Re: [Mailman-Users] {Disarmed} Re: mailman postfix ldap virtual user

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Gökhan Alkan wrote: I uncomment the dovecot line in master.cf and virtual_transport = dovecot. But it doesn't work, Why postfix doesn't handle alias_maps when the email is delivered to virtual domains ? Do you have your domain in either virtual_alias_domains or virtual_ma

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Postfix-style Virtual Domains (not a problem, only a question!)

On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Norbert Aschendorff wrote: I'm maintaining a server with Postfix and Mailman including Postfix-style virtual domains. This works fine so far. But is it normal that the creation of a list for a virtual subdomain ($prefix/bin/newlist -e subdomain listname) not only creates ent

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Brad Knowles wrote: I've got a copy of Mountain Lion server (it's only $20), and the code in question is Python, so it has to be shipped as source. So, if we want their changes, it's easy enough to get them. Actually, it doesn't have to be shipped as source. They could

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman & POSTFIX Configuration Help

Hi, I'm not a Postfix guru, but... On Fri, 17 Aug 2012, Futchko, Rose wrote: Basically, POSTFIX has been configured for base email to be sent to x...@mail-test.company.org and I would like the mail list to use x...@listtest.company.org {snip} virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual my

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! How to quell list address in personalised messages

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Mark Sapiro wrote: If you need help, let me know. Think I got it. Commenting out the block at line 161 (Mailman 2.1.13) seems to have done the trick. Thanks again, Geoff. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@py

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help! How to quell list address in personalised messages

On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Mark Sapiro wrote: This is intentional and by design to facilitate people replying to the list even with full personalization. Yes but for an announcement-type list you don't want this. If you don't want this, you need to modify Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py to not add

[Mailman-Users] Help! How to quell list address in personalised messages

Hi, A bit urgent. I thought I'd turn on personalisation for an announce list I'm putting together, in order to have the person's address in the To field instead of the list address. The box will only be used for this list and messages wil only go out about once a month, so performance isn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Using with a database and *without* a webserver

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Brad Knowles wrote: So far as I know, there's no official way to use an SQL database with Mailman 2, although there is the MemberAdaptor that you found which is believed to work with MySQL. If you'd like to modify the code to work with PostgreSQL instead, that would be gr

[Mailman-Users] Using with a database and *without* a webserver

Hi, I've been contracted to do a Mailman setup for a company that wants to set up a newsletter-type list. They'd like to use a database for the back-end and to hide as much of Mailman's internals as possible without creating too much work. First, databases. We'd prefer to use PostgreSQL bu

Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL redacts user addresses even with VERP and full personalization enabled

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >From a practical point of view my EVERP proposal may not be a good > scheme for dealing with AOL's redaction policy in Email Feedback > Reports. Although it would obviously fool the existing automated > redaction process, a radical change to th

Re: [Mailman-Users] more questions about Yahoo feedback loop and abuse complaints

On Sat, 16 Jun 2012, Larry Stone wrote: Sad to say, that does appear to be how AOL thinks. Their customers never make mistakes, etc. If a customer clicked "Mark as spam", then it's spam and that point is not open to discussion. They're not the only one. Roadrunner blocked all the mail from t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu release of Mailman

Hi, I'd like to make the case for considering the Debian etc Mailman instead of rolling your own. I've done several Mailman installs under Debian and Ubuntu and have had minimal problems. The key in my opinion is to look at the installation guide and make sure you actually do everything tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Giving away the secrets of 99.3% email delivery

On Fri, 11 May 2012, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: On the other hand we're getting spam reports for list mails (not spam!) our users sent to a list. But since it's not spam we cannot actually do anything about those mails while the LIST ADMIN could easily unsubscribe the people reporting the spam. E

Re: [Mailman-Users] confirmation string is not working

On Tue, 8 May 2012, dhanushka ranasinghe wrote: As you guys know.after sending unsubscribe request to mailing list it will send the confirmation string..,my problem is this string is not working, when i enter the string and submit it , page will just refresh to the same page. can't find in any

Re: [Mailman-Users] can I use a mailman list address as a (qmail)sender address?

