Re: [Mailman-Users] Roadrunner/TWC blocking Emails

2019-07-07 Thread Richard Shetron
I'll agree and they don't always pay attention to their users. I have road runner internet but separate email. On 7/7/2019 1:59 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Hi Jayson, Roadrunner has been problematic in this way for decades. They don't explain, they don't provide policy information or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Funding Campaign for GNU Mailman

2017-11-13 Thread Richard Shetron
I'm on the MM3 mailing list. Based on what I've been seeing without spending a lot of time researching things, MM# does not seem stable. It seems somewhere in the alpha/beta range, but closer to alpha status. The problem does not seem to be with the MM3 code so much as it depends on a lot of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing archived spam

2017-11-13 Thread Richard Shetron
https://xkcd.com/927/ On 11/11/2017 2:04 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 2017-11-11 12:22, Phil Stracchino wrote: Heh, I just looked at that myself.  How did such a useless tool ever become standard? [snip] -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recent phishing mails are targeting mailing-lists -- and do pass

2017-09-26 Thread Richard Shetron
Spamassassin produces a numeric rating for for an email based on multiple rules. Legitimate email can easily get a rating of 3 or 4 based on the way you have it configured. I've seen double digit ratings as well. If you check for a single digit, you may be filtering legitimate emails that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Distributed mass subscribe attack?

2017-08-19 Thread Richard Shetron
On 8/18/2017 1:52 PM, Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users wrote: On 08/18/2017 11:07 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: I second this.  It is a legitimate part of compliant email addresses, no matter how many web stores seem to believe otherwise (or are merely unaware of it). I third this. I love

Re: [Mailman-Users] Send confirmation emails to user that sign up for my site

2017-07-04 Thread Richard Shetron
If the web backend can generate the code and email for the message and you are on a *nix system then all you have to do is: cat | sendmail -r -s "" message can usually contain additional headers depending on the command line options. message can be a canned message if you put the code in

Re: [Mailman-Users] list sponsorships

2017-05-15 Thread Richard Shetron
What I've always done is offered special pricing, usually at least 50% off for charitable 503(c) and other 'public service' type groups. It more depended on the resources they required and the amount of hand holding. On 5/15/17 3:13 PM, Chip Davis wrote: All of the Mailman lists I host/admin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface stopped working after ubuntu update

2017-03-30 Thread Richard Shetron
I had this problem during a ubuntu update. IIRC: I discovered that the update changed the user/group id's of mailman from mailman:www-data to list:list (or something like that) as it did a mailman update that messed up the id's. It has been too long to remember the exact details. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Hosting

2016-12-23 Thread Richard Shetron
Postfix is the same. I had to install a greylisting package to add greylisting to postfix. On 12/23/2016 9:50 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On 23 December 2016 at 17:36, Richard Shetron <gue...@sgeinc.com <mailto:gue...@sgeinc.com>> wrote: Maybe they were using some

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Hosting

2016-12-23 Thread Richard Shetron
Maybe they were using some type of grey listing. For those who don't know: Grey listing is where the target MTA rejects with a retry error code the email from a new source for some period of time. Every site can set their own delay. Most spammers won't retry so it gets rid of a lot of spam.

Re: [Mailman-Users] distutils is not available or incomplete when ./configure mailman 2.1.23?

2016-12-14 Thread Richard Shetron
You can always search the cache with: apt-cache search python or apt-cache search python-dev to get less noise. On 12/14/2016 2:58 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote: Indeed it is but what tripped me up was it was not python-devel it is actually python-dev Not quite a developer so didn’t think of trying

Re: [Mailman-Users] illegible message in moderation approval queue

2016-09-22 Thread Richard Shetron
From a quick look, it looks like base64 encoding. Invented back in the dialup/uucp days when transport was not always 8bit clean so things were encoded to make sure only transportable characters were used. On 9/22/2016 9:58 PM, Matt Morgan wrote: I have a message in a moderation queue. It's

Re: [Mailman-Users] cannot send mails to yahoo, hotmail and gmail

2016-09-18 Thread Richard Shetron
The problem is more likely in the MTA rather then mailman. Have you checked the mailman logs? Do you have access to the MTA logs? Have you tried sending an email outside of mailman? Do you know aht the MTA is? common ones include postfix, sendmail, qmail, and exim. On 9/18/2016 2:05 AM,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Which user is harvesting sender emails?

2016-08-19 Thread Richard Shetron
There is a LOT of broken software that will refuse rfc compliant email addresses as they do not properly follow the standards. The + sign has been in use and part of the rfc's for at least 30 years. I've found that using the underscore '_' will work when the plus '+' sign does not, however

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2's future (was Re: Filtering out Digest replies)

2016-07-13 Thread Richard Shetron
On 7/13/2016 12:16 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Jul 12, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: [snip end of life comments] One thing that makes end of life either easier to handle or harder is: 1) Documentation of the changes and the new system. 2) Conversion aids. At least a program to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Our list serv host is threatening to shut us down for spam abuse

2016-06-18 Thread Richard Shetron
I had a customer with that problem. We ended up using individual emails and adding the email address to the footer. I don't remember the field, something user or user- something. I had a program to scan those reports for the tag and provide the list of addresses to the list manager. I

Re: [Mailman-Users] turn on tracing?

