Mailman 3 December 2001 - Mailman-Users

list-serve
by Joe Wise Dec. 29, 2001

Dec. 29, 2001

I thought so. Here goes. I set up a new list and it sends me a confirmation e-mail that I have a new list set up. I go to the website to configure my list as the administrator. I then try to join my list. I get an e-mail saying that I have to respond in order for my request to be validated. I resspond and get a mail daemon saying that the user is not known. Any help? Joe

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list server and mailman
by Joe Wise Dec. 29, 2001

Dec. 29, 2001

Is there anyone using mailman as a list-server who can help a newbie? I am a physics teacher at a school in Santa Monica and I want to have my class on a list. Thanks, jwise(a)newroads.org

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Setup help
by Dick Chagnot Dec. 29, 2001

Dec. 29, 2001

Hello: I have a website named service-handyman.com hosted by YGC. They furnish mailman as their webmail handling program. I am attempting to setup a list to receive a form from my site to furnish the first name and email address of visitors that wish to subscribe to my newsletter. I would like to set this up so that when they click on the subscribe button, the name and email address is added to the subscriber list. All the attempts I have tried attempt to post the information to the list and … [View More]

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[hanno@yourchoice.nl: Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic bounce handling]
by Hanno Liem Dec. 29, 2001

Dec. 29, 2001

(argh, forgot the CC header) ----- Forwarded message from Hanno Liem <hanno(a)yourchoice.nl> ----- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:58:17 +0100 From: Hanno Liem <hanno(a)yourchoice.nl> To: John W Baxter <jwblist(a)olympus.net> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Automatic bounce handling On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:30:15PM -0800, John W Baxter wrote: > >I have a short question to which I could not find anything in the archives > >or on the web. Silly perhaps, but: > > &… [View More]gt; >... is automatic bounce detection automatically enabled when you activate it > >on the status page? I wonder how this would work then - because as far as I > >can see, bounces go to the person who sent the posting to the list, and is > >never seen by mailman?! > > > >The way I *thought* it should work is by putting a reply-to header in the > >message which redirects to the mailman 'bounce handler' script. > > Sensible mail transport agents (MTAs) totally ignore the Reply-To: header, > and send bounces to the envelope sender (which a mail user usually doesn't > see). That address points back to the list's admin address. > > For the mailman-users list, the address is: > > Return-path: <mailman-users-admin(a)python.org> Hi John, thanx for your reply. I just checked - and in emails going out of my own mailman list, the 'return-path' header set to the poster of the message! And I did not see any place in the webinterface to change it?! One reason why this may be caused is because the 'reply-to' option is still set to the poster's address (this is an announcement mailing list, always sends mail from info@). I think it is a slight bug in Mailman that once this address is set, you cannot wipe it any more. I used to have an explicit reply-to header, but then stopped being silly and set it to 'poster'. Still cannot remove the address from the webinterface though. (I can change it to something else, but if I leave it empty and hit Submit, it comes up unchanged) Perhaps mailman sets the 'Return-path:' header to this address? grtz Han (cc:'ed to users-list in case any of the developers wants to know) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hanno Liem | hann0 on IRC | hanno(a)yourchoice.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought. But I do know that World War IV will be fought with rocks and spears." -- Albert Einstein [View Less]

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(no subject)
by jgo Dec. 29, 2001

Dec. 29, 2001

> Kevin Brouelette 2001-12-27 18:28:50 -0800 wrote: >> Drama Share wrote: >> Can you tell me if, (and if so where), a subscriber can be blocked, >> other than through just using the moderate features. > If you are using Sendmail you may block them before they > even get handed off to mailman. > I'll give you a hint, > /etc/mail/access and > /etc/mail/addess.db Good hint. Once one has jiggered permissions, created the /etc/mail/access done the makemap … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman/Database connections
by J C Lawrence Dec. 29, 2001

Dec. 29, 2001

On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:57:47 -0500 Michelle Murrain <tech(a)murrain.net> wrote: > Hi Folks, Has anyone set up a system to synchronize in any way a > SQL database (like PostgreSQL or MySQL) and a mailman mailing > list? If so, how did you do it? Any code available? Is there a way > to use a SQL database as the subscriber list for mailman? There's been some discussion of such, IIRC with a couple scripts to handle the synchronisation. > If a tool like this does not exist, … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Capacity-size of mailing lists
by J C Lawrence Dec. 29, 2001

Dec. 29, 2001

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:12:03 -0800 Kevin Phillips <admin(a)upbeats.com> wrote: > We just did a test run of 50,000 and the server came to a grinding > halt. ooops! What MTA, what hardware, how configured, how tuned? I'm going to get in touch with the technology > manager who handles the Cybergold mailings and find out how they > do it. The very first hack is setting the number of RCPT TOs per message as high as you reasonably can. The exact choice will vary depending … [View More]

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funny errors in /home/mailman/logs/error
by Thomas Hoellriegel Dec. 29, 2001

Dec. 29, 2001

hi, i installed mailman 2.08 under suse-linux. i have a question: what error is this in my logfile? Dec 26 19:08:01 2001 qrunner(31906): Traceback (most recent call last): Dec 26 19:08:01 2001 qrunner(31906): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 282, in ? Dec 26 19:08:01 2001 qrunner(31906): kids = main(lock) Dec 26 19:08:01 2001 qrunner(31906): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 202, in main Dec 26 19:08:01 2001 qrunner(31906): os.unlink(root+'.db') Dec 26 19:08:01 2001 … [View More]

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Automatic bounce handling
by Hanno Liem Dec. 29, 2001

Dec. 29, 2001

Hi all, I have a short question to which I could not find anything in the archives or on the web. Silly perhaps, but: ... is automatic bounce detection automatically enabled when you activate it on the status page? I wonder how this would work then - because as far as I can see, bounces go to the person who sent the posting to the list, and is never seen by mailman?! The way I *thought* it should work is by putting a reply-to header in the message which redirects to the mailman 'bounce … [View More]

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Reg. my latest post / wrong admin interface urls ..
by Jorgen Skogstad - Sun Norway - System Specialist - Professional Services Dec. 28, 2001

Dec. 28, 2001

. just wanted to inform you guys of a test I did: I changed the entry for the default urls of a list by using "config_list". I changed the web_page_url entry from: web_page_url = 'http://www.<domain>.no/mailman/' . to: web_page_url = 'http://www.<domain>.no/mailman//' . and for some bogus reason it now seems to work. My setup is Mailman v2.0.7, Aolserver v3.2 (I think!) w/cgi enabled config, running mailman on the mailserver and exported to the web server through nfs. As such; … [View More]

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