Mailman 3 April 2001 - Mailman-Users

the meaning of "implicit destination"
by Carol May 1, 2001

May 1, 2001

I have set "No" to this option: Check postings and intercept ones that seem to be administrative requests. When I post to my list (called Testlist) I get the following message. Your mail to 'Testlist' with the subject test no. 5 Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. As moderator, I do not want to approve every message. How do I stop it? And what is meant by "implicit destination?" I am an administrator, not the tech person. Mailman was installed by 123ehost.com, my hosting company.

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Missing mail
by Louiza April 30, 2001

April 30, 2001

Hello, I am a new user of Mailman and have never used software like this for my lists, as my only experience has been using OneList and eGroups. So please forgive my questions, if they seem too elementary. <g> I have three questions at the moment: 1. It's only been a week since I set up my former eGroups list with Mailman on my server, and some members are experiencing missing posts. I haven't a clue what to look for to solve this problem, other than checking their subscription settings, of course, and dealing with any bounce notices (which have been scarce). Is there something else that I can do? 2. Is there any way that I can set up a search engine for the Archives, so that members can search them for specific subjects or authors? 3. Is there any way to shorten the length of the URL to the list's information page? Thanks for your help, Louiza -- Casa D/S Spanking Mailing List Info: http://spankingfiles.com/mailman/listinfo/casadsspanking_spankingfiles.com To Join, address your e-mail as follows with no message: To: Casadsspanking-request(a)spankingfiles.com Subject: subscribe

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Headers
by System Admin April 30, 2001

April 30, 2001

Is there a method to get rid of all the helpful headers sent on each message. With tiny lists, it takes up a great deal of room. Don

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error, message
by Ivy Wang April 30, 2001

April 30, 2001

I setup a maiman list. But when I try to send message to it, I got: I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <testinglist(a)abc.com>: Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post testinglist". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 556, GOT gid 99. (Reconfigure to take 99?) when I reconfigure it with-mail-gid=556, it will tell me : <testinglist(a)abc.com>: Command died with status 2: "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post testinglist". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 556. (Reconfigure to take 556?) I'm really confused. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. NEWUSER _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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empty archive messages from "bogus@does.not.exist.com"
by Jason R. Mastaler April 30, 2001

April 30, 2001

My Mailman list archives are being populated by lots of empty messages that look like this: From: bogus(a)does.not.exist.com () Date: Mon Apr 30 11:55:01 2001 Subject: No subject They started showing up around the time I started using "preline" before calling "wrapper" in response to this FAQ entry: Q. Still having problems? Running QMail? A. Make sure that you are using "preline" before calling "wrapper": |preline /home/mailman/mail/wrapper post listname "preline" adds a Unix-style "From " header which the archiver requires. So is the FAQ just outdated, or is this a new Mailman bug? -- (TMDA - http://tmda.sourceforge.net) (Python-based SPAM reduction system)

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Mail missing from archives. [Mailman-Users]
by David Woodhouse April 30, 2001

April 30, 2001

I'm trying to move couple of old majordomo lists over to Mailman, and I'd like to copy across the archives too. The lists I'm trying to convert are (now) http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd and http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd-cvs Unfortunately, I cannot persuade Mailman to produce archives for the old messages correctly - many of the original mails are missing from the archive produced. I have a copy of the archives of the original list in mbox format. I have tried piping each mail individually through 'post linux-mtd' with formail, and I've tried just dumping the mbox file in $prefix/archives/private/linux-mtd.mbox/linux-mtd.mbox and running 'arch linux-mtd' Whatever I do, only some of the mails appear in the archive. See http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/ - the 'full raw archive' contains all the mail it's supposed to, but the individual months' archives are extremely sparse. The host is a Red Hat 7.1 box, with the included version of Mailman - 'mailman-2.0.1-2'. Python '1.5.2-30' is installed. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in in the archival code? -- dwmw2

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Subscribe/unsubscribe interface
by Andrew Brown April 29, 2001

April 29, 2001

We are looking for a web interface that will allow people to see a list of all the groups we provide and to subscribe/unsubscribe to any or all of them. Is this possible with Mailman? If not, does anyone know of an alternative (free or paid) that offers this option? AB

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Multi-lingual lists
by Andrew Brown April 29, 2001

April 29, 2001

Does anyone have experience of running multi-lingual lists? I'd like list members to be able to choose the language of their web interface and for this choice to stick with them. AB

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hola
by Joe April 29, 2001

April 29, 2001

Buenas noches

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Slash your cost by outsourcing
by winfocus April 28, 2001

April 28, 2001

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