[Mailman-Users] Re: Outlook blocked again, but strange response

2024-03-11 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ail, etc. If you have the money, you can buy a better reputation for your IP addresses are address group, but it's a money game. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is trut

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.18 for RHEL 5

2020-02-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley (linode)
On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >> On 2020-02-17 10:56, Bill Cole wrote: >> RedHat has a policy of nailing down nominal versions of software with >> each major RHEL release and then backporting whatever fixes they deem >> important into their packages over the life of t

Re: [Mailman-Users] UTF-8 From and Reply-to addresses not getting properly processed.

2020-02-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ching what we see in on the Administrative Requests page), the it should be sufficient to discard any message with a From header staring with "=?utf-8". -- Lindsay Haisley | "The arc of history is long, but FMP Computer Services | it bends toward Justice" 512-259-1

Re: [Mailman-Users] UTF-8 From and Reply-to addresses not getting properly processed.

2020-02-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2020-02-16 at 12:08 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Munged a few words. > > On 2/15/20 11:20 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > The only filter relevant to this issue is "(?i)Subject: .*[f...]". > > The (?i) is irrelevant as the match always ignores case. Als

Re: [Mailman-Users] UTF-8 From and Reply-to addresses not getting properly processed.

2020-02-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
e information provided by MM 2. Since the code is in MM2 to decode base64 headers, which it does for the similarly encoded Subject, I should probably hack the MM code to make it do the same for the From header before showing it in the list of Administrative Requests (or someone else could do this,

Re: [Mailman-Users] UTF-8 From and Reply-to addresses not getting properly processed.

2020-02-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Here's a more concise summary: On Sat, 2020-02-15 at 20:00 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 2/15/20 5:58 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > We're running Mailman 2.1.18-1 and have a list which is having a porn > > spam problem. The list is set to discard posts from non-

Re: [Mailman-Users] UTF-8 From and Reply-to addresses not getting properly processed.

2020-02-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2020-02-15 at 20:00 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 2/15/20 5:58 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > We're running Mailman 2.1.18-1 and have a list which is having a porn > > spam problem. The list is set to discard posts from non-members, and > > the list moderator

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber password override?

2019-11-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
k > in the confirmation request email she receives. Following a link in a confirmation email may be pushing it with her :( -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 |

[Mailman-Users] Subscriber password override?

2019-11-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
min, as is helping subscribers who need some hand holding. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certainty of change" 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| - Ancient wisdom, all cultures

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some site blocking our emails from mailman 2.1.29 ?

2018-11-30 Thread Lindsay Haisley (linode)
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 30, 2018, at 4:17 PM, Matthew Goebel wrote: > > We've recently had one or two sites block email coming from one of our > lists. > They seem to indicate it is because of sending address having bounces in it? Email is probably the most stressed service on the Inter

Re: [Mailman-Users] OT - Smart .forward replacement?

2018-11-25 Thread Lindsay Haisley (linode)
On Nov 25, 2018, at 1:06 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > A .forward normally does not cause issues with DMARC because .forward > redirection normally does not transform the message in ways that break > DKIM signatures. Which assumes that the sending system includes a DKIM signature in the original m

Re: [Mailman-Users] OT - Smart .forward replacement?

2018-11-25 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ist must have a proper SPF record. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson -- Mailman-

Re: [Mailman-Users] OT - Smart .forward replacement?

2018-11-25 Thread Lindsay Haisley
relevant messages. Does such a thing exist? Leaving from_is_list set to "Munge From" will take care of any DNS outages, if you don't mind doing this. When it comes to specialized software to do things such as scan mailboxes and take intelligent action, I've found that I pretty mu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recursion problem with "disabled" cron job.

2018-10-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 21:43 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 10/15/18 9:23 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-10-15 at 21:09 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > There should be "delivery disabled" entries in Mailman's bounce log. > > > > Nada,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recursion problem with "disabled" cron job.

2018-10-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ad a single file > descriptor for both the config.pck and the pending.pck, but I have no > idea how that could happen. Evil spirits. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | h

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recursion problem with "disabled" cron job.

