mailman-users@python.org discussions for October 2010

13	[Mailman-Users] Approved message is discarded

We are running Mailman v2.1.13 on Solaris 9 Sparc. We have a list with about 13,000 members that we currently have "emergency moderation" turned on because of previous problems with reply storms. ...

Rosenbaum, Larry M.
Oct 4, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Nov 13, 2010 at 4:15 pm

7	[Mailman-Users] non-delivery to virtual domain

(Apologies for re-raising a topic I asked about here a couple of years ago. The instructions on Sourceforge have changed a bit since then.) New server runs OpenBSD 4.7, postfix 2.65, mailman 2.1.14, ...

David Newman
Oct 30, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Nov 4, 2010 at 1:41 am

6	[Mailman-Users] Mailman Crashes Regularly

I'm getting regular mailman crashes every 2-4 weeks. I've had 4 so far. I'm running a centos VPS with mailman 2.1.13. What is the best way to restart mailman? I've been restarting the entire vps, ...

Aaron Kreider
Oct 15, 2010 at 3:39 am
Nov 11, 2010 at 6:05 am

5	[Mailman-Users] Mailman DOA after power outage crash.

Greetings, We had a series of longer than battery outages on wednesday, and when we came back online, mailman refused to run. Heres the messages: mailman# tail -f error Oct 30 02:28:06 2010 (11862) ...

J.A. Terranson
Oct 30, 2010 at 7:42 am
Oct 31, 2010 at 3:43 pm

5	[Mailman-Users] User Preferences

How does one go about defining which user prefs are available to users when they log into their users page? Is it possible to pick and choose? Hopefully without having to dog into the code? Thanks...

Tanstaafl
Oct 7, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Oct 9, 2010 at 4:26 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.14 Multiple Owner(s) Patch - Problem

I wrote last week about a problem I was having with Mailman 2.1.14 and Mark Sapiro's multi-owner patch. I am not going to include my mail and Mark's response here; I will summarize. I created some ...

Barry Finkel
Oct 4, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Oct 29, 2010 at 7:09 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.14 new features

Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org replied: As I have posted before, I looked at the Debian packaging for Mailman, and I found there are lots of patches (most undocumented as to what they do). There was ...

Barry Finkel
Oct 21, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Oct 23, 2010 at 4:15 pm

4	[Mailman-Users] one line command to change generic_nonmember_action

I'm writing a simplified mailman dashboard page for my company's internal use and one of the functions we want is to be able to toggle the generic_nonmember_action for any given list. Has anyone out ...

Syn, Joonho
Oct 15, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Oct 19, 2010 at 10:48 am

4	[Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.12 can't accept email from Thunerbird 3.1.4 help!

For some reason a very recent update to Thunderbird 3.1.4 email has suddenly stopped the Mailman 2.1.12 account, that I administer, from accepting my messages. I can send to this Mailman account from ...

Wilby
Oct 1, 2010 at 1:22 am
Oct 1, 2010 at 7:27 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] Frequent use of clone_member

Hello, We are changing student email from mailboxes, to forwarding addresses. Among other challenges, we are exploring various ways to deal with students who are subscribed to closed (only ...

Ivan Fetch
Oct 22, 2010 at 3:08 am
Nov 2, 2010 at 12:33 pm

3	[Mailman-Users] API version 1012-module hangul 1011 runtime error

Hi, The server on which Mailman was installed was upgraded from Linux 3 to 4 to 5 (32 bit). Mailman no longer works on this server. I am receiving the error: ...

Williams, Theona
Oct 29, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Oct 29, 2010 at 6:40 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Definition of get_site_email in Utils.py

Hi, we recently moved our Mailman server from a RHEL 3 machine running Mailman 2.1.9 to a RHEL 5 system running Mailman 2.1.14. Everything went very smoothly, but today I noticed one small issue. For ...

Sebastian Hagedorn
Oct 29, 2010 at 11:33 am
Oct 30, 2010 at 7:16 am

2	[Mailman-Users] Auto-generating messages "to the list", instead of "to the member"

Afternoon all, Amongst others I run a mailman list for our family history society (The Maughan Society) and like many such lists we get quite a lot of new members "dropping in" with a specific query ...

