Mailman 3 March 2004 - Mailman-Users

Global filter
by Kory Wheatley March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

How do I setup a global spam filter to discard any message, "sent to a mailman mailing list", that has the subject that contains the words: e-mail I what to discard them all, and not put them on hold. What would be the syntax in the "mm_cfg.py" file to do this. I'm using mailman 2.1.4 with Postfix. -- Kory Wheatley Academic Computing Analyst Sr. Phone 282-3874 ######################################### Everything must point to him.

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Move a message to a different mailing list?
by Mike Burkett March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

I run several mailing lists for a group. Some moderated, some open. Every once in a while someone will post a message to one of the moderated groups (lets call it Announce) and it really belongs on the unmoderated group (Discuss). Is there any way to move a message that has been submitted, and is waiting for moderator approval, to another list? I've seen the "forward" option, but then it looks like it is coming from the Mailman system instead of the original poster. -Mike

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Re: Question regarding certain list properties
by Scott R. Godin March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

Scott R. Godin wrote: In between sending this and responding to the list manager it seems I got temporarily refused to allow to post this, so on the off chance that it actually did not make it to the list, I'm re-sending it. Apologies if this actually DID manage to get posted twice, and thanks for all replies. > I have a client whom I am doing a website for. The hosting provider has no > list management software installed (they run FreeBSD), but has given me > the tentative OK to … [View More]suggest a package if I can find one that suits my > needs, and which they will install. > > First question is, If necessary, can it be installed and run solely from > my client's $HOME if necessary, thus making the entire list package only > available to my website client? If not, one presumes that vhosting clients > can be enabled on an as-needed basis by the hosting provider. > > Secondly, my clients particular needs are small, but his wants are many: > > o he wants to be able to post messages that every subscribed user > receives (non-digested) immediately. (basically sales promotional, and new > product announcements. that's it.) probably between one and five per > month. > o no subscribed users will be allowed to post back to the _list_, only > to > the reply address (which will be my client's sales(a)his.site.com address, > more or less). any attempts by a subscriber to post to the list will be > sent to the list owner's address instead and will NOT be seen by the other > members of the list. > o no subscriber on the list will see another subscriber's e-mail > address > in any mail received from the list (i.e. in CC: or whatever). > o subscription will initially be via a web-based form, which will send > a > confirmation e-mail to the address supplied, and require a response from > the end user to the effect of "yes this is me and I want to be subscribed" > before adding them to the list. > o any further list interaction by the subscriber will be via _e-mail > only_ to subscribe/unsubscribe/temporary-disable-and-reenable themselves > to/from the list. No additional web-interface is required. > o the list itself will be text-only. no html. > > Would all these options be configurable for a single vhosted client of a > hosting-provider's server? > > How much of this will the hosting provider have to configure for us, and > > How much of it will we have to/be able to configure ourselves once we've > been set up by the provider? > > Very interested in seeing discussion on this. This is my first foray into > list management as a website kinda guy, so I'm totally unaware of what to > expect and don't want to presume too much, so if my questions seem > excessive, I plead utter complete spastic ignorance. For the most part, > FAQ's rarely ever answer any of the questions *I* usually have, and I go > read them later (although I've already looked and confirmed that they do > not contain these answers, or else I misunderstood) > > I run red hat/fedora core at home and since this is bundled with Mailman, > I figured you guys would be a good place to start my search for a list > manager since I can play with it at home to test things. > > I look forward to your replies and hope my search ends here. :) [View Less]

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installation problem
by Jeetendra Mirchandani March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

i get a 404 error my httpd.conf --------------------- ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/home/mailman/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/home/mailman/cgi-bin"> Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> -------------------- please help Regards, Jeetu --- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. - Franklin P. Jones -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeetendra … [View More]

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Please help me RTFM
by Charles Gregory March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