On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Yup. But he explained this. The list is the public face of a committee, and at least some outgoing mail should appear to be from the committee. Couldn't this be done by sending from an existing account and spoofing the From line? Geoff. ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail message to list disappears

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Peter STUMPF wrote: * version of mailman: 2.1.1 Are you sure? This version is *ancient*. Geoff. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Site admin per mail domain

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Christian Lerrahn wrote: I have noticed that Mailman identifies lists by there names only but allows them to run in different mail domains. I realise that I can also have different domains and host names for the web interfaces. However, what I cannot find out for sure is if

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members question

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Rob McLear wrote: If I type "./add_members -wn -r - listname" the shell pauses as if waiting for my input, but nothing I type has any effect. Try pressing control-d after you've finished typing, this is the unix end-of-file character. Geoff. ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Misleading Email response. Please fix!

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, Mark Sapiro wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: Please report this as a bug at . Nevermind. I reported and fixed it . Thanks very much! Geoff. -

[Mailman-Users] Misleading Email response. Please fix!

Hi, I've been meaning to request this for ages. I don't see this very often, but when I do, it gives me a heart attack. I usually use the web interface for approving messages. But I occasionally do it via Email. When I do, I get a response back that looks like this: The results of your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Integrating mailman with postfix, using virtual domains

On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Syafril Hermansyah wrote: That's not wise IMHO, better to separate domain for list server and virtual mailbox domain. I've *never* had to do this and believe it just creates unecesary complexity where it's not needed. Geoff.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installed, now stumped

On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Michael Cooley wrote: With some slight edits to the configure script, I've successfully installed mailman on my Hostmonster user account. Not knowing where to go from there, I went into the cgi-bin dir and ran 'admin' from my shell account. This error showed up in the log: a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribers accessing private list archives

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Prietz, Ian wrote: I am looking for a way to give subscribers a generic password that would authenticate them to be able to view the archives (so they can revisit any past messages). Note, I do not want them to be able to access their subscriber settings to be able to unsu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Anonymous emails with the sender information

On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 6/12/2011 3:03 AM, Nigel Woodley wrote: The spam problem I have is because we have many members from different organisations linked by a private network. Emails sent from these organisations are sent out to other members however when they are receive

Re: [Mailman-Users] Group mismatch ( YES I KNOW THIS IS A FAQ BUT..)

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Peter Sørensen wrote: Hi, I know this is a FAQ and yes I've tried to read all items and still I can't find my way out so hope someone Can shed some light to this. Actualy, it's probably several. Just summarizing what I am about to do. I have an old mailman installation

[Mailman-Users] Filtering by text

Hi, I help moderate a few lists where certain topics are not permitted. I thought it would be possible to flag a message for moderation based on text found in the body of the message, but I can't immediately see how one might do this. Presumably the administrivia scan uses a technique like t

Re: [Mailman-Users] PHP front-end for Mailman?

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, William Ashworth wrote: A client of mine is looking to integrate more tightly to their Mailman list. There's an archive page, but we're trying to format it nicely for inclusion on their website so that it matches for members to see. I can see two possibilities right now...

Re: [Mailman-Users] reboot servers

On Tue, 31 May 2011, Khalil Abbas wrote: I have several vps servers with very limited resources running several large mailman lists, n these servers keep stopping from responding n sometimes mailq shows several errors like: too many open files in the system and not enough resourses ... etc.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix & Mailman not playing well together

On Mon, 23 May 2011, Mark Sapiro wrote: I think Geoff Shang's reply (at - only one of the problems of posting as a non-subscriber) was on target. Sorry, I didn't realise this list accepted non-member posts. Geoff.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Real Names on Roster

On Mon, 23 May 2011, Brian Carpenter wrote: What change do I need to make to mailman's configuration to allow real names to show up on any lists' roster? I did some searching around and did not find an answer. I did read one post that stated that some sort of configuration setup that allows fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix & Mailman not playing well together

On Fri, 20 May 2011, Michael Soh wrote: <"|/var/lib/mailman/mail/ mailman post somelist"@mikesoh.com> (expanded from >): User unknown in virtual alias table I'm not a Postfix expert, but the following entry in your configuration file is problematic: virtual_alias_maps = hash:/var/lib/mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] From address

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Website Administrator wrote: Can you please advice why the email is going through like this? Is there anyway to change this? From: hq_test-boun...@dummy.com [mailto:hq_test-boun...@dummy.com] On Behalf Of Amyn Gilani It's actually going through just fine, it's the Ema

Re: [Mailman-Users] regarding specific mail ids

On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Arun Gupta wrote: I do not make 2 lists according to your suggestion, and also i do not want configure with regexp matches on the Subject: or Keywords, means i am concentrating on the poster based. You cannot do what you want to do without making two lists. You can still

Re: [Mailman-Users] Copying rejection reason and email to multiple moderators?

