Mailman 3 August 2004 - Mailman-Users

reseting the watermark for gate_news
by Scott C. Villinski Aug. 26, 2004

Aug. 26, 2004

Is there anyway to reset the watermark for a list? Because of an error I made in the original listserver setup, most of my lists ended up with a really high watermark number - so no new messages on the NNTP server are making it to the lists. Any thoughts? One though I had was to dump the list's configure with dumpdb and then try to reimport it. Thanks! Scott

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WishList Items (Forced Msg from Digest, Confirm. of Approval)
by Mark T. Valites Aug. 26, 2004

Aug. 26, 2004

The items below have come up lately as things we'd like to be able to do with our mailman setup. I'm open to any alternative suggestions, hacks or comments... One of my biggest mailman lists is used to broadcast messages to our entire student body. The list contains approximately ~5500 non-digest members and is posted to many times a day during the school year. While load induced from delivering ~5500 local messages hasn't caused a big problem yet (using exim-4.34/exican/clamav/spamassassin on … [View More]solaris 9), I do "notice" everytime a message is sent to the list and a quick mailq confirms this one list driving my load up. When students return this weekend and the college gets back into full swing, I know we'll see more messages both to the list and in general, and I'd rather not have this list pounding my machine several times a day. The department that is responsible for the list is leary of making all the members of the list digest members, in case an important message needs to be sent immeadiately. Even though we have a non-digested emergency "911" list synchronized with the same recipients, they have no desire to use it. If the list members were all set to digest members and the list owner had the capability to force out an individual message immeadiately instead of when the digest ran, they could deal with having most messages go out in a digest. Pipe dream? -- The head of our department periodically sends out email to mailing lists for each of our residence halls on campus. All the lists are set up to hold messages from non-list members. Not being a list member, she can't tell if/when the message has been approved. Is there any way to set up an existing mailman (2.1.5) install to send her acknowledgements of if/when her messages were approved without adding her as a member? -- While more of a SSH issue than a mailman issue, perhaps someone here has run across this issue and can help me out. I would like to set up a cronjob on a remote machine to periodically scp a bunch of files *to* my mailman machine with key based authentication. The key based authentication fails because of the setgid bit on mailman's home directory. I realize I could either 'pull' the files from the remote machine or set up an additional user for the remote scp user to use when scp-ing in, but neither of these solutions is optimal. Is there a better way? Thanks in advance, -Mark -- Mark T. Valites Unix Systems Analyst Computing & Information Technology SUNY Geneseo >--))> >--))> [View Less]

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Mailman vs bcc
by Jacob Friis Larsen Aug. 26, 2004

Aug. 26, 2004

Can mailman send mail just as fast as if I send 1 mail to 1000 addresses in bcc, assuming that the mta accepts 1000? Thanks, Jacob

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Question
by Jennifer Gisler Aug. 26, 2004

Aug. 26, 2004

Hi, Is there a way to get rid of the text attachments that get sent out with every email I (list admin) send out? We do send out html newsletters on this list, so we do not want to turn off the html option in the filtering area. Thanks, Jen

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Mailman has stopped processing mail
by Judy Petersen Aug. 25, 2004

Aug. 25, 2004

Our Web host provides Mailman for our use and I am the new listkeeper. We generate a sizeable number of messages daily but the last one received (according to the archive) was early yesterday afternoon. Our ISP's answer to our help request was 'read the documentation' (which was interesting but doesn't have any troubleshooting). We have had several individuals not receiving the emails since switching to Mailman but now the entire list is unable to receive. What should I do next? To my … [View More]

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Mailman sendmail Install Problems
by Matthew S. Barnes Aug. 25, 2004

Aug. 25, 2004

Hi folks I was wondering? Does mailman and sendmail have to run as the same user? I am working on a yellowdog 3 system trying to get mailman to work and im stuck on one spot the errors i keep getting are this messages sent to the list are bouncing at the mailserver (sendmail 8.12.8) lists creation works ok and initial email subscribe (outbound mail) works ok web interface works ok a look at /var/log/maillog logs shows this: Mailman mail-wrapper: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected … [View More]

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Shunted message: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_sender'
by Paul Schreiber Aug. 25, 2004

Aug. 25, 2004

I just upgraded from 2.1.4 to 2.1.5 (using debian). I went to send out a message. It didn't go out. I ran unshunt and got this error in the error log: Aug 25 13:10:17 2004 (29253) SHUNTING: 1093462156.3963161+de595c0688da87cffc43e9b0cc04a2bf4700dfb3 Aug 25 13:16:05 2004 (29253) Uncaught runner exception: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_sender' Aug 25 13:16:05 2004 (29253) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self.… [View More]

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Delete posting without shell access
by Glenn Black Aug. 25, 2004

Aug. 25, 2004

I have read the posting about deleting postings and running the re-archive function. Unfortunately, I don't have shell access on my virtual hosted server for security reasons. Getting host server personnel to do it is impossible ("we don't do that, you have to self manage."). Is there no other way than delete the entire maillist & start all over?

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debian upgrade to 2.1.5
by Rick Pasotto Aug. 25, 2004

Aug. 25, 2004

mailman appeared in the list of potential upgrades this morning but when I try to install it I'm told that there are files in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles so the upgrade won't happen. There are no *files* in that directory, however there are some *directories* there. I'm told to run 'mailmanctl start' to clear out the files and then run the update again. When I try to do that I'm told that qrunner is already running. How can I find what files are blocking the upgrade? -- "A man who has nothing … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass settings
by Jeff Barger Aug. 25, 2004

Aug. 25, 2004

On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Allen Watson wrote: > On 8/24/04 11:34 AM, I wrote: > >>> >>> You can do this using 'withlist'. >>> >>> >> I don't see "withlist" in the documentation I've been able to find. > > I should clarify; I am a list admin, but I don't have command line > access to > the system on which Mailman is running. I'm limited to the web > interface or > e-mail commands to thelist-request address. The folks at pair.… [View More]

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