In practice, for using mailman as a mail-news gateway,
there should be an 'X-author:' or an 'X-Mail-From:' or
a 'NNTP-Posting-Host:' header that somehow contains
the IP of the original mail message, otherwise the
gateway becomes an 'anonymizer', as the message that
gets to the newsgroup looks as f
The formentioned settings (that is setting
'restrict_post_to_members' in a mail-news gateway
list) has a very undesirable effect:
not only messages sent by non-members to the list
address gets a message that alerts he's been trying to
post to a list without being member of it.
Everyone that po
What is the effect of 'restrict_post_to_members' in a
mail-news gateway list?
It seems that it not only requires that posters to the
list be member of it, but also posters to the
newsgroup be member of the list.
In practice I get a 'posting by a non-member'
error-reply to every post sent to the n
I had< people complaining that, in a list that is a
mail-news gateway, the NNTP_posting-host header does
not contain the IP address of the sender, but rather
the name of the server running the mail-news gateway.
In practice I've been subtly accused of giving a way
to spammers to forward messages
