Re: [Mailman-Users] Multi list management ..

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Brad Knowles writes:
 > Khalil Abbas wrote:
 > 
 > > and please, leave the type of mailing aside, if you're a non believer
 > > don't offend other people, I didn't try to shove my beliefs into your
 > > faces and I was really offended with what you said about religion..
 > 
 > I've seen the same sort of thing, and it doesn't really matter what
 > religion you talk about -- zealotry is zealotry,

True enough, and zealous atheists/agnostics can get just as bad, too,
but let's drop this.  We don't know that it didn't happen as he said,
and it's just a popular service that grows by the day.

Even if he *is* spamming or "pushing content out of zealotry", well,
he'll find out what the world thinks of that soon enough, and we've
done our best to warn him.

Sure, it will have some effect on Mailman's rep (or would have, if he
hadn't decided to switch to something else), but that kind of blowback
does happen.  That's why even the BSD and MIT licenses have warranty
disclaimers in them.  Not that that will stop a lawyer from suing if
they think they can frighten you into paying up, nor will it stop the
ignorant from blaming Mailman for the spammers' sins.  We just need to
get used to it.

For the future, I think it's reasonable to tell people "what you're
doing smells like spamming (or whatever) to me", and tell them what
happens to hosts that smell of spam.  If they deny spamming, and get
all self-righteous about the stench, too, then it's on their own
heads.  And of course it's up to each Mailman user to decide whether
they believe that person, and help them (or not) with what they're
doing.  Isn't it?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with ISPs that blacklist by message volune?

[David Gibbs]

Beau James wrote:
> The trigger seems to be that some of our subscriber's ISP domans don't
> like "too many" incoming messages per hour from one originating domain.
> Worse, some of these ISPs apparently report the domain and the IP address
> of the originating MTA to some of the blacklist siets.  In very short order,
> we're dead.  And so are all the other lists hosted on our ISPs server.

I've had issues with some ISP's rate limiting deliveries (small ISP's, not the 
major ones) ... but *NONE* of them have ever submitted any of my IP's to a RBL 
site.

Perhaps something else is going on?  Have you checked your outbound port 25 
traffic to make sure all the traffic is yours?

david

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spamfromarchives

[David Beaumont]

> -Original Message-
> From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> The META tags say don't 'index' the index pages themselves, but follow
> the links to the messages, and on the message pages 'index' the
> contents, but don't follow links.
> 
> This is appropriate for a public archive. Presumably you want 
> people to
> be able to search for and find stuff in a public archive.
> 
Yes I understand the metatag.  What we want is no emails available to the
public where our members email address can easily be worked out.  We achieve
this very well through Nabble and their archive of our mail -
www.bargeforum.org.  We have never found the mailman archives very user
friendly, quite basic in fact.  So in this case we want nofollow and
noindex.  The public can search our public Nabble archives as much as they
want.

> If the archive is private, it can only be accessed by logging in. The
> 'pipermail' URL doesn't work and access is via the 'private' CGI which
> requires login with list member email address and password.
> 
> It won't change the META tags, but they will be irrelevant 
> since robots
> can't log in and access the pages.
> 
> Email obfuscation has nothing to do with public/private. 

Thanks for explaining that, it was my only concern about going private.  The
mailman help is not clear on this and I had not noticed the move to a
passworded directory because every time I changed to private I had to be
already logged in to make the change.  Now logging in, making the change,
logging out and testing has made it clear how it works.  The great thing
about mailman is support like this. But as our archive gets bigger and more
useful, mailman's basic interface does fall shorter and shorter. 

Thanks

David  


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Listserv archives import ?

[Mark Sapiro]

Max,

You may get some response from this list from someone who's done this
migration, but basically, you have to pursue this from the Listserv(r)
side.

Mailman can only import archives which are in *nix mbox format. The
tools to do this are

bin/cleanarch - to check for/fix unescaped "From " lines in message
bodies in mbox files
bin/arch  - to build a pipermail archive from a mbox file or add
messages from a mbox to an archive.

