[lug] Posting to the List from Netscape

[Wayde Allen]

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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