[Mailman-Users] Fw: Mass Mail

[Richard Shetron]

I can't say what others do, but we carefully vet people before setting 
up a list for someone.  One of my email addresses is on every list we 
host so I get a copy of everything sent.  I use thunderbird and have it 
filter all the mailing list traffic to a separate mailbox.  Once the 
list if properly vetted I tend to ignore the list unless I get a 
complaint.  I can then look at the last few sendings to see what was sent.

Occasionally a list member will have their computer compromised and emit 
spam.  If necessary, the user can be blocked until their computer is fixed.

Some lists use moderators so every posting to the list must be approved.

As I have root access to all the systems involved I will occasionally do 
a 'tail -f mail.log' to see how mail is flowing.  Sometimes it is too 
fast to see, but you can usually tell if most of the status messages are 
250 (message sent) or 4xx or 5xx.  Sometimes I'll just grep the log for 
specific responses.


On 4/30/2013 7:03 AM, Javad Hoseini-Nopendar wrote:
>
>
> Thank you dear Mark, Steven, Adam and Richard for your helpful answers.
> Now I have another question. Many of the hosting servers in my country Iran,
> disable the mailing list service for all their users (unless the users of
> Private Servers). If you talk to them and swear an oath not to send spam, or
> if you become contented with paying extra charge, again they don't accept to
> activate the mailing list service for shared hosts, because if I start
> sending spam, their IP will go into the black list of Gmail and Yahoo and
> all the websites on that hosting service will be blocked by Yahoo and Gmail
> anti-spam filters. What do the hosting companies of other countries do in
> order to prevent spamming by the users of their mailing lists? Do they
> deactivate the mailing lists too, or have ways to supervise the websites and
> prevent them from spamming? -----
>
> Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org>
> To: "Richard Damon" <Richard at Damon-Family.org>
> Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 10:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Mail
>
>
> Richard Damon writes:
>
>   > There is a fourth case, Host Provider sends the emails then sends you a
>   > bill for the overage at the rate specified in the contract. This could
>   > be very expensive for going that much over limit.
>
> All I can say is, "ouch!"  :-(
>
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