shouldn't be there. One user uses PM Mail, another
Outlook Express.
Any ideas?
David Andrews
--
Mailman-Users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi
th my system. I run some 80
lists, many of which are years old, so these things are starting to add up.
Dave
David Andrews and white cane Harry.
--
Mailman-Users mailing list
Mailman-Users@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ma
casionally miss the message that Mailman sends. Then I am off the list, and
don't know it.
Is there any way to protect a list subscription, despite bounces?
David Andrews
--
Mailman-Users mailing list
Mailman-Users@python.org
http://
Hi:
Is it possible to rename a list -- a major rename that is, not just
case change that is mentioned in web interface?
If not, how do you delete a list -- and save or transfer its members?
Thanks!
Dave
David Andrews and white cane Harry
Hi:
I run a Sun Cobalt RAQ 550 with Mailman, and about 90 lists. I have
a few users, on various lists who are subscribed to a given list, who
can reply to an existing message, but who can't post an original
message. they are then rejected as a non-member. Any ideas?
David Andrews
about 150
messages a day, he is getting annoyed. Others on the list do not
have this problem, but he forwarded two copies of a message to me, so
I know it is true for him. The messages looked identical to me.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Dave
David Andrews and white cane Harry
suddenly subscribed again.
Is this possible? If so, how does it happen, and how can it be
prevented? finally, my UPS has gone bad, and is in the process of
being replaced, so the server has had some ungraceful shutdowns
recently. Would this cause problems with Mailman?
Dave
David Andrews and
Hi:
I know it is possible to ban a user from all the lists in my Mailman
installation at once. I know I can ban him from an individual list, however, I
have almost 100 lists, and when I ban him from one, he just moves to another.
Is there a way to ban him once and for all?
Dave
I got the below message from a user, and am not quite sure what to do? Any
advice?
Dave
>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:30:29 -0600
>From: "T. Joseph Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: David Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: HTML filter on the lists
>
&
I have someone who wants the list name
NFBEspañol-talk. How do I get the Spanish accent
into the system. I can cut and paste into the
web UI but don't know how to get it into
virtusertable etc., or even if it is possible.
Dave
David Andrews and white cane
I have a list that had an archive, which was public. I need to
change it to private. Is there anything I have to do besides
changing the setting under archives / ?
Dave
--
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org
http://mail.pyth
Hi:
Has anyone seen anything like this and what does it mean. I run a
server with about 150 public mailman lists on it, and just got about
300 new subscriptions to various public lists, from the same domain
at the same time. It is "apot.com" and the form is firstname dot
lastname at apot.co
At 02:09 PM 7/17/2011, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>I eventually got a couple of subscription requests from addresses
>similar to what you describe at apotmail.com. I discarded the requests
>and added
>
>^.*[@.]apotmail\.com$
>
>to the ban list of all my lists.
When I wrote the amov
At 03:41 PM 7/17/2011, Mark Sapiro wrote:
David Andrews wrote:
>
>So, at the risk of seeming stupid, what is it that they are trying to
>do, or doing. Are they collecting addresses for spam, or what? If I
>don't ask, I won't learn.
As I said in my original reply,
Is there a way to add RSS feeds to Mailman lists?
Dave
--
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3
Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org
Is the "&" character allowed in a list name, such as in: "art&artists?"
Thanks!
--
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3
Security Poli
On 11/23/2011 4:11 AM, Carlos Palomino wrote:
Hello all,
Several subscribers of my list are complaining of duplicate posts. They say it happens
"only sometimes".
Are there any common reasons for such occurrences? I don't experience this on
my test-member account or in my regularly subscri
At 10:38 PM 1/21/2012, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Anil Jangity wrote:
>The footer for the emails that I send aren't getting expanded. The
mailing list name is working, but not the other variables. Where is
this pulled from?
[...]
>The list configuration shows:
>
>msg_footer = """
At 11:06 PM 4/19/2012, you wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:56 AM, David wrote:
>
> > I would think this is a common request, but I can't find any
> > mention of it anywhere.
