mailman-users@python.org discussions for January 2006

37	[Mailman-Users] any info on this reported exploit?

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16248/discuss GNU Mailman Large Date Data Denial Of Service Vulnerability GNU Mailman is prone to a denial of service attack. This issue affects the email date ...

Diana Orrick
Jan 26, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Jan 30, 2006 at 10:46 am

23	[Mailman-Users] Weirdness

Team: I have some issues with my mailing list. I have users subscribe to a list but yet I always have to approve their posts for some reason. And when I do have it accept this address for future ...

Lawrence Bowie
Jan 27, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Feb 7, 2006 at 7:38 am

14	[Mailman-Users] How hard is it to spoof an email?

How hard would it be for someone to maliciously start sending all the users in my list emails or start deleting people from it by sending bounce errors or by spoofing the admin email and start ...

Jp Possenti
Jan 29, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Jan 30, 2006 at 12:59 am

12	[Mailman-Users] Determine List Bandwidth

Is there any facility within Mailman to determine the bandwidth used by a specific list? If not, is there a way to do it using Sendmail? Thanks, -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's ...

Bryan Carbonnell
Jan 20, 2006 at 12:50 am
Jan 27, 2006 at 3:44 am

9	[Mailman-Users] Virtual-domain support?

I've been away from the list for a while, and am curious: Will "virtual domains" support be included in Mailman 2.2...if they are not already? By "virtual domain" support I mean the ability to ...

Matt England
Jan 27, 2006 at 1:27 am
Jan 27, 2006 at 5:20 am

9	[Mailman-Users] delay=10

hi, a little intro as to what's i'm facing. i have created a list called dev at mailman.domain.com on my mailman (v2.1.5-8) server. I can send newly created messages to it with no problems. when i ...

Noc ops
Jan 19, 2006 at 2:27 am
Jan 20, 2006 at 7:34 pm

8	[Mailman-Users] user is removed, but they still receive list emails

I've removed sevaral list members, using the Mailman Admin interface. However, they're still gettting my mailings, and are threatening to complain to the spam cops? I've double checked to confirm ...

Zack Beatty
Jan 17, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Mar 3, 2006 at 1:51 am

8	[Mailman-Users] SpamDetect loop?

Folks: Since I upgraded to MM 2.1.7 I've noticed something odd in my admin queue ... it appears that messages coming through the SpamDetect pipeline for the owner-address are getting into a loop. ...

David Gibbs
Jan 11, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Jan 16, 2006 at 12:37 am

8	[Mailman-Users] virtual domains problem

Hi All, I am setting up a mailman server running Debian sarge, exim4, and mailman 2.1.6 that supports several domains, and have run into a bit of a problem. I have set up the virtual domains per the ...

Sean Roe
Jan 3, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Jan 4, 2006 at 5:11 am

7	[Mailman-Users] Why are footers sent as attachments?

Why is it that when I set Mailman to apply a footer with some info, Outlook detects it as an attachment? Is this yet another problem with just outlook? Also does the footer in mailman support HTML? I ...

Jp Possenti
Jan 29, 2006 at 7:24 pm
Jan 30, 2006 at 4:55 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] Mailman stagger script?

I was told by my hosting company that I need to pick a mailing list manager for my 14,000+ subscriber e-mail list that would stagger the sending of the email to something like 300 e-mails per hour to ...

Dan
Jan 25, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Jan 25, 2006 at 8:42 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] Problems with uuencoded attachments

If I send an attachment encoded with old HP-UX uuencode or Eudora 6.2.3 uuencode then mailman shunts the message. The error is "Warning: Trailing garbage" which is actually coming from Python's uu.py ...

Dimitrios Gerasimatos
Jan 14, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Jan 16, 2006 at 2:03 am

7	[Mailman-Users] sorting out bounces

I recently merged together a bunch of mailing list from different machines onto one. When the monthly notices were sent out, all of the bounces went to one address. Is it anyway to set up mailman so ...

Eric S. Johansson
Jan 1, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Jan 5, 2006 at 5:35 am

7	[Mailman-Users] Spamassassin/Mailman - filter messages to list-owners

Greetings All, I have just joined this list and I hope that I am not cluttering it up with an easy or common question. I have spent quite a bit of time searching Google, the list archive, and FAQ ...

Michael Berkowski
Jan 4, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Jan 4, 2006 at 10:17 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] Logging Archive Creation in MM2.1.7

Does Mailman log anything when you try and rebuild the archive from the commandline? The reason I am asking is that I have just installed MM2.1.7 on a test box and tried to rebuild the archive and I ...

Bryan Carbonnell
Jan 3, 2006 at 12:24 am
Jan 3, 2006 at 5:35 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Permission of data/bounce-events-?????.pck

Dear all, I was checking my system for world-writable files, and found lots of data/bounce-events-?????.pck that are world-writable: imacat at rinse ~ % ls -lt /var/lib/mailman/data | grep 'rw. ' ...

Imacat
Jan 31, 2006 at 9:50 pm
Feb 1, 2006 at 10:13 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Is there a workaround to this?

