Advanced: Global Ban Settings
The Global Ban Settings let Aurea List Manager download member bans from the Aurea List Manager global ban server designated here. This feature allows a hosting company with multiple Aurea List Manager servers to ban members across all servers by adding a server-level member ban on a single server designated as the global ban server, and then pointing other servers to it.
The server level bans from the global ban server are added to the local server's ban information. Therefore, all list, site, and server bans are kept on the local machine, but additional server bans is loaded from the server-wide settings of the global ban server. List and site bans is not added from the global ban server.
An empty Server Address indicates that no global ban server is available, or that this Aurea List Manager installation is the global ban server to be used by other Aurea List Manager installations.
Specify which IP address this Aurea List Manager installation should use to connect to the global ban server in Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Machine/Node Settings: IP Addresses.
In order for global ban settings to function properly, all the servers which may receive mail from banned members must be entered as GUI hosts on the global ban server. Please see Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Security: GUI Hosts
for more information.
Server Address
Enter the IP address of the Aurea List Manager server which hosts the global list of server member bans. For example:
192.58.0.1
If no IP address is set here, Aurea List Manager does not connect to an external global ban server and uses its local member bans only.
You may also need to specify which IP address the local Aurea List Manager instance should use to connect to the global ban server in Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Machine/Node Settings: IP Addresses.
TclPort Port
The port Aurea List Manager should use to connect to the global ban server. Aurea List Manager defaults to the standard port used by the server, which is "2021". This port is used to communicate with the web interface and with other programs. Generally, this setting should not be changed. This setting should be the same as the remote global ban server setting in Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Network Settings: Ports.
TclPort Password
The password that ListManager should use when connecting to the global ban server. Access to the Command
Protocol is password protected, so that outsiders cannot affect your server. ListManager defaults
to the standard password, which is TCLPORTPasswd. Generally, this setting should not be
changed.