Mailman 3 January 2001 - Mailman-Developers

Feature request
by blitztec＠bigpond.net.au 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

A really simple one, I'm currently doing this with procmail, but it would be nice if it could be built in to the mailman system itself. Similar to egroups or other servers running qmail's ezmlm software when I email mylist-subscribe(a)mydomain.com blank email, it converts it to a subscribe request same for mylist-unsubscribe(a)mydomain.com totally idiot proof for thoes users who can't even get a subscribe request right. Thanks >From Mitchell

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01 Jan '01

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Typo in Software Generated Page Content
by Jeffrey Thompson 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

I have located a typo in the pending admin decision: Administrative requests for mailing list: My-List I read: For each held posting, select the action to take by choosing one of Defer - Defer your decision until later. Use this if you just want to forward or preserve (see below) the message but not dispose of it yet. Approve - Approve the message and send it on to the list. Reject - Reject the message, sending a rejection notice to the sender. The original message is discarded. Discard - The original message is discarded with no rejection message being sent. This option is useful for spam. Turn on the Preserve option if you want to save a copy if this message for the site administrator. Should be: "... save a copy OF this message ..." that is part of the software, and you hopefully a developer will correct it. Jeffrey Thompson

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Monthly reminder Errors-To etc
by Joris Trooster 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

If mailman sends the monthly reminders, the Return-Path, Sender, Errors-To and X-BeenThere header tags will be set to a 'random' mailinglist created on your system. Even if you have set up mailman with different virtual-hosts, another virtual host can be set in the mail header Sender. Have a look some relevant code of /yourpath/mailman/cron/mailpasswds : def mail_passwords(mlist, hosts): HandlerAPI.DeliverToUser(mlist, msg, {'_nolist': 1}) def main(): a_public_list = None for listname in Utils.list_names(): mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) if not a_public_list and mlist.advertised: a_public_list = mlist if a_public_list: mail_passwords(a_public_list, hosts) And the comments in the code: "The list can be any random one - it is only used for the message delivery mechanism." You see that it is the first mailinglist created on your system that is used for setting the Return-Path, Sender, Errors-To, X-BeenThere headers in the monthly reminder messages. A quick solution is to change the code (at the end) in cron/mailpasswds to: ..... if a_public_list: # This line is added to set a custom Sender in het mailheader: a_public_list=MailList.MailList(mm_cfg.MONTHLY_SENDER, lock=0) a_public_list.Lock() try: mail_passwords(a_public_list, hosts) ..... And add to Mailman/mm_cfg.py : # Use this list as the Return-Path, Sender, Errors-To and X-BeenThere headers # for the monthly reminders. Be sure that this list exists!! MONTHLY_SENDER = 'defaultlist' It's just a quick work around. It should be better to have a separate Sender for the montly reminders (wish list for future versions!). Regards, Joris Trooster Netherlands John Martin wrote: - -------------- cut here ---->8 ---< head Return-Path: <ababa-admin(a)venice.essential.org> Delivered-To: jam(a)jamux.com Subject: lists.essential.org mailing list memberships reminder From: mailman-owner(a)venice.essential.org To: jam(a)essential.org Sender: ababa-admin(a)venice.essential.org Errors-To: ababa-admin(a)venice.essential.org X-BeenThere: ababa(a)lists.essential.org - ---- 8<------- cut here ----------> tail with the bogus envelope sender, "Errors-To" and header-sender presumably causing <ababa-admin(a)venice.essential.org> to be inundated with delivery error notices. Is this an error that has crept into my Mailman configuration, or is this what Mailman will do until the item on the To Do list is resolved?

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Re: Most everything is busted
by barry＠wooz.org 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

>>>>> "TP" == Tim Peters <tim.one(a)home.com> writes: TP> + news->mail for c.l.py hasn't delivered anything for well TP> over 24 hours. TP> + No mail to Python-Dev has showed up in the archives (let TP> alone been delivered) since Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:42:44 +0200 TP> (IST). TP> + The other Python mailing lists appear equally dead. There's a stupid, stupid bug in Mailman 2.0, which I've just fixed and (hopefully) unjammed things on the Mailman end[1]. We're still probably subject to the Postfix delays unfortunately; I think those are DNS related, and I've gotten a few other reports of DNS oddities, which I've forwarded off to the DC sysadmins. I don't think that particular problem will be fixed until after the New Year. relax-and-enjoy-the-quiet-ly y'rs, -Barry [1] For those who care: there's a resource throttle in qrunner which limits the number of files any single qrunner process will handle. qrunner does a listdir() on the qfiles directory and ignores any .msg file it finds (it only does the bulk of the processing on the corresponding .db files). But it performs the throttle check on every file in listdir() so depending on the order that listdir() returns and the number of files in the qfiles directory, the throttle check might get triggered before any .db file is seen. Wedge city. This is serious enough to warrant a Mailman 2.0.1 release, probably mid-next week.

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