2018-10-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
date on the pending.pck if you still have > the original and see if there's anything in Mailman's logs with that > time stamp. I did think of that. See above. > > I'll be happy to send the sour pickle to you, Mark, if you want to look > > into it, but it's your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recursion problem with "disabled" cron job.

2018-10-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
eadily available. I have plenty of excellent software, notably my Evolution MUA, which has some nasty pot- holes scattered among otherwise exceptional features. One learns to deal with them. I'll be happy to send the sour pickle to you, Mark, if you want to look into it, but it's your call.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recursion problem with "disabled" cron job.

2018-10-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ements (and manual re- enablements) after our blacklisting by Microsoft last weekend. The question now is how to fix it? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recursion problem with "disabled" cron job.

2018-10-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
in/dumpdb /var/lib/mailman/lists/$list/pending.pck|grep evictions This, at least, is how things are laid out here, although perhaps the standard now is to put the lists dir under /usr/lib64/mailman. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | wa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recursion problem with "disabled" cron job.

2018-10-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
malized relational database back in sync with itself? On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 11:31 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 10/12/2018 08:20 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > I'm running Mailman 2.1.18-1 > > I'm running cron job daily with this command: > > > > /usr/bin/pyth

[Mailman-Users] Recursion problem with "disabled" cron job.

2018-10-12 Thread Lindsay Haisley
name)   etc . until the recursion limit is exceeded. To the best of my knowledge, this is relatively new. Any ideas about what might be happening here? Was this perhaps addressed in a newer version of MM? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer

Re: [Mailman-Users] Microsoft blocking our Mailman lists

2018-10-08 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 12:23 -0400, Jim Popovitch via Mailman-Users wrote: > On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 11:01 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > > I've generally had good luck with Linode. Their tech folks are real > > geniuses and technically their service really

Re: [Mailman-Users] Microsoft blocking our Mailman lists

2018-10-08 Thread Lindsay Haisley
mpts out there to deal with the problem in ways that break email on the Internet, often violation of RFCs. It's a tribute to the engineering genius of the internet pioneers who developed the email protocols that it survives at all and hasn't been replaced entirely with proprietary services suc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Microsoft blocking our Mailman lists

2018-10-07 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ng request with Microsoft on my address, or the /24 containing it. I've done the same from my end. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram

Re: [Mailman-Users] Microsoft blocking our Mailman lists

2018-10-07 Thread Lindsay Haisley
y, Microsoft has informed me that my IP address "does not qualify for mitigation", so I've asked for more details. It looks as if I may need to unload all my Mailman list hosting clients and send them to a commercial service such as MailChimp. -- Lindsay Haisley | "

[Mailman-Users] Microsoft blocking our Mailman lists

2018-10-07 Thread Lindsay Haisley
recently with Microsoft mail customers who are Mailman list subscribers? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating Mailman to New Server (Same Domain)

2018-06-12 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ocess, and how others might proceed to do so. Sufficient knowledge of bash scripting and basic Unix permissions and such may well be required to properly modify and use these scripts on other systems. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war co

Re: [Mailman-Users] Brute force attacks on mailman web ui

2018-04-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
heck out fail2ban. It's in use on my company's server and works wonders on stopping brute force attacks on ALL services affected. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp

Re: [Mailman-Users] Brute force attacks on mailman web ui

2018-04-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 11:06 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 04/16/2018 10:45 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > >  > > Apache will log the access, with IP addresse, but to the best of my > > knowledge it won't log a Web UI login failure since this is an internal > > matte

Re: [Mailman-Users] Brute force attacks on mailman web ui

2018-04-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
;t log a Web UI login failure since this is an internal matter for Mailman. The connecting IP address is available in the environment to any web application and it shouldn't be difficult to set up logging for login failures. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Compu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Brute force attacks on mailman web ui

2018-04-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
lish kernel filter rules to block these IPs. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson

Re: [Mailman-Users] (relatively) new DMARC issues - and Gmail

2018-03-31 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I also contact them  > outside your system. This is an interesting idea. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Humor will get you through times of no humor FMP Computer Services | better than no humor will get you through 512-259-1190 | times of humor." ht