On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Paul Key wrote: I have a list with more than one moderator. When one moderator rejects a post to the moderated list I would like a copy of the rejected email and the reason for rejection sent to the other moderators. Wow, funny that. I was going to post requesting this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman intergaration with zimbra

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, Bozra wrote: Dear All, Thanks for your reply it helped me a lot. Sorry to bother you Iam getting when I ''bin/newlist -emailhost=virtual-domain1.com -urlhost= '' I get -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `<' Is there anything wrong in my syntax? uh... You do k

Re: [Mailman-Users] Removing root from receiving bounces

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, Rohler, Brian L wrote: My current setup is that we have a list of admins who administer our mailing lists. The problem I am having is there is also a list of users who receive email from a support@ address. The list of support@ users are getting tired of receiving EVERY bo

Re: [Mailman-Users] how do I display/print a full list of list entrants..?

On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, PatsCat wrote: As title asks, how, via the GUI, do I see all the people contained in a particular list? Its got to be done. Surely. Cut'n'Pasting from each page 26 times (A-Z) ain't no fun.. Go to the general options screen and set admin_member_chunksize to a number large

Re: [Mailman-Users] DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION not working

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Roger D. Leonard wrote: I'm missing something here. How do I get it to accept all emails from non-members without list owner intervention? Apart from what people have already told you, if you want to make a list accept *all* non-member postings, you'll also need to set th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Spam emails

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Schwartz, Robert - IS wrote: Recently I've started receiving spam messages submitted to by mailing list. How can I reject all email not submitted by members without having to add them to a list? Set the generic non-member action to discard. It's in privacy/sender filter

Re: [Mailman-Users] unknown user: "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post myl...@mydomain.com"

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Note that Mailman/Postfix integration as described in the above referenced manual pages is for virtual alias domains and not virtual mailbox domains. You can make this work for list domains that are virtual mailbox domains if necessary. See the FAQ at

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman configuration issues?

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, cmallon wrote: This may seem like a dumb question but I've been seeing a lot of this in my mail.logs All the messages are being delivered and there are no bad recipients in the list. Could there be a misconfiguration somewhere? I'd like to write a script that extracts inf

Re: [Mailman-Users] Postfix and Mailman ...

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: I think the problem is students.wesleyseminary.edu is a virtual_mailbox_domain whereas it needs to be a virtual_alias_domain. Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never had trouble using virtual mailbox domains to host Mailman lists. In fact, I'm not s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing from getting on spam list

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Hung Phan wrote: We are a school district which sends out legitimate messages about school information to parents but last week, we were tagged by spamrats as spammer. An important message did not reach all the subscribers because the local ISP which hosts many of our pare

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to remove sender email from archive

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Dave Pawson wrote: I'm getting complaints with the 'at' form Mark. If the archive is set to private, is it still created, just visible to the list admin? You can set the archive to be either public, viewable to members ownly, or viewable only by the list admins. Geoff.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Brad Knowles wrote: I'm sure Mark will correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume you stopped and restarted Mailman after making the chunksize change? I don't think that this is something that is baked into the list when it's created, but is instead something that can be change

Re: [Mailman-Users] Commercial distributions of Mailman & GPL

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Brad Knowles wrote: It's Python, so unless they're doing a pre-compiled bytecode distribution, Certainlyin the case of CPanel, they're not. they are distributing the source on the same media as the installer -- the source is all they've got. Which means of course that

[Mailman-Users] CPanel Mailman (was Re: Cannot set digest mode via URL)

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 8/28/2010 2:24 AM, William Bagwell wrote: I can confirm that a cPanel Mailman install that recently was 2.1.11.cp3 is now showing 2.1.13 in the headers. Thanks for the confirmation. I can also confirm that a site which was previously running Mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce message w/no discernable addresses

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Christopher Adams wrote: Aug 27 09:31:08 2010 (14241) libs-or: bounce message w/no discernable addresses: <4b77cbb77f52bf41bee2c397760565bd08853...@xxx.xxx.xxx.xx.local> Aug 27 09:31:08 2010 (14241) libs-or: forwarding unrecognized, message-id: <4b77cbb77f52bf41bee2c39776056

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cannot set digest mode via URL

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, W. Curtis Preston wrote: I am running the Cpanel version of Mailman, version 2.1.3, which I'm surprised to learn is actually more recent than the version running this mailing list (2.1.2)! The version that runs this list is 2.1.12. Did you perhaps mean 2.1.13 or did you

[Mailman-Users] Do spam filters work on the owner address?

