> "WY" == Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> When the system goes down uncleanly, you *want* manual intervention to
>> ensure things are really ok. Otherwise, why bother even having that
>> check in place?
WY> In theory, perhaps. But in reality, what we want is for Mailman to
WY> st
> "WY" == Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WY> What do most folks do so that Mailman will restart when the system is
WY> restarted uncleanly? Could having the system's startup script (assuming
WY> a FreeBSD style or SysV style startup script) default to "-s" cause any
WY> major problem
> "JC" == Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JC> You can use the formail command to resend all the mail in an mbox.
JC> # To resend the mail in a spool to a users new adress:
JC> formail -Y -s /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] \
JC>< /var/spool/mail/user_name
On the CPAN (http
> "e" == ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
e> parameter. Apache / IIS would be significantly confused for sure. &'s are
e> not valid in HTML file names as they specify a part of a parameter list on
e> the url.
If the code isn't URI escaping things when needed, then it is a
security breach wa
> "SW" == Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SW> The & in shell has a special meaning, it would have to be "escaped",
SW> because
If you read Business Week, the "Tech & You" column has a comment email
address of tech&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just because the unix shell does something with & do
site-wide (ie, block only a particular sender or message pattern).
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> "RK" == Ricardo Kustner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RK> So my current situation is that my ISP is risking to get blacklisted and
RK> I can't do anything about it except for shutting down the lists or
RK> remove & block all AOL users :(
Yes, they are at risk. You had better find a way to
don't plan on
Turn on VERP for each message delivery. Don't expect AOL to change
the way they notify you to make it any easier.
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do it on their "postmaster" web site.
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instead of name? they'll block those, too.
My logs show message flowing just fine from Mailman to AOL at 9:24 am
US Eastern Time, with the VERP'd return addresses.
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e for companies, when some broken filter decided we
should be blocked based on this type of criterion. I wouldn't be
surprized if the "not authorized" came from such a filter.
But it is hard to tell based on the exact error text given.
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without also allowing your messages through. Also check out
aol's 'postmaster' web site postmaster.info.aol.com, and see what they
have to say about blocking and filtering. Check your mail server logs
too for some AOL deliveries and see what they say.
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up the record of an individual address.
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ta).
Please contact me offlist if interested.
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ile on what I did.
Documentation... who'd a thunk it?
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> "MS" == Michael Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MS> Are you confused by my question? If so, Mailman has to be told which MTA
MS> is is being built with, and that was done with make MAIL_GID=65535 install
MS> clean because in 'make options' postfix had a designation of 65535.
No, it does
> "d" == dikshie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
d> cd /usr/ports/mail/mailman
d> make options
d> make MAIL_GID=mailman install clean
d> after that I got:
d> RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/local/sbin/postalias
/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
make su
're using the postfix integration with Mailman, then I'd suggest
using MAIL_GID=mailman since the aliases and virtual files are owned
by mailman, and postfix will do delivery as that user.
If you use the FreeBSD port to install Mailman, it will tell you this ;-)
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> "PN" == Peter Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> How do you make mailman submit a single message to multiple MTA's?
PN> You don't. why on earth would you want to do that?
load balancing. redundancy. etc.
I've got two really fast outbound servers with SSD mail spools. Why
not send part
ailman
How do you make mailman submit a single message to multiple MTA's?
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> "JO" == Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JO> bounces using a real subscriber as the return address and
JO> -bounces@ as the recipient.
JO> Will turning on VERP avoid this headache?
Doubtful. The reason the -bounces@ address is the recipient is
because it is in people's LookOut! addre
> "JM" == Joseph Mina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JM> I want to use the program "mailman" to manage my e-mail list. I'm
JM> using OS X, Jaguar. However, when I attempt to download the file
JM> via Safari I'm told the download manager can't download the file
JM> mailman-2.0.13.tgz
Perhaps dow
> "TM" == Todd Morrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TM> It seems that a user subscribing via mailman's webform thing gets all
TM> this info logged in $MAILMANROOT/logs/subscribe. However the vast
TM> majority of my subscribers subscribe via a custom webform (integrated
TM> with a catalog reques
e some "feature going away" and
"depricated" warnings, but it still appears to work.
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> "JS" == John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JS> With a dedicated Pentium 4 2GHz / 1 GB RAM server /
JS> 10Mbs, what sort of performance should be possible
JS> with Mailman? Sends per hour / max subscribers.
I think it depends on your MTA and whether you have personalization on
in Mailman
> "DB" == Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DB> Has anyone got latest release of mailman working with apache2? If so,
DB> how? And if not, what problems did you have? When will mailman support
DB> for apache2 be official?
Works just fine. Mailman is just a CGI program as far
> "MF" == Miles Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MF> We are in the process of migrating from Lyris to Mailman/Sendmail. We
MF> are very excited about this migration however we loose some
Good move! I did this about 7 months ago and never regretted it.
MF> - Create virtual servers so "Ov
> "JC" == Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JC> That seems like it would accommodate 99% of the situations discussed
JC> here. The coding for that would also be fairly straightforward.
JC> Jon "in ignorance" Carnes
Works some/most of the time. Assumes your HTML is "correct", for some
> "C&TS" == Customer & Technical Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
C&TS> And you cant say that more and more people are NOT getting tired
C&TS> of having the mail they receive all cluttered up with "look
C&TS> pretty" garbage and less real content.