Re: [Mailman-Users] (relatively) new DMARC issues - and Gmail

2018-03-31 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2018-03-31 at 17:33 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I've had to deal with Gmail's honey-potting before, and I can do it > again if necessary. I don't imagine that you've ever done commercial > email administration, Richard, or you might have something construc

Re: [Mailman-Users] (relatively) new DMARC issues - and Gmail

2018-03-31 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2018-03-31 at 17:57 -0400, Richard Damon wrote: > On 3/31/18 3:35 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2018-03-31 at 14:50 -0400, Richard Damon wrote: > > > > > > To me the issue sounds like why is fmp.com forwarding spam? > > > &

Re: [Mailman-Users] (relatively) new DMARC issues - and Gmail

2018-03-31 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ic original from address. Which, as I noted in my original post, will cause the Gmail user's mail account to end up with a whole lot of useless whitelisted address which would need to be deleted, and FMP's server might well end up getting blacklisted as a result. -- Lindsay Haisley

[Mailman-Users] (relatively) new DMARC issues - and Gmail

2018-03-31 Thread Lindsay Haisley
one out there! The only possible solution here would be to randomize the username portion of the rewritten From address, which makes the email look more like spam, and the Gmail user would end up with a whole lot of useless whitelisted address which would need to be deleted. Not to mention the fact t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switching a list to port 443

2018-03-08 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ttps.py the absence of an appropriate add_virtualhost() came to the fore and the web_page_url was rewritten using the old DEFAULT_URL_HOST, even though I'd added a proper add_virtualhost() by the time I ran https.py. Interesting, but not serious since the issue was identified and remedied in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switching a list to port 443

2018-03-07 Thread Lindsay Haisley
nce of an appropriate add_virtualhost() came to the fore and the web_page_url was rewritten using the old DEFAULT_URL_HOST, even though I'd added a proper add_virtualhost() by the time I ran https.py. Interesting, but not serious since the issue was identified and remedied here in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switching a list to port 443

2018-03-07 Thread Lindsay Haisley
x domain name and see if I can pin the issue down. I didn't have add_virtualhost() method calls for "fmp.com" and "www.fmp.com" _when the list was created_, so the web_page_url may have been overwritten with the DEFAULT_URL_HOST in effect at that time. -- Lindsay Haisley

Re: [Mailman-Users] Switching a list to port 443

2018-03-06 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 19:36 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I have an installed list running mailman-2.1.18-1 and just set up a SSL > cert from Let's Encrypt to run the site to which the list is attached > via https on port 443. > > The list moderator emailed me noting that sh

[Mailman-Users] Switching a list to port 443

2018-03-06 Thread Lindsay Haisley
nd forcing them, again, to rewrite these internal URLs from http to https breaks things. So what's the proper way to take a list that's been running via port 80 and make it run entirely via port 443? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services |

Re: [Mailman-Users] Photos from Macs getting removed by list server

2018-01-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
nd storage capacities around the Internet have risen over the years so that this isn't the problem it used to be. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-11

Re: [Mailman-Users] VCSing your local changes [was: Mailman CSRF Vulnerability]

2018-01-11 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2018-01-12 at 13:04 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Lindsay Haisley writes: > >  > Probably what I'm talking about. > > Hmm...  This is a good sign! > >  > I only partially understand this, Mark. I'll need to sit down and > study >  >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CSRF Vulnerability

2018-01-11 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 11:36 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 01/10/2018 08:47 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > > Upgrading MM2 here is a bit of a PITA since I have to do a lot of > > patching to support the hacks I've done to MM over the years. > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CSRF Vulnerability

2018-01-10 Thread Lindsay Haisley
of patching to support the hacks I've done to MM over the years. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson -

[Mailman-Users] Mailman CSRF Vulnerability

2018-01-08 Thread Lindsay Haisley
fixed since 2.1.15. For the record, could someone confirm this? -- Lindsay Haisley       | "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, FMP Computer Services |   as if millions of voices suddenly cried out 512-259-1190          |     in terror and were suddenly silenced." ht

Re: [Mailman-Users] mm_cfg

2018-01-04 Thread Lindsay Haisley
t if this information could be encapsulated into a binary which was always somewhere such as the ~mailman/bin directory and was there even if the build source wasn't included in the distribution package. I use the Courier mail suite for mail handling and every build and every distribution&#

