Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 15:34 -0500, Mike Starr wrote: I know there aren't any teeth behind RFCs but it might at least get their attention. The real problem is that RFCs are based on working practice, preferably acknowledged best practice. DMARC is an experiment

[Mailman-Users] Seeking suggestion for better services for mailing list

2014-04-17 Thread Amit Bhatt
We are using the services from ultrahost.us There is no response from Ultrahost team in spite of our several tickets loged. Is anyone confronting the similar issue with them? I think now we may again have to change the service provider where we can get unlimited traffic with mailman as per the

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC

2014-04-17 Thread Peter Shute
That sounds a bit like what yahoo and google groups do. If there's a web forum associated with the list then there'd be the option to simply not deliver to yahoo members, and they can just use the web interface. Peter Shute Sent from my iPhone On 17 Apr 2014, at 1:39 pm, Stephen J. Turnbull

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Larry Kuenning writes: Query: On a very low-traffic mailing list (i.e. one where the list admin doesn't think it too much trouble), would it be a reasonable workaround for the list admin to paste the content of a message-to-be-moderated (i.e. one From: a yahoo address) into a new

[Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Laura Creighton
I am trying to understand how charset encoding works, and I get the distinct idea that I must be missing one small, vital piece of information. Background: The problem arose as follows: Somebody changed the footer of the EuroPython Mailing list which is hosted at python.org to be: EuroPython

[Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Hi, Laura! Laura Creighton writes: But the Europython mailing list is configured so that its messages come out Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This isn't from the list or site configuration, this is from the poster's mail user agent (MUA). The mailing list does not choose

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/17/2014 04:19 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: But unless I have overlooked something, there is no way to make a charset change on a per-list basis through the mailman administrative interface. Instead you have to edit mm_cfg.py Correct. Even if I had root access on python.org, I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/17/2014 05:28 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mailman already has about 200 lines of logic to handle cases where the footer charset is incompatible with the message's charset. Have you tried simply changing the Python escape to a literal EN DASH in the web interface? I hope Mailman is

[Mailman-Users] Upgrade 2.1.14 to 2.1.17 on Ubuntu Question

2014-04-17 Thread Richard Shetron
I've searched the list and found enough related posts that this looks like it should be simple just reinstall, hopefully with the original PREFIX settings and probably diff the old and new mm_cfg.py files just to catch all the changes/new features/etc. I have visual problems so my eyes often go

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:41:15 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: The issue is msg_footer is assumed to be in the character set of the list's language, us-ascii by default for English. I don't think Mailman does the right thing in this case. From my perspective, the problem is that by having

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 17, 2014, at 03:54 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: Now that my problem has gone from 'getting the EP footers to work' to 'understanding what exactly is going on here'. And right now I do not see why the charset for the lists' language has to be hard coded in mm_cfg.py, nor why there has to be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade 2.1.14 to 2.1.17 on Ubuntu Question

2014-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/17/2014 06:23 AM, Richard Shetron wrote: I've searched the list and found enough related posts that this looks like it should be simple just reinstall, hopefully with the original PREFIX settings and probably diff the old and new mm_cfg.py files just to catch all the changes/new

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mirror mailing list with web forum

2014-04-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 17, 2014, at 04:27 AM, Jon 1234 wrote: When is Mailman 3 expected to be released, very approximately? We *are* going to do a beta release of the full suite after Pycon. I expect there will be bugs and missing features, but we're hoping people will bang on it and help us get to a good,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/17/2014 06:54 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:41:15 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: Now that my problem has gone from 'getting the EP footers to work' to 'understanding what exactly is going on here'. And right now I do not see why the charset for the lists'

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 15:24 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Their understanding (and knowledge) of accepted best practices regarding email and mailing lists is woefully limited. I rather doubt that. The DMARC I-D has gone through several editions (I-Ds have a life-span limited to 6

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Mike Starr
I can't answer your specific question but a number of years ago I created a Yahoo account which required the creation of a Yahoo email address. I have never used that email address nor have I divulged it to anyone. Oddly enough, thousands of spam email addresses land in that Yahoo email

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:54:19 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:41:15 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: The issue is msg_footer is assumed to be in the character set of the list's language, us-ascii by default for English. I don't think Mailman does the right

[Mailman-Users] DMARC and From header munging

2014-04-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
It occurred to me that one possible variation on From: header munging which wouldn't break any applications depending on this being an actual, working address for a post's author, while still passing DMARC authentication, would be for Mailman to change the From: address to a VERP-like address with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
I see you've already responded, but there are a few things I'd like to clarify. Laura Creighton writes: But you and I could quite easily both want English(USA) as the default language for our lists, but you also want us-ascii while I want utf-8. The way things stand now, we cannot both

