Re: Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?
Thanks all for the guidance and suggestions. It's good stuff. I'm always
open to further ideas.
-Matt
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At 8/23/2006 06:43 AM, Oleg D. wrote:
This is the best email I have yet to find describing how mail.python.org
proactive kills spam:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-March/332443.html
I'm also considering adding these capabilities (which may or may not be
implicit in the
Is there a way to set a list's moderator password via the 'config_list -i'
command? My mailman admin has yet to see a reference in the 'config_list
-o' output.
We basically want to set the moderator password without having to go into
the web interface.
-Matt
At 8/23/2006 11:52 AM, Patrick Bogen wrote:
I think he meant: auto-moderate new users, and unmoderate them after
some amount of time has passed (e.g., after a day or after a week)
Yes, that's correct.
Can Mailman do the above (auto-moderate new users, and then automatically
un-moderate them
At 8/23/2006 11:20 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 11:20 PM -0500 2006-08-22, Matt England wrote:
This is the best email I have yet to find describing how mail.python.org
proactive kills spam:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-March/332443.html
I've also got an article
At 8/11/2006 08:57 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 5:57 PM -0500 2006-08-11, Matt England wrote:
I want to enable a moderated list (that moderates emails from non
subscribers) to always accept email that comes with a certain header
attached (in this case, a header appended by http
At 8/11/2006 08:57 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 5:57 PM -0500 2006-08-11, Matt England wrote:
I want to enable a moderated list (that moderates emails from non
subscribers) to always accept email that comes with a certain header
attached (in this case, a header appended by http
I want to enable a moderated list (that moderates emails from non
subscribers) to always accept email that comes with a certain header
attached (in this case, a header appended by http://mail2forum.com/
software) even if the sender's address is not subscribed to the email list.
Does GNUMailman
The questions:
Do any Mailman-to-LDAP connectors exist?
Do any single-view-for-all-subscriptions software packages exist for Mailman?
The background details:
My collaboration site plans to offer several Mailman lists in addition to
its existing applications (MediaWiki, phpBB, Subversion, and
or if these things can assist with the
Mailman-specific challenges, but we will probably using one of the
open-source ones for our single-sign on capability in the future.
-Matt
At 4/23/2006 12:17 PM, Matt England wrote:
The questions:
Do any Mailman-to-LDAP connectors exist?
Do any single
Summary:
How to automate single-sign-on across multiple apps...on the Mailman-side
of things?
Details:
My project is making a collaboration web server that includes MediaWiki,
Bugzilla, phpBB forums, Mailman lists, and other web-base applications.
We are trying to make our own single-login
The problem:
I subscribe to multiple lists on my company's collaboration server. Often
email posters to these lists will copy 2 or more of these lists at once
with the same email--and this is appropriate for the way we've designed our
communication systems.
This issue that I (and others in
does not want to support this
feature based upon some policy or principal, I suppose there's little that
can be done. FWIW, I think this would be a useful feature for Mailman, but
that's just my perspective.
-Matt
At 3/9/2006 09:42 AM, Patrick Bogen wrote:
On 3/9/06, Matt England [EMAIL
At 3/9/2006 10:20 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Now suppose it finds listb and listc in those headers. It would then
have to look at the members of those lists and see if the current
delivery candidate is a member of one of those lists, has delivery
enabled on that list and is receiving messages and not
At 3/9/2006 10:29 AM, Patrick Bogen wrote:
On 3/9/06, Matt England [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...and this seems to be the trickiest part: which list becomes the
primary one. I can envision straightforward (even though they are not
easy to implement solutions) to everything except this last
I have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] email list address that I use as the
address of the owner of other lists at lists.mydomain.com.
This seems to work exactly as I intended (I can have a floating and/or
group responsibility for the mydomain.com webmaster), except that I get a
lot of messages like this
How can someone subscribed to 2 (or more) emails lists from the same
GNUMailman email server avoid duplicate copies of emails that are sent to
both (or more) of these email lists?