If Listserv(r) can export its archives as a mbox, you should be close.
If not, you will need to figure how to get the Listserv(r) archives
into a mbox.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spamfromarchives

[Mark Sapiro]

David Beaumont wrote:

>I've just checked myself and the HTML source still seems to allow robots:
> on each message and NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow"> on the index page.  I would want
>noindex and nofollow on both pages.  


The META tags say don't 'index' the index pages themselves, but follow
the links to the messages, and on the message pages 'index' the
contents, but don't follow links.

This is appropriate for a public archive. Presumably you want people to
be able to search for and find stuff in a public archive.


>Changing to private archives doesn't seem to make any difference to that,
>does it only apply to new archiving?  The help is a bit vague here, does
>public mean the data is prepared for public posting  (emails obscufacted)
>and private mean they are not, or does private mean they are not put on the
>web? i.e. which of private and public is actually the most secure?


If the archive is private, it can only be accessed by logging in. The
'pipermail' URL doesn't work and access is via the 'private' CGI which
requires login with list member email address and password.

It won't change the META tags, but they will be irrelevant since robots
can't log in and access the pages.

Email obfuscation has nothing to do with public/private. It depends
solely on the setting on ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS in
Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py.

If an archive is public, archive URLs are of the form
http://example.com/pipermail/list/ and anyone can access them. If an
archive is private, the URL form becomes
http://example.com/mailman/private/list/ and login is required to
access the archive. The 'private' URL will work with a public archive,
but still requires login. The 'pipermail' URL will not work with a
private archive.

Switching an archive from public to private changes the archive URL on
the listinfo page and removes the list's symlink(s) from
archives/public/ (which the pipermail alias depends on). Switching
from private to public does the reverse.

Private archives are accessable only to list members by login with
their email address and list password, or to list admins/moderators
with the list admin/moderator password. They are as secure as the
passwords. They will not be accessed by spambots or search engine web
crawlers because those can't log in.


>Also search engines still seem to be able to see the data e.g. type 
>"neoprene site:lists.shire.net/pipermail/dbamain/ " into Google, maybe this
>will go in a few days?


Your requiring of web server authentication to accesss the public
archive will keep all the robots out, but it will be much longer than
a few days before their existing indexing of your archive and cached
pages go away, but they won't be getting any new posts in the mean
time.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Listserv archives import ?

[Max Lanfranconi]

Karen,

Thanks for you email.

Are you sure that this was a listserv migration ?
Looks more like a Majordomo migration. In fact, I cannot match my 
directory hierarchy to yours.


Thanks anyway...

Max

Karen R McArthur wrote:

**Information listed in here is not guaranteed - it worked for us**

We did the following 2 step procedure:

perl mboxConvert.sh   **perl script attached**
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch 

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Systems Administrator
Information and Library Services, Bates College
Lewiston, Maine 04240 USA
ph:(207)786-8236   fax:(207)786-6057

If you find that everybody else is right and you're wrong,
it might just be that you're thinking outside the box. The
world is yet to catch up.

Max Lanfranconi wrote:

Hi,

I have googled this with little luck... :-(

Is there anyone who attempted an archive import of listserv archives 
into mailman ?


I am looking for any kind of 
pointers/hints/suggestions/successes/failures.


How you did it, was it successful, any "gotcha' to be aware of ...

Thanks in advance,

Max





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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam fromarchives

[David Beaumont]

I've just checked myself and the HTML source still seems to allow robots:
 on each message and  on the index page.  I would want
noindex and nofollow on both pages.  

Changing to private archives doesn't seem to make any difference to that,
does it only apply to new archiving?  The help is a bit vague here, does
public mean the data is prepared for public posting  (emails obscufacted)
and private mean they are not, or does private mean they are not put on the
web? i.e. which of private and public is actually the most secure?

Also search engines still seem to be able to see the data e.g. type 
"neoprene site:lists.shire.net/pipermail/dbamain/ " into Google, maybe this
will go in a few days?

