Mailman 3 June 2024 - Mailman-Users

spamming
by Jim Dory 10 Aug '24

10 Aug '24

I've got a new problem with my mailing list. I run a local announcements/trade list that should be of no interest to non-locals. I started seeing warnings from Yahoo about users marking messages as spam.. (I'm subscribed to Yahoo's Antispam Feedback. I never got other feedback loops from others - like Microsoft - to work). The messages that were being marked as spam by users were the confirmation emails sent by mailman to confirm a signup. To avoid having Yahoo shut down the list as spam (for its subscribers), I set the subscription to be approved by admin, so I could review who was trying to sign up. More and more now I'm seeing what appears to be spammers trying to subscribe, but I can't be sure. I'm seeing emails like: hirofeet0916(a)yahoo.co.jp (doesn't seem local) blvckpvlm(a)gmail.com (not many use user names such as that) fsafwcasgsadf2(a)gwqc.com (obviously not real - couldn't find domain with minimal searching) Plus some that could be local but how would I know. I could take off the "approval by admin" for subscription and just deal with anyone that is a problem afterward, but I do worry that they may be harvesting emails from subscribers, which are available in the reply-to headers. Don't know if there's anything I can do. Anyone else dealing with this? thanks. Jim

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List_Members from Command Line Permission
by Dennis Putnam 29 Jun '24

29 Jun '24

I am developing a script that gets a list of members from a mailing list (mailman 2.1.15). I'm using popen (in python 2.7.5) to issue the command. However, even though I am running it as admin for that list, I'm getting a permissions error. How/what do I need to set in order to run that command? def getUsers(): "This function returns a list of users from mailman" p=subprocess.Popen(["/usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_members","listname"],stdout=subprocess.PIPE) lines=p.stdout.readlines() p.wait return(lines)

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problem with non-member Sender rules
by Laack, Andrea P. 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

Our non-member Sender rules work fine with emails coming directly from the sender, but our servers send emails to root@<server> and those are forwarded to the mail list. The Sender filters do not seem to be working on this forwarded email. How can we get around this? Andrea Andrea Laack Research & Tech Innov Svcs Mayo Clinic 507-538-3831 Laack.Andrea(a)mayo.edu

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lots of bounces after server move
by Jim Dory 27 Jun '24

27 Jun '24

I just had my hosting company move our mailing list to an updated server. Now I'm suddenly getting a lot of bounces of the sort: 550 5.4.1 Recipient address rejected: Access denied and 552-5.2.2 The recipient's inbox is out of storage space and inactive. and 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. etc. Before the move, I downloaded the list config.pck as a precaution, and all the emails in the bounces exist in that file. Before I start removing those user's email accounts.. what might I be missing? Perhaps something in the new server is triggering the "550 5.4.1 recipient address rejected" (a local company's employees mostly) thanks for the help. /jim

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Bounce Score information
by Bruce Kaiser 10 Jun '24

10 Jun '24

I am new administrator for several mail-lists, using GNUMailman 2.1 via our service provider. It seems that although some addresses have bounced a number of times, none are being suspended. Is there a way to obtain a list of the current bounce scores and bounce status for each of the members of a list? Also, I have seen references to a bounce log but have not been able to locate one. Thanks in advance for any help.

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