Mailman 3 March 2002 - Mailman-Users

Mailman problem - gid not find
by Carfield Yim 29 Mar '02

29 Mar '02

I get the following problem in mailman when try to send mail to the list: [ Part 2: 'Delivery error report' ] Reporting-MTA: dns; desktop.carfield.com.hk Arrival-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 05:45:04 -0500 (EST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; smartcarpark(a)desktop.carfield.com.hk Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 2: '/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post smartcarpark'. Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid 65534. (Reconfigure to take 65534?) How can I fix it? \\\|/// \- - -// ( @ @ ) -----------oOOo-(_)-oOOo------------------------------- Visit my homepage at http://www.carfield.com.hk -------------------------------------------------------

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Email Headers
by Darryl Harvey 29 Mar '02

29 Mar '02

I was wondering if there was an option to turn on or off the email headers that mailman adds. IE: List-Help: <mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:mailman-users@python.org> List-Subscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>, <mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org?subject=subscribe> List-Id: Mailman mailing list management users <mailman-users.python.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>, <mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/> They take up a lot of header space, else maybe move them above the To: From: Subject: lines?? I searched the FAQ and the admin docs, but found nothing mentioning these headers. They can get ugly on some mail readers (IE: Eudora) Thanks Darryl

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Editing confirm message
by Detlef Neubauer 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Jason Buscema <jpbuse(a)lambesis.com> writes: > I want to simplify the confirm message. $EDITOR $MAILMANHOME/templates/verify.txt Mit freundlichen Grüßen Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://www.keyserver.net/ Oo.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] approve every post?
by Detlef Neubauer 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Jonas Meurer <jonas(a)freesources.org> writes: > J. Frederick Ball OEF wrote: > > > >The reason it is being held: > > > Message has implicit destination > > > > Here is the problem -- if you have implicit destinations, such as addresses > > in the bcc field, the message is held. > > Wow, that's my problem too. And how can I tell mailman to ignore > implicit destination? Privacy Options Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field (or be among the acceptable alias names, specified below)? [X] No [ ] Yes Mit freundlichen Grüßen Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://www.keyserver.net/ Oo.

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Re: stripping Received: headers
by Tom Neff 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Dan Wilder <dan(a)ssc.com> wrote: > Be aware that not having [Received:] headers will make troubleshooting > certain kinds of subscriber problems more difficult. Not an > issue for announce-only lists, and maybe not so much an issue > for moderated lists, but for others, keep a copy. The simplest way to keep a copy is just to add a file to the alias entry when you create the list, e.g. mylist: /var/spool/lists/mylist,"|/home/mailman2/mail/wrapper post mylist" Even better would be to keep a big "Received Chronicle": mylist: "|/usr/local/bin/reformail -c -X Message-Id: -X Received: |sort >>/var/spool/lists/mylist_recvd","|/usr/local/bin/reformail -I Received: | /home/mailman2/mail/wrapper post mylist" That file would contain just the message ID's (or you could use From:) followed by their Received: lines. Tracking down a problem would be relatively easy. You can use one of the log rotater programs to swap these out when they get too big.

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problems sending to (my) list...
by Gary Wang 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

hiya. I just installed and configured Mailman on a server running RedHat Linux 7.1. The MTA is Postfix, which (I think) is supposed to work like sendmail. I have been over the configurations numerous times, but I can't seem to find what I am missing. When I send a test message to my "test" list, my /var/log/maillog just tells me there's no such user as "test". The MailerDaemon error message says the same thing. Following the "Common Problems FAQ" for sendmail problems, I also created a ln -s /home/mailman/mail/wrapper etc/smrsh/wrapper. What am I missing? (or is Postfix just not compatible??) thanks, gary gary c wang ICQ: 4343405

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Introduction Email
by blueTrance 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Hi list, I am looking for a way to send an introduction email out to new users on a mailing list. For example to send out the list FAQ and guide lines and a brief welcome message after the user subscribes to the list. Is there a way to do this with the mailman package? If so any help on how to do this would be appreciated. Thanks

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smtp error is now fixed
by linux＠ke6upi.com 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Sendmail was accepting on 199.245.188.13 not 127.0.0.1. My /etc/hosts file had 127.0.0.1 ke6upi.com ke6upi localhost localhost.localdomain. I changed it to 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 199.245.188.13 ke6upi.com Thanks for the help, David Shaw

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newbie question: is there a 'list or file or db' where the bounce mailaddresses are stored ?
by Lothar Egger 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

hello all sorry if this was asked before, i could not find an answer to my question. we don't have a list server so far but what we are trying to do is, feed a list server with email-addresses (100.000+ and growing) from our databases. of course not all email-addressee are correct :) so we need a list of bounced email-addresses to update our db's . is there such a list or file in mailman ? thanks in advance lothar

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bad links on http://www.list.org/MM21/faq.html
by dale＠accentre.com 28 Mar '02

28 Mar '02

Sorry for the widespread distribution this is getting, but this *is* the address given on the referenced page under "Email Us", so I hope this will get to the right person so this can be corrected. On page http://www.list.org/MM21/faq.html the links: (Stripmime) http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html. (Demime) http://scifi.squawk.com/demime.html. don't work because they both have a period at the end of the URL.

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