mailman-users@python.org discussions for January 2008

29	[Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting

Hello! Our site uses mailman to host many mailing lists. Sometimes a person would find it necessary to post to several of the lists at once incurring irritation of the subscribers for the following ...

Mikhail T.
Jan 28, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Jan 30, 2008 at 10:21 pm

20	[Mailman-Users] Some detail questions about migrating lists

Hi all, I need to migrate lists from an *old* Slackware system running MM 2.0 (0x200000f0) to a new system where MM is installed via RPM (2.1.9). I've read the posts linked to by the FAQ, and the ...

Frank Griffin
Jan 10, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Mar 17, 2008 at 4:17 pm

17	[Mailman-Users] two mailman installations..

Dear mailman guys.. I have a cent-os dedicated server with godaddy and is hosting my daily newsletter list on it .. my subscrier list has grown to over 77,000 and is growing rapidly that I will have ...

Khalil Abbas
Jan 23, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Jan 27, 2008 at 4:52 am

17	[Mailman-Users] Mail Processing Problem?

I'm beginning to think it would have been easier to just start all over if I didn't care about my users getting upset. Anyway I still seem to have a problem that I didn't have before the restore. ...

Dennis Putnam
Jan 9, 2008 at 2:54 am
Jan 15, 2008 at 12:12 am

15	[Mailman-Users] bots subscribing to lists via web forms to avoid member-only restrictions

Several times this week I've received spam to my lists which are set to allow postings only by list members. Upon review, something (either bot or human, but I'm betting bot as they hit many lists at ...

Matt Domsch
Jan 6, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Jan 17, 2008 at 2:42 am

9	[Mailman-Users] surely can install mailman without root?

Does one really need root privileges to install mailman? Surely I could install mailman on my web shared hosting plan without root. (As the version of mailman Dreamhost provides gives the ...

Jidanni
Jan 17, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Jan 19, 2008 at 2:37 am

8	[Mailman-Users] Change -owner addresses

Hi all. I have just upgraded my system to MM 2.1.9 and wonder if it is possible to change the -owner-addresses to something else? The reason is that we receive a lot of spam after 3 years use. We ...

Joakim Nömell
Jan 17, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Jan 24, 2008 at 8:57 pm

8	[Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

Over the holiday, I took the opportunity to do a long-overdue hardware and OS upgrade of my home Mailman server. I'd been running Mac OS X 10.3.9 (!), and moved to a slightly-less-antique box running ...

Steve Burling
Jan 3, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Jan 7, 2008 at 1:55 am

7	[Mailman-Users] Edit monthly reminder?

Hello, I searched the archive, but could find no answer to my question. Is it possible to edit/modify the contents of the membership reminder that is sent out monthly by email? Mikael

Mikael Hansen
Jan 15, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Jan 29, 2008 at 11:17 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Ghost Moderator Requests

I have a strange problem. I am getting a daily message from one of my mailing lists telling me I have 95 moderator requests pending. However, when I go to the administrator page for that mailing list ...

Dennis Putnam
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Jan 31, 2008 at 9:40 am

6	[Mailman-Users] Same list name, different domains...

I've searched around and the following thread is the closest to what I need, but I am having trouble getting it to work: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2002-November/023712.html I ...

Sean Butler
Jan 16, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Jan 17, 2008 at 11:52 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] attachments in every email showing

I've finally got my mailing list up and running, but no matter what I do, every single msg comes with a .txt attachment. I cant figure out how to shut it off! Any ideas? Thanks, Liss

Liss
Jan 16, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Jan 16, 2008 at 6:24 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] subscribe_policy

I want to set a list so that users cannot self subscribe. Is there a way to do that? I only see "confirm, require approval, or confirm and approve". I would like "not allowed" Thanks -Troy

Troy Knabe
Jan 7, 2008 at 5:22 pm
Jan 7, 2008 at 7:54 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Outgoing qrunner stops working and outgoing mails get stuck

Hi everybody. Since a couple of months I have started having some problems with mailman. Sometimes it stops sending out e-mail: outgoing messages get stuck in ~/qfiles/out. The qrunner for outgoing ...

SP
Jan 23, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Jan 28, 2008 at 11:02 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Cannot accept or reject messages as moderator

When going to "pending moderator requests" and attempting to do anything with a pending request, nothing happens. Accept, reject, etc. - just refreshes screen as if nothing happened after clicking ...

Danila Ulyanov
Jan 18, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Jan 24, 2008 at 8:30 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Newbie with recurring frustrations!

We just purchased this service in Nov. I don't know how I'd get my money back. There are so many services out there; how can one tell if a hosting provider is a good one? I did get recommendations on ...

Joyce Dowling
Jan 23, 2008 at 6:19 am
Jan 23, 2008 at 9:43 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] translate strings, not whole templates

What you currently have now is each translator not only responsible for translating message strings -- but also faithfully reproducing the whole HTML structure of the English version -- intact. E.g., ...

