Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Users

using mailman and news
by David Bear May 11, 2004

May 11, 2004

I would like to setup a mail list that is threaded like a news group. Does mailman provide an nntp server or do I need to 'connect' to some other program? -- 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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Enabling lock logging
by John Poltorak May 11, 2004

May 11, 2004

It was suggested that I may get round aproblem I'm having with Mailman if I - 'enable the lock logging'... Can anyone suggest how I do that? Is it a build option or something specified at runtime? -- John

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True anonymous list?
by Michael Balamuth May 11, 2004

May 11, 2004

Hello list, We have been using Mailman 2.0.13 for quite some time, but never with the intention of creating a genuinely anonymous mailing list. Now, we have a reason to do so, but I have been unable to completely hide the originator (poster's) email address from the headers of the sent mail. Obviously, anyone knowing how to read the headers will find the address of the poster. So, is there a way to make a list anonymous even at this level? Any help appreciated. For completeness, I believe I have followed the FAQ's and help and set explicit-reply to and hide posters address etc. correctly... Maybe not? Thanks, Michael Balamuth mlb(a)chroma.com

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mailman 2.1.4 + postfix 2.0.16
by cedric gross May 11, 2004

May 11, 2004

Hello, I'm not sure but it's seems that email sent to mailman is a VIRTUAL address what have you in virtual-mailman file ? Obviously, I don't use that but I configured a virtual domain : listes.youdomain.ltd that I registered in my transport table as next hop to "mailman" I configured in master.cf "mailman" as pipe : mailman unix - n n - - pipe flags=FR user=mailman:mailman argv=/usr/local/mailman/postfix2mailman.py ${nexthop} ${user} you can find the file postfix2mailman.py at http://www.gurulabs.com/files/postfix-to-mailman-2.1.py >From my point of view I don't know anything to python so I rewrite the postfix2mailman in Perl. Hope this help. >Hi, I run this config on a FreeBSD 4.9 >Postifx is installed with mysql support for virtual domains. >I have an error and i didn't find the answer in the FAQ. >The installation was successfull. >I created a mailing list. It appears in /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases. >When I created the ML, i received the mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] wich >said : >" The mailing list `ff' has just been created for you. The following is some >basic information about your mailing list....." >So it looks like good. >I can subscribe via web interface and do all operations successfully. > > >The problem is that if I want to register by the email command " >[EMAIL PROTECTED] " >I receive the error: Remote host said: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >User unknown in virtual mailbox table [...]

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Selecting different language (by URL) for listinfo
by Steve Williams May 11, 2004

May 11, 2004

Hi, I want to put a link on my web site for French users to be able to sign up for our mailing list. The default language for the list is English. I currently have a link like: http://www.mydomain.com/mailman/listinfo/webupdates for my English subscription link I have enabled French as an alternate language, and they can select it in the drop-down box in the upper right corner. Is there anyway to select the language to display in through the URL? Somethink like... http://www.mydomain.com/mailman/listinfo/webupdates?language=fr Thanks for any thoughts. Cheers, Steve Williams

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Read-only partition
by Eric Pretorious May 10, 2004

May 10, 2004

Hello, All: I've installed and configured Mailman 2.1.4 "with a little help from [the list]" - to paraphrase the Beetles. Mailman was installed in /usr/local and works nicely there but - for security reasons - I prefer to mount the /usr partition read-only. This presents a problem, however, because Mailman needs to write to some of the subdirectories in /usr/local/mailman. (e.g., ~/archives, ~/data, ~/lists, and ~/qfiles) Will replacing these directories with symlinks to /var break Mailman? -- Eric P. Sunnyvale, CA

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Skipping Mailscanner for list mail
by Paul H Byerly May 10, 2004

May 10, 2004

Since several of you indicated you use Mailscanner, I'm hoping someone can help with this. I have three large (1000 to 5000) VERPed announcement lists. When I send out these lists clamav shows up in top - and it eat up all available CPU for several minutes. I have read all the documentation and added filters that should cause virus scanning to be skipped, but clamav still runs. Is Mailman sending in a way that the filters are not kicking in? Any idea what to add? In MailScanner.conf I have: Virus Scanning = /etc/MailScanner/rules/virus.scanning.rules In virus.scanning.rules I have From: paul(a)mydomain.com no From: 127.0.0.1 no From: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx no From: *(a)svr.mydomain.com no From: listname(a)svr.mydomain.com no From: listname-bounces(a)svr.mydomain.com no FromOrTo: default yes The first entry is the e-mail I use to send to the list, the third is my server IP,the forth is the server host name, the next two are the list address and the from address. Any ideas? <>< Paul

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lists that are members of each other - bad idea?
by Barnaby Scott May 10, 2004

May 10, 2004

I posted a question a couple of days ago about a particular Mailman set-up I wanted to achieve, but have since thought it would be better to ask a simpler and more specific question: Does anyone know the consequences of setting up two lists which are members of each other? I don't want to do something which will cause an endless loop and bring down the wrath of my hosting company upon myself! Presumably the X-BeenThere header should come into play to avoid such an eventuality, but will it work in these circs? Or even if it does work, should one not do this sort of thing for other reasons? Thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

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Setting up Mailman on Sendmail
by John Carlson May 10, 2004

May 10, 2004

How did you set up Sendmail to forward email to your Exchange Server? Thanks John Carlson Network Administrator Minnesota Ag Group

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site list missing
by Brian York May 10, 2004

May 10, 2004

I installed mailman 2.1.4 on RH AS 3 using sendmail and apache. When i started mailman i get this error 'site list is missing: mailman'. What do i need to do to fix this. Thanks Brian

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