Re: [Mailman-Users] cause of bounces

2017-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ots of SHOULD, MUST and MAY therein. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson -- Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] cause of bounces

2017-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
If it works, don't fix it". The pieces I pulled out of MM code work, and I've set up a cron job to pull the org domains db to a local server where it comes up fast, but with everything I'm doing, learning how the cow eats the cabbages in this kind of thing is pretty much on a n

Re: [Mailman-Users] cause of bounces

2017-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ut which matches "postmas...@fmp.com" which I'm using for the body From header on munged emails, and on top of this FMP publishes "a mx ptr ip4:198.58.125.221 mx:linode.fmp.com -all" for SPF, which grabs just about everything and should be OK. -- Lindsay Haisley | &

Re: [Mailman-Users] cause of bounces

2017-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
h the recipient's SMTP server received the mail. Correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I don't believe a SPF record in DNS is required. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-11

Re: [Mailman-Users] cause of bounces

2017-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ion of an email by DMARC requires ONE of two things: EITHER the DKIM signature in the email must validate, OR the domain of the From body header must resolve to the IP address of the Sender system (list server or mail reflector). Is this correct? Where's a reference on this? -- Lindsay Haisle

[Mailman-Users] ZIP files in list-owner emails

2017-10-06 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Since they're touchy about stuff like this I'd like to reject these at the front door before they get re-mailed to list-owners. Is there a good way within Mailman to filter list-owner email for unwanted attachments? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services

Re: [Mailman-Users] Django

2017-10-03 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 12:02 -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Oh, come on. It was just a snark. Too early in the AM here for snark. My apologies! -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 |

Re: [Mailman-Users] Django

2017-10-03 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ong array names ($HTTP_*_VARS) is an example. Yes, I can edit the php.ini file to make deprecated forms work, but the default behavior isn't always backward-compatible.  I hacked PHP support into Mailman some years ago for use in archive searches but fortunately my code was pretty simple. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscriptions after DMARC fix

2017-04-03 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 15:03 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Actually, we try to be gentle with these folks and keep things as > simple as possible. Some of them are pretty non-techie and these > messages probably elicit a hormonal technophobia reaction. I'll just > resubscribe the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscriptions after DMARC fix

2017-04-03 Thread Lindsay Haisley
oblem since I have the subscriber address AES-encrypted into the Resent-message-ID header, but still a PITA. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 |

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscriptions after DMARC fix

2017-04-03 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 12:28 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Last month a Mailman (v2.1.18-1) list on my server got hit with a > bunch of bounces based on DMARC rejections from Gmail, Yahoo and > Hotmail which honor "p=reject" in a DMARC record. Add comcast.net, msn.com and go

[Mailman-Users] Unsubscriptions after DMARC fix

2017-04-03 Thread Lindsay Haisley
e come from the list server's mailman address, were also bouncing. I would assume that messages which come directly from our server and are not reflected through a redirection or mailing list wouldn't be subject to rejection based on DMARC policy. Why would this be? What can be done to add

Re: [Mailman-Users] Searchable archive for mailman mailing-lists?

2017-01-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
sers@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40pyth > on.org/ > Unsubscribe: https://mail.py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recent trouble with DMARC Munging

2017-01-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
systems, simple solutions to simple problems get lost in the shuffle. Again, I'm sorry for any insult or offense to anyone on this list. Can I have some barbecue sauce on my crow ;) -- Lindsay Haisley | "Humor will get you through times of no humor FMP Computer Services |

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recent trouble with DMARC Munging

2017-01-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 07:40 -0500, Brian Carpenter wrote: > > > > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > > >  > I don't believe that the python DNS resolver module is a stock part of > >  > the python distribution. > > > > It is not, as of 3.6. N

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recent trouble with DMARC Munging

2017-01-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
t.     sudo -H pip install --upgrade pip Then, to install dnspython, you'll use:     sudo -H pip install dnspython the -H option may be advisable for pip's cache handling. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recent trouble with DMARC Munging

2017-01-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
"ls -l /usr/bin/python") Mark's tests should help you narrow the problem down. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson -

