Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: On 12/9/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: I thought you earlier wrote that SpamAssassin *is* being run by the ISP, Correct. but can't be used with Mailman. No, that they haven't taken the steps to integrate it with MM yet and have no immediate

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Cyndi Norwitz writes: Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:34:45 -0800 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about rejecting or discarding non-member posts instead of holding them. does that help? If the spam problem is too great, I may have to disallow non-member posts except

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

2007-12-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Cyndi Norwitz writes: This will not work in my situation for more than a certain percentage of my non-member posts. The details aren't important (to this list anyway). Sure, but you're being nibbled to death by mice. Everything that you can offload onto other people is more time for you to

Re: [Mailman-Users] no dupes across lists?

2007-12-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Allan Hansen writes: That's interesting. I run Mailman 2.1.5 (Mac OS X 10.4) and have the 'problem' that when someone posts to two lists at a time, I get only one message. I actually do want to get both for archival purposes. If this is not a function of Mailman 2.1.5, I wonder where

[Mailman-Users] List Topics (was: accept_these_nonmembers not working)

2007-12-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Cyndi Norwitz writes: On the other hand, bothering the ISP staff isn't what I want to do But you'll bother the Mailman developers because they do it for free? Think about it a little. You like your ISP because they don't charge much, which is because they free ride on the work of projects

Re: [Mailman-Users] no dupes across lists?

2007-12-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Allan Hansen writes: One message from a subscriber's MUA goes to two lists in Mailman because that person is addressing it using To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [subscriptions of poster and recipient to list1 and list2 verified] Mailman is the actual recipient of this

[Mailman-Users] Message Excerpt

2007-12-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Cyndi Norwitz writes: Is there anything I can do? Is there anything my ISP can do? Is this a new feature request? Looks like one to me, a good one, too. While we're requesting this kind of feature, I'd like to be able to get at the text of subscription requests, too. My lists do get the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question on cron.in and the init.d scripts in rpm file

2008-01-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
steve writes: Ok, I found that if placed in /etc/cron.d the file is intended as a crontab which has the userfield as part of the command.. so the default crontab.in file is correct for that usage - but doesn't this mean the documentation is INCORRECT to tell you to directly install that

Re: [Mailman-Users] bots subscribing to lists via web forms to avoidmember-only restrictions

2008-01-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jeffrey Goldberg writes: On the whole, I have found these things so rare that it hasn't been a real problem. However, in principle lists could easily be targeted, so it is worth considering captchas. Captchas have been discussed, and were not considered worthwhile. (1) There are many

Re: [Mailman-Users] deny members posts

2008-01-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Brad Knowles wrote: On 1/11/08, Egidijus Serplis wrote: Maybe anyone can explain to me how to configure mailman, that list members can't post to this list. And enable non-members post to this list. In other words - i want members of list only get

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail Processing Problem?

2008-01-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dennis Putnam writes: Keep in mind this was a working system that started giving me trouble after a restore. Unfortunately, that's not really possible. People who do not have access to your system can only match symptoms to cases they've seen in the past. This particular symptom is

Re: [Mailman-Users] bots subscribing to lists via web forms to avoidmember-only restrictions

2008-01-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
LuKreme writes: On 6-Jan-2008, at 14:02, Mark Sapiro wrote: Are there plans to enhance the web subscription form with a type of captcha, or other technique to discourage bots? There is no current plan. There really should be. Why? It's user-unfriendly and botnet-friendly

[Mailman-Users] surely can install mailman without root?

2008-01-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does one really need root privileges to install mailman? You could probably make it work more or less, but to make things secure you do need root privileges. Is the above neglecting a fundamental principle? Yes. Security. If your host allows you to do such

[Mailman-Users] English the best language

2008-01-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or maybe I should not allow them to choose X at all. Hope they can read English. Or, since you obviously can read English, you could translate the strings and submit a patch. -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] surely can install mailman without root?

2008-01-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the above neglecting a fundamental principle? SJT Yes. Security. If your host allows you to do such things, I strongly SJT suggest you find one who won't. ;-) My mom just spent $400 for me for 5 years at Dreamhost. What's the worst that could

Re: [Mailman-Users] ERROR: You must supply a valid email address.?

