Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests
Gary, et al: The Mailman lists at Oregon State University have been receiving excessive request for subscriptions since mid-October as well. Our list administrators were suspicious because often the names on the requests did not match the email addresses. Also, many lists that had been defunct for years were receiving requests, too. I spent some time trying to figure out what the lists that were being hit had in common. Not all of the lists receiving requests were advertised on the listinfo page. Today I realized that all of the lists involved in this attack have their subscribe_policy set to just require approval rather confirm or confirm and approve. So I think the theory that spammers were just trying to get on the lists to harvest member addresses is probably correct. My folks are beating down my door for a solution, too, and I can't think of a good one. We host lists for the international community, so any measure I take that makes it harder for external people to subscribe will negatively impact intended use. I am going to advise my list admins to enable confirmation, which should discourage these attempts. It also occurred to me that I could write a script to monitor the vette log and purge requests that look suspicious - mainly based on the same email address attempting to subscribe to multiple unrelated lists at the same time. If anyone else has any bright ideas about this problem, I would love to hear it. -Kirsten Petersen Network Services, Oregon State University http://oregonstate.edu/is/services/network-services n...@oregonstate.edumailto:n...@oregonstate.edu (7-HELP, option 2) itcons...@oregonstate.edumailto:itcons...@oregonstate.edu (7-4710) -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] Tracking a message that dissappeared
I'm looking for some help finding out why a message was not delivered to one of our lists. We're running Mailman 2.1.10 on Debian. I tracked the message from our postfix relays to the Mailman server, where I see the following in the smtp log: smtp.1:Nov 12 17:27:08 2008 (6917) [EMAIL PROTECTED] smtp to outages for 1 recips, completed in 0.037 seconds There are no other log entries for that message - nothing in vette or error. But the message never came to the list. There were no pending moderation requests, it's not in the list archive and obviously the subscribers didn't receive it. Another message was sent to the list a few minutes later, and delivered successfully: smtp.1:Nov 12 17:39:06 2008 (6917) [EMAIL PROTECTED] smtp to outages for 181 recips, completed in 0.190 seconds The first message was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], an alias for the list address. The require_explicit_destination setting is set to No. The second message was sent to the actual list address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and was delivered normally. So why did the first message only go to 1 recips? Are there any other logs that I can check to discover what went wrong? Kirsten Petersen Network Services * Oregon State University http://oregonstate.edu/net * irc.oregonstate.edu #osu-is Paper doesn't grow on trees. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
[Mailman-Users] Admin
hi how to for setup the password for create a list ? chers - Andrea S. IT :: El.Mo S.p.A. -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
[Mailman-Users] HTML (formatted) email
Hello everyone! I'm pretty new to UNIX world, and may ask you silly questions, but please be patient. I'm just about ready to install the Mailman to a virtual server (renting) running on FreeBSD (Python 2.1.2). But before an installation, I'd like to know if it can handle a HTML (formatted) message (basically, It just contains a letterhead graphic on the top of a message) well. Again, all I want to do is sending 250 subscribers (read only, newsletter) a message with a graphic on the top (letterhead). It just like HTML messages you receive daily from Apple, Palm, you name it (by the way I'm sending it to my clients). I've tried it with Macjordomo on the EIMS server (MacOS9), but no luck. Subscribers received a message without a graphic (instead, bunch of codes). Anyone has any thought? Take good care, Hiro -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