David

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of David Beaumont
> Sent: 08 September 2008 20:19
> To: mailman-users@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses 
> for spam fromarchives
> 
> Thanks is this still the case at  
> http://lists.shire.net/pipermail/dbamain/
> ?  We have just put a password on so I am hoping that will 
> stop robots too.
> 
> David 
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > Sent: 08 September 2008 20:00
> > To: David Beaumont
> > Cc: mailman-users@python.org
> > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses 
> > for spam from archives
> > 
> > It helps to disallow but the site is allowing.  So possible 
> > some engines
> > will bot the whole site:
> > 
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/robots.txt
> > 

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam fromarchives

[Mark Sapiro]

Bill Christensen wrote:
>
>It appears that the code which does the obfuscation is in 
>($prefix)/Mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py between lines 280 and 
>290 in 2.1.11. (I'm sure someone will correct me if that's wrong info)


That's one place. There are several others for addresses in the message
body, the subject, the index page, etc. They are all in
Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py, but look at the code around all six
occurrences of

   if mm_cfg.ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS:

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

[Paul]

It helps to disallow but the site is allowing.  So possible some engines
will bot the whole site:

http://www.mail-archive.com/robots.txt


On Mon, September 8, 2008 8:25 am, David Beaumont wrote:
> We have had a lot of spams sent directly to our list members (i.e. not
> sent
> via mailman).  All of them have subject headings taken from list emails
> already sent out genuinely via mailman.  Almost all have our specific list
> prefix (but interesting not every one).
>
> Has anyone else had this recently (started 3rd Sept approx and the
> spammers
> listed from address has 'kiev' in it)?
>
> I can only think of 2 ways this has happened
>
> 1) Our public archives have been harvested by a spammer.  This would
> account
> for the subject headings being used.  Email addresses are displayed in the
> archives as, literally, 'name at domain.com' which is not immediately
> harvestable but wouldn't take much code to convert ' at ' to '@'. How do
> we
> make this more secure? I notice this list's archives are not standard
> mailman format!
>
> 2) One of our members PCs has been attacked and the subjects and email
> addresses taken from there.  All our emails are delivered with the reply
> to
> address being the list but the originators email showing.  This would
> account for a small number of the spams not having our list prefix in the
> subject heading (they would not have the prefix if stored in the sent box
> of
> the person that created the genuine message).  However I would expect at
> least some members to report spam with entirely non list subjects from the
> same spammer.
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

[David Beaumont]

Thanks is this still the case at  http://lists.shire.net/pipermail/dbamain/
?  We have just put a password on so I am hoping that will stop robots too.

David 

> -Original Message-
> From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 08 September 2008 20:00
> To: David Beaumont
> Cc: mailman-users@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses 
> for spam from archives
> 
> It helps to disallow but the site is allowing.  So possible 
> some engines
> will bot the whole site:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/robots.txt
> 
> 
> On Mon, September 8, 2008 8:25 am, David Beaumont wrote:
> > We have had a lot of spams sent directly to our list 
> members (i.e. not
> > sent
> > via mailman).  All of them have subject headings taken from 
> list emails
> > already sent out genuinely via mailman.  Almost all have 
> our specific list
> > prefix (but interesting not every one).
> >
> > Has anyone else had this recently (started 3rd Sept approx and the
> > spammers
> > listed from address has 'kiev' in it)?
> >
> > I can only think of 2 ways this has happened
> >
> > 1) Our public archives have been harvested by a spammer.  This would
> > account
> > for the subject headings being used.  Email addresses are 
> displayed in the
> > archives as, literally, 'name at domain.com' which is not 
> immediately
> > harvestable but wouldn't take much code to convert ' at ' 
> to '@'. How do
> > we
> > make this more secure? I notice this list's archives are 
> not standard
> > mailman format!
> >
> > 2) One of our members PCs has been attacked and the 
> subjects and email
> > addresses taken from there.  All our emails are delivered 
> with the reply
> > to
> > address being the list but the originators email showing.  
> This would
> > account for a small number of the spams not having our list 
> prefix in the
> > subject heading (they would not have the prefix if stored 
> in the sent box
> > of
> > the person that created the genuine message).  However I 
> would expect at
> > least some members to report spam with entirely non list 
> subjects from the
> > same spammer.
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

[Bill Christensen]

At 6:13 PM +0100 9/8/08, David Beaumont wrote:

 > >I notice this list's archives are not standard

 >mailman format!


