Re: [Mailman-Users] Config dump? - WAS Re: speed up mailman

The esteemed Ruben Safir has said: > > On 02/28/2016 03:57 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > > On 2/28/2016 1:19 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >> If that doesn't make it obvious what you need to do, you might want to > >> tell us something about your configuration and use case. What version > >> of Mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] sendmail and mailman mail0-wrapper

The esteemed Bruce Harrison has said: > > > Installing a new version of mailman on a new virtual machine (debian > 4.6.3-14), and Mailman is complaining of a group mismatch error on the > mail-wrapper. System is executing as mail and mailman wants it executed as > mailman group. > > Looked f

Re: [Mailman-Users] building a new mailman server

The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: > > On 03/26/2014 02:19 PM, Bruce Harrison wrote: > > > > We are currently running an old mailman instance and am planning to bring > > up the newest version of mailman and migrate to it. Current system uses > > sendmail. Since I now have a chance to change

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about Mailman hosting service.

The esteemed Joe has said: > > Hello, everyone. > > In my attempt to find a Mailman hosting service I have received a message > from one IT specialist advising me to avoid hosting services that utilize a > cPanel. According to this specialist this is a bad arrangement and one that > doesn't pr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personalized header based on Gender.

The esteemed Patrick McEvoy has said: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > --020104040702070705060401 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > To clarify, in some languages other than English dear has gender such as > Spanish,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Personalized header based on Gender.

The esteemed Patrick McEvoy has said: > > Hello, > > I have turned on Full Personalization so I can have the individual's > email address in the To field instead of the list email address. I am > adding a personalized header to the list as well and would like to know > if there is any way to per

[Mailman-Users] Problems regenerating archives from mbox files

I'm trying to rebuild the Pipermail archives for a list. The archive base runs from 1998 to present, about 25,000 mails/year. The mbox files are segmented by year. What documentation there is for the bin/arch utility appears to be in its --help printout and in the Python code. Thus far, it ap

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unexplained unsubscribes of yahoo.com email

The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: > > Very persistent as in delaying for more than 5 days, or is your MTA's > retry period shorter than that? > > I'm sure you know what's happening in your case; maybe I'm just lucky, > but I think my Yahoo deferrals/retries always succeed within way less > than

[Mailman-Users] Forcing users to enter real name in listinfo page subscribe

I'm changing one of my mail lists in preparation for moving it to another host which will be running Mailman with unmodified Python code underlying. One of my changes is to replace a custom listinfo page which routes subscription requests outside Mailman to the standard Mailman confirm-and-approve

Re: [Mailman-Users] Formatting incoming mail in Mailman

The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: > > Hank van Cleef wrote: > > >I just sent a message to my list from a webmail account, and got an > >empty text body in what was sent out from the list. Sent a second > >message to a user account which I read with elm to see wha

[Mailman-Users] Formatting incoming mail in Mailman

I just sent a message to my list from a webmail account, and got an empty text body in what was sent out from the list. Sent a second message to a user account which I read with elm to see what's in the message body. This is all of what comes through sendmail into the mbox: send a line or t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman

The esteemed Mike Hughes has said: > > I have a mailing list that has been running under Mailman. Another > fellow has been hosting the mailing list for me. I would like to begin > doing so myself. I have a computer available for the task. What Linux > version will work best? What will I nee

[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.12 and htDig integration patches

I'm wondering what is the situation with Mailman 2.1.12 integration with the htDig search engine. In the past, I've relied on Richard Barrett's excellent support at openinfo.co.uk and have a 2.1.11 build with his patches. However, I don't see anything listed there for 2.1.12. While I can work

[Mailman-Users] Trapping a post with a blank Subject:

How can I catch a post sent to the list that has nothing in the Subject: field? It is the first post in a thread that I need to catch. Mailman adds (no subject) before distributing the post, and I can trap all the responses. But evidently that is added after the incoming post headers are scanned

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to config sendmail on FC5

The esteemed Daniel.Li has said: > > Well, actually, I mean how to configure mailman to send mails by > sendmail. > And my sendmail works find. > I run Mailman on Solaris 10 with sendmail 8.13.4, so will comment as a Mailman-sendmail admin. The setup is quite simple. Make sure that your sendmai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

The esteemed Brad Knowles has said: > > on 1/27/09 9:07 AM, Tim Ferguson said: > > > Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and > > install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is > > getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't, so,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gathering additional iniformation at signup

The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: > > Walter wrote: > > >I have just started using Mailman and wish to add fields (user title, > >organization) that must be filled out upon subscription and available to the > >list moderator for approval. I can easily change the subscription form, > >adding

[Mailman-Users] Mailman installation on Solaris 10

I'm beginning to replace the Mailman 2.1.9 installation on Solaris 9 Sparc, which has served us very well for the last two years. The new target machines are Sun Ultra 60's, one running Solaris 10-u4 (8/07) and the other, Solaris 10-u6 (10/08). All that is on either machine is a fresh install of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multi list management ..

