Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Users

DSL
by Somshekar 12 May '04

12 May '04

hi i wanted to setup mailman in DSL connection and i have a static IP. My postfix is working good. pl tell me how should i go about it thanks in advance bye somu

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Sender modification
by cedric gross 12 May '04

12 May '04

Hello, Is there a way to change the sender of mail (i.e. mailman-user-bounce) with something more humain like : The Mailman User list <mailman-users(a)python.org) ? Or must I do it by canonical rewriting ? Cedric

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More on news server errors
by Con Wieland 12 May '04

12 May '04

My problem is I get the following error: May 11 14:55:01 2004 (23921) error opening connection to nntp_host: (146, 'Connection refused') It looks like Mailman is trying to connect to my newserver on port 146 if I'm reading this right. My *nix host is set to nntp on port 119. Port 119 does appear to work, I am able to make a connection to the news server when I telnet to it on that port 119 but receive a similar looking error when I telnet port 146. directory.nac.uci.edu% telnet news.service.uci.edu 146 Trying 128.200.15.230... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused I have not been able to find any mailman configurations to change this. Any ideas? Con Wieland

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Is email merge supported?
by JP Grobler 12 May '04

12 May '04

Hi Can names etc be merged into emails? Thanks JP --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.681 / Virus Database: 443 - Release Date: 10/05/2004

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editing From line in anonymous list
by Ari Jort 12 May '04

12 May '04

I have a list with the anonymous_list field set to Yes because we want to rewrite the From and Reply-To headers. The result of this setting is that the From: line contains the list email address e.g.: From: mylist(a)lists.here.com However, I would like to have that From line look like this: From: My List <mylist(a)lists.here.com> Where the string "My List" could be from the description field on the list. Has anyone tried to do that? This appear to be impossible to set in the configuration, since the method in Mailman/MailList.py:getListAddress() only returns an email address. The code doesn't seem to have a way to get the description. There could be a function like this: def getFriendlyListAddress(self); return '%s <%s@%s>' % (self.description, self.internal_name(), self.host_name) with maybe some extra code to handle the situation where self.description is blank. Does this make sense? Has anyone else tried this? Thanks, ari

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Bouncing immediately unauthorised senders
by David Richards 12 May '04

12 May '04

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

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lists.org is down?
by David Bear 11 May '04

11 May '04

anyone else getting connection refused when going to lists.org? I was hoping to find some good readme's about mailman... but since I'm in my mailer.. I would like mailman to hand 'send only' lists, ie something like the listserve distribute job with old listserve software. This is where you could create a list if recipients, send your message to that list, then each recipient would think they had a personalized email to them... the message would appear to be from the 'sender' rather than the list. Ofcourse, associated with this one would need a web interface to manage mailing lists.. the goal of course is to free my users from the bane of outlook lists... -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"

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news server errors
by Con Wieland 11 May '04

11 May '04

Hello I'm getting errors from the 'fromusenet' logs May 11 14:10:02 2004 (23563) error opening connection to nntp_host: (146, 'Connection refused') does anyone know how to find out which lists are configured for usenet news exchanges? TIA Con Wieland Network and Academic Computing UC Irvine

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time stamp in logs
by Al Black 11 May '04

11 May '04

Hi gang, I didn't see anything in the FAQ about this, so I thought I'd check here. Is there a way to configure mailman so that its log entries can be written in GMT rather than the local server time? thanks in advance al

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Re: Skipping Mailscanner for list mail
by Paul H Byerly 11 May '04

11 May '04

Kai Schaetzl wrote: >Looks quite valid. What delivery method do you use? If mailman doesn't >deliver by SMTP those filters may fail. Using the default - SMTPDirect. The relevant lines (as far as I can tell) from Defaults.py and mm_cfg.py: DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' SMTPHOST = 'localhost' USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = 1 <>< Paul

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