Re: [Mailman-Users] Easy question for this crowd
I wish. All my listservers are on various shared hosts running cPanel. An experience not unlike making love in haz-mat suits... :-/ -Chip- On 6/2/2019 11:17 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 6/2/19 7:49 AM, Chip Davis wrote: Thanks to Mark's help crafting the proper RE, I haven't had an '.icu' UCE in over 15 hours (knock wood). If you have access to Mailman's logs, the discards are logged in the 'vette' log with entries like Message discarded, msgid: <...> -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Easy question for this crowd
On 6/2/19 7:49 AM, Chip Davis wrote: > > Thanks to Mark's help crafting the proper RE, I haven't had an '.icu' > UCE in over 15 hours (knock wood). If you have access to Mailman's logs, the discards are logged in the 'vette' log with entries like Message discarded, msgid: <...> -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Easy question for this crowd
No, and No. Apparently you missed my original post (5/30 11:57AM) on this topic where I asked if my RE that would do exactly that. I've supported a dozen Mailman listservers for over a dozen years. This doesn't represent much real effort most of the time. I've had to block specific users often and specific domains rarely, but this is the first time I've had to block an entire TLD. Recently I've been gifted with an inordinate amount of UCE from many different domains under the '.icu' TLD. Since Python RE's are _almost_ the same as the UNIX RE's I used many years ago, if I put ^@.*\.icu$ in discard_these_nonmembers, will it block all domains in that TLD? And not block anyone else? Thanks to Mark's help crafting the proper RE, I haven't had an '.icu' UCE in over 15 hours (knock wood). For a more general solution for all of my lists, I'm looking into his suggestion of using a Spam Filter that triggers on the SpamAssassin score header inserted by my ISP. Thanks, Mark for you patience and help. -Chip- On 6/1/2019 3:42 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 6/1/19 1:44 PM, Chip Davis wrote: I guess my question wasn't so "easy" after all ... :-( What was a daily trickle is now a flood of UCE from different domains in the .icu TLD. I hope someone can suggest some sort of prophylaxis that I haven't tried. Do you get any actual, legitimate mail from .icu? Do you have any real subscribers from .icu? If not, I'd consider just blocking the entire TLD. I've blocked several of the new shit TLDs from which I was receiving nothing but spam, and it's enormously reduced my volume of spam. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] question about email automation
On 5/30/19 8:04 AM, Fabian A. Santiago wrote: Hello, Hi, i run a mailing list on mm 2.x. periodically i send out an event opening email to the list. this is typically followed by a conclusion email at the end of a specific period. How specific is the period? Is the end known at the start, i.e. 3 months, or is it dependent on when a project completes? in the interim period i would like to send out reminders of the event to the list but would like to automate this task. i want the reminders to be triggered by my opening email and end with my conclusion email. I don't know if it really matters, but please clarify if you're talking about one list that multiple events are discussed on or if it's a different list per event. has anyone done this and how? I have not. I think one list for multiple events would be simpler from an automation point of view. I say this because I'd subscribe a utility account that would receive copies of all messages and be able to parse them for specific keywords (event starts , etc.). I would likely have this script set up (Unix) at jobs (vs cron) as I think programmatically scheduling them might be easier. The at job can send the emails (typical script sending email) at the specified times. If the duration of the project is known ahead of time, you can pre-schedule multiple at jobs and be done with it. If the duration of the project is not known ahead of time, I think you will need to have each reminder iteration schedule the next at job. You will also need to have the utility account be a bit smarter and look for the end of job / event / project announcements. - In this case, I'd likely enhance the at job to look for a (flag) file or contents to determine if it should send the reminder or not. That way, you can finish a job / even / project and make sure that there's not accidentally spurious reminders that get sent or worry about cleaning them up by simply removing the (flag) file or changing it's contents. I know that it's crude. But it will get the job done. i've looked at ifttt and zapier but wasn't sure. thanks. I'm not familiar with them. Sorry. -- Grant. . . . unix || die smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
