mailman-users@python.org discussions for December 2007

24	[Mailman-Users] Not able to receive email from list

Hello all! First, thanks to Mark for all your help. Second, we use mailman 2.1.7 (novell rpm) on SLES10/OES2. The mailman system has postix installed and we can send email via postfix with no ...

Chris Arnold
Dec 3, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:16 pm

20	[Mailman-Users] no dupes across lists?

Does the 'no dupes' option mean that members will not receive a messages sent to more than one list to which they are subscribed? Thank you, S Gruver Unix system administrator Center for Information ...

Gruver, Sandi
Dec 15, 2007 at 12:00 am
Jan 4, 2008 at 2:24 am

16	[Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

I had a disk failure and had to restore my Mandriva system from backup. Everything seems to work except Mailman. Well, mailman works but it does not recognize any of my old lists. How do I get ...

Dennis Putnam
Dec 31, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Jan 10, 2008 at 5:52 am

13	[Mailman-Users] Help a newbie out! How to list users of a specific list

Hello, We host several lists here and I would like to know how to list users/subscribers list by list. Is there an easy way of doing that? Thank you, Matthew Smith Tampa Bay Library Consortium ...

Matt Smith
Dec 17, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Dec 19, 2007 at 6:54 pm

12	[Mailman-Users] accept_these_nonmembers not working

One of the regular posters to my mailing list prefers to post from an address different from the one where she recieves posts. The first time she did this, her post came up for moderation and I ...

Cyndi Norwitz
Dec 16, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Dec 17, 2007 at 7:07 am

9	[Mailman-Users] forwarding messages from one list to another not as attachments

We need to forward moderated emails from one list to another more appropriate list. However they always arrive munged up, losing the originators email address and with the text as an attachment. I.e. ...

David Beaumont
Dec 11, 2007 at 1:25 am
Dec 11, 2007 at 5:41 pm

9	[Mailman-Users] Memory usage

Hi! Mailman qrunners eat a lot of memory on my site: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND mailman 30263 0.0 0.6 80108 13520 ? S 02:20 0:01 /usr/bin/python ...

Grigory Batalov
Dec 4, 2007 at 4:01 am
Dec 6, 2007 at 3:35 am

9	[Mailman-Users] Too many Bounce action notifications

Hello, I maintain a medium sized mailing list (over 40000) to which a newsletter is sent out every few weeks. Till recently, I had no issues with this list, but after the last newsletter was sent ...

Vikram Goyal
Dec 5, 2007 at 4:36 am
Dec 5, 2007 at 11:01 pm

8	[Mailman-Users] Eliminating Duplicate Postings

A few days ago in one of my Mailman 2.1.9 lists, a posting at 7AM was distributed to the members without problem. The mail is addressed to two lists, and both lists received, archived, and ...

Barry Finkel
Dec 5, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Dec 17, 2007 at 10:49 pm

8	[Mailman-Users] Delayed delivery

Hi, Now I have the mail server using debian etch with postfix. This same server have installed mailman and I have noticed that many times the mailman take long to deliver messages, sometimes even ...

Márcio Luciano Donada
Dec 5, 2007 at 11:44 am
Dec 6, 2007 at 4:59 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] not really an umbrella?

Mailman 2.1.5 on RedHat Linux - How can I set up a new list that sends to multiple existing lists - but only sends one message to each person - even if the person is a member of multiple lists? a. ...

Gruver, Sandi
Dec 31, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Feb 25, 2010 at 10:32 am

6	[Mailman-Users] multiple hosts mounting mailman nfs

I have two smtp servers that we use dns round robin for load balancing. I can run it one server at a time, but I am running into some pid lock file issues when I try to run them simultaneously. Any ...

Troy Knabe
Dec 19, 2007 at 12:57 am
Jan 14, 2008 at 3:51 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Message Excerpt

Okay, I searched the FAQ and found nothing even remotely related. And I got a list from my ISP of all the changes they've made to the standard install and it's not among them. When a message comes ...

Cyndi Norwitz
Dec 29, 2007 at 5:55 am
Jan 2, 2008 at 8:43 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Can't send email to non-local recipients

Hi, I've been trying for days now to get a test mailman list to work. When I send an email to the list "larry-test at mydomain.tld", only users that have an unix account on the server itself receive ...

Larry Zins
Dec 30, 2007 at 6:03 am
Dec 31, 2007 at 12:47 am

6	[Mailman-Users] Auto-Discard Sender Filter

Hello All, One of our Mailman mailing lists appears to have several e-mail addresses listed under the sender filter section: "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically ...

Henry
Dec 12, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Dec 13, 2007 at 4:08 am

6	[Mailman-Users] PHP Script for search archive

Hi, Does anyone know of any script in PHP that look inside archives of the list? The archives of the list are private. Solution in phyton or perl not serve to me, has to be in PHP Att, '? um orgulho ...

Hermes PHP
Dec 11, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Dec 12, 2007 at 6:33 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] httpd.conf Rewrite rules with ZOPE to use mailman.

