Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop and abuse complaints

2012-06-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-06-16 3:54 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * Terry Earleyte...@fiteyes.com: Maybe VERP is the best solution for AOL and her evil step-sisters if you can stand the overhead? Yep. Is it possible to enable VERP *only* for certain domains (like AOL, Yahoo,

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-17 Thread Brad Knowles
On Jun 16, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I have no idea why AOL wants to make it difficult for list administrators to unsubscribe people who don't want to be subscribed and who complain to AOL about list posts being spam. I can tell you the reasons that management gave at the time

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 06:34 -0700, Brad Knowles wrote: I can tell you the reasons that management gave at the time I was working there -- it was all about the privacy of their user. They said that they wanted to protect the privacy of the person who was complaining. So what would be the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.15 final released.

2012-06-17 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 6/16/2012 2:04 PM, David wrote: How would I update from the version of Mailman 2.1.14 from Ubuntu's repository (on Ubuntu 12.04)? You can do what I did when I administered a Mailman system running on Ubuntu - I generated my own package from an existing Ubuntu package and the new SourceForge

Re: [Mailman-Users] what effect does mm_cfg.py settingVERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIEShave if personalize (nondigest) is set to NO?

2012-06-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
David wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:25 AM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: David wrote: In mm_cfg.py I have these settings: OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION=Yes VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES=Yes VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes If I set

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop andabuse complaints

2012-06-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Tanstaafl wrote: Is it possible to enable VERP *only* for certain domains (like AOL, Yahoo, etc)? It would be a somewhat messy hack to Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py to do it in Mailman. Depending on your MTA, you might be able to do it there if you have the MTA do the VERPing. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop andabuse complaints

2012-06-17 Thread Terry Earley
Is it possible to enable VERP *only* for certain domains (like AOL, Yahoo, etc)? Now that AOL also redacts return path, VERPing alone will not help much for them. Return-Path: redacted-boun...@discuss.fiteyes.com Full Personalization could give you more to trace, since each post is send

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loopandabuse complaints

2012-06-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Terry Earley wrote: Is it possible to enable VERP *only* for certain domains (like AOL, Yahoo, etc)? Now that AOL also redacts return path, VERPing alone will not help much for them. Return-Path: redacted-boun...@discuss.fiteyes.com Is that a redact of a VERPed Return-Path:? It doesn't look

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loopandabuse complaints

2012-06-17 Thread David
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: Terry Earley wrote: Is it possible to enable VERP *only* for certain domains (like AOL, Yahoo, etc)? Now that AOL also redacts return path, VERPing alone will not help much for them. Return-Path:

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loopandabuse complaints

2012-06-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 6/17/2012 4:44 PM, David wrote: An AOL member complained about this same message today. The return path in the report from the AOL Feedback Loop gets redacted to: Return-Path: all-bounces+redacted=aol@discuss.fiteyes.com OK, that answers that question, so it would seem that

[Mailman-Users] Personal patch

2012-06-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Can someone give me some feedback on the following patch to SMTPDirect.py - whatever I've overlooked, or done that might be dangerous? The purpose of this patch is to insert a header, X-subdata into VERPed emails which won't be flagged and redacted by AOL's brain-dead Email Feedback Report

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-17 Thread Brad Knowles
On Jun 17, 2012, at 7:27 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: So what would be the implications of hacking an extra header into outgoing posts on lists for which personalization is enabled, say X-Subdata, with said header containing a hash of the subscriber address to which the post is directed? You

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

2012-06-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 20:40 -0700, Brad Knowles wrote: You could do this, but the question is whether or not that header would survive through to the complaint you get via their feedback loop. I doubt that it would, but there's only one way to know for sure. My observation has been that the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal patch

2012-06-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Lindsay Haisley wrote: Can someone give me some feedback on the following patch to SMTPDirect.py - whatever I've overlooked, or done that might be dangerous? [...] --- SMTPDirect.py.orig 2012-06-17 17:16:25.0 -0500 +++ SMTPDirect.py 2012-06-17 21:17:25.0 -0500 @@ -43,6 +43,8