[Mailman-Users] Somewhat off-topic: Postmaster and other administrative addresses, are they necessary?

2025-07-10 Thread Jayson Smith
ning 5xx delivery failure messages during the SMTP stage? I know there are a few RFC's which specify that postmaster@ must be a valid address at all domains. Are there any Email or other systems that actually care about this, and will declare me to be an evil, non-compliant server adminis

[Mailman-Users] Re: Malicious web subscription requests

2025-06-23 Thread Jayson Smith
at this point, so nothing like this will be implemented, it's just some thoughts. I also don't quite understand the motivation for subscribe form flooding. What does the bad actor gain from sending out tons of subscribe requests to seemingly random people? Or are they just being malicious fo

[Mailman-Users] Malicious web subscription requests

2025-06-23 Thread Jayson Smith
here any other countermeasures I can take? Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.o

[Mailman-Users] Re: Cloudmark blacklist

2024-03-18 Thread Jayson Smith
d your spam problem that probably isn't even your problem. Goodbye! Jayson On 3/18/2024 8:54 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Jayson Smith writes: > What I mean is that I'd love to find a good, reliable smarthost I > can direct my SMTP server on my VPS to use. You co

[Mailman-Users] Re: Cloudmark blacklist

2024-03-16 Thread Jayson Smith
d to receive a lot of spam, but for me and my family members, everything gets through. Yes this means we get incoming spam that comes our way, but it also means we don't have to worry about an important incoming message going missing because it was sent to the spam folder or silently disc

[Mailman-Users] Cloudmark blacklist

2024-03-15 Thread Jayson Smith
going Email service providers? Ideally I want to continue to handle my own incoming Email because I don't want someone else's spam blocking software deciding what Emails I receive. Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list

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

2024-03-12 Thread Jayson Smith
Hi, Update: Sometime in the night, my IP was silently removed from Microsoft's block list. I've never had that happen, but all's well that ends well, at least for now. Jayson On 3/11/2024 10:18 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 3/11/24 6:28 PM, Jayson Smith wrote: Hi, So it'

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

2024-03-11 Thread Jayson Smith
to resolve the issue at the earliest. Thanks again, Outlook.com Deliverability Support Has anyone received this from Microsoft before? If so, will the issue eventually be resolved, or do I need to wait a few days and submit my request again? T

[Mailman-Users] AOL list member not receiving list traffic

2022-08-26 Thread Jayson Smith
n't outright blocked my IP or something. Even if I could contact someone who knows what they're doing at AOL, there are no error logs for me to show. Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsub

[Mailman-Users] Double opt-in, Question about adding people to a Mailman list

2022-05-22 Thread Jayson Smith
-in in the eyes of anyone to whom this matters? Thanks for any thoughts, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lis

[Mailman-Users] Re: The Hotmail complaint saga continues

2022-04-15 Thread Jayson Smith
arted out of the blue on March 24. If it makes any difference, the specific subscriber involved has an Email address at msn.com, and she's been subscribed to the list for close to two years with no problem. Jayson On 4/15/2022 1:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Jayson Smith writes: >

[Mailman-Users] The Hotmail complaint saga continues

2022-04-14 Thread Jayson Smith
s that the reason I'm not getting hounded about it from Linode, the "Little Boy who Cried Wolf" situation? Thanks for any thoughts, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email t

[Mailman-Users] Re: ARC protocol in Mailman 2?

2022-04-10 Thread Jayson Smith
Hi, To answer your main question, everything is on one Linode VPS, there's no networking or separate servers/hosts involved, everything's on one box. Jayson On 4/10/2022 4:41 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Jayson Smith writes: > I've recently been playing with the

[Mailman-Users] ARC protocol in Mailman 2?

2022-04-09 Thread Jayson Smith
this is true, I don't know why OpenARC is processing messages on the way out of Mailman, since that should be a localhost to localhost connection. Is OpenARC the best Milter to use with Sendmail for this purpose? Is there something else I'm doing wrong or overlooking? T

[Mailman-Users] Hotmail complaint about list message, but complainant says she never marked anything as junk?

2022-04-06 Thread Jayson Smith
omplaint of this type to be generated? Is she somehow marking messages as spam or junk without realizing it? Thanks for any thoughts, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-u

[Mailman-Users] The Microsoft saga continues

2021-12-08 Thread Jayson Smith
ven though they couldn't find anything wrong) but something in the bigger picture is still insisting I be block listed? This is getting really old, really fast. Thanks for any thoughts, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-user

[Mailman-Users] It gets weirder re. Microsoft block list

2021-12-07 Thread Jayson Smith
ent a test Email to an Outlook customer after receiving that response, and it bounced right back with the same error as always. Needless to say I've responded to Microsoft's message. We'll see where this goes. Jayson -- Mailma

[Mailman-Users] I'm on Microsoft's blocklist again!

