mailman-users@python.org discussions for January 2009

43	[Mailman-Users] non-subscriber managed to post to a subscriber only list

Had something strange occur early Saturday morning. A non-subscriber managed to successfully post to two member only lists (and, of course, it was spam). The bogus sender (thelevisstoreonline at ...

Steve Lindemann
Jan 26, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Jan 28, 2009 at 3:19 pm

14	[Mailman-Users] Patch for use of Postfix VERP support

I've just installed Mailman version 2.1.11. I was surprised to find that the standard distribution had no support for the Postfix VERP feature, which can create VERP return paths much more ...

Jesper Dybdal
Jan 3, 2009 at 12:06 am
May 16, 2009 at 10:50 am

14	[Mailman-Users] Linux Preferred?

Is there a preferred flavor of Linux that Mailman seems to work and install the best with? I'm trying Ubuntu, but the apt-get feature is getting hung up on trying to find the repositories and can't, ...

Tim Ferguson
Jan 27, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Feb 6, 2009 at 6:58 pm

11	[Mailman-Users] Preserving S/MIME-Encoded Mail

I have a collegue who is experimenting with signed mail (S/MIME). He sent me a test mail and he also sent it to a test Mailman (2.1.11) list. Here is the basic MIME header structure for the mail sent ...

Barry Finkel
Jan 16, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Jan 20, 2009 at 5:34 pm

11	[Mailman-Users] Issue with text to Mailman list serve

Hello, One of our list serve administrators is experiencing an issue with one of her listserves. Here is her description of the issue. She is sending text to her listserve which is a moderated list. ...

Darren G Pifer
Jan 14, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Jan 16, 2009 at 7:53 pm

10	[Mailman-Users] Warnings from senddigests

I've just installed Mailman version 2.1.11. In general, it works fine. Whenever my mailman cron job runs senddigests, I get the following warnings (on stdout or stderr, mailed to me by cron): The ...

Jesper Dybdal
Jan 2, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Jan 4, 2009 at 6:03 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Rejecting on size before content-filters

Is it possible to change the testing-order so that the list size limit is tested [and generates an appropriate reject] *before* the content filters are processed? [I just ran into one that was nearly ...

Bernie Cosell
Jan 4, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Jan 4, 2009 at 6:11 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Automatic bounce processing; listname-bounces vs. listname-bounces+XXXX

Our mailing lists had been processing bounces correctly for quite some time. For some reason though, this has stopped functioning properly. Bounces were coming back to list-bounces+XXXX, and are now ...

John Wesley Simpson Hibbs
Jan 1, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Jan 4, 2009 at 2:37 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Permissions problems

I continue to get these messages when some cron jobs are running. I can see that it is a permissions problems. But I have tried everything by changing permissions and it still is having problems. ...

Melinda Gilmore
Jan 21, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Feb 5, 2009 at 9:11 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Mailman and the Courier MTA

Over the past few years I've several times submitted courier-to-mailman.py to various Mailman forums in the hopes that it might be helpful enough to make it into the contrib section of the Mailman ...

Lindsay Haisley
Jan 30, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Jan 30, 2009 at 11:42 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] config.pck get changed back from correct values...

On the web interface, every day, the ownership for config.ock gets changed: /var/lib/mailman/lists/MYLIST/config.pck gets set to mailman:mailman, while all other files and fodlers remain ...

John espiro
Jan 27, 2009 at 4:11 am
Jan 30, 2009 at 10:07 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Moving a List

I am retiring an older system running Mailman, and I would like to move one of its lists to our shiny new server. I have seen instructions posted for moving all lists from one system to another, but ...

Jeff Bernier
Jan 30, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Jan 30, 2009 at 7:11 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Icelandic: Digest character set problem

Dear list, I am running a list with mostly Icelandic users. Icelandic character set is filled with strange and exotic accents and weird caracters. My digest users get those accented characters ...

Mordur Ingolfsson
Jan 25, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:07 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] How to manually get a list of passwords for all members to be sent to the administration

The subject line states the full question, but, I'd like to get a list of passwords for all the members to be sent to the administrator. I usually mass subscribe them in the form Common name <email ...

Steve Campbell
Jan 19, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Jan 19, 2009 at 9:24 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] max_message_size & scrubbing

Is the max_message_size test applied before or after attachment scrubbing? Thanks Rich

Rich Winkel
Jan 15, 2009 at 5:15 am
Jan 15, 2009 at 6:15 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Where is the template for monthly password reminders?

Where can I find the template for the monthly password reminder email? I'd like to modify it so that it doesn't contain the password (our members object to this being sent unbidden in plain text), ...

Michael R Boudreau
Jan 28, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Jul 21, 2010 at 4:18 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Gathering additional iniformation at signup

I have just started using Mailman and wish to add fields (user title, organization) that must be filled out upon subscription and available to the list moderator for approval. I can easily change the ...

