Re: [Mailman-Users] Displaying Entire Membership List

2009-03-01 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 07:22 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > You aren't by chance seeing only the 152 "A"s (or whatever's first) and > never looking at the other letters/digits? Definitive count of list members: sudo su - mailman list_members |wc -l -- Lindsay Haisl

Re: [Mailman-Users] John Viega?

2009-02-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Allow from all plus a couple of other configuration stanzas somewhere in apache's config file inclusion tree. The above example is from Gentoo Linux, but something similar will need to be set up by any distribution which implements Mailman. -- Lindsay Haisley |

Re: [Mailman-Users] DomainKey problem with Mailman

2009-02-12 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 09:56 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > REMOVE_DKIM_HEADERS = Yes So what are the negative implications of doing this? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | by the 512-259-1190

[Mailman-Users] DomainKey problem with Mailman

2009-02-12 Thread Lindsay Haisley
that libdomainkeys is in error here? Your thoughts, good people? Forwarded Message ---- From: Jack McKinney Reply-To: jac...@lorentz.com To: Lindsay Haisley Subject: Problem Solved! Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:15:01 -0600 Well, problem identified, anyway. This is something that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and the Courier MTA

2009-01-30 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 15:30 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > >I posted it on the launchpad site as a bug report with an attachment. > >This looked like probably the best way to submit it. Apologies, Mark, > >if there was some other

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and the Courier MTA

2009-01-30 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 13:35 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > I don't know whether this contribution has been seen and rejected, or > > gone unnoticed, or if Courier is considered to be such a minority MTA > > that it's not worth conside

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and the Courier MTA

2009-01-30 Thread Lindsay Haisley
, or offer it only to the Courier user community. Once again, though, if it would be useful and possibly worth distributing with Mailman, I'll re-submit it if someone will tell me where to post it. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services |

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving a List

2009-01-30 Thread Lindsay Haisley
the receiving side to create the appropriate symlink for public archives. These scripts work fine for me, and I've used them successfully, with minor variations, on two different major moves. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The difference between | P

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

2009-01-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
27;s package management system, which is SOP for all Linux distributions. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
proper MTA to default this address to anything in particular. This is done by the MUA (or equivalent) which engages the MTA for the purpose of sending an email, and if an envelope sender address isn't provided, the MTA will complain and refuse to continue with a session. -- Lindsay Haisley

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
died the waters for the rest of us who are trying to make the Internet email system work cleanly and reliably. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works| PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie)

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list (SOLVED)

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
nough deployed so that it can reliably be used as an accept/reject filtering criterion. I tried to do it at one point on my mail servers and got flack right away from customers who couldn't get their legitimate email :-( -- Lindsay Haisley | "We are all broken | PGP public k

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriberonly list

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ieve it's also used to further "fine tune" information regarding the origin of an email if it's from an organization. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The difference between | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | a duck is because one | available at 512-259-1190

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list (SOLVED)

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
eader got the spam through and not have to go digging for it. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works| PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | http://pubkeys.fmp

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriberonly list

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
cated. By default (in Defaults.py) this is: SENDER_HEADERS = ('from', None, 'reply-to', 'sender') You can eliminate the envelope sender address from the mix by setting this simply to: SENDER_HEADERS = ('from', 'reply-to') or drop 'reply-t

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber onlylist

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
understand how to use the list, and even though they're listed as list owner they can't post until they subscribe and unset their mod flag (or use an Approved: pseudo-header). Extreme paranoia is the ideal starting point for good Internet security. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In a

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
as considered a member of the > list... is it? No, unless someone subscribed it. -- Lindsay Haisley | "We are all broken | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | toasters, but we | available at 512-259-1190 | still manage to make |<http://pu

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber onlylist

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
flaws in the standards described in the email RFCs, there's really no way around this. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works| PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber onlylist

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
he stuff I see coming in that gets shoved into moderation _looks_ as if people are trying to figure out how to game the list. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The difference between | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | a duck is because one | available at 512-259-1190

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:34 -0700, Steve Lindemann wrote: > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > Is it possible that the list mod or admin password got out? I believe > > than anyone can post to a moderated list by putting an "Approved: > > " header or pseudo-header in a pos

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

2009-01-26 Thread Lindsay Haisley
#x27;t > find any reason for it and have to wonder if I'm checking everything. > I've looked thru everything that makes sense and much that doesn't. If > I had hair I'd be pulling it out! -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Co

Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

2008-12-24 Thread Lindsay Haisley
his would not require a re-design of SMTP, only an extension of it. If this were feasible, it would certainly spur the deployment of IPv6 which could stand a kick in the ass. -- Lindsay Haisley |"Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like

Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

2008-12-24 Thread Lindsay Haisley
t;postmaster" which, by RFC, must be supported. Email has evolved more along the lines of the TCP/IP packet paradigm rather than that associated with postal hard-copy snail-mail. There are aspects of email that resemble ICMP packets far more than they resemble Christmas cards. -- Lindsay Ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

2008-12-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
, but as an IPP I can tell you this. If someone's website goes down they call you and complain. If their email goes down they come looking for you with a rope and a lawyer! Fortunately, I've never had to deal with the latter. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,|

Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

2008-12-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:15 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > >I was intrigued by your comments on the economics of spam, which > >prompted me to introduce pre-filtering on one of my servers, possibly > >later on both of them. Where did

[Mailman-Users] The economics of spam

2008-12-22 Thread Lindsay Haisley
flow based on successful SMTP delivery? Any references on the subject will be appreciated. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The voice of dissent | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | was arrested before the | available at 512-259-1190 | president cleared his | http://pubke

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 11:25 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 19:35 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > > Courier doesn't need milters. Maildrop can be run in what's called > > > > "em

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
; dropping it. Oh, Ok. Thanks. I just didn't understand the terminology. -- Lindsay Haisley | "It is better to bite | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | a single cannibal than | available at 512-259-1190 | to curse the doggies" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com htt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:24 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > I'd also > like to make sure that SpamAssassin is set up to run interactively. What do you mean by this. Can shell account users not interactively use spamc or spamassassin from a command prompt? -- Lindsay Haisley

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
t), and because I'm a SOHO business, and a small one at that, I can't afford dedicated analytical appliances and proprietary software for this, most of which is outside my budget. There's doubtless more I can do. It's a beautiful day, and I'm wasting it sitting indoors in fr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts from listowner address issue

2008-12-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 12:06 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 11:30 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: > > > listowner address sends a "Maintenance Over" message to a bunch of > > > machi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Posts from listowner address issue

2008-12-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
FSH. Normally one would expect '/home/crippen'. Is this actually how things are configured? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works| PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it&qu

[Mailman-Users] CC's, replies

2008-12-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
7;t need two of them :-) -- Lindsay Haisley | "We are all broken | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | toasters, but we | available at 512-259-1190 | still manage to make |<http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com|toast"|

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
tion of knowing that some spammer, somewhere _might_ be annoyed or inconvenienced by seeing the bounce notices from their server. I've heard all the arguments about CPU usage and system load involved in accepting and processing spam, but my service is a relatively small one and my system l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:49 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > > So if I can't refuse potential spam at the SMTP front door, what > > difference does it make whether it gets detected in Mailman or the MTA? > > None. But one still wonde

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 23:38 -0600, J.A. Terranson wrote: > On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > Mailman already has a SpamDetect module which is reasonably useless, and > > discards (not rejects) spam internally. What I'd really like is a way >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 13:54 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Brad Knowles writes: > > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > The problem with this is that no spam detection method is 100% > > > effective, and with SpamAssassin there's some overlap between set

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
legant and flexible solutions. And then people who told me not to do these things want to know how I got things to work the way I did ;-) -- Lindsay Haisley | "The difference between | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | a duck is because one | av

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 11:23 -0600, Brad Knowles wrote: > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > I note that Brad doesn't mention this solution in his reply to you, so > > it may be frowned upon officially, but I've found it helpful. > > SpamAssassin is one good an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam to list-owner

2008-12-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
o 2.1.11". See the list archive. I use SpamAssassin in this way and cut down substantially on the volume of spam reaching list moderators. I note that Brad doesn't mention this solution in his reply to you, so it may be frowned upon officially, but I've found it helpful.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Anomalies since upgrading to 2.1.11

2008-12-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ed SpamAssassin.py pretty much as per your prescription, but was in the progress of testing things out before I wrote this list and declared the problem fixed. Since we have a limited number of lists here I may just nuke the shunted messages here and notify the list owners to check their pending r

[Mailman-Users] Anomalies since upgrading to 2.1.11

2008-12-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
unner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline File "/usr/lib64/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SpamAssassin.py", line 81, in process matches_p(sender, mlist.accept_these_nonmembers): TypeError: matches_p() takes exactly 3 arguments (2 given) I don't know if these problems are related, b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reminder notices come from "mailman" list

2008-09-03 Thread Lindsay Haisley
7;list' or 'domain' > template because it is a 'site' message. This is probably as good an idea as there is. Where does one find, or place "list" templates so as distinguish them from "site" templates? -- Lindsay Haisley | "

[Mailman-Users] Reminder notices come from "mailman" list

2008-09-03 Thread Lindsay Haisley
at the code, these addresses appear to rely on the singular variable MAILMAN_SITE_LIST which is site-wide and can't be set per-list. Is there any way to fix this? -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public

Re: [Mailman-Users] What is them max subject length?