Mike Maughan
Oct 25, 2010 at 1:55 pm
Oct 25, 2010 at 2:41 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] trouble

Have run a mailman install on my centos 5.5 server Installed from centos repo I have added MTA = 'Postfix' to mm_cfg.py But the aliases don't go to the aliases file So posting to my lists not work

Mattias
Oct 25, 2010 at 12:52 am
Oct 25, 2010 at 2:13 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Server name change - how?

When I originally set up mailman my server had a name that wasn't in DNS. I have since changed the name of my server to something that is in DNS. But, emails that go out still reference the old name ...

Dale & Lora Marshall
Oct 23, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Oct 23, 2010 at 4:37 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Problem with accept_these_nonmembers using another list in installation

Version 2.1.13 I am having some trouble getting the accept_these_nonmembers filter to work when using another list as the value (eg @test or @all). I have searched through the mailman-user mailing ...

Aaron Ray
Oct 18, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Oct 19, 2010 at 1:56 pm

2	[Mailman-Users] Expected behavior with password reminder?

Hello, While we testing the password reminder feature, we discover that a user asking for password reminder from a specific list that s/he isn't a member of that list, s/he still receives the message ...

Hung Phan
Oct 18, 2010 at 6:31 am
Oct 18, 2010 at 11:29 am

2	[Mailman-Users] number of subscribers

Does anybody already have a script to get the total number of subscribers across all the lists on a system? Con Wieland Office of Information Technology University of California at Irvine

Con Wieland
Oct 4, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Oct 4, 2010 at 8:57 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Follow up to a Lock problem.

Hi All, I've summarized my issue below, and I would like to say I have around 215K subscribers on a Dedicated Server With a Quad Xeon CPU and 4GB's Ram. Most notably Mailman chews up around 2GB's+ of ...

Llewellyn Curran
Oct 27, 2010 at 5:02 am
Oct 28, 2010 at 9:50 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] A rare moment

I've been running various automotive related mailing lists, web pages, FTP sites and such for over twenty years. It is a labor of love, not a means of making money, so tending to outstanding requests ...

Mark J Bradakis
Oct 11, 2010 at 12:25 am
Oct 25, 2010 at 2:31 am

1	[Mailman-Users] Google distribution list as list admin

Apparently Google is misinterpreting the From/Return-Path address of "mailman-bounces at ..." as a bounce. Has anyone else run into this issue? Obviously the workaround is to not use a Google ...

Jon Gardner
Oct 20, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Oct 24, 2010 at 6:58 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] how send newsletter without the from list-bounce

everytime i sent a newsletter i have the moderate bit for all user to avoid people send a message to all my list so when i sent a newsletter i have to accept it in the web interface of mailman but ...

Juan Carlos Mendoza D'Arcy
Oct 22, 2010 at 4:40 am
Oct 22, 2010 at 7:35 am

1	[Mailman-Users] Message for Single List Not Going Out

I have a single list on my server that Is not sending messages out. Other lists are operating normally. Where should I begin my diagnosis? Bill

McNutt Jr, William R
Oct 20, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Oct 20, 2010 at 11:25 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Newsletter bounce processing

Good morning, **I send out newsletter A twice a month and want to be careful not to lose a subscriber unless it's clear the address is invalid. Please comment on these settings: 4.0 Threshold ...

Robert M. Jenney
Oct 20, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Oct 20, 2010 at 2:26 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] clearing nomail flags

I searched and found some old scripts to clear all of the nomail flags for every user in a mailing list but none of what I discovered work with version 2.1.13 which is what is on my server. Can ...

Webmaster
Oct 20, 2010 at 1:43 am
Oct 20, 2010 at 12:40 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Inadvertent Postings - Approved Header; how does it work?

All-- Sorry for the ridiculously simple question, but I'm pretty sure I don't quite understand how to prevent inadvertent postings; and we just managed to send a moderately embarrassing post. I want ...

Drew Tenenholz
Oct 19, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Oct 19, 2010 at 10:41 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] can't display list config

Hi list, I'm getting errors while trying to dump the config of a mailing list to a text file. /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -o listname listname [...] # For backwards compatibility with Mailman ...

Frank Van Damme
Oct 15, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Oct 16, 2010 at 12:19 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] new user question

Hello, I am new to this mailman program. It works very good so far. It mails to over 900 people with no problems. My question is, How can I set up mailman to send me an email when there is a post ...

