Mailman 3 November 2001 - Mailman-Users

Usenet gateway to a member_posting_only list?
by Jerry Stratton 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

If I have a mailing list set to member_posting_only and also have the list set up as a Usenet gateway, Usenet postings by non-members will be rejected. If true, is there any way I can have Usenet postings be automatically approved by mailman for the mailing list side of the gateway? The purpose of the gateway is to allow university community members to have the choice of taking part in the discussion by mail or by newsgroup, whichever they prefer (there is also a web interface to the newsgroup, also accessible only on campus). I have the mailing list set to members only to avoid spam (which the list has received). The newsgroup, however, is a local group accessible only on-campus, and does not have a spam problem. I would like all gatewayed messages from the newsgroup to automatically go to the list without requiring approval. Is there a way I can set this? Jerry -- jerry(a)sandiego.edu http://www.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ Serra 188B/x8773 -- The more restrictions there are, the poorer the people become. The greater the government¹s power, the more chaotic the nation would become. The more the ruler imposes laws and prohibitions on his people, the more frequently evil deeds would occur. --The Silence of the Wise: The Sayings of Lao Zi

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question..
by George Galang 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

I am running qmail and mailman 2.0.7. I can get mailman to send out messages to the local users, but I can't get it to send out to users who are not hosted on the machine it is running. Any advice? I can provide some configuration if you want, though I am new at adminstrating qmail and mailman. -- George Galang - 9803004

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Digest format
by Dale Pace 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hello, I want to formally express my dislike of the format of the last digest I received. Multiple separate Outlook Express messages as attachments is a very unhandy format for casually scanning the messages for something that might be useful for my site. Thanks, Dale -- Dale Pace UNIX Administrator ODS Health Plans 503 948-5590 x1325 paced(a)odshp.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest format
by J C Lawrence 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:14:30 -0800 Dale Pace <paced(a)odshp.com> wrote: > Hello, I want to formally express my dislike of the format of the > last digest I received. You have your choice between RFC 1153 digests and MIME digests (which apparently you chose). > Multiple separate Outlook Express messages as attachments is a > very unhandy format for casually scanning the messages for > something that might be useful for my site. Its rather poor form to blame Mailman for your choice of tool's (Outlook) abject failure to present a decent UI (or otherwise work worth a damn in general). -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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(?) Rebuilding Archives from .txt files
by Jay Leafey 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

I was recently called in to resolve a problem with a MailMan installation where faulty permission settings had basically ruined the archives. The archive directories are in place and seem to be populated, but the 'index.html' file in the archive directory is zero-length. I fixed the permissions on the directories and the archive index.html is now being build, but only reflecting the current month's traffic. Is there a way to rebuild the index.html to pick up all the older messages? I looked at bin/arch but it appears to need an mbox file to work with and (sigh!) the permissions problem had stopped the mbox files from being created. Could I just concatenate the .txt files and use that? Is there a supported method of doing this? Thanks! Jay --- Jay Leafey University of Tennessee Health Science Center jleafey(a)utmem.edu

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List backup?
by Thomas T. Veldhouse 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

I am looking to backup a list in such a way that I can load it back onto another server at a later time. In particular, this backup must preserve user settings including password, list settings and the archives. I may need to put mailman on another server and it may be Linux and it may be using a different version of Python and Berkley DB. Does anybody know of a solution for the above? Thanks in advance, Tom Veldhouse veldy(a)veldy.net

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Subscriber names
by marina 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hi, Does anybody know whether there's a way for Mailman to ask (and remember) subscriber names, as well as their email addresses? We're moving over to Pairlist a list where this is particularly important (i.e. being able to keep track of the NAMES of the members), and I would appreciate suggestions on how to do it. Since I'm not a member of this list, I'd be grateful if you could cc' marina(a)programmer-software.com! TIA :-) marina

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Number of members on each page
by Dan Mick 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

> I've tried this with a couple lists, and it does NOT seem to work - still get the 30 members, no matter what you set that value in Defaults.py (or mm.cfg.py) to. > Did you see my answer to this? Defaults value is for new lists; it's stored in a list variable at list-create time.

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Submit command to the list
by Cosi Barbara 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

I am subsrcibed to many mailinglist, and if i would like to set my option via email i can do it by posting the command to the email of the mailinglist. For example i can send an email with this command: SET name DIGEST or REV milinglist BY COUNTRY How can I do it with Mailman??? TIA Barbara Cosi

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscriber names
by J Barnes 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Dare I ask what the time-frame for Mailman 2.1 is? And can I add the names to my existing list, or do people need to resubscribe? (I hope it's add because I'm just now populating a list with potentially 250 subscribers). Jason > On 28 November 2001, marina said: > > Now that we're certain this feature is not available in Mailman (and > > it's still needed), what we are doing is writing a CGI form that > > collects the information from the user when they subscribe, and that > > CGI will then email Mailman to start the subscription. The other > > information I guess we can store in MySQL or similar. > > > > Do you think anybody else would be interested in this? If you think > > they might be, we'd be happy to post this to the Mailman site. > > Considering that Mailman 2.1 has the ability to track real names, your > hack probably won't be needed in the long term. > > Greg > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > >

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