mailman-users@python.org discussions for May 2009

12	[Mailman-Users] Errors on mailman startup

My ISP had a major power outage a while back and I realized that mailman was no longer running. When trying to start it again, I am getting the following errors: /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl ...

Dave Filchak
May 28, 2009 at 6:43 pm
May 31, 2009 at 10:37 pm

9	[Mailman-Users] How to unshunt?

I recently changed my Mailman 2.1.9 installation to use and support Unicode. I cannot update to a newer Mailman version as long as my Debian Etch hasn't been upgraded to the current Debian version, ...

Ulf Dunkel
May 25, 2009 at 10:03 am
May 26, 2009 at 8:00 pm

9	[Mailman-Users] Deleting messages from archive....

Has anyone ever developed a point-n-click tool to delete a message from an archive, preferably by just eliminating the From/To/Subject and body, but leaving the links intact, with a placeholder ...

Charles Gregory
May 15, 2009 at 5:51 pm
May 16, 2009 at 4:18 pm

9	[Mailman-Users] MM-2.1.12 Bug (non critical)

Greetings. a subscriber of the "tagged" form: lists_s+spaml at example.com does not get found on the subscriber search box. It works fine, and is seen on the "L" subscribers page, but it cannot be ...

J.A. Terranson
May 15, 2009 at 3:36 pm
May 16, 2009 at 12:02 am

8	[Mailman-Users] Install question - was: Errors on mailman startup

Please do not hijack existing threads for new topics. Post an original message, not a reply. The instructions you reference above are old. They reference mailman 2.1.10. The current version is ...

Mark Sapiro
May 29, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Jun 3, 2009 at 5:35 pm

8	[Mailman-Users] Creating a new list fails

$ bin/newlist -l en --urlhost=mailman.covisp.net --emailhost=kreme.com hgt-school at kreme.com kreme at kreme.com Initial hgt-school password: Create a new, unpopulated mailing list. Usage: ...

LuKreme
May 30, 2009 at 6:29 pm
May 31, 2009 at 9:57 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] my mailman has been hacked !!

HELP!! one of my lists has been hacked.. all members are moderated, except my own email address (my at email.com) which I use to post to the list .. someone sent from my address to the list and all ...

Khalil Abbas
May 27, 2009 at 6:23 pm
May 30, 2009 at 10:25 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Help! "Stuck Messages"

Hi folks, Brand new here. I have reviewed the troubleshooting and I think I am just not sophisticated to understand the answers. We have a list of about 600. I have been working hard to delete our ...

Aaron Marcavitch
May 21, 2009 at 9:59 pm
May 28, 2009 at 3:14 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Unmoderated list member recieving msgs, but unable to post to the list

Hello, Have not been able to find anything on this. Bit of a strange one. I have a list with about thirty members. One member has reported that he cannot post to the list, ever though he was able to ...

Millsap, James
May 21, 2009 at 1:57 pm
May 22, 2009 at 3:50 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Problem with mailman install

I have had mailman running for many years now, and have updated it semi regularly over the years (currently 2.1.9). A few days ago, I tried to post a message to a list I host and got: Command died ...

LuKreme
May 14, 2009 at 6:12 pm
May 18, 2009 at 4:09 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Installation On Separate Server Plausible?

I am being told that my Postfix email server can no longer run Apache on the same physical server. The management has decided for specific reasons that Apache can only be installed and configured on ...

Carlos Williams
May 15, 2009 at 1:45 am
May 18, 2009 at 3:18 am

6	[Mailman-Users] Mailing list + message filter problem

Does anyone know how to set up a Mailing list and make it accept e-mails from anyone and also accept email from a forwarding rule within the same domain? For example: My main e-mail address is test ...

Filipe Daros
May 10, 2009 at 12:59 am
May 14, 2009 at 3:15 pm

6	[Mailman-Users] Mailman

I have a mailing list that has been running under Mailman. Another fellow has been hosting the mailing list for me. I would like to begin doing so myself. I have a computer available for the task. ...

Mike Hughes
May 1, 2009 at 7:37 pm
May 5, 2009 at 7:38 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Will Mailman inform a sender of a bounced message that it was approved?

Hello, Is there a feature in Mail Man that would notify the sender of a message, when it bounces for moderation, to be informed when it is cleared by the moderator? This person is not a member of the ...

Jane Frizzell
May 26, 2009 at 9:23 pm
May 29, 2009 at 1:25 am

5	[Mailman-Users] mailman mali list already created

Hi there, I am migrating my old mailman system. mailman thinks the mailman mail list is not created although it is as identified correctly by the newlist program. What is going on here? root at ...

Noah
May 18, 2009 at 1:11 am
May 19, 2009 at 5:25 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Discarding defers from the command line

Is there a command-line way to "discard all messags marked defer"? /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie at fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA -- Too many people, too few sheep <--

Bernie Cosell
May 12, 2009 at 12:27 pm
May 16, 2009 at 9:28 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] Operational Question

Greetings, Redux. :-) I have a long running MM with three public lists in it. One of them is archived, and two of them are not. i noticed today that the *non-archived* lists have attachments stored ...

