Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Users

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by Brandon Cockrum May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

I was wondering if there was any way to search my list's archives by topic or keyword. Brandon Cockrum Member Services Coordinator Indiana Association of Cities and Towns (317)237-6200, ext.235 bcockrum(a)citiesandtowns.org <mailto:bcockrum@citiesandtowns.org>

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Re: [Mailman-Users] email subscription/unsubscription question
by Brad Knowles May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

At 1:56 PM +0200 2004/05/17, Website Administration wrote: > Is it possible to setup subscription and unsubscription (ie the user sends a > message to the list with SUBSCRIBE in the subject) to my lists via email? Mailman does this by default. -- 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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suggest about default at admindb.py from DEFER to DISCARD
by Andres Seco Hernandez May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

Hi all I have not found a link to send this wish as a bug in the bug tracking system at sf.net. I am sorry. Perhaps this is not the correct way, but i will try it. As a lot of pending request to mailman lists are from automatic virus or spammers, sometimes is necesary (because of the volume) to have a default option at DISCARD of the pending messages. Any time i update mailman i need to patch manually admindb.py at line 393 from (1, 0, 0, 0)) to (0, 0, 0, 1)) that is, i need to DISCARD pending messages to avoid great grow of it (too much spam and too much virus). I can not read about 1000 messages per week looking for valid messages from people not subscribed to the list when almost all messages (really all the messages) are not valid and i want to discard all of it. It may be a good option to be added in the config page of a list (do you want pending messages to be discarded by default?). Thanks a lot for this good mail list manager. -- Andres Seco Hernandez http://andressh.net mailto:AndresSH@alamin.org jabber:sslowly@jabber.guadawireless.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://guadawireless.net http://www.debian.org http://www.alamin.org http://www.redlibre.net http://www.gulalcarria.org http://andressh.net http://objetivosubjetivo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Por favor, NO utilice formatos de archivo propietarios para el intercambio de documentos, como DOC y XLS, sino HTML, PDF, TXT, CSV o cualquier otro que no obligue a utilizar un programa de un fabricante concreto.

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Don't smack the newbie... 3 questions in one
by Dennis Kuhlmeier May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

Hi there, I of course first searched the list archives but somehow did not find exactly what i was looking for. So please help me ;) I just switched to Mailman 2.1.5 from a 2.0.x version and am not yet quite sure if i like the way it works with all these python processes running all the time, but well, now to the questions (allthough I know of the risk of asking more than question at time, I hope all will be answered, but number concerns me most atm) 1. Why does Mailman add a blank Cc: header to all mails posted to the lists I created on the server, except the "Mailman" list itself? I have set an Explicit Reply To: header to all of them, but that should not be the cause, as I added one the Mailman list and it still does not add that header... 2. Lists created via the admin webpage cannot accept mail (user unknown). I know that mailman can now accept mail without having to add all the aliases (how is that actually supposed to work), but on my system it just won't work without these aliases. Why can that be? (running all lists by using newlist command and adding the aliases, which works fine) found this FAQ entry (which does not resemble the error sendmail reports) http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.036.htp but adding virtual hosts didn't help, as expected :( 3. damn, i'm sure there was a third question, but i must have forgotten it.... tnx to all who can help and are willing to do so! regards, -- Dennis Kuhlmeier ...the availability of pornography will increase at a rate sufficient to match any advances in data storage and transfer technology

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Permission problem, please help
by Sergey Solovev May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

Hi, I had to relocate my mailman folders from one partition to another one. And unfortunately for me I messed up all the permissions. I fixed half of it somehow, but I was wondering can someone give me a list of the correct permissions on all the mailman folders. regards

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MacOSX List Creation and Deletion failure through web interface
by mbonanno May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

