[Mailman-Users] Newbie spam filter (regex) question
OK, forgive my ignorance, but I'm trying to add a Spam Filter rule that allows postings from a specific e-mail address -- as an exception to our normal filtering rules. It hasn't worked thus far, so what would be the proper (best) 'Spam Filter Regexp' entry to accept any messages from this example address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know this should be easy and that I'm just missing something silly, so any quick help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason _ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 IP Tel: 740-368-3131 | AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Newbie spam filter (regex) question
Mark, The simple trap is all I was trying to avoid -- with the understanding on the other bypass caveats. Thanks very much. Jason _ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 IP Tel: 740-368-3131 | AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] OT: Barracuda Reputation
Karl, Speaking on behalf of an organization that has long been using Barracuda spam filtering appliances, I can tell you that the company's reputation and intent analysis services leave much to be desired. Unlike the CBL or Spamcop, Barracuda has never seemed willing to share the algorithms or heuristics used to flag a domain/URL/whatever as bad. This is understandable in one sense, considering this is most likely proprietary stuff, but it also has caused much operational frustration. After being burned several times by these shady reputation and intent analysis rules, I've just given up and gone to manual, wholesale whitelisting of sender addresses and embedded message (body) URLs when necessary. It seems to be the only way to get around Barracuda's default and sometimes inexplicable characteristics. As you can probably tell, I've grown weary and cynical of Barracuda's issues, and we're transitioning to other spam filtering solutions. I've heard great reviews of it in other organizations -- but it's just not working for us anymore. Jason _ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 IP Tel: 740-368-3131 | AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Random duplicate message to subscribers
We have a fairly large list (more than 26,000 subscribers), and recently it appears a very small fraction of the subscribers have started receiving duplicate messages -- sometimes as many as a dozen or more. This behavior just started happening within the last couple of weeks, and it seems to only impact a minute and random subset of the subscribers. Anyone seen similar behavior or have suggestions on the most effective way to troubleshoot this? We're running version 2.1.5 on Red Hat Linux ES, and we've also had a few runaway Python processes in the last couple of months that forced us to restart the server. Perhaps this is all related and we just need to upgrade to 2.1.9. Anybody happen to have a pre-built RPM for RHEL 4 with the latest release? Jason _ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 IP Tel: 740-368-3131 | AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Quick question about spam filtering
Lately, our Mailman lists have been getting more self-addressed junk messages -- that is, [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets spam that is spoofing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the sender. In the spam filtering interface, what would be the easiest regex combination to ensure that, as an example, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would automatically discard any self-addressed messages in this manner? One of the related complications seems to be that the sender (From) name identity is always different -- but the @ address is always the same, of course. This is probably really easy, but I'm still a regular expression novice. Thanks, Jason _ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 IP Tel: 740-368-3131 | AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Sporadic, fractional non-delivery
We have an on-campus list with about 1,900 student subscribers that has been functioning properly for months. Recently, however, an extremely small percentage of students -- about 1% that we're aware of -- have stopped getting messages from the list. Here are some of the specifics ... 1. Mailman and the MTA (Sendmail) both reside on the same well-configured Red Hat Linux ES server, which serves as our primary on-campus e-mail server, too. 2. Doing grep on specific account names through all the Mailman logs hasn't turned up any issues. 3. All impacted students are receiving normal (non-Mailman) messages just fine from the same on-campus domain, which (again) is driven by the same Sendmail instance. 4. No differences can be found at the Linux account level -- directory permissions, user configuration, etc. -- between those who are receiving the messages and those who aren't. 5. The impacted account names have been confirmed to reside in the Mailman config.pck file and via the Web GUI Membership Management screen with typical (non-digest) delivery preferences set. I should note that some of these students are automatically forwarding their University e-mail to an off-campus account -- like Gmail or Hotmail -- and obviously that introduces another layer of message filtering. But many of these students are using on-campus IMAP or POP e-mail resources only, and a spot check immediately after a message is distributed via Mailman reveals that they still aren't getting anything from the list. Any ideas to help our investigation on the Mailman and/or Sendmail side? Is there some extra verbose logging that could be turned on? Thanks, Jason _ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar | MSN/Google Talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 740-368-3131 | Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Deleting several entire archives
I've read the How can I remove a post from the list archive / remove an entire archive? entry in the FAQ, but I was wondering if there were any shortcuts to make the process less tedious -- especially with a dozen or so list archives that I want to just wipe out and start from scratch (rebuilding their public Web archives so that they're blank). Is it possible to do a cp /dev/null against the mbox raw archive files? Or am I just making this more difficult than it needs to be, and there are a couple of quick steps to accommodate mass archive wiping? Also, nobody is actually checking any of these archives right now (or using any of the lists, for that matter), so is it necessary to turn off archiving and switch archives from public to private to enable this? Or are those just courtesy tasks for mailing users? Thanks, Jason _ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar | MSN/Google Talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 740-368-3131 | Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Quick spam regex question
If I wanted to set up my Mailman spam filter to only accept list submissions for approval from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for example) -- and automatically discard messages sent from any other domain -- what would be the easiest way to set that up in the spam filter rules? Thanks, Jason _ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar | MSN/Google Talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 740-368-3131 | Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Mailman capacity?