Hi all, I'm running a Zope instance that requires me to have re-write rules (below) in httpd.conf that are not compatible with Mailman. I can use mailman if I don't use the Zope re-write rules or I ...

Ignacio Valdes
Dec 2, 2007 at 4:21 am
Dec 5, 2007 at 5:21 am

6	[Mailman-Users] Received mail not always going to list

Hello, I noticed a few days ago that incomming mail to a list would not always get sent out. After trying to trace down the problem, i noticed the following in the /var/log/mailman/error file ...

Jeffrey Hugo
Dec 4, 2007 at 12:33 am
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:58 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Mailman won't 'start' - but is working?

Ok, maybe this is an issue with my understanding, but... I am on a gentoo system, trying to clean up some things (inherited) - duplicates, etc. I had an old version of Mailman (2.1.7) and 2.1.9 ...

Charles Marcus
Dec 29, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Jan 7, 2008 at 10:53 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Variables in welcome message are not replaced

Hi all I set up a mailman mailinglist (everything preinstalled on a plesk-based hosting) and have a strange effect. When I subscribe a user from my address by using the email-command with the ...

Stefan Burkard
Dec 25, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Jan 7, 2008 at 6:12 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Implicit destination

One of our lists has someone post to it whose mail is held, with the error: Blind carbon copies or other implicit destinations are not allowed. Try reposting your message by explicitly including the ...

Steve Burling
Dec 12, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Dec 17, 2007 at 12:49 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Mailman never replies to e-mail

Hi, After a while of messing with it all, I got Mailman pretty much set up correctly. I'm using a self-compiled Mailman along with Debians' postfix. I needed to compile Mailman myself because the ...

Sjors Gielen
Dec 9, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Dec 10, 2007 at 4:35 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Non-member posters - receive copy of their email as confirmation?

Hello again, I really appreciate the fast and accurate responses to questions here... This question has to do with the Privacy Options Sender Filters accept_these_non-members Is there a way to have ...

Charles Marcus
Dec 7, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Dec 7, 2007 at 10:21 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Vexing withlist and possibly rewrite rule problem?

Hello again all, I am attempting to get the following URL to work: http://www.linuxmednews.com/mailman/listinfo/linuxmednews-announce on a server that is serving linuxmednews.com. If I use the ...

Ignacio Valdes
Dec 5, 2007 at 5:38 am
Dec 6, 2007 at 9:48 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] sendmail/mailman

Whenever I send to a mail list that I have created it gets "stuck" in / var/spool/mqueue. Once I restart sendmail it instantly processes all of the list messages and they go out. Any ideas where I ...

Troy Knabe
Dec 17, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Dec 18, 2007 at 2:53 am

4	[Mailman-Users] listinfo_url and optionsurl alternatives?

The subscribeack.txt template file uses two variables that I would like to change: 1) %(listinfo_url)s produces the following URL: http://hostname/mailman/listinfo/listname where hostname is the ...

Michael Grueter
Dec 10, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Dec 14, 2007 at 3:48 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Extracting e-mail addresses from a dead machine

Hi all This could also be a FAQ, sorry but I couldn't find the answer. I have the data backup from a dead machine. The list is not moved to a new server (yet). Therefore I have no running system of ...

Visvanath Ratnaweera
Dec 12, 2007 at 11:03 am
Dec 12, 2007 at 8:58 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Postfix won't recognise lists built by Mailman.

Hi I have had an installation of Mailman on RedHat with Sendmail for some year. It's worked really well - installed out of the box and made to work with very little pain. Worked so well I've never ...

Rod
Dec 5, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Dec 6, 2007 at 5:10 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Customize Reject Messages?

Hi, Is there a way to customize the rejection messages? Specifically, I want to customize the rejection message that a non-member who posts to a list that he is on the "List of non-member addresses ...

Charles Marcus
Dec 3, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Dec 4, 2007 at 12:29 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Subscribe button not working on

On http://lists.mcclatchyinteractive.com/mailman/listinfo/tricitynews, the opening form tags with actions seem to be missing from the html. Is there a place I can go in and manually edit these or ...

Robin Walls
Dec 20, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Dec 22, 2007 at 6:50 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Stability of Mailman 2.1.10

I asked my ISP to upgrade to the new version of MM (they're using 2.1.9). I'm especially excited about the admin_member_chunksize feature. Their reply: "From their site it appears this is not a ...

Cyndi Norwitz
Dec 20, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Dec 20, 2007 at 9:31 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Error: You are not authorized to create new mailing lists

Hello all, I'm trying to set up a listserve and getting the above message. I have root user priviledges but still can't define a list for user on my site. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks Looking ...

Howard Rifkind
Dec 20, 2007 at 6:42 am
Dec 20, 2007 at 3:40 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Making sure MailMan is running...

Hi Everyone... I have looked around on the web and haven't found any info that I understand about making sure that mailman is receiving and sending e- mail that is sent into it. I just had a ...