I have been reading throughout the web and it seems that when one is reading a mailing list in Outlook, Mailman does something like this: ...

Jp Possenti
Jan 29, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Jan 31, 2006 at 5:53 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Confirmation e-mail goes to user that is not admin or moderator

I have set up a list and all the emails that are going to the "owner" are going to a person that is not on either the admin or moderator list. Any idea why? Using 2.1.6 Mailman Charles

Charles M. Owen
Jan 27, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Jan 29, 2006 at 1:12 am

6	[Mailman-Users] Mailman, Postfix and MySQL-based virtual domains

Hi, first of all I have to say that I am a complete novice to both Mailman and Postfix. However my MySQL-based Postfix setup works just fine (on Gentoo) but I have a problem with getting Mailman to ...

Werner Schalk
Jan 25, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Jan 26, 2006 at 11:29 am

6	[Mailman-Users] User unknown messages

Hello, One of our list serve admins is trying to send out a bunch of email to several list serves. He has defined a group in Lotus Notes, which comprises the different list serves, and when he sends ...

Darren G Pifer
Jan 6, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Jan 6, 2006 at 8:26 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Email accounts for bounces, admin, confirm, etc

Hello folks, I have created a mail list unix_sysadmin, and this email account is "approved" by my IT team. I use sendmail, and in my /etc/aliases, looks like this. ## unix_sysadmin mailing list ...

Elvis Fernandes
Jan 23, 2006 at 7:25 pm
Jan 24, 2006 at 3:29 am

5	[Mailman-Users] notification system

I have installed Mailman in hopes of using it as a type of 'notification' system. For example, a user subscribes to the list, and after subscribing I can send him/her an email notifiying them an ...

Matt Gostick
Jan 22, 2006 at 2:18 am
Jan 23, 2006 at 7:54 am

5	[Mailman-Users] FW: Output from "cron" command

My Mailman installation appears to be working okay, but I'm getting this message once per day. What's wrong? Bill McNutt IT Administrator, UT Center for Literacy Studies http://cls.coe.utk.edu ...

Mcnutt
Jan 3, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Jan 23, 2006 at 4:49 am

5	[Mailman-Users] broken mbox files: No blank lines before "From"

Hi, I've been browsing the archives, bug lists and google for a while but was unable to find a solution for my problem, so I'm asking here. The mbox archive of one of my lists (~ 15.000 mails in 2 ...

Bastian Friedrich
Jan 22, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Jan 22, 2006 at 10:41 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] additional accounts

If create a mailing list called test-list, then do I have to create aliases like this mailman: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" mailman-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin ...

Lawrence Bowie
Jan 21, 2006 at 12:26 am
Jan 22, 2006 at 5:22 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Bug encountered after archive private/public option change

Hi, Sorry for bugging you with this problem again but my sys admin is ill for two weeks and our mailman server used for an important project is down since I tried to change in the archive menu the ...

Simon ALEXANDRE
Jan 4, 2006 at 9:45 am
Jan 4, 2006 at 6:06 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] permission denied error on sending mails to mailing list

Hi all, I have set up Postfix+Mailman+htdig on a box and upon sending mails to the mailing list I have encountered an error of fatal: execvp /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman: Permission denied in my ...

Dylan lim
Jan 4, 2006 at 5:50 am
Jan 4, 2006 at 5:46 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] New Lists not getting emails from internal domain

Hi, I have successfully migrated our Mailman to a new server. All seem to work perfectly on the existing Lists. However when, I created a new list, somehow emails coming from the internet are being ...

Neilrey Espino
Jan 29, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Jan 30, 2006 at 9:34 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Newbie question regarding multiple domains with one Mailman installation

Hi folks, Apologies if this is covered in the Mailman docs or the FAQs, but I'm having problems finding any concrete information. I've installed Mailman via the FreeBSD ports collection on my FreeBSD ...

Daniel Spreadbury
Jan 30, 2006 at 12:02 am
Jan 30, 2006 at 7:23 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] is driving me crazy

We moved this client from one server to other because his mailing list were going down every week, in fact for some reason is shutid donw the whole mailman, hope someone could help us with this, we ...

ArteryPlanet.Net :: Manuel Kissoyan
Jan 22, 2006 at 11:01 pm
Jan 23, 2006 at 2:34 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Virtual Host problem with 2.1.7

I am moving a couple list from a server that was running version 2.0.8. I have got the list in place and the archives in place ran bin/withlist -l -r fix_url listname -u This may be where I messed up ...

Mel Sojka
Jan 22, 2006 at 11:10 am
Jan 22, 2006 at 8:06 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] creating a list of moderators

Hi, I'm a site administrator and I'd like to be able to send messages out to all of my moderators at once. Does the current version of Mailman have functionality to do this, i.e. can it automatically ...

David Benson
Jan 11, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Jan 11, 2006 at 10:47 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] maximum size of list (# of recipients)?

I've searched the mailman docs, as well as Google, and turned up nothing. This seems to be such a simple question, that should appear in the mailman FAQ, or at least the main feature list. What is ...

Zack Beatty
Jan 11, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Jan 11, 2006 at 8:54 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Question about ban_list...

