Mailman 3 February 2004 - Mailman-Users

RE: Period Mailings; Like Birthday Announcements using Mailmail
by Paul H Byerly 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

doug wrote: >I've been using Yahoo Groups, but have tired of the all the ads. So, I've >setup a mail list using MailMan. > >However I really miss the ability to have monthly and yearly e-mails >automatically sent. Is there anyway to automatically send e-mails to the >list on specific dates in the future? Mail man is open source, so you can add anything you like - if you know how. I've been playing with this a bit - I was going to use the edit html pages to make it easy for list managers, but so far I've not cracked it. Another option, probably a better one, would be to set up a PHP calender program and add links to it on some of the admin pages. Unfortunately learning PHP is still on my to do list. <>< Paul

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help
by mtam＠theearthcenter.com 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

please unsubscribe

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VERP + Postfix recipient_delimiter issue
by Todd A. Jacobs 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Environment: # Postfix 2.0.11: main.cf recipient_delimiter = - owner_request_special = no # Mailman 2.1.2: mm_cfg.py VERP_FORMAT = '%(bounces)s-%(mailbox)s=%(host)s' VERP_REGEXP = r'^(?P<bounces>[^-]+?)-(?P<mailbox>[^=]+)=(?P<host>[^@]+)@.*$' VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = Yes VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1 VERP_CONFIRM_FORMAT = '%(addr)s-%(cookie)s' VERP_CONFIRM_REGEXP = r'^(?P<addr>[^-]+?)-(?P<cookie>[^@]+)@.*$' VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes Problem: Lists such as foo-announce or foo-users don't VERP properly. My guess is that the VERP regex is not handling the embedded dashes properly. I'm sure I'm not the only person who uses "-" as a recipient delimiter; is there a good regex for use with this configuration? -- Todd's "Customer Disservice Hall of Shame" currently contains: - Charter Communications: Mislead their customers about service levels, block normal Internet connectivity, and exhibit excessive downtime. - AT&T: Honoring the "checks" they send out to entice you to switch long-distance providers is apparently optional. - eFax: Receive (not send) 20 pages of *unsolicited* faxes, and lose your account.

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Re: Subscription/UnSubscription withoug a password
by Paul H Byerly 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Andrew Stebakov wrote: >I was wondering if it's ever possible in mailman not to use any password >when the user subscribes or unsubscribes? It can be done. Actually a password is generated, but you can remove any hit of this if you want. You will have to edit the subscribe form (or make your own) and welcome letter, and kill the password notifications. Everything you need should be in the FAQ. <>< Paul

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Auto RSS Feeds from Mailman
by Mike Gifford 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Hello, A while back I came across this mailman2rss tool: http://taint.org/mmrss/ I was informed by one of this script's authors that mailman was going to be developing this capacity internally. I wondered when it was going to be released (and documented). I would like to use this feature, but couldn't find any reference by searching the site: http://www.google.ca/search?q=site:list.org+rss I'm also keen to learn if mailman can manage to export rss feeds for private lists.. I don't want these available to the public, but would like to make rss feeds from private lists available to internal applications. In anycase, please let me know. I understand that going through mailman's auth isn't as simple as posting something to an http auth page. Mike -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Free Software for Social Change -> http://www.openconcept.ca Stop Cdn Pension Plan War Investments -> http://coat.openconcept.ca/ Another world is not only possible, she is on her way -Arundhati Roy

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Re: [Mailman-Users] 2.1.4 info/html issue
by Paul H Byerly 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Fred Stutzman wrote: >Does anyone have any last ideas about my issue, described in the thread >below? If not, i'll submit a bug. and > I played around with one of my own lists, and was able to replicate the > behavior. You can check that out at: > > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/somewhat The source for that page you link to is: <html> <body> This is the listserv for the site www.somewhat.org. <a href="http://ibiblio.org">Test!</a> </body> </html> Based on this the page shows what is expected. Are the brackets being converted to ampersand characters when you save the page?? That aside, the page has opening and closing body and html tags already, so adding a new set is going to be a mess. <>< Paul

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Mail and Web addresses for list
by John Poltorak 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Is there any way I can set up a new list so that Web address is prefixed by 'www' but the email address isn't? At the moment they both end up the same. -- John

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Mailman-Users February 2004