J.A. Terranson
May 16, 2009 at 12:48 am
May 16, 2009 at 3:36 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Help for mailto: in footer.

Hi Experts, I am just trying to use mailto: facility. It seems from last two lines of Jim Tittsler's response here :- http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users at python.org/msg32666.html that it is ...

Bob 001
May 7, 2009 at 4:15 am
May 8, 2009 at 8:53 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Auto confirmation

Hi list, When I send a message for my list, I'd like to receive the an email with reading confirmation. I marked this options in my outlook. In menu Tools, Options: Request reading confirmation All ...

Infokeep - Mario Sergio
May 22, 2009 at 1:48 pm
May 28, 2009 at 7:29 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] Question about 'Content filtered message notification'

One of my mailing lists rejected a message today and I don't understand why. The contents of the mailman message are: I 1 <no description [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 0.2K] I 2 Got a call from SBOE ...

Rick Pasotto
May 14, 2009 at 6:04 pm
May 15, 2009 at 11:46 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Mailman appends hostname to some address on mail list

I have been using mailman for several years with my current VPS provider. About a month ago I started getting complaints from users that they were not receiving e-mails. I have a spam problem with ...

Tom Tilmant
May 4, 2009 at 1:34 am
May 8, 2009 at 6:17 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Robots Tag

I am still confused about the source of the Meta Tag META NAME=robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow" . Our archive indexes have the "noindex,follow" tag, but the pages for each message have "index, ...

John Webb
May 1, 2009 at 6:56 pm
May 5, 2009 at 5:05 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] No Admin Notification

I am having a problem with one of my lists where the administrators are not being notified of posts awaiting approval. This list is set right now to "Emergency moderation" so all posts are being ...

J.R. Constance
May 1, 2009 at 4:18 pm
May 4, 2009 at 8:24 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] i18n: admin/mod environment vs. user environment

Hi! Today, I've run across a curious issue with Mailman and its i18n. The story goes like this: 1) We have a list where you can choose between 3 languages: A, B and C 2) The list is configured to use ...

Alvaro Uría
May 28, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Jun 3, 2009 at 3:12 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Mailman does not respond to my email.

Hello! I've been having trouble with my main email (this is not it). Whenever I try to post a message to a mailman mailing list with it, nothing happens. I can't confirm subscriptions or post. ...

Cory Walker
May 31, 2009 at 6:26 pm
May 31, 2009 at 10:57 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] adding already existing mail lists to /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases

Hi, okay there is a warning to not manually edit the /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases file. how do I add already existing mail lists that I am migrating from another server to an existing ...

Noah Garrett Wallach
May 31, 2009 at 1:52 am
May 31, 2009 at 10:48 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 63, Issue 53

OK .. well maybe something here. In Defaults.py SMTPHOST is set to 'localhost' In mm_cfg.py, it is set to the actual public IP of the server. No such luck. This is an older system running the latest ...

Dave Filchak
May 30, 2009 at 2:25 am
May 30, 2009 at 3:26 am

3	[Mailman-Users] howto rebuild the html files from mbox?

Hello mailman list, drwxrwsr-x 2 apache mailman 84K Oct 20 2004 2002/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache mailman 451M Sep 30 2007 2002.txt drwxrwsr-x 2 apache mailman 28K Oct 20 2004 2003/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache ...

Zhengquan Zhang
May 29, 2009 at 1:36 pm
May 30, 2009 at 3:18 am

3	[Mailman-Users] migrating from sendmail site to postfix site

Hi there, I am migrating mailman from a freebsd server running sendmail to an ubuntu server running postfix. Could somebody please send me a decent link that explains the postfix/mailman ...

Admin2
May 28, 2009 at 4:23 pm
May 28, 2009 at 5:49 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] correcting archive URLs

Hi there, I have Migrating a mail list from one Host to another host. I see that the archives have URL pointers to domain1.com . I no longer own domain1.com and would like to replace domain1.com with ...

Admin2
May 25, 2009 at 9:50 pm
May 26, 2009 at 2:28 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] shunting after "decoding Unicode is not supported"

Mailman 2.1.12 Had a server crash. Built a new server, compiled MM 2.1.12 from source and restored the lists, data, and archives from a backup. Messages are going to the list but most aren't getting ...

David Newman
May 14, 2009 at 5:06 am
May 18, 2009 at 1:03 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Mailman + Postfix - Too Many Connections

This is not strictly a mailman issue, but I would assume some people here would have encountered this issue. We sent out mailing lists to schools here in Australia, and recently we've been getting ...

Lie, Jafaruddin
May 7, 2009 at 5:42 am
May 16, 2009 at 10:54 am

3	[Mailman-Users] mailman passwords

Hi there, Do we have any setting where we can set maximum retries for wrong password before it locks the account or something like that? isn't it otherwise easily breakable via bots by trying ...