BiLL
Oct 15, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Oct 16, 2010 at 1:27 am

1	[Mailman-Users] mailman configuration issues?

HI, This may seem like a dumb question but I've been seeing a lot of this in my mail.logs All the messages are being delivered and there are no bad recipients in the list. Could there be a ...

Cmallon
Oct 15, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Oct 15, 2010 at 9:53 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Forbide sending mails from users differents

I would like to create a list called all at corodiocesano.es. I would like to forbid the sending of mails from everybody except the administrator users. i would like to know an automatic method to ...

Borja Riesgo Juan
Oct 14, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Oct 14, 2010 at 1:37 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] How to get list of subscribers in moderated status

On the list I administer as owner, I'd like to get a list of all subscribers who are in a moderated status. Is there any way to do this using the "who password" email command line? < < < < < < < < < ...

Bob McLeran
Oct 12, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Oct 13, 2010 at 2:10 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] bounce unsubscriptions..

Hi, many people get removed from my lists due to bounces and I recieve many complaints that they re-subscribe then get kicked out again.. my bounce processing settings are as follows: The maximum ...

Khalil Abbas
Oct 11, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Oct 12, 2010 at 3:19 am

1	[Mailman-Users] Traffic information for each list

Bonjour, I have several list using mailman and I want to know. Size of archive Traffic (monthly) generated by the list (SMPTP I suppose) for each list I use plesk to manage the domain which is hosted ...

Pub88
Oct 9, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Oct 10, 2010 at 1:58 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] virtual-mailman not generated

Hi, No doubt I'm overlooking something which is obvious to experienced users, but for a newcomer to both mail server setup and mailman setup, is opaque. When I run genaliases, I get aliases, but not ...

Peter B. West
Oct 6, 2010 at 2:26 am
Oct 6, 2010 at 3:10 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] Content Filtering options

I've read many messages regarding this section's configuration, but, I have to confess, the more I read the less I understand. Probably not the only one... Would it be possible for someone to explain ...

Dsl225
Oct 4, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Oct 5, 2010 at 12:03 am

1	[Mailman-Users] can't delete users in a list?

Mailman experts, We are running Mailman 2.1.9 on a Centos 5.5 system. One of the list managers must have done some copy and pasting of addresses into their list as now she can?t delete certain ...

Tim Tyler
Oct 1, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Oct 2, 2010 at 4:24 pm

1	[Mailman-Users] after new installation 403 Forbiden Access

I know it's been posted many time but all the answer wasn't apply to me. So I will ask it another time I run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS I installed Python 2.6.6 I installed Apache 2.2.16 I ...

Guillaume Chartrand
Oct 1, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Oct 2, 2010 at 4:15 pm

0	[Mailman-Users] Archives! Two neat demos from my GSoC students

As some of you may know, Mailman had a bunch of Google Summer of Code students working on our codebase via Systers, which hired students to do improvements on their Mailman-based list infrastructure. ...

Terri Oda
Oct 26, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Oct 26, 2010 at 7:54 pm

0	[Mailman-Users] howto run multiple instances of mailman

Each instance of Mailman needs to be configured with a unique value for prefix (and var-prefix if different from prefix), and each instance needs to be started by its own $prefix/bin/malmanctl. ...

Mark Sapiro
Oct 25, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Oct 25, 2010 at 2:45 pm

0	[Mailman-Users] mailman configuration issue?

HI, This may seem like a dumb question but I've been seeing a lot of this in my mail.logs All the messages are being delivered and there are no bad recipients in the list. Could there be a ...

Cmallon
Oct 15, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Oct 15, 2010 at 6:23 pm

0	[Mailman-Users] Running multiple instances of mailman on the same server

Hi Guys, Has anyone implemented the above. please assist with sample configs of your apache and MTA (exim for my case) Kerich.

Andrew Kerich
Oct 5, 2010 at 12:57 pm
Oct 5, 2010 at 12:57 pm

0	[Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 80, Issue 2

Thanks again Mark. I've decided to manage it with separate postfix config files (one for when there is no service group on a server, one for when there is just the Mailman service group, one for when ...

Troy Campbell
Oct 1, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Oct 1, 2010 at 2:57 pm

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