>
> Does this actually bother your users? IME lists whe
At 03:56 PM 4/19/2012, you wrote:
I'm not sure what you call the long tail of footers that accumulates on
messages, but I would like to eliminate all prior footers (from the same
list). When the new reply goes out, it should include only one footer. BTW,
we're using full personalization and one l
I am getting duplicate messages once a day, the 8:00 a.m. messages
sent out by every list telling of what messages pending. My users
also get two copies of the password reminder once a month. And ...
not sure if it is related, but probably, I get two copies of a
message each morning at 8:00 a
My Mailman system sends out duplicate (two copies) of some
administrative-type messages. There are two password reminder
messages sent out each month, two copies of the once-a-day message
that announces pending messages in a list, and two messages each
morning at 8:00 a.m. from the list mailma
In the distant past I remember a setting in the Web UI to force a new
archive volume. I can't find anything in 2.1.15. Has it gone away?
Dave
--
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mai
Our server has over 215 lists on it -- and people belong to multiple
lists and it is of course impossible to know who is on what list. I
need to occasionally do one of three tasks, possibly all 3 at once,
find out what lists a given person belongs to, remove him/her from
all those lists, and p
up changing password several times until it
eventually seems to take.
Ami I missing something? Are there restrictions on the
password? Does the e-mail have restrictions or qualifications? Why
is this always so difficult?
Dave
David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail
At 08:37 PM 9/1/2014, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
David Andrews writes:
> Then it never seems to work for them -- I end up changing password
> several times until it eventually seems to take.
It's not a matter of "taking". If you type the same password twice,
and get a
I have a problem, and don't know if there is an easy or viable
solution. I run a bunch of lists for an organization, over 150
lists, about 80 percent public and 20 percent private. Periodically
there are messages that need to go to everyone, or almost
everyone. However, people belong to mult
At 02:08 PM 8/4/2009, Barry Finkel wrote:
David Andrews wrote:
>I have a problem, and don't know if there is an easy or viable
>solution. I run a bunch of lists for an organization, over 150
>lists, about 80 percent public and 20 percent private. Periodically
>there are mess
At 03:29 PM 8/9/2009, Mark Sapiro wrote:
David Andrews wrote:
>
>This was the only response I got, and appreciated. Is this the only
>possible approach? I am not sure I want to subscribe people to a
>list they didn't subscribe to, although I am considering it. Any
>other a
At 12:11 PM 12/1/2009, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Cameron Smith wrote:
>I am tasked with removing a mailman list using CLI on a cpanel install.
>
>When I run the list_lists command in bin I get this:
>
># python list_lists
>Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "list_lists", line 44, in ?
>impo
At 07:25 PM 1/4/2010, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Christopher Adams wrote:
>A spammer has subscribed completely unique addresses from the same domain to
>many of the mailing lists that we host. Is there a way to unsubscribe
>everything from this domain without writing a script that will do it?
Would th
At 12:47 PM 1/12/2010, Terri Oda wrote:
Elaine Ashton wrote:
Well, what concerns me is that the spammers are going at these mass
subscriptions via the web interface and it may become a game of
whack-a-mole banning domains and IPs. Are there any plans to make
the web form subscription more of a
nfirmation messages?
Dave
David Andrews: dandr...@visi.com
Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dandrews920
--
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mai
Is there a command-line command to remove a given user from any and
all lists he/she might be subscribed to -- without knowing all of
those lists? If so -- what is it? Thanks!
Dave
--
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org
htt
I have a number of "hidden" non-public lists on my system. Consequently they
do not appear in the "Admin Overview Page." Is there a way to get them to
appear there, but still be hidden to normal users?
David Andrews
375
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE
en-us
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING
gzip, deflate
UNIQUE_ID
QuUFrNFiNiMAAExq1JQ
David Andrews and white cane Harry.
--
Mailman-Users mailing list
Mailman-Users@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Hi:
The text of messages is appearing twice in the digests for some of my
lists. There will be the normal digest stuff, then the first message
with headers etc., then it will say
next part
then the body of the message will app3ear again. My digest type is
set to Plain.
Is this related to pr
I have a Sun Cobalt RAQ550 with Mailman 2.1.8 installed, and running
about 120 lists. We were having problems with the setup handling
multi-part messages that contained text and html -- some mail
programs reproduced stuff twice etc. Also we need to pass attachments.
On the advice of someone
I have 120 lists and thousands of blind and visually impaired users,
and if I were to implement any kind of captcha I would have a riot on
my hands!!!
