Re: [Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

> On Nov 13, 2016, at 8:04 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > On 11/13/2016 07:55 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> Or to get more than one tld with one regexp >> >> *.*\.(site|win|othertop)$ > > Ooops. Should be > > ^.*\.(site|win|othertop)$ Thanks to everyone who replied! I want to

[Mailman-Users] Expressions to reduce spam

Hi, I use the "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically discarded” feature a ton. In the past you have helped me to figure out the correct expressions to use to discard emails from the following: 1) The whole email (no help needed, this one is obvious). 2) Addresses

Re: [Mailman-Users] Privacy Options Filtering

On Jun 3, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 06/03/2013 03:21 PM, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: This must have come at a bad time because no one seemed to have seen it. I saw it, left it in my inbox for later and never saw it again until now. Sorry and thanks for reposting. Thanks for your

[Mailman-Users] Privacy Options Filtering

This must have come at a bad time because no one seemed to have seen it. I'm reposting. Thanks, Cyndi Begin forwarded message: From: Cyndi Norwitz cy...@norwitz.net Subject: [Mailman-Users] Privacy Options Filtering Date: April 29, 2013 1:54:26 PM PDT To: Mailman-Users@python.org Hi Mark

[Mailman-Users] Privacy Options Filtering

Hi Mark and everyone, I'm going to call this a bug, for lack of a better term. I use Mailman version 2.1.11. It's hosted at my ISP and I have zero control over upgrading. Sometimes they do some custom builds but I doubt that's an issue here. I've had the same set of issues with previous

[Mailman-Users] Auto-response for moderated new subscribes?

I looked in the FAQ but could not find anything. One of the lists I run is advertised to the public but subscriptions are moderated (need approval). The other moderator and I would like a way to send out a form letter automatically to people when their subscription is pending that lists

Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-response for moderated new subscribes?

On Feb 9, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Cyndi Norwitz wrote: I looked through the list admin commands. The General page has a place for an auto-reply to new subscribers (appended to the regular welcome) but nothing for those who are pending. Then there is the Auto-Reply page which

[Mailman-Users] Filter for exact domain names

I am getting a lot of spam post attempts from a domain tom.com. I would like to do an automatic discard in discard_these_nonmembers for this domain. I can add this line of code: ^...@]+@(.*\.)?tom\.com$ But I am concerned that this will discard all .com domain names that end with tom,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filter for exact domain names

On Dec 13, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Cyndi Norwitz wrote: I can add this line of code: ^...@]+@(.*\.)?tom\.com$ But I am concerned that this will discard all .com domain names that end with tom, which may be some legit ones. It won't Great. So the whole regexp matches

Re: [Mailman-Users] Filter for exact domain names

On Dec 13, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: The following (Chinese) domains are perennial offenders (and I do mean *years*): tom.com, 163.com, 126.com, and 263.com. Thanks, I added those too. Also, only the message-id of discarded messages is logged by Mailman, so figuring out

[Mailman-Users] massive unsubscribe

On Sep 17, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Tecru Info wrote: We are having a problem where half the email list is getting unsubscribed. Has this happened to anyone? The people did not unsubscribe themselves. Yes, this has happened to me. I run several lists with Mailman at the same ISP. One of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How big message size

I always change it. 40KB keeps out some longer text-only posts. I find that 200KB pretty much lets in all the posts I'd like to go in but tosses into moderation most attachments and full quotes of digests by clueless users. On small lists where we are doing work that requires exchange of

[Mailman-Users] discard_these_nonmembers

Aside #1: Feature Request Can there be a link to the FAQ or other documentation on the Mailman administration page used by listowners at their ISP? Aside #2: Is there a place to see what updates have been made in various MM versions? I can't find it at the wiki. Question: I'm trying to edit

Re: [Mailman-Users] discard_these_nonmembers

Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:17:26 -0700 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ISP recently upgraded from version 2.1.9 to version 2.1.11. There was a change in email address validation in that an address with an unquoted local part containing ':', '\' or '' is now considered

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:20:01 -0500 From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyndi Norwitz wrote: P.S. I still don't understand why they insist on an invite model. Because all it takes is one listowner that doesn't understand and does a mass subscribe of a number of people