2021-12-07 Thread Jayson Smith
ime I was hacked, my server was sending out spam and I didn't know it, and I quickly found myself on Spamhaus XBL. Any thoughts? Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an

[Mailman-Users] Re: Charter occasionally bouncing mail

2021-11-30 Thread Jayson Smith
f you get on their blocklist three times there's clearly something wrong, even if each incident is years apart? Who knows? Jayson On 11/29/2021 6:55 AM, Jon Baron wrote: I have had a lot of experience with these things. Here are some observations. I have a list of 4000+ subscribers around

[Mailman-Users] Re: Charter occasionally bouncing mail

2021-11-28 Thread Jayson Smith
by having the list munge the From: line for all messages, but sometimes that causes problems with replying. In particular, several years ago when my lists were set up to do that, Thunderbird users were having problems sometimes replying to the sender of a message rather than the entire list.

[Mailman-Users] Charter occasionally bouncing mail

2021-11-28 Thread Jayson Smith
permanent failure? Also I assume there's nothing I can do about this? Is the problem likely to be at Charter's end or at my domain's nameservers' end? Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org T

[Mailman-Users] Viewing bounces from Mailman-generated messages?

2021-10-12 Thread Jayson Smith
Mailman request messages are spam and is rejecting them. Of course I put the alias back like it was. My question is, is there a more eloquent way to see or get a log of the actual bounce in a situation like this in order to see the entire error text as opposed t

[Mailman-Users] Re: CenturyTel bouncing mail from one specific AOL list member

2021-06-15 Thread Jayson Smith
Hi, I tend to disagree, based on the following line: From: "F XxxxL via wxxxe" From what I see in this line, it seems that Mailman is properly munging the problematic AOL From: line, which should in theory make the whole AOL/Yahoo DMARC policy irrelevant. Thoughts? Jayson On

[Mailman-Users] CenturyTel bouncing mail from one specific AOL list member

2021-06-15 Thread Jayson Smith
te info X'd out. Any thoughts about what's going on, or what to do about it? Thanks, Jayson The original message was received at Tue, 15 Jun 2021 06:21:30 -0400 from localhost [127.0.0.1]    - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -    

[Mailman-Users] Okay, you can call me an idiot now

2021-05-17 Thread Jayson Smith
out what's really happening is that all mail from this list is going into this user's junk folder. I'm going to ask if he has a button/option to declare such mail to not be junk so hopefully this can be corrected. Thanks, Jayson ---

[Mailman-Users] MM2/Sendmail failing to send messages to upper case Email addresses?

2021-05-16 Thread Jayson Smith
all lower case. The welcome message went out this time, as did my subsequent test message to the list. Has anyone else had this happen, or does anyone know what's going on here? Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman

[Mailman-Users] AT&T RBL update

2021-03-31 Thread Jayson Smith
med automation or an ignorant human, an RBL no one pays attention to is still an RBL. Jayson Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.pyth

[Mailman-Users] AT&T RBL again

2021-03-30 Thread Jayson Smith
was that all I can do is wait, possibly write again, and hope the AT&T RBL removal gods smile down upon me, is that right? Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email t

[Mailman-Users] MM2: Archive search function for a private list?

2021-03-29 Thread Jayson Smith
ux server which will go through a list's archives, generate a searchable index, and allow members (possibly using their mailing list Email and password, or maybe something else) to access it? Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing

[Mailman-Users] Does Mailman address need to receive mail from the outside world?

2020-08-01 Thread Jayson Smith
not, I could almost certainly use a milter I have installed to reject such messages at the SMTP stage and thus stop it in its tracks. Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: [Mailman-Users] msg marked as spam 554 5.7.1 [P4]

2020-01-05 Thread Jayson Smith
particular ISP in question probably won't have a clue what's going on. Hopefully they'll care enough to consult with the third-party filtering service. Jayson On 1/5/2020 5:23 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: I was the off-list person... This was the actual bounce error from one of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] user unsubscribe

2019-11-02 Thread Jayson Smith
il is bouncing, click here if you received this message" Emails. If this is the case and the list is in the default configuration, you should assume they haven't been receiving Email for at least three weeks. Jayson On 11/2/2019 7:46 PM, Bernie Cosell wrote: i received a notification

Re: [Mailman-Users] Totally disable list subscriptions?

2019-09-27 Thread Jayson Smith
Hi, To clarify, I did get off Microsoft's blacklist, but after I did I decided that particular list was probably too high traffic. Jayson On 9/25/2019 10:10 AM, Brian Carpenter wrote: Are they subscribing via the listinfo page? If so then you can edit that page via the list admin inte

[Mailman-Users] Totally disable list subscriptions?