 I assume by 'this list' you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] In what way
 are the archives "not standard"?


Thanks I mean the archives at
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/

Ours are at http://lists.shire.net/pipermail/dbamain/

On ours you will see the emails have the ' at ' obscuration.   Yours don't
seem to show the email in any form.  How do we change to your format?

David



At a quick glance it doesn't look like it would be all too terribly 
difficult to change.   When I was using Mhonarc for the archives on 
one of my lists (before moving to Mailman last spring), I had a 
script that would change "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to" [EMAIL PROTECTED]".  If I 
recall, it simply used a regex that looked for characters followed by 
an @ followed by more characters.  It then replaced everything from 
the @ to the next space with "...".


It appears that the code which does the obfuscation is in 
($prefix)/Mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py between lines 280 and 
290 in 2.1.11. (I'm sure someone will correct me if that's wrong info)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with ISPs that blacklist by message volune?

[Brian Carpenter]

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mailman-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beau James
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 2:42 PM
> To: mailman-users@python.org
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with ISPs that blacklist by message
> volune?
> 
> Wondering whether anyone has suggestions for dealing with this
> situation.
> 
> I run two mailing lists for coachess (577 members) and referees
> (377 members) in a local volunteer youth sports group.  Not exactly
> large lists, and typically low traffic - 3 or 4 messages on a busy
> day, none at all most days.  But occasionally, there will be a couple
> of back-to-back messages e.g. a question and reply.
> 
> Because it is a local organization, the list members tend to have
> email addresses concentrated in a few ISP domains e.g "sbcglobal.net",
> "comcast.net" (plus a lot who use Yahoo or Gmail, of course).
> 
> Last week and again last night, the ISP server that hosts our domain
> suddenly found itself on multiple blacklists.
> 
> The trigger seems to be that some of our subscriber's ISP domans don't
> like "too many" incoming messages per hour from one originating domain.
> Example:
> 
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Domain ayso45.org has exceeded the max emails per hour. Message
> discarded.
> 
> Worse, some of these ISPs apparently report the domain and the IP
> address
> of the originating MTA to some of the blacklist siets.  In very short
> order,
> we're dead.  And so are all the other lists hosted on our ISPs server.
> 
> Rate-limiting messages from an originating domain seems like a brain-
> dead
> anti-SPAM algorithm that makes discsussion lists unusable.  Our hosting
> ISP tells me that we have to keep it under 60 *outbound* messages per
> hour
> to stay under these recipient ISP's radar, and has suggested using
> "phplist"
> to do so).  At 60 messages per hour, a single message to our small
> lists
> would take 15 hours to be distributed (if the rate limiting is global
> and
> not per recipient domain).
> 
> How are other's dealing with this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Beau

Hi Beau:

We do not rate limit our mailman clients and we rarely have any black list
problems. When it does happen, it is usually with a single ISP and the issue
is resolved within 24 hours. However this is very rare and all of our
mailman clients are very happy with our service.

We also make sure we have spf, domainkeys, and ptr records in place which
generally keeps the major ISPs happy. We also configure our mailman server
to send no more than 15 messages per smtp connection which seems to please
most isps.

We have one discussion list (medical software) that has over 3100 members
that ends up sending over a 100,000 messages in a typical 8 hour day and
this particular server has NEVER been blacklisted.

I don't agree with your hosting provider's recommendation at all. If you are
interested you can check our mailman service out at
http://www.emwd.com/mailman.html.

Have a great day and I hope your list problems work out. Mailman is a
fantastic program. Don't let your hosting provider give it a bad rap.

Regards,
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[Mailman-Users] Dealing with ISPs that blacklist by message volune?

[Beau James]

Wondering whether anyone has suggestions for dealing with this situation.

I run two mailing lists for coachess (577 members) and referees
(377 members) in a local volunteer youth sports group.  Not exactly
large lists, and typically low traffic - 3 or 4 messages on a busy
day, none at all most days.  But occasionally, there will be a couple
of back-to-back messages e.g. a question and reply.

