failed to pass this check. libmail-dmarc-perl contains the official Perl implementation of DMARC support. SpamAssassin is the primary user of this package The new package should not break any other packages that depend on it. In the MIR bug for dmarc, the use of this feature with spamassassin has been tested [1] and dep-8 tests has been added to libmail-dmarc-perl too. Installation of the spamassassin package with dmarc to be promoted has been tested at [2]. The 'ubuntu-release' team could finally be subscribed to allow the promotion. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmail-dmarc-perl/+bug/2023971/comments/26 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libmail-dmarc-perl/+bug/2023971/comments/29 --------- Move back libmail-dmarc-perl as a Recommends dependency from Suggested. ** Affects: spamassassin (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2061379 Title: [FFe] [24.04 FEAT] Allow dmarc features on spamassassin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/spamassassin/+bug/2061379/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
