Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Paul Tomblin wrote: And so one thing i'm looking at would be a way to send an announcement to all the lists on my server. I understand that you can send mail to a list with an x-approved with the list password, but can you do the same with the admin password? If by admin password, you mean

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Paul Tomblin wrote: And so one thing i'm looking at would be a way to send an announcement to all the lists on my server. I understand that you can send mail to a list with an x-approved with the list password, but can you do the same with the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Paul Tomblin wrote: You mean that if people used the Approve: header that Mailman doesn't strip it out before it sends it? That seems like a huge security hole. No I don't mean that. It is removed whether or not the password is valid. When I said This is intentional to discourage sending the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Tomblin
Quoting Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Paul Tomblin wrote: You mean that if people used the Approve: header that Mailman doesn't strip it out before it sends it? That seems like a huge security hole. No I don't mean that. It is removed whether or not the password is valid. When I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Dewey
Quoting Paul Tomblin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): My wife is asking what she needs to do with all my servers if i'm incapacitated or dead. One of the things that would need to be turned over to somebody else are all my mailman lists. And so one thing i'm looking at would be a way to send an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Larry Stone
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Mark Sapiro wrote: Paul Tomblin wrote: You mean that if people used the Approve: header that Mailman doesn't strip it out before it sends it? That seems like a huge security hole. No I don't mean that. It is removed whether or not the password is valid. When I said

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Larry Stone wrote: But it also minimizes the risk of accidental disclosure of the site password. I assume if Approved was misspelled in a header or as the first line of the message, it would be included in the message if it was susequently approved by a moderator or met other critieria for not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread David Lee
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Mark Sapiro wrote: Paul Tomblin wrote: You mean that if people used the Approve: header that Mailman doesn't strip it out before it sends it? That seems like a huge security hole. No I don't mean that. It is removed whether or not the password is valid. When I said

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emergency mail to everyone?

2007-01-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Lee wrote: If the inbound email contains not only the plain text message but also its equivalent in HTML and if the Approved: is specified as the first line of the body rather than as a header then the password is in danger of leaking outbound, being stripped only from the