2008-01-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Chris Penn writes: I have googled this question and there is only one suggestion on WLUG on the web: http://www.wlug.org.nz/MailManNotes This issue seems to be the only thing not working at the moment and it does not show up in the FAQs. What does it mean when I subscribe someone

[Mailman-Users] Outgoing qrunner stops working and outgoing mails get stuck

2008-01-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
SP writes: I checked the mailman logs, but I can't find any error or any message that can help debugging the problem... Find the last few logs from Mailman and the MTA before the stoppage. This may give experts some clue. (If I knew what to tell you to look for, I would, but experts often

Re: [Mailman-Users] (OT) Newbie with recurring frustrations!

2008-01-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brandon Sussman writes: I have had good luck so far with Dreamhost's Mailman support - they have some folks who seem to care and know Mailman fairly well. That's interesting, considering that there was some hair-pulling over on mailman-devel about possible problems with Dreamhost. (Totally

[Mailman-Users] Mailman installation and WestHost account upgrade

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Odieresis [Gmail] writes: I'm a newbie and I'm experiencing problems after my provider changed my account. I can't restart Mailman list service via SSH after West Host provider upgraded my account to 3.0. This is a provider problem, not a Mailman problem. Talk to your provider. If

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: No search engine author in their right mind should ever consider doing de-duplication on their own, although they might be willing to provide that feature to customers who demand the option. Google does. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mikhail T. writes: Whatever I code up will, naturally, need to be approved by the project-maintainers. This is why securing their acceptance /in principle/ is important before beginning the actual work. This is false. Open source means you can do what you like, and Mailman actually will

Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

2008-01-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mikael Hansen writes: So I enjoy the roster concept which is outlined. Still, it seems odd to me that the list server software can adequately decide on the process of eliminating duplicates. To me, the roster concept implies that duplicates should not have been sent by list members

[Mailman-Users] Spam to list owners

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mel Sojka writes: Folks I have an old server that is being hosted for a client. Because of Phyton version it is running mailman 2.1.5 under sendmail. For some unknown reason there seems to be a massive amount of spam going to the list owner. You can change the visible list owner

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digests for bounces and mail list stats?

2008-02-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Dan Brown wrote: Is there a way to digest [bounce messages] into either a specific number of bounces or a timeframe so maybe at most for that many bounces I get perhaps 14 notifications instead? OTOH, this would seem to be a unique situation caused by importing a

[Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jan Steinman writes: I seem to be gathering a fair number of unrequited pending subscriptions on several mailing lists. I see them by grepping for pending in /var/log/mailman/subscribe, and then checking for corresponding new entries. I did this after one of my hosting clients

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Cron question

2008-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Marvin Raab writes: I've setup ver. 2.1.9 on Fedora 8. I used yum to install (can't find 'configure' but that's not really my question) and configured it using the docs on the website including the cron section: yum installations do not conform to the docs on the website. That's the whole

Re: [Mailman-Users] managing pending subscriptions and confirmations

2008-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Steve Burling writes: wasn't getting marked as spam, but the behavior of Constant Contact's mailer was causing red flags at our end that caused their mail to be blocked. Ooh! yea. UM always did play tough D! Former-OSU-prof-shouldn't-find-much-to-like-about-UM-but-I-*like*-it-ly

[Mailman-Users] Palm Treo user hijacks thread

2008-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Please don't hijack threads. Unless you know how to avoid that, that means it is *rude* to reply to an unrelated message, *especially* if you change the subject. In a threading MUA, it will appear that the original message has already been answered, and their problem may get no attention.

[Mailman-Users] getting python errorss with check_perms

2008-02-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rob Tanner writes: File bin/check_perms, line 216, in checkarchives print _(\ NameError: global name '_' is not defined This is the conventional equivalent to GNU gettext used by most Python programs. Find the definition of '_' which will either look like def _(x): # code here

[Mailman-Users] OT: Barracuda Reputation

2008-02-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Karl Zander writes: We have asked members to whilelist the Mailman server IP and address. For whatever reason, not everyone is able to do that. Does anyone know if there is any type of feedback loop to this Barracuda Reputation service? I've seen it before occasionally; I was unable

Re: [Mailman-Users] cron/senddigests - error

2008-02-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Con Wieland writes: version 2.1.4 The odd thing though is it has only been happening the last couple of weeks Could be due to a new poster with a busted MTA, or an old poster with a busted MTA who recently started using non-ASCII in MIME headers. Maybe it's fixed in recent Mailman,

[Mailman-Users] No subscription is made despite confirmation

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Henrik Rasmussen writes: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf8 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128) Your user is sending mail with raw 8-bit characters (in this case probably meaning ø) in the headers. This is forbidden by RFC 2822. The universally accepted way to do

[Mailman-Users] Sending MovableType notifications via Mailman

2008-02-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Eric Lee writes: When I do the same thing from an email client -- sending out a message via BCC to my Mailman list, coming from the same address (which is the list administrator address anyway), everything works fine. It's probably not coming from the same addresses. Note plural. IIRC

Re: [Mailman-Users] No subscription is made despite confirmation

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Henrik Rasmussen writes: Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Your user is sending mail with raw 8-bit characters (in this case probably meaning ø) in the headers. This is forbidden by RFC 2822. The universally accepted way to do this is by using MIME encoded words. That's plausible

[Mailman-Users] [Bug] 2x decode_header? [was: No subscription is made ...]

