One problem we always have with mailing lists is that people forget which
email address they used to subscribe. Often our subscribers have email
aliases that they use. For example: a user subscribes to our mailing list as
info(a)their_domain.com. This address is setup to forward mail to their "real"
email address: user(a)aol.com.
So now they get a mailing from Mailman at user(a)aol.com. They reply that they
want to unsubscribe, and cannot, since user(a)aol.com is not a member of the
list.
To help combat this I would like to add their %(email)s variable to the
msg_footer. I'd like to say something like: "You are subscribed to this list
as %(email)s". But that variable is not allowed there.
Can you suggest another solution??
Thanks!
Steve Wehr
Tunedin Web Design - TunedinWeb.com <http://www.hvpages.com/>
<mailto:stevew@tunedinweb.com> stevew(a)tunedinweb.com
Dear All
I have seen mails about this topic but I can't decide so far
I used Mhonarc with majordomo and now I run mailman with pipermail
-- should I use pipermail or mhonarc?
-- if it appears pipermail is better is there a piece of software to convert
ancient archives to pipermail or do i have to make it myself?
-- if it appears mhonarc is better how do i insert mhonarc as archive manager
inside mailman?
Thanks in advance for your help
Jacques
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8 pass. Charles Albert, F75018 Paris, France
Tel. & Fax: 33 (0) 1 42 28 76 78
Home Page: http://www.lutecium.org/jacsib/
It would be useful to extend the Membership Management page to support
sync_members.
We use mailman to run a number of members-only lists for a professional
society. The membership database is kept on a separate system, and lists
of current members are produced for the various lists at regular
intervals. It would be easier for our non-technical office staff to keep
the mailing list memberships in sync with the main database if they could
upload the member list through the Web rather than having to upload the
file with FTP and use sudo and shell commands to do the synching.
We could mass-delete and mass-subscribe, but it would be more convenient
to do it in one step. Also, for some of the lists, new members should
receive notification that they have been subscribed, but carry-over
members should not get such notification. The only way to do that with
add_members is to add in two steps or to make two files with members to be
deleted and members to be added, leaving the carry-over members
subscribed.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
Hi there,
I run several different domains' mailing lists on one mailing list
setup, most of it being basic newsletters with no user-input, they just
receive emails.
Now I need custom subscribe, unsubscribe and confirm pages which should
be shown inside the website's pages using php.
I am unsure as to where and how exactly to customize all of this
differently for each single site?
All that I need is a subscribe with a username and password, and an
unsubscribe form with a username entry, and then the confirm pages for
both of them. Passwords and options and such is completely unnescesarry
as this is a newsletter only "mailing list".
I have tried using the /usr/local/mailman/bin/ tools such as add_members
and remove_members, but unfortunately these don't offer the confirmation
part which can lead to a catastrophe. There is of course the chance of
me writing that bit myself in php, and then writing a c-wrapper so that
apache/php can execute those commands, but there simply must be an
easier way?
Many Thanks
Hi.
Would it be possible to set up an email forwarder,?
For example," forwardmen(a)domain.com " is a member of hockey men and any emails that are sent to it are forwarded to hockeywoman.
Hope this makes sense, might take some logistical thinking to make work.
Gary Smith
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Hi Jordi, hi List,
Thanks for your input and I am really happy about every input, but this also
shows, why so mayn people have problems with mailman and struggling to get
it up and running.
If you have followed the answers Bryan Petty (Tierra) has given, he told me
to use-mail-gid= mailman and NOT vchkpw also I should not create a virtual
domain, now you tell me I should.
What should I believe now being a novice??? I'll sure give you way a try,
even so I don't like the idea of having to run a script each time I add a
list. This means an admin has to be involved each time a list is created.
It's also another potential place for errors.
Bryan, what do you say about this? I believe qmail/vpopmail is a pretty
wide spreaded configuration by now and I don't understand why the creators
of mailman can't just say, that's the way to go, fullstop!
