I was looking for the official HOWTO/FAQ, but it evades me. However, this link has all the details: https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/06/10/mailman-subscription-spam-continued.html
But, why not just migrate to MM3 now instead of still staying at MM2? Company policy??? On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 4:56 PM Thomas Coradeschi via Mailman-Users < mailman-users@python.org> wrote: > Yes, I know a little behind in version updates. Any rate, I am trying to > at least slow down the bots which are hammering our subscribe pages. > > The challenge (and it’s all me) is in getting baby steps to work. > > I am looking to start with SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET, but honestly just don’t > get the definition of a “non-empty string” > > The default is SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET = None > > If I replace None with anything else, I get the following when I try to > restart mailman > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "../bin/mailmanctl", line 107, in <module> > from Mailman import mm_cfg > File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 167, in <module> > SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET = random > NameError: name 'random' is not defined > > — > Tom Coradeschi > tjc...@icloud.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: > https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/ > Member address: odhia...@gmail.com > -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/ Member address: arch...@jab.org
