Mailman 3 November 2002 - Mailman-Users

hiding email addresses from spammers (scraping) in archives
by PSAportal.com 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

I have a question regarding hiding email addresses: It appears that 'obscuring' emails consists to be replacement of the at symbol with %40 - this is not adequate as many scraping products will recognize this is there any option for public archives to really thwart scraping ? eg. me(a)myaddress.com to be shown as: me at myaddress dot com [yes, this would invalidate any href=mailto links] or by a javascript entry like: <script language=javascript>  </script> [yes, this won't work if javascript is unavailable] I am using Mailman version 2.0.13

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error reading SMTP packet; response to dot-stuffed message expected"
by Sony Z Thekkumthara 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Any one can please shed some lights on this error message... "error reading SMTP packet; response to dot-stuffed message expected" This happens for a few users who are using their ISP to post a message to our mailman list server. Some times the mails delays 12 hours or more or will not reach at all. Thanks so much, Zach

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Installation & Support
by Tim Healy 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Do you have a list of individuals available for installation, support and customization of the Mailman software? The environment is Red Hat 7.2 w/Plesk 2.5. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Tim Healy, Director ph: 214.680.1270 fx: 617.344.5890 www.tntdental.com "The Dental Internet Solutions Company"

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SSL bugs 2.1b5
by john 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

I'm trying to run 2.1b5 under SSL. Much of mailman appears to work except that links in several places still have "http" instead of "https" and also don't have my special port number that I am using. The broken links appear to be using my DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST which of course is just 'mydomain.com' rather than DEFAULT_URL_HOST combined with DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN. Some of the links that are broken include: Password section The link to the general options section Membership management section All the alphabetical quick access tab links "Click here for legend to table" link Administrative requests (this page is unusable) First "mailing list" link on page "More detailed instructions" link "View the details" of all held postings link All links to individual held postings "view all messages from ..." link Submit link General list information page Private archive link Go to list archives link My mm_cfg.py file contains: DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'main.mydomain.com' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mydomain.com' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s:1234/mailman/' PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'https://%(hostname)s:1234/pipermail/%(listname)s' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = 'https://%(hostname)s:1234/pipermail/%(listname)s' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) MTA = 'Postfix' IMAGE_LOGOS = '/icons/' DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_PROVATE = 1 SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 1 SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION = 0 VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = 1 VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1 VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = 1 VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = 1 DEFAULT_ADMIN_MEMBER_CHUNKSIZE = 100 ADMINDB_PAGE_TEXT_LIMIT = 10000 OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = 1 DEFAULT_DEFAULT_MEMBER_MODERATION = 1 DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION = 1 DEFAULT_ADMIN_IMMED_NOTIFY = 0 DEFAULT_SEND_REMINDERS = 0 DEFAULT_SUBSCRIBE_POLICY = 0 ALLOW_OPEN_SUBSCRIBE = 1 DEFAULT_PRIVATE_ROSTER = 2 DEFAULT_BOUNCE_INFO_STALE_AFTER = days(60) DEFAULT_BOUNCE_YOU_ARE_DISABLED_WARNINGS = 1 DEFAULT_BOUNCE_UNRECOGNIZED_GOES_TO_LIST_OWNER = 0 DEFAULT_BOUNCE_NOTIFY_OWNER_ON_DISABLE = 0 DEFAULT_BOUNCE_NOTIFY_OWNER_ON_REMOVAL = 0 DELIVERY_RETRY_PERIOD = days(1) DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RECIPIENTS = 1000000 If anyone has mailman already running over SSL I'd appreciate some help. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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qrunner dying problem
by Greg Westin 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

I asked this question a while back, but didn't receive an answer: I'm running Mailman 2.1b on OS X with Postfix, and have tried to set things up so that Mailman starts automatically when I boot up (see the attached text files, if attachments are allowed on mailman-users). I've noticed, however, that Mailman doesn't seem to start up automatically when I reboot, and sometimes the qrunners will just stop working. When either of these things happens, my mailing lists can be down for hours without my knowing it, because the mail is received and sent to Mailman just fine, it just never gets sent out. I didn't know what to do about this, so I used the following crude method. I simply added a root cron job that runs every hour that calls the startup item I attached (/Library/StartupItems/Mailman/Mailman). This keeps the system from being down for more than an hour, but is obviously not a good solution, and it generates an error message every hour telling me that the qrunners are fine. What could be going wrong here? I saw something that described a similar problem and advised running check_perms, but I just ran it and the only problems were with directory permissions on my private archives (I don't know why this is happening, either, but they show up with incorrect permissions). Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, Greg Westin --- greg(a)gregwestin.com http://www.gregwestin.com/ Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php

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run add_members command in apache (php)
by Simon Chan 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Dear all, I just install mailman and want to add members directly in my own web page and not use the mailman provided one. However, the command /var/mailman/bin/add_members cannot be run in web page. I use php function call system("/var/mailman/bin/add_members -d mailing-lists abc", $return_value) mailing-lists is the filename that stores the email address that want to add into list. abc is the list name. I try to use apache user to run this command in console and it works. But, cannot add members using this command in php. Anyone know how to solve it?? Thanks. I use Redhat 7.3 Regards Simon

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headings with logo
by Erich Neuwirth 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

is it possible to modify the header section of all the web interface pages to include a site specific logo? -- -- Erich Neuwirth, Computer Supported Didactics Working Group Visit our SunSITE at http://sunsite.univie.ac.at Phone: +43-1-4277-38624 Fax: +43-1-4277-9386

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Extracting member list from remote mailman server
by Blank Noname 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hello Folks, Can any of you point me to a script that will perform the following? I have admin access to a Mailman list, but not system operations on the (remote) Mailman server (i.e., I use the web based admin access). I need to extract the memberlist (which is shown in alphebetical order a segment at a time under member management menu). Is there a script (Perl, Python etc) that would recursively extract the pages from the server and save to the local host? The list must be closed - so use of "who" is not an option. I tried searching the web with possible keywords, but did not have any luck. Thanks in advance. Tilak __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Information, please!!!
by Jaime Gonzalez 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

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Installation help
by Charles Dark 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

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