Mailman 3 April 2002 - Mailman-Users

qmail list aliases
by Gary Price 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

mailman 2.0.10 install file says: Running newlist will generate a list of aliases that must be added to the system. Could someone give an example of how to do add these aliases with qmail 1.03? Thanks

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Exporting Users in Mailman
by J C Lawrence 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 13:52:42 -0700 Mitch Munday <MMunday(a)MFSConsulting.de> wrote: > Is there anywhere of being able to export the entire users out of > mailman? ~mailman/bin/list_members. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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does GNU Mailman keep list of all members joined
by Karim R. Lakhani 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

hi all, hi i was wondering if GNU Mailman keeps track of all users that have subscribed (ever) to the list. Thus is there a data base that tracks current active users and those that have unsubscribed as well? thanks Karim -- =============================================== Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Free/Open Source Software Research Project e-mail: lakhani(a)mit.edu voice: 617-851-1224 fax: 617-344-0403 http://opensource.mit.edu http://freesoftware.mit.edu http://mit.edu/lakhani/www ==============================================

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Post Install Question
by David Flanigan 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Hello Oh great gurus or Mailman: First, awesome program. Many thanks to those who have taken there time to put create such a wonderful tool. Now my question. Everything is working well except for the web page view of the mail archives. When I try to view the archives I get a 404 error from apache that says "The page cannot be found". Now my diligent searching of the FAQ has led me to verify I have Apache configured correctly (which I believe I do). I have sent the first message so that there should be something in the archive. Here is my httpd.conf entries for mailman (my prefix is /var/mailman): ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/var/mailman/cgi-bin/" Alias /pipermail/ /var/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory "/var/mailman/archives/public/"> Options FollowSymLinks </Directory> My error.log says the following: [Tue Apr 30 11:10:54 2002] [error] [client <ip addr>] File does not exist: /var/mailman/archives/public/test/ Looking into that directory, indeed it dose not exist (after I following the sym link from public to private. There is a test.mbox directory, but no test. The test.mbox directory is empty as well. I am getting e-mails sent to this test list, and subscription is working fine. Not sure where to look. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. -- Kind Regards, David A. Flanigan dave(a)flanigan.net http://www.flanigan.net

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Exporting Users in Mailman
by Mitch Munday 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Hi, We have been trialling Mailmann for the last couple of weeks on a test machine, however over the period of the test we have gained many 100's of users. We now wish to reinstall mailman on a more permanent server without losing the users which are currently registered with us. Is there anywhere of being able to export the entire users out of mailman? Your help in this matter is greatly appreciated. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, best regards, Mitch Munday MFS Consulting Heidturmweg 33 D-33100 Paderborn Germany eMail mmunday(a)mfsconsulting.de url http://www.mfsconsulting.de tel +49 5251 871889-0 fax +49 5251 871889-99 voip voip.mfsconsulting.de

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E-mail based password reminder function?
by Todd Marek 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Hello- First off thanks to the developers for an incredible piece of software! I do have one question though. I read through the documentation and used my e-mail to request the available commands. One command that I am looking for is a password reminder command that can be sent through the e-mail subject. I saw that there is one on the user management page but we are trying to avoid having users use that right now and instead use a small form on our site to subscribe/unsubscribe and have their password sent to them. Thanks for any help- Todd Marek

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E-mail based password reminder function?
by Todd Marek 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Hello- First off thanks for an incredible piece of software! I had one question though. I read through the documentation and used my e-mail to request the available commands. One command that I am looking for is a password reminder command that can be sent through the e-mail subject. I saw that there is one on the user management page but we are trying to avoid having users use that right now and instead use a small form on our site to subscribe/unsubscribe and have their password sent to them. Thanks for any help- Todd Marek

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wildcard for member_posting_only revisited
by Jim McCormack 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Hello All: I have been scouring the archives and etc looking for the appropriate way to restrict posting to any poster from my domain. I saw some postings that implied that the "posters" field could accept regular expressions. I quickly gave up on this though, as subsequent postings seemed to imply that procmail was the true answer. Jo Brooks posted probably the most helpful answer I could find. (see below, many thanks Joe!) I have some questions about the implimentation of it though, and thought I would ask some questions to make sure I understand it correctly: 1) Using the procmail script below, the mailing list should not be set to member posting only? It seems like a message which passes by the first rule in the procmail script gets posted as normal. Therefore if I had member_posting_only enabled it would be held for moderator approval? 2) Messages that do not match the domain listed in the procmail script are then sent to mail list owner directly? That is to say, the message no longer flows through the normal approve/reject/discard and etc web interface? If the message was indeed a valid message for the mailing list then the mailowner would have to forward the email to the mailing list? It seems like this is the way it is working for me. I just want to make sure I am not missing something. Cheers! Jim McCormack > List: mailman-users > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] (Q) Rejecting mail from outside local system > From: Jo Brooks <jobrooks(a)us.dhl.com> > Date: 2001-11-05 15:51:24 > [Download message RAW] > > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > > > Is there a simple way of only allowing posters > > from a given domain or domains? > > Eg can I use wildcards (eg *(a)*.tcd.ie) when specifying allowed posters? > > I had to cook up a procmail filter and add it to the filters > directory. Seems to have worked for the several lists that wanted > to implement it, so I must've gotten it right :) > > I'm rather new to procmail, so it took a whole lot of scouring thru > the mailman-users and majordomo-users archives at marc.theaimsgroup.com > but those examples helped immensely. This is what I ended up with, > in a filter I called "restricts": > > :0 > * !^From:.*@.*\.dhl\.com > |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner ${MAILMAN} > > :0 > |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post ${MAILMAN} > > and the alias entry looks like: > > testing: "|/usr/bin/procmail -m MAILMAN='testing' /home/mailman/filters/r > estricts" > > Hope this helps. > > > Jo Brooks > DHL Worldwide Express > Systems Support Group >

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A problem with approval
by Lubomir Snajder 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Dear friends, I am owner and also moderator of a mailing list (didinfo(a)list.upjs.sk) run under Mailman 2.0.8. When someone write e-mail message to this moderated mailing list, naturaly I have to approve this message. Web environment is very nice (some years ago a used programs listproc, majordomo) but if I do some changes to e-mail message which waiting for my approval and then I approve it, the original message will come to members of mailing list without my changes. Can you help me and give me some advice how to solve this problem. Many thanks in advance. Best wishes Lubomir Snajder University of P.J.Safarik Faculty of Science Department of Informatics Jesenna 5, 04154 Kosice SLOVAKIA

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recipients email address in footer
by Mark Moshe Kaye 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Hi, It is possible to configure mailman 2.0.8 to put the recipients email address in the footer of an outgoing message ? This would make it easier to resolve issues with forwarded bouncing messages. TIA, Moshe __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

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