cribe requests to seemingly random people?
I don't think we know.
I think we do.
The targets are not random. It is intentional directed harassment. There
are still enough unverified subscription forms out there to amass a
formidable mailbomb.
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should be without full 'postconf -Mf' and 'postconf -nf' output and
maybe more details about why you have a "dovecot-smtp" transport defined
using lmtp at all.
E.g. On all my Mailman boxes with postfix "virtual_transport = virtual"
but that's also t
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No
ons to the version of Mailman 2 that the rest of the world
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end user to deploy SA for their own mail without root
access.
Also: procmail is antique abandonware that no one should use in 2022,
but it can be very hard to replace.
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Not
or similar tools can see the address of every person
posting to the list. If one uses an email address in a public way for
long enough, it will get to spammers. Even if you don't use it publicly,
spammers may land on it with guesses and other users might typo their
addresses to yours when giv
(or other related 'tagging'
schemes) to support such rules.
Of course, that's not the business of a mailing list operator. We should
assume that our users know what they're doing and that it isn't our
business unless they need help.
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sion lists more than it is for high-volume
announcement/marketing lists. It takes significant MTA and backend
tuning to mail more than a few thousand users in a reasonable amount of
time, and Mailman is not always the right choice for that.
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omain. You cannot programmatically determine
whether 2 different local-parts are equivalent unless you run the
delivery system for them.
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messages.
Many users (including myself) also preferentially only display the
plaintext version of multipart messages and so only reply to what is in
that part. Because any "highlighting" is only present in non-plaintext
email, lists and users who stick to plaintext do not see
On 16 Nov 2020, at 2:17, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Bill Cole writes:
On 15 Nov 2020, at 22:18, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I don't see why access to archives would cause a security issue,
Thanks for the reply!
Also FWIW, I'm explaining here why I don't think this is a Mai
7;t instantaneous and stomps on any
customization that hasn't been written into the persistent policy.
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"openssl," then on
any recent system it is actually a recent and reasonably safe LibreSSL.
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have vague recollections that both Barry and Mark have
said repeatedly that doing so would be substantially more effort than
they are willing to put into anything built on the MM2 architecture.
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inate versioning. I know from working on the
SpamAssassin security team that RH is particularly attentive to security
issues and other major bugfixes.
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ep is to read
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/rewrite/access.html#blocked-inline-images
and adapt the example to your site.
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Not
-responsive DNS server or servers but eventually
hits one that works, login and anything involving email transport will
be plagued by delays.
So: check /etc/resolv.conf and make sure all listed servers are
responding to queries.
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ders' "p=reject" DMARC policies.
If a mailing list makes any change to messages, it should also either
munge From or wrap messages to avoid problems. You can do that for all
messages, only for "p=reject" sender domains, or for both "p=reject" and
"p=qu
On 28 Jul 2019, at 11:25, Loren Engrav via Mailman-Users wrote:
> and searched archives
> and see this goes back years and years
> is there a quick fix I missed in the archives?
This looks like a DMARC problem.
See https://wiki.list.org/DEV/DMARC
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o note: if you do this on a machine managed by cPanel, you will need
to redo the last step ($prefix/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url) daily after
the nightly maintenance cron job, which reverts whatever fix_url does.
There is an open bug at cPanel (opened last week) to fix that.
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painless as possible.
Thanks for the help!
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On 16 Feb 2019, at 13:00, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 2/15/19 9:40 AM, Bill Cole wrote:
I recently migrated a set of Mailman lists from a standard 2.1.18
installation (on ancient RedHat) to a cPanel host (CentOS 7) running
Mailman 2.1.27. One glitch in that migration involves a pending
moderation
ck means, although I
expect it is relevant. The other 3 lists that were migrated in the same
way at the same time which did not have pending issues have similar
pending.pck contents but DO NOT generate the phantom notifications.
My first impulse is to just clobber the pending.pck file, but I am
On 19 Aug 2016, at 11:13, Jim Popovitch wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Bill Cole
wrote:
On 19 Aug 2016, at 10:39, Jim Popovitch wrote:
PRVS/BATV
How is that relevant to this issue?
Well it's not, it's only relevant to what you and Mark were discussing
(modificati
On 19 Aug 2016, at 10:39, Jim Popovitch wrote:
PRVS/BATV
How is that relevant to this issue?
BATV only applies to the envelope sender address, which any proper
mailing list (including any Mailman list) completely replaces with its
own bounce address so that bounces go to the mailing list so
On 18 Aug 2016, at 19:36, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Altering the From: based on recipient can be done by modifying the
code.
Say you have a message "From: Ann User " and you want
to change that to "From: Ann User " where xxx is
a
unique code for each recipient.
Please, don't anyone do that, ever.