My 2.1.6-rc2 server simply sends me multiple emails in such a case, even
though I have the avoid duplicates set on
At 1/26/2006 05:45 PM, Matt England wrote:
My 2.1.6-rc2 server
Actually, it's a 2.1.6rc4 server. Sorry for any confusion.
-Matt
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Thanks for the quick and thorough reply.
At 1/26/2006 06:41 PM, Tokio Kikuchi wrote:
Do you want this feature?
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1347962group_id=103atid=300103
From what I can read from the above link, I say yes.
I plan to integrate it in mailman-2.2.
I
I've been away from the list for a while, and am curious:
Will virtual domains support be included in Mailman 2.2...if they are not
already?
By virtual domain support I mean the ability to support email lists from
multiple domains via one GNUMailman installation on one server. I manage
At 1/26/2006 07:47 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
I run multiple lists with Mailman, been doing so since v1.1 (or was it
1.2?). Anyway, virtual domains work for me. What virtual domain problem
do you have with recent MM versions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ie, same list name,
At 1/26/2006 09:09 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
That depends on a few things. For starters, does your MTA support
[EMAIL PROTECTED] AND [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes.
If it does, then you will need to use the virtualization features of your
MTA to map each list to a unique local email account.
Already
At 1/26/2006 09:43 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
There are some patches around. See
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=943827group_id=103atid=300103.
There is also a link to cPanel's patches at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-January/041748.html.
But reports from
At 1/26/2006 10:38 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
The followup question (assuming the above answer...which may or may not be
a fair assumption): will this architecture ever be changed to remove this
limitation?
Yes again. I think you'll see it in Mailman 3, but as I'm sure you well
know, I can't give
How can I change/add to the RedirectMatch alias structures in my httpd.conf
file excerpt below such that a /lists/mylist URL path gets redirected to
/lists/mailman/listinfo/mylist while still supporting the /lists
redirect to /lists/mailman/listinfo?
I messed around with some grouping ( (.*)
Hello Mailman-users,
I'm a Mailman 2.1.6rc4 site admin.
I'm seeking to support the following 2 features at the same time with an
email list:
1) Replies go to list and sender/author
I want to configure, if at all possible, some (or all) of my lists such
that (by default) MUA replies to
I want to change the admin list on my Mailman site(s) from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to some other address, namely another another Mailman
email list (in part because [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets spam, and also because I
have a general [EMAIL PROTECTED] that handls all admin email addresses).
Is this
From
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1219686group_id=103atid=100103
:
I find that if I want to support qmail-to-mailman.py for
multiple virtual domains I must add a:
local = re.sub(^lists.newdomain.tld-,,local)
line for every virtual domain.
Could
At 6/13/2005 12:19 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Matt England wrote:
Can anyone provide recommendations for configuring the 'mailman' email
list...that spans the virtual domains? Should one alias the virtual domain
'mailman' list somehow to the global mailman list?
I assume here you're talking
Sapiro wrote:
Matt England wrote:
When will Mailman natively (ie, without patches) support 2 lists with the
same name in different domains?
It's on the ToDo list (http://www.list.org/todo.html), but unless
someone comes up with a really good implementation in the mean time,
it probably won't
See the whole thread that starts at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-January/041742.html
Good info, thanks.
In addition: might there be means to contribute money to this
effort? (I'm thinking around $100 for now.)
I'm also interested to know how popular such a
Hello,
When will Mailman natively (ie, without patches) support 2 lists with the
same name in different domains?
I am presuming that the virtualhosts feature does not support this today;
if it does, can someone please reply to this thread to let me (us) know?
Until then, it looks like the
Ok. Thanks for the quick response.
Can anyone provide recommendations for configuring the 'mailman' email
list...that spans the virtual domains? Should one alias the virtual domain
'mailman' list somehow to the global mailman list?
