Mailman 3 November 2002 - Mailman-Users

user_name causes messages not to be delivered
by Alexander Skwar 23 Nov '02

23 Nov '02

Hello. I enabled full personalization on my list and added %(user_name)s to the message header. After doing so, no messages get delivered. I'm also looking for some logs to see why this might be failing. If somebody could help me, I'd be happy. I'm running Mailman 2.1b5. Thanks, Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.biz | Jabber: askwar(a)a-message.de iso-top.biz - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 6 days 15 hours 15 minutes

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2.1b5 still announcing as 2.1b4?
by Alexander Skwar 23 Nov '02

23 Nov '02

Hi! I recently updated to 2.1b5, however the mail headers still contain: X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b4 Is that correct? Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.biz | Jabber: askwar(a)a-message.de iso-top.biz - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 6 days 14 hours 54 minutes

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list of users subscribed
by David Moore 23 Nov '02

23 Nov '02

Is there a way for the _Administrator of a LIST_ (not Mailman admin) to export a backup or report of the members of a list such as a delimited text file? I couldn't find it in the FAQ -may have just overlooked it... If someone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated. I believe we are on Mailman version 2.0.13 David Moore --------------------------------------------- AIBI Resources Resources for Biblical Church Development A Ministry of American Indian Bible Institute HTTP://www.aibi.org/ ---------------------------------------------

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SOLVED: Postfix+Mailman alias-free and in separate namespace
by Dax Kelson 23 Nov '02

23 Nov '02

I've created the script postfix-to-mailman.py. Python seemed natural, as mailman is written in python, and invoking postfix-to-mailman.py script on delivery to mailman just warms up the disk cache with all the python code and speeds invocation of mailman. Postfix configuration samples (thanks Wietse) can be found inside the script itself. The script is heavily based on the qmail-to-postfix script by Bruce Perens. You can get the script at: http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html Dax Kelson Guru Labs

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Hostname setup question
by Donald Wong 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

I'm running Mailman on a Linux server, with Sendmail running on the same server. The current configuration: mailman is running on host: listserver.company.local mailman reports in email from headers: @listserver.company.local And We want this instead: mailman is running on host: listserver.company.local mailman reports in email From fields: @company.com (note the .com) mailman web page is at: http://www.company.local/mailman/ Currently, if users open their mailing list email with say Outlook, Outlook will display: From field: <listname>-admin@<my.host.name> on behalf of <name(a)host.name> I know that this is the expected behaviour since both the From and the Sender mail header reads <listname>-admin@<my.host.name> and the X-Sender header field will display the actual person who composed the email. Thank you.

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Announce only list
by Parker, David K 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

Exactly my point. That's teo votes. Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: Gary Casterline [mailto:casterln@nature.Berkeley.EDU] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 3:17 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Announce only list Yes, it is good to be able to customize each lists listinfo.html, but it'd also be nice to be able to customize the welcome message text that gets sent out to new subscribers. For announce only lists, I'd like to remove the misleading paragraph explaing how to post to a list which I've made moderated and "unpostable to". _Gary On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:20:31PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > >>>>> "DKP" == David K Parker <dparker(a)ci.bryan.tx.us> writes: > > DKP> We are wanting to create an announce only list for upcoming > DKP> events in our City. In looking at mailman, it appears the > DKP> standard welcome message can be prepended with some text, but > DKP> you cannot customize the entire message for a specific > DKP> list. > > In Mailman 2.1 you can drop your customized listinfo.html file into > the lists/<mylist>/en directory (assuming you're changing the English > version of the text) and Mailman will automatically pick it up for > myst the `mylist' list. The complete look up rules are documented in > a comment before the maketext() function in Mailman/Utils.py. > > It can be done in MM2.0, but I honestly don't remember the details and > I don't have time right now to swap in those brain cells. > > -Barry >

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Announce only list
by Parker, David K 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

Hmmm, the lack of response on this one leads me to assume that announce only lists are not a feature of Mailman. Short of modifying the default welcome message and mangling every other lists welcome message, this is not doable. Are there any developers monitoring this list? Are there plans to add this type of functionality in the future? It would seem reasonable that one could alter the entire contents of a welcome message for any given list without affecting every other list. A default welcome should still be available but allowed to be overridden entirely for a specific list. I guess a workaround would be to take the unwanted verbage out of the default welcome message then prepending appropriate text to the non announce only lists. Any other thoughts on this? Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: Parker, David K [mailto:dparker@ci.bryan.tx.us] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:04 PM To: 'mailman-users(a)python.org' Subject: [Mailman-Users] Announce only list We are wanting to create an announce only list for upcoming events in our City. In looking at mailman, it appears the standard welcome message can be prepended with some text, but you cannot customize the entire message for a specific list. We particulary want to cut out the wording about how to post to the list, since posting will not be permitted. What are the standard procedures for setting up an announce only list without effecting the welcome message for every other list on the same server? I'm sure there is a simple way that I'm overlooking. Thanks, David Parker

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Attachments and missing archive messages
by ellen lenihan 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me with two issues. 1. Our list is not handing attachments. Is there anyway to change this? 2. Only some of the archives coming up when we download them. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks, Ellen _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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Membership Management
by Branton Davis 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

Is there a way to change all members to digest without clicking on the box next to each address on the web interface, under Membership Management? Also, is there a way to do a mass change with the other options on this page, such as hide, ack, notmetoo, and subscribe, and plain? Thanks, Branton

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mail flow stats
by Rantanen, TC1 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

I was wondering if anyone is monitoring the through put, queue levels, totals count of there listserv box/boxes? If so what are you using, web, command line, homemade, or off the shelf? Also I am looking for stuff that would be related to exim/apache. Ed Rantanen

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