The esteemed Khalil Abbas has said: > > > Dear Brad, > > first of all, godaddy has a very very strict policy against spamming, you can > read about it in their website.. if they noticed the least of bounces they > would terminate your whole server .. besides, my list is OPT-IN and I never >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

The esteemed Brad Knowles has said: > > On 8/7/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > After some off list back and forth, Alan determined that the problem was > > that the mailman user had /bin/false as a login shell. Once that was > > changed, the script worked as expected. > > Was this on a Solaris b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request: Selective Mass Subscription

The esteemed Brad Knowles has said: > > Personally, I would be happy to see the "mass subscribe" feature go away > completely from the web interface of Mailman, or at least disabled by > default. But then I've been fighting spam since the time I was the Sr. > Internet Mail Administrator at AOL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.11 final has been released.

The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The release notes and NEWS file for Mailman 2.1.11 contains the > following innocuous looking item. > > ~- Improved bounce loop detection and handling in BounceRunner.py. > > This actually first appea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Apache,

The esteemed Brad Knowles has said: > > Vidiot wrote: > > > Thanks for the info, but the last time I looked, aliases was in /etc, > > not /etc/mail. > > Depends on your platform. For Solaris, the aliases have been in > /etc/mail/aliases for a very, very long time. > I gave the location of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Apache,

The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: > > Vidiot wrote: > > > >Thanks for pointing this out. I'll go away now and compile the source > >when I get Sol10 working. Speaking of that, do you suggest using GNU or > >Sun Studio to compile the package? > > > There are others on this list that can speak

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce processing questions (feature, or bug?)

The esteemed Barry Finkel has said: > > Hank van Cleef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, in part, > > >Basically, mail to verizon.net addresses failed and bounced for a 24 > >hour period on the 12th. Service appeared to have been restored on > >the 13th. Again, y

[Mailman-Users] Bounce processing questions (feature, or bug?)

The background scenario is that I have been experiencing the "now you see it/now you don't" big-consumer-internet mail service spam blocking. This week it is Verizon.net. Basically, mail to verizon.net addresses failed and bounced for a 24 hour period on the 12th. Service appeared to have been

Re: [Mailman-Users] Why am I being ignored???

The esteemed Terrence Brannon has said: > > I posted this > > and basically the whole list is having other discussions like I never > even posted... > Ignored? I may have missed something but the one lively discussion I've

Re: [Mailman-Users] GNU Mailmain 2.1.9: Filtering Messages based on

The esteemed Steve has said: > > I'm admiring a GNU Mailman email list that is running on version 2.1.9 > on a server that I do not have access too. > > Is it possible through the use of the admin interface to filter out > messages based on key words in the body of an email? > > I have some bann

Re: [Mailman-Users] installing mailman and sendmail

The esteemed Shams Fantar has said: > > No, I didn't say that (because sendmail.cf exists), I just said that > with "grep smrsh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf", I'm getting nothing with grep, > so, "smrsh" isn't in this file. > > > > > > I think you need to make certain that sendmail is set up correctly

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email response very slow using Mailman and sendmail

The esteemed Patil, Manjiri S has said: > > > Hi Hank and mark , > (snipping for brevity) > I do see that SENDAMAIL is trying to send messages only to bunch of > people which varies from 10 to 50 at time. Also how do I tune up > SENDMAIL with number of recipients to process at one time? > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Email response very slow using Mailman and sendmail

The esteemed Patil, Manjiri S has said: > > Hi, > > We have internal Mailing List server running Mailman 2.1.9 and SENDMAIL > 8.13.8. Whenever someone sent email to particular mailing list > ([EMAIL PROTECTED])consisting app 300 users recipients receive > it after several hours. E.g see the foll

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing mm_cfg.py for existing lists

