[Mailman-Users] Are any attachments ok to allow on a listserv?

2011-01-17 Thread Ruth Indeck
Many people say that the best thing is not to allow attachments at all on a listserv. Other people think pdfs are ok (except some are too big for old machines to donwload). I also heard that a virus file could take on a fake extention, like .pdf, and fool people. What do Users think about

[Mailman-Users] Content Filtering

2011-01-17 Thread Ruth Indeck
I don't know a lot about scripts, so the most useful answers would involve just telling me what settings to use. I would like to have content filtering turned on, because I would like to make sure that attachments don't go out on the list, and especially the dangerous ones. Here are my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Are any attachments ok to allow on a listserv?

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ruth Indeck wrote: Many people say that the best thing is not to allow attachments at all on a listserv. Please see the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Mailman+is+not+Listserv. Other people think pdfs are ok (except some are too big for old machines to donwload). I also heard that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Content Filtering

2011-01-17 Thread Ruth Indeck
Just to add a little more -- I'm still experimenting: When I remove the html coding and send my message as plain text, that annoying message, The message's content type was not explicitly allowed, disappears. And when I send the message as plain text, and include the attachments, the message

Re: [Mailman-Users] Content Filtering

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ruth Indeck wrote: 1. When I try to turn Content Filtering on, my email (an announcement of shows at a folk club, with links and some html) comes through with the html intact and a message at the top saying: The message's content type was not explicitly allowed This message did not go to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Content Filtering

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ruth Indeck wrote: Question: Why doesn't Mailman convert the html to plaintext on its own? The intro to Content Management says: Finally, any text/html parts that are left in the message may be converted to text/plain if convert_html_to_plaintext

Re: [Mailman-Users] Content Filtering

2011-01-17 Thread Ruth Indeck
Thank you, Mark, for all your responses. I had originally thought I should have the list be able to convert to plain text, but then decided it would be ok to let messages go through as html. But I still wanted it to strip attachments. I added text/html to the list, and set the bottom two

[Mailman-Users] control mail distribution ..

2011-01-17 Thread Khalil Abbas
Dear mailman guys.. is there way to tell mailman to send certain number of messages per hour? I have 57 lists on 18 servers for my customers and I’m having trouble with hotmail and yahoo rejecting mail from my servers and causing a lot of subscribed addressed to be removed from the lists

Re: [Mailman-Users] control mail distribution ..

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 1/17/2011 3:00 PM, Khalil Abbas wrote: is there way to tell mailman to send certain number of messages per hour? The short answer is No, but see the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/j4A9 for other possible solutions. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San

Re: [Mailman-Users] Are any attachments ok to allow on a listserv?

2011-01-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Other people think pdfs are ok (except some are too big for old machines to donwload). I also heard that a virus file could take on a fake extention, like .pdf, and fool people. As far as fake extensions/MIME types are concerned, it is entirely possible to