Mailman 3 March 2006 - Mailman-Users

hello, question about mailheaders
by daniel trejo March 16, 2006

March 16, 2006

hello everybody!.I'm a new mailman user, I'm installing it for a mailing list on my university (UNAM). Until now I haven't had any problems with my configuration, but my boss (teacher) wants me to put a banner on every mail posted on the list. The banner must be a jpeg image and it should be loaded from my server. I thought of putting a <src image> label on my header in regular delivery configuration, but it seems that < is not allowed, the symbol < appears instead; i've tried everything " / and other characters before the < character but nothing seems to work. p.d i put no on my html to text checkbox If someone answers this , I will be very grateful . thanks everybody

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relaying spam using mailing lists
by Gadi Evron March 15, 2006

March 15, 2006

A friend of mine just wrote about what happened to an ezmlm mailing list he runs, and how it was recently used to relay spam (quoted below). All mailing list managers return bounces of some sort, for subscriptions, unsubscriptions, moderation, etc. (*configuration dependent*), some just quote the subject line though, as an example. Do we risk blocking by black lists for allowing mailing list bounces? Do we in blacklists block spam in bounces? We all see spam bouncing off our lists, how do we distinguish what's what? Especially if these are bounces themselves? How would mailman be vulnerable, if at all? Thanks go to Ellen from spamcop for the help. ----- People tend to think of SPAMers are a bunch of monkeys, i.e. know nothing, utilize off the shelf tools, and completely un-imaginative. I tend to differ, especially after what I saw happen… It began about 3 months ago, our ezmlm mailing list was starting to get a lot of bounces, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot. The number quickly risen to more than 100 per hour, all of them bounces caused by malformed ezmlm requests. These bounces weren’t ordinary, their body was composed of a SPAMed email. You would ask your self, why would someone use ezmlm to bounce emails? well you take our security oriented mailing-list, which has its credibility (both the IP address of the mail server’s credibility and the email address’s credibility) and you utilize it for your spamming needs. In addition, ezmlm will bounce almost any email it receives without thinking, and not only bounce it, but also include the entire incoming email, in our case the SPAM content. Making it a nice to use SPAM relay. After several weeks, our mail server was starting to get blocked by SpamCop, and others which regard bouncing email SPAM as regular SPAM. Several days ago, we decided to put an end to this shenanigan, we patched - yes changed the source code, as ezmlm doesn’t support the suppression of bouncing emails - ezmlm to stop it from sending back emails whenever something bad has happened, and low and behold a few hours after the change was put into place, our ezmlm was no longer being used to relay SPAM. The only option I can conclude from this is that the SPAMers use some-kind of technique (maybe even “SPAM” themselves) to detect whether it is still useful to use your SPAM relay for their needs, in this case our ezmlm configuration, and when it is no longer useful, they “conserve” their bandwidth and move on to their next target. ----- http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/353 Gadi.

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Embedded/Externally Linked Images as Attachments
by Ryan Lewis March 15, 2006

March 15, 2006

Hello All. My company uses and has used Mailman for quite some times now to send out Mailing lists. We recently upgraded our server and in turn upgraded to 2.1.7 of Mailman. Everything seems to be as swell as ever for our PC subscribers. However for subscribers using Apple Mail and MS Entourage the images embedded in our eMails are no longer working "perfectly", While in Apple Mail they all show up inline like always they are also repeated at the bottom of the eMail as if they were attachments and not external links. I've viewed the source and see the external links replaced with "src=cid:par1blahblah@blah.com" is there a way to get around this? A setting in the admin or setup perhaps? Is this even Mailman doing this? I can't decide for 100% that it is, and am not having much luck finding anything addressing this in the documentation. Am I overlooking anything? And Entourage - which I am less worried about because my boss doesn't use it ;) - looks like it is scrubbing the HTML all together. Any ideas on any of this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ryan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail was checked by the TecInfo Content Scanning Service for potentially harmful content, such as viruses or Spam For more information, call 800.863.5415 or visit www.tecinfo.net -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Can the default message be changed?
by John Franklin March 15, 2006

