From brent@GreatCircle.COM Mon Sep 21 15:34:21 1992 Return-Path: Received: from localhost by mycroft.GreatCircle.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1/Brent-920623) id AA14587; Mon, 21 Sep 92 15:34:21 PDT Message-Id: <9209212234.AA14587@mycroft.GreatCircle.COM> To: majordomo-announce@GreatCircle.COM Subject: New version of Majordomo; new scripts Reply-To: Brent@GreatCircle.COM Date: Mon, 21 Sep 92 15:34:20 -0700 From: Brent Chapman I've updated Majordomo to fix a couple of bugs related to commas in quoted strings in mail addresses, and to add or update a couple of utility scripts. As always, it's available for anonymous FTP from FTP.GreatCircle.COM. Previously, Majordomo would interpret: "John Smith, Sr." as two addresses: "John Smith Sr." both of which were invalid... That's fixed now. There are a couple of new or updated utility scripts. The "approve" script allows Majordomo list owners who are MH users to easily "approve" requests forwarded by Majordomo; see the comments for information. The "medit" script locks a Majordomo-managed file (a mailing list, or a .info file, for instance), then starts your editor on it, and unlocks it when you're done; this is so that you can edit mailing lists by hand (if necessary) without getting tripped up by a running Majordomo. Don't leave a file locked for more than 10 minutes, or Majordomo processes will start giving up on it and aborting. The changes I made in the last release, to disallow "/" in logins, may not be exactly what I wanted. Some addresses, particularly X.400 addresses, have a "/" in them, and Majordomo says they're invalid. Until I understand exactly what sendmail does with addresses with a "/" in them when the addresses come from a :include: alias file, though, I'm going to err on the side of caution and leave that check in. -Brent -- Brent Chapman Great Circle Associates Brent@GreatCircle.COM 1057 West Dana Street +1 415 962 0841 Mountain View, CA 94041 From brent@GreatCircle.COM Mon Sep 21 15:43:06 1992 Return-Path: Received: from localhost by mycroft.GreatCircle.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1/Brent-920623) id AA14733; Mon, 21 Sep 92 15:43:06 PDT Message-Id: <9209212243.AA14733@mycroft.GreatCircle.COM> To: majordomo-announce Subject: One more new Majordomo utility script Reply-To: Brent@GreatCircle.COM Date: Mon, 21 Sep 92 15:43:05 -0700 From: Brent Chapman Oh, yeah, there's one more new utility script in the Majordomo package: new-list is a script much like request-recording (based on request-recording), except that it replies to folks sending mail to the main list, rather than to people sending mail to the "-request" address. The idea is that you forward traffic on the list to the "new-list" script (rather than to the actual new list of users) for the first week or so after a list is created. "new-list" sends back a message advising folks to hang on to their messages and send them again in a few days, after the dust has settled. This starts everybody who joins a list in the first few days of its existance on an equal footing, so that half the messages in the first week of the list aren't "what did I miss? Where are the archives?". -Brent -- Brent Chapman Great Circle Associates Brent@GreatCircle.COM 1057 West Dana Street +1 415 962 0841 Mountain View, CA 94041 From sasjds@unx.sas.com Fri Sep 25 06:40:52 1992 Received: from lamb.sas.com by mycroft.GreatCircle.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1/Brent-920924) id AA09236; Fri, 25 Sep 92 06:40:52 PDT Received: from mozart by lamb.sas.com (5.65c/SAS/Gateway/10-28-91) id AA00413; Fri, 25 Sep 1992 09:41:01 -0400 Received: from quickset.unx.sas.com by mozart (5.65c/SAS/Domains/5-6-90) id AA11648; Fri, 25 Sep 1992 09:27:33 -0400 Return-Path: Received: by quickset.unx.sas.com (5.65c/SAS/Development Generic/11-9-91) id AA21669; Fri, 25 Sep 1992 09:27:01 -0400 From: John Sims Message-Id: <199209251327.AA21669@quickset.unx.sas.com> Subject: To: Majordomo-Announce@GreatCircle.COM Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 9:27:01 EDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] subscribe Majordomo-Announce From brent@GreatCircle.COM Fri Oct 2 14:20:11 1992 Return-Path: Received: from localhost by mycroft.GreatCircle.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1/Brent-920924) id AA05530; Fri, 2 Oct 92 14:20:11 PDT Message-Id: <9210022120.AA05530@mycroft.GreatCircle.COM> To: majordomo-announce Subject: New version of Majordomo available; fixes wrapper security problems Reply-To: Brent@GreatCircle.COM Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 14:20:10 -0700 From: Brent Chapman There's a new version of the Majordomo package available for anonymous FTP from FTP.GreatCircle.COM. The major change is that the "wrapper" set-gid program has been extensively rewritten (with help from Jeff Beadles; thanks Jeff!) to be more secure. Jeff posted a new version of "wrapper" to one of the Majordomo mailing lists a few days ago; the version now available here has even more security fixes than that one. Minor changes include: a slightly updated README file a minor bug fix regarding commas in address comments in mailstuff.pl removal of the "single @" test in Majordomo (it used to reject as invalid any address that didn't have exactly 1 '@' in it; it doesn't any more) inclusion of a new "medit" script, to lock a Majordomo-controlled file while you're editing it, then unlock it after you're done editing it. a minor return address bugfix in request-recording. -Brent -- Brent Chapman Great Circle Associates Brent@GreatCircle.COM 1057 West Dana Street +1 415 962 0841 Mountain View, CA 94041