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+Mailman - The GNU Mailing List Management System
+Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000,2001,2002 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
+
+
+NETSCAPE ISSUES
+
+ 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.x 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.
+
+ By default, members-only lists use the From: header as the first
+ field to authenticate against, falling back to Sender:. The site
+ administrator can also configure Mailman to always use Sender:
+ first. If Sender: is used, and it 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@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);
+
+ BTW, the binary includes a comment which says that this is only
+ necessary on Unix.
+
+ Since Communicator regenerates this file upon exit, the change
+ must be done when Communicator is not currently running. With the
+ next start, it will stop adding the Sender: header and things
+ start to work like a charm again.
+
+ The reason things start to work again, is that Mailman falls back to
+ authenticating the From: header if the Sender: header is missing,
+ even if the site administrator has configured things to look at
+ Sender: first.
+
+
+MOZILLA
+
+ There are no known problems with Mozilla 0.9.x at this time. I
+ don't know whether the above Netscape problem also affects
+ Mozilla.
+
+
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