-Matt
At 6/12/2005 11:10 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Matt
At 5/16/2005 06:57 PM, Matt England wrote:
At 5/16/2005 09:45 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Matt England wrote:
It seems there's some problem with my SMTP server...I'm just trying to
figure out what it is or how I can reproduce it other then keeping to point
Mailman or phpBB forums at it (both fail
Hello Mailman admins,
I recently configured an email and web server serving phpBB and Mailman to
bridge email lists to phpBB forums. This includes managing attachments
between the forums and email lists.
This works so well that I thought I would share.
It's really really really really really
Fyi: I have found a consultant for this job. Thanks all who responded.
-Matt
At 5/26/2005 08:17 AM, Matt England wrote:
Hello,
I am investigating a switch of my qmail-based email servers to postfix.
In order to expedite the process, I seek some consultant to help get me up
and running
Hello,
I am investigating a switch of my qmail-based email servers to postfix.
In order to expedite the process, I seek some consultant to help get me up
and running and familiar with Postfix as quickly as possible. I am an
experienced Unix/Linux sysadmin and software developer with knowledge
At 5/16/2005 10:27 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Jim Tittsler wrote:
Mailman tries to connect to your mail host (DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST
in the simplest case, but it is a function of the
add_virtualhost() statements in your mm_cfg.py). This is not
specified as localhost (or 127.0.0.1)... so this is
At 5/16/2005 09:11 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 11:48 PM -0500 2005-05-15, Matt England wrote:
Another note:
/usr/lib/sendmail is a qmail executable disguised as sendmail for
backwards-compatibility.
Unfortunately for you, qmail was never designed to be a drop-in
replacement
At 5/16/2005 09:07 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:
At this point, I'm afraid that there are relatively few people
who are going to be able to help you. This may be a purely qmail
problem, in which case you'd need to use their mailing lists, FAQs,
documentation, etc... to help you resolve
At 5/16/2005 09:45 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Matt England wrote:
It seems there's some problem with my SMTP server...I'm just trying to
figure out what it is or how I can reproduce it other then keeping to point
Mailman or phpBB forums at it (both fail for SMTP localhost connections
Hello,
I'm having outbound email problems on my qmail-based server. I've had the
outbound email working previously on this server, so I know it CAN work. I
upgraded Mailman to 2.1.6rc4 since then.
Here's some of the smtp-failures log:
May 15 17:58:22 2005 (6656) Low level smtp error: (110,
Some more info about my system:
MTA = patches qmail 1.03
Mailman = 2.1.6rc4
At 5/15/2005 06:36 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:
Occasional timeouts are not too unusual, if you're on a busy
server. We see them on the python.org mail system, for example.
That's note the case with my host.
closed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:41pm [~] 2
Any other suggestions for testing my localhost SMTP server?
-Matt
At 5/15/2005 09:02 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Matt England wrote:
Is there any way I can isolate the outbound/smtp mailman
process/program/module? I've got all my other outbound email
I should also note: Mailman outbound email seems to work just fine when
using Sendmail.py.
-Matt
At 5/15/2005 10:49 PM, Matt England wrote:
It seems there's some problem with my SMTP server...I'm just trying to
figure out what it is or how I can reproduce it other then keeping to
point
go ahead
Subject: testing smtp server
this is just a test.
.
250 ok 1116216266 qp 17632
quit
221 biz2tek.com
Connection closed by foreign host.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11:04pm [~] 4
-Matt
At 5/15/2005 10:49 PM, Matt England wrote:
It seems there's some problem with my SMTP server...I'm just trying
Another note:
/usr/lib/sendmail is a qmail executable disguised as sendmail for
backwards-compatibility.
-Matt
At 5/15/2005 10:50 PM, Matt England wrote:
I should also note: Mailman outbound email seems to work just fine when
using Sendmail.py.
-Matt
At 5/15/2005 10:49 PM, Matt England
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