Hallo! I'm trying to setup and run the standard mailman included with Red Hat Linux 9. This is an 'RPM' install, so I don't have the source code files to read the 'README's. Supposedly, Mailman has an easy to use web based interface/control panel? I would appreciate it if someone could help provide a link to a simple 'howto' for setting up the initial web interface on RH9/Postfix. Presumably once I've got *that* running, the site-admin pages should be fairly straight-forward. Please reply … [View More]

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Question regarding certain list properties
by Scott R. Godin March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

I have a client whom I am doing a website for. The hosting provider has no list management software installed (they run FreeBSD), but has given me the tentative OK to suggest a package if I can find one that suits my needs, and which they will install. First question is, If necessary, can it be installed and run solely from my client's $HOME if necessary, thus making the entire list package only available to my website client? If not, one presumes that vhosting clients can be enabled on an as-… [View More]needed basis by the hosting provider. Secondly, my clients particular needs are small, but his wants are many: o he wants to be able to post messages that every subscribed user receives (non-digested) immediately. (basically sales promotional, and new product announcements. that's it.) probably between one and five per month. o no subscribed users will be allowed to post back to the _list_, only to the reply address (which will be my client's sales(a)his.site.com address, more or less). any attempts by a subscriber to post to the list will be sent to the list owner's address instead and will NOT be seen by the other members of the list. o no subscriber on the list will see another subscriber's e-mail address in any mail received from the list (i.e. in CC: or whatever). o subscription will initially be via a web-based form, which will send a confirmation e-mail to the address supplied, and require a response from the end user to the effect of "yes this is me and I want to be subscribed" before adding them to the list. o any further list interaction by the subscriber will be via _e-mail only_ to subscribe/unsubscribe/temporary-disable-and-reenable themselves to/from the list. No additional web-interface is required. o the list itself will be text-only. no html. Would all these options be configurable for a single vhosted client of a hosting-provider's server? How much of this will the hosting provider have to configure for us, and How much of it will we have to/be able to configure ourselves once we've been set up by the provider? Very interested in seeing discussion on this. This is my first foray into list management as a website kinda guy, so I'm totally unaware of what to expect and don't want to presume too much, so if my questions seem excessive, I plead utter complete spastic ignorance. For the most part, FAQ's rarely ever answer any of the questions *I* usually have, and I go read them later (although I've already looked and confirmed that they do not contain these answers, or else I misunderstood) I run red hat/fedora core at home and since this is bundled with Mailman, I figured you guys would be a good place to start my search for a list manager since I can play with it at home to test things. I look forward to your replies and hope my search ends here. :) [View Less]

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Sub Domains and Domains
by Brendan B. Chard March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

I am attempting to run mailman on a FreeBSD machine with multiple virtual hosts. Everything is working great except that the list address I want is "listname(a)lists.chard.net" and it works great, I can send to it and it works just fine. The problem is that when the list sends out a post to members it drops the subdomain from it's address and says, reply to "example(a)chard.net" - I have an address record created for my lists.chard.net and a proper virtual host for it. - The primary … [View More]

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bugs
by Modric Kristijan March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 69, in run_main immediate=1) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 52, in __init__ Logger.__init__(self, category, nofail, immediate) File "/var/lib/… [View More]

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Forwards Created by Mailman in Cpanel
by Lloyd F. Tennison March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

What/why are there forwards created from owner - listname @ domain to admin - listname @ domain? I have both tried with and without creating those email accounts and still receive net to no mail to the admin account as specified in the general setups option. Cannot find bounce (or any other except the one or two the system sends as bounce questions) messages. Thanks. Lloyd F. Tennison lloyd_tennison(a)whoever.com No trees were harmed in the transmission of this message. However, a … [View More]

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How to STOP Mailman & Sendmail
by Brian Haines March 3, 2004

March 3, 2004

I have a recurring problem. I have an announce only list of 50K + subscribers. I have never been able to STOP the list. It takes all day to run and I sometimes need to stop it so that I can run another message, or if I just made a mistake. I stop Sendmail, Stop the Mailman service, and kill any remaining processes for either. I clean out the qfiles and locks directories. When I start sendmail and wait for a while Sendmail is there quietly "accepting connections" without restarting the list … [View More]

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