Mailman 3 April 2003 - Mailman-Users

List adresses are not getting picked up.
by Mader, Cary J April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

I'm setting up MailMan on a SuSE 8.2 distribution that was generally configured out of the box with a couple of minor tweaks after looking at the archives for this list. Postfix is sending/receiving mail correctly. The mailman cgi interface is working correctly, and I can successfully create a list. The list mail addresses are built correctly in the mailman/data/aliases file, but for some reason Postfix has yet to recognize the addresses. >From what I see, there is a folder named /etc/aliases.d that has symobolic links to the mailman/data/aliases files and it appears that perhaps Postfix is supposed to just magically pick that up, but I can't see any configuration files/parameters that would cause that to happen. It's also hard to find anything in the Postfix or the Mailman documentation that clearly defines how the mailman aliases.db file really gets picked up apart from the alias_maps parameter in the postfix main.cf file. I tried playing with that but it still did not appear to work. Any help would be appreciated. Cary Mader EDS Business Acceleration Services cary.mader(a)eds.com <mailto:cary.mader@eds.com> 602.395.8239

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split into fewer recipients
by Chris Bauer April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Hello all, I am trying to find a way to reduce the number of recipients in the messages that mailman sends out. The background info for this is we have an institutional wide list here with roughly 3000 subscribers. When messages are being sent out, our mail gateway is getting backed up processing these messages. Our gateway admin is of the opinion that if this was split up into more messages, more threads could be used (since each message inboud is supposed to be processed by a thread) and this would help with the problem. So, is there a way I can split this up into more messages with fewer recipients per message? If not through the mailman config, possibly through the sendmail config? Thanks in advance, -Chris

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HTML being stripped in postings
by Charles Hall April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Help! I've been unable to get HTML to pass through to any of my mailing lists. I've tried a zillion different settings, but the only luck I've had is when I turn "filter_content" off completely. That's not right is it? I've peeked and poked at MimeDel.py and it doesn't seem to be a matter of filter-types or anything. It seems to be something called "reset_payload", but I'm way out of my league by now. If anyone has this working, or has the same problem, I'd sure like to know. Oh, I know HTML gets scrubbed from the archive. I'm not talking about that. I mean the mailings themselves. Thanks, Charles Hall Raleigh, NC USA

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multiple lists, same message, avoid sending to same users on different lists
by Adam Lipson April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

I am going to be hosting a few discussion lists that may have members that are the same across the lists. Is there any mechanism that will allow me to send a message to a few or all of the lists and the members that are on multiple lists only receive one message regardless of the number of lists they are on. IE we don't want to be a Spammer :) Thanks, Adam

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Email commands for list owners
by Nick April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Hi, we're preparing to migrate a bunch of lists from Listproc to Mailman. The owners of some lists want to be sure that they can still perform administrative tasks to their lists via email as can be done in Listproc. So far, I haven't found any evidence that list owner-specific commands exist. The "help" command gives the same response to list owners/admins that it does to regular subscribers. Are there any email commands for list owners? If so, where can I find them? Any response is greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Nick Systems Admin, The Envirolink Network

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mailman port
by Scott Eagle April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

The old Admin for our server left without documenting anything. I am curious what port I might look for to find mailman's GUI. He has left a username and password for the GUI and I figured it must be accessible from somewhere. Any ideas? Thanks, Scott Eagle

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How to make a list act like a distribution list.
by Paul F. Williams April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

We are just starting to use mailman. What is the best way to set up a list so it acts as a "distribution" or "newsletter" mode? Then only the admin can post, add and delete subscribers. Is it done through the options What steps are required for subscription? confirm+approvals Must posts be approved by an administrator? Yes Who can view subscription list? List Admin Only Restrict posting privilege to list members? Yes Or is there a better way? Thanks, paulw

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Hosting
by John Grafflin April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

I signed up for LunarPages because it looked like a good host for my mailing list. This was my first exposure to Cpanel, and I'm not impressed. But I am impressed with Mailman. Can anyone recommend a host that uses Mailman, but does not use Cpanel?

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hypermail in mailman not working
by Eric Miller April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Dear all, I'm trying to set up my list and have had good luck so far. Not satisfied with pipermail, I decided to try hypermail. But no matter what I do, it always runs pipermail and never hypermail. I'm stumped. My list is called xansys_test. My mm_cfg.py file has: PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'hypermail -c /var/mailman/hypermail/xansys_test.rc PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER ='hypermail -c /var/mailman/hypermail/xansys_test.rc PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/archives/xansys_test' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/archives/xansys_test' ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 1 No matter what value I set ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX to, it always runs pipermail. I am guessing that I am missing the obvious command/option. Some things I've checked: 1: ran check_perms OK 2: cat'd an mbox into the above hypermail command OK 3: Tried every value of ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX Any help is much appreciated. Thanks Eric

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Uncaught runner exception: Incorrect padding error?
by Francisco Rivas April 29, 2003

April 29, 2003

Hi all, I have a mailman running on my mail server, with ~70 mailists. One of these lists stop receiving mails. When I send a mail to the list, I got this error on the logs: Apr 29 12:14:56 2003 (2483) Uncaught runner exception: Incorrect padding Apr 29 12:14:56 2003 (2483) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 82, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 123, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 295, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 252, in process payload = part.get_payload(decode=1) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 189, in get_payload return Utils._bdecode(payload) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 75, in _bdecode value = base64.decodestring(s) File "/usr/src/build/143041-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/base64.py", line 44, in decodestring return binascii.a2b_base64(s) Error: Incorrect padding Is the only maillist that doesn't receipt any mail. Anyone have an idea of what's going on??? Thanks a lot!!!! Francisco Rivas C.

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