At 12:31 AM -0400 2004-08-21, Charles Mikecz Vamossy wrote:
Thank you for your clarification. I had no idea - why would I? - that signing up for a mailing list would generate all these individual e-mails coming in from people, as opposed emails coming from the list itself. Had I known that - given that I am using my ISP's spamblocker software - would have never signed up.
The problem is that the mail *does* come from the list. However, the "From:" address in the header is that of the individual sender, and not the list. Your spamblocker software is doing something incredibly stupid by responding to the "From:" header, and annoying anyone and everyone who ever sends you e-mail via virtually any mailing list that you will ever subscribe to, since virtually all mailing list software works the same way at this level.
Using Mailman - as opposed to some of the other popular list programs has turned into a giant headache. I understand that it is complex and has many parameters, but I did not think it would cause so much trouble. Now I understand why our subsribers are so unhappy with it.
Mailman is simpler than most mailing list management packages, and the authors have gone to significant lengths to make it relatively easy to download, install, configure, and administer. However, there are some fundamental complexities in this process that you cannot escape.
BTW, I participate in a number of mailing lists on Yahoo and never had the this happen to me. All the mail - whether individual or digest form - come from a single source, which is enabled on my spamblocker to get through.
You could easily have done the same for Mailman. Search for a string like "Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the header, and whitelist any message that matches. Easy.
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