Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Users

Large Installations
by Art Zemon 26 May '04

26 May '04

Folks, I am considering moving a large-ish Lyris ListManager installation to Mailman. Right now, we are running 435 lists with an average of 97 subscribers per list. The largest lists have over 7000 subscribers. We are processing a bit under 200 list messages per day which comes to a bit under 20,000 outgoing email messages per day. If you have experience with a large Mailman installation that is similar to this, please let me know how it is running and what you are running it on (e.g., what hardware? are you using sendmail or something else?). Thanks, -- Art Z. -- Art Zemon, President Hen's Teeth Network <http://www.hens-teeth.net/> Voice & Fax: (866)HENS-NET or (636)447-3030 On-line Chat <http://hens-teeth.net/chat.htm>

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Sudden mass of unsubscribe notices?
by Sean Robertson 26 May '04

26 May '04

An email was sent out through our email list two days ago, and just now I got 33 unsubscribe notices. The notices offer no explanation of whether the users did it, an admin did it, or it was some kind of automatic process. Is there any way to find out? What could cause it to suddenly delete 33 subscriptions all at exactly the same time two days after the last newsletter went out? Needless to say, this is a rather critical issue. Sean Robertson webolutionary(a)webolutionary.com http://www.webolutionary.com http://www.tidewater4dean.com "You have the power to take back your country!" - Howard Dean - www.deanforamerica.com "Great is the glory, for the strife is hard." - William Wordsworth "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato

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Announcement + HTML
by Kobus Myburgh 26 May '04

26 May '04

Hello, Can anybody point me to documentation with regards to how to set up mailmail (2.1.3) to function as follows: 1) Be an announcement only list (only admins may post to the list) 2) On replying to a mail you received, it replies to -unsubscribe (this seems to work already!) 3) Be able to send HTML attachments, and how do I send that attachment properly so that it will automatically open as HTML on e-mail clients that support that, i.e. outlook-ish clients. We don't want the user to have to open the attachment automatically - we want it to automatically open up in HTML readible way if the e-mail client can support it. I have played around with many options, but I can't see anything that SPECIFICALLY states #1 and #3 of the options that I want to do. Any advice or pointers to documentation will be appreciated... Regards, Kobus

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Strange group mismatch error
by Brandon Dudley 25 May '04

25 May '04

I'm tryign to add a new list to an existing server, and have entered a weird cycle of mismatch errors. Every time I rerun configure to change a GID, it breaks either my old lists, or the new list I'm trying to add. one list in particular wants to be GID mailman, but the new list wants to be nobody. How can I break the cycle such that all lists require the same GID? (hopefully mailman)? check_perms doesn't help. I deleted and recreated the new list a couple of times to see if that helped, ran genaliases and restarted both postfix (my MTA) and mailman several times. Am I missing a file that I can manually change? right now the old list is running with GID mailman, but the new list is not.

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Upgrade to 2.1.5 fails on 'Updating Usenet watermarks'
by mailman-users 25 May '04

25 May '04

Updating from 2.1.4 release to 2.1.5 release, during make install, it dies on: Updating Usenet watermarks - nothing to update here Nothing to do. updating old qfiles Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 780, in ? errors = main() File "bin/update", line 709, in main update_qfiles() File "bin/update", line 441, in update_qfiles msg, data = dequeue(filebase) File "bin/update", line 497, in dequeue msg = cPickle.load(msgfp) EOFError make: *** [update] Error 1 Tried running 'make install' again, but bin/upgrade seems to die at this point without fail. Any suggestions?

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after installation?
by Peter Schnitzler 25 May '04

25 May '04

Hello, I have Debian running and I installed the debain mailman package. It is now running but now I am wondering how i can reach the webuserface and make new lists etc.... Unfortunately i did not found a docuemtenation to mailman and debian Does anybody know how to do it? greetings and thanks! peter -- Peter Schnitzler Weißeritzstr. 40 01067 Dresden Germany tel. +49 351-4976669 mobil. +49 171-6715783

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Bounce
by wilmalewis＠comcast.net 25 May '04

25 May '04

I have been using this program on my site for about 10 months now, without a problem. Last month almost all e-mails started bouncing for no apparent reason. I've told subscribers to put the address on their "safe" list, but it doesn't seem to do much good. Does anybody else has this problem, and what can I do about it? I've tried to reinstall, but that didn't work either. Thanks, Wilma

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman
by Brad Knowles 25 May '04

25 May '04

At 3:32 PM +0700 2004/05/25, Admin Thai Servers wrote: > I have a mailman list of members on an old server which i am trying to move > across to a new server > however i do not have server root access > I can only access the old list with an ip number being > http://66.250.86.154/mailman/admin/members_expatgolf.com Hmm. Not having access to the files means that you can't follow the instructions at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.004.htp>. > I need to move this mailing list complete over to the new server of > www.expatgolf.com > how can I do this please? You're going to have to re-create the lists. Bring up the management interface for the old lists, then copy over all the relevant stuff to the management interface for the new home. When you've replicated all the basic configuration items for all the lists, you can copy over the list of users, and import the archives. > www.villasinphuket.com > Luxury Villas Rentals/Sales/Repairs Out of curiosity, where are you folks in relation to Banyan Tree Phuket? My wife and I stayed there for a few days, and we dearly loved it. We wish we could have spent more time there. Maybe some day we'll get to return to Thailand. > www.thaiservers.com > Hosting for Thailand 1500mb space Bt600 p/m At current exchange rates, that works out to about $14.70588 USD for 1500mb of space, or 102.0mb per $1 USD. That's an amazing price! How do you guys afford that? -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles(a)skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce
by Brad Knowles 25 May '04

25 May '04

At 2:54 PM +0000 2004/05/25, wilmalewis(a)comcast.net wrote: > I have been using this program on my site for about 10 months now, without > a problem. Last month almost all e-mails started bouncing for no apparent > reason. I've told subscribers to put the address on their "safe" list, but > it doesn't seem to do much good. Does anybody else has this problem, and > what can I do about it? What problem? Show us samples from your Mailman logs and system logs that demonstrate the problem, and sample messages. That's no guarantee that this will provide us enough information to go with, but it's a start. When you go to your doctor, you don't just say "Doctor, Doctor, it hurts!" and then expect him to be able to magically cure you. You have to tell him some details about what the problem is, and under what circumstances there is pain. You're not giving us any details to work with. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles(a)skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.

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500+ list archive disk space usage
by Sean 25 May '04

25 May '04

> Anyone have a server with 500+ lists that are at least semi active that > can give me the amount of space used for the archives and how many years > the archives date back to. > > Thanks I've got one with 658 lists, most I'd say are active. The archives are taking up 7.8GB of space. The server has been running lists for 2.5 years. Sean

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