Mailman 3 January 2000 - Mailman-Users

listname.mbox
by Christopher Conner 08 Jan '00

08 Jan '00

Is there a way to configure mailman so that instead of getting one large listname.mbox full of the emails I can get seperate ones by month, like january.mbox, february.mbox...? Thanks for any help on this.

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About mailman new list setup
by roberto 07 Jan '00

07 Jan '00

Dear all, I have a difficulty when setup newlist. After running new list. e.g. abc_list, then the email address of the list would be abc_list(a)my_server.my_domain.com. but when I send email to this account, I got a returned message of "Unknow User" Should I set up a email account for abc_list separately? If I do that, how does mailman know the location of the mailbox? I have try that but it seems that mailman cannot handle the mailbox and send the message to the subscribers. Thanks for help! Roberto

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Bounce Detection for: exim, postfix
by Andrew Perkins 07 Jan '00

07 Jan '00

Hello everyone, It appears that bounce detection for various MTA's (exim, postfix) have not been implemented in mailman. For our sake, it is unfortunate that the MTA authors failed to arrive upon some similar error message format. I am *so* interested in bounce detection for exim (today) and postfix (in a couple of months) that I am willing to contribute to the mailman source tree. Although I do not currently write any python, I have a solid grasp of perl. I am definitely willing to learn python for this project. I am posting to this list to *be sure* that I am not re-inventing any wheels... Please respond to this message with *any* information you may have regarding other projects (within mailman or otherwise) that my have relevance to this. I understand that support for alternate MTA (i.e. not sendmail) bounce detection may be underway for mailman 1.2; if this is the case please point me to the CVS repository... Verbosity counts, please do not assume that I have thought of everything... Cordially, _____________________________________________ Andrew Perkins andrew(a)violet.org

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Confused about desired gzip behavior
by Igor S. Livshits 07 Jan '00

07 Jan '00

Hello, What should be the desired or appropriate gzip behavior versus archives? I see that the 1.1 defaults indicate not to compress the archive on the fly but rather to use the nightly cron job. It does not appear that the cron job is designed to remove or truncate the source text file, but it does appear that the archive web page display will preferentially list the compressed archive over the plain text one? I am not quite sure what this is designed to accomplish as: 1. Modern web servers tend to decompress on the fly when they serve compressed text files 2. Disk space is not conserved as both files are kept 3. Compressed archives lag real archives What am I missing here? Thanks, igor

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list are live?
by Gelfandbein Boris 07 Jan '00

07 Jan '00

Hello mailman-users, anybody read this list? -- Best regards, Gelfandbein Boris | BG12-RIPE | Kherson, LT | 263119

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Re: Pipermail Archive page
by Benjamin B. Thomas 07 Jan '00

07 Jan '00

I have no idea if this has any bearing on the problem, but from your email, your system seems to think that it is currently September (Wed, 06 Sep 2000 16:35:59 -0600). This caught me by surprise when I visited the list archive page at http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/. -benjy Christopher Conner writes: > Our archive page gets updated about every half hour. When it updates > the most recent post on the page gets replaced with the most recent > post. So instead of the archive list for January getting longer each > time it updates it stays the same length and the last link gets replaced > with a more recent post. Has anyone ever seen this, or does anyone have > an idea how I could get it to update the archive correctly?

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Two administrators : error message bomb
by Roger Slevin 06 Jan '00

06 Jan '00

Over the recent holiday period one of two administrators mail systems was down, and a list (running on Mailman 1.0) triggered a message to the administrators. The result was a mail bomb of "Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender" messages to the one administrator whose e-mail system was working, caused by the bounced messages from the other administrator being re-sent to both administrators by Mailman. Is this a known bug? Is there a patch? Is it fixed in version 1.1? Any help greatly appreciated - we've gone down to having only a single administrator on each list for the time being to prevent this problem repeating. Roger Slevin

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Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (fwd)
by Patricio Escobar 06 Jan '00

06 Jan '00

Warm greetings from Panama Install mailman with postfix as server of post office and creates the ready test, but when sent mail to the list return follow message: ----------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:43:28 -0500 (EST) From: Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON(a)mac.utp.ac.pa> To: pescobar(a)listas.utp.ac.pa Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender This is the Postfix program at host mac.utp.ac.pa. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact <postmaster(a)mac.utp.ac.pa> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <test(a)mac.utp.ac.pa>: Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" ----------------------------------------------------- Thanks for the aid beforehand ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Patricio Escobar P. "La felicidad no es hacer lo que se quiere, sino querer lo que se hace y amar lo que se alcanza" Jose Marti ================================================================= Red Academica y de Investigacion Nacional - PANNet Unidad de Investigacion y Desarrollo - UID patricio_escobar(a)hotmail.com patricio_escobar(a)usa.net patricio(a)pannet.pa ================================================================= L.S.P.M.

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Majordomo to Mailman Archive
by jeffw 06 Jan '00

06 Jan '00

Hi All, I have an old majordomo mailing list with archives that I would like to import to mailman, the bad news is the archive was passwd through hypermail and now I only have html articles. Any way to get them into mailman without the majordomo flat file archive? -- -jeffw

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Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender (fwd)
by Patricio Escobar 06 Jan '00

06 Jan '00

Hello I use postfix with Mailman and receipt the following mail of return when write to the list ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 12:19:02 -0500 (EST) From: Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON(a)mac.utp.ac.pa> To: pescobar(a)listas.utp.ac.pa Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender This is the Postfix program at host mac.utp.ac.pa. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact <postmaster(a)mac.utp.ac.pa> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <test(a)mac.utp.ac.pa>: Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" ------------------------------------ Alsoin /var/log/maillog it appears the lines: Mailman mail*-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 504, GOT 99 (Reconfigure to take 99? (Command died with status 2: /home/posatfix/mail/wrapper post test Thanks for his help...

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