Walter
Jan 17, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Jan 19, 2009 at 9:18 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Mailman receives, archives, acks message but does not send to list

The server was set up a year ago and has been functioning properly. But recently it no longer broadcasts to the list. The smtp log only shows the acknowledgement message, but no multi-recipient ...

Wei Qin
Jan 15, 2009 at 5:40 am
Jan 16, 2009 at 6:33 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] ? your solution of the problem by mailman: having two lists with the same name ..

Hello mailman friends! Can you tell me your experience with the problem of having two lists with the same name under different virtual domains. What was your solution of that problem, was is it a ...

suleiman Espear
Jan 12, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Jan 13, 2009 at 7:11 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] mailman screens by subscriber list before checking sender filter

I have a sublist of an umbrella list. A message from one of the subscribers to the sublist is being held for moderation despite being approved for the umbrella list... any quick fixes? This is ...

Rich Winkel
Jan 27, 2009 at 12:29 am
Jan 27, 2009 at 2:48 am

3	[Mailman-Users] FAQ: How To Rename a Mailman List

And Mark Sapiro replied: I do not know how I missed that piece. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems ...

Barry Finkel
Jan 5, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Jan 27, 2009 at 1:54 am

3	[Mailman-Users] moving discarded emails to an archive somewhere

Hi Guys is there a way to move discarded emails to another list? I have been asked if we can retain the email's that are discarded due to not having perms to send to the list be moved to another list ...

Luke Daly
Jan 21, 2009 at 5:13 am
Jan 22, 2009 at 4:41 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Gratuitous "True".

Hey all, After updating to 2.1.11 (from BSD ports, against python2.5), I'm seeing that several of my list archives have the word "True" scattered througout (at the bottoms of tables). Something like ...

Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Jan 16, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Jan 17, 2009 at 4:35 am

3	[Mailman-Users] mailbox unavailable

Dear I am trying build mailman 2.1.11 with postfix virtual, but still got error. Creating lists are success, also invite member also success. but, if I try to reply the invitation mail or send an ...

Denny Zulfikar
Jan 14, 2009 at 5:39 am
Jan 17, 2009 at 3:32 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Sender and To Fields

Is there a way that I can remove the Sender field from the header all together? Also I was hoping that there was an option with mailman so instead of the mailing list showing in the TO: field if each ...

Brandon Martin
Jan 12, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Jan 13, 2009 at 4:37 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Email subscription not working

Hey all, I'm hitting a little snag. Email subscribe isn't doing anything. Postfix delivers the email to mailman, but then as far as I can tell, nothing more happens with it. Where would be the best ...

Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Jan 7, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Jan 9, 2009 at 5:45 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Unknown encoding error

Hello list, A week or so ago I ran across this problem on one of our mailing lists: A user had sent an email with an apparently bad subject line. This has caused mailman to stop delivering emails for ...

Khosrow Ebrahimpour
Jan 5, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Jan 8, 2009 at 11:30 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] repurposing the -request alias on an autogenerated aliases file?

Here at work, we've found that mailman's "-request" alias has stomped another already-existing function (under our previous list, we used that for administrative requests, and on this particular ...

Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Jan 5, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Jan 5, 2009 at 7:24 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] rejection messages

Good Morning, If i reject a posting for exceeding size limits, the reason given will be "no reason given" if I reject using the default interface, and will only state the correct reason (too bog, ...

J.A. Terranson
Jan 2, 2009 at 8:43 am
Jan 3, 2009 at 4:10 am

3	[Mailman-Users] List Distribution Sequence Confusion

I am having a problem when mailman (2.1.9) tries to distribute mail. My main problem is that I do not understand what it is doing. I do not have a static IP and I have to relay outgoing mail through ...

Dennis Putnam
Jan 1, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Jan 3, 2009 at 1:26 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Mailman url points to localhost after ProxyPass

To help Mailman work within the default OpenBSD httpd chroot, I have requests for /mailman/ doing a ProxyPass to apache2 running on localhost. This works great for everything except url's like ...

Jason Dixon
Jan 31, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Feb 2, 2009 at 4:58 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Custom key/values in auto-responses

Hi all, Running my second install of Mailman, going well, v 2.1.11 on BSD 7.0, and wondering how to add custom key into welcome messages. Essentially, I need to add a download link into the welcome ...

Vish Vishvanath
Jan 31, 2009 at 12:48 am
Feb 1, 2009 at 2:44 am

2	[Mailman-Users] List-to-list email?

Sorry if this is a FAQ -- I have done a bit of searching first. How can I allow one list to send mail to another list? I have the sending list mentioned as a non-list authorized sender to the ...

