Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-23 Thread Bill Christensen
Mark's fix: If your Mailman is at least 2.1.16, all you need to do is set SUBSCRIBE_FORM_SECRET = 'Some string unique to your site" in mm_cfg.py, and that attack will no longer work. Is working fine. But thanks for the alternative suggestions. I've got a copy of fail2ban ready to install bu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-20 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 02:38:01PM +0100, David Osborne wrote: > On 15/05/15 05:32, Bill Christensen wrote: > >I long ago routed real users to an alternative signup, but the spam > >keeps coming, unrelenting, and are now anywhere between 1k and 10k per day. > > One of our lists was spammed in a si

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-20 Thread David Osborne
On 15/05/15 05:32, Bill Christensen wrote: I have a long running list with thousands of subscribers that needs to move to a new set of email addresses. The existing list is announce-only, so doesn't get a whole lot of traffic - typically at most a few outgoing emails a year. But some time back

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 05/15/2015 06:51 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: > > On 5/15/15 12:21 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_policy st to >> Require approval and then discard all requests. > when you say "discard all requests", is there a way to do that > automatically? W

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-15 Thread Bill Christensen
Excellent. I didn't know about the clone_list script. On 5/15/15 12:21 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_policy st to Require approval and then discard all requests. when you say "discard all requests", is there a way to do that automatically? With

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 05/14/2015 09:32 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: > > I'm thinking that the best way to deal with this is to move everything, > including the archives, to a newly created list on the same domain > name. The alternative signup method i've set up works, so if i set the > new list to "Advertise this l

[Mailman-Users] Migrating a list to a new email address

2015-05-14 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi all, I have a long running list with thousands of subscribers that needs to move to a new set of email addresses. The existing list is announce-only, so doesn't get a whole lot of traffic - typically at most a few outgoing emails a year. But some time back a bot started sending spam regi