Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-30 Thread Jonathan Dill
On May 30, 2008, at 11:00 AM, David Newman wrote: On 5/30/08 4:35 AM, Larry Stone wrote: On 5/29/08 11:37 PM, Jim Popovitch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:18 AM, David Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hmmm. I must be missing something, as the system is still assoc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman post log failures

2008-04-18 Thread Jonathan Dill
On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 4/18/2008, Jonathan Dill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> If you are using a separate e-mail relay, could also be firewall >> issue, > > Is there by any chance a CISCO router in the mix anywhere? Yes exactly, I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman post log failures

2008-04-18 Thread Jonathan Dill
On Apr 18, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Darren G Pifer wrote: >> >> I am seeing these errors in the smtp-failure log: >> >> Apr 18 09:11:30 2008 (1231) Low level smtp error: (104, 'Connection >> reset by peer'), msgid: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Apr 18 09:13:42 2008 (19445) delivery to [EM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Need capability of link to archived messages

2008-04-17 Thread Jonathan Dill
On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Darren G Pifer wrote: > We have a list that we use for keeping backup logs and sometimes these > logs get rather large. The list is moderated and sometimes the size > of > the message goes beyond the "Maximum length in KB of message body" > which > requires appro

Re: [Mailman-Users] howto cancell a message

2008-01-09 Thread Jonathan Dill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi people, just a begginer question : > > if i send a wrong message to a mailman list, there is a way to stop > delivering this message? > Unless you have a slow server, a very large mailing lists, or a slow internet connection, by the time that you decide to stop t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integration with OpenLDAP or AD directory?

2007-12-03 Thread Jonathan Dill
Martin S wrote: > Is it possible to integrate Mailman with AD (preferably) or OpenLDAP? Anyone > tried doing this somewhere? > I'll have a number of users in AD which will form base for three systems. > Now there is talk of integrating email list functionality into the system, > and as I have some

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing admin email addresses

2007-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dill
Spyro Polymiadis wrote: > Hi All, > > Im using mailman 2.1.9, and ive got close to 100 mail lists on it. > > We just have had one of our IT guys leave our company, and I was wondering if > there was an easy (bulk, cli) way to remove/change the email address from the > "List of Administrators" (2n

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing admin email addresses

2007-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dill
Spyro Polymiadis wrote: > Which method would be best suited for that scenario? > Also, is any of the script destructive to the lists themselves? Ie, if it > didn't run right or something it wouldn't affect the list accepting emails to > it, or blowing away the rest of the list config? > That's

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with new web host and "too many complaints"

2007-08-31 Thread Jonathan Dill
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > > How was the "opt-in" done? Was it done with Mailman's confirmation > process, or would it have been possible for person A to accidently or > maliciously get person B on the list? If the latter, I would consider > the list mailing unacceptable. If the list was hoste

Re: [Mailman-Users] problems with new web host and "too many complaints"

2007-08-31 Thread Jonathan Dill
Brad Knowles wrote: > Well, you haven't really given us any real details as to the nature of > the problem or the nature of the complaints. So, I'm not sure that > anyone can give you any advice that will be useful. > > I can say that I'd expect to see more support from your new ISP, and > if t

[Mailman-Users] problems with new web host and "too many complaints"

2007-08-30 Thread Jonathan Dill
Greetings, I hope this is not too OT, hopefully someone here has had a similar experience and can offer some practical advice, I'm not sure what to tell this customer at this point. I have a customer who has a fairly large opt-in only mailman mailing list (~40,000 subscribers) that they use to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo

2006-03-03 Thread Jonathan Dill
Harold Paulson wrote: > away. All of the normal posts would go right through. Members who > send from the wrong account would get the usual Mailman notice. > Occasionally wrong-account-posters would have to wait a long time on > their notice. > For the sender, there is a very simple sol

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo

2006-03-01 Thread Jonathan Dill
Greg Lindahl wrote: > 7E7E824F81 634 Wed Mar 1 09:03:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (host mx3.mail.yahoo.com[67.28.113.10] said: 451 VS5-MF Excessive unknown > recipients - possible Open Relay > http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/spam/spam-18.html (#4.4.5) 205.217.153.43 > (in reply to MAIL FROM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo

2006-03-01 Thread Jonathan Dill
Are you getting explicit REJECT messages from Yahoo! or some other error? For what it's worth, I think Yahoo may have changed something internally lately, like their DNS MX records, you may want to check out what address your MTA is trying to send the messages to and compare to dig or nslookup

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to stop these Non-sense mails?

2006-02-27 Thread Jonathan Dill
t;>>Hai >>> >>>I am getting lot spam-mails.The following are the examples. >>>How can i stop these things!!! >>> >>> >Also, it should be noted that your issue is not really a Mailman >issue, but rather

Re: [Mailman-Users] Goodmail spells doom for mailing lists?

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Dill
Thanks, I just found this article, which is interesting reading... If anybody has other relevant links, please let me know, I may put a page on my web page or at least bookmark them in my furl.net bookmarks. http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060208WhitelistStaysAOLsGoodmailDanc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Goodmail spells doom for mailing lists?

2006-02-24 Thread Jonathan Dill
Sally K Scheer wrote: > I'm not quite sure what you've just written here. What is AOL blocking? > If you only have a few people on your mailing list, probably nothing, but if you cross a certain threshhold--I'm guessing either number of messages sent from you, or number of spam complaints--AOL

[Mailman-Users] Goodmail spells doom for mailing lists?

2006-02-18 Thread Jonathan Dill
Has anyone talked about the changes planned by AOL, Yahoo! etc. to require "certification" via Goodmail or just be blocked? http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3581301 http://www.goodmailsystems.com/ What will happen to a mailing list such as this one? Will AOL and Yahoo! users just be out

[Mailman-Users] abort mailing in progress?

2006-02-17 Thread Jonathan Dill
Hi folks, I have Mailman 2.1.7 and I have already shut down the queue daemons, but I am looking how to abort the mailing and stop any more messages from going out. The list has about 45,000 subscribers, and it looks like a fair number of requests haven't been forwarded to postfix yet. Thanks,

[Mailman-Users] "disable_dns_lookups = yes" is a very bad idea

2006-02-17 Thread Jonathan Dill
Speaking ripe from experience, the Mailman FAQ suggests turning on "disable_dns_lookups = yes" to improve the performance of Postfix with Mailman, which kind of makes sense. BUT in Postfix, this disables all MX lookups. So, unless you are going indirectly through a relay that is going to hand

[Mailman-Users] abort mailing in progress?

2006-02-17 Thread Jonathan Dill
Hi folks, I have Mailman 2.1.7 and I have already shut down the queue daemons, but I am looking how to abort the mailing and stop any more messages from going out. The list has about 45,000 subscribers, and it looks like a fair number of requests haven't been forwarded to postfix yet. Thanks, Jo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Explicit Reply Address Stuck

2001-04-25 Thread Jonathan Dill
> Troy wrote: > After I added an Explicit Reply to Address, I could not delete it out > again, and changing the Directed field to "Poster" didn't seem to > help either. > > Is this a bug, does anyone know of a fix or work around? I am definitely not a guru, but I would login as the mailman use

Re: [Mailman-Users] kindly remove me from this and any lists you manage or consult with

2001-04-19 Thread Jonathan Dill
The only thing I can guess is: 1) some spammer is using mailman-users as a return e-mail address 2) someone has somehow managed to maliciously subscribe you to some mailing lists 3) you somehow managed to subscribe yourself to the mailing list I have forwarded your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]