Mailman 3 July 2003 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Subject Line Length Considered Spam
by J C Lawrence July 29, 2003

July 29, 2003

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:28:48 -0700 jsmith <jsmith(a)smittybuilt.com> wrote: > Paul, I couldn't agree with you more. But, as I exchange email with a > minimum wage worker at excite that is doing what he was told to do > (decision from someone that hasn't got a clue) I still have people > complaining. Since people can still follow the link in the email is > there a short term fix that I can implement here until I can get this > corrected with excite. =20 You don't … [View More]

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Subject Line Length Considered Spam
by jsmith July 29, 2003

July 29, 2003

Paul, I couldn't agree with you more. But, as I exchange email with a minimum wage worker at excite that is doing what he was told to do (decision from someone that hasn't got a clue) I still have people complaining. Since people can still follow the link in the email is there a short term fix that I can implement here until I can get this corrected with excite. The worse art of this is the fact that they gave no error back that this is what was happening. Usually if you get blacklisted … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Subject Line Length Considered Spam
by Paul H Byerly July 29, 2003

July 29, 2003

jsmith wrote: >Excite is blocking any subject that has more than 22 characters due to it >looking like >commercial spam. I would bet that other ISP's will be or have already >started subject line filtering on the length as well. I am assuming you mean 22 consecutive characters without a break? The subject you gave your post would violate a 22 character limit. Even at 22 consecutive I think this is a rather short sighted, over the top and totally worthless way to … [View More]

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Subject Line Length Considered Spam
by jsmith July 28, 2003

July 28, 2003

Hello all, I have just received an email back from Excite on an issue that I am having about excite users not being able to sign up for my lists via the web. The installation is not having any errors script wise. I am experiencing a problem with the length of the subject line on posts going out and I am working on that issue with the list owners, but, I am also having the issue when a user subscribes, they get send a confirmation email with a subject line that that looks like this "confirm … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Gentoo, mailman and the "module named paths"
by Whit Blauvelt July 28, 2003

July 28, 2003

Thanks Bruce. I see that mailmanctl doesn't throw those errors if I start it from /web/mailman/bin rather than /etc/init.d. (However, I still have a "Site list is missing: mailman" error to sleuth out.) Where do you run mailmanctl from? Have I missed something on setting a system variable in the INSTALL instructions, that would enable it to work from /etc/init.d as advertised with mailman not installed in the default /usr/local/mailman? Whit On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:22:43PM -0400, Bruce … [View More]

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Gentoo, mailman and the "module named paths"
by Whit Blauvelt July 28, 2003

July 28, 2003

Hi, I've done a manual install of mailman on a system running the current Gentoo. "mailmanctl start" gives the dreaded "No module named paths" error. I've seen the README.linux attribution of this problem to not having installed Python from tar - but Gentoo's portage system is Python-based, and its Python is a full build of 2.2.3 from tar. I can't find mention of a paths module in any of the ebuilds in Gentoo's dev-python directory (not to be confused with Debian's dev-python .deb). I don't … [View More]

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broken List-archive header
by Joel Uckelman July 28, 2003

July 28, 2003

Yesterday I upgraded Mailman to 2.1 and started to notice the following problem: The List-archive headers in messages coming from my lists all look like this: List-archive: </archives> while before they looked like this, e.g.: List-archive: <http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/hosers-talk/> What's happening to the rest of the URL? I have PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL set to 'http://lists.ellipsis.cx/archives/%(listna me)s/', and it *is* showing up correctly in the archive links on the … [View More]

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Virtualhosts-related problem (i think!)
by kaMe July 28, 2003

July 28, 2003

Hello, i have set up mailman on a machine (tatooine.domain.tld) that handles the mail of domain.tld, with qmail+vpopmail. I've created a list @tatooine.domain.tld and all works right, posts, web-administration, archives.. all. I've tryed to create a new mailin list @domain.tld, set up the .qmail- files in the /domains/domain.tld/ directory of vpopmail and this list doesnt work. In the /Mailman/Defaults.py i have: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'tatooine.domain.tld' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'tatooine.domain.… [View More]

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List admin addresses bounce
by Mark Dadgar July 28, 2003

July 28, 2003

I'm using Mailman 2.1.2 (installed from source) and Sendmail (RedHat RPM). I have the appropriate aliases installed for each list I run (as output by Mailman during list creation) and things have been peachy keen for a year now. However, I just discovered that email to listname-admin(a)pdc-racing.net generates an "unrecognized bounce" every time, for each of my lists. And yeah, I tried putting my address in for both list admin and list moderator. Any ideas? I did a quick search through the … [View More]

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Re: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 10, Issue 77
by Nancy Roberts, Statistics Geek July 28, 2003

July 28, 2003

It is spam, and the OLD list is open to all posters, but the new list is not, so it needs to be approved or deleted. You can either open the new list to all posters, or leave it like it is where you would need to approve (moderate) posts from non-members, so you can reject spam. You can change the list password to something you can remember easily on the passwords page. Nancy

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