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<h1 align="center"><font color="#ffffff">Shorewall Mailing Lists</font></h1>
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<h1>REPORTING A PROBLEM OR ASKING FOR HELP? If you haven't already, please
read the <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/support.htm">Shorewall Support
Guide</a>.<br>
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<p align="left">If you experience problems with any of these lists, please
let <a href="mailto:postmaster@shorewall.net">me</a> know</p>
<h2 align="left">Not able to Post Mail to shorewall.net?</h2>
<p align="left">You can report such problems by sending mail to tmeastep
at hotmail dot com.</p>
<h2>A Word about the SPAM Filters at Shorewall.net<65><a
href="http://osirusoft.com/"> </a></h2>
<p>Please note that the mail server at shorewall.net
checks incoming mail:<br>
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<ol>
<li>against <a href="http://spamassassin.org">Spamassassin</a>
(including <a href="http://razor.sourceforge.net/">Vipul's Razor</a>).<br>
</li>
<li>to ensure that the sender address is fully qualified.</li>
<li>to verify that the sender's domain has an A
or MX record in DNS.</li>
<li>to ensure that the host name in the HELO/EHLO
command is a valid fully-qualified DNS name that resolves.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Please post in plain text</h2>
A growing number of MTAs serving list subscribers are rejecting
all HTML traffic. At least one MTA has gone so far as to blacklist
shorewall.net "for continuous abuse" because it has been my policy to
allow HTML in list posts!!<br>
<br>
I think that blocking all HTML is a Draconian way to control
spam and that the ultimate losers here are not the spammers but the
list subscribers whose MTAs are bouncing all shorewall.net mail. As
one list subscriber wrote to me privately "These e-mail admin's need to
get a <i>(explitive deleted)</i> life instead of trying to rid the planet
of HTML based e-mail". Nevertheless, to allow subscribers to receive list
posts as must as possible, I have now configured the list server at shorewall.net
to strip all HTML from outgoing posts. This means that HTML-only posts
will be bounced by the list server.<br>
<p align="left"> <b>Note: </b>The list server limits posts to 120kb.<br>
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<h2>Other Mail Delivery Problems</h2>
If you find that you are missing an occasional list post,
your e-mail admin may be blocking mail whose <i>Received:</i> headers
contain the names of certain ISPs. Again, I believe that such policies
hurt more than they help but I'm not prepared to go so far as to start
stripping <i>Received:</i> headers to circumvent those policies.<br>
<h2 align="left">Mailing Lists Archive Search</h2>
<form method="post" action="http://lists.shorewall.net/cgi-bin/htsearch">
<p> <font size="-1"> Match:
<select name="method">
<option value="and">All </option>
<option value="or">Any </option>
<option value="boolean">Boolean </option>
</select>
Format:
<select name="format">
<option value="builtin-long">Long </option>
<option value="builtin-short">Short </option>
</select>
Sort by:
<select name="sort">
<option value="score">Score </option>
<option value="time">Time </option>
<option value="title">Title </option>
<option value="revscore">Reverse Score </option>
<option value="revtime">Reverse Time </option>
<option value="revtitle">Reverse Title </option>
</select>
</font> <input type="hidden" name="config"
value="htdig"> <input type="hidden" name="restrict"
value="[http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/.*]"> <input type="hidden"
name="exclude" value=""> <br>
Search: <input type="text" size="30"
name="words" value=""> <input type="submit" value="Search"> </p>
</form>
<h2 align="left"><font color="#ff0000">Please do not try to download the
entire Archive -- it is 75MB (and growing daily) and my slow DSL line simply
won't stand the traffic. If I catch you, you will be blacklisted.<br>
</font></h2>
<h2 align="left">Shorewall CA Certificate</h2>
If you want to trust X.509 certificates issued by
Shoreline Firewall (such as the one used on my web site), you
may <a href="Shorewall_CA_html.html">download and install my CA certificate</a>
in your browser. If you don't wish to trust my certificates then
you can either use unencrypted access when subscribing to Shorewall
mailing lists or you can use secure access (SSL) and accept the server's
certificate when prompted by your browser.<br>
<h2 align="left">Shorewall Users Mailing List</h2>
<p align="left">The Shorewall Users Mailing list provides a way for users
to get answers to questions and to report problems. Information
of general interest to the Shorewall user community is also posted
to this list.</p>
<p align="left"><b>Before posting a problem report to this list, please see
the <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/support.htm">problem reporting
guidelines</a>.</b></p>
<p align="left">To subscribe to the mailing list:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Insecure: </b><a
href="http://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users">http://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users</a></li>
<li><b>SSL:</b> <a
href="https://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users"
target="_top">https//lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users</a></li>
</ul>
<p align="left">To post to the list, post to <a
href="mailto:shorewall-users@lists.shorewall.net">shorewall-users@lists.shorewall.net</a>.</p>
<p align="left">The list archives are at <a
href="http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-users/index.html">http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-users</a>.</p>
<p align="left">Note that prior to 1/1/2002, the mailing list was hosted at
<a href="http://sourceforge.net">Sourceforge</a>. The archives from that list
may be found at <a
href="http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Sourceforge/9327/0/">www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Sourceforge/9327/0/</a>.</p>
<h2 align="left">Shorewall Announce Mailing List</h2>
<p align="left">This list is for announcements of general interest to the
Shorewall community. To subscribe:<br>
</p>
<p align="left"></p>
<ul>
<li><b>Insecure:</b> <a
href="http://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-announce">http://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-announce</a></li>
<li><b>SSL</b>: <a
href="https://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-announce"
target="_top">https//lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-announce.</a></li>
</ul>
<p align="left"><br>
The list archives are at <a
href="http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-announce">http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-announce</a>.</p>
<h2 align="left">Shorewall Development Mailing List</h2>
<p align="left">The Shorewall Development Mailing list provides a forum for
the exchange of ideas about the future of Shorewall and for coordinating
ongoing Shorewall Development.</p>
<p align="left">To subscribe to the mailing list:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Insecure: </b><a
href="http://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-devel">http://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-devel</a></li>
<li><b>SSL:</b> <a
href="https://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-devel"
target="_top">https//lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-devel.</a></li>
</ul>
<p align="left"> To post to the list, post to <a
href="mailto:shorewall-devel@lists.shorewall.net">shorewall-devel@lists.shorewall.net</a>.<2E></p>
<p align="left">The list archives are at <a
href="http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-devel">http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-devel</a>.</p>
<h2 align="left"><a name="Unsubscribe"></a>How to Unsubscribe from one of
the Mailing Lists</h2>
<p align="left">There seems to be near-universal confusion about unsubscribing
from Mailman-managed lists although Mailman 2.1 has attempted
to make this less confusing. To unsubscribe:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p align="left">Follow the same link above that you used to subscribe
to the list.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p align="left">Down at the bottom of that page is the following text:
" To <b>unsubscribe</b> from <i>&lt;list name&gt;</i>, get a
password reminder, or change your subscription options enter
your subscription email address:". Enter your email address
in the box and click on the "<b>Unsubscribe</b> or edit options" button.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p align="left">There will now be a box where you can enter your password
and click on "Unsubscribe"; if you have forgotten your password,
there is another button that will cause your password to be emailed
to you.</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2 align="left">Frustrated by having to Rebuild Mailman to use it with Postfix?</h2>
<p align="left"><a href="gnu_mailman.htm">Check out these instructions</a></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2">Last updated 3/24/2003 - <a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font></p>
<p align="left"><a href="copyright.htm"> <font size="2">Copyright</font>
<EFBFBD> <font size="2">2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a><br>
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