I have a vendor who believes that a 4-poin
thing funky like that.
I have no clue how to make Mailman do something like this, but I can't
image it being all that hard once you figure out which function needs
to do it.
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> "MT" == Matt Thoene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MT> Does anyone subscribed to the list have mailman working with virtual
MT> domains? 1 IP, multiple domains, multiple url's? If so, can you possible
MT> point me to a howto on it? I'm having a terrible time getting it to
MT> work.
The directi
> "S" == SysAdmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
S> Anyone have a better mailing list tool than Mailman that you can
S> recommend? I'd like to have something that I don't have to babysit so
S> much. As much as I hate to do it, I might just have to go back to
S> Majordomo (it has much better docu
Obviously, replace the 192.168.100.32 with the IP of your alternate
server. The brackets are important! Check the man pages for details.
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> "CA" == Christopher Allen <[BigFatPipe.Net]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes:
>> is to use the vipw command. You can also add users using the pw
>> program.
CA> Actually, editing the /etc/master.passwd then rebuiding the DB is an okay
CA> route to go. Issuing the command:
CA> /usr/sbin/pwd_m
You can also add users using the pw
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>>>>> "DG" == Dan Gookin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DG> At 1:57 PM -0500 4/2/03, Vivek Khera wrote:
>> Just skip that whole bit and let it install with setgid.
DG> [snip]
>> ...if you're using FreeBSD, just go ahead and use the Mailman
>&
> "DG" == Dan Gookin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DG> According to the README.BSD I used:
DG> make DIRGETGID=: install
DG> But make comes back with:
Just skip that whole bit and let it install with setgid. It is less
painful to do so. Even though the setgid bit is unnecessary in the
BSD fi
ly DO need an MX record!
Since the beginning of time. You do not *need* an MX record, but if
one exists you *must* honor it.
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> "SMA" == Shannon M Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SMA> That was my first thought, I even went as far as making the perms on thoses file
a little lighter for testing.
SMA> -rw-rw-rw-1 mailman mailman 1176 Mar 18 11:07 aliases
SMA> -rw-rw-rw-1 mailman mailman 12288 M
> "JF" == Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JF> Renaming the list would effectively have the MTA bounce all the SPAMS.
JF> One way I thought of when composing this email would be to leave
JF> everything on mailman as it is, and simply change the alias.
I did this by renaming the l
will fail violently because the admin pages use POST. Rewriting
URLs that are POSTed to will lose the data every time.
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> "RB" == Richard Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> is the default homepage for the virtual server. The closest I've come is
>> displaying listinfo as a binary. I'm running redhat 8, apache 2.0.40, and
>> mailman 2.1.1.
>>
RB> I would try using an Apache mod_rewrite RewriteRule. For i
ement for virtual_maps as Mailman uses it. Since Mailman
doesn't set the postfix 'magic' entry to identify a domain to
virtualize in the maps it generates, it is necessary to list them in
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> "RB" == Richard Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RB> I confess I cheat by doing test runs: I installed MM 2.0.13 with all the
RB> patches I was using on my production MM 2.0.13 system onto my secondary
RB> server, added some sample lists and then did a trial upgrade to MM 2.1
RB> (init
> "SW" == Simon White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SW> Don't know if this helps, but Hotmail checks headers, and if the hotmail
SW> address isn't on the To: or CC: line, it goes to the Trash folder.
So nobody having a hotmail.com address can receive this list? Sounds
too bizarre to be true.
> "LaM" == Links at Momsview <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LaM> I currently have a VERY large ( >100k) announce only list (always
LaM> moderated) running mailman 2.1 under Postfix.
It seems to me if you turn off personalization, turn off VERP, and
turn off anything else that would cause indi
> "WH" == Warren Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WH> Is there a way, or can somebody recommend a technique, to trap/delete
WH> "Out-of-office" messages. They do have a defined syntax (actually several).
No, it is generally impossible because there are so many ways to do
it, and there are
> "WH" == Warren Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
WH> 1. We're migrating ~1500 users from Lyris - and half of them have digest
WH> specified. We have two files of subscribers - one with digest subscribers
Make sure your lyris export script skips over unsubscribed members...
I almost had
> "SW" == Steve Werby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SW> I recently installed Mailman 2.1 on a machine running Apache 1.3.20.
SW> Mailman is installed in a central location and made available to all virtual
SW> sites via an Apache ScriptAlias directive. The lists function properly and
SW> all ar
t doesn't work either. Postfix
Did you start the queue runner process with mailmanctl? Sounds like
you did not.
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> "GS" == Gregg Siegfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GS> By turning SSL off, requests can be processed as expected.
If you redirect a POST using mod_redirect, you lose the data. The
workaround is to capture the POST data from the original request,
convert it to a GET and redirect to that.
to do the same as the -u option of fix_url.py.
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connection.
With postfix, this would be ideal. It has no problems accepting
at least 50,000+ individual SMTP transactions per connection.
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> "f" == friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
f> No, running postalias as user www generates a "Permission denied" error on the
aliases
f> file. Hence my question: should I change the file ownership, it's permissions or is
there a
f> way to run postalias under the user mailman?
I just s
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