Shorewall Mailing Lists

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Not able to Post Mail to shorewall.net?

You can report such problems by sending mail to tom dot eastep at hp dot com.

A Word about SPAM Filters

Before subscribing please read my policy about list traffic that bounces. Also please note that the mail server at shorewall.net checks incoming mail:

against the open relay databases at ordb.org.
to ensure that the sender address is fully qualified.
to verify that the sender's domain has an A or MX record in DNS.
to ensure that the host name in the HELO/EHLO command is a valid fully-qualified DNS name.

Please post in plain text

While the list server here at shorewall.net accepts and distributes HTML posts, a growing number of MTAs serving list subscribers are rejecting this HTML list traffic. At least one MTA has gone so far as to blacklist shorewall.net "for continuous abuse"!!

I think that blocking all HTML is a rather draconian way to control spam and that the unltimate loser here is not the spammers but the list subscribers whose MTAs are bouncing all shorewall.net mail. Nevertheless, all of you can help by restricting your list posts to plain text.

And as a bonus, subscribers who use email clients like pine and mutt will be able to read your plain text posts whereas they are most likely simply ignoring your HTML posts.

A final bonus for the use of HTML is that it cuts down the size of messages by a large percentage -- that is important when the same message must be sent 500 times over the slow DSL line connecting the list server to the internet.

Mailing Lists Archive Search

Please do not try to download the entire Archive -- its 75MB (and growing daily) and my slow DSL line simply won't stand the traffic. If I catch you, you'll be blacklisted.

Shorewall CA Certificate

If you want to trust X.509 certificates issued by Shoreline Firewall (such as the one used on my web site), you may download and install my CA certificate 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.

Shorewall Users Mailing List

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.

Before posting a problem report to this list, please see the problem reporting guidelines.

To subscribe to the mailing list, go to http://www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users SSL: https//www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users

To post to the list, post to shorewall-users@shorewall.net.

The list archives are at http://www.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-users.

Note that prior to 1/1/2002, the mailing list was hosted at Sourceforge. The archives from that list may be found at www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Sourceforge/9327/0/.

Shorewall Announce Mailing List

This list is for announcements of general interest to the Shorewall community. To subscribe, go to http://www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-announce SSL: https//www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-announce.

The list archives are at http://www.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-announce.

Shorewall Development Mailing List

The Shorewall Development Mailing list provides a forum for the exchange of ideas about the future of Shorewall and for coordinating ongoing Shorewall Development.

To subscribe to the mailing list, go to http://www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-devel SSL: https//www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-devel.
To post to the list, post to shorewall-devel@shorewall.net.

The list archives are at http://www.shorewall.net/pipermail/shorewall-devel.

How to Unsubscribe from one of the Mailing Lists

There seems to be near-universal confusion about unsubscribing from Mailman-managed lists. To unsubscribe:

Follow the same link above that you used to subscribe to the list.
Down at the bottom of that page is the following text: "To change your subscription (set options like digest and delivery modes, get a reminder of your password, or unsubscribe from <name of list>), enter your subscription email address:". Enter your email address in the box and click on the "Edit Options" button.
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.

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Last updated 12/27/2002 - Tom Eastep