Dragon wrote: > >Yes, the Approved: line with the password gets stripped from the mail >if and ONLY if it meets one of two criteria. > >1. It is the very first line in the body of the e-mail, there can be >no other lines before it.
Actually, if it is in the body, it can be preceded by blank lines, but it must be the first non-blank line in the first text/plain part of the message. However, there is a safety valve in that if the password is incorrect or the Approved: line is somewhere where it won't be recognized and stripped, the post will be held/rejected/discarded and will not be sent to the list. >2. It is used as a header (I think this is really the best approach >if you can do it, I am certain this can be done in Python, Perl and >PHP, not so sure, about a bash script). The Header is definitely better. If it is in the body, there can be issues in removing it from all alternative parts of a multipart/alternative message. I'm working on improving this process, but it currently can fail (and isn't even attempted pre Mailman 2.1.7). >>Should the <list password> be the administrator for the list? This is the >>way it is setup for the server early Tuesday morning. I hope it is correct. > >I believe the moderator password will work too. I am sure somebody >will correct me if I am wrong. If so, you ought to use it because if >it somehow becomes disclosed accidentally, there is much less >potential for damage by malicious people than with the administrator password. Excellent suggestion! -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