Re: [Mailman-Users] list mail increasingly flagged as spam

2016-12-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
e this problem using a particular mail provider such as Gmail, or some other service? Have any of these users posted any information to you regarding the reason their mail service has improperly flagged these list posts? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works if you let it" FMP Co

Re: [Mailman-Users] Check subscribers' infornation

2016-12-06 Thread Lindsay Haisley
punctuation:         "Name, Full" -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson -- Mailman-U

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating Mailman to New Server (Same Domain)

2016-10-24 Thread Lindsay Haisley
/mailman/archive/private If you don't want your archives to be public, don't make this symbolic link. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | ht

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating Mailman to New Server (Same Domain)

2016-10-24 Thread Lindsay Haisley
un from /usr/local/mailman/bin ./check_perms -f > > > > 4.   Run newaliases > You don't need to run newaliases, but you do need to run Mailman's > bin/genaliases. > > Assuming the new server will ultimately be accessed via the old > servers mail and web domain

Re: [Mailman-Users] Major conflict will resolving hosting of DNU Maiman

2016-09-25 Thread Lindsay Haisley
of any of the other listed > services with which I have little or no experience. > > > > > > I want to continue to use MacHighway. They provide amazing tech > > support to > > a person like me who gets way in over the head on tech stuff. > Possibly you co

Re: [Mailman-Users] Status of sibling lists

2016-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ribed. This would could be used to trigger any external processing scripts. Thanks for your response. -- Lindsay Haisley | "We have met the enemy and he is us." FMP Computer Services | 512-259-1190 | -- Pogo http://www.fmp.com| ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Status of sibling lists

2016-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2016-09-15 at 13:40 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 09/15/2016 01:00 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > I'm running Mailman 2.1.18-1 on a server here. I'm setting up > > announcement only lists for an organization which logically needs > > several sibling lists

[Mailman-Users] Status of sibling lists

2016-09-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
will percolate down to the sibling lists. How do we stand on this? I could easily do this kind of thing in a relational database setup, and a lot of it with separate lists, scripts and cron jobs, but I'd like to use as much of the native abilities of Mailman as possible. --

Re: [Mailman-Users] Improper token substitution? Or something else?

2016-02-09 Thread Lindsay Haisley
rk!! This was pretty much the result of my own thinking, too ;) I shall make it so. The only issue here is that in a few cases we have multiple lists using the virtual domain list_hostname.tld, so the alias will have to reference _all_ the lists using this virtual domain. This is doable. -- Linds

Re: [Mailman-Users] Improper token substitution? Or something else?

2016-02-09 Thread Lindsay Haisley
#x27;m not conversant with Postfix, but perhaps I can use this feature to solve this problem. Back to the drawing board ... :( -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-11

[Mailman-Users] Improper token substitution? Or something else?

2016-02-09 Thread Lindsay Haisley
misconfiguration here? The comments in the source indicate that these token replacements insert _site_ information rather than _list_ information, so maybe this is the expected behavior. Do I need to set up a "mailman" address alias for _each_ virtual host on the system so that these addresses wil

[Mailman-Users] Persistent spam source!

2016-01-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
isaster, but it sure is a pain. Our MM version is 2.1.18-1. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when war comes is truth" FMP Computer Servces | 512-259-1190 |-- Hiram W Johnson http://www.fmp.com | ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and qmail problem

2015-10-29 Thread Lindsay Haisley
his should somehow be covered in Debian's documentation and if > it isn't that's a Debian bug. See <http://wiki.list.org/x/12812344>. > > As to your third question, Mailman has no problem delivering outgoing > mail to Qmail via SMTP to port 25 on localhost, but

Re: [Mailman-Users] Documentation error?

2015-04-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
i.list.org/x/8486953> and > the mailman-developers thread linked therefrom. Note that this is a Red > Hat patch, not standard Mailman. > > If you want to file a bug for documentation purposes, feel free, but it > will be marked 'won't fix - wishlist' for MM 2.1. T

[Mailman-Users] Documentation error?

2015-04-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ection is that Mailman was revised many years and versions ago to comply more closely to the Linux FSH and that the appropriate directory is now /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ Should this be changed or amended? Should I file a bug? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging ce

Re: [Mailman-Users] Forbidden is still there.

