Mailman 3 January 2004 - Mailman-Users

Rejecting mail from a domain
by John Poltorak 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Is there any way to make Mailman automatically reject mail from a particular domain? -- John

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Where's the "doc" ? or I'll build it...
by Scott Cavness 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

The www.list.org/docs.html page says... " <http://www.list.org/site.html> Site Administrators -- anybody who is setting up a Mailman site. This documentation contains all the information about installing Mailman, integrating it with your mail and web servers, setting list defaults, configuring virtual domains, and enabling various options for your list administrators. This documentation also gives some hints on how to tune Mailman for optimal performance." The Site Admin link above just shows the command line and cron scripts and says nothing about installing, integrating, etc. I checked the FAQs, searched the archives for "installation/setup/configuration" and could not find a "step-by-step" anywhere. The Mailman installed RPM (Fedora Core 1) contains no README or any doc that I can find. Please update the page to point to the installation doc or change the text of the Site Admin paragraph. I'll be happy to document my step-by-step install on my system and have it posted so folks can get started, but I'm at a dead-end right now. Did I just miss the install/setup/config documentation somewhere? Hope so. Can I use my ISP's MTA instead of setting one up? I have a few small lists with a limited number of subscribers. The software I currently use (Arrow (www.jadebox.com/arrow) on my Windows XP box) does a POP3 connection to a mailbox at the ISP and then distributes to everyone subscribed to the list for that mailbox. Can Mailman be configured to do the same(that is POP3/SMTP to a single mailbox)? Arrow was simple to setup because it is configured like a standard POP3/SMTP mail reader. Thanks! Scott

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Controlling the Sender / From / Reply-to address
by Michael D Hansen 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

I am a member of a state affiliate of a nation wide nonprofit organization and we would like to be able to give our officers the ability to send emails out to a list of individuals no mater what email account the officer is using. Mail Man seems like the perfect solution for this, in fact we have a individual in our national organization that is running a Mail Man 2.0.13 server. Our only problem is that we want to be able to completely control any and all sender / from / reply-to information. We want these messages to look like they are coming from our organizations general email account so that when someone receives one of these messages there is no confusion as to who it is from. Also if they reply to the message, it doesn't go out to everyone on the list. or their message doesn't get bounced back to them saying they are not able to post messages. I setup a test list on a Mail Man 2.0.13 server and after hard coding the Reply-to address and setting the Hide Sender Privacy Option to yes accomplished most of our goals. Configured like this when you viewed a email from the list in a email application it appeared to be from "name of the list". Is there a way to force this sender information to just be the reply-to address or something else that I specify? Even if this ability is only available in a newer version of mailman I can use any information you give me to talk to the administrator of our mailman 2.0.13 server and ask him to upgrade. Also / or is there anybody out there running a mailman 2.1.x server that would allow me to setup a test list so that I could try this out on a more recent version of mail man? Thanks Mike --- Michael Hansen NFB of Nebraska http://nfbn.inebraska.com mhansen4(a)unl.edu

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AOL format frustration
by Steve Roitstein 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hi List, I'm new and fairly ignorant about mailman, so please excuse me... I have a list where all it is set up to do is send out a weekly newsletter of sorts. No discussion takes place. We use mailman 2.1.2. I write the messages in the mail program the comes with my mac. I sometimes send out a small jpg attachment but mostly it's text with a bit of color added to a few words. Subscribers who are on AOL get the message in a different text, no line breaks, no returns, nothing. Just all text in a huge paragraph, no formatting. Needless to say, these messages are very hard to read and unappealing. Any suggestions as to what we can do? Thanks! Steve

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Hot links in footer?
by Raymond Mills 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

I am using Mailman with Redhat 9.0 through a Plesk6.0 interface. I want the footer information at the bottom of each post to be hotlinked. It is showing up as text not clickable. When I try to add the html tags they just printout along with it. How can I make them hotlinked? Thanks, Raymond

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Mailman problem on Debian
by Trey Nolen 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

I had to do an update on one of our unstable machines today. It is (was) running Mailman. Now, when I run Mailman, I get this: --begin errors mail2:/etc/mailman# /etc/init.d/mailman start Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists", line 47, in ? from Mailman import MailList File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 49, in ? from Mailman.Archiver import Archiver File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py", line 17, in ? from Archiver import * File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 31, in ? from Mailman import Mailbox File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 25, in ? from email.Generator import Generator File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py", line 16, in ? from email.Header import Header File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Header.py", line 41, in ? USASCII = Charset('us-ascii') File "/usr/lib/python2.3/email/Charset.py", line 220, in __init__ input_charset = _ascii_lower() TypeError: _ascii_lower() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given) Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start --end errors This occurred after an update on Debian unstable. There *IS* a sitewide list named mailman, so I don't know why it says that it is missing. This is Mailman 2.1.3. Any ideas? Trey Nolen

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New Install with Mailman 2.1.4 , Sendmail 8.12.10 and having problems
by jsmith 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Afternoon all, I have a freebsd 5.1 machine running with sendmail-8.12.10 with sasl New install of Mailman 2.1.4 I was changing out boxes and locations for my server and of course I thought I would use the latest build of everything. This does always seem to cause a few problems that have to be worked through. I installed Mailman with all the options for freebsd and for smrsh that was in the readme's I created a list called jobposting and sent a test email to it and it immediately was returned that there was no recipient The following recipient(s) could not be reached: jobposting(a)holodeck1.net on 1/3/2004 10:37 PM There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator. < holodeck1.holodeck1.net #5.5.0 X-Unix; 69> Then when I tail the log file I find this Jan 3 20:53:16 holodeck1 smrsh: uid 26: attempt to use "mailman bounces jobposting" (stat failed) Jan 3 22:19:37 holodeck1 sendmail[70286]: unable to dlopen /usr/local/lib/sasl/libkerberos4.so: Shared object "libkrb.so.3" not found Jan 3 22:30:05 holodeck1 sendmail[70368]: i046U5Ru070366: SYSERR(root): hash map "authinfo": missing map file /etc/mail/authinfo.db: No such file or directory Of course this could always be a problem elsewhere and not related to Mail but I feel that at least a portion of Mailman isn't configured/setup properely. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated. Joe

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Is there anyway to export members list to excel?
by Ebkirkland＠aol.com 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Is there anyway to export the members e-mail addresses to an excel spreadsheet? Thanks in advance Eric

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Problems With Archive Access
by Joseph A. Nagy 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hi List, I've recently installed mailman and have it running, the only real problem I have left is accessing the archives. If I use http://joseph-a-nagy-jr.homelinux.org/pipermail/ (an alias in the vhost conf file I use for this site) I can get an index of the contents of the directory, but when I click on a the listname's directory, I get a 404 Error, What's going on here? I've checked the directory on the system and it has an index.html page in it.

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manually set to bouncing?
by Paul H Byerly 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Apparently the folks over at sbcglobal.net have not been informed there are standard ways to do things like send over quote mail bounces. As a result I am getting a slew of uncaught bounce messages. I'd like to manually set the member to bouncing rather than just putting them to NoMail - that way they would get the notices, and get disabled if they continue to bounce. Neither the FAQ, archives or Google were of help, so I thought I'd try here before I dig into the code. I did see one mention by Jon Carns of modifying the bounce handlers to catch these, is there anything on that? Mailman 2.1.2. TIA, Paul

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