mailman-users@python.org discussions for September 2008

16	[Mailman-Users] Multi list management ..

Dear mailman guys, I have a huge newsletter list (no discussion) that no dedicated server can handle, for mailman eats up the whole memory .. thus I divided it to several lists on different servers ...

Khalil Abbas
Sep 6, 2008 at 12:43 am
Sep 9, 2008 at 3:29 am

12	[Mailman-Users] email subscription sends two messages

Using Mailman version: 2.1.9 I sent a subscribe command to join a listserv and received two confirmation messages. Could this be the result of putting the word subscribe into the subject as well as ...

Hone+Mailman
Sep 17, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Sep 25, 2008 at 12:57 am

12	[Mailman-Users] locks

hi all... mailman has been locking one list out. the web interface just hangs and it generates a bunch of locks. it seems that it can not write to a log but not sure which one. errors are like: ep 17 ...

Kalin m
Sep 19, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Sep 22, 2008 at 8:01 pm

12	[Mailman-Users] many problems

Hi I have a mailing list, I?m the administrator that is I?m a user and have no idea of programming, and I used to have the same mailing list? in mailman?but with?an older version and worked just fine ...

Jaione Arrieta
Sep 3, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Sep 5, 2008 at 12:32 am

10	[Mailman-Users] Harvesting of email addresses for spam from archives

We have had a lot of spams sent directly to our list members (i.e. not sent via mailman). All of them have subject headings taken from list emails already sent out genuinely via mailman. Almost all ...

David Beaumont
Sep 8, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Sep 8, 2008 at 8:03 pm

9	[Mailman-Users] bin/upgrade has been broken since 2.1.5 (or possibly longer)

The _UpdateRecords function in ListAdmin.py is completely broken, and has been since 2.1.5. There is a bugreport filed in 2004 at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266106, and a patch for the ...

Knut Auvor Grythe
Sep 18, 2008 at 10:18 am
Oct 1, 2008 at 7:53 pm

9	[Mailman-Users] Admin getting bug on one list

I can't get into the admin on a single list. Tried permissions repair, no help. Tried replacing config.pck, no help Tried replacing config.pck.last, no help Error log says: OSError: [Errno 22] ...

Bill Christensen
Sep 29, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Sep 30, 2008 at 12:25 am

9	[Mailman-Users] migrating Mailman

Hi, I would like to migrate my Mailman from one server to another server which has already Mailman running and some lists are created. I searched Mailman archives but didn't find any scenario like ...

Shambhu Sharma
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:47 am
Sep 25, 2008 at 7:25 pm

8	[Mailman-Users] Mailman working but not sending mail

For those following the saga... :) My switch to our new server is proceeding well, but I've hit a snag that I'm not sure what to do about. Basically, Mailman is accepting messages just fine. They ...

RobG
Sep 25, 2008 at 2:39 am
Sep 25, 2008 at 6:22 pm

8	[Mailman-Users] Default ban_list for new lists

I have a mailman server, where port 80 is only accessible within the company, but port 25 is open to the outside world. It is intended for internal mailing lists only. I want to close the hole, where ...

Edward Ned Harvey
Sep 15, 2008 at 12:22 am
Sep 16, 2008 at 7:46 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] Senddigest error on list

Hi, Has anyone come across this error message. I am getting this error message on one of my lists. I have google and can't come up with anything substantial. # /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests ...

Daniel Ojo
Sep 9, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Oct 9, 2008 at 5:38 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] Availability of patches on Launchpad

If you are a user of patches I have published for Mailman in the past then read on. Otherwise, apologies for cluttering up your mailbox. In the recent switch from Sourceforge to Launchpad a number of ...

Richard Barrett
Sep 7, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Sep 24, 2008 at 11:49 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] monthly password reminders

Hello, Is there any way, besides editing the options.html template file, to completely disable regular/monthly password reminders? According to the list options page, whether or not a list sends out ...

Alan Rubin
Sep 1, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Sep 2, 2008 at 4:04 am

6	[Mailman-Users] (pipermail versus ...) To join a conversation from the web interface

Presently, I'm using pipermail. I'm open to suggestions. This question is pretty complicated, so probably the best answer I could possibly get is to know how pipermail gets called, so I can go try ...

Edward Ned Harvey
Sep 16, 2008 at 3:13 am
Sep 25, 2008 at 12:48 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Moving to a new server

Howdy!! We've been running Mailman for years (about ten)... upgraded through the years, finally ending up with 2.1.3 on an OLLLLLD copy of Red Hat Linux (pre-Fedora). But that server died recently. ...

RobG
Sep 24, 2008 at 12:11 am
Sep 25, 2008 at 4:31 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] getting list members from mysql

Hi! I'd like to get the members of a certain Mailman mailing list from a MySQL database, preferebly online. (Not refreshing Mailman's DB periodically, but getting Mailman to use my MySQL DB instead ...