On 13 Dec 2015, at 13:56, Mark Sapiro wrote:
In fact, the fact that almost all the unsubscribed users were hotmail
makes it seem that this is not DMARC, but more likely hotmail
(Microsoft) blocking the sending IP.
And with the one other being live.com.au (roughly: Australian Hotmail)
it becom
On 7 Jul 2015, at 7:15, Laura Creighton wrote:
In a message of Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:33:00 -0400, "Bill Cole" writes:
On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:26, Laura Creighton wrote:
2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists.
Have they bothered asking each and every subscriber and r
On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:26, Laura Creighton wrote:
2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists.
Have they bothered asking each and every subscriber and received an
affirmative reply? No? Imagine my shock...
The correct answer to this is "No, you can't. You don't have subscriber
permi
On 6 Apr 2015, at 20:02, Andrew Stuart wrote:
Sounds like not working with JavaScript is something important to you.
What’s the thinking behind wanting to work without JavaScript?
Isn’t it kinda hard to navigate the modern web without JavaScript?
I don't know the original poster's motivatio
On 2 Jun 2013, at 11:50, Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2013-06-01 1:40 PM, Bill Cole wrote:
It is altogether always wrong for ANY mail software outside of a
domain
to parse the local part of an address in that domain except for a
tiny
handful of standard special local parts (e.g. "postmaster&qu
On 30 May 2013, at 14:30, Jay Ashworth wrote:
I just subscribed to the virtualgl-users list at SF, and I subscribed
with
a plushacked email address, jra+vgl@
Got the confirmation email ok, of course, but when I tried to send
something,
it bounced "because I'm not subscribed to the list". I'v
On 25 Feb 2013, at 8:26, Dennis Putnam wrote:
I guess I'm not surprised either. Unfortunately with ISPs blocking
outgoing SMTP there are few alternatives.
That is generally a function of what sort of access you buy. The sad
reality is that blocking port 25 helps limit the scale & cost of abus
On 7 Dec 2012, at 15:52, Carlos R. Pasqualini wrote:
Hi
i cannot find any way to reject emails (coming from valid senders)
which
exceeded the maximum allowed message size.
mailman currently put them on hold, but i want to instantly reject it
with an alert to the user.
the only thing i found
On 16 Aug 2012, at 8:33, Marcus Schopen wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to separate the incoming mailserver which
handles
the addresses from the mailman instance, which sends mails out. I'm
running sendmail as MTA. The wrapper in /etc/aliases
("|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman ...) seems to ha
On 9 May 2012, at 20:32, David wrote:
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:01 PM, David wrote:
Re: Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery
1. Constantly monitor spam blacklists. We have a set of Nagios alerts
that regularly check if we’re listed on any delivery blacklists, and
whenever they go o
Mailman Admin wrote, On 11/9/11 10:25 AM:
On 2011-11-09 09:55, David Andrews wrote:
Is the "&" character allowed in a list name, such as in: "art&artists?"
No, as it must be a valid email address.
In email addresses are only the following characters allowed
a to z
A to Z
0 to 9
.
-
_
That
Mark Prewitt wrote, On 1/6/11 1:54 PM:
Good Day,
I have two lists that have essentially the same members except for one
person. Unfortunately, they are client facing lists and we have different
clients using them so we cannot combine them or eliminate one which would
make this so much easier.
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 12:03 PM, patkins wrote:
./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman --with-cgi-gid=mailman
--with-username=mailman --with-groupname=mailman
Isn't the --with-cgi-gid option suppose to take the group that your
*web server* runs as? I would assume that group is something ot
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 12:03 PM, patkins wrote:
The user and group exist:
group > mailman:x:506:
passwd > mailman:x:506:506::/usr/local/mailman:/dev/null
...
Mailman CGI error!!!
The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being
stored in your syslog:
Failure to fin
Until very recently I was running Lyris which I was fairly happy with. However edicts
came down from above and I am now trying to fine tune the configuration of Mailman
2.0.6 which I inherited from someone else. In short I am very new to Mailman.
I have set the member_posting_only to "yes" which
at
I've been trying to get these answers myself, but finding myself very lost.
Thanks so much.
Adam Cole
www.feldenkraisinfo.com
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Is there a way to keep people from unsubscribing? I know you can monitor
subscriptions, but i did not see anything about monitoring unsubscribing.
Thanks for the help.
John David Cole
University of Tennessee
Health Science Center
Computing & Telecommunications
(901)448-
is there a way to block attachments? or am i just going to have to limit
the size of the mail message?
John David Cole
University of Tennessee
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Hi, I'm having difficulty installing mailman (2.01) (python 2.0) on MacOS
X PB. The configure, permissions, compilation, etc. seems to be fine but
the "make install" finally terminates with the following: (also, any
invocation of scripts like "newlist" terminate with the same):
. . .
Compiling
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