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and From header munging

2014-04-17 Thread Terry Earley
Lindsey, I have been following this thread with interest, and relieved that for our list, all posts are moderated. We have determined to repost all messages coming from Yahoo with our moderator's account. To your question if VERP might be a partial answer, we are using VERP and Full

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and From header munging

2014-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/17/2014 11:01 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: It occurred to me that one possible variation on From: header munging which wouldn't break any applications depending on this being an actual, working address for a post's author, while still passing DMARC authentication, would be for Mailman to

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and From header munging

2014-04-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 12:26 -0600, Terry Earley wrote: I have been following this thread with interest, and relieved that for our list, all posts are moderated. We have determined to repost all messages coming from Yahoo with our moderator's account. To your question if VERP might be a

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: Stephen, thanks for your generous reply, and your insights. It does seem to me, though, that when megabucks are riding on additional bandwidth, and if Yahoo is serious about controlling spam, they might start by putting some resources behind putting their own

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.18 release

2014-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
I am pleased to announce the first release candidate for Mailman 2.1.18. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is recommended. This release has new features to help with mitigation of the impacts of DMARC on mailing lists. There is also a new dependency associated with these

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mirror mailing list with web forum

2014-04-17 Thread Tim Walter
On 17 Apr 2014, at 04:27, Jon 1234 jon.1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: From: rich...@damon-family.org I have been (slowly) working on an module to integrate a mailing list to a Drupal web site. My goal is to generate an archive that you can easily find recent messages in, and then be able to reply

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.18 release

2014-04-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/17/2014 11:32 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I am pleased to announce the first release candidate for Mailman 2.1.18. I neglected to emphasize that there are some new and some modified i18n strings in this release. I strongly encourage all interested people to look at these and submit

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and From header munging

2014-04-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 11:29 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 04/17/2014 11:01 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: It occurred to me that one possible variation on From: header munging which wouldn't break any applications depending on this being an actual, working address for a post's author, while

[Mailman-Users] DMARC and From header munging

2014-04-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: Mailman to change the From: address to a VERP-like address with the author's address encapsulated within an address @ the list server. Any mail received by the list server for this address would have its address parsed by Mailman and be redirected to the original

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman

2014-04-17 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 18, 2014, at 03:07 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Getting it right by design ... well, that's why we need Mailman 3. And really, Python 3. The email package in Python 3.4 rocks. -Barry -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and From header munging

2014-04-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 03:51 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Lindsay Haisley writes: Mailman to change the From: address to a VERP-like address with the author's address encapsulated within an address @ the list server. Any mail received by the list server for this address would have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.18 release

2014-04-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 11:32 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: dnspython http://www.dnspython.org/ Mark, is this distinct from pydns at http://pydsn.sourceforge.net? -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works if you let it FMP Computer Services | 512-259-1190 | --- The Roadie

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.18 release

2014-04-17 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Lindsay Haisley fmo...@fmp.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 11:32 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: dnspython http://www.dnspython.org/ Mark, is this distinct from pydns at http://pydsn.sourceforge.net? (not Mark), short answer yes. PyDNS and DNSPython are 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC and Bellsouth, etc.

2014-04-17 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.orgwrote: Lindsay Haisley writes: Someone, maybe it was you, posted on this forum earlier that perhaps 90% or more of spam with a yahoo.com origin (or one of their international DNs) actually _does_ come from Yahoo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.18 release

2014-04-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2014-04-17 at 16:28 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: (not Mark), short answer yes. PyDNS and DNSPython are 2 different python libs, the latter seems to be more popular. Slightly confusing :) import DNS[imports PyDNS] import dns[imports DNSPython] --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mirror mailing list with web forum

2014-04-17 Thread Jon 1234
From: t...@yingtong.co.uk I have it working with Fudforum and although the fudforum integration was (to me) poorly documented I got it working and has been stable / rock solid for a couple of years now. It would be nice to get things like membership linked between the two and to more

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mirror mailing list with web forum

2014-04-17 Thread Tim Walter
On 17 Apr 2014, at 22:04, Jon 1234 jon.1...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: From: t...@yingtong.co.uk I have it working with Fudforum and although the fudforum integration was (to me) poorly documented I got it working and has been stable / rock solid for a couple of years now. It would be

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mirror mailing list with web forum

2014-04-17 Thread Jon 1234
From: t...@yingtong.co.uk Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:36:37 +0100 ref identity I really mean at present most of the traffic is on the mailing list (and the forum is more of an archive for 80% of the joint community) where users complain they can’t easily identify forum posters as people (its

[Mailman-Users] Seeing your own sig appear in (someone else's) email to the list

2014-04-17 Thread Conrad G T Yoder
One of my users on one of my lists is seeing something odd. His own signatures are appearing on other people’s emails sent to a Mailman (2.1.14) list. Some points of info: - He has his own domain, hosted by google - Email is read on the web (not sure which browser) - It appears on some, but