Let's say I want no users on a mailing list from sitename.com. So, I have a ban_list address of: ^.*@sitename\.com Is this the correct form of RegExp? If not, could someone give me a pointer? Thanks ...

Glenn Sieb
Jan 4, 2006 at 2:15 am
Jan 4, 2006 at 3:00 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Shunting msgs.

Hi i have a mailman 2.1.6 installation on freebsd 4.9 Many of the msgs. to my lists are beging shunted with this error: Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 18: ...

Thomas von Hassel
Jan 1, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Jan 2, 2006 at 12:02 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Verifying posts

Hi all, I've been looking into TMDA (http://tmda.net) and got to wondering if something like this (or a subset of it) should be incorporated into Mailman. Here's my line of thinking: What if Mailman ...

Jim Popovitch
Jan 28, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Jan 29, 2006 at 9:04 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Confirmation problems

Hello all I made a new list and it seems to work OK, except that all the confirmation strings are invalid. Even if I answer at once, it says it's bad confirmation string and only suggests it has been ...

Niemi Hannu
Jan 25, 2006 at 8:13 am
Jan 27, 2006 at 9:30 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] mailman problem after 2.1.5 -> 2.1.7 update

Hi, I am seeing a problem with mail/mailman after updating an existing 2.1.5 installation to 2.1.7nb1. This is a NetBSD pkgsrc setup; an update leaves changed config files and the lists database ...

Hauke Fath
Jan 26, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Jan 27, 2006 at 10:11 am

3	[Mailman-Users] How to avoid dup copies to multiple email lists?

How can someone subscribed to 2 (or more) emails lists from the same GNUMailman email server avoid duplicate copies of emails that are sent to both (or more) of these email lists? My 2.1.6-rc2 server ...

Matt England
Jan 26, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Jan 27, 2006 at 1:09 am

3	[Mailman-Users] move from version 2.0.11 to 2.1.5

I've installed a new server running Fedora 4. I can create a new list, but I have not determined why mailman is not seeing the users from my 2.0.11 list. I copied the lists/ and archives/ dir from ...

Chad Rebuck
Jan 25, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Jan 26, 2006 at 2:30 am

3	[Mailman-Users] bounce processing settings

I am curious as to what other mailman adminisrators or list owners use for bounce processing settings. I know that some lists require different settings, but we have been using the defaults for the ...

Christopher Adams
Jan 23, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Jan 24, 2006 at 6:44 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] (Beer) problem accessing the archive (403)

I have completed the installation and everything seems to be working perfectly... except being able to access the archives for my lists. I have searched the archives and it seems like many people ...

Scriber, Brian
Jan 16, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Jan 17, 2006 at 2:54 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Hello and newbie question(s)

Hello- Been a regular user of Mailman for a while now (it's fantastic), but only recently digging into the command line side of things. Our network guy did all the install, and slowly started showing ...

J. Horton
Jan 14, 2006 at 11:45 pm
Jan 15, 2006 at 6:47 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] can't find smrsh wrapper in sendmail

Hi All, As I am a new mailman user, I have a problem in using it. I can't find "smrsh wrapper in my sendmail program according to this article ...

Myo Zaw Nyunt
Jan 14, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Jan 15, 2006 at 3:21 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Odd CGI problem

Ok, I'm installing mailman on FreeBSD 6.0 from ports and using apache 2.0.55. I have the following in the virtual host definition. ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/" ScriptAlias ...

Matt
Jan 15, 2006 at 1:40 am
Jan 15, 2006 at 5:58 am

3	[Mailman-Users] unexpected code byte in Header.py

Dear all, I have problem upgrading my Mailman 2.1.5 to Mailman 2.1.7. I got the following error in /var/lib/mailman/logs/error when I tried to send the "who" request: Jan 11 02:33:06 2006 (12256) ...

Imacat
Jan 10, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Jan 11, 2006 at 3:49 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Problem with 2.1.7

I just a few minutes ago finished upgrading from 2.1.6 to 2.1.7. Everything went fine mail coming in and being posted but not being sent out. I added a new user one on my other ads an it is not ...

Mel Sojka
Jan 8, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Jan 9, 2006 at 5:58 am

3	[Mailman-Users] It's not possible to add new members

Hi last weekend, we updated mailman to version 2.1.5, but after the update, it's not possible to add new members to any list. There ist just a error message like this: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 ...

Alexander Baldauf
Jan 3, 2006 at 10:26 am
Jan 4, 2006 at 7:43 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Mailman page won't display in browser (using VPN)

When I try to invoke our Mailman installation in a browser (Firefox, although it doesn't work in IE either), via our corporate VPN (Netscreen-Remote on Windows XP), instead of displaying the page in ...

Tristan Colson
Jan 3, 2006 at 7:08 pm
Jan 4, 2006 at 1:31 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Invalid : @hotmail.com

Hi sirs, # /usr/lib/mailman/bin/sync_members -w=no -f myfile.list mylistname Invalid : @hotmail.com Any hint why I got this error? I checked the myfile.list and can't see any mail without the ...

Munzir Taha
Jan 2, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Jan 3, 2006 at 5:50 pm

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