2019-09-25 Thread Jayson Smith
them to the new location. Is there any way in Mailman to outright disable any and all subscription attempts for a specific list? Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailma

Re: [Mailman-Users] messages fail to @yahoo @aol @outlook

2019-07-28 Thread Jayson Smith
ects this will be an issue. If that's not the problem, my only advice would be to check to see if your IP is on any spam blacklists, insure SPF and DKIM are set up for better message authentication, insure your IP has proper reverse DNS, etc. Hope this helps, Jayson On 7/28/2019 10:58 AM,

[Mailman-Users] Roadrunner/TWC blocking Emails

2019-07-06 Thread Jayson Smith
y IP as being clean. I don't know—and probably never will—why Time Warner/Roadrunner would put me on their blacklist. This happened all of a sudden, a message addressed to two Roadrunner customers yesterday afternoon was accepted, then about five hours later they started block

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

2018-11-24 Thread Jayson Smith
tices, and other routine, automated, or irrelevant messages. Does such a thing exist? Thanks for any help, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC mitigation failure

2018-11-16 Thread Jayson Smith
Hi, That did the trick, thanks! Jayson On 11/14/2018 6:09 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 11/14/18 2:35 PM, Jayson Smith wrote: Hi, The error in /var/lib/mailman/log/error is as follows: Nov 14 10:24:29 2018 (1063) DNS lookup for dmarc_moderation_action for list (Redacted) not available That

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC mitigation failure

2018-11-14 Thread Jayson Smith
ion I wanted. Do I need to recompile and reinstall? Thanks, Jayson On 11/14/2018 5:25 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 11/14/18 11:53 AM, Jayson Smith wrote: Did my server fail to retrieve the DMARC information for AOL for some transient reason, or could there be another problem? I have double checked

[Mailman-Users] DMARC mitigation failure

2018-11-14 Thread Jayson Smith
idn't this time. Thanks for any help, Jayson -- 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.

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

2018-10-08 Thread Jayson Smith
another outfit I think, but unless they've straightened their act up big time, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone! Just goes to show, the terms of service can be all "We hate spammers just as much as you do, and if we find out you're a spammer we'll do unspeakable thin

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

2018-10-07 Thread Jayson Smith
emoval you should probably use some online checkers to insure you're not on any other blacklists, check your IP at senderscore.org, etc. The last incident inspired me to move a high-traffic list I run from Mailman to Groups.IO. Hope this helps, Jayson On 10/7/2018 12:28 PM, Lindsa

[Mailman-Users] Sender address as footer field?

2018-08-15 Thread Jayson Smith
urce? Thanks, Jayson -- 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.m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unexpected password reminder from this list

2018-08-06 Thread Jayson Smith
Hi again, This was not a monthly password reminder. It specifically said that "You—or someone posing as you—has requested" this password reminder. Jayson On 8/6/2018 5:52 AM, mailman-admin wrote: Hello Am 06.08.2018 um 10:22 schrieb Jayson Smith: Last night at 11:15 or so, I

[Mailman-Users] Unexpected password reminder from this list

2018-08-06 Thread Jayson Smith
they'd have to hack my Email account to get the password)? Thanks, Jayson -- 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 P

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.X and HTTPS

2018-07-26 Thread Jayson Smith
e will have to click through warnings, or is just the fact that HTTPS is available good enough, even if the user or link didn't specify HTTPS? Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-subscribers getting through--email address in "Real Name"

2018-07-19 Thread Jayson Smith
dmail milter? I'd love to find something which would query Mailman about the status of a particular sender address at the RCPT stage of the SMTP transaction so spoofed mail can be rejected right away, however, this might not be possible for one reason or another. Any thoughts would be appr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman on a Debian system with Apache 2.4.2, CGI error!

2018-05-06 Thread Jayson Smith
the CGI module. Somehow, it sort of works better if you enable CGI. It works better if you plug it in. Head…desk. I'd spent hours trying to troubleshoot this! Sometimes the most obvious things escape the best of us. Thanks anyway. Jayson On 5/6/2018 11:10 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On

[Mailman-Users] Installing Mailman on a Debian system with Apache 2.4.2, CGI error!

2018-05-06 Thread Jayson Smith
pts, and is trying to treat them like regular files. Has something else changed between Apache versions? Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending domain does not exist but it actually does?

2018-03-22 Thread Jayson Smith
DKIM record which I've recreated. We'll see if that resolves anything. Thanks for your pointers. Jayson On 3/22/2018 2:48 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 03/22/2018 11:14 AM, Jayson Smith wrote: FYI the host in question is bluegrasspals.com. It does have an A record, and its ip has proper r

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending domain does not exist but it actually does?

2018-03-22 Thread Jayson Smith
FYI the host in question is bluegrasspals.com. It does have an A record, and its ip has proper reverse nslookup back to the domain. My host supports IPV6 but I'm not using it for mail. Jayson On 3/22/2018 1:41 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 03/22/2018 07:10 AM, Jayson Smith wrote: <<&

[Mailman-Users] Sending domain does not exist but it actually does?