Because it is a local organization, the list members tend to have
email addresses concentrated in a few ISP domains e.g "sbcglobal.net",
"comcast.net" (plus a lot who use Yahoo or Gmail, of course).

Last week and again last night, the ISP server that hosts our domain
suddenly found itself on multiple blacklists.

The trigger seems to be that some of our subscriber's ISP domans don't
like "too many" incoming messages per hour from one originating domain.
Example:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Domain ayso45.org has exceeded the max emails per hour. Message discarded.

Worse, some of these ISPs apparently report the domain and the IP address
of the originating MTA to some of the blacklist siets.  In very short order,
we're dead.  And so are all the other lists hosted on our ISPs server.

Rate-limiting messages from an originating domain seems like a brain-dead
anti-SPAM algorithm that makes discsussion lists unusable.  Our hosting
ISP tells me that we have to keep it under 60 *outbound* messages per hour
to stay under these recipient ISP's radar, and has suggested using "phplist"
to do so).  At 60 messages per hour, a single message to our small lists
would take 15 hours to be distributed (if the rate limiting is global and
not per recipient domain).

How are other's dealing with this?

Thanks,

Beau
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[Mailman-Users] Listserv archives import ?

[Max Lanfranconi]

Hi,

I have googled this with little luck... :-(

Is there anyone who attempted an archive import of listserv archives 
into mailman ?


I am looking for any kind of pointers/hints/suggestions/successes/failures.

How you did it, was it successful, any "gotcha' to be aware of ...

Thanks in advance,

Max


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[Mailman-Users] Listserv archive import into mailman

[Max Lanfranconi]

Hi,

I have googled this with little luck... :-(

Is there anyone who attempted an archive import of listserv archives 
into mailman ?


I am looking for any kind of pointers/hints/suggestions/successes/failures.

How you did it, was it successful, any "gotcha' to be aware of ...

Thanks in advance,

Max
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam fromarchives

[Mark Sapiro]

David Beaumont wrote:

>> >I notice this list's archives are not standard
>> >mailman format!
>> 
>> 
>> I assume by 'this list' you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] In what way
>> are the archives "not standard"?
>
>Thanks I mean the archives at
>http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
>
>Ours are at http://lists.shire.net/pipermail/dbamain/
>
>On ours you will see the emails have the ' at ' obscuration.   Yours don't
>seem to show the email in any form.  How do we change to your format?


Those are the 'searchable' archive at mail-archive.com. We also have
the same pipermail archive as you at
.

If you want to have a mail-archive.com archive as your only public
archive, go to  for
instructions on how to set up archiving for your list.

Then see  for how to
import your existing archives/private/dbamain.mbox/dbamain.mbox
archive.

Finally, you can turn off local archiving for your list or make the
archive private.

Also, I note that going to 
requires authentication to your web server. If this is something new
to stop spammers, OK, but it might be preferable to just make the
archive private, but if this has been in effect for some time, it's
not likely that spammers have accessed your archive.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

[Brad Knowles]

David Beaumont wrote:


I notice this list's archives are not standard
mailman format!


I assume by 'this list' you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] In what way
are the archives "not standard"?


Thanks I mean the archives at
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/


We don't run those.  Those are the official searchable archives, as provided 
by an approved third-party.


You could do the same, if you like.


Alternatively, you might consider using a piece of third-party archive 
software that runs on your own hardware.  That's also discussed in the 
documentation.



Ours are at http://lists.shire.net/pipermail/dbamain/

On ours you will see the emails have the ' at ' obscuration.   Yours don't
seem to show the email in any form.  How do we change to your format?


Contact the people at mail-archive.com and ask them to provide an external 
third-party archive for your lists.  I don't know, but they might ask you to 
pay them some money, unless you're big enough that they want to provide that 
service to you for free.


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

[David Beaumont]

> >I notice this list's archives are not standard
> >mailman format!
> 
> 
> I assume by 'this list' you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] In what way
> are the archives "not standard"?

Thanks I mean the archives at
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/

Ours are at http://lists.shire.net/pipermail/dbamain/

On ours you will see the emails have the ' at ' obscuration.   Yours don't
seem to show the email in any form.  How do we change to your format?

