I thought that email on the 29th was the 48 hour notice. Apparently not the 
case? 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 



----- Original Message -----

From: "Paul McCall via Af" <af@afmug.com> 
To: af@afmug.com 
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 2:38:32 AM 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AFMUG list option being considered 



In the header, yes, it will show the actual sender for the From line 

From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie via Af 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 10:30 PM 
To: af@afmug.com 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] AFMUG list option being considered 


Sounds good, will this show the sender of each email in the "from" line, or is 
that a separate matter entirely? 



On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Paul McCall via Af < af@afmug.com > wrote: 


Guys, 

As some of you are aware, PDMNet’s behind the scenes management of the AFMUG 
list as a service to Chuck McCown and his companies, involves hosting on an 
Amazon server. Some very good things have come from that decision so far… no 
mail delivery issues (no server issues, no blacklisting or greylisting issues 
etc. to our knowledge). The EC2 / SES platform is very robust, though overly 
complex at first blush. A lot more time went to getting this setup that we 
anticipated, but that’s life. It costs a little more to use this platform, (I 
know.. I know) but long term, I think we will be happy with it. 

One of the differences is the way the headers are handled. Out of the box, 
Amazon required us to “munge” the headers in such a way that we could customize 
them to meet Amazon’s strict mass-emailing rules. This causes some differences 
in the way the mail is delivered, causing a few of you who use a different type 
of threading than most of us, some grief. We are way PAST the discussion about 
what is “right” etc. Respectfully, lets move on from that “debate”. 

The only way that Amazon provides to do things in a more conventional email 
header fashion is to use their API. We knew this was an option when we brought 
the list live, but also anticipated a bit of a learning curve. And, indeed it 
was! 

We have gotten comfortable with the API and have been running it on our test 
Mailman list internally. Basically the API allows us / requires us to process 
each AFMUG subscriber as an authenticated / confirmed email address. Soooo…. In 
order to use the API, we need to authenticate all the current users of the 
list. We can send a batch through the API to generate the confirmation email to 
everyone, but before I did it, I wanted to give you a heads up. NEW subscribers 
will first join the mailman AFMUG group and once confirmed, will then get an 
Amazon confirmation immediately thereafter. Unsubscribing will also remove you 
from an authenticated user for the list. 

Assuming that we haven’t overlooked something (and, I am sure you guys will let 
me know that, LOL ) I would like to give a 48 hour notice that we will make the 
change, and you will get the Amazon email after that window. 

All in favor ? All opposed? 

Paul McCall, Pres. 
PDMNet / Florida Broadband 
658 Old Dixie Highway 
Vero Beach, FL 32962 
772-564-6800 office 
772-473-0352 cell 
www.pdmnet.com 
pa...@pdmnet.net 


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