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November 2009

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FR: obscure email address in archives
by Joost Schuttelaar 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

When the obscure email address feature in the admin settings is enabled, e-mail addresses are transformed into the format 'xxx AT xxx' in the archives. This may have worked 5 years ago to prevent spam harvesting. But it does not work anymore. I've patched (well... butchered) my own install by modifying HyperArch.py to simply output 'EMAIL HIDDEN' instead of the obscured e- mail address, by replacing the regexes to a constant string at line 284. I think a 'proper' feature like this would be a very welcome addition. Right now, it would be trivial to write a script to harvest tens of thousands of e-mail addresses from Mailman users... -- Joost Schuttelaar The Hague, NL

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mailman/admindb: request for 'redirect' action
by Kaja P. Christiansen 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

[This posting was originally sent on Oct 27th but it seems it didn't make it to the list] Hello all, Our MTA provides strong and effective spam filtering (MIMEdefang with Solido/greylisting/NilSimsa). Part of the process is redirecting spam which gets through to our spam filters. In my role as Mailman site administrator for two busy domains (at two continents :-) I have been greatly missing the 'Redirect' action for mailman/admindb. Although Mailman has currently 4 actions and 4 sender filters in mailman/admindb, none of these can be used for automated redirection of spam messages. A field for an address for redirection of spam and a 'Redirect' button would make a big difference for list administrators! My apologies if this topic was already discussed - mail archives for mailman-developers seemed down or very busy today, so I couldn't check. Kaja

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