Bob 001
May 9, 2009 at 7:51 pm
May 10, 2009 at 1:28 am

3	[Mailman-Users] Patch: Preserve Content-Transfer-Encoding when adding footer or scrubbing

Hi all, when mailman is configured to add header/footer to messages or if it scrubbs attachments, as a side effect it changes Content-Transfer-Encoding of the messages from 8-bit to e.g. base64. ...

Petr Hroudný
May 5, 2009 at 5:44 pm
May 8, 2009 at 3:48 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] mailman + apache2

hello, I am getting confused with configurating mailman + apache2 with virtual-domains. With the command "newlist mailman at domain.de" the list "mailman" will be build and I am getting a mail to ...

Wolfgang Bock
May 6, 2009 at 10:13 pm
May 7, 2009 at 4:07 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Digests more than once a day ... What determines it?

I?m aware ?If you turn digest mode on, you'll get posts bundled together (usually one per day but possibly more on busy lists)? But one of my users (the CEO) just asked me ? and forwarded messages - ...

Edward Ned Harvey
May 4, 2009 at 5:36 pm
May 5, 2009 at 5:10 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Bounce notifications.

Hello, I'm sorry in advance if I'm not understanding Mailman's bounce notification process, but here's my issue: I've noticed that when a message bounces, there are no notications to list owners. I ...

Timothy Park
May 28, 2009 at 6:21 pm
May 29, 2009 at 8:16 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] problem with mailman list

Hello, We have a problem with our 'mailman' list http://listserv.enar-eu.org/mailman/admindb/board+subs I would like to accept for the mailing list that are still pending but every time I want to do ...

Georgina Siklossy
May 29, 2009 at 12:35 pm
May 29, 2009 at 2:50 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Odd Behavior

A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: ...

Dennis Putnam
May 25, 2009 at 2:10 pm
May 28, 2009 at 4:23 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Dealing with spam

I have a few small, private lists managed with Mailman. For the most part, I don't have problems with spam, probably aided by the fact that they are both small and private. Lately, however, on one ...

Henry Hartley
May 26, 2009 at 1:57 pm
May 27, 2009 at 7:00 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Question about the "Group mismatch error" when updating mailman service

Dear all I have a strange question for creating a new list after updating mailman server. Currently, I had updated my mailman server to a new machine. (mailman-2.1.5_2 - mailman-2.1.9_5) My server is ...

Sean
May 26, 2009 at 12:12 pm
May 27, 2009 at 4:31 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Renaming a List

Folks -- I'm thinking of changing the name of one of my lists and have read through the FAQ 4.70 <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId@30617 which says the basic tasks are: mv ...

Drew Tenenholz
May 26, 2009 at 6:37 pm
May 26, 2009 at 10:13 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] check_perms does not fix permissions

Hi, okay I am running check_perms with the -f switch and find that the same Problems occur over and over. Why are they not getting fixed? I am running check_perms as root. Problems found: 1283 Re-run ...

Admin2
May 25, 2009 at 6:02 am
May 25, 2009 at 8:01 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] some mailing list members not getting emails

Dear friends Some of my Mailman mailing list members are not getting the emails that the other members are receiving. Do you have any idea what could be involved here, and where I should look for the ...

Nigel white
May 9, 2009 at 4:54 pm
May 12, 2009 at 2:33 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Issue with bounce processing after upgrade to Fedora 10

Hi I recently migrated some mailing lists from a Fedora 7 system to a new system running Fedora 10. Ever since the migration I've received a ton of bounce messages into my personal email due to ...

Derek Atkins
May 1, 2009 at 3:46 pm
May 4, 2009 at 9:13 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Email address cannot post to a specific mailing list

Hello! I've been having trouble using this email address to post to my projects mailing list, linux4nano-dev at gna.org. No matter what I do, my emails never go through. I am subscribed, and I have ...

Cory Walker
May 31, 2009 at 5:36 pm
May 31, 2009 at 11:13 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Mailman administraive interface does not store data

Hello, I already run a Mailman list on my server that works fine. Now I set up a second list on another virtual domain. All looks fine, aliases and virtual-mailman are configured, the apache is ...

Eggert Ehmke (FTV)
May 31, 2009 at 4:51 pm
May 31, 2009 at 10:46 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] question about postfix aliases file and postfix virtual file and local delivery

Hi there, I have a question about changing the default behavior of postfix. As current configuration stands I need to add a mailman maillist hosted by virtual hosts/domains I need to add the to list ...

Admin2
May 30, 2009 at 7:52 pm
May 30, 2009 at 8:13 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Admin Password?

Where is the site administrators password set in the mailman config? "You must have the proper authorization to create new mailing lists. Each site should have a list creator's password, which you ...

LuKreme
May 30, 2009 at 6:19 pm
May 30, 2009 at 6:42 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] No mail delivery.

I've upgraded to the newest mailman from the fedora 10 repos. Followed the guide for post fix integration <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node12.html and the subordinate ...

Rich
May 28, 2009 at 10:13 pm
May 29, 2009 at 2:22 pm

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