Hi, I've just started to help administer a mailing list which is receiving spam to its owner address. On my system in the Mailman aliases file, I see entries like this: foo-owner: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner foo" This of course means that owner Email has to pass through Mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] UTF8 descriptions

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Geoff Shang wrote: The problem is that when she tried entering in Hebrew descriptions and welcome messages, she got text like this: קבוצת [snip] NOte that the default list language was set to English, if that makes any difference. Would the default

[Mailman-Users] UTF8 descriptions

Hi, My wife is trying to set up a list for a small group of mainly Hebrew speakers. We've configured it to make the Hebrew locale available, and this seems to work. (Apparently my wife doesn't think much of the Hebrew translation, but that's another issue) The problem is that when she tried

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman install problems (syntax error atline1: `; ' unexpected)

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: I agree that the underlying issue is with the shell, but in at least these bash versions: GNU bash, version 3.2.49(22)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) GNU bash, version 3.2.48(1)-release (i386-apple-darwin10.0) GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-redhat-l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Someone to install Mailman?

- Original Message - From: "Толкунов Григорий" - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|/usr/local/mailmam/mail/mailman post test" (reason: 127) Presumably this should be /usr/local/mailman, not /usr/local/mailmam. Geoff. ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknowninvirtualmailbox table

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: newlist li...@lists.example4.org The above is not correct. In this deprecated newlist usage, the domain to the right of the '@' is the url host, not the email host so the equivalent to Franc's command is newlist li...@example4.org huh! Well how's tha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown invirtualmailbox table

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: OK, again, if I have 3 virtual domains on it: example1.org example2.org example3.org and i want to have for each domain a separate list: list1 on example1.org list2 on example2.org list3 on example3.org The emailhost of each of those lists should be l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown invirtualmailbox table

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: 1. If i want to create a list, there is another mystery, the "List creator's password", which i never had given. If i look into the doc in: http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node45.html they send me to (7): http://www.list.org/mailman-install/customi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtualmailbox table

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: But now i have the problem, that i want to create another list with another virtual domain (example2.org), which is running on the same server. I guess this is only possible with this setting to get this virtual-mailman.db, but i don't know how to continu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown invirtualmailbox table

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: % chown mailman:mailman data/aliases* % chmod g+w data/aliases* " Ubuntu uses "list" and not "mailman". I hope this is not a problem. You will need to chown these files as list.list or at least root.list. I thought if the packager (Ubunt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtualmailbox table

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: Oh yes, this is not clear to me. I don't understand where the file: /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman should come from. Have i to build it? This is built by the /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases script, providing you have Mailman configured correctl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtualmailbox table

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, franc walter wrote: I am very confused now. Could you indicate me the doc where you followed the installation? The installation guide can be found at http://list.org/site.html The specific sections on Postfix can be found at http://list.org/mailman-install/node12.html H

Re: [Mailman-Users] Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtualmailbox table

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: You don't create users or mailboxes for Mailman's list addresses. This is handled by alias_maps, virtual_alias_domains, and virtual_alias_maps in Postfix, or, since this is Debian/Ubuntu, possibly by postfix_to_mailman.py. Having set up Mailman on 3 separ

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allow anyone to post to a mailing list

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Wang, Mary Y wrote: The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination" Am I missing something here? This is being caused by the item I mentioned in recipient filters which tells Mailman to reject messages that don't include the list address in the To or C

Re: [Mailman-Users] admin address have to be a member?

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Adam Parker, OD wrote: does the admin address have to be a member? No. will the emails get moderated if it's not in the membership list? If you mean "Will a list admin be moderated when posting to the list if they are not a member of that list", then this will depend o

Re: [Mailman-Users] Allow anyone to post to a mailing list

On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Wang, Mary Y wrote: I'd like to have it setup so that anyone can post to my mailing list (he/she does not need to be subscriber). How do I do that? The first thing you need to do is set the default non-member action to accept. (see Privacty Settings/Sender Filters) If

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman configuration

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Keith Blackie wrote: I have a mailing list that I need to setup. This mailing list will comprise of several hundred addresses that will be subscribed by using the mass subscription function. I need the following in place: 1) Only admins, moderators and list owner may post t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman bug or browser behaviour?

