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-Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
-Copyright (C) 1998-2007 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA
-
-
-NETSCAPE ISSUES
-
- 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.x 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.
-
- By default, members-only lists use the From: header as the first
- field to authenticate against, falling back to Sender:. The site
- administrator can also configure Mailman to always use Sender:
- first. If Sender: is used, and it 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,
- even if the site administrator has configured things to look at
- Sender: first.
-
-
-MOZILLA
-
- There are no known problems with Mozilla 0.9.x at this time. I
- don't know whether the above Netscape problem also affects
- Mozilla.
-
-
-
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