Mailman 3 September 2002 - Mailman-Users

Help for a new install on Linux
by Mark Tilden Oct. 3, 2002

Oct. 3, 2002

Ladies & Gents: I'm new to this, so please forgive me if these questions are basic: I've installed mailman on my linux box and it seems to be for the most part working, after some tweaking. I have run into two problems that have me stumped, however: 1. I created a test list after I installed mailman. Unfortunately, the name of the list contains spaces. That appears to cause numerous problems, including for some reason a problem with the administration interface cookie not working … [View More]

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batch updates to mail lists?
by Bob Treitman Oct. 3, 2002

Oct. 3, 2002

Question: Can list administrators do batch replacements of the entire mailing list membership list? I'm considering using Mailman to distribute email newsletters to an organization whose email addresses are stored in a database. For several reasons, I don't want people (un)subscribing from Mailman; instead, I want to make sure that their email addresses are disabled in the database, and then the list administrator will replace the existing Mailman list with a completely new list generated … [View More]

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"Members" vs. "Subscribers"
by Bob Weissman Oct. 2, 2002

Oct. 2, 2002

This is a linguistic subtlety in the English version of Mailman. Maliman refers to list subscribers as "members," for example when rejecting a post from a "non-member" to a "members-only" list. This terminology is confusing in some circumstances. Here's why. I run lists for a professional, non-profit, organization which has dues-paying members. Not all paying members subscribe to all lists, and not all subscribers are paying members. If a dues-paying member has a posting rejected to what … [View More]

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is it possible to customize subscription success welcome message?
by Patrick Hsieh Oct. 2, 2002

Oct. 2, 2002

Hello all, I've read the FAQ and can't find any idea about this. -- Patrick Hsieh <pahud(a)ezplay.tv> GPG public key http://pahud.net/pubkeys/pahudatezplay.gpg

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## Mailman Questions for "FAQ"
by Fred Showker Oct. 1, 2002

Oct. 1, 2002

Greetings QUESTIONS FOR MAILMAN #1 Sudden deluge of SPAM hitting the list Under the "Security" section of the ADMIN it says: "... See "forbidden" However I cannot find "forbidden" anywhere on any of the help pages or any of the other pages. Also searched the documentation and the word doesn't occur there either. Will those 'frequent' spammers be blocked if I add their domains to the block screen? How do I block them without getting a notice? Hold posts … [View More]

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cron errors, no archiving, v2.1b3
by bronto Sept. 30, 2002

Sept. 30, 2002

I posted a question regarding error messages last week while I was still running 2.1b2. I have just upgraded to v2.1b3 after being chastised for being tardy with updating. :') Now back to the questions - I have more info. Here's what I posted last week (the 23rd): "I'm running Mailamn v2.1b2, and just got these errors sent to my email: _________________________________________________________________________ Subject: Cron <mailman@g3> /usr/bin/python2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/… [View More]

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"Operation not permitted" when updating aliases in Postfix.py
by Sergey A Lipnevich Sept. 30, 2002

Sept. 30, 2002

Hi, My mailman installation is mostly doing fine, but every time I create a new list, I hit an error while performing os.system(update aliases db) in Postfix.py. I'm not running a secure kernel. I fact, when I do: su - mailman python -c 'import os; print os.system("<skipped>/postalias <skipped>/mailman/data/aliases");' I get "0" (zero character) in the output, which means it's OK (?). How come it can't run when a web interface is used? Naturally, my Apache is not running … [View More]

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Help for a new install on Linux
by Mark Tilden Sept. 30, 2002

Sept. 30, 2002

Ladies & Gents: I'm new to this, so please forgive me if these questions are basic: I've installed mailman on my linux box and it seems to be for the most part working, after some tweaking. I have run into two problems that have me stumped, however: 1. I created a test list after I installed mailman. Unfortunately, the name of the list contains spaces. That appears to cause numerous problems, including for some reason a problem with the administration interface cookie not working … [View More]

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Problem getting mailman to work
by Zoheb Sait Sept. 30, 2002

Sept. 30, 2002

Hello, I installed mailman on my server, with the all the right flags and stuff, however mailman is not sending out any emails, no confirmation emails and not sending mail to any subscribed users. For e.g if I manually subscribe and send a message to the list, the message appears in the archives but none of the subscribed users recieve it. There is no error in the log files, and the log files also do not show any activity by mailman except for the mail from the subscribed user being sent … [View More]

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Virus Scanning
by Angel Gabriel Sept. 30, 2002

Sept. 30, 2002

I am currently very pissed off. Okay, so it doesn't show via email, but I have just lost my virtual domains due to exxess mail messages being sent to people's mail boxes. Don't worry, this is NOT the fault of mail man. But the fault of some bastard virus, which is on some, maybe even all of my machines. I have no idea how, but about 150 emails got sent to my mailing list... which has in excess of 100k members, and is supposed to be used for occasional, and I mean OCCASIONAL mailouts.... so you … [View More]

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