Mailman 3 March 2003 - Mailman-Users

[Mailman-Users] A Known bug with confirmation string & excessive bounces
by Tspeight＠rockygorge.com April 6, 2003

April 6, 2003

I have sent this in before but I guess the powers that be are NOT interested. There is definitely something wrong with the bounce process with regards to the Confirmation string. The first time I reported this the problem occurred on the Mailman-users list. The other times it is occurring on a list that I host. This is not a random problem. On 14 January 2003, I received the following message: "Your membership in the mailing list Mailman-Users has been disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated 14-Jan-2003." On 13 February 2003, I received the following message: "Your membership in the mailing list Mailman-Users has been disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated 14-Jan-2003." The confirmation sting that was sent on both times follows. 37037b7a051f71a816e27e8e0b9ba82aaf107f7b The confirmation string has been invalid each time! Further on one of my lists a member received a confirmation string but his account was okay. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Thomas

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Re: [Mailman-Users] how to force confirmation on my list owners?
by Jon Carnes April 6, 2003

April 6, 2003

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 03:51, Marc Haber wrote: > Your post never made it to the list as far as my inbox is concerned. > I'll answer the courtesy copy in private because of that. Feel free to > reply to the list while quoting me. Sorry, I must have simply hit Reply rather than Reply To All... or maybe I just hit my quota of list responses for that day :-) > > On 20 Feb 2003 20:18:32 -0500, Jon Carnes <jonc(a)nc.rr.com> wrote: > >You could hack the code to remove the subscribe option from the > >Web-admin. This would be a fairly easy hack. Other than that, it's not > >configurable. > > Yuck. I'll look after that possibility. Don't like it at all though. > > I am still a novice mailman user: Is there a way to have that feature > put on some kind of TODO list? > If you look up on Sourceforge at the Mailman project you will see that there is a way of dropping off suggested features. You can also label it as such on this list... Note: suggestions that include snippets of code to help accomplish the requested feature, get a lot more response than others. Note2: if you really want a feature, you can always pay for it! Then donate it back to the public domain. The whole world will sing you Hazzah's.

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password and confirmation email questions
by Jeff Poretsky April 6, 2003

April 6, 2003

2 hopefully simple questions. 1. (yes i know this opens up security problems)...Is there a way to set a standard/default password. this would be so our subscribers would not have to remember their password and we can set a mailto with the unsubscribe information. 2. Where do i edit the subscription confirmation email? I do not want anything but "thanks for joining our list" or somesuch Thanks, Jeff Poretsky

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[Mailman-Users] Problem with multiple subscription confirmation messages
by S. Krishnan April 6, 2003

April 6, 2003

Hi, I just upgraded my mailman 2.0.13 install to 2.1.1 by downloading and installing from source. The previous version worked fine. However, 2.1.1 has a major issue with subscription messages. Every time someone subscribes to a list, mailman sends them a mailing list subscription confirmation notice. With mailman 2.1.1, replying to this notice does not seem to work. Instead of confirming the subscription, it sends *another* mailing list subscription confirmation notice, with a different number. Replying to this results in yet another subscription confirmation notice! However, subscription confirmation off the web page works OK. It is only the confirmation by reply to the notice that is broken. Could someone please help? TIA, Krishnan

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msg_footer personal admin page reference
by Jan Banan April 2, 2003

April 2, 2003

Hi, I like to adjust the msg_footer so that it instead of refereing to the general admin page for all users %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(list_name)s would refer to the personal admin page, maybe something like %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(list_name)s/%(email_of_subscriber)s Is that possible? What is then the correct variable name of "email_of_subscriber"? (using Mailman 2.1.1) Best regards / JB

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record
by Sullivan, John April 1, 2003

