I just converted from majordomo to mailman, and I'm a much happier admin now because of it. Postfix+Cyrus+webmail+Mailman fits my needs perfectly and so far has been much easier to set up and manage than the previous setup I was using (sendmail+imap+majordomo+majorcool+webmail). My congratulations and thanks for such a robust mailing list product. Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dan Wilder wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:40:00PM -0800, alex wetmore wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dan Wilder wrote: > > > There's a middle ground. > > > > > > For reasons of our own, we keep some of our lists open to posts > > > by non-subscribers. > > > > > > A simple procmail front-end looks for "To:" or "Cc:" headers > > > mentioning the list. Since most spamware is too stupid to > > > put these in, or else it is using third-party relay to 10,000 > > > hapless victims, so a custom "To:" or "Cc:" is out of the > > > question, this excludes quite a bit of spam with one simple rule. > > > > Mailman supports this configuration out of the box, and in fact it is > > the default. I ran with it on my lists for quite a while, but got > > sick at directly targetted SPAM (one which had a valid To or Cc) going > > to my lists and I made them closed. > > Which is why we only use such an arrangement for a few of our lists. > Where it makes sense. No high-volume lists. > > In fact, the lists in question happen to be tech support lists. > > The names of the lists are published, but the only subscribers are > tech support folks. Anybody can post. The lists use a "Reply-To:" > poster, and subscribers use "group" reply to make sure the follow-up > gets both to the original poster and to the list. > > One such list is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. It accepts Linux tech support > questions. The proceedings of the list are summarized by an editor > and published in the on-line magazine Linux Gazette, > http://www.linuxgazette.com. > > I wasn't aware of the out-of-box support for high-grading incoming > mail by its headers. Time to look once again at upgrading our twenty > or so majordomo lists to mailman. > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
