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

2008-09-08 Thread Richard Barrett


On 7 Sep 2008, at 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Not sure what patches your are seeing, but right now there are zero  
patches

on Launchpad and the are removed from Sourceforge.

Having two different Mailman listings on Launchpad does not help,  
either.

Only one has the pogram - but neither have any patches.

https://launchpad.net/mailman/+download

has the standard Mailman program.

~mailman has nothing.

Where are you seeing any patches at all?



I found links to those of my older patches (two of them) that were  
transferred from the sourceforge tracker linked under the right menu  
heading Bug attachments on the following pages:


https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266553 - was 444879 on  
sourceforge
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266554 - was 444884 on  
sourceforge


In essence these entire tracker items, including attachments, appear  
to have been transferred from sourceforge to Launchpad.


The sourceforge tracker items for my other enhancements do not seem  
to have been transferred.


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. When I have time I may do that but in the meantime ...





- Original Message -
From: Richard Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: mailman-users@python.org
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:17:10 +0100
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Availability of patches on Launchpad


If you are a user of patches I have published for Mailman in the past
then read on. Otherwise, apologies for cluttering up your mailbox.

In the recent switch from Sourceforge to Launchpad a number of the
current patches that I publish for Mailman do not appear to have made
the cut and are now unavailable from either Sourceforge or Launchpad.
As far as I am aware none of the patches that did not make it have
been incorporated into core Mailman but I am willing to be corrected
on this.

Subject to the usual caveat that I will only maintain it while I use
it myself, I shall continue to publish my patches via:

http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/index.html

The tableau below summarise what I believe to be the case.

Format of tableau is:

SourceforgeNumber LaunchpadNumber Description

- means unavailable on Launchpad

made the cut

444879 266553 Archive indexer control to improve indexing.
444884 266554 Integration of Mailman  htdig for archive searching.

did not make the cut

644797 - Revised mailer exit status.
760567 - Moderation request message content.
820723 - Mailman/pipermail/MHonarc integration
850805 - Aggressive anti email address harvesting measures
1442025 - List Specialisation for Support Groups
1483446 - Daily mbox files for list mbox archives

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

2008-09-08 Thread 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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[Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread 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] Rv: many problems

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

2008-09-08 Thread 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
(http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2008-August/020345.html
and
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2008-August/063021.html),
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] Multi list management ..

2008-09-08 Thread 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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[Mailman-Users] Mailman Problem

2008-09-08 Thread 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] Mailman Problem

2008-09-08 Thread 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
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2008-September/063198.html.



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

2008-09-08 Thread 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] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread 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

2008-09-08 Thread 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 fromarchives

2008-09-08 Thread 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
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/.

If you want to have a mail-archive.com archive as your only public
archive, go to http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#newlist for
instructions on how to set up archiving for your list.

Then see http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#import 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 http://lists.shire.net/pipermail/dbamain/
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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[Mailman-Users] Listserv archive import into mailman

2008-09-08 Thread 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,

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[Mailman-Users] Listserv archives import ?

2008-09-08 Thread 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] Dealing with ISPs that blacklist by message volune?

2008-09-08 Thread 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Dealing with ISPs that blacklist by message volune?

2008-09-08 Thread 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread 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] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

2008-09-08 Thread 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

2008-09-08 Thread 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 fromarchives

2008-09-08 Thread 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 fromarchives

2008-09-08 Thread David Beaumont
I've just checked myself and the HTML source still seems to allow robots:
META NAME=robots CONTENT=index,nofollow on each message and META
NAME=robots CONTENT=noindex,follow 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] Listserv archives import ?

2008-09-08 Thread 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 listname  **perl script attached**
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch listname

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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 spamfromarchives

2008-09-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
David Beaumont wrote:

I've just checked myself and the HTML source still seems to allow robots:
META NAME=robots CONTENT=index,nofollow on each message and META
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 ?

2008-09-08 Thread 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
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spamfromarchives

2008-09-08 Thread 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] Dealing with ISPs that blacklist by message volune?

2008-09-08 Thread 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] Multi list management ..

2008-09-08 Thread 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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