Mailman 3 May 2002 - Mailman-Users

large lists question
by Andreu Sanchez June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

Hello, First to do is congratulate you all for the great job you are doing, we are using mailman in a lot of machines and is working perfectly, keep doing that great job!. Well, i have a question regarding mailman, we need to create some lists with 5000 mail addresses and we ask ourselves if mailman would support that huge bunch of mails and if the answer is yes, what machine must have the mailman? Thanks in advance. Regards, -- __________________________________________________ / In … [View More]

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Question about Mailman
by Tony O June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

Is there a limit to the number of subscribers the Mailman mailing list can have? Thanks Tony

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mail loop for digest members
by wayne June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

My ISP is running version 2.01 of Mailman on their Linux 7.2 box. I have 2 mailman lists. One is fine. However twice now I have experienced a mail loop where all digest members received the same digest every 1minute or so. The only thing I could do is to delete the list as my ISP could not stop it (as a side note I only have access to the list through the admin web pages and cannot export the membership list which is a MAJOR problem for me to get it backed up- I cannot run scripts on the … [View More]

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slow web administration
by Tremaine Lea June 2, 2002

June 2, 2002

Hey there folks, Not sure if anyone else has run across this issue, but it's slowly driving me batty. I currently have mailman 2.0.9-1 running on a Xeon 800 with 500 megs of ram. It has a single mailing list with roughly 450,000 subscribers. I've found that accessing the web interface for administration is incredibly slow. Is there any way to speed that up, or to handle pending admin tasks from the command line? When watching system processes, I notice that python takes up virtually all … [View More]

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Mailman in french
by Laurent Rathle June 2, 2002

June 2, 2002

Hello, Is it possible to put french messages and templates in mailman 2.0.8 and if yes, how do I set it ? Thank you, -- lrathle(a)teaser.fr

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restricting privileges
by john d June 2, 2002

June 2, 2002

Hi, Can anyone suggest a way of restricting privileges in the Mailman web admin pages? In particular I'd like to stop users with list-admin privileges from being able to change the max_message_size setting but still allow site-admins to have full access. Thanks John

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Is mailman the thing to use with a big newsletter?
by Support June 2, 2002

June 2, 2002

Hello, i'm searching a software that gives me the ability to send my newsletter to nearly 240'000 recipents. My webserver is running Debian potato. I don't now weather mailman is the right software. I'd be very happy if you could tell me about your experiences. Thanks, Florian Kubis

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Greetings from Northeastern Argentina's
by Eduardo Sosa June 2, 2002

June 2, 2002

Hi! After years having used Sendmail+Majordomo+Linux, I´ve migrated to Exim+Mailman+linux http://listas.unam.edu.ar/mailman/listinfo . I do know that you receive questions like this one every day, but I would like to know from where could I download a spanish translation for the Mailman 2.0.11 With regards -- ///////////////////////////////////////////// Eduardo Omar Sosa eososa(a)unam.edu.ar Universidad Nacional de Misiones Ruta 12 Km 7,5 - 3304 M. Lanús Tel-… [View More]

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html messages in archives?
by Steven June 2, 2002

June 2, 2002

hiya, is it possible for messages which were sent in html and/or mime to be displayed in the archives as they were displayed to recipients? default settings seem to display the code as PRE test rather than HTML or MIME. any docs to point me to that I'm missing which touch on this subject? any hacks available if no settings to do it with? thanks, ~Steven

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How to handle single quote in subscriber email address
by Cassandra Fleetwood June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

cron logs the following error message from qrunner when attempting to send the subscription confirmation message to a user that has a single in their address (i.e. "john.o'reilly(a)domain.com"). sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file How do I get Mailman to handle addresses that contain a single quote? My configuration: RedHat 7.2, Apache 1.3.23, Python 1.5.2, Sendmail 8.11.6, Mailman 2.0.11 -Cassandra

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