2015-04-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
/software/mailman/mailman-install/node10.html>? Note that the reference to /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/ is outdated. Current installs on Ubuntu use /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certain

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
herefore any edits made directly to > # /etc/cron.d/mailman will be lost anytime the mailman service > # restarts. This text isn't included in crontab.in in recent versions of Mailman. I think this is obsolete. Did you find it somewhere else? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
the named file. Sorry! The bottom line is that it's best, as always, to install a component such as a crontab using the supplied tools rather trying to second-guess the tool set and copying files directly. > -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Serv

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:46 +0300, Danil Smirnov wrote: > 2015-04-21 17:43 GMT+03:00 Danil Smirnov : > > 2015-04-21 17:24 GMT+03:00 Lindsay Haisley : > >> so a direct copy of the > >> Mailman crontab to this directory can't be done without modifying the >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
- > Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.c

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC mitigation - was: Templates

2015-04-04 Thread Lindsay Haisley
points got coverage. IMHO this is something about which every mail and list admin should be aware. > -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certainty of change" 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| - Ancient w

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-25 Thread Lindsay Haisley
d. > Why MS decided to change from IE to Word for the rendering engine is > inexplicable - unless it was a bran-dead attempt to get people who just > buy Outlook to buy the full Office suite (or at least Word too)... You can bet that the decision, coming from MS, was based on business consid

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-24 Thread Lindsay Haisley
isual as well as a textural component, just as verbal face to face communication involves body language. Teenage girls may indeed lead the way, just as we can learn what next year's high fashion in womens' wear will be by observing what hookers are wearing this year. -- Linds

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
, for pulling valid emails out of false-positive captures by SpamAssassin. This is kind of the equivalent of a browser knowing what to do with images or PDFs. > -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certainty of change" 512-259-1190

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
; a single e-mail (and reply, archive, forward etc. etc.). My apology. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certainty of change" 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
their own right. > The overall message is multipart/mixed with maybe a text/plain part for > digest_header, two text/plain parts for the boiler plate and the TOC, > the multipart/digest part and maybe a text/plain part for digest_footer. Pretty much what one would expect. > -- Linds

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ents with a MIME type of message/rfc822, yes? If not, then IMHO they should be. If they're not, then there's no help for it, and there's no MUA out there which will do what Thomas suggests and T-bird's behavior is as good as it gets. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only uncha

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
educated human, so I've poked at a number of different versions of it and never been able to make it behave this way. > -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certainty of change" 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| - A

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
can pull them out of the wrapper that SpamAssassin puts around them and put them into my Inbox. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certainty of change" 512-259-1190

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list / Re:

2015-03-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
intelligent about such things) about not filtering email that's been marked for deletion but not yet expunged. But this is a minor matter and rather OT for this thread. > -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certainty of change"

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2015-03-22 at 11:52 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 3/20/2015 2:48 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 14:37 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> No, the point is you apparently can't simply acknowledge that you > >> mis-spoke/made a mistake. > &g

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
quot; button is apparently there by default when a list post is selected. T-bird 31.4.0 is doubtless not the latest version, since the Linux distributions on my VMs is a few years old, so the behavior may have changed since then. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certain

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
> On Mar 21, 2015, at 10:40 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > - Original Message - >> From: "Lindsay Haisley" > >> In many mail user agents, when you press the "Reply" button the program >> will analyze the headers, determine that the pos

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
rns it all to mush if I convert to plain text because of > line wrapping problems, it's easy to become discouraged. > Amen! > -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unchanging certainty FMP Computer Services |is the certainty of change" 512-259-1190 | http

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
pple is the worst! Mac Mail is bad, and mail clients for iOS - iPhones and iPads - are worse. So people are going to have to forgive me (or not) if I sometimes violate the rules of good netiquette. I cut other people a lot of slack in this regard. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The only unch

Re: [Mailman-Users] The "right" way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
anstaafl, it it will make you happy, I _officially_ acknowledge that I made a mistake/mis-spoke, and I apologize to you, and to anyone else who was confused or annoyed by what I said! I still think you pretty much missed my point. Can we move on now? > -- Lindsay Haisley | "The o

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