Brad Knowles ha scritto: > On 8/6/07, Manlio Perillo wrote: > >> I'm using Mailman 2.1.5. > > BTW, the most recent version of Mailman is 2.1.9, which has a number of > new features and some fixes for certain security holes. I'd strongly > encourage you to upgrade. >
Mailman runs on a Debian Sarge server, so this can be a problem without an upgrade to Etch (but security problems are not a problem, with Debian). >> I have enabled the NNTP Gateway but there are some problems. >> >> 1) The messages from the newsgroup are not sent on the mailing list. >> I don't know why, there is nothing in the error log > > Go to the web admin page for your list, then go to the sub-page for > "Mail<->News gateways". > Is the news server hostname filled in? Yes > Is the newsgroup name filled in? Yes > Is the moderation policy set correctly? The mailing list is not moderated (but requires subscription), the newsgroup is not moderated, so I have set the value "None" > Do you have the radio buttons set correctly for passing traffic both ways? Yes > > In your mm_cfg.py file, do you have the correct definitions for the > username and password you need to use when logging into the news server > to retrieve and post articles? > The NNTP server requires no password >> 2) When sending a message to the newsgroup, Mailman does not obscure the >> email address >> (there is an obscure_addresses, but it only works for the web >> archiver) > > Correct. Mailman does not attempt to obscure addresses when posting > mail messages to a newsgroup. > Ok. >> I would like to know if 2) has been implemented in recent Mailman >> releases. > > Not so far as I know, but it shouldn't be hard to add. However, one > problem you'll have is that many news servers will reject your articles, > if you use an address obfuscation scheme that they don't support. > Not sure. As an example I always use an obsured email address on usenet, without problems. But, indeed, I see that on comp.lang.python many people use their real email address. > So, your choices are to not do any obfuscation at all for news articles > (which is what Mailman does today), or see if there is some common > format of obfuscation that virtually all news servers are known to support. > > Of course, if they support it then the spammers probably already know > about it as well, and anything you can do they are likely to be able to > un-do. > Yes, this is true, unfortunately. >> One last thing. >> What happens when Mailman have to send an email message with a broken >> Subject header (R: instead of Re) to the newsgroup? > > I think what happens is that the subject header will get treated as a > normal subject, and may have additional things tacked onto the front of > the subject line, whereas normally Mailman would have recognized the > "Re:" portion and potentially tacked those things on between the "Re:" > string(s) and the rest of the subject. > It would be nice if mailman can apply a filter to the subject, and to fix it. > But one of the core Mailman developers would be more likely to know the > answer to that question, and they're also on this list. Hopefully > they'll be able to respond to you within a few days. > Thanks and regards Manlio Perillo ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