2006-10-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
and The Fine Manuals I'm stumped. Could someone point > me in the right direction? Or does Mailman not do this at all and I > should look into that user's email client? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services |cre

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:28:56AM CDT > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > > Well-written technical documentation, however, is also somewhat > > rarer than one might hope. > > True. But Mailman's is well better than average in my experience

Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-deleting mail from outside .no?

2006-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
.no is automatically deleted and > I never see it. Is that possible, per list or even per domain/for > all lists? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services |creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 |trying to e

Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-deleting mail from outside .no?

2006-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
lman-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/fmouse-mailman%40fmp.com > > Security Policy: > http://w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Serious Performance issue

2006-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
your mail server. Load balancing the job across several servers might be appropriate. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services |creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 |trying to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:24:42AM CDT > Lindsay Haisley writes: > > For a project I'm working on I just de-geeked the Namazu search > > engine example page, which used Emacs, FreeBSD and other techie > > terms as search word examples. I r

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Archives

2006-10-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
eed to delete messages starting with a From line and ending with the line just before the From line on any message not deleted. Then run arch --wipe listname and you'll get what you expect. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Servi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Archives

2006-10-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
But Mark's right. You can't do it as the list admin or owner from the web UI, which is probably a more accurate answer to your question. Thus spake Lindsay Haisley on Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 09:15:05PM CDT > Thus spake Ken Winter on Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:49:11PM CDT > > Is it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Archives

2006-10-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/fmouse-mailman%40fmp.com > > Security Policy: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp -- Lindsay Haisley

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Sign-Up Form

2006-10-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I replaced all the geek words with fruits and vegetables. Everyone understands fruits and vegetables ;-) -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services |creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 |trying to erad

Re: [Mailman-Users] Template Token Hell

2006-10-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ut doing anything but modifying the templates. I probably ought to file a feature request that any template which might need it should support a keyword which contains the results of a call to mlist.internal_name() - in particular archtoc.html and archtocnombox.html :-) -- Lindsay Haisley

[Mailman-Users] Template Token Hell

2006-10-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I oughta post this on the dev list. Can anyone here answer it? Brad, maybe I'll see you Thursday and you can answer this personally. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services |creativity is like | available at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce scores

2006-09-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Well, I found http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/msg09827.html which rather explains this, and identifies it as a mailman bug. Does anyone know if this has been addressed, or will be addressed in new versions of mailman? Thus spake Lindsay Haisley on Mon, Sep 18, 2006

Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce ONLY list

2006-09-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ilman-users/fmouse-mailman%40fmp.com > > Security Policy: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services |creativity is like | available at 512-259-1

Re: [Mailman-Users] can't call command line functions from php

2006-09-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Lindsay Haisley on Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:41:00PM CDT > this on a 'nix-like OS since you mention permissions. Make sure that > /usr/local/mailman/bin/add_members has either world read and execute > permissions, or group read and execute permissions (dicey f

Re: [Mailman-Users] can't call command line functions from php

2006-09-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
> Anne > -- > 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

[Mailman-Users] Bounce scores

2006-09-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I just received a message via one of my list admins from a subscriber who was unsubscribed from a list based on a bounce from last year. The subscriber got a message with the following: > Your membership in the mailing list . has been disabled > due to excessive bounces The last bounce rece

Re: [Mailman-Users] Newly Installed Lists Not Working

2006-01-31 Thread Lindsay Haisley
there, and look like they're successful, look for entries relating to posts from the list server to you. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services |creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 |trying to

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailing list not obeying sender filter

2006-01-31 Thread Lindsay Haisley
7;m not sure which takes precedence, but I believe that if one is found among the subscribed members, and the mod flag is set for that address, then that trumps the allowed non-members list. I could be all wet on this, but I've seen the same problem with some of my customers' lists from time to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Full backup and restore of a mailman list

2006-01-31 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Thus spake Mark Sapiro on Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:25:58PM CST > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > >I run a small hosting service with a number of mailman lists. I need to > >move all the lists to a new server - list config, subscribers, subscriber > >options, archives, the wh

[Mailman-Users] Full backup and restore of a mailman list

2006-01-31 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ere must be one somewhere. If anyone knows of such documentation, please point me to it. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services |creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 |trying to eradicate | <http://pu

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman and courier - problem solved

2004-07-01 Thread Lindsay Haisley
TECTED]" but not one for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Adding an appropriate entry in the auth db for the latter solved the problem and I could safely remove my hack. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works| PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you

Re: [Mailman-Users] VERP problem

2004-04-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
need to do in the build to make VERP work as expected? > > -- > Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works| PGP public key > FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at > 512-259-1190

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