Mailman 3 May 2001 - Mailman-Users

Dumping emails based on subject rather than holding them?
by Bill Bradford 01 May '01

01 May '01

I host a list (sunmanagers) where direct replies to the list are not permitted - only initial question posts, and then summary posts with answers. So, every 3-4 days, even though reply-to is set to the original poster, I have to go in and delete 20-30 Re: messages through the admin interface. Is there a way to have Mailman just *dump* these, instead of holding them for review? Would make life a lot simpler... Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

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the meaning of "implicit destination"
by Carol 01 May '01

01 May '01

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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Help
by Dan Mick 01 May '01

01 May '01

> I am running Mailman with Postfix. Attached, is a segment of my syslog > file when I try to email to the Mailman server. > > Any thoughts? Yes, but let's play a game first. What do you think "unknown user: "test-request" might mean?

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Help
by Yuri Desyatnik 01 May '01

01 May '01

I am running Mailman with Postfix. Attached, is a segment of my syslog file when I try to email to the Mailman server. Any thoughts? Yuri May 1 01:18:37 shiva postfix/smtpd[15242]: [ID 197553 mail.info] connect from unknown[172.30.20.6] May 1 01:18:37 shiva postfix/smtpd[15242]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 6F2835CFED: client=unknown[172.30.20.6] May 1 01:18:37 shiva postfix/cleanup[15243]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 6F2835CFED: message-id=<3AEE0F4B.A9A14A8A(a)imediation.com> May 1 01:18:37 shiva postfix/smtpd[15242]: [ID 197553 mail.info] disconnect from unknown[172.30.20.6] May 1 01:18:37 shiva postfix/qmgr[15240]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 6F2835CFED: from=<yuri(a)imediation.com>, size=1961, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Apr 30 18:18:37 shiva postfix/local[15245]: [ID 947731 mail.warning] warning: dict_nis_init: NIS domain name not set - NIS lookups disabled Apr 30 18:18:37 shiva postfix/local[15245]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 6F2835CFED: to=<test-request(a)mailman.server.imediation.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (unknown user: "test-request") May 1 01:18:37 shiva postfix/cleanup[15243]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 9DDF45CFEF: message-id=<20010501011837.9DDF45CFEF(a)mailman.server.imediation.com> May 1 01:18:37 shiva postfix/qmgr[15240]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 9DDF45CFEF: from=<>, size=3720, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 1 01:18:37 shiva postfix/smtp[15247]: [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp May 1 01:18:38 shiva postfix/qmgr[15240]: [ID 947731 mail.warning] warning: end of input while receiving string data from service private/smtp May 1 01:18:38 shiva postfix/qmgr[15240]: [ID 947731 mail.warning] warning: private/smtp: malformed response Apr 30 18:18:38 shiva postfix/master[15176]: [ID 947731 mail.warning] warning: process /usr/local/postfix/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 15247 exit status 1 Apr 30 18:18:38 shiva postfix/master[15176]: [ID 947731 mail.warning] warning: /usr/local/postfix/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Site-Wide SPAM rejection confusion...
by Dan Mick 01 May '01

01 May '01

> Dan Mick (dmick(a)utopia.West.Sun.COM) said something that sounded like: > > > First, it appears that I got the header SPAM prevention done correctly. > > > Unfortunately I can't get the message body SPAM prevention done > > > correctly. If I have something like the following: > > > ('None', 'Snowhite was turning'), > > > within the KNOWN_SPAMMERS area, it doesn't discard the SPAM. Am I > > > missing something very basic? Yes, and so did I at first. Don't quote the None. None is a magic "no object" item; the comparison is "if header is None", not "if header is 'None'".

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Site-Wide SPAM rejection confusion...
by Pug Bainter 01 May '01

01 May '01

Good Morning, I recently started trying to figure out the site-wide SPAM handling in SpamDetect.py and I have a few questions. First, it appears that I got the header SPAM prevention done correctly. Unfortunately I can't get the message body SPAM prevention done correctly. If I have something like the following: ('None', 'Snowhite was turning'), within the KNOWN_SPAMMERS area, it doesn't discard the SPAM. Am I missing something very basic? Second, should I have to build the SpamDetect.pyc file or is it supposed to be autobuilt? It isn't being autobuilt like the mm_cfg.pyc is. Second, what is the 'spam' directory for? I couldn't find reference to it anywhere. Thanks a lot folks! Ciao, -- Pug Bainter | AMD, Inc. System Engineer, MTS | Mail Stop 625 Pug.Bainter(a)amd.com | pug(a)pug.net | 5900 E. Ben White Blvd Phone: (512) 602-0364 | Fax: (512) 602-6970 | Austin, TX 78741 Note: The views may not reflect my employers, or even my own for that matter.

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