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

in charge of putting people I know personally or am local to on small lists. Unfortunately, the vast majority of unsolicited email is not small or local or personal. Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:20:04 -0700 From: Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyndi Norwitz wrote: I really really hate having my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

Sigh...this is my ISP's response to my request. At least they did take it seriously and consider it (the option is Mark's suggestion of a severe limit on numbers of subscribers listowners could add per day/week/whatever). We have decided that we are not going to implement this option on our

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:54:59 -0400 From: Jim Popovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Cyndi Norwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, I disagree. As do all the other mailing list providers that I'm aware of. Not me. If I were setting up a Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

say, okay, any list that Cyndi runs can have this new feature. So that's the feedback. Thanks for all your time with this. Cyndi Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:51:02 -0700 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyndi Norwitz wrote: Please let me know if I should post this elsewhere too

[Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

Please let me know if I should post this elsewhere too. The Mass Subscribe feature has two settings: on and off. Although Mailman was designed for users to self-install, and presumably they can trust themselves not to abuse it, the truth is that an awful lot of Mailman list owners do not have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:51:02 -0700 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can see that actual site settings something like MAXIMUM_LIST_OWNER_SUBSCRIBES = 10 LIST_OWNER_SUBSCRIBE_WINDOW = days(7) to allow at most 10 subscribes in any 7 day period, might be an alternative

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web UI request

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:54:04 -0500 From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/18/08, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: I second this. Subscribers losing their password and asking me to make changes for them is one of my biggest timesinks, outside of moderation. I don't molly-coddle

Re: [Mailman-Users] Web UI request

Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:24:34 -0700 From: Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is not obvious from the list information page how one would obtain a password reminder. You have to click the Unsubscribe or edit options button to get to the page with the password reminder button. This

Re: [Mailman-Users] GNU Mailmain 2.1.9: Filtering Messages based on

Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:42:26 -0500 From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Agreed. Virtually all lists that I've administered where we required confirm+approve and automatically moderated all new users, those lists have never had a spam problem. Well, at least not that the users

[Mailman-Users] Feature request: Easier to ban members

I'm putting this here first for feedback. If you want me to submit it anywhere, let me know. I am running version 2.1.9. I have no control over which version it is. If this has been updated, great. I have run into the problem of it being difficult to ban someone. If the person is not a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Again on HTML emails

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:54:27 +0100 (BST) From: Giulio Troccoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to send HTML email, or better I need to be able to do so. I've read a lot of posts that say how to prevent HTML emails to be sent, but I can't seem to be able to set mailman to accept them.

[Mailman-Users] Content Filtering for Body Text

My mailing lists have a policy of disallowing copyrighted material without permission. I have a couple people on moderation who do not understand this and post such things frequently. But I want to keep most folks off moderation if possible as it improves the flow of the list and reduces my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo

From: Rick Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:15:58 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (0): SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: host g.mx.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.53.191]: 421 4.7.0 [TS02] Messages from 216.104.33.122

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need ability to allow emails with specificsubject line

When I have had forms on my web pages, I was shocked by just how many of the submissions were spam. I could never figure out if a human took the time to fill out all those little text boxes or if there was a generator somewhere. Sometimes the boxes were filled randomly and sometimes they were

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:31:48 -0800 From: Allan Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I suppose that the best response is to simply ignore requests such as this which so obviously is from a spammer. I disagree. They shouldn't be ignored. They should be denounced. Previous posters covered

Re: [Mailman-Users] Promotion

From: Khalil Abbas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:41:14 + Now this is the most logical and reasonale answer I've ever got .. this is what I call: a reply from a professional.. she's right, I have no idea that this is spamming.. all I know about spamming is those

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there an easy way to discard all messages waiting to be reviewed

From: Vinita Aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:07:09 +0530 I have a list where non members can post but their messages are moderated, I ave to deal with a lot of spam. After sometime, just a small percentage of them will be good posts. I'm in the same boat. All

[Mailman-Users] Stability of Mailman 2.1.10

I asked my ISP to upgrade to the new version of MM (they're using 2.1.9). I'm especially excited about the admin_member_chunksize feature. Their reply: From their site it appears this is not a stable release...I expect we will not be upgrading until it is indicated it is the latest stable

