Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Users

how to arrange a list with 'affiliate' members
by Barnaby Scott May 14, 2004

May 14, 2004

I am trying to configure a list or group of lists to exhibit the following behaviour, but have been having trouble: I run a list called 'discuss', which is a discussion list for members of our organisation. We would also like to invite a handful of people to be 'affiliate' members, but who would not have quite the same experience of the list. We want these 'affiliate members' to be able to post to 'discuss', and any replies to their posts to be distributed to them. In addition we would like regular members to be able to insert a keyword to indicate that the conversation they are starting is to include these 'affiliate members'. But for all other list traffic, they would excluded. The most obvious mechanism would be to subscribe the affilate members as full members of 'discuss' and use Topics - restricting them to receive only posts with [affiliate] in the subject. However, I can see no way of preventing them lifting this restriction from themselves, and in any case they would be obliged to remember to use the keyword if they wanted any replies. The only other solution I could think of was to have another list - say 'open', of which 'discuss' was a member. This would allow control of who was an affiliate member, and would take care of inbound posts to 'discuss'. However, to allow replies back to the affiliate members would involve either: *Having the 'discuss's reply-to UN-munged (which I am against because we have 100% non-technical people, and no replies would ever reach any list at all if they had to remember to hit 'reply to all'!) or *Having 'open' being a member of 'discuss' (in addition to 'discuss' being a member of 'open'). Presumably this is what is technically known as a BAD THING! I wouldn't be at all surprised if I have overlooked something very obvious - in any case all suggestions would be very gratefully received! Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

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Status of qfiles
by John Poltorak May 14, 2004

May 14, 2004

Is there any way to determine the status of queued files? I'm think of something equivalent to 'sendmail -bp'... -- John

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List Create Problem
by UYadav＠TULLIB.COM May 14, 2004

May 14, 2004

Hi! I am trying to create a list using web interface but it keeps complaining like this : Error: Illegal list name: test@mail What could be wrong here. Thanks, Uggar

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pl help me
by Somshekar May 13, 2004

May 13, 2004

hi i can create mail from shell prompt but when i go on web interface this the error i am getting Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", but the system's web server executed the CGI script as group "apache". Try tweaking the web server to run the script as group "nobody", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=apache'. thanks bye

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more on gate_news
by Con Wieland May 13, 2004

May 13, 2004

I get the following error when gate_news is run: May 13 07:00:01 2004 (7939) error opening connection to nntp_host: (146, 'Connection refused') The error should include the nntp_host but upon further investigation the variable isn't being set. I'm running: solaris 9 mailman 2.1.4 Python 2.3.3 My questions are: Is this a bug? Does anyone else have the gate_news running, what versions? Has anyone had a similar problem or better yet any ideas on where to go from here, unfortunately I'm kinda in the 'learn as you go' mode on python. Thanks in advance for any help Con Wieland Network and Academic Computing Services UC Irvine

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Wrong URL for attachments
by Barbara B. Johansen May 13, 2004

May 13, 2004

I moved my lists from mailman 2.0.13 to 2.1.4 Everything seems to work fine and the handling of attachments in archives in new created lists i nice. But i goes wrong for all the lists i moved from the old installation. The url to the attachments in the archives is wrong. It uses the DEFAULT_URL_HOST defined in Default.py which is the same as the DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST. It should use the DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST or DEFAULT_URL_HOST as they are defined in the mm_cfg.py The url is correct in lists created under the new mailman installation. Is there a way to correct it for the moved lists too? We use Exim 4.24 and apache 1.3.20 on solaris. regards Barbara Barbara B. Johansen Det Humanistiske Fakultets EDB-kontor Aalborg Universitet Kroghstraede 3 DK 9220 Aalborg

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headers
by Hans Gubitz May 13, 2004

