Mailman 3 July 2003 - Mailman-Users

not allowing user not in system to send
by Kevin Carlyle July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

Jul 2 20:36:32 374liberty postfix/smtpd[9839]: reject: RCPT from localhost[127.0.0.1]: 554 <username(a)kc.rr.com>: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied; from=<fireball-bounces(a)374liberty.org> to=<username(a)kc.rr.com> I'm getting that and with some testing discovered that it's because the system does not have a user by the name of fireball-bounces, just fireball. how do I setup the email system to allow emails with that address without adding an account in the system? Regular email (short of aol, I'm working on that) works fine. I'm using postfix.

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Change Language
by Naira Kaieski July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

How can i change the language of Mailman 2.0.13? NAIRA ------------------------------------------------- Este e-mail foi enviado pelo WEBMAIL FACCAT : http://correio.faccat.br/

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using mailman with web server and email server on seperate boxes
by John Cichy July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

I have tried to search the archives and the FAQ's to no avail, so I'm coming to the list. I currently have a mail server running on one box and a web server running on another. I have set up mailman to run on the web server which has Exim running in smarthost mode (all mail not for local machine is sent to the email server), but does not 'listen' for incoming mail. Users can sign up for the list and they get the confirmation/welcome emails (as long as they request/confirm on the web). I have tried setting up fetchmail on the web server to go to the mail server and pick up mail for the list, which it can, but then it fails when trying to pass the mail to Exim. I did set up the alias file on the web server as the doc say, and duplicated it on the email server. Has anyone accomplished a similar setup that might be able to point me in the right direction for more info and configs? Or am I completely crazy for attempting such an arrangement? All help will be welcome... John

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Redirect AOL subscribers
by Ed Leafe July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

I'm currently running a few lists with Mailman, and it's been working great. One problem has popped up, though: AOL now blocks *all* email coming from servers with RoadRunner IP addresses. Their rationale is that it is necessary to block the inflow of spam. Some of my subscribers have AOL accounts, and now cannot receives posts to the list. I do have an alternate SMTP server I can use, but I don't want all the traffic to go through that server. Is there any way to redirect just the mail that is addressed to aol.com accounts to that alternate server, and let the rest go through as usual? I'm running Postfix as my MTA on RedHat Linux 8. ___/ / __/ / ____/ Ed Leafe http://leafe.com/ http://opentech.leafe.com

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List performance queries
by Ed Wilts July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

I'm currently running Mailman 2.0.13 with sendmail on a PII/450 Linux system. My Mailman usage has been light and small lists. Now, my internal clients wants to send a mailing to 50,000 users (yes, they're opt-in!). What gotchas do I really need to be aware of? Initially, this first large batch will go to users of which over 90% are on the same domain (a customer of ours). How large are the mailman batches? i.e. How many physical mail messages go out? Can anybody take a wild guess as to how long it will take to ship that many messages out? What if the e-mails were distributed over 20 domains? What happens then? Am I suicidal for even trying to handle lists this large on this size box, or is this even considered a large list? Next, my users want the ability to periodically refresh the subscriber list - they'll actually be coming from an external database. At the time of my subscriber refresh, how can I flush any pending messages to the list - ie, I don't want to get caught where an earlier message is still being retried when the subscriber list changes. Is there a safe, recommended way to handle this? All communications on this list will really be one-way; we send the messages out, but nobody can reply (and I realize that some people will try anyway). Thanks, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org

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Post approval
by Phil Stracchino July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

I'm running Mailman-2.1.1. I have a message to one of my closed lists from a non-member that I want to approve. It's less than an hour old, and the confirmation request is sitting in my mailbox this very moment. Problem is, (1) it doesn't show up on the list's admindb page, (2) if I try to approve it via email, MailMan tells me the confirmation string is invalid or has expired. Any suggestions, anyone? -- .********* Fight Back! It may not be just YOUR life at risk. *********. : phil stracchino : unix ronin : renaissance man : mystic zen biker geek : : alaric(a)caerllewys.net : alaric-ruthven(a)earthlink.net : phil(a)latt.net : : 2000 CBR929RR, 1991 VFR750F3 (foully murdered), 1986 VF500F (sold) : : Linux Now! ...Because friends don't let friends use Microsoft. :

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mailman hold notices...
by Brad Knowles July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