Peter Molnar
Sep 13, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Sep 14, 2008 at 8:08 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Trying to Solve AOL Redaction Problem for HTML Emails

I see the patch adding html banners, user_id, list_id (https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?funcÞtail&atid00103&aid21257&group_id3 ) might have worked at one time, but has a few undesireable features ...

Lloyd Tennison
Sep 25, 2008 at 8:00 am
Sep 25, 2008 at 10:52 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Are there any known exploits in 2.1.5 re request email address and spamming?

I've inherited a 2.1.5 mailman. In the last few days we've been blacklisted by a number of major sites. On further investigation it looks like our mailman has been compromised in some way. Emails to ...

Martin J. Evans
Sep 19, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Sep 23, 2008 at 9:15 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Base64 encoding?

Does Mailman ever take a message that it received in plain text form and re-encode it in base64 (leaving the mime type as text/plain)? This just happened to a message I sent to a private list for ...

Jim Garrison
Sep 11, 2008 at 2:00 am
Sep 13, 2008 at 1:57 am

4	[Mailman-Users] mailman on a dedicated server

hello, I have a problem if anyone can help me. I'm in the autoparts business and I had a small hosting plan with cpanel where I could install mailman with just one click. I have a mailing list of my ...

Faisal anif
Sep 10, 2008 at 9:05 am
Sep 12, 2008 at 7:35 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] list of members question

Is there a way for a list owner to see all subscribers of a list on one web page? One list has 140 members. Or can a list be requested via email? I know that I, as listserv admin, can get this list ...

Hone+Mailman
Sep 9, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Sep 9, 2008 at 6:38 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Whitelisting & Blacklisting domains

I am configuring a company private mailman server, where we want people inside the company to be able to subscribe and unsubscribe freely... And block any attempts from anyone outside the company. Is ...

Edward Ned Harvey
Sep 1, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Sep 3, 2008 at 1:38 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Emails sent directly to "bounce" address

I have one list that has suddenly been receiving an increase in bounces, and in looking at the bounce emails they appear to be spam sent directly to the bounce address (ex. list1- bounces at ...

J.R. Constance
Sep 18, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Oct 4, 2008 at 3:16 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] problems with upgrade

Hi list members, I have a problem with an update from a mailman 2.1.4 to 2.1.11.I had no problems during the upgrade I only noticed some problems with some user account names, so I started the ...

Alexander Freund
Sep 30, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Oct 3, 2008 at 7:26 am

3	[Mailman-Users] list request.pck out of date wrt data/holding*

I've just taken over an existing mailman list and I'm hitting a rather annoying problem I hope someone can help me with. When I go to the web admin list and select "Tend to pending moderator ...

Martin Evans
Sep 19, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Sep 19, 2008 at 5:50 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Admin interface for a single list misbehaving?

I have a server with 873 lists (yes really!), but only one seems to be misbehaving. Specifically, when you go to the admin web interface and click on Membership Management, I get an error saying: ...

Christopher Waltham
Sep 17, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Sep 19, 2008 at 1:13 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] digest message modification

Hello, Is there any way to strip out certain headers/lines from a message being shown in a digest format? My clients are trying to present their information as directly as possible and they would ...

Alan Rubin
Sep 9, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Sep 10, 2008 at 1:23 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Rv: many problems

MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-480345227-1220636012=:98832" --0-480345227-1220636012=:98832 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: ...

Jaione Arrieta
Sep 5, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Sep 8, 2008 at 1:52 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Reminder notices come from "mailman" list

I have a number of Mailman (2.1.9) lists configured on a couple of different servers, all of which are configured to send out monthly password reminders. The URL and designated email hostname for ...

Lindsay Haisley
Sep 4, 2008 at 1:12 am
Sep 4, 2008 at 4:55 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Customizing "Subscription request confirmed" page

Hello, I have just noticed that there is one more page that needs changing if I want to keep the layout consistent - "Subscription request confirmed" page. I guess the question is basically the same. ...

Zbigniew Szalbot
Sep 30, 2008 at 5:30 am
Oct 1, 2008 at 6:33 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Problem updating archives

I wanted to remove one user's name (by request) from the list archives, so I used vim to search & replace his name with xxxxx in: /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mylistname.mbox This worked fine, ...

Brian Dunning
Sep 28, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Sep 30, 2008 at 4:42 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] deleted old messages

I'm using oder mailman 2.1.5 together with Postfix. Earlier I created moderated list, sent some testing posts. But I did not answered the mails asking me if I want to allow this post or drop it, but ...

Tomáš Macek
Sep 24, 2008 at 7:01 am
Sep 25, 2008 at 4:43 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Went to Junk folders!!

hi I recently posted here about me moving my business and files from a shared hosting plan to my own dedicated server and got a new domain name. well anyways I moved my mailing list that contains ...

