Mailman 3 February 2001 - Mailman-Users

Too many pending requests?
by Per Starback July 7, 2003

July 7, 2003

I can't get to the pending request page for a mailing list. (My web clients just say "waiting for response" and finally give up.) I think it is because there are too many pending requests after some problems. (config.db is almost 10MB.) How can I do this some other way?

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Email based administration
by James Thompson March 28, 2001

March 28, 2001

Hello again, It looks as if my migration to mailman has been stopped dead in it's tracks :( I have a user that can not stand the web based approval of email, prefering majordomos mail based approval system. I don't see mention of this type of feature anywhere in the docs. So is this type of feature planned? Thanks, James ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->---<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-< James Thompson 138 Cardwell Hall Manhattan, Ks 66506 785-532-0561 Kansas State University Department of Mathematics ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->---<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<

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Names along with e-mail's?
by Ignacio Valdes March 14, 2001

March 14, 2001

Hello all, I'm using mailman for a student organization that requires membership before being able to access the discussion list. Since it is a student club, members come and go frequently so we'd like to include names along with e-mail id's on the subscription list so that we can easily identify an id with its owner and delete them as members graduate. I notice that on the membership management list it stores the e-mail's only. Is it possible to add names as well as e-mail id's to membership management without maintaining a cross reference list somewhere else? Thanks, -- IV

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how to remove badly formed email address from list
by Rachel Willmer March 3, 2001

March 3, 2001

I've got a user on one of my lists who's subscribed himself with the email address with a form of "myname@home"@isp.co.uk. Of course, this address is completely undeliverable, and every mail out to the list bounces. So I'd like to remove this guy. But I can't figure out how! If I deselect him from the web interface, mailman complains that the user doesn't exist. Same if I try it via the mail interface. I've tried every combination of quotes and escapes I can think of. So any ideas, anyone? Thanks Rachel

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Approved header
by James Thompson March 2, 2001

March 2, 2001

My last majordomo user has decided to move their lists to Mailman. Yea! However they had some questions I couldn't answer. First, Mailman doesn't seem to allow a user to type Approved: Password as the first line of the mail to the list to bypass the approval by the administrator. The user doesn't want to maintain the list of posters that bypass approval. So this is holding up the migration of 3 lists. Is this not supported? Thanks. Jamest ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->---<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-< James Thompson 138 Cardwell Hall Manhattan, Ks 66506 785-532-0561 Kansas State University Department of Mathematics ->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->---<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<

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Changing servers and upgrading at the same time
by Paul Barnett March 1, 2001

March 1, 2001

I looked through the archives and didn't find anyone posing the same or similar question, so.... I'm currently running Mailman v1.1 on a Redhat 5.2 system. I'm building a replacement server with RedHat 7.0, and am curious what is the easiest and reliable way to switch the mailing list(s) to the new server, while upgrading to Mailman 2.0.1. Do I: (1) Install Mailman 2.0.1 on the new server and somehow copy the subscription info and archives to the new server? (2) Copy the existing Mailman 1.1 installation to the new server and then upgrade it to 2.0.1? (3) Some other alternative? Suggestions are welcome.

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Fw: [Mailman-Users] Sprache
by edulap＠t-online.de Feb. 28, 2001

Feb. 28, 2001

Hallo Peter, ich verfüge weder über Linux noch UNIX. Kann ich Mitglied der Liste sein? Grüße Edula ----- Original Message ----- From: Markus Keller [OrcaSoft] To: EdulaP Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Sprache Sehr geehrte Frau Platte Dies ist eine englische Liste. Soweit ich weiss, existiert für Mailman keine deutsche Liste. Die Liste behandelt Themen rund um das Programm "Mailman", das auf Linux und UNIX Sytemen zum Massenversand von Nachrichten eingesetzt wird. Ohne Kenntnisse in Englisch kann das Programm weder installiert noch gewartet werden. Auch sind Kenntnisse der Betriebssysteme Linux oder UNIX notwendig. Sind Sie sicher, dass Sie Mitglied diese Liste sind? Mit freundlichen Grüssen Markus Keller ----- Original Message ----- From: EdulaP To: mailman-users(a)python.org Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 11:12 AM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Sprache Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, als ältere Seniorin bin ich recht ungeübt im Englischlesen. In Deutsch wäre es weitaus vergnüglicher. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit die Meldungen auf Deutsch zu lesen? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Edula Platte

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Fw: [Mailman-Users] Sprache
by edulap＠t-online.de Feb. 28, 2001

Feb. 28, 2001

----- Original Message ----- From: "EdulaP" <edulap(a)t-online.de> To: "Peter Hutnick" <peter-lists(a)hutnick.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:56 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Sprache > Hallo Peter, > danke für Deine Post aus Amerika?. Kann ich das Übersetzungsprogramm > bedenkenlos auf meinen PC (wg Viren etc) laden? Kann es da Schwierigkeiten > geben? Es würde mir Spaß machen, mehr über Menschen in Amerika und anderswo > zu erfahren. > Vielleicht berichtest Du mir ein wenig über Dich und Deine Heimat? > Bei uns im Rheinland ist seit heute der Karneval vorbei. Es ist > Aschermittwoch. Schade! > Herzliche Grüße aus Deutschland > Edula > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Hutnick" <peter-lists(a)hutnick.com> > To: <edulap(a)t-online.de> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 4:52 PM > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Sprache > > > > > Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, > > > als ältere Seniorin bin ich recht ungeübt im Englischlesen. In > > > Deutsch wäre es weitaus vergnüglicher. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit > > > die Meldungen auf Deutsch zu lesen? > > > > Als jüngerer Amerikaner bin ich auf Schreiben Deutsch ziemlich ungeschult. > > > > Ich lese Ihre Meldung mit Bablefish. > > (http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn) > > > > Wie Sie sehen können, ist Bablefish nicht vollkommen, aber es ist > > verständlich. > > > > - Peter > > >

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Re: [Mailman-Users] getting "mail forwarding loops"
by Bob Puff＠NLE Feb. 28, 2001

Feb. 28, 2001

Hi Jeme (& gang), Thanks for your reply! > The messages for which I got those errors, however, were not delivering at > all. You should doublecheck that. Do you mean that certain users are not receiving their messages, or that the single message that is being broadcast in that session is not getting out at all? From what I can tell, everyone seems to be receiving the messages. > The problem comes when your mail server goes to lookup the mail exchanger > for the domain the message is addressed to and finds itself, but the > server is not configured to accept mail for that domain... Hmm, that's interesting. There are some users who are on my local system who are members of the list. However, as far as I know, all mail works fine - there is nothing that is delivered locally that should bounce. > Let's say your mail server is supposed to recognize crazyperson.net as a > local domain... but you don't have that configured properly. A message is > then handed by a local client (mailman) to the server destined for the > (local, but unrecognized) domain crazyperson.net. Shouldn't it just handle it like a normal bounce, if indeed a message sent to that given address would normally bounce? Thanks! Bob

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mailman
by edulap＠t-online.de Feb. 28, 2001

Feb. 28, 2001

It´s o.k.? Edula Platte

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