May 13, 2004

mailman 2.1.4 is running. Users can mail to different lists. mailman is running on bluecherweb with the exim3 local_domains=...;gym-nippes.dnsalias.org In mm_config.py I have: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.gym-nippes.dnsalias.org' I have some problems with headers in emails from <list>-bounces. When a new user subscribes a list there is sent an email to him by <list>-bounces. It leaves our mailer-relay with the header: from=<list>-bounces(a)lists.gym-nippes.dnsalias.org May 13 08:07:14 stargate sendmail[12300]: IAA12300: from=<linkus-dev-bounces(a)lists.gym-nippes.dnsalias.org>, si ze=2280, class=-60, pri=140280, nrcpts=1, msgid=<mailman.0.1084428453.12449.linkus-dev(a)lists.gym-nippes.dnsalia s.org>, proto=ESMTP, relay=mail(a)bluecherweb.bluecher [192.168.4.50] May 13 08:07:15 stargate sendmail[12302]: IAA12300: to=<gubitz(a)redwitz79.de>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, relay=smtp.netcologne.de. [194.8.194.218], stat=Sent (Ok: queued as B55983A120) When the mail arrives at the user for confirming the headers are wrong: From: linkus-dev-request(a)gym-nippes.dnsalias.org To: gubitz(a)redwitz79.de Subject: confirm eca026472cf31fb7bc7693e5d2e49b42ac3a1847 Reply-To: linkus-dev-request(a)gym-nippes.dnsalias.org Message-ID: <mailman.0.1084428453.12449.linkus-dev(a)lists.gym-nippes.dnsalias.org> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 08:07:33 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-BeenThere: linkus-dev(a)lists.gym-nippes.dnsalias.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 List-Id: Linkus Entwicklung <linkus-dev.lists.gym-nippes.dnsalias.org> X-List-Administrivia: yes Sender: linkus-dev-bounces(a)gym-nippes.dnsalias.org Errors-To: linkus-dev-bounces(a)gym-nippes.dnsalias.org He would send his confirming to <list>-request(a)gym-nippes.dnsalias.org, but not to <list>-request(a)lists.gym-nippes.dnsalias.org What is setup wrong? -Mailman? -mail-server on bluecherweb, where mailman is running? -mail-server on our relay? Hans Gubitz -- Hans Gubitz <gubitz(a)netcologne.de>

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forwarding messages from one list to another not as attachments
by David W Smith May 12, 2004

May 12, 2004

Hi, This evening a users sent a posting to one of my mailing lists that was inappropriate for that list but was blocked as the user was not using their subscribed email address. Logging onto the mailing list web inteface, from within 'pending requests', I discarded the posting and had it forwarded to another address (that of the appropriate mailing list). I then found that the posting text went out as an attachment, with the body of the actual email text-less. Also the From: did not state the original sender of the posting but as 'mylistname-bounces'. So does anyone know if it's possible with a posting forwarded from one list to another to have it a) sent not as an attachment but with the text in the body of the email and b) contain a From: header with the sender's address and not a '-bounces' one ?? Thanks for any advice or fixes. David Smith University of Oxford Sys Admin

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Need a Mailman consultant.
by Alyson B. Stanfield May 12, 2004

May 12, 2004

I just installed Mailman on my cPanel and the messages are going to only a very small handful of the 1850 subscribers on my opt-in list. This is my bread-and-butter list that I need to work every day (newsletter is usually sent out weekly). My husband (a software techie) says the problem is with the server. The host company says it's not. But the cPanel AND Mailman are new to them and they don't support the latter. I'm desperate! Do you have the name of anyone who can get this job done quickly? If I don't get it working soon I will have to find a different system. Thank you so much for your consideration. Kindly, Alyson Alyson B. Stanfield STANFIELD ART ASSOCIATES 5968 El Diente St. Golden, CO 80403 303.273.5904 alyson(a)artbizcoach.com The business and career source for visual artists. http://www.artbizcoach.com

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Bouncing immediately unauthorised senders
by Dave Richards May 12, 2004

May 12, 2004

Hi, I have a number of lists that have a limited set of addresses that can send to it. Is there a way to bounce any other senders immediately, instead of queueing in the administrative requests? Current settings: moderated = NO member_posting_only = NO posters = ['a(a)xyz.com', 'b(a)xyz.com', 'z(a)abc.org' ] mailman v2.0.13 Any ideas? Thanks, David Richards Senior Network Programmer Information Technology Services Queensland University of Technology

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