Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

2006-08-23 Thread Florian Weimer
* Matt England: > I'm also considering adding these capabilities (which may or may not be > implicit in the above description) to combat spam: > > * Don't allow email from non-subscribers > * Moderate email from new subscribers some period of time (probably a day > to a week) I've compiled a fe

Re: [Mailman-Users] security heads up - path traversal with 2.1.5

2005-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Brad Knowles: > At 1:24 PM +0100 2005-02-14, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> Who has a say in the disclosure of a security bug? > > In terms of who can post such things to this list? Well, as one > of the core developers for Mailman, Chuq is one of the very few >

Re: [Mailman-Users] security heads up - path traversal with 2.1.5

2005-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Chuq Von Rospach: > my position is simple (and unchanged): if it's not your project, don't > make strategic decisions about it. Unfortunately, the crackers that began to attack Mailman sites in January didn't respect your wishes. Who has a say in the disclosure of a security bug? The person

[Mailman-Users] Script to check address subscription status

2004-10-27 Thread Florian Weimer
Is there some script to check for subscription status (or, more precisely, the permission to post)? find_member is almost what I need, but it uses a regular expression, doesn't check just a specified mailing list, and doesn't look at the additional poster list. (I'm trying to reject posts from no

[Mailman-Users] Multiple domains and lists with the same name

2001-06-26 Thread Florian Weimer
I'd like to host multiple mail domains (two at the moment) on the same host. Some of the lists will have clashing names, e.g.. info@domain1 and info@domain2. Shall I use two separate Mailman installations, or is there a better solution? -- Florian Weimer[EMAIL PROT

[Mailman-Users] Sender: header considered harmful (sort of)

2001-04-11 Thread Florian Weimer
Is it possible to remove the sender header from answers to administrative requests sent out by Mailman? There's some broken software out there which uses a Sender: header for replies if it's present, and this software is widely used by some audiences. :-/ -- Flor

Re: [Mailman-Users] Speeding up delivery

2001-02-02 Thread Florian Weimer
Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My mailer (Exim) delivers a message > > for multiple recipients sequentially. Of course, this is more > > efficient in terms of network usage, but processing several batches in > > parallel is faster (and network bandwidth isn't an issue here). > > Oh, d

[Mailman-Users] Speeding up delivery

2001-01-31 Thread Florian Weimer
network bandwidth isn't an issue here). In addition, administrative requests are not handled until the cron/qrunner script is run---I'd prefer if they were dealt with immediately. Did I miss some config options? I'm running Mailman 2.0.1. Thanks, -- Florian Weimer

Re: [Mailman-Users] How do I get the from address?

2001-01-15 Thread Florian Weimer
John W Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or one can look at Mastering Regular Expressions page 316 which contains, > in highly compressed micro type, a 6,598 byte (he says) regular expression > for matching email addresses. Something has to be wrong. The mail address syntax described in RFC