David Andrews
At 06:19 PM 5/3/2008, you wrote:
> On 5/3/08, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> > If the unsubscribe script
rs
Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/dandrews%40visi.com
Security Policy:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.h
It is between the first and second choices you listed. Since it
isn't there, I would guess you need to stop and restart Mailman so
the configuration file is reprocessed.
Dave
At 03:02 PM 5/29/2008, David Newman wrote:
On 5/29/08 12:09 PM, David Andrews wrote:
Did you go back to the
to make the list that is auto restored more recent?
David Andrews
--
Mailman-Users mailing list
Mailman-Users@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3
Searchable Archives: http
Thanks as always for your clear and accurate answer. You amaze me
with your work in development, and support, your knowledge, your
patience etc...
Thanks!
Dave
At 04:13 PM 7/9/2008, Mark Sapiro wrote:
David Andrews wrote:
>I run a Cobalt RAQ550 server with about 125 Mailman lists on
I currently run my own server, a SUN Cobalt RAQ550. Mailman is
installed on it and I have full access to everything.
Because of aging hardware, etc. I will be replacing everything. I am
considering going to c-panel as we also host web sites for parts of a
national nonprofit for which we also
Hi:
I am running Mailman version 2.1.8. I have most list set to delete
held messages after 15 days (last setting on General Settings
Page.) However it doesn't seem to be working? Is there something
else that has to be done -- like a Cron Job enabled or something?
Dave
---
I manually added an address to one of my lists using the web
UI. There must have been a space or odd character at end of address,
that I didn't notice. The subscribe message indicated that: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
has been subscribed to ...
I can't delete the address using the web interface.
At 11:15 AM 9/16/2008, Mark Sapiro wrote:
David Andrews wrote:
>I manually added an address to one of my lists using the web
>UI. There must have been a space or odd character at end of address,
>that I didn't notice. The subscribe message indicated
that: [EMAIL PROTECTE
I run multiple lists using Mailman 2.1.8. Periodically some users
receive a message asking them to confirm their unsubscribe from a
given list. This happens despite the fact that they have taken no
action to unsubscribe. It doesn't happen a lot, but enough that I
know something is going on.
In my mailman/data sub-directory there are a bunch of files
"bounce-events.pck" dated in the past, some 5 years old. Can I
safely delete these?
Dave
--
Mailman-Users mailing list
Mailman-Users@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/li
that particular circumstance - and we have absolutely no idea
what to do to resolve it! :-)
You need to create the mailing list via cpanel itself, not the link in Mailman.
David Andrews
--
Mailman-Users mailing list
Mailman-Users@python.org
David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail: dandr...@visi.com or david.andr...@nfbnet.org
--
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3
is no one right, or wrong way.
David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail: dandr...@visi.com or david.andr...@nfbnet.org
--
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/m
interface?
A reminder that any web UI, whether end user, or
administrator, needs to be accessible to disabled
persons -- preferably it will use the WCAG 2.0 AA standards.
Dave
David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
E-Mail: dandr...@visi.com or david.andr...@nfbnet.org
At 07:26 PM 4/7/2015, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
David Andrews writes:
> A reminder that any web UI, whether end user, or
> administrator, needs to be accessible to disabled
> persons -- preferably it will use the WCAG 2.0 AA standards.
We do use industrial-strength web framework
and later versions.
I don't know why a server upgrade would break Mailman. I suppose there
could be issues resulting from an upgrade, but without knowing more
detail about both the current and upgraded configurations, I have no
idea what they might be.
David Andrews and long white cane
At 02:30 PM 7/14/2016, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 07/14/2016 12:07 PM, Jason Fayre wrote:
>
> We have a server running cPanel that hosts around 200 mailing lists. We
> really want to have searchable archives. If I install the mailman htdig
> patches, cPanel won't support us.
And what Mailman support
I run a cPanel system that, among other things, supports about 300
Mailman lists. We have about 20,000 users. I am getting lots of
bounced messages from roadrunner.com and various XXX.rr.com domains.
It looks like they may be blocking my domain nfbnet.org although I am
not sure how you tell.
Does anyone know if AOL has changed its DMARC policies recently. All
of a sudden I am getting lots of AOL bounces, or maybe they have
black listed us? nfbnet.org
--
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org
https://mail.python.org/
At 08:57 AM 2/14/2017, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 02/13/2017 09:33 PM, Jayson Smith wrote:
>
> One of my mailing lists has one AOL user who finally got tired of *his*
> messages to the list being rejected by AOL.