We're creating a list with roughly 15,000 recipients. Can Mailman handle this? And will the system throttle delivery of messages -- which should only take place once a week, from the moderator -- to such a large list? Jason _ Jason LaMar Interim Director of Information Services Libraries and Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH 43015 Tel: 740-368-3131, Fax: 740-368-3272, Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Unsubscribing via e-mail ...
I just want to confirm that it's possible for a list member to unsubscribe from a list via e-mail -- with an e-mail reply confirmation, rather than any sort of password confirmation -- if they send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, what if this message ISN'T blank? Will Mailman disregard and message body content, assuming this address is correct for the list? Thanks, Jason _ Jason LaMar Interim Director of Information Services Libraries and Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH 43015 Tel: 740-368-3131, Fax: 740-368-3272, Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Digest flag in membership list? ...
A disclaimer: I realize our implementation is not at all what was intended for typical Mailman usage, but ... We have lists where: * the subscribers don't know their individual passwords for Web access * the subscribers don't have Web access to Mailman subscription features * we (the admins) manually control whether subscribers get to use digest mode, based on their e-mail requests The lists are set up this way because this is the main campus-wide alert/announcement system for e-mail, so we want to guarantee that everyone is SUPPOSED to get every message sent to these lists. OK, so here's the kicker. Based on a somewhat transient user population (we regularly lose and add a small fraction of students, and sometimes even employees), we've developed an external script to regularly cross-check the current subscriber list and then update it with subscriber additions and removals as necessary. Unfortunately, when the lists are refreshed, all individual subscriber parameters (like digest mode) are wiped out to their defaults. So my question is: Is there some sort of flag associated with each subscriber entry that indicates digest usage, that we should be sure not to touch during the list refresh? Or, to put it more broadly, how would you suggest doing backend (non-subscriber) list maintenance that doesn't impact individual subscriber preferences? Thanks, Jason _ Jason LaMar Interim Director of Information Services Libraries and Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH 43015 Tel: 740-368-3131, Fax: 740-368-3272, Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Message digest/archive oddity ...
A list subscriber submitted an HTML e-mail message from Outlook with a Word attachment. It came across as a multi-part MIME, with these content type headers (in this order) ... Content-Type: multipart/alternative; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable _ Jason LaMar Interim Director of Information Services Libraries and Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH 43015 Tel: 740-368-3131, Fax: 740-368-3272, Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Message digest/archive oddity ...
Sorry about that. Let's try this again. A list subscriber submitted an HTML e-mail message from Outlook with a Word attachment. It came across as a multi-part MIME, with these content type headers (in this order): --=_NextPart_000_0001_01C5A33B.DBC4C170 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_001_0002_01C5A33B.DBC4C170 --=_NextPart_001_0002_01C5A33B.DBC4C170 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --=_NextPart_001_0002_01C5A33B.DBC4C170 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --=_NextPart_000_0001_01C5A33B.DBC4C170 Content-Type: application/msword; name=advice to faculty.doc Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=advice to faculty.doc The body text of the message was under both the text/plain (unformatted) and text/html (formatted) areas, and the message and attachment both rendered fine for non-digest recipients. Yet in both the digest and the archives, this message was simply listed as: Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: advice to faculty.doc Type: application/msword Size: 29696 bytes Desc: not available What happened? Why did the body of the message disappear? And how do I prevent this from happening again? Jason _ Jason LaMar Interim Director of Information Services Libraries and Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH 43015 Tel: 740-368-3131, Fax: 740-368-3272, Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] BCC to non-member poster ...
I'm probably just overlooking a configuration setting, but I was wondering if it's possible to automatically BCC (preferably) or CC non-members when their postings to a list are distributed. I'm on a college campus, and we're using Mailman to distribute messages to specific groups (students, faculty, etc.). Often, students will send a message to faculty/staff members ... or vice versa ... so they aren't part of the list membership. Of course, since all postings are moderated and require approval, the list admins could just notify the sender when a message has been distributed. But I was looking for an automated method. Thanks, Jason _ Jason LaMar Interim Director of Information Services Libraries and Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH 43015 Tel: 740-368-3131, Fax: 740-368-3272, Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Couple of quick configs ...
Hello. I'm new to Mailman and this list, so forgive me if I'm repeating recent questions, but there are two specific things I want to do that I think involve Python hacking: 1. Change the default digest delivery time to 5 p.m. local/server time. 2. Completely remove the You can get more information about this list. line and the More info on this list... bulleted line from ALL the Web Archives pages of ALL lists. For request #2, will this change be retroactive and apply to existing Web pages? Or do I have to rebuild the lists somehow for these deletions to take effect? Also, for both requests, do I have to recompile something? Any specific help on where and how to make these changes would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason _ Jason LaMar Interim Director of Information Services Libraries and Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University; Delaware, OH 43015 Tel: 740-368-3131, Fax: 740-368-3272, Web: http://www.owu.edu/ -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
