Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Developers

New feature request
by Somuchfun 04 May '04

04 May '04

Is it possible to have a new feature in the new version of mailman where a site administrator can limit each list individually by how many members and how much traffic it can have and also set a default for these values in mm_cfg.py? Also, it would be great to sort the member list by domain and by status (active, suspended etc.) and get a good overview in numbers. One other thing I have been missing is a clean up function where mailman goes through the whole list and updates the members according current settings. For example: Let's say the old settings were that a member had to bounce 20 times, then be notified 4 times, each 7 days apart to be unsubscribed. So let's assume there are 1,000 members in the list with the suspend status who have been notified once already. Now the admin decides to change the settings and have everyone only be notified once. A list update function would then unsubscribe these 1,000 members because their status matches the new settings. Thanks for listening to the user community for improvements (are you listening to us?)

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CVS timing out?
by Chuq Von Rospach 04 May '04

04 May '04

went to update my site from CVS, and Im' getting timeouts from soureforge. anyone else having this problem, or is it just me (again?)

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True Virtual Hosting With Mailman Hack
by The Anarcat 04 May '04

04 May '04

[sourceforge seems to be down, so I post this here] Hi there, We developped a reliable solution for running lists with the same name on different domains on the same Mailman installation. I implemented that on top of the Mailman 2.1.1-5.1 Debian stable package. All that is needed is to patch 2 files (bin/newlist, Mailman/MailList.py) in the mailman install, and here is the patch: http://bugs.koumbit.net/file_download.php?file_id=3&type=bug There's only one caveat right now: Mailman/Cgi/create.py might need to get patched too, but I haven't got around looking at it yet, and it "just works", for now. I don't know what's the current status of virtual hosting support on Mailman, but this patch is a simple hack that should bring joy in the homes of all Mailman admins around the world. :) I got my inspiration and part of the code from: http://mithrandr.moria.org/blog/139.html All it does is to add the domain to the internal_name() of a list. The real_name is kept as is, and the getListAddress() does the Right Thing. This makes Mailman generate aliases like: list-example.com: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post list-example.com" Care will have to be taken on the MTA side to map those list-example.com to list(a)example.com. We are using alternc.org to manage our server, so we are using LDAP, so everything went pretty smoothly. :) But I guess it will require some magic on the Postfix side or something... Cheers, A. PS: for those wanting to see more, you can come to our Wiki: http://koumbit.net/wiki/VirtualMailman You'll probably have a little trouble finding your way if you don't read french though. :) Babelfish might help, haven't tried. ----- End forwarded message -----

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How mailman manages threads in posts?
by Juan Pablo Araya 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hi Can someone tell me please any url where I can see the headers and implementation for mailman, so it can manage threads in the list archives? I would like to integrate the list with a forum. Thanks and sorry for my poor english

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