David

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

[Mark Sapiro]

David Beaumont wrote:

>We have had a lot of spams sent directly to our list members (i.e. not sent
>via mailman).  All of them have subject headings taken from list emails
>already sent out genuinely via mailman.  Almost all have our specific list
>prefix (but interesting not every one).
>
>Has anyone else had this recently (started 3rd Sept approx and the spammers
>listed from address has 'kiev' in it)?


I have not seen it.


>I can only think of 2 ways this has happened
>
>1) Our public archives have been harvested by a spammer.  This would account
>for the subject headings being used.  Email addresses are displayed in the
>archives as, literally, 'name at domain.com' which is not immediately
>harvestable but wouldn't take much code to convert ' at ' to '@'. How do we
>make this more secure? I notice this list's archives are not standard
>mailman format!


I assume by 'this list' you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] In what way
are the archives "not standard"?

It would take modifications to the mailman archiving code to change the
obfuscation of email addresses.

While it certainly would not be difficult for spammers to abuse your
public archive in this way, I am a member of several Mailman lists
with public archives and I post at least occasionally to them and I
haven't received any spam like that you describe.


>2) One of our members PCs has been attacked and the subjects and email
>addresses taken from there.  All our emails are delivered with the reply to
>address being the list but the originators email showing.  This would
>account for a small number of the spams not having our list prefix in the
>subject heading (they would not have the prefix if stored in the sent box of
>the person that created the genuine message).  However I would expect at
>least some members to report spam with entirely non list subjects from the
>same spammer.   


What you say above all seems correct to me.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problem

[Mark Sapiro]

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/passwd | grep mailman
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
>
>I not have mailman user.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py | grep MAILMAN
>MAILMAN_UID = 'list'
>MAILMAN_GID = 'daemon'
>MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman'
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
>
>I try to run mailman with postfix owned aliases but same problem.


What same problem? Why can't you post a coherent, self contained
question instead of making me search the archives for your prior post
and my reply at
.



>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cd /var/lib/mailman/data
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/mailman/data# ls -l
>total 36
>-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-09-04 10:40 aliases
>-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix 12288 2008-09-04 10:40 aliases.db
>-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix89 2008-09-05 09:56 chown
>-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix10 2008-09-03 15:46 last_mailman_version
>-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix 14114 2007-02-28 23:35 sitelist.cfg
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/mailman/data#
>
>Howto see mailman run group, and howto change it? I dont want to change 
>workgroup on postfix cuz i installed spamassassin and clamav, and if i make 
>some changes on postfix the lastest software will not work.


Your original group mismatch error in the original post said the
expected group was 'daemon' and the actual group was 'nobody'.

It looks like there are no actual aliases in /var/lib/mailman/data/ so
where is Postfix getting your list aliases?

Also, you should probably do

  cd /var/lib/mailman/data
  chown list:daemon *

also, it's not clear what the file named 'chown' is. Its name is
clearly a mistake, but whether it's a spurious creation or a spurious
renaming of something else, I don't know.
  
Now if Postfix were actually getting it's aliases from
/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db, and if
/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db were user:group list:daemon, one fix
for your original group mismatch error would be to make the primary
group of the 'list' user the 'daemon' group.

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[Mailman-Users] Mailman Problem

[d3v1ous]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/passwd | grep mailman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

I not have mailman user.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py | grep MAILMAN
MAILMAN_UID = 'list'
MAILMAN_GID = 'daemon'
MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman'
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

I try to run mailman with postfix owned aliases but same problem.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cd /var/lib/mailman/data
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/mailman/data# ls -l
total 36
-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix 0 2008-09-04 10:40 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix 12288 2008-09-04 10:40 aliases.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix89 2008-09-05 09:56 chown
-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix10 2008-09-03 15:46 last_mailman_version
-rw-r--r-- 1 postfix postfix 14114 2007-02-28 23:35 sitelist.cfg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/mailman/data#

Howto see mailman run group, and howto change it? I dont want to change 
workgroup on postfix cuz i installed spamassassin and clamav, and if i make 
some changes on postfix the lastest software will not work.
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Multi list management ..