Folks, I've recently started doing some work for ntp.org (as the listmaster, postmaster, & PGP keymaster), and last week we cut over to mailman (2.1.2) from majordomo. Overall, we are very happy. However, there are some things we've run across that we've got some questions on, and I haven't found any obvious answers in the mailman FAQ, etc.... I hope you don't mind if I ask them here. First, I want to change the notice that gets sent back when non-subscribers submit a message to a specific mailing list. The generic message is okay for most of them, but one in particular needs different text. Going to the appropriate mailman/admin/list page for the list in question, and then down to "Privacy Options" and "Sender Filters", there appears to be a "member_moderation_notice" that would appear to be applicable in this case. I've put in the modified text I want to send back, but it's not being used. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I might be doing wrong? I guess I could edit mailman/templates/en/postheld.txt directly, but I'd prefer not to do that. For one thing, I want this change for just one list and not all of them, and I'd prefer not to even try to think about what would need to be done for the other languages. Secondly, when using the moderation tools to accept a message that has been held, we've noticed that the "Date:" header gets slightly munged. We see: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:37:43 +-400 (EDT) When it should be: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:37:43 +0400 (EDT) This only appears in the full raw archives, and in the messages that are sent out via e-mail. Third, I've noticed that the only opportunity to change the mailing list name (mainly the capitalization) is when the list is being initially generated. Visiting the appropriate admin page and changing the field where it says "The public name of this list (make case-changes only)." does not seem to have any impact. Thanks for any advice or assistance that you can provide! If there are FAQ or other documentation files I've missed where these issues are discussed, I would appreciate any and all pointers you can provide. -- ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <brad(a)stop.mail-abuse.org> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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Announcement lists
by Howard Lush July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

Hi I'm trying to set up an announcement-style list using Mailman, but I'm having a few problems getting it to do exactly what I want. As I see it, there are two ways of implementing a secure announcement list: 1. Approve each message as it is posted. This is fine, except that due to the high volume of messages and number of lists that are involved I am unable to approve every message via the web interface. As far as I can see there is no method of bypassing this by using a password at the top of the e-mail (e.g. Approved: password) or in the posting address itself (e.g. test-password(a)domain.com). 2. To allow one address (e.g. secret(a)domain.com) to automatically post without approval. This works fine, except that should anyone find out the address, the list would become insecure. Therefore I turned on the anonymous_list option so that the source address is masked and replaced with the list address. The only problem with this is that the e-mail arrives at the destination with the header: From: test-admin(a)domain.com ...where test is the list name. Is there any way to change this to simply: From: test(a)domain.com or, ideally: From: CustomName [test(a)domain.com] Alternatively, if you have any other suggestions on how I can achieve a secure announcement list, I would be very grateful to receive them. One other quick question - is there an easy way to set up a 'super-list' that posts to all the subscribers of a number of sub-lists, without sending a duplicate message to subscribers who are on more than one of the sub-lists? Thanks in advance for your help, Howard -- E-mail: howie(a)statmail.co.uk ICQ UIN: 4358182 Homepage: http://www.statmail.co.uk/ Phone / voicemail: 07971 963607 Mobile text message: sms(a)statmail.co.uk

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Disappearing list from the listinfo page
by Roy Santos July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

I have a problem with one list I created. Once in a while, the list disappears from the listinfo page. If I manually enter http://server/mailman/listinfo/problemlist in the browser, then go to threads, then go back to listinfo, it will reappear again. Almost like some type of caching problem. After a day or two, it goes away again. None of the other lists do this. I checked the settings and they appear to be the same as the other lists. Any ideas? Thanks, Roy Using Mailman 2.1.2 (not Redhat's RPM) on Redhat 9. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Redirect AOL subscribers
by Paul H Byerly July 2, 2003

July 2, 2003

Ed Leafe wrote: > I'm currently running a few lists with Mailman, and it's been > working >great. One problem has popped up, though: AOL now blocks *all* email >coming from servers with RoadRunner IP addresses. Their rationale is >that it is necessary to block the inflow of spam. This is not accurate, at least not for all RR IPs. I use RoadRunner for high speed connection, and have an AOL dial up I use while traveling. I just sent mail from the RR account to the AOL account and it went right through with the RR IP number. Doing some digging I found that AOL now has extensive spam filtering. From the main mail box page click the "Mail Options" menu button at the top, then select "Block Unwanted Mail". You can then accept all mail, reject all mail, or customize. If you choose to customize you can white and black list anything you want. Of course the average AOL user doesn't have a clue, doesn't want a clue, and would not know a clue if it crawled up their leg and bit them, so getting them to fix it may be a bit of a challenge. Maybe you can get one of the more net savvy AOL users write a how to for you. <>< Paul, who still find AOHell the best way to get on-line from Nowhereville or Podunk USA.

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