Jidanni
Jan 19, 2008 at 6:51 am
Jan 20, 2008 at 8:13 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Posts not showing in archives

I have a list that had 2 recent posts that are not showing up in the archives. They are in the post log as successful posts, but don't show in the archive. Any idea how that could happen? The ...

Ramey, Anne
Jan 8, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Jan 8, 2008 at 8:10 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Queue delays

Hello! I have regular delays in message processing. Say, my server (Linux/Postfix) receives a letter at 17:36 and quickly delivers it to the mailman queue (?). Then message is hold for about 25 ...

Grigory Batalov
Jan 7, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Jan 8, 2008 at 2:05 am

4	[Mailman-Users] really dumb question on getting started; extracting archive

How do you unzip the .tar and .gz files prior to install? For most applications that I'm running on my unix based web server, my process is to unzip on my Windows XP box prior to uploading to the web ...

Holmes, Deb
Jan 29, 2008 at 10:51 am
Jan 29, 2008 at 4:17 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Problem with a mailman list setup

Hi there, I'm a web site designer and programmer, with a limited understanding of shell access. I tried to set up a new list today, here: http://tlca.org/mailman/listinfo/risingsun However, no one ...

Matthew Farr
Jan 23, 2008 at 4:47 am
Jan 25, 2008 at 3:33 am

4	[Mailman-Users] pipermail converts @ to at

Hi there, pipermail converts @ to at in it's archives. I have disabled it for the sender of a message, but it seems to be non-configurable for the message body. Is there any option I missed? Thanks ...

Florian Effenberger
Jan 21, 2008 at 11:20 am
Jan 22, 2008 at 8:01 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] ERROR: "You must supply a valid email address."?

I have setup a qmailtoaster that is very similar to this setup http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com/index.p...oaster_Install I have compiled and installed Mailman on the machine into /home/mailman/mydomain/ ...

Chris Penn
Jan 21, 2008 at 7:08 am
Jan 22, 2008 at 7:16 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Different web interface and email address domains with POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS

I'm trying to set up a list "list at domain.com", but I want the web interface to appear at http://sub.domain.com/mailman/.... I have set POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ["domain.com"] in my ...

Andrew Oakley
Jan 19, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Jan 21, 2008 at 1:22 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Postfix->Mailman->Exchange - Where are my NDR's?

I need some help tracking down where my NDR's are going. So far, we haven't seen any. Here's the setup for how mail is set to our lists: User sends to a M$ Exchange mailbox (Created in Active ...

Lamaster, Robert
Jan 18, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Jan 19, 2008 at 2:14 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Cron jobs posted by non-member in mailman

I am receiving all output from mailman cron jobs as requiring moderation ("Post by non-member to a members-only list"). I would guess that this is a file ownership issue, but I can't seem to resolve ...

Vicki Stanfield
Jan 4, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Jan 5, 2008 at 6:57 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Question on cron.in and the init.d scripts in rpm file

Hello all, setting up mailman on linux 2.6.9 where mailman was installed I believe by a rpm file. The question is about the cron job. The documentation says to install the contents of the supplied ...

Steve
Jan 4, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Jan 5, 2008 at 7:22 am

4	[Mailman-Users] refresh my cross post list with updated members in sub lists after every 10 minutes

Hi I had a cron which used to refresh my cross post list with updated members in sub lists after every 10 minutes. It seems that cron is not working. Please advise how to check that and if someone ...

Vinita Aggarwal
Jan 2, 2008 at 6:13 am
Jan 2, 2008 at 8:50 am

3	[Mailman-Users] korean error

Hi FC3 running python 2.3.4 & trying to install Mailman-2.1.9 ./configure (using default settings) make install produces just this error Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 46, ...

Obantec Support
Jan 27, 2008 at 10:35 am
Jan 28, 2008 at 11:26 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Changing base URL for HTML GUI

Hi again, Just a quick question in this one. I've been running Mailman for a long time (2.1.5 patched to 2.1.6 from memory) on one of my servers. In the administration & general GUI HTML pages, if I ...

Terry Allen
Jan 28, 2008 at 1:04 am
Jan 28, 2008 at 4:23 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Having the Web interface show the same lists with or without the "www." prefix

Here is my question: Is there anything I can do so that the mailman web interface will show the same lists whether or not the "www." prefix appears? Background: Migrated and upgraded a from MacOSX ...

Paul Kleeberg
Jan 26, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Jan 26, 2008 at 7:39 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Problem with fresh installation of mailman

Hi all, i've been using mailman-2.1.9 about a year now without problems. I've set up a new mail server (postfix) and installed mailman again. I've succesfully created a new list called "mylist". But, ...

AlxFrag
Jan 24, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Jan 25, 2008 at 11:15 am

3	[Mailman-Users] mass subscribe

dear mailman guys, 2 things .. 1- is there a way to mass-subscribe users through sending a command by email to the list without the administritive interface? because I keep getting an Internal server ...

