Mailman 3 June 2004 - Mailman-Users

Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann Nov. 17, 2023

Nov. 17, 2023

Hi, Is there any way to configure Mailman such that, for an announcement-only type list, when a message is sent to the list, the To: shows the member's address, rather than the list address? Some list software allows the ability to hide the list address itself, so that address is not advertised. I couldn't find any configuration specific to that.

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Membership Management And Other Problems.
by multimedia-fan＠myrealbox.com March 21, 2006

March 21, 2006

Greetings, I cannot "Set everyone's moderation bit, including those members not currently visible" to on, in the membership management section in any list. I have set OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = 1 In /Mailman/mm_cfgy.py But still have the same problem. Also I cannot set or unset digest for all users, any thing I overlooked? This was happening before the changes made in the next issue explained below. In the last couple of days we had to reconfigure reverse mapping in DNS for the server, and now the URLs that Mailman builds in the list admin and info pages are pointing to the old host name, is there a way of correcting this, without re-installing mailman from scratch? Any pointers, clues will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your assistance.

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[Fwd: Re: [Mailman-Users] .signature to posts]
by Solignani Tiziano April 15, 2005

April 15, 2005

Charles Sebold said: > On 24 Shevat 5762, Clark Cooper wrote: > >> Is there a way in Mailman to append text to each posts as done with a >> .signature file? > > On the web admin interface, go to page "Regular-member (non-digest) > Options" and change the option labeled "Footer added to mail sent to > regular list members". Is that what you were after? > -- > Charles Sebold 25th of Shevat, BTW how can I add taglines, i.e. random strings picked frpm a text file where they lies every one on a separate line. ALmost every list manager has tag lines administration, but I did not find them in mailman... Cheers, ---- Avv. Tiziano Solignani via Bonesi n. 15 - Vignola (MO) tel. 059 76.19.26 - fax 059 77.04.535 mail: solignani(a)solignani.it web: http://www.solignani.it chat: avv_tiziano_solignani(a)hotmail.com PC Open magazine - www.pcopen.agepe.it "rarest jewel is a true heart" -- ---- Avv. Tiziano Solignani via Bonesi n. 15 - Vignola (MO) tel. 059 76.19.26 - fax 059 77.04.535 mail: solignani(a)solignani.it web: http://www.solignani.it chat: avv_tiziano_solignani(a)hotmail.com PC Open magazine - www.pcopen.agepe.it "rarest jewel is a true heart"

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Where is 'reject' message stored
by Warren Hoffman Jan. 24, 2005

Jan. 24, 2005

One of my associates set up content filters to reject attachments and other things. He created a custom message to explain this. Now he wants to change the message, but I cannot locate which file in /mailman holds the text (and I did look at all of them). Can somebody tell me how I could find it. I do know text fragments. Thanks!!! --Warren

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Upgrade hell (Debian)
by Deirdre Saoirse Moen Jan. 5, 2005

Jan. 5, 2005

Upgrade script broke (not the first time). from Mailman import MailList from Mailman.LockFile import TimeOutError from Mailman.i18n import _ I'm getting error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 51, in ? from Mailman.i18n import _ ImportError: No module named i18n It doesn't balk on the line before, so it doesn't seem to be a path issue. When I comment that line out (for grins), it balks on: from Mailman.Queue.Switchboard import Switchboard from Mailman import OldStyleMemberships from Mailman.MemberAdaptor import BYBOUNCE, ENABLED Any clues? -- _Deirdre http://deirdre.net "Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This....is wrong tool." -- Zathras

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Mailman/pipermail/MHonArc integration issue
by Wiley Wimberly Sept. 22, 2004

Sept. 22, 2004

Hi, I am using the Mailman/pipermail/MHonArc integration patchs found at http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mailman/index.html and have been seeing the following issue. When I run bin/arch --wipe listname it correctly builds the html for each month section unless there is only a single message for the month. The output shows: figuring article archives 2004-May Warning: Could not parse date for message Message-Id: <f7589c774a9bf75f62148a712f1140fd(a)NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> This only seems to happen if there is just one message for that month. I also see the same error in the error log on all incoming messages that are sent to the archiver. Warning: Could not parse date for message Message-Id: <4173763d54406fe2a588db538ad84586(a)NO-ID-FOUND.mhonarc.org> The message shows up in the html, but the subject and sender are missing from the toc. • [no subject] , Unknown - Sat May 01 14:28:54 2004 Also all of the header lines are missing from the message page. I just get a heading of [no subject]. I am using mailman 2.1.4 with the following patches which all seemed to apply cleanly. modinc-2.1.4-0.1.patch indexing-2.1.4-0.1.patch htdig-2.1.4-0.1.patch mhonarc-2.1.4-0.1.patch Is anyone else seeing this issue? I have been beating on this for a few days and any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Change list password
by Brian York July 7, 2004

July 7, 2004

How can I change a list password from the command line?

