Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

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 -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Enable moderated list to always accept some emails?

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

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

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/3

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

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 a

[Mailman-Users] How to set moderator passwd via 'config_list'?

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 -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

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 >>implici

[Mailman-Users] Spam avoidance, revisited: best practices?

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 above description) to combat spam: * Don't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Enable moderated list to always accept some emails?

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

[Mailman-Users] Enable moderated list to always accept some emails?

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

Re: [Mailman-Users] LDAP-based reg & "one-page" subscription selection?

w how 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 "connector

[Mailman-Users] LDAP-based reg & "one-page" subscription selection?

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, an

[Mailman-Users] How to automate single-sign-on across multiple apps?

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 m

Re: [Mailman-Users] 1 email for multiple email-list recipients onsame server?

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 impl

Re: [Mailman-Users] 1 email for multiple email-list recipients onsame server?

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 n

Re: [Mailman-Users] 1 email for multiple email-list recipients on same server?

so, if the Mailman development community 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

[Mailman-Users] 1 email for multiple email-list recipients on same server?

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 th

[Mailman-Users] Tips in using a list addr for another lists's owner address?

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 s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual-domain support?

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 ca

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual-domain support?

At 1/26/2006 09:43 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >There are some patches around. See >. >There is also a link to cPanel's patches at >. >But re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual-domain support?

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. Alrea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual-domain support?

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, differ

[Mailman-Users] Virtual-domain support?

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 vi

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to avoid dup copies to *multiple* email lists?

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=detail&aid=1347962&group_id=103&atid=300103 From what I can read from the above link, I say yes. >I plan to integrate it in mailman-2.2.

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to avoid dup copies to *multiple* email lists?

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 -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailm

[Mailman-Users] How to avoid dup copies to *multiple* email lists?

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 o

[Mailman-Users] How to alias /lists/mylist to /lists/mailman/listinfo/mylist?

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

[Mailman-Users] HowTo make replies to Sender/List, and reply-alls to everyone?

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 list-g

[Mailman-Users] How can I change the "admin" list?

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 pos

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains: Mailman 3 timeline? Cpanel changes?

>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 virtual-do

[Mailman-Users] Virtual Domains: Mailman 3 timeline? Cpanel changes?

quot;virtualize." -Matt At 6/12/2005 11:10 PM, Mark 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),

Re: [Mailman-Users] Plans to support 2 lists w/ same name indiffdomains?

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

[Mailman-Users] Update qmail-to-mailman.py for virtual domain support?

From http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1219686&group_id=103&atid=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 qmail-to-ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Plans to support 2 lists w/ same name in diffdomains?

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 11:1

[Mailman-Users] Plans to support 2 lists w/ same name in diff domains?

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 best

[Mailman-Users] A plug for Mailman-phpBB-Mail2Forum.com-qmail integration

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 reall

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

aw. -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

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for Postfix install-and-config consulting

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

[Mailman-Users] Looking for Postfix install-and-config consulting

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

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

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 f

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems: (110, 'Connection timed out')

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 resol

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

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, qmai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems: (110, 'Connection timed out')

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

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

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 5/15/2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

ROTECTED]> 250 ok data 354 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 pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

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 ke

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems (qmail problems)

PROTECTED]> 250 ok ^] telnet> c Connection 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 m

Re: [Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems: (110, 'Connection timed out')

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. Th

[Mailman-Users] Outbound smtp email problems: (110, 'Connection timed out')

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, '

[Mailman-Users] Why do install docs use Apache Alias w/ trailing slash?

Why do the install docs use Apache Alias w/ trailing slash? http://list.org/mailman-install/node10.html This reference seems to make a solid argument for not using trailing slashes: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ-E.html#set-servername The 'ScriptAlias' trailing slash may not hurt much of