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<h1 align="center"><font color="#ffffff">Shorewall Mailing Lists</font></h1>
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<p align="left">If you experience problems with any of these lists, please
let <a href="mailto:teastep@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 tom dot eastep
at hp dot com.</p>
<h2>A Word about SPAM Filters<72><a href="http://ordb.org"></a><a
href="http://osirusoft.com/"> </a></h2>
<p>Before subscribing please read my <a href="spam_filters.htm">policy
about list traffic that bounces.</a> Also 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 2/18/2003 - <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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