April 2002 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

Re: how to restrict postings from a particular email
by Tim Pierce 23 Apr '02

23 Apr '02

In article <v03130311b8e9ecdc17ce(a)[192.168.123.10]>, Charlie Summers <charlie(a)lofcom.com> writes: > At 12:20 PM -0400 4/22/02, Kapoor, Nishikant X is rumored to have typed: > >> Is there a way to restrict postings from a particular email address ? I >>have a poster who just would not stop posting junk stuff ? > > This is something of a FAQ, too; or at least is covered in the Manual file > (see section 3b) that comes with the SmartList distribution. Short answer: > add the address to the linked reject file. The reject file is unfortunately only applied to subscribe requests; if someone is subscribed to your list, adding their e-mail address to the reject file won't prohibit them from posting. This patch to rc.submit should make SmartList use the reject file to screen list postings. diff -u -r1.5 -r1.6 --- rc.submit 1999/06/07 15:31:40 1.5 +++ rc.submit 1999/06/23 17:57:17 1.6 @@ -109,6 +109,20 @@ multigram -b1 -m -l$submit_threshold -L$domain \ -x$listaddr -x$listreq $accept_files { + # Check to see if the poster is on the reject list. The reject + # list overrides the accept list. + + :0 + * ? formail -X"From " -xFrom: -xReply-To: -xSender: -xResent-From: \ + -xResent-Reply-To: -xResent-Sender: -xReturn-Path: | \ + multigram -b1 -l$reject_threshold reject rejectx + { + :0 wfh + | formail -A "X-Diagnostic: Found on the reject list" \ + -A "X-Diagnostic: `multigram -b1 -l$reject_threshold reject rejectx`" + + HOST=continue_with_rc_request + } INCLUDERC=$RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_10

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Linking Accept to Dist
by Bruce Vander Werf 23 Apr '02

23 Apr '02

Hi, I wanted to make our list subscriber only, so I uncommented the foreign_submit line per the FAQ. However, I soon realized that nobody except the one address that was in the accept file was able to post to the list. Evidently, the accept list was never linked to the dist list, or somehow became unlinked. Anyway, I'm a Linux rookie, but I did figure out how to SSH into my site through my web provider, then I used the following shell commands: rm accept ln dist accept This seemed to do the trick, but did I do it right? Any ideas how the file may have become unlinked in the first place? -- Bruce Vander Werf brucev(a)cyberlink.com

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attachments
by Jerry Sloan 23 Apr '02

23 Apr '02

Is there anyway to configure smartlist to reject attachments? Thanks Jerry Sloan -- "Let us take care that age does not make more wrinkles on our spirit than on our face." Michel de Montaigne

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xcommand web interface
by Werner Reisberger 22 Apr '02

22 Apr '02

To extend another tool for xcommands with encryption capability I modified my xcommand cgi and named it xcommsec. It is available at ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist/ For the usage of xcommsec it is required to install xc_sec, available at the same URL and to use something like TLS/SSL to have a secure connection to the script. BTW: Anyone on the list knows of other MLM with mechanismn like xcommand. If there are some, how do they handle the authentification. Do they also send cleartext passwords? Werner

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xc_sec 0.4 released
by Werner Reisberger 21 Apr '02

21 Apr '02

Just put a new version of xc_sec on my ftp server. xc_sec is an addon to SmartList for the secure transmission of xcommand passwords. By default xcommand passwords are send in cleartext over the wire. I released a new version because the usage of sequence numbers is cumbersome, especially if you use different machines for sending xcommands. The new version uses a combination of time stamps and unique ID's to ensure that the encrypted password isn't reusable. You can get xc_sec at ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist/xc_sec-0.4.tar.gz Werner

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Bounced emails on email list
by Intrepid Video Info 17 Apr '02

17 Apr '02

Good day. I have been receiving these messages all day on this one individual. I have not seen one of these with this wording and since Yahoo does not support their service, I had hoped I could find an answer on this list. Thank you. The original message was received at Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:56:05 -0400 from intrepid@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- wwood_38478(a)yahoo.com (reason: 552 Put ,E=\r\n at the end of Mether, Mtcp, or Msmtp in sendmail.cf if you are using Solaris 2.5 (fi... cannot accept messages with stray newlines. Many SMTP servers will time out waiting for \r\n.\r\n.) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- procmail: Couldn't read ".rc.local.init" procmail: Couldn't read ".rc.local.init" ... while talking to mx1.mail.yahoo.com.: >>> DATA <<< 552 Put ,E=\r\n at the end of Mether, Mtcp, or Msmtp in sendmail.cf if you are using Solaris 2.5 (fixed in 2.5.1). I cannot accept messages with stray newlines. Many SMTP servers will time out waiting for \r\n.\r\n. 554 5.0.0 wwood_38478(a)yahoo.com... Service unavailable Jeff Jeff Dougherty Intrepid Video & Electronics God answers 501 Luther Rd Knee-mail.

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new xc_sec version
by Werner Reisberger 17 Apr '02

17 Apr '02

The 0.3 version of xc_sec is now offering truly unique one time ciphers. Should somebody have already installed xc_sec 0.1 or 0.2 an upgrade only requires to customize the scripts mkfish.pl and decrpwd, copy decrpwd to the .bin directory of your Smartlist installation and create sequence files as described in the INSTALL file. xc_sec is available at ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist/xc_sec-0.3.tar.gz Werner

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x_command Security
by Werner Reisberger 17 Apr '02

17 Apr '02

Since the maintainer password is send in cleartext with the x_command interface of SmartList I made some scripts and patches to enable SmartList to process x_commands with encrypted passwords. The encryption mechanismn is Twofish. Encryption can be enabled/disabled with a variable in rc.custom. Two small patches for rc.request and the x_command script are necessary. Grab it at ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist/ It's called xc_sec-0.1.tar.gz. Werner

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xc_sec update
by Werner Reisberger 15 Apr '02

15 Apr '02

The first version of xc_sec isn't very helpful because it lacks the capability to create unique ciphers. The new version ftp://ftp.pure.ch/smartlist/xc_sec-0.2.tar.gz has also a customized doxcommand script which you can use to send your xcommand's on the command line with safely encrypted passwords. Werner

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