Re[2]: [vps-mail] Majordomo Install Problems on VPS2

[Matt Cohen <lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 1:20 PM -0700 5/22/04, Abigail Marshall said something about:
> MC> Ok, I give up; what am i doing wrong?
>
> MC> Aliases file:
> MC> test-l: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l test-l -h dahvi.com
> MC> test-l-outgoing"
> MC> test-l-outgoing::include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/test-l
>
> Matt, maybe you know this and have the above configuration
> set just for testing - but the way it is set up right now,
> any spammer can send mail to your entire list by simply
> mailing to:
>
> test-l-outgoing@xxxxxxxxx
>
> (Assuming you get it all working)
>
> That's why I don't like majordomo, by the way - there really
> is no way to protect against this that I know of, but you
> can configure it so that (1) the "outgoing" address is not
> something easy to guess, but is essentially treated as if it
> were a password, like: test-l-3g5iou9 - and (2) the resend
> line is configured so that the "outgoing" address doesn't
> show up in the headers.

I use #2, but I am planning on moving this MailMan, which I think I 
can also use command-line directives to add/remove members.  But 
first I got to get it working!!!

Matt
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