April 1, 2003

OK - But how do I get lists.mlsnet.com to relay mail to the mlsnet.com mail server. Subcribers from the mlsnet.com domain are not receiving any news letters sent out from the lists.mlsnet.com server. I am getting a connection timed out when it tries to contact the external MX records. I have added an entry in my hosts file that looks like this: 10.10.10.1 mlsnet.com which is the internal ip of the mlsnet.com mail server. Your help is appreciated.. -----Original Message----- From: william+mm(a)hq.newdream.net [mailto:william+mm@hq.newdream.net] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 3:55 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: [Mailman-Users] Re: Do I need an MX Record On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:34:02AM -0500, Jon Carnes wrote: > In DNS you would have something like: > lists.mlsnet.com. A 216.216.23.43 > MX 10 lists.mlsnet.com > MX 100 mail.mlsnet.com > > In this scenario all mail to user(a)lists.mlsnet.com will be delivered to > lists.mlsnet.com. If that server does not respond then the mail will be > queued up on your main mail server: mail.mlsnet.com > > This assumes that you can setup the other mail server to act as a > secondary. If not, then just leave it off. > > And "yes" virginia, you *do* need an MX record. If you don't have an MX > record then any mail to lists.mlsnet.com will be dumped out to your main > mail server (using your domains MX record). You could setup some > internal routes on that server to shuffle mail over to lists.mlsnet.com, > but that would be counter to your stated intention of moving the load > away from the main mail server. ??? If there's an 'A' record for lists.mlsnet.com, and this is the host they want mail for lists.mlsnet.com to be delivered to, there is no need for an MX record. It's good practice to have one, but it's absolutely not required. And if you're trying to say that (if an MX record for lists.mlsnet.com is absent) mail for lists.mlsnet.com will be delivered to the machine that's the MX record for mlsnet.com itself, you are completely, 100% wrong. -- The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a Sin. The Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war? - Michael Moore ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: jsullivan(a)mlsnet.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jsullivan%40mlsnet.com

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Internal Domain Resolution
by Sullivan, John April 1, 2003

April 1, 2003

Here is a chunk of the maillog file. Mar 31 12:01:57 localhost sendmail[780]: h2SKs2Rg011995: to=<jsullivan(a)mlsnet.com>, delay=2+20:07:55, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=6439538, relay=mail.majorleaguesoccer.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.majorleaguesoccer.com. Mar 31 12:01:57 localhost sendmail[780]: h2R14iRf002505: to=<90minutes(a)mlsnet.com>, delay=4+15:57:12, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=10488802, relay=mail.majorleaguesoccer.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.majorleaguesoccer.com. It is trying to send mail to jsullivan(a)mlsnet.com through the relay of mail.majorleaguesoccer.com - Same Server ---mlsnet.com and mail.majorleaguesoccer.com --- as far as the DNS/MX records go so it shouldn't make a difference. Both of these domains (lists.mlsnet.com and mlsnet.com are on the same network) Is there a way I can tell the mailman to resolve mlsnet.com locally rather looking for a relay on the internet - I think that is my problem but not sure how to fix it. j -----Original Message----- From: John DeCarlo [mailto:jdecarlo@mitre.org] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:47 AM To: Sullivan, John Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Internal Domain Resolution John, I don't know exactly what you are running up against. But a good place to look for clues are the various logs. I would start with <mailman_dir>/logs and check out the bounce log. Maybe the messages there would help. Sendmail logs would be the next step. Sullivan, John wrote: > Hi - > > > > I am running RH 8 with Mailman 2.0. I am having a problem emailing the list > from my internal network. > > > > The list is setup to resolve the domain lists.mlsnet.com > > I can send emails to the list from any external account - Ex. Hotmail. > > But I cannot send emails to the lists from my regular corp email > jsullivan(a)mlsnet.com <mailto:jsullivan@mlsnet.com> > > Also when I send to the list from an external account - Ex Hotmail - It gets > delivered to everyone on the list except for registered users from the > mlsnet.com > > > > I guess there is some kind of domain name resolution problem going on but I > am not sure where to fix it. Also I am not sure whether it is a RH config or > a mailman config. > > > > Thanks for your help.. > > -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own

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Lists not showing up in listinfo
by Listmom April 1, 2003

April 1, 2003

Greetings all. I'm having a small problem after moving a list to a new server. After importing all the files located under mailman/lists, I can no longer see the public lists when I go to http://lists.doman.com/mailman/listinfo Help.

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List size
by Sullivan, John April 1, 2003

April 1, 2003

I am using RH8 with Mailman and Sendmail. I have list set up that I want to send a newsletter out to. The Iist is about 50000 addresses. Will Mailman and sendmail be able to handle that? Also how are the emails sent out when I click send? Is the entire list spooled and then sent out or does it do it in chunks - You're advice is appreciated... Thanks John

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Limit who can send mail to the list
by Sullivan, John March 31, 2003

March 31, 2003

I am trying to limit who can send mail to the list - I have tried turning on the option of "Must posts be approved by an administrator? (Details) No Yes" This way anything sent to the list would have to go to the administrator first. What is the proper way to do this? Thanks

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