2008-02-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Moving to -developers, reply-to set. Please keep Henrik in the loop. Seems to be the same as http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1186819group_id=103atid=100103 Henrik Rasmussen writes: Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Henrik Rasmussen writes: Of course it's possible

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Attila Kinali writes: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:15:58 -0600 Rick Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (0): SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: host g.mx.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.53.191]: 421 4.7.0 [TS02]

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brian Carpenter writes: [ IIRC it was Attila Kinali who wrote: ] If yahoo wants to receive mails from my server (and i'm sure they want because their users subscribed to my lists), then they have to play nice like everyone else too. I like your attitude! You're welcome to like the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Attila Kinali writes: This is just selective greylisting, which lots of sites use as a blanket policy. It's definitly not greylisting. Our server sends out a few dozen mails a day on the low traffic lists to a few hundred on the high traffic ones. Any greylisting that is half way

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Attila Kinali writes: It's just yahoo that behaves like a black sheep in this game. But that's simply not true. AOL has a deservedly bad reputation, as does Hotmail. I've had problems with a number of universities, as well (deserved, in a sense, but it was damn hard to get off the ban list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brian Carpenter writes: Well we have been using domain keys as per yahoo's instructions and I haven't seen any reductions in yahoo's deferrals. Well, they don't promise that any of those measures will get your mail through. And, to be sure, if I were them, I would not count domain keys as a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Charles Marcus writes: No one has a 'Right' to talk to anyone else's mail server. Everybody here concedes that, I think. If they aren't playing well, document it: let anyone who uses your services know that if THEY choose to use a problematic service, that is their choice and their

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Then I read further and found To participate in the program, senders must sign their outbound emails with DomainKeys (DKIM is not currently supported). This is the second time in recent weeks that some large mail service has used it's 600 lb. gorilla status to try

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brian Carpenter writes: This wouldn't be a problem if they just applied a filter to that person's e-mail address but to block an server's IP from sending any e-mail to all their users? shudders Hold that shudder ... and none of the major e-mail providers are willing to come up with a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: That's not what I understood it to say. I understand they need to authenticate me somehow as the person authorized to receive reports about my mail to yahoo.com recipients, but I thought it said that in order for me to participate in the feedback program at all, my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

2008-02-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Attila Kinali writes: It's still not graylisting. [...] The refused to talk to me makes it clear that my server didn't even get a greeting, but above error message instead. So, yahoo doesn't even know who the sender or recipient is. Ie, the whole thing is IP based. OK, that's a lot

Re: [Mailman-Users] Pipermail URL handling in archives

2008-02-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jim Popovitch writes: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, the problem seems to appear with commas too which makes me wonder if this can be resolved with this: urlpat = re.compile(r'(\w+://[^)\s]+?)(\.|,)?(\s|$)') # URLs in text but then I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delete message in large mbox

2008-02-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Odieresis [Gmail] writes: Do you think there is an easier way to do these cleanings? A sort of webmail interface? Maybe this could be done in the long run, but the problem is finding a given message in the large mailbox. This can't be done effectively over the web. If you have shell

[Mailman-Users] Mailman DNS Issues

2008-02-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ki Song writes: The only error message I get when starting my server is the following: NameVirtualHost myipaddress has no VirtualHosts mailman I don't know what the trailing mailman is about, but the above basically means that as far as Apache is concerned you don't have any named hosts.