Some time ago, I noticed that when an AOL user posts to a list, the list
copy sent back
Thanks! As usual You're the man!
Dave
p.s. I suppose I could edit and use for gmail too, and put them in a
cron job and run once a day to take care of new folks.
At 04:30 PM 2/14/2017, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 02/14/2017 07:40 AM, David Andrews wrote:
>
> Well I will have to
One of my users has requested a list -- let's call it
li...@example.org. He wants a second name for this list --
li...@example.org He says he heard Mailman can do this. I have
experimented a little, but can't see how.
Can Mailman do this -- and if so, what do I do.
Dave
--
At one time I set
Reply-To: header munging
under general settings to Yes. Some of my users used a screen reader
that balked unless the header was munged, for some reason. Well that
software has gone away, and ISP's are much pickier these days, with
MARC and dkim and SPF etc. Would this setting
At 08:23 PM 10/17/2017, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 10/17/2017 05:32 PM, David Andrews wrote: >
At one time I set > Reply-To: header munging >
under general settings to Yes. Some of my users
used a screen reader > that balked unless the
header was munged, for some reason. Well
tha
I tried to make a donation -- but was
unsuccessful. I am a blind screen reader user,
tried with two different ones, there were
accessibility problems with the page. I couldn't
enter my state properly, for some reason. Too much javascript I suspect!
For Mailman 3 accessibility is an very impor
At 03:45 PM 11/10/2017, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 11/10/2017 11:56 AM, David Andrews wrote:
> I tried to make a donation -- but was unsuccessful. I am a blind screen
> reader user, tried with two different ones, there were accessibility
> problems with the page. I couldn't enter my
Some of my lists, and some of my users are unable to send mail. The
users get a message like this:
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
r
At 03:03 PM 1/15/2018, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 01/15/2018 12:26 PM, David Andrews wrote: >
Some of my lists, and some of my users are
unable to send mail. The > users get a message
like this: > > Subject: Mail delivery failed:
returning message to sender > > This me
I have a mailman installation with over 300 lists. It is cPanel, but
I am the administrator so have access to command line etc.
I have just two lists that receive a bunch of spam subscribes each
day -- hundreds of them, in fact. For some reason -- which is good,
they are held, so don't go thro
not a good option.
We are getting hundreds of held subscription messages per day. Is blocking
this kind of thing through Exim an option? We are using cpanel.
p.s. The number of messages is causing my ISP to throttle my e-mail!
Dave
At 01:50 PM 2/23/2018, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 02/23/2018 07:07
At 10:29 PM 6/2/2018, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 06/02/2018 06:55 PM, David Andrews wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any solution for dealing with spam subscriptions from
> gmail
> addresses?
> The requests are coming from random addresses that contain a few words, a
> plus sign, t
I am running Mailman 2.1.26, cPanel. I had a message that I forwarded
to a list using Outlook 2010. It looked fine in Outlook, but when it
went to list all ' apostrophes were changed to ? question mark. What
causes this, and how can I prevent it.
Dave
---
This email has been checked for viru
At 07:40 PM 6/26/2018, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 6/26/18 5:03 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
> On 6/26/18 2:12 PM, David Andrews wrote:
>> I am running Mailman 2.1.26, cPanel. I had a message that I forwarded
>> to a list using Outlook 2010. It looked fine in Outlook, but when it
>
At 12:25 AM 6/27/2018, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 6/26/18 8:09 PM, David Andrews wrote:
> At 07:40 PM 6/26/2018, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure what's happening. Yes, Outlook represented the message in a
>> character set (code page) which wasn't compatible
At 06:30 AM 8/22/2018, Mike Flannigan wrote:
For gmail, this is the fix:
http://www.woodworth-ancestors.com/fix-gmail-problem-rootsweb/index.htm
Users must do this.
