Mailman 3 February 2000 - Mailman-Users

getting full names with mailman
by Soren Dayton 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

I used listproc and smartlist before moving to mailman. In listproc the "full names"[1] of users were provided in some file. And with a little bit of extra work, I was able to get smartlist to do this in one of its hooks. Has anyone investigated adding hooks to allow things like this in mailman? What are the issues? Thanks, Soren [1] That would be `Soren Dayton' for me. See the From header.

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Checking queue and removing mail from queue
by Jim McKay 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

Is there some way to check what Mailman has queued to send? Further, is it possible to delete queued messages? Thanks, Jim McKay

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duplicated messages send by mailman
by klaubert＠bcb.gov.br 15 Feb '00

15 Feb '00

Hi, I'm geting a hard problem, the mailman is sending 2 copies from a message to many of list recipient, I turn "Number of outgoing connections to open at once" on mailman admin to "1" as I seen in mailing-list archieve, but the problem persist. My MTA is sendmail... Any help? Thanx, Klaubert Herr

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Netscape vCard problem with ???-request@... Commands
by Danny Hite 14 Feb '00

14 Feb '00

We use Netscape 4.x for our e-mail and I have found a problem with the vCard's that are attached to messages that go to the <listname>-request@... address. Below is a paste from the response that I get from mailman. And yes, if I turn off vCards it will work properly. That is a problem because it is required for our organization/list members to use these in their email messages. Just wondering if anyone had found a workaround for this. I also notice that it does really "work". The commands do actually work, it's just that the top of the message states that there were problems with the request. Upon looking further down the message you can see that the command did indeed work, showing the results of the command requested. Thanks ---------------Begin Paste------------------ This is an automated response. There were problems with the email commands you sent to Mailman via the administrative address <test-request(a)??????.???????>. <<<<Replaced by me> To obtain instructions on valid Mailman email commands, send email to <test-request(a)wse114.deh.ehnr.state.nc.us> with the word "help" in the subject line or in the body of the message. If you want to reach the human being that manages this mailing list, please send your message to <test-admin(a)wse114.deh.ehnr.state.nc.us>. The following is a detailed description of the problems. ***** who Digest Members: ???????(a)??????.??? <<<<Replaced by me> Non-Digest Members: ???????(a)??????.??? <<<<Replaced by me> ???????(a)??????.??? <<<<Replaced by me> Command? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Command? --------------8A9F0C1B2FE3089D8B2A0D18 Command? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Command? Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Command? --------------8A9F0C1B2FE3089D8B2A0D18 >>>>> >>>>> Too many errors encountered; the rest of the message is ignored: > Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; > name="Danny.Hite.vcf" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: Card for Danny Hite > Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="Danny.Hite.vcf" > > begin:vcard > n:Hite;Danny > tel;fax: > tel;work: > x-mozilla-html:FALSE > org:????? <<<<Replaced by me> > version:2.1 > email;internet:???@???.??? <<<<Replaced by me> > title:LAN Administrator > adr;quoted-printable:;;=0D=0A;; > fn:Danny Hite > end:vcard > > --------------8A9F0C1B2FE3089D8B2A0D18-- > > ---------------End Paste------------------ Thanks for any and all Help.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] duplicate messages
by J C Lawrence 14 Feb '00

14 Feb '00

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:03:45 +0200 Petyo Byankov <petyo(a)webmessenger.bg> wrote: > How can I avoid duplicate messages from sendmail when same address > = occurs in mailman's mailing list and in Cc: field ?=20 You don't. You don't have control over this as the dupe is created by list members, not the list server. It is the job of the recipient -- typically using procmail with the standard formail recipe -- to delete dupes. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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duplicate messages
by Petyo Byankov 14 Feb '00

14 Feb '00

How can I avoid duplicate messages from sendmail when same address occurs in mailman's mailing list and in Cc: field ? Petyo

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duplicate messages
by Petyo Byankov 14 Feb '00

14 Feb '00

How can I avoid duplicate messages from sendmail when same address occurs in mailman's mailing list and in Cc: field ? Petyo

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Re: Archives and searching
by sms＠mole.netconcepts.com 14 Feb '00

14 Feb '00

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 14:41:09 -0700 Les Nile wrote: >Wilma is a search engine and web interface built on top of MHonArc >and glimpse. (ftp://ftp.hpc.uh.edu/pub/wilma/) It works nicely >with mailman. I set it up to build its archive in the usual >mailman/archives/private/list_name/ directory, fetching the >messages from the list_name.mbox/list_name.mbox file. (Actually, >a link to that file with a month-specific name, since I've got >wilma set up to make month-by-month archives.) I'm having trouble figuring out how to break up the mailman/archives/private/list_name.mbox/list_name.mbox file into separate months so that MHonarc/Wilma can generate month-by-month archives. Any guidance you can give would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Stephan

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FHS on Linux (Re: Deleting a list)
by Karl EICHWALDER 13 Feb '00

13 Feb '00

[I'm just glancing through the archive...] J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu writes: | Happening to have such a box right nere, its also | /var/lib/mailman/bin/rmlist (to which the above /usr/sbin/rmlist is | a symlink). The more annoying thing on Debian is that ~list (the | UID that MailMan runs under under Debian) resolves to a | useless/non-existent directory. This discussion is of some interest to me; I'm starting to prepare a mailman package for SuSE Linux. I'm inclined to store the whole machinery under /var/lib/mailman (dynamic files) and /usr/lib/mailman ("static" files), with bi-directional links for convenience. For my understanding that's conforming with the FHS, too. IMO, it's not a good idea to clutter the .../sbin area with more links than absolutely necessary; sooner or later you'll encounter namespace problems ;-) On SuSE Linux, ~mailman will expand to /var/lib/mailman, where you'll find configuration files, templates, etc. To ~mailman/.bashrc I'll add PATH=/usr/lib/mailman/bin:$PATH This way, the `mailman' user can invoke the adminstrative commands without path information. Nice day, Karl -- work : ke(a)suse.de | : http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ------ ,__o home : ke(a)gnu.franken.de | ------ _-\_<, : http://www.franken.de/users/gnu/ke/ | ------ (*)/'(*)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Rejects no longer email
by J C Lawrence 13 Feb '00

13 Feb '00

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:41:53 -0800 Marc Merlin <marc_news(a)valinux.com> wrote: > On sam, fév 12, 2000 at 05:39:51 -0800, J C Lawrence wrote: >> No. I suspect that something in <listname/config.db is corrupt, >> so I'd like to migrate all the contents of the current list's >> config.db to another list (membership and customisations), delete >> the current list and then rename the new list to the old name. > Ah, then you need the other script Barry put in mm1.2 cvs and that > I mentinoned here a couple of days ago: config_list Create a new > list, use config_list to dump the old one into a text file, edit > if you want, and overwrite the new list settings with the old one. Sounds like just the ticket. I must have missed that email. > The problem here is that their is no way to dump and restore a > list's users _while keeping the users' values_ (password, digest, > whatever) <ponder> I question this: There's a script in bin called clone_member. As written it has problems, but the promise at least is there that it could be hacked to instead write the member data to a second config rather than the current one. > Barry knows about this but I suppose he already has a lot on his > plate right now :-) Yup. JPython is looking extremely promising, especially with the (not so recent) MicroThreads and Stackless Python patches. I have a lot of hopes for those two patches in particular. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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