Mailman 3 December 2001 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] loops with "out of office/vacation" autoresponders
by J C Lawrence 22 Dec '01

22 Dec '01

On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 05:08:12 -0500 Robert Williams <bob(a)bob.usuhs.mil> wrote: > Yes...limit the number of posts... How is this done with Mailman? Currently Mailman does not support such a feature. -- 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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mail bounces while trying to post
by Vijay Kamath 22 Dec '01

22 Dec '01

Hi All, I have just installed mailman and the installation went smoothly. I also did all the post installation steps i.e creating the crontab entries and editing the aliases file. I also ran the newaliases program manaully. I created a test list and tried to post a message but the message bounced back with the error message from the list server stating that the recipient does not exist. Please can someone help me how to figure this out. Thanks in advance, Vijay. I will live forever, or die trying. "When the world has no fences, who the hell needs Gates !!! " "If you think of MS-DOS as mono, and Windows as stereo, then Linux is Dolby Pro-Logic Surround Sound with Bass Boost and all the music is free." -- Brendan Bradley --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online at Yahoo! Greetings.

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what to do when you have list <list> *and* list <list>-admin?
by Jessica Koeppel 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

I'm using mailman at home for some lists, and really like it. I'm now setting it up for someone who has been hosting a whole bunch of lists. Unfortunately, I've doscovered that in two cases, he has bot <list> and <list>-admin lists. This doesn't work with mailman because I need to put <list>-admin into the aliases file for <list>. For example, if we have lists foo and foo-admin, i'd wind up with foo: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post foo" foo-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner foo" foo-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd foo" foo-owner: foo-admin foo-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post foo-admin" foo-admin-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner foo-admin" foo-admin-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd foo-admin" foo-admin-owner: foo-admin-admin But... I can't wind up with two foo-admin aliases, so this doesn't work. How should I deal with this? (Other than telling these guys they either can't use mailman or they can't have a list called "something-admin" if they also have a list called "something". I definitely want to use mailman, so I hope there's a solution!) Thanks!! --jessica

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Mailman Problem
by Dipl.-Ing. Edith Kemeny 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Hi! I did not encount an error and this is no error report. I have a following problem, can you help me, or can you tell me, how can help me? I have a list created. Listname: testlist If I send a mail to 'testlist-request(a)pcc101.mos.siemens.at' or to 'testlist(a)pcc101.mos.siemens.at' with subject "help" or with body content "confirm xxxxxx" I always get the following anser: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "I/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd testlist" (expanded from: <testlist-request(a)pcc101.mos.siemens.at>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 "I/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd testlist"... User unknown or the following error: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "I/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post testlist" (expanded from: <testlist(a)pcc101.mos.siemens.at>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 "I/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post testlist"... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; pcc101.mos.siemens.at Received-From-MTA: DNS; scesie13.sie.siemens.at Arrival-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 15:14:26 +0100 What should I do, what is wrong? Thank you for your help. Best Regards DI Edith Kemeny

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Mailman Wish List - Bounces
by Ralph Milnes 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Allow a number of days option before admin bounces are automatically deleted from the "pending administrative requests" area. List administrators get at least daily notices of admin requests, so they can see when they really need to tend to one. Most requests are spam submissions from non-members that are only discarded. It would be nice if the system just deleted those requests if they stayed unattended to over a certain period of time. For example, I'd pick 2 weeks -- to give me enough time to come back from vacation to deal with any accumulated requests. But otherwise, I'd just appreciate it if the system just deleted the requests after 14 days and saved me the trouble of tending to all the requests. Ralph

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Do you use the Mailman-htdig integration patches?
by Richard Barrett 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Having posted Mailman-htdig integration patches on sourceforge and subsequently maintained them I am interested in finding out how many sites have adopted the patches and want to continue using them. The patches I'm referring to are: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444879&group_id=10… http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444884&group_id=10… and their earlier incarnations 401669/401670: I'm asking for two reasons: 1. to gauge the likely demand for MM 2.1 compatible version of the patch and how urgently it is needed. btw: I've got a MM 2.1a3 compatible version of the patches about to be tested and hope to post them on sourceforge next week. 2. to see if there is sufficient demand for the patch being integrated with the main development trunk of MM. If enough users say they want it then presumably the primary MM developers will consider a request to fold the patch into the main development line post the MM 2.1 release. My motives here are fairly selfish in that I'd like to avoid having to redevelop and test the patch again for the next major MM release after 2.1 Reply off list would probably be appropriate. I will collate the responses and post to the list a summary of the interest expressed. Thanks Richard

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strange qfiles behavior
by Thomas Hillson 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

I have had three lists now show a strange problem, they que up a message to send to a list and just stop. The message is never sent. But messages sent to the server before and after this are sent. Can anyone give me any ideas where to start on this on. It is Running on RedHat 7.2 on a Dell 2400 Server with Dual PII 600, 512mb Ram, 12gb Ram for MTA is Sendmail. I see no errors in any of the logs. The only way I know I have a problem is to send a message and not get a copy of it. When I look in the qfiles the message is there, but it does not go out. If I send another message to the same list it may or may not get stopped. If I clear all messages from the qfiles and send the message again it goes through. This is an intermittent problem and Tom -- /--------------------------------------------------------- | Tom Hillson Computer Services Manager | hillson(a)iastate.edu College of Agriculture | http://www.ag.iastate.edu Iowa State University | (515) 294-1543 phone B2 Curtiss Hall | (515) 294-1349 fax Ames, IA 50011 --------------------------------------------------------- |"The only thing I have too much of is too little time"

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Umbrella Lists
by Marc Perkel 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

I can't seem to find documentation on this. I have 3 lists ListA ListB and ListC Now I want to make an umbrella list - ListABC I want it so that only members of ListA - ListB and ListC can send to ListABC How do I do that?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] force system wide settings
by Andreas Rittershofer 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

On 21 Dec 01, at 14:00, Jon Carnes wrote: > You can setup a cron job that run nightly and uses > ~mailman/bin/config_list to dump out each lists configuration and check on > the settings. You can then have the script reset the message size limit > to 40kb if an admin has raised it. Thanks for the idea, but is there no way built in to Mailman? This one isn't really straight. mfg ar -- mailto:andreas@rittershofer.de http://www.rittershofer.de PGP-Public-Key http://www.rittershofer.de/ari.htm

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force system wide settings
by Andreas Rittershofer 21 Dec '01

21 Dec '01

Is it possible as a site administrator to force side wide settings, which cannot be overridden by a list owner? For example, I want to strictly set a message size limit of 40kB, so even a list owner cannot set a greater limit. Is this possible? How? mfg ar -- mailto:andreas@rittershofer.de http://www.rittershofer.de PGP-Public-Key http://www.rittershofer.de/ari.htm

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