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+Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
+Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
+
+Some of your users may experience problems sending mail to a
+members-only list, if they are using Netscape Communicator as their
+MUA.  Communicator 4.6 on Linux has been observed to insert bogus
+unqualified Sender: headers -- i.e. Sender: headers with only the
+username part of the email address.  Other version of Netscape may
+also have the same bug.
+
+Members-only lists use Sender: as the first field to authenticate
+against, so if Sender: exists in the email message, but it is
+unqualified, it will never match a mailing list member's address, and
+their post will always be held for approval.
+
+In the future, Mailman will improve its algorithm for finding a
+matching address, but in the meantime, M. A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> 
+provides the following advice.  You can send this snippet to any user
+whose posts are being held for seemingly no reason.
+
+    Edit the two .js files in your .netscape directory (liprefs.js and
+    preferences.js) to include the function call:
+
+    user_pref("mail.suppress_sender_header", true);
+
+    BTW, the binary includes a comment which says that this is only
+    necessary on Unix.
+
+    Since Communicator regenerates this file upon exit, the change
+    must be done when Communicator is not currently running.  With the
+    next start, it will stop adding the Sender: header and things
+    start to work like a charm again.
+
+The reason things start to work again, is that Mailman falls back to
+authenticating the From: header if the Sender: header is missing.
+
+
+
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