The esteemed Jussi Hirvi has said: > > Hi, list, > > The problem I'm trying to solve is that Hotmail (and probably msn.com) do > not accept our Mailman emails - this seems to be a new phenomenon. The error > code is "too many recipients". From other sources I assume that Hotmail now > accept sonl

Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug in Mailman version 2.1.8

The esteemed Ki Song has said: > >> > >> One major error I see is that there is no more disk space on the server. > >> How can I remedy this situation? > > > > Buy a bigger disk. :-( > > > > Seriously, this is an OS question, not a Mailman question. > > -- > > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[Mailman-Users] Google gmail problem

I'm posting this to the mailman-users list in hopes that I can get some input that will either explain or resolve a problem I am having with gmail users. Their complaint is that they do not see a copy of their posts to the list reflected back to them. The options profile for these users is typi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman log rotation

The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: > > Hank van Cleef wrote: > > >I want to put the Mailman logs into the Solaris logadm.conf file > >for automatic cron rotation. > > > >This moves the old logfiles to logfiles.0 and touches new logfiles. > >I'm ass

[Mailman-Users] Mailman log rotation

I want to put the Mailman logs into the Solaris logadm.conf file for automatic cron rotation. This moves the old logfiles to logfiles.0 and touches new logfiles. I'm assuming that the qrunners have to be restarted. Anything else? Hank -- Hank van Cleef ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROT

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman install problem - Solaris

on I had to make was to flag the /usr/bin/cc issue in Solaris, which is is something that bites almost everyone sooner or later. Hank -- Hank van Cleef ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 1986 420SEL "A stranger in paradise" (Fremont Co. Wyoming) 1986 GMC 1500 6.2 diesel pickup

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman install problem

c. I'll suggest that you start over with a make distclean and a new configure. Hank -- Hank van Cleef ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 1986 420SEL "A stranger in paradise" (Fremont Co. Wyoming) 1986 GMC 1500 6.2 diesel pickup "Seen one, seen them all"

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman install problem

t to use is located, and do a version check. Then do a which cc. Unless you have Studio 11 installed, you should get a "not found" return. The Studio 11 compiler resources are in /opt/SUNWspro/bin if they are installed. You may have to locate the offending Makefile or rerun config

Re: [Mailman-Users] htdig authorization problem (fixed)

e domain name. Not so. This is what broke the htdig access. Since htdig is an add-on to Mailman, the existing data bases have to be recreated through the steps outlined above. Once again, my thanks to Mark Sapiro for following this through with me. Hank -- Hank van Cleef ([EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: [Mailman-Users] htdig authorization problem

The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: > > Hank van Cleef wrote: > > > >Running with Firefox, I cleared the cache and all cookies, then retested > >as a user, going from the listinfo page. This URL is: > >http://www.mercedeslist.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes > &

[Mailman-Users] htdig authorization problem

authorization to go to the options field without having to revalidate. Hank -- Hank van Cleef ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 1986 420SEL "A stranger in paradise" (Fremont Co. Wyoming) 1986 GMC 1500 6.2 diesel pickup "Seen one, seen them all" -

Re: [Mailman-Users] htdig authorization problem

eing removed, but that we've got something that's nulling something. Running with the admin password set, I go from the admin area to the main list page, then to the archives, where I can read the pipermail archives repeatedly. Do an htdig search, get the first page of hits back, and try

[Mailman-Users] htdig authorization problem

directories, 2775. Where do I go from here? Hank -- Hank van Cleef ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 1986 420SEL "A stranger in paradise" (Fremont Co. Wyoming) 1986 GMC 1500 6.2 diesel pickup "Seen one, seen them all" -- M

[Mailman-Users] getting correct alias domain in message headers

therdomain.com' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) (actually, tried the "add_virtualhost" before the redefined defaults before trying it after). The list URL is correct (withlist/fix_url) but the mail headers aren't. How to fix this? Do I need to restart

[Mailman-Users] Options page bombing out on a security violation

list that was running on a Mailman 2.1.4 installation, I built a local 2.1.4 tree, created the list, then copied the old site config.pck over the newly-created one. Then built 2.1.9 and upgraded the 2.1.4 tree. # cd /usr/local/mailman # ./bin/check_perms No problems found Hank -- Hank van Clee

[Mailman-Users] Using demime with Mailman

1.9 as an upgrade to the 2.1.4 tree. -- Hank van Cleef ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.or