[Mailman-Users] FW: Preserve HTML format while scrubbing file attachments

2008-03-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Darrell Burkey writes: It just seems odd that this is not possible. Well, it would be if MUA writers implemented the MIME definitions precisely. But they don't. Indeed, they are so insistent about their precious HTML Why do they want HTML, anyway? Do they say? Maybe there's some way to

[Mailman-Users] Google gmail problem

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Hank van Cleef writes: [Gmail users complain] that they do not see a copy of their posts to the list reflected back to them. It's a FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq02.008.htp Discussion in the archives of this list indicates it's a common request to Google to

[Mailman-Users] Reply-To Munging Considered Controversial [was: Google gmail problem]

2008-03-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dragon writes: I meant to send this to the list but it only went out to the OP, damned reply-to setting on this list (I know, I know, y'all think it is good, I STILL disagree and always will). Hey, feel free to write an RFC and update 2822. For now, Reply-To is an author header, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some detail questions about migrating lists

2008-03-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: It appears non-standard in at least a few obvious ways, and I have no way to know in what others. You might find answers using Mandriva support resources Mandrake always prided itself on the excellence of its user and admin interfaces, and did not hesitate to change

Re: [Mailman-Users] word bounces in from address

2008-03-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dragon writes: The problem is that the relevant RFC document is vague on how that should be handled and displayed in the MUA. I don't see that it's vague at all. RFC 2822 provides several headers for identifying various roles in transmitting the message on behalf of the author. The From

[Mailman-Users] Mass subscription

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Carlos Corredor writes: My question: I want to do a Mass Subscription, but would like to include First Name and Last Name in each record. I could not find anywhere how to do this. Is it possible? If so, how? Use the format First Last [EMAIL PROTECTED] If there are non-letters in the name

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam backscatter: Which aliases to remove

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: Do many sites split the responsibilities between mail and list care and feeding? I suspect that it's pretty common in cases where people get a VMware guest OS or soemthing like that. The hosting company / ISP is going to want to keep close watch on port 25, but list and

[Mailman-Users] Block spam from -owner?

2008-04-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jon Slater writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm using SpamAssassin but these are coming in with spam score like -0.6 In your SA local rules file add some rules that bump messages that are To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] +10 points. Then figure out what the content

Re: [Mailman-Users] can't get open list to work

2008-04-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: If something that looks like a 'request' is sent to the list posting address, and the General Options administrivia setting is set to Yes, that message is held for approval as a post, not as a request, so a human can decide if it is a misdirected request or a valid

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
BTW, the *real* problem here is that we *really* need to free up Mark for doing more development. Whether he likes it or not. ;-) Jim Popovitch writes: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are two security issues mentioned in the announcement.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: BTW, it's not our responsibility to do anything other than patch the Mailman source distribution. I think you've missed at least part of Jim's point ... Then you can decide which of our changes to cherry pick into your own running servers, and easily merge in your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10rc1 has been released

2008-04-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: There is some validity to the complaint that new releases are blocked on translation updates. Our translators do a wonderful, and greatly appreciated job, but they're disadvantaged by our suboptimal translation process. Fixing that won't help security

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need capability of link to archived messages

2008-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Darren G Pifer writes: The issue was no such much the moderator had to approve the message because of the size but the fact that the e-mail messages to the list are rather large. This stripping would be almost trivial except that it's difficult to predict what the URL would be (archiving

Re: [Mailman-Users] Third party unsubscribe request

2008-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dave Hillam writes: I reckon that it's more of a presentation issue - why tell people to contact the listadmin, if there's nothing that can be done? On the other hand, it gives a point of contact/reassurance for list members who may get confused/upset at this, I suppose. That's the main

Re: [Mailman-Users] misleading description

2008-05-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
On 5/3/08, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: If the unsubscribe script cannot be exploited remotely, then I do not see probing as a real threat (especially if additionally secured by some captcha code or the like). Note that people seem to really want one-click unsubscription.

[Mailman-Users] server load..

2008-05-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Khalil Abbas writes: I found another cheap service, $30/month dedicated servers and they offer unlimited emails per day.. but its characteristics are a bit low: AMD, 512 MB RAM .. Brad already gave you the non-technical answer: no, very likely that is not going to work for you. You should

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to access email queue in mailman and change thequeue proses from FIFO to size based

2008-05-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Maickel Pandie wrote: I'm new in mailman but I want to try to change the queue proceess method from FIFO to size based... how make it happen?? 1) Learn Python. 2) Read and understand Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py, particularly the Switchboard.files()

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-30 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David Newman writes: Initially I thought the changes I made to mailman would result in a unique Message-ID per recipient, but this does not appear to be the case. Yeah, somebody actually said that, but they really meant the Return-Path. Changing Message-ID on regular posts would violate

Re: [Mailman-Users] Major problems with privacy and mailman lists and harvesters

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Michael Welch writes: Right, there's lots broken at Topica. But I sure do like the intent of their obscuration technique. I don't. What they're obscuring is that it doesn't work. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

[Mailman-Users] problem with subscription confirmation string

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Christopher Adams writes: If I send a message to test7-request and add the word 'subscribe', I get a message back like this: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; on behalf of; [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] It looks to me like the '+' in the address (the part bracketed by '') has been

[Mailman-Users] ETA for MM 3.0?

