[Mailman-Users] Auto-Discard Sender Filter
Hello All, One of our Mailman mailing lists appears to have several e-mail addresses listed under the sender filter section: List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically discarded I've talked to the list admins and they have all claimed that they did not place these e-mail addresses there nor do they know how they got there in the first place. Is there some sort of automatic feature in Mailman that would be adding these e-mail addresses without manual intervention? My first inclination after looking through the online documentation and from using Mailman for the last few years was that someone simply added these e-mail addresses manually by mistake and either forgot about it or just didn't care to admit to doing it. Basically I just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I've missed and this was in fact just user error and some feature you can enable/disable through the admin options. Anyone's input will be much appreciated. Thanks! -- Henry Chang henhowc at ucla.edu University of California, Los Angeles -- 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] Auto-Discard Sender Filter
Charles Marcus wrote: Mark Sapiro, on 12/12/2007 4:06 PM, said the following: Henry wrote: My first inclination after looking through the online documentation and from using Mailman for the last few years was that someone simply added these e-mail addresses manually by mistake and either forgot about it or just didn't care to admit to doing it. Basically I just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything I've missed and this was in fact just user error and some feature you can enable/disable through the admin options. When a list is created, the *_these_nonmember fields are empty. There is no feature/option/configuration setting to make them otherwise by default. Seems like I recall seeing an option to 'discard messages from this poster' when handling some administrative holds at some time, but I don't see it now... Privacy options...-Sender filters-discard_these_nonmembers. There is also an option in the admindb interface to add the sender of a held non-member post to one of the *_these_nonmembers filters when handling the post. This may explain how the addresses got in the OP's list without the admin's remembering putting them there. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- 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] Auto-Discard Sender Filter
Charles Marcus wrote: On 12/12/2007, Mark Sapiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There is also an option in the admindb interface to add the sender of a held non-member post to one of the *_these_nonmembers filters when handling the post. This may explain how the addresses got in the OP's list without the admin's remembering putting them there. Yeah, thats the one I was thinking of... but the funny thing is, I just tested this and I don't see that option when I go to deal with the post... is there a way to disable these so you don't see them at all? The option is only there for posts from non-members. Posts from members held for moderation or other reasons will not have that option because it doesn't make sense for them. -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- 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] Auto-Discard Sender Filter
On 12/12/07, Henry wrote: I've talked to the list admins and they have all claimed that they did not place these e-mail addresses there nor do they know how they got there in the first place. Is there some sort of automatic feature in Mailman that would be adding these e-mail addresses without manual intervention? My first inclination after looking through the online documentation and from using Mailman for the last few years was that someone simply added these e-mail addresses manually by mistake and either forgot about it or just didn't care to admit to doing it. When you first pull up the moderation queue for a mailing list, anything that is held gives you at least one set of options you can take (allow, reject, discard, etc...) but if the post came from a non-member you get an additional set of options you can take (including putting the sender address on the auto-discard list, the auto-accept list, etc...). This is the only other way I know of to automatically put addresses on one of the per-list whitelists or blacklists. -- Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] LinkedIn Profile: http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu -- 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