[Mailman-Users] accept_these_nonmembers not working

One of the regular posters to my mailing list prefers to post from an address different from the one where she recieves posts. The first time she did this, her post came up for moderation and I clicked on accept and also checked the box to have her posts automatically be accepted. If I go to my

Re: [Mailman-Users] accept_these_nonmembers not working

Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:27:57 -0800 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's where I'm confused (thank you Sonic). The reason Post to moderated list says this is a post from a member whose moderate flag is set. That's the only source of that reason. Unless the wording is

Re: [Mailman-Users] accept_these_nonmembers not working

Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:18:45 -0800 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check your membership list to see if she is a moderated member. I just checked and she is not listed as a member under that address. How about another address in her message. If any address in a

Re: [Mailman-Users] List Topics (was: accept_these_nonmembers not working)

From: Stephen J. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:26:46 +0900 Cyndi Norwitz writes: On the other hand, bothering the ISP staff isn't what I want to do But you'll bother the Mailman developers because they do it for free? I do not wish to take over the list

[Mailman-Users] Bounce Processing Emails

Because of excessive spam, I've done what so many of us have had to do, I set the catch-all on my domain name not to go to my inbox. I have a few dozen legit usernames set to come to me. Because some non-spam slips through, I send the leftover usernames to another mailbox I read irregularly (the

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

From: Stephen J. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:24:32 +0900 Almost. If you worry about false positives, you can ask them to make sure that the spam level header which gives a spamminess rating according to the number of stars (eg, X-Spam-Level: ** is

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 21:21:01 -0800 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyndi Norwitz wrote: There is nothing called spam filters in privacy options. In the admin interface, there should be four sub-pages under Privacy options... Yeah, duh, somehow I missed that :) Does

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

From: Stephen J. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:44:29 +0900 If the spam problem is too great, I may have to disallow non-member posts except for people who write me asking to be put on an approved list. I have several regular posters who are not

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 01:53:21 -0600 I was talking about moving just your mailing lists, not all your ISP services. Of course you could link those two if you want, but there are plenty of mailing list only providers that you could at least

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 08:49:30 -0800 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin is much better integrated in the MTA ahead of Mailman, but if they want to integrate SpamAssassin with Mailman at some point, refer them to

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:35:56 -0600 From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/7/07, Vinita Aggarwal wrote: Now, I am getting everyday about 100s of spam emails in that list. Please advise how to deal with this? Mailman doesn't have great tools for this. Instead, you

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop spam emails

Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 00:27:11 -0600 From: Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailman doesn't have great tools for this. Instead, you should configure your mail server to reject or discard the spam messages before they ever get to Mailman. Any ideas how to do this

[Mailman-Users] Using your domain name

I haven't found this in the FAQ, though I might not be looking hard enough. Mostly the info is about how to set up MM on your own domain, but that's not what I want. I am using MM that is hosted at my ISP. But I want to use my personal domain name for the list addresses. Getting the domain

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using your domain name

Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:49:07 -0800 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as email domain is concerned, that's exactly what host_name is for. If you only want to change the domain in list email addresses, and not in URLs, all you need to do is change the list's host_name.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Too many Bounce action notifications

From: Vikram Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:36:13 +1000 I maintain a medium sized mailing list (over 4) to which a newsletter is sent out every few weeks. Till recently, I had no issues with this list, but after the last newsletter was sent out, I have

[Mailman-Users] Viewing Full Subscriber Subscriber Security

Hi, I'm new to the list, though I undoubtedly know some of you from other list management lists. I am in the process of migrating my mailing lists from majordomo on a friend's server to mailman at sonic.net. I have many questions which I haven't been able to answer by reading the FAQ's. Some

Re: [Mailman-Users] Viewing Full Subscriber Subscriber Security

Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 15:32:45 -0800 From: Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are bug reports and feature requests in the sourceforge tracker about this and lots of email in the archives. I'm embarrased to say one of the bug reports is mine and I've never fixed it. See

[Mailman-Users] Mass Subscribe Option

Okay, another question. I am migrating lists from another system and the easiest way to do this is to use mass subscribe and just put all the old users into it. With a few warnings on the existing list that anyone who doesn't want to be moved needs to unsub now. When I use mass subscribe at