Mailman 3 January 2009 - Mailman-Users

List Distribution Sequence Confusion
by Dennis Putnam Jan. 2, 2009

Jan. 2, 2009

I am having a problem when mailman (2.1.9) tries to distribute mail. My main problem is that I do not understand what it is doing. I do not have a static IP and I have to relay outgoing mail through my ISP's server. Thus there was a lot of fudging of the configuration to make it work thanks to help from this list. When I try to send mail to a list it seems to be trying to mail it to listname-bounces(a)fakehost.mydomain.com. As result I get this this message from my ISP's server, not unexpectedly: 550 [PERMFAIL] destination not valid within DNS (in reply to RCPT TO command)) I don't understand why it is sending mail there instead of to the members of the list. What am I doing wrong? FWIW, this was a working system prior to upgrading my Mandriva OS to 2008.1 so lots of things were changed. I can't say what specifically so this is almost like starting from scratch even though I copied all the config files from the working system. Thanks.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] The economics of spam
by Jan Steinman Jan. 2, 2009

Jan. 2, 2009

> From: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-mailman(a)fmp.com> > > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:15 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> Lindsay Haisley wrote: >>> >>> I was intrigued by your comments on the economics of spam... >> >> This doesn't directly answer your question (i.e., it's even further >> OT), but I found it interesting. >> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7719281.stm> > > Actually, I've been reading the source paper about which this article > was written. It's online as a PDF at: > > http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/2008-ccs-spamalytics.pdf I would willingly pay a hundredth of a cent (or so) per email sent if it would reduce spam to near-zero. According to this study, $0.0001 per email sent would more than wipe out the spammers' profit, but sending legit email to every one of my couple-dozen Mailman lists would only cost about a dime. I wouldn't even bother to pass that cost on to my customers. :::: Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the human race. - H.G. Wells :::: :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality <http://www.EcoReality.org> ::::

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Relative Admin URLs
by Dennis Putnam Jan. 1, 2009

Jan. 1, 2009

I read some threads on producing relative URLs for the admin pages but it seemed like there is a bug/hole and I did not find any closure on it. Has that issue been resolved and if so how do I configure mailman to generate relative URLs rather than absolute? Thanks.

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How to accept mail from a single IP / DNS name only for a given list
by Emmett Perdue Jan. 1, 2009

Jan. 1, 2009

1st, forgive me if this has been answered before. I have searched high and low and can not find an answer to my question. How can I setup a list so that mail can be accepted ONLY from 1 IP address? As an example I have a list named abc(a)123.com and it is setup as an announce list only accepting mail from 1 user with an address of bob(a)123.com . How can I set this list up so that even if the mail appears to come from bob(a)123.com the email will post to the list ONLY if bob(a)123.com's email came from bobspc.123.com which has an an IP address of 123.456.789.246 Thanks!

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