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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>
<li>to ensure that the sending system has a valid PTR record in DNS.</li>
</ol>
<big><font color="#cc0000"><b>This last point is important. If you run your
own outgoing mail server and it doesn't have a valid DNS PTR record, your
email won't reach the lists unless/until the postmaster notices that your
posts are being rejected. To avoid this problem, you should configure your
MTA to forward posts to shorewall.net through an MTA that <u>does</u> have
a valid PTR record (such as the one at your ISP). </b></font></big><br>
<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>
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</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>
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<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 6/14/2003 - <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> <20>
<font size="2">2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a><br>
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