2018-03-22 Thread Jayson Smith
*does* exist, so I assume it's their problem. Is there anything at all I can do about this? Not all mail to these users bounces. Thanks, Jayson -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

[Mailman-Users] Can a list owner address be allowed to post to their own list?

2017-06-15 Thread Jayson Smith
any problem with subscribing that address to the list in question, as long as it's set to Nomail? Or is there an easy way to tell a list to accept all mail from a certain address, even though it's not subscribed to the list? T

[Mailman-Users] Any way to disable bounce subscription disabling for just certain users?

2017-03-30 Thread Jayson Smith
ay to do it, would setting their bounce score to something like negative 1,000,000,000 do the trick, or would Mailman just consider that the same as 0 and set it to 1 the next day? Thanks for any thoughts. Jayson -- Mailman-Users mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem with AOL

2017-02-13 Thread Jayson Smith
whitelist program. I don't know the exact URL but can probably find it if you're interested. Hope this helps, Jayson On 2/13/2017 10:45 PM, David Andrews wrote: Does anyone know if AOL has changed its DMARC policies recently. All of a sudden I am getting lots of AOL bounces, or m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Users complain, they don't receive mails from the list

2016-01-25 Thread Jayson Smith
an to disable member addresses after just one bounce. This worked, but had the unpleasant side effect of disabling member addresses who bounced a single message because their ISP thought it was spam for some reason, or for some other temporary reason. Jayson On 1/25/2016 5:48 PM, Sascha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Handling bogus subscribe requests

2016-01-17 Thread Jayson Smith
has a visual challenge and an audio challenge. That's great for those of us who are blind. However, as far as I know, they offer no alternative for people who are deaf blind. Jayson On 1/17/2016 9:34 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 18:27:00 -0800 Mark Sapiro wrote: Would

Re: [Mailman-Users] Many users unsubscribed at once (not by me)

2015-12-13 Thread Jayson Smith
our server's IP address has somehow received a bad reputation, and certain mail servers will reject all mail from your server, regardless of sender, recipient, or content. Jayson On 12/13/2015 7:42 AM, Hal wrote: On 13/12/2015 13:05, Jayson Smith wrote: Hi, Unfortunately, disabling

Re: [Mailman-Users] Many users unsubscribed at once (not by me)

2015-12-13 Thread Jayson Smith
on" these will tell you who is bouncing mail, and the attached mail delivery failure reports will tell you why they are bouncing mail, which is important. I suspect you have a DMARC or IP reputation issue. Hope this helps. Jayson On 12/13/2015 5:55 AM, Hal wrote: On 13/12/2015 11:14, Hal w

Re: [Mailman-Users] List posts sent to AOL list subscribers bounce as undeliverable (v. 2.1.20)

2015-12-04 Thread Jayson Smith
ver that needs to be whitelisted, but before doing that I'd make sure all the DNS stuff is in order. Jayson On 12/4/2015 5:06 PM, Woody Mon via Mailman-Users wrote: Thank you for everyone's ideas and recommends. I've checked and every list subscriber has the As Mark suggested tr

Re: [Mailman-Users] list-owner getting spammed

2015-09-30 Thread Jayson Smith
case, that might be an option. If not, and if the spam has nothing in common, as far as I know there's nothing Mailman can do in this situation, you'll need to employ spam filtering before Mailman sees the mail. Jayson On 9/29/2015 7:32 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote: The list-owner of one of

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to get the senders email address in the custom footer?

2015-09-20 Thread Jayson Smith
re a footer variable with the sender's Email address, this wouldn't be necessary. Just my $0.02 worth. Jayson On 9/20/2015 11:49 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 09/19/2015 04:58 AM, Arlen Raasch wrote: We are using version 2.1.16 of Mailman. The emails that currently are sent out via th

[Mailman-Users] Rejecting spam at the SMTP level?

2015-08-07 Thread Jayson Smith
ist, for what good that does, and if it's legitimate I reject it, perhaps explaining in my own words why the message was rejected, especially if I know the person and know they tend to post from the wrong account, etc. Thanks for any help! Jayson ---

[Mailman-Users] help?

2001-10-24 Thread Jayson
python python1.5  [root@mrabuse mail]# pythonPython 1.5.2 (#1, Dec  8 1999, 21:20:51)  [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on linux-i386Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam>>>     No errors are given but when i send mail to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] it recieves, it says

[Mailman-Users] (no subject)

2001-10-24 Thread Jayson
python python1.5  [root@mrabuse mail]# pythonPython 1.5.2 (#1, Dec  8 1999, 21:20:51)  [GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on linux-i386Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam>>>     No errors are given but when i send mail to say [EMAIL PROTECTED] it recieves, it say