Mailman 3 May 2002 - Mailman-Users

mailman v2.0.10 question
by Devin May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

I posted to the list before I was subscribed but apparently my message was never approved... I'm using mailman version 2.0.10. When I try to change the case of my list name, the first option on the General Options page, I get denied. Example: Change: Sprinkler-newsletter to Sprinkler-Newsletter Response: real_name attribute not changed! It must differ from the list's name by case only. Is this a bug? Also, is there any way that I can edit the templates used when sending confirmation … [View More]

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remove email address from Mailman-Footer?
by hostmaster May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

Hi, I've searched high and low and have either missed the answer to this during my search or it's very well hidden. How to I remove, hide or munge the list-owner's address from the Mailman-Footer to protect it from being scooped up by spambots? I'm speaking particularly of this phrase at the bottom of the listinfo page for a list: "ListName list run by listowner(a)domain.dom ListName administrative interface (requires authorization)" tia, ~steven

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Importing very large list archives from mbox format to Mailman
by Scott Courtney May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

Good evening! Sorry to bother you again. I have successfully downloaded all my archives from YahooGroups using the excellent yahoo2mbox.pl utility mentioned previously. When I try to run bin/arch <list> <mbox_filename> to import them, only about 80 messages will go into the archives. I tried using the --start and --end parameters, as shown: bin/arch --start=81 --end=160 <list> <mbox_filename> but the arch utility won't accept that syntax. It *will* accept the … [View More]

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New to Mailman -- Dropped messages to list owner's own email
by Scott Courtney May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

Good evening, all, or good morning to those in distant time zones! I've been using Mailman for just shy of a week, with generally good results, but have run into a very strange problem as my configuration complexity has grown. I've been to the FAQ, the online docs, and numerous Google searches of the list archives, to no avail. I'm sure someone has seen this before, and I'm hoping you can help. The configuration is this: I am on a Linux server where I have root privileges but do not own the … [View More]server. Because of this, I try to keep as many of my configurations as possible confined to my regular login, so as not to disrupt the rest of the functions of this machine. I have Mailman 2.1b2 (beta) installed in ~/mailman. By the way, I tried the stable version first and encountered this same (exactly!) problem, and went to the beta in hopes that it would be fixed -- so I don't think it's a beta bug. I own two domains and want to share one instance of Mailman between them. Call the domains d1.com and d2.net. Neither of these domains is the official domain in which the server lives. I read the docs on how to do this, got Mailman set up, and everything is working perfectly with the exception of the one issue. All through-the-web interfaces are working flawlessly, including the archives. Now, to avoid an intrusive bunch of changes to /etc/mail/virtusertable and /etc/aliases, I am setting up Mailman to use procmail for local routing within my own login. Here is the setup: /etc/mail/virtusertable: @d1.com local:mylogin @d2.net local:mylogin myotherlogin(a)d1.com local:mylogin In ~/.procmailrc: LOGFILE=/home/mylogin/Procmail/log :0: * ^TO_\/(mylogin|myotherlogin)(a)d1.com $DEFAULT :0fw * ^TO_staff(a)d2.net |/home/mylogin/mailman/mail/mailman post staff :0fw * ^TO_staff-\/(owner|admin|bounces....and so on...|subscribe)(a)d2.net |M=`echo $MATCH | sed -e 's/(a)d2.net//'` && /home/mylogin/mailman/mail/mailman $M staff Now, EVERYTHING is working great -- users can subscribe, post messages, list owner features and user features from web work fine. All messages go to the archives, just like clockwork. Everything works -- except that *I* get no mail from the list! I have tried sending mail to the list from several subscribed addresses, and it all goes through and posts to everyone but my two main addresses. Oddly enough, all regular inbound mail is caught by the first procmail rule and stays in my $DEFAULT folder as intended. I have verified this by temporarily putting another folder name in there. No errors in any of the SMTP logs, Mailman logs, or procmail logs. The procmail log shows a one-byte message being posted to my /var/spool/mail/mylogin mailbox. That's the only anomaly. Any ideas? Kind regards, Scott -- -----------------------+------------------------------------------------------ Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them courtney(a)4th.com | having a bad operating system." -- Linus Torvalds http://www.4th.com/ | ("The Rebel Code," NY Times, 21 February 1999) [View Less]

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Re: blocking spam
by Krishna Rao SN May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

>How can I block all the e-mails coming from a certain domain? How can I block a ll the e-mails >coming from lycos.co.kr or korea.com, for example? If you are using Linux and sendmail, the solution is 1. edit /etc/mail/access add the following line lycos.co.kr<tab> 550 No spam allowed here korea.com<tab> 550 No spam allowed here 2. create access.db with the following command makemap hash access.db < access 2. restart sendmail --krishna

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Cannot subscribe to the list
by Gour May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

Subject: Cannot subscribe to the list Hi! I installed Mailman 2.0.11 with htdig patch on our server. Check_perms is reporting no errors and I successfully created one test list. On this list subscribing, archives, searching .. everything works. Afterwards I created several new lists, but after user send his confirmation, the log/subscribe just shows pending request, although on the admin there is no report of pending requests. I've checked mail logs and everything is OK. Also, logs/error … [View More]

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Shall header To: be visible in an archive ??
by Zdenek Pizl May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

Hallo all, is it possible to make mailman to show a header To: in its archive ? I know it is strange wish, but realy i need it :(. thanks z.p.

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Admin access
by Jack Ring May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

I have been administering the, ieig(a)incose.propagation.net mailing list but about a week ago the password, seatcieig, that I had used successfully suddenly started returning "authentication failed" Can you please tell me how to gain access to the admin functions? I have several requests to process. TKU

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blocking spam
by Luis May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

Hi, Im one of the administrators of the cmi-bh(a)lists.indymedia.org mailing list and I have a really simple question. How can I block all the e-mails coming from a certain domain? How can I block all the e-mails coming from lycos.co.kr or korea.com, for example? Thanks, Luis.

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dual installation problems
by mymailman May 31, 2002

May 31, 2002

How do I make the administration and all others internal list pointers direct the commands to a chosen/different default mail directory. I have set up a second mm installation so I need the admin in the second installation *not* to refer to the /mailman/ URL I used : ./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python2 --prefix=/dir/to/mercury --with-u sername=mercury --with-groupname=mercury --with-mail-gid={} --with-cgi-gid= {} I changed mm_cfg to: MAILMAN_URL = 'mercury' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = '… [View More]

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