From: sabrina downard
Reply-To: mailman-owner
To: mailing list administrators
Subject: [List-admins] Listhost adding Junkmail support

Greetings, all. You’re receiving this message because you are listed as an owner of one or more mailing lists on listhost.myemployer.edu. This note is a bit longer than we’d like but please do read the whole thing.

On Wednesday, the 8th of March we’ll be linking listhost, the computer which hosts mailing lists for the University of Chicago, into Junkmail, the NSIT service which already sifts @myemployer.edu e-mail accounts for spam and virus mail. This has long been our most requested service improvement for the mailing list system, and we hope it will bring a welcome boost to the quality of life for list owners and subscribers. If you’re curious about how Junkmail works, you can find information about it on the NSIT Support Line’s web site at http://support.uchicago.edu/junkmail/.

Using the Junkmail system as a list owner will be much like using it for your CNet mail account, except for the username that you log in with.

  • When logging into the Junkmail web page, instead of typing your CNetID into the box, you should type the full address of your mailing list; for example, “my-list@listhost.myemployer.edu”.
  • Make sure to type out the whole “listhost” form of the address, even if your list also has a “shortened” name.
  • The password is the same as the password for your list’s administrative web page. If you have forgotten your mailing list admin password, send us an email, and we can reset it for you.
  • If you’d like to try it now — go ahead! There won’t be any messages in your quarantine to look at yet, but you can check and change settings such as opt-out status, approved and blocked senders lists, and whether or not you prefer to receive a daily notification about messages caught in the list’s quarantine.
  • Existing lists will be set to use Junkmail quarantining by default. If you do not want to have a list filtered, you will need to log into the list’s Junkmail account, click the “Options” link on the left-hand side of the page, and check the box marked “Disable all filtering for this account.”
  • If a message is caught in the Junkmail quarantine for your list, and you release it, it may get caught again in your @myemployer.edu subscribers’ personal quarantines. In the case of such released messages, you may want to consider sending a follow-up email to the list warning subscribers that they’ll need to check their quarantines.

As usual, if you have any questions about this or any other issue having to do with mailing lists, please drop us a line at ${SUPPORT_ADDRESS}

Cheers,
The Mailman and Junkmail admin teams

we have a joke rule around here: once you get something done, you can go home for the day.

i can totally go home now!