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Subject: Re: Please, help me. Restrict post by domain
From: Mark Crocker <mcrocker @ micron . com>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 16:32:15 -0600 (MDT)
To: Chris_Marble @ hmc . edu
Cc: nunes @ inf . ufrgs . br, Majordomo-Users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <199904301444.HAA26023@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
References: <199904292024.RAA27373@inf.ufrgs><199904301444.HAA26023@orion.ac.hmc.edu>


On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 07:44:13 -0700 (PDT), Chris Marble <cmarble@orion.ac.hmc.edu> wrote:

> Cristina Moreira Nunes wrote:
>>  I have a restrict list in may server. However, I would like to
>> restrict it based on domain (such as "@inf.ufrgs.br". Is there a
>> way to do this?  I am using majordomo 1.94.4 and Solaris 5.1.1.

> I do it by using procmail to filter the mail headed to the -outgoing
> list.  If it's from our domain then it goes to a renamed outgoing
> list.  If it's from another domain it goes off to another mailing
> list.  Here's the procmail script:

> script:
> :0:
> * ^From.*hmc\.edu
> ! fac-l-outgoing
> :0:
> ! faculty-announce-l
> 
> And here's the aliases for the mailing list:
> faculty-l: "|/usr/local/server/list/majordomo/wrapper resend -l faculty-l faculty-l-outgoing"
> faculty-l-manager: Chris_Marble@hmc.edu
> faculty-l-approval: faculty-l-manager
> faculty-l-request: "|/usr/local/server/list/majordomo/wrapper request-answer faculty-l"
> faculty-l-outgoing: "|/usr/local/bin/procmail -m /usr/local/server/list/Script/fac-fil"
> fac-l-outgoing: :include:/usr/local/server/list/lists.majordomo/faculty-l,faculty-l-archive
> faculty-l-archive: "|/usr/local/server/list/majordomo/wrapper archive2.pl -a -m -f /usr/local/server/list/archives/faculty-l"
> -- 
>   Chris_Marble@hmc.edu - HMC UNIX & Information Systems Manager
>   My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway.

That's a pretty good solution, but what's to keep some spammer from
sending directly to fac-l-outgoing and bypassing all of that?  I
realize that they probably don't know the name, but "security by
obscurity" just doesn't cut it IMHO.

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