[Mailman-Users] Scramble e-mail addresses in archives
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Thu Nov 11 15:15:09 CET 2004
At 4:11 AM +0100 2004-11-11, Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote:
> Is it possible to have Mailman scramble all e-mail addresses that occurs
> (on both e-mail headers and message body) in e-mails sent to a Mailman list
> so that these e-mail addresses are also scrambled in the archives (and
> thus not harvested by spam robots)?
You can't scramble all e-mail addresses that appear in the
messages that are sent out, because then users couldn't reply,
misconfigured MTAs might reject the messages as spam, etc.... The
best you can do is to protect the archives, which Mailman does by
default.
However, Mailman also usually provides a link to the full mailbox
with addresses that have not been protected, and that problem is
addressed at
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.034.htp>.
> If this function exist, how is it turned on, and is it possible to have
> it scramble e-mail addresses in old archives?
From the main web admin page for your list, go to the "Privacy
options..." page. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and make
sure that the last radio button is set to "Yes". It has the
description "Show member addresses so they're not directly
recognizable as email addresses?" If this needs to be corrected,
then do so and click on the "Submit Your Changes" button.
If you want something more than what this option provides, you'll
need to make source code modifications to Mailman in order to obtain
your desired results. If you go that direction, we would appreciate
your contributing those changes back to the project.
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