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RE: [Mailman-Users] changing ISP servers
by Jon Carnes July 5, 2004

July 5, 2004

Even Cpanel should let Mailman dump out the user lists for you. There is a Mailman commandline that specifically does that (list_members). The command to dump out your configuration to text is config_list. Your admin can dump the config out, edit the fields that change (URL and default host names - the list name, if that changes) then simply create a list with the same name and upload the config file using config_list again. It's almost a "no brainer" once you read the help that comes with config_list. Good Luck - Jon Carnes On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 23:16, Pastor Augie wrote: > Jon, > > thanks for your reply. I've passed along your message to my ISP - he's > pretty responsive... we'll see what he says. > > Unfortunately, we *do* use cPanel ... and this is NOT the first problem > we've had... funny you should mention that! Sometimes our messages get > stuck in queue and don't come out for days if at all. > > Anyway, I don't have command line access and am not even sure where the > files for mailman are. They don't appear to be in our user directory. If > you could tell me the name of the file to look for, I could direct the > sysadmin to look for it. > > But just double checking - there is no way to export email addresses and > names? Then it would be a simple matter to re-import them. > > Thanks for all your help! > > Augie. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc@nc.rr.com] > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 7:41 PM > To: pastor(a)SavingGraceLC.org > Cc: mailman-users(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] changing ISP servers > > > On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:33, Pastor Augie wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have several mailman lists setup. Because of technical difficulties > > with our ISP's physical server, I am being required to migrate our > > entire website, including lists, to a new server (new IP and new > > name). My ISP contact tells me that when the mailman lists are moved > > to the new server they will need to be RECREATED FROM SCRATCH!! > > > > Is that the case? What is the most desirable way to migrate to a new > > server? Is there a simple export feature or some flat (or db) file I > > can export or something like that so I don't have to recreate the list > > by hand?? > > Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > Augie. > > > > Well, if they are using a straight version of Mailman then the answer is > false. It's very easy to move lists to a new server. > > It may be that they are actually using Cpanel (or will be using Cpanel). > This app does "who-knows-what" to Mailman. Actually we know a few > things it does, thanks to the many, many complaints we receive on a > regular basis from folks stuck using Cpanel. > > Even then, the movements of the lists can be relatively painless - if > they allow you command line access to dump out your list configurations > into text files. > > Good luck - Jon Carnes > > >

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"from" column question--how can we get our name to appear instead of the email address?
by Avi M. Spiegel July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

Hello: We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting is listed in the from column? When I send messages from my Outlook account to any other address its says my name in the From box. When I send messages to the mailman listserv it lists the email address of the listserv in the From box. Please help! Thanks

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bogus archive directory messages to mailman list
by Kai Schaetzl July 2, 2004

July 2, 2004

This is Mailman 2.1.5rc on Linux. I have seen this happen with 2.1.4 as well. Each night nightly-gzip creates a complaint about this: List kunden-alle has a bogus archive_directory: /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kunden-alle I'm not sure what it means. There's a symlink from private pointing to a non-existant directory in public. I removed that symlink but it still creates the same message. So, what does it want? Do I need to change configuration somewhere? (archiving = no) Or should I have created the directory the symlink was pointing to instead of removing the symlink? (this list was created by copying a list directory with all content and then editing the new list. This way the original archive directory wasn't copied.) Ok, that was one question, probably easily explained. But there's more. This message is obviously sent to the mailman umbrella list which doesn't accept it because the sender (root@<hostname>) is not a member of the list. Should I add it to the list, should I do something else? I just created that list as I was told in some Mailman setup instruction. There wasn't anything about adding members in it. This list doesn't have any members. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org

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