[Mailman-Users] Block out off office autoreply messages
Friends, I´m having trouble with out of office autoreply messages sent to some list. Some users recieved a lot of them, because of some list member who didn´t know that you must not use out of office messages if you are member of mailing lists. Is Mailman capable of blocking this kind of message? Thank you again! Regards, Talora = Esta mensagem pode conter informação confidencial e/ou privilegiada. Se você não for o destinatário ou a pessoa autorizada a receber esta mensagem, não deverá utilizar, copiar, alterar, divulgar a informação nela contida ou tomar qualquer ação baseada nessas informações. Se você recebeu esta mensagem por engano, por favor avise imediatamente o remetente, respondendo o e-mail e em seguida apague-o. Agradecemos sua cooperação. This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, change, take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. = -- 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/
Re: [Mailman-Users] Block out off office autoreply messages
On 8/23/2004 5:55, Luis Fernando C. Talora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´m having trouble with out of office autoreply messages sent to some list. Some users recieved a lot of them, because of some list member who didn´t know that you must not use out of office messages if you are member of mailing lists. It's not autoresponders generally that are the problem...it is poorly written ones which don't know how to avoid sending to list messages. Often it's people using MUA rules or self-written scripts. You can try with content filters, but the creators of these bad autoresponders are endlessly creative. Is Mailman capable of blocking this kind of message? As list owner, you are: unsubscribe the errant user (or if you insist on being more gentle, mark the user as Nomail). Send whatever explanation you feel is appropriate. --John -- 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/
Re: [Mailman-Users] Block out off office autoreply messages
Luis Fernando C. Talora wrote: I´m having trouble with out of office autoreply messages sent to some list. Some users recieved a lot of them, because of some list member who didn´t know that you must not use out of office messages if you are member of mailing lists. Is Mailman capable of blocking this kind of message? Not in advance as far as I know. After the fact, the list admin can always disable delivery to the offending user. Also see http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq03.006.htp -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- 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/
Re: [Mailman-Users] Block out off office autoreply messages
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 07:55, Luis Fernando C. Talora wrote: Friends, I´m having trouble with out of office autoreply messages sent to some list. Some users recieved a lot of them, because of some list member who didn´t know that you must not use out of office messages if you are member of mailing lists. Is Mailman capable of blocking this kind of message? Thank you again! Regards, Talora You could set the moderation (mod) bit, under 'Membership Management' for the offending list member(s) until they turn off their autoreply. There is also a spam filter under 'Privacy options' in the admin web interface. David -- 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/
Re: [Mailman-Users] Block out off office autoreply messages
On Aug 23, 2004, at 8:55 AM, Luis Fernando C. Talora wrote: Friends, I´m having trouble with out of office autoreply messages sent to some list. Some users recieved a lot of them, because of some list member who didn´t know that you must not use out of office messages if you are member of mailing lists. That's not necessarily so. Properly written auto-responders do not pose a threat to mailing lists. Unfortunately the one people use the most (the one in Outlook/OE) is about as broken as they come. Is Mailman capable of blocking this kind of message? You can play around with the spam filtering to catch a lot of these messages. IMHO, it's best to just stop munging the Reply-To. See this page: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html. -Jeff -- 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/
Re: [Mailman-Users] Block out off office autoreply messages
On Aug 23, 2004, at 8:57 AM, Jeff Barger wrote: Is Mailman capable of blocking this kind of message? You can play around with the spam filtering to catch a lot of these messages. IMHO, it's best to just stop munging the Reply-To. See this page: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html. true. if you're coercing reply-to, you're funnelling all of that traffic onto the list. have fun. As Jeff noted -- well-behaved vacation bots don't cause a problem, because they follow the rules and don't send those messages to lists. The ones that don't -- are broken. And trying to stop them up front will fail, because they don't follow the rules you could use to catch them (because if they do follow the rules, they don't send the messages!). since there are an infinite variation of out of ... or on vacation or away from... or etc ... ways people write those messages, attempting to string-trap them will simply waste endless amounts of your time and energy,a dn still fail (leaving you pissed and frustrated). Here's how I suggest handling it. In your list policy docs, make it clear that it's a person's responsibility to use vacation bots appropriately. my policy is simple: if one shows up on a list, or sending vacation notices to a list admin or the listserver, that address is unsubscribed. Immediately. no warnings, no followups. Just an unsubscribe. it's then the person's responsibiltiy to figure it out and subscribe again if they want. If the same address resubscribes, and then we get MORE vacation notices from it, they're unsubscribed and banned. Users are allowed to make one mistake and fix it. if they don't, they're not welcome. that gives them the responsibility ot fix it, and some motivation to do so. if you don't? they won't. -- 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/
