Mailman 3 March 2001 - Mailman-Users

Too many pending requests?
by Per Starback 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

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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using mailman in our product
by Shannon McCormick 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

Hi, My name is Shannon McCormick and I am a member of the technology team @ 4charity http://www.4charity.com. We are an Application Service Provider (ASP) for the Non-Profit industry. We are currently developing a Email List Management product that we will make available to our customers. We are interested in using Mailman as the underlying email engine for sending messages and handling bounces. We are building the entire user interface and managing/storing the list, message and user information ourselves. We will be charging our customers by some metric to use our product. What license is Mailman covered by (I believe it is the GNU GPL)? Does Mailman's license allow it to be used in this capacity? Thank you, Shannon Shannon McCormick 4charity.com 55 Merchant Street, Suite 2028 Honolulu, HI 96813 USA direct: 808.585.6164 cell: 808.781.6974 fax: 808.585.7394 mailto:shannon@4charity.com http://www.4charity.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Personal Trainer
by Robert Brandtjen 23 Apr '01

23 Apr '01

I have an idea, lets all spam the spammers. Better yet, rebuild your sendmail to use the blackhole list and get these arses on the black hole list. Rob

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Any way users can unsubscribe without a password?
by Bob Puff＠NLE 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

See http://nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman.htm

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attachs and list archive...
by Felipe Sanchez Elich 02 Apr '01

02 Apr '01

hello... How can I see the attachs in the list archive in a correct format instead a 7 bit text? Thanks a lot Felipe

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Any way users can unsubscribe without a password?
by Mario Pacheco 02 Apr '01

02 Apr '01

I would like to put Mailman to use in an organization I'm doing some work for *however* there is too much resistance to the idea of requiring users to provide a password to unsubscribe. Does Mailman have an option to not require a password for the purposes of unsubscribing? Are there any unofficial patches to change the code in Mailman (presumably some Python file) to facilitate this functionality? Thanks, -M

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Mailman and CommunigatePro?
by David Herren 02 Apr '01

02 Apr '01

Does anyone have any experience using Mailman with CommunigatePro from Stalker Software? CGPro also has some list functionality, but I am already running a number of lists with Mailman that I am loathe to have to move (to say nothing of the fact that the list functionality in CGPro costs money I don't have...) Please copy me directly as I'm a digester... /david -- david herren | In an Internet without doors, shoreham, vt | who needs Windows or Gates?

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cron error : gate_news, permission denied
by Murat Balkas 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

Hi, I get this error almost every minute. If check the permissions I see that config.db of all lists are owned by nobody ( web user ). Is it not okey? Should I chown? Your "cron" job on mail /usr/local/bin/python -S /export/home/mailman//cron/gate_news produced the following output: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/export/home/mailman//cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/export/home/mailman//cron/gate_news", line 203, in main process_lists(lock) File "/export/home/mailman//cron/gate_news", line 140, in process_lists mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/export/home/mailman//Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__ self.Load() File "/export/home/mailman//Mailman/MailList.py", line 891, in Load dict, e = self.__load(dbfile) File "/export/home/mailman//Mailman/MailList.py", line 868, in __load fp = open(dbfile) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/export/home/mailman/lists/test1/config.db'

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List Info page showing wrong e-mail address
by Chris Boot 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

Hi all, I just set up Mailman 2.0.3 on my web server -- very nice stuff! I've set everything up as per the INSTALL file, but when I go to my /mailman/listinfo.cgi page without specifying a list, the list owner e-mail address is not @DEFAULT_HOST_NAME, but at the machine's DNS host name... I'm on a virtual host, so this means a lot to me. None of the other pages are affected, even /mailman/listinfo.cgi/test, which is the list info page for the test list I set up. Any ideas? Did I just discover a stupid bug? Do I need to change Defaults.py? -- Chris Boot bootc(a)worldnet.fr "use the source, luke." (obi-wan gnuobi)

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Re: [Mailman-Users] List configuration options, available now or not?
by J C Lawrence 01 Apr '01

01 Apr '01

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:22:18 -0800 JC Dill <mailman(a)vo.cnchost.com> wrote: > On 11:05 AM 3/30/01, Ron Echeverri wrote: > 1) Does mailman have a configuration setting such that everyone > who is subscribed to a list can post unmoderated, but email from a > non-subscriber will be sent to a moderator for approval? Yes. This is an option under privacy options. You can also configure a list so that only a named set of addresses can post to the list, regardless of their subscription status. > To let some non-subscribers post without moderation (a practice > that I personally feel has dubious value, since their question > might be answered in a post to the list, perhaps in response to > someone else asking the same question, but they won't see it > because they aren't subscribed), how about implementing simple > filter so that if a non-subscriber's post mentions one or more > keywords, let it through to the list unmoderated, otherwise it > goes to the moderator? This is currently not possible under Mailman alone. It quite easy to do however via, say, a combo of procmail and mailman. > 2) Is [content filtering on the headers or body, to block messages > that are in reply to an entire digest] possible with mailman? Yes, within the minor limitations of regular expressions. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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