Are they screen shots or something??? I got nothing out of the link,
just separators and dashes. I am blind and a scr
I have a couple lists that had large numbers of subscribe attempts
that are now being held for confirmation -- tens of thousands of
them. Since there is no choice in the UI to delete them all at once
-- what file do I delete to get rid of them? I am running 2.1.27
cPanel, although I don't thin
I run an installation that has over 300 lists. Normally, for years,
I received around 300 uncaught bounce notifications a day. In the
past couple of months, it has dramatically increased to 3000 to 4000
a day. Some questions: what causes them? Can they be reduced? Do
they hurt anything? Toe
At 04:29 PM 2/26/2021, david.bar...@mail.com wrote:
Good day,
Looking for a solution to have about 50-200 lists for
subscribers. Any good examples of mailman being used for 50+ lists
you can share for me to see? Trying to see
the feasibility of implementing a solution in next 90 days.
Would
I am running Mailman 2.1.35, cPanel. I have an existing list with
both regular and digest delivery set up. If I turn off the digest,
what happens to those subscribers who selected digest? are they
deleted, or is their mode changed to regular delivery?
Thanks!
Dave
---
At 11:12 PM 5/25/2022, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 5/25/22 19:32, Mark Dale via Mailman-Users wrote:
That got me Googling for How-to's on integrating MHonArc with
Mailman. There's a fair bit of conversation around this from days
long ago, and a patch for using MHonArc written by Mark S. back in 2014.
I manage a bunch of Mailman lists. We are on 2.1.38 cPanel, and I do
have access to the command line.
I want to delete some lists, but would like to save the archives.
Pipermail saves by month, as I have it configured. Is there a way to
obtain an entire archive at once? Are there tools to con
At 11:17 PM 8/28/2022, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
David Andrews writes:
> I want to delete some lists, but would like to save the archives.
> Pipermail saves by month, as I have it configured. Is there a way to
> obtain an entire archive at once? Are there tools to convert th
I have a list that won't send out mail. I believe that all the
settings are correct, but I could have missed something.
I am running Mailman 2.1.39 cPanel, and I have access to the command line.
I have a list that I needed to modify settings. It was established by
a prior administrator, to who
Some of my users have complained about getting an attachment with
each message. The attachment seems to be the footer fort the list. It
also looks like this may be an Outlook thing. Is this true? Is there
anything to be done to change it.
I would guess that changing to text-only messages would
I run a Mailman installation, 2.1.39 through cPanel. I am having
trouble delivering to addresses that are a part of Google
Workspace! My mail reports show the mail is accepted, but the users
do not get it, and they, or I are seeing no errors.
Does Google have mail requirements I am not aware
At 01:49 AM 3/11/2025, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 3/11/25 12:32 PM, Jim Dory wrote:
I realize this may be a CPanel issue, but
perhaps someone familiar with that can help out.
The web page for the list archives says 60
messages but none are visible. The messages are
in the list directory. The unusua
My system is undergoing a subscription attack. This made the mail
queue grow alarmingly, and because the software is trying to respond
to bad addresses, it has caused Microsoft to block us completely and
they refuse to remove the block right now.
We are taking steps to improve situation, have
We are currently being blocked by Microsoft -- working to reverse.
Consequently, people with Microsoft-related domains, live.com,
msn.com, hotmail.com and outlook.com, aren't getting their mail.
Microsoft also processes mail for others, so quite a problem.
People are put on hold after there is
I have a couple lists that are under some kind of subscription
attack. There are thousands of subscription requests being held. I
have things set to delete held messages after one day, but it doesn't
seem to apply to subscription requests.
Is there a way I can delete all at once, I can't find
At 12:38 PM 6/28/2025, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 6/28/25 09:46, David Andrews via Mailman-Users wrote:
There is stuff about the "secret form?" would
this work? If I understand it, the IP must
match. Then there is stuff about the life of
the form? Do both conditions have to be
true
>
> This is not perfect, but the intent is to require first getting the
> form and then delaying a bit to fill it out before submitting it to
> prevent bots from submitting a canned form or getting the form and replying
> immediately.
What's a good value? 5?
We started out at 5 and changed t
-Original Message-
From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2025 3:25 AM
To: David Andrews
Cc: mailman-users@python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Re: Unbouncing People
David Andrews via Mailman-Users writes:
> I know exactly why people are being bounced! It is beca
At 07:30 AM 7/20/2025, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
David Andrews via Mailman-Users writes:
> We are currently being blocked by Microsoft -- working to reverse.
[...]
> People are put on hold after there is non-delivery for a period of
> time. I go in to lists and take off the B
92 matches
Mail list logo
