Mailman 3 January 2005 - Mailman-Users

bounce unsubscribe
by Andrew Watson 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

I administer a list. I received a notice that one of my own subscriptions to the list had been unsubscribed. I realized it was an old address that was no longer functional. Cool. But why did I (as owner) not receive notification that the address was to be disabled or unsubscribed? Both of the options below are checked yes, and the list owner address works fine. "Should Mailman notify you, the list owner, when bounces cause a member's subscription to be disabled? " "Should Mailman notify you, the list owner, when bounces cause a member to be unsubscribed? "

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rmlist does not work on lists with a space in the name
by Steve Dondley 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

I've create a mail list name called 'my list'. When I perform the "rmlist -a my\ list" or "rmlist -a 'my list'" command, mailman tells me it has deleted everything and I get no errors. In fact, rmlist reports back "Removing list info". But when I go to the listinfo page, the list is still there and fully operational.

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Mailman Tutorial French
by Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hello, I know the documentation is fairly clear about setting up a new Mailman site, but I wrote this little tutorial in french on how to set it up. I hope it will be archived by the search engines and will help the futures newbies: http://faq.fcolc.eu.org/Members/mihamina/tutoriels/fedora/mailman It's very short, as well as the installation is simple :-). But it helps some newbies ti follow something... -- ASPO Infogérance http://aspo.rktmb.org/activites/infogerance Unofficial FAQ fcolc http://faq.fcolc.eu.org/ LUG sur Orléans et alentours (France). Tél : 02 34 08 26 04 / 06 33 26 13 14

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Strange behavour of reply-to
by simonb 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

I have version 2.1.5 running on Solaris 8 Whenever I create a list the reply to address always changes the FQDN side of the reply to to the mailing list address. IE: for mailing list at @aaaa.com original email has:- from: bil(a)rodent.org replyto: bil(a)rodent.org the email on the list has:- from: bil(a)aaaa.com replyto: bil(a)aaaa.com Does anyone know what is happening? -- simonb <simonb(a)zapik.co.uk> UMAX-IT Limited

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Are the "regexps" used in Mailman really Regular Expressions?
by Jeff Groves 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

Are the regexp used in Mailman similar to those used in awk? If so, why don't you have to escape characters like "." in an email address? Is there anywhere that has a "HowTo" on the regexps standard used in Mailman? Thanks, Jeff G. -- Law of Procrastination: Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing important to do.

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failure to post to list
by Christopher Adams 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

This may not be strictly a Mailman problem, but a problem posting to a Mailman list nonetheless. A specific list owner posts a message to a list. The maillog (I use Postfix) shows: maillog.1:Jan 27 16:31:27 webhost postfix/local[25275]: EBD2A4E5DF: to=<mylist(a)wherever.com>, relay=local, delay=1, status=sent ("|/l ists/mail/mailman post mylist") The mailman post log should show something like: post:Jan 28 07:31:05 2005 (3196) post to mylist from joe(a)wherever.org, size=3512, message-id=<372EFF9FE4E42E419C978E7A305DC5FE082C8C09@ exsalem5.wherever.org>, success However, there is no entry in the post log and the message is never delivered. This is a consistent problem for this particular person. There are no error messages sent back to her or messages to me as the mailman-owner. I am just sitting here scratching my head, wondering what to do next. Does anyone have any ideas what might be happening? -- Christopher Adams

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Mailman 2.1.5 VERP / Sendmail
by Lauren Weinstein 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

Greetings. I'm evaluating Mailman (2.1.5) on some test lists, and seem to be having a problem getting VERP enabled. I've set what seem like reasonable values in mm_cfg.py (please see below). However, envelope From addresses are still un-VERPed (e.g. mailman-bounce(a)foo.com) [testing on non-digest immediate delivery messages of course]. Two other questions: I assume that with sendmail it's necessary to build an alias file to handle the returning VERP bounces, since no intrinsic mechanism for this exists within sendmail itself? Also, I was surprised to discover that my mm_cfg.py file gets overwritten with the "empty" distribution version if "make install" is re-run. I had been under the impression that mm_cfg.py wouldn't be overwritten in such a case. Any suggestions on these issues would be appreciated. Thanks very much. --Lauren-- # These variables control the format and frequency of VERP-like delivery for # better bounce detection. VERP is Variable Envelope Return Path, defined # However, we're technically only "VERP-like" because we're doing the envelope # The first variable describes how to encode VERP envelopes. It must contain VERP_FORMAT = '%(bounces)s+%(mailbox)s=%(host)s' VERP_REGEXP = r'^(?P<bounces>[^+]+?)\+(?P<mailbox>[^=]+)=(?P<host>[^@]+)@.*$' # VERP format and regexp for probe messages VERP_PROBE_FORMAT = '%(bounces)s+%(token)s' VERP_PROBE_REGEXP = r'^(?P<bounces>[^+]+?)\+(?P<token>[^@]+)@.*$' # A perfect opportunity for doing VERP is the password reminders, which are # VERPs on all password reminders. VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = No # individual recipient. Set this to Yes to enable VERPs on all personalized VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = Yes # And finally, we can VERP normal, non-personalized deliveries. However, # often to VERP regular deliveries. This is the interval, in number of # messages, to do a VERP recipient address. The same variable controls both # regular and digest deliveries. Set to 0 to disable occasional VERPs, set to # 1 to VERP every delivery, or to some number > 1 for only occasional VERPs. VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1 # For nicer confirmation emails, use a VERP-like format which encodes the # Format is like VERP_FORMAT above, but with the following substitutions: VERP_CONFIRM_FORMAT = '%(addr)s+%(cookie)s' # This is analogous to VERP_REGEXP, but for splitting apart the # VERP_CONFIRM_FORMAT. VERP_CONFIRM_REGEXP = r'^(?P<addr>[^+]+?)\+(?P<cookie>[^@]+)@.*$' # Set this to Yes to enable VERP-like (more user friendly) confirmations VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes

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Two questions
by Erin Dalzell 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

I am running Mailman 2.1.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.7. I have two questions: 1) what owner/group should the files in my mailman directory be? 2) why isn't my mm_cfg.py file being read? I have an add_virtualhost in there, but it is never picked up. After making changes, I run, fix_url and restart mailcntrl. But only the changes I make in Default.py are picked up. Any ideas? Thanks emd

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Running mailman without web interface
by Mauricio Tavares 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

How hard is it to run mailman (including the bounce management thingie) without running its web interface? We are moving our mail server to another machine which will not run any web servers.

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http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/lists.html
by Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

The link on http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/lists.html to http://listowner.org/ is broken as that domain no longer (and has not for some time) existed. I have a listowner-side bug which (after reporting to the local server administrator) I wanted to report on that list to see if anyone else had experienced something similar. Google suggests there is no replacement list. Has it been subsumed into mailto:mailman-users@python.org ? Happy hacking, Joe Ll. G. Blakesley -- This mail sent through http://webmail.bangor.ac.uk

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