Hi, I've set up a Mac OS X server basically for the sole purpose of being a listserv. I set up server, created one list called test through the Apple gui, and then verified that the I was receiving mail. Then i attempted to create a list through the web interface and got this error. Can anyone tell me why this happened? Is this a problem with Apple's permissions? I have done no customization to the server other than running install CD and then activating Mailman, and then creating my to test lists. Thanks alot, Michael _________________ Bug in Mailman version 2.1.2 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 "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1) File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /private/var/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python sys.prefix /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 sys.exec_prefix /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 sys.path /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 sys.platform darwin Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP_REFERER http://college.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/create SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.28 (Darwin) DAV/1.0.3 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.28 Server at college.sas.upenn.edu Port 16080 REQUEST_METHOD POST SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING CONTENT_LENGTH 150 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/124 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.1 HTTP_CONNECTION close HTTP_COOKIE test+admin=2802000000691529a940732800000033323364376563633934376531316131323266326465643838336664316464666133356338316330 SERVER_NAME college.sas.upenn.edu REMOTE_ADDR 127.0.0.1 HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR 130.91.237.46 SERVER_PORT 16080 SERVER_ADDR 127.0.0.1 DOCUMENT_ROOT /Library/WebServer/Documents PYTHONPATH /usr/share/mailman SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/mailman/cgi-bin/create SERVER_ADMIN admin(a)example.com SCRIPT_URI http://college.sas.upenn.edu:16080/mailman/create HTTP_HOST college.sas.upenn.edu SCRIPT_URL /mailman/create REQUEST_URI /mailman/create HTTP_ACCEPT */* GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 REMOTE_PORT 49609 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us, ja;q=0.21, de-de;q=0.86, de;q=0.79, fr-fr;q=0.71, fr;q=0.64, nl-nl;q=0.57, nl;q=0.50, it-it;q=0.43, it;q=0.36, ja-jp;q=0.29, en;q=0.93, es-es;q=0.14, es;q=0.07 __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING 0x46:0:0 CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate;q=1.0, identity;q=0.5, *;q=0

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Don't smack the newbie... 3 questions in one
by Dennis Kuhlmeier May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

Hi there, I of course first searched the list archives but somehow did not find exactly what i was looking for. So please help me ;) I just switched to Mailman 2.1.5 from a 2.0.x version and am not yet quite sure if i like the way it works with all these python processes running all the time, but well, now to the questions (allthough I know of the risk of asking more than question at time, I hope all will be answered, but number concerns me most atm) 1. Why does Mailman add a blank Cc: header to all mails posted to the lists I created on the server, except the "Mailman" list itself? I have set an Explicit Reply To: header to all of them, but that should not be the cause, as I added one the Mailman list and it still does not add that header... 2. Lists created via the admin webpage cannot accept mail (user unknown). I know that mailman can now accept mail without having to add all the aliases (how is that actually supposed to work), but on my system it just won't work without these aliases. Why can that be? (running all lists by using newlist und adding the aliases, which works fine) found this FAQ entry, but adding virtual hosts didn't help :( 3. damn, i'm sure there was a third question, but i must have forgotten it.... tnx to all who can help and are willing to do so! regards, -- Dennis Kuhlmeier ...the availability of pornography will increase at a rate sufficient to match any advances in data storage and transfer technology

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Re: [Mailman-Users] email subscription/unsubscription question
by Jon Quiros May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

Yes, RTFM. Website Administration wrote: > >Hi, > >Is it possible to setup subscription and unsubscription (ie the user sends a >message to the list with SUBSCRIBE in the subject) to my lists via email? >If so, how? > >Thanks >Adriaan > > >------------------------------------------------------ >Mailman-Users mailing list >Mailman-Users(a)python.org >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users >Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py >Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > >

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email subscription/unsubscription question
by Website Administration May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

Hi, Is it possible to setup subscription and unsubscription (ie the user sends a message to the list with SUBSCRIBE in the subject) to my lists via email? If so, how? Thanks Adriaan

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Remove Attachments - Content Type
by Jim Tittsler May 17, 2004

May 17, 2004

> would I be right in thinking that the mime types to enter in order to > discard zip files as attachments would be: > > application/x-compressed > application/x-zip-compressed > application/zip > multipart/x-zip Many (most?) zip archives seem to be attached simply as application/octet-stream. Depending upon the type of attachments you want to allow (and your user base's mail clients :-) you *may* be able to block it without collateral damage. -- Jim Tittsler http://www.OnJapan.net/ GPG: 0x01159DB6 Python Starship http://Starship.Python.net/ Ringo MUG Tokyo http://www.ringo.net/rss.html

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