Hi, Reserecting an old thread. On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Geoff Shang wrote: I've noticed that if I go to pending Moderator requests and approve a message from a particular user, if I leave the resulting page open which says "Click here to reload this page" and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Block reply to all

Hi, Frankly, I think the best approach would be just to moderate the list. If people realise that follow-ups aren't going to get posted, they'll stop sending them. Geoff. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.p

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: The steps I sent the other day are OK as is, but some uncertainty is removed. Just to report that, so far as I can tell, everything went as expected. There was no reference to the domain in the config.pck file, so I could just run the withlist command

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Basically cPanel Mailman is Mailman. In particular, config.pck files are the same (there are no additional list attributes) and the file structure within the /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman PREFIX directory seems completely unchanged. So does this mea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: It's actually not as bad as it looks. Mark wrote an assembler language level description of where to get the data you'll need, and what to do with it. Oh I'm not particularly daunted by it, especially after rereading it a couple of times. But

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving lists

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: I will assume the people on the cPanel side have shell access to the server. If not, there's not much that can be done. Wow, that's quite a daunting list of things to do. I'm not sure the admin at the hosting provider will be game to try this, but I wi

[Mailman-Users] Moving lists

Hello, I'm aware of the FAQ entry on this topic.. Hopefully what I'm about to ask isn't really covered there, I don't think it is. I have someone moving their lists off our server which runs regular Mailman to a server running Mailman under CPanel. Since it's a Mailman variant, I'm a bit r

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman chewing up resources

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: There is an issue that affects memory usage in the qrunners. They keep a cache of list objects in memory to reduce disk IO. The cache is supposed to free the space used by a list object when there are no more references to that object, but it turns out the

[Mailman-Users] Mailman chewing up resources

Hello, We run a VPS running Debian with Mailman 2.1.11 and Postfix. Python is 2.5.2. Up until a couple of weeks ago, we were running a number of quite small mailing lists (max 200 members) with no problems. But then we imported the subscriber list of a list that we'd moved from Yahoogroups

[Mailman-Users] Mailman bug or browser behaviour?

Hi, I've noticed an odd thing but am not sure if it's Mailman (2.1.11) or my browser (Lynx 2.8.7dev.9) which is at fault. I've noticed that if I go to pending Moderator requests and approve a message from a particular user, if I leave the resulting page open which says "Click here to reload

Re: [Mailman-Users] what's going on ???

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Khalil Abbas wrote: I've been getting hundreds of complaints from people that they're not getting any mail from the lists.. I checked the lists and found that LIST1 has only 574 members!! while the other list (LIST2) has not changed.. My guess is that one or more mail pro

[Mailman-Users] Disabling list archiving

Hi, We've got an archive taking up a fair amount of space, but much of the traffic on that list is transient and doesn't need to be archived. So we've decided to stop archiving it and to remove existing archives. Apart from turning off archiving in the list configuration and removing the pu

Re: [Mailman-Users] one-click subscription

On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, David Newman wrote: For a read-only announcement list, I'm looking for a way to set up "one-click subscription" where a user enters an email in a form on a web page and gets subscribed right away, with no confirmation needed. Note that you're going to open yorself up to the

[Mailman-Users] Spam filtering

Hello, I have two spam-related questions, one relevant to Mailman and one not. Apologies for the one that isn't, but I hope you will endulge this query. A person has been spoofing Email addresses on a number of blindness-related Email lists this week. I won't go into the particulars as it's

Re: [Mailman-Users] alias not updating

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Dan Brita wrote: I have a new installation of Mailman 2.1.12 running on Ubuntu with Postfix. When I create a list, it does not update my /etc/aliases file. It does update the /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases file. This is expected behaviour. This causes Postfix to reject an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving a list from one domain to another

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: Geoff Shang wrote: I need to move a list from one domain to another. ... Thanks for this Mark, it's exactly what I needed and went off without a hitch. I also put the old list address in as an acceptable alias and put a forward into Po

[Mailman-Users] Moving a list from one domain to another

Hello, I realise this is probably a FAQ, but I couldn't find anything specificly about this in the FAQ. I need to move a list from one domain to another. The domains are both hosted on the same machine so there's no need to *physically* move anything. I figure I don't need to worry about