[Brad Knowles]

Khalil Abbas wrote:


and please, leave the type of mailing aside, if you're a non believer
don't offend other people, I didn't try to shove my beliefs into your
faces and I was really offended with what you said about religion..


I've seen the same sort of thing, and it doesn't really matter what religion 
you talk about -- zealotry is zealotry, and is equally unpleasant to deal 
with regardless of which specific flavour of zealotry you're having to deal 
with.


There is much hatred and many wars that have been spawned by religious 
zealots over the last few thousand years, and even if the zealots in 
question are not advocating violence, the simple fact that they are zealots 
and pushing their beliefs on others is enough.  It doesn't matter if they 
are Jehovah's Witnesses that are going door-to-door in the neighborhood, 
Hare Krishnas at the airport, or any other religious/ethnic sterotype.



So, don't paint us with the same brush that you violently disagree with 
being used on you.  We're not necessarily saying anything particular about 
your specific religion -- it's much more likely to be a general distaste for 
any kind of zealotry.


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Re: [Mailman-Users] Availability of patches on Launchpad

[Mark Sapiro]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>Richard Barrett writes:
>
> > I guess it is not intended that the old approach with sourceforge of  
> > putting enhancements into the tracker with patch files attached,  
> > should be followed with Launchpad. I expect someone is going to tell  
> > me I should create my own branches of Mailman on Launchpad for each  
> > of my enhancement and publish what were patch file contents in that  
> > way.
>
>I imagine that is the "preferred method" for *future* patches, but
>since Canonical is after World Domination Now (or at least a market
>share that requires units greater than nano-percents to measure), they
>had better not lose history this way.  I advise you to assume that
>this is just a bug (albeit a rather distressing one) that will be
>fixed in due time, until somebody says otherwise.


Stephen is correct that this is a serious bug in the migration process.
It was not intended that anything would be culled or lost in this
process.

It appears that the same problem existed in the "demo" that was
announced last month
(
and
),
but it wasn't caught.

Nothing is permanently lost as the SourceForge trackers still exist.
They just aren't currently accessible by other than project members.

Unfortunately, Barry may not yet be aware of this as at least
yesterday, the primary MX for list.org was not working, but I'm
confident that this problem will be fixed.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Rv: many problems

[Jaione Arrieta]

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[Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

[David Beaumont]

We have had a lot of spams sent directly to our list members (i.e. not sent
via mailman).  All of them have subject headings taken from list emails
already sent out genuinely via mailman.  Almost all have our specific list
prefix (but interesting not every one).

Has anyone else had this recently (started 3rd Sept approx and the spammers
listed from address has 'kiev' in it)?

I can only think of 2 ways this has happened

1) Our public archives have been harvested by a spammer.  This would account
for the subject headings being used.  Email addresses are displayed in the
archives as, literally, 'name at domain.com' which is not immediately
harvestable but wouldn't take much code to convert ' at ' to '@'. How do we
make this more secure? I notice this list's archives are not standard
mailman format!

2) One of our members PCs has been attacked and the subjects and email
addresses taken from there.  All our emails are delivered with the reply to
address being the list but the originators email showing.  This would
account for a small number of the spams not having our list prefix in the
subject heading (they would not have the prefix if stored in the sent box of
the person that created the genuine message).  However I would expect at
least some members to report spam with entirely non list subjects from the
same spammer.   

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Availability of patches on Launchpad

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Richard Barrett writes:

 > I guess it is not intended that the old approach with sourceforge of  
 > putting enhancements into the tracker with patch files attached,  
 > should be followed with Launchpad. I expect someone is going to tell  
 > me I should create my own branches of Mailman on Launchpad for each  
 > of my enhancement and publish what were patch file contents in that  
 > way.

I imagine that is the "preferred method" for *future* patches, but
since Canonical is after World Domination Now (or at least a market
share that requires units greater than nano-percents to measure), they
had better not lose history this way.  I advise you to assume that
this is just a bug (albeit a rather distressing one) that will be
fixed in due time, until somebody says otherwise.



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