Mailman 3 September 2002 - Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman password and administrative reminders
by Dan Mick 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

? This very message came to me with the following header: Errors-To: mailman-developers-admin(a)python.org All my bounces come to the list admin address, set in the admin webpage, in the second field of General Options. Do you have that set to something, and bounces still come to root? > 2. Bounces are sent to the poor postmaster instead of a -admin address. > I'm not entirely certain, but I think an Errors-To: header or something > like that in all Mailman messages might allow one to distribute that load > somewhat.

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SOLVED: Postfix+Mailman alias-free and in separate namespace
by Dax Kelson 23 Nov '02

23 Nov '02

I've created the script postfix-to-mailman.py. Python seemed natural, as mailman is written in python, and invoking postfix-to-mailman.py script on delivery to mailman just warms up the disk cache with all the python code and speeds invocation of mailman. Postfix configuration samples (thanks Wietse) can be found inside the script itself. The script is heavily based on the qmail-to-postfix script by Bruce Perens. You can get the script at: http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html Dax Kelson Guru Labs

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large attachments replaced by links
by Silviu Marin-Caea 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

Sorry if this is not a new ideea. We have some internal lists. Users have the (bad) habbit of sending large attached files on these lists. What I'd like mailman to be able to do is to automatically take those attachments out of the posts, storing them to a directory I specify, and replace them with links to the stored files. Like this: "The file attached to this message can be found here http://bla-blaserver.net/attach/grossely_large_and_stupid_presentation.ppt" Configuring a http (or ftp) server to publish those attachments would be the job of the admin. Thank you. Please CC to me the eventual replies. -- Silviu Marin-Caea Systems Engineer Linux/Unix http://www.genesys.ro Phone +40723-267961

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message url in footer
by Mark McEahern 08 Oct '02

08 Oct '02

It would be great if I could modify the footer of a mailing list to insert the archive URL of the current message. Is that easy/possible? I apologize if this is a FAQ. I read the FAQ and the wish list and couldn't find a reference to it. I also did at least a cursory google search and couldn't find anything obvious related to this: http://www.google.com/search?q=mailman+footer http://www.google.com/search?q=mailman+footer+archive Thanks, // mark p.s. Suggestion: Put a "last updated" date on the wish list. -

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(More) pristine archives
by barry＠zope.com 06 Oct '02

06 Oct '02

An interesting issue came up today while we were playing with a Bayesian spam classifier. Mailman's archives aren't very clean. Messages are sent to the archiver after various headering munging steps, including the adding of the List-* headers and the Subject prefix. We still want to do some munging, e.g. for anonymous lists. This tells me that we may want to move ToArchive up before CookHeaders in the global pipeline. I don't think we want to move ToDigest or ToUsenet because I think we /want/ those headers munged before the message is sent to the digests or news server. What do you think? -Barry

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[ mailman-Bugs-616674 ] bin/arch not processing mbox import corr
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 30 Sep '02

30 Sep '02

Bugs item #616674, was opened at 2002-09-30 13:43 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=616674&group_i… Category: command line scripts Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: fuzzy (fuzzynco) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: bin/arch not processing mbox import corr Initial Comment: I needed to import an archive from yahoo!groups. a list formerly on Y!G is now on my server with MM2.1b3. After creating the mbox file with a perl script na dtesting it with pine (to make sure all the email is acuallu there), I tried to import it using arch. there are a few thousand emails in the file, but arch only finds 2? I posted to the mm users mailing list and got a reply from Larry Weeks, said to send him a copy of the file, and he tested it with bin/arch from 2.0.6 and it works as expected. since the mbox file is readable by pine, shouldn't arch handle it correctly? email me if i can provide any thing that would help diagnose the problem. thanks... fuzzy(a)pooh.asarian.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=616674&group_i…

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'message ignored by' messages?
by Harald Koch 30 Sep '02

30 Sep '02

I'm running 2.1b3. I found the following in logs/vette: Sep 29 14:35:29 2002 (1853) Precedence: bulk message ignored by: csc494-request(a)third-bit.com Sep 29 14:48:29 2002 (1853) Precedence: bulk message ignored by: csc494-request(a)third-bit.com Sep 29 17:11:59 2002 (1853) Precedence: bulk message ignored by: csc494-request(a)third-bit.com Sep 29 21:34:59 2002 (1853) Precedence: bulk message ignored by: csc494-request(a)third-bit.com There's a bunch more, dating back to time immemorial. They tend to, but don't always, follow some other message in the logs by exactly 30 seconds (the queue processing interval?): Sep 29 14:34:59 2002 (1853) csc494 post from chk(a)pobox.com held: Post to moderated list Sep 29 14:47:59 2002 (1853) csc494 post from g(a)mbl.ca held: Post to moderated list Sep 29 17:11:59 2002 (1853) Precedence: bulk message ignored by: csc494-request(a)third-bit.com Sep 29 21:34:59 2002 (1853) Precedence: bulk message ignored by: csc494-request(a)third-bit.com There are no messages in the sendmail logs addressed to "csc494-request", so this looks to me like something internal to mailman's queue processing. Should I just ignore these? Is there anyway to capture the message that is being ignored? Thanks, -- Harald Koch <chk(a)pobox.com> "It takes a child to raze a village." -Michael T. Fry

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[ mailman-Bugs-615040 ] problem creating newlist
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

Bugs item #615040, was opened at 2002-09-26 16:22 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=615040&group_i… Category: command line scripts Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Tim White (reverend_timmyd) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: problem creating newlist Initial Comment: I get the following when I try to run "newlist": Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/admin/src/mailman-2.0.13/bin/newlist", line 52, in ? import paths ImportError: No module named paths any ideas? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Tim White (reverend_timmyd) Date: 2002-09-27 19:57 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=618626 thanks for the help. However, the guy that installed it for me had to hack it up so much to make it work with plesk (my virtual host management software, that we've had to write some custom scripts to use instead of the ones that came w/ mailman... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tomas Lindroos (skitta) Date: 2002-09-26 16:43 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=613582 Don't run "newlist" from the source directory, run it from the installation directory. This is true for some other scripts as well. Check the installation directory, and you will find a file "paths.py", which is correctly imported from "newlist" (and other) scripts. The same library can be found in other directories as well (i.e. $install_dir/cron/). /skitta ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=615040&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-615388 ] Patch to enhance Sendmail.py
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

Patches item #615388, was opened at 2002-09-27 16:44 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=615388&group_i… Category: mail delivery Group: Mailman 2.0.x Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Simon Coggins (scoggins) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Patch to enhance Sendmail.py Initial Comment: This patches changes Sendmail.py so it actually works and stops some of the problems with the old Sendmail.py like duplicate messages and other unknown conditions of sendmail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=615388&group_i…

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[ mailman-Patches-615387 ] Umbrella list member exploder.
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 27 Sep '02

27 Sep '02

Patches item #615387, was opened at 2002-09-27 16:42 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=615387&group_i… Category: mail delivery Group: Mailman 2.0.x Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Simon Coggins (scoggins) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Umbrella list member exploder. Initial Comment: If you subscribe a list to another list with the format +somelist(a)mailman.domain then that line is removed and all of the members of 'somelist' are put in it's place. This allows you to have heiracial lists that apear to come from the master list, but are totaly generated on the fly by the members of other lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=615387&group_i…

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Mailman-Developers September 2002