On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dave C. wrote:
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> This may not have even been intentional..
I doubt if it was -- this time. I didn't even write to the subscriber. I
hate to involve us in too much technical stuff. But I'm disturbed that we
can be brought down so easily.
>
> If I were you, I would reconfigure majordomo to not put the
> "comment" parts of addresses in the list, just the functional address.
There's a good idea. I hate to lose that quoted info about each of
our members but maybe that's what we'll have to do.
I'll wait for any other suggestions first.
>
> Eg, instead of:
>
> "Someone" <Someone@???>
> "Someone else" <Someone@???>
> "John Q. Person" <JohnQ@???>
>
> Use this:
>
> <Someone@???>
> Someone@???
> <JohnQ@???>
>
> This way will work with or without the <> characters around the
> addresses..
>
> This should fixup the existing file to follow that convention (and
> throw away any addresses that dont currently have <> marks,
> unfortnately) (I havent tested it though):
>
> # cat listfile | tr " " "\n" | grep "^<.*@.*>$" > newlist
>
Thank you! I'll keep it handy in case we go this route.
Thanks again. You are *very* helpful.
Marilyn Davis, Ph.D.
eVote - online polling software for email lists
http://www.deliberate.com
marilyn@???
+1 650 965-7121 (USA)
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Marilyn Davis wrote:
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> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I run majordomo/exim for Zapatistas and am trying to be as secure
> > as possible. We get attacked.
> >
> > Using majordomo, even with the confirmation feature happening, someone
> > managed to put this onto the list of addresses:
> >
> > "Someone" Someone@???
> >
> > which exim didn't like. I think it wants:
> >
> > "Someone" <Someone@???>
> >
> > I'm talking with majordomo people to see how that got on there. The
> > majordomo people wonder why it is that exim then fails to send any
> > messages to the list (a disaster for the group which is in intense
> > deliberative discussion because of the noose tightening around Chiapas
> > and the upcoming Mexican elections). We were out of business all
> > night and part of the morning when this happened.
> >
> > Is there an option where I can direct exim to go ahead and send the
> > message to all the valid addresses and bounce or freeze just the one
> > bad address?
> >
> > Thanks for any help with this.
> >
> > Marilyn Davis, Ph.D.
> > eVote - online polling software for email lists
> > http://www.deliberate.com
> > marilyn@???
> > +1 650 965-7121 (USA)
> >
> >
> >
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