Faisal anif
Sep 21, 2008 at 2:09 am
Sep 21, 2008 at 6:46 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] sync_members problem

Hello, I'm having a strange problem with the sync_members script on Maiman. I have a text file with about 8500 emails, one per line, and I've filtered out whitespace for each email in the file, and ...

Brent Kearney
Sep 19, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Sep 20, 2008 at 8:15 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] AOL Redacting

Has anyone written a script that can take the emails from AOL with the redacted address and have it find the correct email address in the maillog? There was a thread that talked about it, but I do ...

Lloyd Tennison
Sep 19, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Sep 19, 2008 at 8:05 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Greetings .. and some Questions

hello, I love MailMan .. but I am having some problems that I hope someone here can help with. I run a web-server that has MailMan installed by Cpanel. Most of my clients use MailMan in one way or ...

Jeffrey Lake - Admin
Sep 17, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Sep 19, 2008 at 3:47 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Old server settings applied to some lists

Hello! I hope someone can help me fix some bad configuration. We am running mailman 2.1.9 here at Westmont College and we have hundreds of lists which have been set up over the last 10 years or so. ...

Anne Anderson
Sep 17, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Sep 19, 2008 at 3:07 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Tracker migration to Launchpad

We're planning on migrating the current SourceForge trackers for the Mailman project to Launchpad, this Thursday at 1200 UTC. Expect the conversion to take several hours. The SF trackers will still ...

Barry Warsaw
Sep 2, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Sep 16, 2008 at 9:17 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Bad Character

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: xxx at ...

David Andrews
Sep 16, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Sep 16, 2008 at 7:50 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Global aliases

I would really love it if I can create a global alias list, such as... edward.harvey -at- lyricsemi.com edward.harvey -at- lyricsemiconductor.com eharvey -at- lyricsemi.com eharvey -at- ...

Edward Ned Harvey
Sep 15, 2008 at 12:33 am
Sep 15, 2008 at 8:49 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Listproc config files

We are still in the process of moving from listproc to mailman. Each time we create a new listproc list we duplicate it with some scripts on the mailman server. So we already have all the list on the ...

Melinda Gilmore
Sep 15, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Sep 15, 2008 at 8:42 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] which owner for private archives?

Hello, Uncaught Runner Exceptions: ------------------------------ 1 [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/lcw.translators/index.html' $ l ...

Zbigniew Szalbot
Sep 15, 2008 at 7:48 am
Sep 15, 2008 at 3:37 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.11 - message appears to drop on the floor

Hi, I have a list with a user who is not able to send new messages to the list - replies go out ok, but whenever he sends out a new message, it doesn't reach the list. I have a relay machine which ...

Andrew Hodgson
Sep 9, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Sep 12, 2008 at 8:58 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Moving and renaming a list

Hi, I've got a list which is on a machine that will be decommissioned soon. I have to move it to another machine, but that destination machine already has a list with the same name. I'm guessing I ...

Oliver Hookins
Sep 10, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Sep 11, 2008 at 11:53 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] accept these non members: @listname not working

Hi, I take care of some list housed on an ISP that's running Mailman 2.1.11. The feature to include lists in the privacy/sender/accept these nonmembers box is *apparently* there (the html help link ...

Gary Casterline
Sep 9, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Sep 9, 2008 at 10:40 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Dealing with ISPs that blacklist by message volune?

Wondering whether anyone has suggestions for dealing with this situation. I run two mailing lists for coachess (577 members) and referees (377 members) in a local volunteer youth sports group. Not ...

Beau James
Sep 8, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Sep 9, 2008 at 12:17 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Listserv archives import ?

Hi, I have googled this with little luck... :-( Is there anyone who attempted an archive import of listserv archives into mailman ? I am looking for any kind of ...

Max Lanfranconi
Sep 8, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Sep 8, 2008 at 8:29 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Config question

Hello all, I just installed mailman version 2.1.9.cp2. When I say "I installed", I mean that I used cpanel to do it at my web host. I'm trying to change what I thought were some minor things, but I ...

Green Gold Capital
Sep 7, 2008 at 12:48 am
Sep 8, 2008 at 12:25 am

2	[Mailman-Users] mailman silently fails

Hi ! I am having troubles with a previously working installation of mailman: the messages sent to the list are eaten and nothing happens: nothing in the logs, nothing sent, no trace in the archives. ...

Gaspard Bucher
Sep 3, 2008 at 8:08 am
Sep 4, 2008 at 10:45 am

1	[Mailman-Users] "Messages Awaiting Approval" email wildly inaccurate

One of our mailman lists sends a daily message saying that it has over 8,000 waiting messages in the queue. This number increases daily no matter what we do. Trying to go to its moderation page ...

Christopher Hatty
Sep 30, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Sep 30, 2008 at 7:32 pm

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