Khalil Abbas
Jan 18, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Jan 19, 2008 at 6:59 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] list_members output with fullname option

Hello, I am trying to get a file output with list members and getting the file with just the email names is no problem and works fine. But the docs say there is a / -f option to get the full names in ...

Fletch Bowling
Jan 17, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Jan 17, 2008 at 9:58 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] deny members posts

Hi, Maybe anyone can explain to me how to configure mailman, that list members can't post to this list. And enable non-members post to this list. In other words - i want members of list only get ...

Egidijus Serplis
Jan 11, 2008 at 11:07 am
Jan 11, 2008 at 9:56 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Moderation Bit Problem

Help, someone? When the moderation bit for a member is turned on, that member gets an error message when trying to post a message. The error message says "Your message could not be processed because ...

Kathy Gee
Jan 10, 2008 at 1:22 am
Jan 11, 2008 at 7:09 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Slow or Missed mails

HI I started using mailman for 200 plus members in the list I noticed the mail processing is slow and sometimes they are notprocessed at all I see the mail in list of archives but its not sent. How ...

Abdul Javid
Jan 9, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Jan 11, 2008 at 4:46 am

3	[Mailman-Users] approved senders

For accept_these_nonmembers I would like to add my entire domain. So I added "^@my.domain.com" w/out the quotes, but that doesn't seem to be working. Any suggestions for my wrong syntax? Thanks -Troy

Troy Knabe
Jan 8, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Jan 8, 2008 at 8:09 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Migrating and Upgrading

I need to migrate a very old Red Hat (7.3) mailman 2.0.13 (postfix MTA 1.1.7) installation to a SuSE SLES 10 box running mailman 2.1.7, postfix 2.2.9. I have the new box working in "test mode", ...

Dave Warchol
Jan 2, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Jan 4, 2008 at 3:16 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] fix_url script changes both web_page_url and host_name values

Is there any way to change only one at a time (i.e. only the web_page_url) value while using the withlist/fix_url script? For example I have the list using xxx.com but the list is hosted on ...

Dan Mashal
Jan 2, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Jan 3, 2008 at 9:00 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Postfix mysql mailman

How to use mailman if i run postfix with mysql?

Mattias
Jan 2, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Jan 3, 2008 at 12:11 am

3	[Mailman-Users] mass subscribing and puting users either no mail or digest

I'm just curious. I know how to mass subscribe but is there a way to mass subscribe a group of people to receive digest mail? Thanks Sarah Alawami MSN: chellist at hotmail.com skype: marrie1 Website; ...

Sarah
Jan 1, 2008 at 5:53 am
Jan 2, 2008 at 10:01 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Moved list not creating virtual-mailman entries

I have a group of Mailman lists that I moved to a new server. When I run genaliases, it is correctly creating the aliases but not the entries in virtual-mailman. I made the move and ran "withlist -l ...

Richard Pyne
Jan 29, 2008 at 4:12 am
Feb 1, 2008 at 9:32 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Problem Bounce Processing Category

Hi, I have a problem with Bounce Processing Category's configuration. With this configutation : *bounce_processing = yes **bounce_score_threshold = 2.0 **bounce_info_stale_after = 365 ...

Roberto Gherardi
Jan 29, 2008 at 10:23 am
Jan 29, 2008 at 3:10 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Post number in subject line

Hello all, Is there anyone know how to show the post number in subject line? This number will be increased every time the member post something to the list. I have tried to search through Mailman's ...

Soben
Jan 28, 2008 at 1:55 am
Jan 29, 2008 at 1:13 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Specify URL's in confirmation e-mail?

Hi, I run multiple virtual domains from my server. For example: firstdomain.com seconddomain.org thirddomain.com But my server's 'real' name is: myserver.com So, of course, in my mm_cfg.py I have: ...

Jon Slater
Jan 23, 2008 at 5:29 am
Jan 23, 2008 at 10:09 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Newbie with recurring frustrations!

I'm not new to Mailman, just this listserv. I've used it for years with an organization that has good support with few problems. I just moved a site to a server that used to have decent support, but ...

Joyce Dowling
Jan 22, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Jan 23, 2008 at 5:39 am

2	[Mailman-Users] start script started reporting errors

I created a list that I wanted confirmation on. When I tested it, I didn't get anything. After poking around, I found that parts of mailman seemed to have stop working last week. I can't seem to ...

Myron Kowalski
Jan 21, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Jan 22, 2008 at 1:13 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Messages Appearing Twice

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 ...

David Andrews
Jan 21, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Jan 21, 2008 at 10:41 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Script

Mailman users, I am using mailman 2.18 and I have about 2,000 lists. I was wondering if anybody had a script that would output which lists had messages needing to be moderated. Thanks, Matt

Matt Zimmerman
Jan 18, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Jan 18, 2008 at 4:03 pm

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