March 15, 2006

I have a list which is configured to aggressively filter out certain types of message encodings and content, partially using the spam filtering capability. (We have a LOT of people using very old command- line software to read e-mail, so we keep anything out which can't be viewed that way.) Since list subscriptions are open, and we allow contributions from non-subscribers after moderator approval, there are a lot of posts from non-technical people who have no clue that there is even a difference between types of e-mail message, let alone that it might be desirable to use the simpler kinds. Although we send out instructions including a link to the excellent page at http://www.expita.com/nomime.html to subscribers, not everyone who posts has subscribed, and I fear that most subscribers don't read the message in the first place. The upshot of this is that I receive many messages from people who have received "filter rule match" rejection notices, asking what to do. Is there any way to provide a custom message in place of "filter rule match" for spam filter rejections? -John Franklin

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How to migrate a 300 list majordomo to Mailman?
by Nicoll, Alan March 15, 2006

March 15, 2006

I've searched the FAQ and Archive but found only 2 mentions of majordomo and neither have anything to do with my situation. I have 300 very small lists in majordomo (that is giving me problems) that I'm trying to migrate to Mailman. I, obviously, don't want to manually recreate those lists. They are all announce only; my bug tracking system uses them to send notifications to subsystem owners and developers. I run on Solaris 9 and the lists are ascii files with CR delimited email addresses in them. We have Mailman installed and working and I've read the FAQ on how to create announce only lists so I think I can configure them correctly once I get them created. Is there a way to import the lists into Mailman? Alan E (Nick) Nicoll DocuSP Problem System Administrator Xerox Corporation Xerox Centre Drive, MS: ESC1-615 El Segundo, CA 90245 Phone 310 333-5081 Internal 8*823-5081 Fax 310 333-6898 alan.nicoll(a)xerox.com XEROX Technology Document Management Consulting Services www.xerox.com <http://www.xerox.com/>

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Need help with rss patch....
by Jeff Schoby March 14, 2006

March 14, 2006

Anyone out there who has this or another rss solution integrated/working with mailman care to send me a line offlist? I'm having issues. :) Thanks

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failed to post to all
by gregory LAROCHE March 14, 2006

March 14, 2006

The inscription process for the users of my list is OK. When an approved user post a message to this moderat list, I can see the post in the administrative interface. But When I want to accept it, no messages is send to the all users ? Did I miss something ? Regards ___________________________________________________________________________ Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international. Téléchargez sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com

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Mailman List Migration to Another Server
by RC March 14, 2006

March 14, 2006

Hi Guys We are in the process of moving a bunch of mail lists from one server to another. As far as I could read, one needs to copy the following directories :- /usr/local/mailman/lists /usr/local/mailman/archives I have copied those directories over to my new server and all appears to be working, except that I cannot see any of the lists through the web interface. I have also modified the config.pck file though a utility called config_list available in the /usr/local/mailman/bin directory to reflect the new server URL addresses, but that doesn't seem to have done the trick for me. Has anyone else experienced the same, and any possible solutions or ideas? Thanx RC

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mischief: Login failure with private rosters
by Jim Popovitch March 14, 2006

March 14, 2006

Hi all, I keep seeing "Login failure with private rosters" errors in my mischief logs. Some are accepted as being valid, but others seem to be unrelated to private archives and more likely to be failure to login to unsubscribe or change options. I haven't directly asked any of the users, however I have some inside knowledge on what a few of the users are doing since I know their email addresses are changing. That knowledge, coupled with the fact that their particular list only has public archives, makes me believe there may be an error in the log message in Mailman v2.1.7. The mischief logs don't identify which list the login failure occurs with, so it is difficult to know for sure. Has anyone else experienced similar? -Jim P.

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Few email ids being dropped
by BG Mahesh March 14, 2006

March 14, 2006

In the log file of mailman we see something like to="user1(a)xyz.com, user2(a)xyz.com, user3(a)xyz.com, user4(a)xyz.com" i.e. 4 users of the same domain are shown above. But on the mailserver of xyz.com [which is sendmail] in maillog file we see only user1(a)xyz.com, the other 3 users are not in maillog of xyz.com and not receiving the email. Where could it be getting lost? -- -- B.G. Mahesh

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