[lug] Posting to the List from Netscape

[Bonnell, Doug]

Netscape has bugs!!!

I'm shocked.  :-)

Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Wayde Allen [SMTP:wallen at boulder.nist.gov]
> Sent:	Thursday, May 25, 2000 9:02 AM
> To:	List: Boulder Linux User's Group
> Subject:	[lug] Posting to the List from Netscape
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:34:20 -0600
> From: Lynn Danielson <lynnd at techangle.com>
> To: Wayde Allen <wallen at boulder.nist.gov>
> Subject: posting problem
> 
> Wayde, 
> 
> I was just reading README.NETSCAPE for Mailman and noticed the 
> following info which sounded like a problem one of your lug
> members had posted:
> 
> "Some of your users may experience problems sending mail to a
> members-only list, if they are using Netscape Communicator as their
> MUA.  Communicator 4.6 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.
> 
> Members-only lists use Sender: as the first field to authenticate
> against, so if Sender: 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 at 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); "
> 
> 
> Fwiw,
> 
> -- 
> Lynn Danielson
> lynnd at ihs.com
> (303)397-2330
> 
> 
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