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jon Slater writes: Does anyone have a guess-timate for the MM 3.0 release? Barry Warsaw is the person to ask directly, or on Mailman-Developers. It's definitely not something you want to hold your breath for; there's definitely plans for Mailman 2.2.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to list instead of poster (was: Muti-Mailmaninstall)

2008-06-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Allan Odgaard writes: [ repetitive lobbying removed ] Please stop lobbying, period, and move these discussions off this list. We heard you the first time, you've been told the appropriate venue. Now this is just noise interfering with helping users with their everyday problems. If you really

Re: [Mailman-Users] Muti-Mailman install

2008-06-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: Then you must not have read the FAQ I referenced. Please, Brad, don't go there. You know he's not going to change his mind, neither are you, or me, but what matters is that neither will Barry. So it's a moot point. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce processing questions (feature, or bug?)

2008-06-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Finkel writes: Hank van Cleef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part, It seems to me that stat=Service unavailable means that the inbound mailer is not available at the moment. The problem that we're facing is that there are a few people who don't think[1] that the RFCs apply

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-06-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: I don't see a problem with having this discussion continue on the mailman-users list for now (at least you'll get the opportunity for some feedback from other mailman list/site admins who are not on the mailman-developers list), I think the very political nature

Re: [Mailman-Users] Apache, mailman and ScriptAlias - not as documented

2008-06-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: Moreover, the Mailman code is written in Python, so there shouldn't be any need to compile anything with any C compiler. The CGI and MTA interface wrappers are written in C, but they're really really simple (as anything security-critical should be). It's not going to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.11 final has been released.

2008-07-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Finkel writes: I have not yet installed my 2.1.11 package on my test machine, but my records show that I had the identical messages when I built my 2.1.9 package, which I use in production. I am not an expert in the C language and what type conversions are done. But I would not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Cyndi Norwitz writes: I appreciate your input. I am curious what other server owners/ ISP's do. From the talk on this list, it would seem that any restriction on what listowners can do is considered a violation. Well, I wouldn't go so far as to call it a violation, but I would not want

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Cyndi Norwitz writes: There are two differences with email: 1) there are only spotty and poorly enforced laws against junk email (in part because a lot of it is international and/or hidden) and 2) sending snail mail, faxes, or phoning all cost money--sending emails costs little to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Larry Stone writes: Brad, I'm glad you added that. But it raises an interesting topic of discussion which is why is e-mail held to a different standard than other means of communication. Because it's different. First, the costs are several orders of magnitude cheaper. Second, identifying

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Michael Welch writes: I think that bulk adding is a dangerous thing to allow, from the host's viewpoint at a minimum. Who's to say what unscrupulous a-holes are ready to take advantage of that ability. Very dumb ones. I really don't see a major social problem here; as a host, make your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: I know there are people who use it responsibly, which is why I don't advocate too strongly for its removal. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't get abused, or that we shouldn't do things to try to curb that abuse. I have to disagree. Anything that can be done

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Zbigniew Szalbot writes: 1/ Mailman as a discussion list - like the one we're having here. I don't imagine spammers would be setting up their lists as discussion list, would they? I don't actually imagine big time spammers using mailman. They're all about botnets. Big time spammers

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: I have no idea how this happened. I suspect somehow instead of mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox being a file, it somehow became a link back to its parent. If this is the case, even rm -rf /var/lib/mailman/archives/mailman.mbox may not succeed because it may loop

Re: [Mailman-Users] list archives

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Simon writes: On 7/17/2008, Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: See the documentation in Defaults.py for the settings ARCHIVER_CLOBBER_DATE_POLICY = 2 Ah, perfect, thanks... so setting it to 1 will always use the received date. I'm wondering what the disadvantages to this

[Mailman-Users] My issue with using web server on the server to get to mailman

2008-07-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mike Brown writes: I then changed the hosts file to look like: 192.168.1.1 mrvideo vidiot.com www.vidiot.com loghost Are you sure 192.168.1.1 isn't the DSL box? 192.168.1.1 is grabbed for themselves by many DSL boxes. But whatever. Anyway, changing that to 127.0.0.1 should do what

