Mailman 3 October 2005 - Mailman-Users

Bouncing admins
by Jared Rimer 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

Hi all, I'm running on a domain of mine that has Mailman installed. The hosting provider moved the account to another server he runs. Ever since, the notify when subscribers added has not worked correctly. We've received bounce notifications disabling the one admin because of too many bounces, but the subscription is not disabled. How does mailman handle this? Jared Rimer Business website: http://www.superior-software.com/support Personal Website: http://www.asmodean.net/jrimer Music Education Network for the Visually Impaired http://menvi.org a service done through Superior Software level one WBBY Internet Radio and All In Play team up. Learn more http://www.menvi.org/allinplay WBBY Internet Radio: www.wbby.us

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Bounce messages
by Ashley M. Kirchner 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

We'd like to set one of our lists up so that permanent/fatal errors (such as invalid mailbox, unknown user, unknown host) would immediately get unsubscribed, while temp fails (such as mailbox full, try again later, etc.) will simply go through the normal motions. With that, we have a few questions: a) Does mailman discern between a temp fail and a permanent fail on a subscriber's address? Obviously this would be the way to figure out who gets unsubscribed right away and who doesn't. b) How do we configure mailman to do this immediate unsub of the permanent/fatal errors? b) in logs/bounce, I see various different bounce scores. Can anyone tell me what those numbers actually mean? Jul 16 23:14:54 2005 (1835) user(a)domain.net: list current bounce score: 3.0 Jul 17 05:10:59 2005 (1835) user(a)domain.com: list current bounce score: 4.0 Jul 22 10:21:11 2005 (1835) user(a)domain.org: list current bounce score: 5.0 Jul 27 12:00:49 2005 (1868) user(a)domain.gov: list current bounce score: 2.0 Aug 17 06:17:18 2005 (1868) user(a)domain.edu list current bounce score: 1.0 -- W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.

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Attach Pics
by David 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

I want to allow pics but nothing else. No html emails, exes, zips etc I got the list to block everthing but I am not seeing how to allow just pics to go thru. -- No Smoking Forum - Http://www.nicodemon.info/community Lansing Forum - Http://www.greater-lansing.com/community He's Not My President!!! Blue States Rock~ The truth is not that comfortable....no - Moby~

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Help!
by Jim & Marlowe Futrell 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Hi, We use this software and continue to get the following error message (see below). Is there anything that can be adjusted in order to send larger messages? Also, we can not send messages with attached files. What can we do to rectify this situation? Sincerely, Marlowe Futrell ___ Your mail to 'NAPHAstaff' with the subject FW: [Naphastaff] RE: San Filippo event Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Message body is too big: 50802 bytes with a limit of 40 KB Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel this posting, please visit the following URL: http://napha.org/mailman/confirm/naphastaff_napha.org/72586148b76afd1cdd2af6 ba8e6e4ea8e77e377e Outgoing mail is Virus Scanned byNorman Data Defense. Inbound Spam reduced 98.2% byVircom Sieve.

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Having mailman treat two domains as equal during migration...
by Mike Cisar 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

I have a corporate customer who is in the process of migrating all of their users and services from one domain to another (lets say reallyreallyreallylongandhardolddomain.com to newdomain.com). Because they are quite large, and not centralized they estimate that it will be about a month before they are able to get out to all the remote sites to convert the user mail settings to the new domain. They use mailman for much internal mailing between various groups of their users. At this point the mail server is configured to respond to both domains, and treat them as the same. Mailman itself is configured to use the new domain both on the web side, and all the lists have been changed to use that as their preferred domain. However the problem arises with the list subscribers themselves. We can't simply export the membership for the lists and change everyone to the new domain because everyone won't be sending with the new addresses at once. In the worst case scenario we could export the list make the changes and reimport with nomail set so that everyone has a duplicate membership, and then remove the old domain accounts once the conversion is complete. I'd prefer to save this as a last resort at this point as it is kind of messy. What I would like to do is do a one-shot conversion of all the users to the new domain name and then internally to mailman, when the message is first submitted into the mailman process simply have a regex replacement of the sender's domain name so even though the message might actually be coming from joeblow(a)olddomain.com mailman would read that in, do a quick replace in its mind and for the rest of the process treat the message as if it had come from joeblow(a)newdomain.com I am assuming that this should pretty much be a 'one-liner' code modification to mailman. Pardon my Perl (I'm not a native Pythoner so that doesn't help matters :-) but the equivalent of "sender =~ s/olddomain/newdomain/" immediately after mailman parses 'sender' from the incoming message. I don't really grok how the message flows through the internals of Mailman... so the couple of places I've tried putting the 'one-liner' don't seem to have any effect. I'm assuming that this should be done literally as soon as possible after Mailman has received the message from the MTA to ensure that the substitution is used in all possible processes? I'm hoping someone on the list may be able to tell me if this a) is really a one-liner and b) roughly where to look at inserting the 'one-liner' in order to acchieve the required result. Thanks for your help! Cheers, >>>>> Mike <<<<<

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Google and other search engines
by Jack R. Madderra 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Other than setting the archives to private are the any other recommended methods of preventing these Bots from accessing the list archives? Jack

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problem to send e-mil to the list
by Thomas Spuhler 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

I upgraded my server to Mandriva 2006. Since then I cannot send post to the mailing list on my server. When I add a new user I get a confirmation. When I create a new list, I get a confirmation. When I post to the list, I get the mseeage the the user doesn't exist. Whne I post to the list(a)kostname.domain.com instead of list(a)domian.com I can send the e-mail but of course it comes back. It looks as if mailman doesn't pick up the correct 2domain.com I have in mm_cfg.py domain.com as e-mail address for the server. I am using Kolab 2 and postfix as e-mail setup. I am running into a dead end I would appreciate any clue -- Thomas Spuhler All e-mail from this domain is scanned for viruses

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Migrating Lists to a new server
by Dennis Putnam 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Can someone point me to some documentation for migrating mailman lists and archives to a new server? Thanks. Dennis Putnam Sr. IT Systems Administrator AIM Systems, Inc. 11675 Rainwater Dr., Suite 200 Alpharetta, GA 30004 Phone: 678-240-4112 Main Phone: 678-297-0700 FAX: 678-297-2666 or 770-576-1000 The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is strictly confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, dissemination, distribution, or duplication of any part of this e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete all copies, including the attachments.

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Mailman <==> vBulletin works fine for me..
by Shillong Dotcom 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Hi, Just wanted share my experience with Mailman and vBuleltin. I am using VB as an archiver for Mailman messages. Pls hv a look at: http://www.asiasrc.org/forum3.5/ Regards, Babul Gogoi www.assamcompany.com <http://www.assamcompany.com>

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help
by jeremy 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

i am having serious problems with mailman. we have nearly 700 members on our mailing list, and only some people are getting mail. i have reviewed the help sections, but need to know, step-by-step, how to export the email addresses from the list. can you please help me? jeremy

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