Jan Steinman
Jan 29, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Jan 29, 2009 at 6:08 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] mailman with postfix and virtual mailbox domains

Hello, I have a postfix server running which can handle mail for 3 domains via "virtual mailbox domains". Now I want to use mailman to offer mailinglists for those 3 domains. I read the documentation ...

Gerd Moritz
Jan 27, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Jan 29, 2009 at 1:54 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Email Forwarding Service

Does anyone know what would be a good solution for an email forwarding service? Either hosted or something we could deploy in-house. Something that would simply forward messages sent to mailboxuser ...

Jeff Bernier
Jan 28, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Jan 29, 2009 at 12:27 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Additional scripts and web forms

Are there Internet repositories of Mailman scripts and customization beyond what comes with the distribution? I keep having ideas for obvious capabilities that are missing, e.g., - an inverse of ...

David Lubkin
Jan 27, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Jan 28, 2009 at 2:42 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] subscribe a list to a list

Hi, What would be the surprising effects if I subscribe a list to a list? It's just a customer whish, and I never did it and wonder what could happen... -- Chef de projet chez Vectoris ...

Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Jan 27, 2009 at 6:28 am
Jan 28, 2009 at 7:08 am

2	[Mailman-Users] How to manually get a list of passwords for all members to be sent to the administration

Somewhat off topic so skip this email if you want to. Ok... It is my (mis)understanding that this is one of the nice things about Object Oriented programming languages like Python in such as it is ...

Grant Taylor
Jan 19, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Jan 20, 2009 at 3:04 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Mailman is Not Receiving / Sending my Posts or Showing up in Archive

Can someone help?? I am using mailman on a hosting package that i purchased. I set up a mailing list and was able to send posts for a while. They were going out to the list members, sending the ...

Douglas Edwards
Jan 15, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Jan 16, 2009 at 3:37 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] bccs

I just sent a message to two different lists, setting To: to list1 and Bcc: to list2. The second got moderated because of 'implicit address'. When I then approved it, the To: still showed list1 ...

Rick Pasotto
Jan 15, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Jan 15, 2009 at 8:29 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Web interface automation

Up to recently we run our own mailman list on an ADSL connected host, and mail delivery was routed through a smarthost - our ISP's mail server. Then our ISP imposed limits on the amount of mail we ...

Kreąimir Tonković
Jan 15, 2009 at 7:52 am
Jan 15, 2009 at 5:00 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Question

Hello all. this is my first time and lil lost as to where to go for help. Maybe this can help me out. I imported a file in cpanel with forwarders from my old cpanel to the new cpanel. When I went to ...

Malik Hemani
Jan 14, 2009 at 6:26 am
Jan 14, 2009 at 5:37 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.x Roadmap

Barry has been making wonderful progress with Mailman 3.0 and has just announced the second alpha release. This may leave some of you wondering what's happening with the Mailman 2.x series, so this ...

Mark Sapiro
Jan 3, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Jan 12, 2009 at 6:39 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Moderator access to subscription list?

Is there a way to grant access to a list moderator to edit the subscription list without granting full administrative access? Thanks, Rich

Rich Winkel
Jan 12, 2009 at 3:39 am
Jan 12, 2009 at 12:55 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Moving existing server to new domain name and new IP another question - broken link

Hello List. Question - moved server with Mailman on it from one domain to another, changed ip address and physical location. Changed config files, did withlist -l -r fix_url , and everything works ...

Alex Rogozin
Jan 10, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Jan 10, 2009 at 5:02 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] stripping attachments and sending the URL

Hello everybody, On http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3844 (May 1st, 2000) I read the following: "For example, there is a project contributor who has implemented a MIME attachment scanner module ...

Thijs Braem
Jan 9, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Jan 9, 2009 at 4:42 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Customizing the admin login page...

What file(s) would I need to edit if I wanted to customize the admin login page? I'm wanting to add an onLoad value to the BODY tag (and related name tag to the form) to the web page that is ...

Grant Taylor
Jan 8, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Jan 8, 2009 at 8:42 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Authorization problem

I've just set up our first Mailman and when trying to create a new mailing list, other than the initial list, I'm receiving the message: Error: You are not authorized to create new mailing lists I'm ...

Tim Ferguson
Jan 31, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Feb 1, 2009 at 3:58 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Introduction and Question

Hello, my name is Ali and I am 23 Years old. I am totly blind since my birth. I'm a trainee as a specialist for application development in Marburg, Germany. I want to configure Mailman on my virtual ...

Ali Savas
Jan 30, 2009 at 9:03 am
Jan 31, 2009 at 6:29 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Domainname changing

I am running mailman 2.1.5 on a RedHat Linux, version 4.0, server. The IP Address and domainname, of the server, are going to change and I wanted to know is there was a script or set of instructions ...

Patricia A Moss
Jan 30, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Jan 30, 2009 at 10:18 pm

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