Re: [Mailman-Users] [Mailman-Developers] GNU Mailman Site Redesign

2008-07-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: That implies their client is misconfigured and that should be their problem and not ours. Right? Actually, all existing clients are pretty much broken, since they don't allow you to enforce your own CSS. But I guess they figure that nearly all existing users are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Complaining Outlook users

2008-08-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Andrew Hodgson writes: The question is: Do many listadmins get similar questions, and is there any merit for requesting that Mailman uses the list address only in the Sender header? I've never seen it on my lists ;-), but it's definitely a FAQ. I'm opposed to putting the list address in

[Mailman-Users] Periods in user email addresses rejected

2008-08-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
2822, Stephen J. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not, and must be quoted Stephen J. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I don't think Mailman checks for this, but given that AFAICT from the source, Mailman should not behave the way you describe, it's a guess.) First, is this a setting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question re: creating new lists from the GUI

2008-08-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Simon writes: I had to create the alias in postfixadmin, as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aliased to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this normal? Or should mailman be creating this alias too? Mailman should not create that alias. Those are different domains, in many installations different hosts with

[Mailman-Users] Filtering SPAM/ Out of Office

2008-08-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Webmaster PF writes: 1. How to filter out Out of Office replies to the list. This is almost impossible to do genericly, because the presence of an autoreply to the list indicates that that member is using stupid software (it's very easy to detect a standard mailing list post because it

[Mailman-Users] Filtering SPAM/ Out of Office

2008-08-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Stephen J. Turnbull writes: 2. Is there a way to prevent duplicate postings when people cross post? No. This cannot be done reliably I'll stand by that if you want 100.00% exclusion, but Mark's suggestion of regular_exclude_lists should work 99% of the time, for most Mailman sites

Re: [Mailman-Users] changes at aol

2008-08-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Actually, when lists are personalized you can always use Message-ID to look up your nice AOL citizen. That't what I do as I use full personalization option. I'm confused. How do you use the Message-ID for this? Even when messages

[Mailman-Users] Mailman not recognizing some bounces?

2008-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The most problematic domains are rediffmail.com, big.or.jp, 163.com, ospaz.ru and 126.com. The bounce messages from 163.com and 126.com (and I think big.or.jp) are written in the native character sets (Chinese or Japanese), 163.com and 126.com are big spam

Re: [Mailman-Users] Availability of patches on Launchpad

2008-09-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Barrett writes: I guess it is not intended that the old approach with sourceforge of putting enhancements into the tracker with patch files attached, should be followed with Launchpad. I expect someone is going to tell me I should create my own branches of Mailman on

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multi list management ..

2008-09-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: Khalil Abbas wrote: and please, leave the type of mailing aside, if you're a non believer don't offend other people, I didn't try to shove my beliefs into your faces and I was really offended with what you said about religion.. I've seen the same sort of

[Mailman-Users] Admin interface for a single list misbehaving?

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Christopher Waltham writes: I have a server with 873 lists (yes really!), but only one seems to be misbehaving. Specifically, when you go to the admin web interface and click on Membership Management, I get an error saying: admin(5901): UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode

[Mailman-Users] massive unsubscribe

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tecru Info writes: We are having a problem where half the email list is getting unsubscribed. Has this happened to anyone? The people did not unsubscribe themselves. Things to check: (1) You have been (mis)identified as a spammer, and ISPs are bouncing your mail. This causes the

[Mailman-Users] Emails sent directly to bounce address

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
J.R. Constance writes: Is there any way to filter these emails sent to the bounce address so that if they are spam they just get discarded. Procmail, ClamAV, etc. You should be running such filters on all received mail. If you can't reconfigure the MTA to do this for some reason, the

Re: [Mailman-Users] listname-bounces@

2008-11-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Michael Welch writes: Right, that must be because this list's Sender: header does not look like a real email address. I wonder why ours are different. It's one of the VERP settings. While true VERP is done by the MTA, not by agents like Mailman, the basic idea is the same: to personalize

Re: [Mailman-Users] listname-bounces@

2008-11-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: VERP is available on Mailman 2.1.5, but it does have to be enabled in the configuration file, before you can actually see the option in the web admin UI for your list(s). OK, so that probably was a deliberate decision and won't fly on his ISP. Which is actually

[Mailman-Users] spam gatewayed from Usenet to mail bypasses our spam filters

2008-11-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still haven't figured out quite how to solve the problem. In theory we could use some other tool to perform the gateway operation. Instead of passing Usenet postings directly to Mailman it would mail them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] where they would get the spam

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