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Subject: Re: Non-member submissions being accepted by lists.
From: "Doty, Robert" <Robert . Doty @ xerox . com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:32:28 -0400
To: "Frank Bax" <fbax @ sympatico . ca>,<majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
Thread-index: AcZZns57/HxdDPNmQBWltyIC6nSp/QAAT+Ig
Thread-topic: Non-member submissions being accepted by lists.

That is much easier.  Thanks! 




G. Robert Doty
MCD Integration Manager
XOG / SEBU / MCD
Xerox Corporation
Phone: 585-427-3681
Robert.Doty@xerox.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: majordomo-users-owner@greatcircle.com
[mailto:majordomo-users-owner@greatcircle.com] On Behalf Of Frank Bax
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:17 PM
To: majordomo-users@greatcircle.com
Subject: Re: Non-member submissions being accepted by lists.

At 12:42 PM 4/6/06, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>Recently, we have discovered that our mailing lists are accepting posts
>from non-subscribers if they are sent to our server in the form:
>
>listname-list@server.domain_name
>
>instead of
>
>listname@server.domain_name


You can block outside email to that address without affecting the
operation 
of your list.  If your MTA is sendmail, you should add this entry to 
virtusertable:

listname-list@server.domain_name        error:nouser User unknown

I'm not *why* this works, but it does.

Frank 


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