Jason Pruim
Dec 13, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Dec 13, 2007 at 8:14 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Technical question

The Mailman lists that I have setup send messages to my membership with the words "-bounces" added to the listserv e-mail address. Is there a way to modify "-bounces" to something else like ...

Jason Bell
Dec 11, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Dec 11, 2007 at 7:42 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Is it possible to have subscribers in msg_footer?

Hi Everyone, I searched a l ot but none found about listing in msg_footer list subscribers. We run a few lists with less than 20 subscribers and everyone need to know who is on the list. ...

Eduardo Ellery
Dec 7, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Dec 7, 2007 at 9:16 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Stale bounce info not purged for many members

Today I had a nearby (and rare) MTA problem that caused a lot of emails to bounce. Unfortunately, Mailman bounce processing removed almost everyone from two lists. These lists get very little ...

David Buntin
Dec 7, 2007 at 4:46 am
Dec 7, 2007 at 7:19 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Using your domain name

I haven't found this in the FAQ, though I might not be looking hard enough. Mostly the info is about how to set up MM on your own domain, but that's not what I want. I am using MM that is hosted at ...

Cyndi Norwitz
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Dec 5, 2007 at 12:05 am

3	[Mailman-Users] "About" text from top of subscribe page

In what file is the text from the "about" area of the subscribe page found? I have looked in handlers and scripts and templates.

Chris Arnold
Dec 4, 2007 at 9:31 pm
Dec 4, 2007 at 11:06 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Release date for 2.1.20?

Hi, I know, I hate this kind of question, but, it's been 15 months since 2.1.19 was released, and I was just wondering if there was any kind of tentative, planned guesstimated release date for ...

Charles Marcus
Dec 3, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Dec 3, 2007 at 9:06 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Can't use newly created mailman list on Fedora 7

I recently installed mailman on my Fedora 7 box and when I created a test list and tried to email a message to it, my message gets returned with the following in it: ...

Mailbox
Dec 3, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Dec 3, 2007 at 6:53 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] HowTo Notes - Mailman and Sendmail Integration

I've recently spent a fair deal of time integrating mailman with sendmail to automate the creation of alias files. A number of postings to this list were helpful. It's all working now, so I thought ...

Tony Lembke
Dec 31, 2007 at 8:33 am
Jan 1, 2008 at 3:28 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Subscriptions being disabled

Ok. Here is another problem. Today, I found that the subscriptions of twenty or so members have been disabled for excessive bounces. The message accompanying each disabled subscription is: ":fail: ...

Robert Boyd Skipper
Dec 26, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Dec 26, 2007 at 7:33 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Deleting Address in accept_these_nonmembers (was Add to filter from commandline?)

Willendrup, Peter Kj?r wrote: And Mark Sapiro replied: I have implemented a script to add an address to accept_these_nonmembers in a collection of Mailman lists, and I am wondering if there is a ...

Barry Finkel
Dec 21, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Dec 23, 2007 at 7:18 am

2	[Mailman-Users] recipients addresses visible in To field

Hi, I have set up a mailing list for sending out a monthly newsletter. It works well, except all recipients can see each others email addresses in the To field. How do I prevent this? I've a had ...

Joel Plane
Dec 20, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Dec 21, 2007 at 12:09 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Some members not receiving all posts

I've looked through the FAQ and the archives, but can't locate an answer to this. A few members subscribed to my list say they are not receiving every post. They know this by scrolling down the posts ...

Robert Boyd Skipper
Dec 20, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Dec 20, 2007 at 11:38 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] SPAM to ******-bounces lists

Hi, I am receiving an excess amount of SPAM to my ?bounces? lists. For example ?board-bounces? or ?members-bounces?. Since the ?bounces? e-mail only comes to me, I?m the only one that sees it. Is ...

Jon Slater
Dec 20, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Dec 20, 2007 at 5:07 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] moving mailman lists to a new machine

We are in the process of moving to a new web server. On the old web server we are running Mailman 2.0.11. On the new web server we installed Mailman 2.1.9. How can we move all the mailing lists on ...

Camelia Botez
Dec 20, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Dec 20, 2007 at 3:58 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Aliases for list...

Doubtless trivial but I've missed it in the documentation :-) Is there a special mailman mechanism to alias lists e.g., I want posts to listB at domain to end up at listA at domain. (A workaround for ...

Lev Lafayette
Dec 17, 2007 at 6:59 am
Dec 17, 2007 at 7:11 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] aliasing for another domain

I have been hosting a some mailman list for years now, and now we are looking into getting the list from list at mydomain.com to list at newdomain.com. Here are some specifics: The new domain already ...

Paul
Dec 13, 2007 at 3:46 am
Dec 16, 2007 at 5:36 am

2	[Mailman-Users] one of my lists sends mails using "username@domain.tld-bounces" address

One of my lists sends mails (subscription, unsubscriptions etc.) using "username at domain.tld-bounces" address, where "username at domain.tld" is an email address defined in: MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = ...

Tomasz Chmielewski
Dec 14, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Dec 14, 2007 at 8:44 pm

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