Mailman 3 April 2004 - Mailman-Users

Fwd: message 'batch' processing?
by Alvar Saenz-Otero 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

Hi, The MIT administrators said I should forward this to you, hopefully they're right. Alvar >Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:56:01 -0400 >To: mailman(a)mit.edu >From: Alvar Saenz-Otero <alvarso(a)mit.edu> >Subject: message 'batch' processing? > > >Hi, > >We've been using mailman for tmrc(a)mit.edu for about two months now. > >While it has served its main purpose quite well (getting rid of spam to >the majority of the member), administering the list (mostly dealing with >"pending messages") has been quite hard because of one main thing: the >interface to the pending messages is very cumbersome. > >While the interface lets you do about everything, the page is extremely >big, and there is no method to 'batch' process messages. With >approximately 20 messages a day of spam (sometimes up to 40), and most >times *none* real messages waiting, using mailman becomes a task of every >single day clicking 20-40 individual radio buttons, lots of scrolling, and >then submitting data. > >I would strongly encourage you to have a more streamlined interface to >message processing. Webmail is a very good example: it has "select all" >options, and then an action; it shows one message per line, concisely but >with all the information needed. > >I am quite sure I'm not the only administrators/moderator with this issue, >and many will appreciate having a better and simpler interface to message >processing. > >Thank you, > >Alvar

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Downloading Mailman
by Rose 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

We are looking to download the Mailman software, however, we are unsure from which Source to download the software. Can you provide us with assistance? Thanks. Rose Fullerton

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RE: Footer isn't At the Bottom of the E-mail; It's an Attachment
by doug＠hyperpiper.com 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

I know this is a dumb question, but I cant find an answer anywhere. Can you please help? Ive setup several Mailman lists prefer there to be an informative footer at the bottom of each e-mail. Ive been successful doing that with some lists but on others it shows up as an attachment (and nothing except the message is in the e-mail). As far as I can tell there is no difference between the lists. Ive looked at every setting I can find. Can anyone tell me where the setting is for the text footer so that it DOESNT show up as an attachment? Doug Piper

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Question about CookHeaders
by Bruce Embrey 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

List: I have encountered a circumstance with Eudora users when receiving messages with long subject lines from mailman lists. The subject line in their email client is blank but if you open the message the entire subject line appears on a line beneath the blank one. I was looking through the CookHeaders.py script and saw the maxlinelen=78. What would be the consequences of increasing this number to 80 or 85? I am using mailman 2.1.1-5 on RedHat Linux 9. Bruce Bruce Edward Embrey : Linux Systems Manager Campus Email Admin / NETREG : UNIX / Linux Administrator Hood College : embrey(a)hood.edu : Phone (301)696-3927

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Email domain issue with virtual hosting
by Mark Dadgar 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

So I looked through the archives and couldn't find a solution to this. Google was no help, either. I have Mailman setup on www.justracing.com, which is also the mailserver (sendmail) for the domain of the same name. I have volunteered to host a mailing list for the Golden Gate Chapter of of the BMW Car Club of America on their domain: ggcbmwcca.org I have a virtual host set up in mm_cfg.py as follows (per the FAQ entry for changing the domain name): DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.ggcbmwcca.org' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.ggcbmwcca.org' VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) The list works beautifully. All the URLs are correct. Life is good on this end. However, administrative emails are sent with the following headers: From: announce-owner(a)justracing.com Subject: Announce post from jimmy(a)joe.bob requires approval Date: April 25, 2004 4:09:57 PM PDT To: announce-owner(a)ggcbmwcca.org Note the From address is of the wrong domain (the domain of the server, not the domain of the virtual host). Subscription confirmations have the same problem. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Many thanks! - Mark ----- mark(a)pdc-racing.net

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Blocking MS-Word attachments
by Steven Massey 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Perhaps I have this setup incorrectly, but I want to block attachments to my listserv and so I'm stripping the following mime types out of all messages: image video application Then I have the conversion to text/html set to yes. Nevertheless, MS Word files that are under my maximum message size limit seem to slip through. Is there a mime-type I am missing? I thought MS Word would fall under the application category. Thanks, Steven Massey

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Re: Some lists not showing up in listinfo page
by Paul H Byerly 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

On 11:06 AM 4/26/2004, mailman-users-request(a)python.org wrote: > I've read the FAQ and noted the section on this >symptom. But it hasn't addressed my problem. > > >If you hit this URI: http://cactusairforce.org/mailman/listinfo >You see all lists (including Mailman?!) > > >but if you instead hit this one: >http://www.cactusairforce.org/mailman/listinfo >you only see the CAF and the Recruitment_list The second page says "Send questions or comments to <mailto:mailman@www.cactusairforce.org>mailman(a)www.cactusairforce.org." I don't think the www should be in that address. I realize that does not fix your problem, but it does suggest (to me) that problem is not with Mailman it's self, but with how it was configured or with some redirect. A simple work around would be to set up a redirect to send requests for the www version to the one that works. <>< Paul

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Mailman 2.1.5 release candidate 2
by Barry Warsaw 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

I've just uploaded Mailman 2.1.5 release candidate 2 (no, you never saw rc1 :). Since there are some fairly significant changes with this version, I felt it was necessary to put out a release candidate to hopefully prompt some additional testing. If you're able to test the new version, that would be great, but please note that: * The file format for on-disk messages in the qrunners has changed. Until now, each queued message was represented by two files, a .msg and a .pck file. With this version, all information is kept in the .pck file. This improves stability and performance. The upgrade script will attempt to convert all your existing .msg/.pck files to the single .pck file, but there may still be lurking problems with this conversion. * The pending database has been changed from a global pickle file living in $prefix/data, to a unique pickle file per mailing list. The upgrade script attempts to determine which list each pending request belongs to, but it isn't always possible to know, so while it does the best it can, there may still be lurking problems with this conversion. If you upgrade you should do so only on a quiet system. I recommend shutting down Mailman, your MTA, and your web server before doing the upgrade. Please note any problems you have with the conversion scripts (you may want to make backups first ;). My thanks for not letting the above discourage you from testing the new version. :) I think the improvements in 2.1.5 are worth it, and based on experiences running python.org, the new version should be quite stable once installed. I plan to release 2.1.5 final sometime next weekend. -Barry

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virtual-mailman stays empty
by David Kiner 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hi, I use Mailman 2.1.4 and postfix 2.0.16 my /usr/local/data/virtual-mailman stays empty . # ls -l virtual-mailman: -rw-rw-rw- 1 root mailman 0 Apr 4 13:28 virtual-mailman in my postfix conf: virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman, mysql:/usr/local/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf I get the error: Remote host said: 550 <ff-subscribe(a)mydomain.com>: User unknown in virtual mailbox table Do you have a solution? David Kiner

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Mailman don't deliver the mails
by Daniel Eichelsbacher 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hello, i install mailman, but it's not working well. If i send a mail to a created mailing-list i get the following error message back: smrsh: "mailman" not available for sendmail programs (stat failed) 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable I read the installation-file and make a link in etc/smrsh to my mailman folder like this: Ln /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman Now i get no error message back, but the mail isn't deliver! Can someone help me? The web-interface is okay and running check_perms there are also no errors. Thanks for an help, Daniel -- NEU : GMX Internet.FreeDSL Ab sofort DSL-Tarif ohne Grundgeb�hr: http://www.gmx.net/dsl

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