2016-05-20 Thread Richard Shetron
some of the default groups for things, like mailing lists. On 5/20/2016 11:47 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 05/20/2016 05:35 AM, Richard Shetron wrote: How do I turn on tracing to find the source of this error. The interface worked until I told check_perms to fix permissions so I'm sure

[Mailman-Users] turn on tracing?

2016-05-20 Thread Richard Shetron
How do I turn on tracing to find the source of this error. The interface worked until I told check_perms to fix permissions so I'm sure there is a permission issue. Also the qrunner won't run, which I also suspect is a permission error. My partner who did the install has retired for medical

Re: [Mailman-Users] best way to reconfirm a list

2014-05-06 Thread Richard Shetron
That is correct. The lists are current news announcements so only the list owner posts to the list. The sample headers I got look legit as far as I can tell. They redacted all the email/destination information that would id the receiving system/email. The original lists are old enough to not

[Mailman-Users] best way to reconfirm a list

2014-05-05 Thread Richard Shetron
I looked through the list admin manual and didn't see anything about reconfirming a list. Is there an easy way to have mailman reconfirm a list? I have a list that has been in use for 5+years and all of a sudden maps is saying I'm hitting a spam trap. The list has not been added to in at least

[Mailman-Users] Upgrade 2.1.14 to 2.1.17 on Ubuntu Question

2014-04-17 Thread Richard Shetron
I've searched the list and found enough related posts that this looks like it should be simple just reinstall, hopefully with the original PREFIX settings and probably diff the old and new mm_cfg.py files just to catch all the changes/new features/etc. I have visual problems so my eyes often go

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello all - mailman down after power failure and hard shutdown

2013-06-08 Thread Richard Shetron
I'd suggest trying ps -auxww|grep mailman to seem if any mailman processes are running, this assumes mailman runs as its own user id. Some installs use the username list or lists instead of mailman. If nothing show up then I'd check: 1) /etc/postfix/*.cf and /etc/postfix/transport and diff

Re: [Mailman-Users] SMTP problem after recovering from disk full, clues?

2013-05-20 Thread Richard Shetron
I've noticed that if mailman is stopped/crashes/system reboot/etc. and there is anything in mailman/qfiles/maildir/cur that stuff seems to just hang in mailman until you stop mailman, clear this directory, and then restart mailman. May not be your problem but try checking it. you might also

[Mailman-Users] Domain not found problems

2013-05-15 Thread Richard Shetron
I'm having problems with DOMAIN not found errors. Is there anyway to edit/remove them from the qfiles/out .pck files? They don't seem to be getting purged by mailman and hang around way too long. I'm using postfix and mailman 2.1.12 under ubuntu 8.04. I found item 4.20 in the FAQ, but I'm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fw: Mass Mail

2013-04-30 Thread Richard Shetron
I can't say what others do, but we carefully vet people before setting up a list for someone. One of my email addresses is on every list we host so I get a copy of everything sent. I use thunderbird and have it filter all the mailing list traffic to a separate mailbox. Once the list if

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Mail

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Shetron
On 4/29/2013 6:44 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: [snip] +1. Even 5000 seems to be the threshold these days, for unknown netblocks. Each has their own limit and sometimes it is based on history, sometimes on number reported as spam. You can send 100k emails and if 1000 are reported as spam you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman continues to deliver to deleted list

2012-11-05 Thread Richard Shetron
On 11/5/2012 8:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: Folks, I deleted a mailing list using rmlist. However, mailman continues to send out messages to the recipients on this list, and I can't seem to make it stop. There's ~~ 3000 pending deliveries, so I'd really rather that they

[Mailman-Users] mailman running very slow

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Shetron
Yes I've tried to research via google, etc. I've run through the page at: http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/4.78+Troubleshooting-+No+mail+going+out+to+lists+members I'm running ubuntu with mailman 2.1.14 and things seem to be taking forever. Until a few days ago things were running fine.

[Mailman-Users] meaning of data in mailman smtp file

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Shetron
What does this line really mean and why does it take so long to run? Oct 23 06:03:01 2012 (1870) 7.0.1.0.0.20121016133607.0469b...@marchreport.com smtp to marchreport_daily_alert_ctc10 for 2 recips, completed in 168.022 seconds Thanks --

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman running very slow

2012-10-24 Thread Richard Shetron
I played with some settings and did some restarts and things look better: Oct 24 17:13:22 2012 (5464) 7.0.1.0.0.20121023125107.046bd...@marchreport.com smtp to marchreport_daily_alert_ctc01 for 3379 recips, completed in 151.441 seconds Oct 24 17:16:11 2012 (5464)