Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie question? Maybe not.

[Brad Knowles]

on 7/2/09 11:03 PM, Allen Sullivant said:


I have a support ticket in with the hosting service
(shared server, btw) but thought I would inquire here
as well.


Since you're using a hosted service, I don't know how much we'll be able 
to help.  I suspect that you'll have to depend on your service provider 
for most things, but we might be able to give you some pointers as to 
things to talk to them about.


For the moment, I would suggest that you have them review FAQ 4.78 at 
 and answer the questions there.  They 
should also be familiar with the more basic stuff discussed in the first 
section of the FAQ, starting with FAQ 1.22 at .


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[Mailman-Users] Non-subscribers defeating the generic non-member action

[Robert Boyd Skipper]

I've been running lists for years, and the filtering has been pretty 
good at blocking posts from non-members.  But recently, there have been 
some leaks, allowing non-member spammers to slip a message onto the 
list.  The first time this happened, it turned out to be due to 
non-alphanumeric characters at the beginning of email addresses in the 
From: field.  So, I made a regex filter that put a stop to that.   But 
now, it has happened again, and I can't see anything unusual about the 
emails.  Has anyone else noticed this happening? 

One of those emails that say "Can't see images? Click here!" got 
through.  The subject line reads, "[test] Dear t...@mydomain.org 
Shopping just got a loteasier!"  (I've substituted dummy names for 
real ones.)  Where you see four spaces in the Subject line, there 
instead appeared a small circle.  The From: field had the name "Doctor 
Joe Smith," but on mouseover, it said "t...@mydomain.org."  Now I've had 
many hundreds of emails that spoofed the name of my list in the past.  
And the program always caught them.  This one got through.  Doctor Joe 
Smith is not a subscriber and his name does not appear in any of the 
non-member filters. 

I've blocked anything that claims to come from "te...@.*" and that seems 
to have stopped it, but I don't think the spoofing explains the problem, 
since mailman had previously blocked about ten posts per day that 
spoofed the listname.   It could be that I've never seen the combination 
of a person's name and the listname in the From: field.  I just don't 
remember. 

Any thought?  I saved the email. 


Skipper

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[Mailman-Users] Newbie question? Maybe not.

[Allen Sullivant]

Greetings,

I administer a list provided by my organization's
hosting service.  I didn't have to install anything,
just "turn it on" and then set my parameters in the
administrative interface.

The last 48 hours or so the list simply just does not
receive mail or commands, from myself and other list
members.  "There are no pending requests".

I have changed no settings whatsoever from the last
working configuration.  The "emergency moderation"
has been on since Day 1.

I have a support ticket in with the hosting service
(shared server, btw) but thought I would inquire here
as well.

Any ideas or speculation appreciated.

Allen in Tenn.
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[Mailman-Users] Customizing Special Addresses -request, -bounce, etc.

[Lawrence Chan]

How can I customize Mailman's special addresses?  It seems like it uses 
listname-request, listname-bounce, etc..  I'd like to use my own.  For 
example, if my listname is list_domain.tld and my virtual and alias 
mappings are list-requ...@domain.tld to list-request_domain.tld to 
|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request list-request_domain.tld, I want 
Mailman to respond with list-requ...@domain.tld instead of 
list_domain@domain.tld.


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