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug: couldn't subscribe to dev list by simplyreplying

ly deliver mail addressed to listname-confirm+@... . I don't think it's the third alternative in this case. Well I still have the message I sent: Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:30:24 +0200 (IST) From: Geoff Shang To: mailman-developers-confirm+519716b18b6d4ddef39fd87d0e5abdf8c5ced...@p

[Mailman-Users] Bug: couldn't subscribe to dev list by simply replying

Hi, Figured this would be the best place to report this. I just tried again to subscribe to the developers list and discovered that you couldn't confirm your subscription just by replying. The message text implies that the confirmation key should be in the subject, but the confirmation key w

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: [#ZPK-731315]: Mailing list constantly rejecting a member email - please assist

Hi, Putting this back on the list. On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, John Grivas (wotsnext) wrote: Hi Geoff The following is the error message received: This email has been automatically rejected because you are not a member of the redfurina-ow...@shnc.org.au mailing list. This looks very odd

Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: [#ZPK-731315]: Mailing list constantly rejecting a member email - please assist

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, John Grivas (wotsnext) wrote: I had email lists under a sub-domain, but decided to move the subdomain to its own webhosting. Part of that migration included moving some email lists across. The problem I have that any list that email are being rejected for list that now exis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question on setting up mailman

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, james Tanit wrote: Now, I run the apache webserver under username say, tatac, which is also the group name. I have suexec configured for apache. Why the following configuration doesn't work? Can you give us the eror message that you get? Geoff. -

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Mark Sapiro wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, John Fitzsimons wrote: I would like to know how to access the archive file so that I can delete it by FTP. I cannot however find it ! Maybe my web hoster has somehow made the directory invisible ? Sorry. I missed the above query. T

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and Gmane ?

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, John Fitzsimons wrote: I would like to know how to access the archive file so that I can delete it by FTP. I cannot however find it ! Maybe my web hoster has somehow made the directory invisible ? Mailman files are usually put somewhere other than in your hosting area. Th

Re: [Mailman-Users] List is too moderated. :-(

On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, John Fitzsimons wrote: I don't know if CPanel have futzed with that, never having used their bastardization. Well, not everyone is a unix expert. I need to use CPanel. The point is that CPanel include their own version of Mailman with changes that they've not released ba

Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting up redundant mailing lists in OS XSnowLeopard.

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, JRC Groups wrote: This is indeed the case. All subscribers will either belong to one list or the other. Never both. One of the issues I noticed when reading the post has to do with replies from subscribers. Considering subscribers are either receiving mail from Sublist1 or Su

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman < > forum ?

On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, John Fitzsimons wrote: They say... "1. Install the component via standard install procedures." What are "standard install procedures" ? For windows users that is simply double clicking an .exe file. What does that mean when translated to unix ? If it is as simple as FTPing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

ginal Message - From: "Lindsay Haisley" To: Sent: Friday, 18 December, 2009 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:17 +0200, Geoff Shang wrote: > Howver, thinking about it further, there's one thing I don't like about > it. >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Searching across lists and making global changes

Hi, Sorry again for the top-post, not using my regular Email client. This is a temporary condition. First, your members can do this for themselves, and I for one encourage them to do this. They can simply change these in their options page for one of the lists and then choose to change it gl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sapiro" To: "Geoff Shang" ; Sent: Wednesday, 16 December, 2009 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List Geoff Shang wrote: > >And of course unmoderate the list admin and anyone else you want to be >able to post. This is not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Meta: bringing along the newcomers

Hi, Excuse the top-posting. :) When I first had to look at the FAQs and subscribe to this list to get some problems sorted, there were two FAQs. There may will still be. It appeared to me that the much shorter one was by far the more visible, and I only found the main WIKI-based FAQ when I w

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hello List

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Barry Finkel wrote: I'm setting up a mailing list and I only want the list administrator to be able to post messages to the list, can this be set as some kind of default setting? Change the list configuration so that all subscribers are moderated. And then set each current

Re: [Mailman-Users] Member unable to post to list

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, TomSherlock wrote: With Mailman version 2.1.11.cp3 I received the following message for a message posted by a member of the list: "Post by non-member to a members-only list" Any ideas? Was their message sent from their subscribed address? This message usually means what

Re: [Mailman-Users] rejecting messages *to* non-members

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, glen martin wrote: I've got some rude users who occasionally cc non-list members on their messages to a restricted list that is actually intended to be private (membership by invitation only). Then, as you might expect, when the non-member replies, that message is rejecte

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