[Mailman-Users] Mailman Security & privacy needed examples aregiven below

[Steven Stern]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> jithender reddy wrote:
>   
>> where
>> as one day i find that same as ours i.e mailman archieve it is showing
>> entire mails to the outside people. If they are downloading all the
>> archieves and seeing them will break our privacy this came to my
>> existance after 2 years of time. I dont know how may are doing this.
>> And we are very much afraid of this.
>>
>> for example same iam showing the link here
>>
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/
>>
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo
>>
>>     
>
>
> If you set archive_private to "private" on the lists "Archiving
> Options" page in the admin web interface, the archive will only be
> available to list members who log in with their list pasword. The
> archive links will be of the form
> <http://mail.python.org/mailman/private/mailman-developers/>, and the
> 'pipermail' links won't work.
>   

It might also be a very good idea to set up an IP address restriction 
for the pipermail directory tree in httpd.conf to restrict access to 
your internal network.