Best regards,
Alex
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Von: Jordi Local [mailto:jgil@mail.jordi.com]
Gesendet: Freitag, 26. November 2004 12:55
An: info(a)digital4u.de
Betreff: AW: [Mailman-Users] Unable to get Mailman up and running with
qmail/vpopmail
you should create your alias at the directory
/home/vpopmail/domains/your.domain.com/
executing the script #./create_alias "list_name"
the content of the create_alias script is:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# = 1 ]; then
i=$1
echo Making links to $i...
echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post $i" > .qmail-$i echo
"|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin $i" > .qmail-$i-admin echo
"|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces $i" >
.qmail-$i-bounces
#VERP format
echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces $i" >
.qmail-$i-bounces-default
echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm $i" >
.qmail-$i-confirm
echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join $i" > .qmail-$i-join
echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave $i" > .qmail-$i-leave
echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner $i" > .qmail-$i-owner
echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request $i" >
.qmail-$i-request
echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe $i" >
.qmail-$i-subscribe
echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubsrcibe $i" >
.qmail-$i-unsubscribe
fi
and you also should configure the mailman setup with this options:
*./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mailman --with-mail-gid=vchkpw
with-cgi-gid=apache with-python=/usr/bin/python
*I think that with this it would be enough, and hope this would be enough.
One question I have a problem with the 2.1.5 version because it doesn't
advise the list owner of bounces and e-mail adreses mailman deletes
automatically, If you get any solution I would be very pleased if you
send it to me.
Hi!
I'm new on this list, and sorry if my english sound funny but I'm french
and my english is far to be perfect ;)
I plan to use Mailman to set up a Newsletter system. I'll have to define
2 or 3 differents Newsletters. I'm able to use Mailman as his first
function, a powerfull mailing list system :)
I've check the FAQ
(http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#3.11)
but I have some questions.
I'm running Mailman version 2.1.4 (taken from backports.org) on a Debian
Woody.
1/ I've created a list with the command "newlist mynewsletter"
2/ I've copy and paste the aliases block in my /etc/aliases and ran
newaliases
3/ Once my list is created, what email address will I have to use to
register on the Newsletter ? With what subject ? When I'll got it
running, I'll create a form on my website to subscribe/unsubscribe on
the newsletter.
Actually, when I send an email on mynewsletter(a)list.mydomain.com with
the
subject "subscribe", I see the mail arriving on my server through
Postfix logs but I don't receive any confirmation mail back and no new
entry in the Membership List.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,
Sylvain
Hi.
I don't know much about the techinical stuff behind mailman (I dont have console access, only through the Cpanel software) and I was wondering, how does Mailman know that it has an email, i.e. when someone tries to post to the list.
By that I mean I know I have an email because I download my inbox on to my computer, but does Mailman constantly do this, if it does would'nt it cause a strain on the server?
Hope my question makes sense, thanks in advance for answering.
Gary Smith
Gary Smith
E-mail: gary8smith(a)yahoo.co.uk
Website: www.greatcrap.com
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Hi again,
I have Mailman best part running, but there are a few odd
errors & I have a few short questions relating to those if someone
wouldn't mind replying to them.
1 - If I make a change to mm_cfg.py, to refresh the config, is it
sufficient to from the command line simply run bin/mailmanctl reload
2 - In my Postfix logs, this appeared - fatal: open
/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases.db: Permission denied - could someone
let me know what permissions should be applied to this.
3 - If I create a list from the command line, I am successful in
creating the list - however, if I try to create a list from the web
interface, I get this error: Error: Unknown virtual host:
heard.com.au - now, in mm_cfg.py, I have the following lines:
DEFAULT_URL = 'http://heard.com.au/mailman/'
OWNERS_CAN_DELETE_THEIR_OWN_LISTS = Yes
add_virtualhost = ( 'heard.com.au' , 'heard.com.au' )
Could anyone suggest where I have gone wrong please - my web
interface was working at first, but obviously something I have
changed has stuffed up.
Many thanks.
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Bye for now, Terry Allen
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I've put together a step-by-step installation of Mailman 2.1.5 on
ClarkConnect 2.2 server from source. ClarkConnect works great for small
server needs and provides initial security for newbies.
Link here: http://www.bhlug.org/links.html. Also, follow the SSL
certificate how-to on the same page.
Hope it's useful.
Rodd Ahrenstorff