Mailman 3 December 2005 - Mailman-Users

Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hi - I have searched FAQ and archives to find an answer. Hoping you can help. I have a new list (with previously imported addresses) for announcements only, and wish these announcements to be received immediately. I set the defaults to allow non-digest and to not allow digest. I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text. QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode? If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default? Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so? Thanks - Steve

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MSN and HotMail "Eating" Messages
by fshagan 24 May '07

24 May '07

Recently, my Mailman list users who use either a HotMail or MSN.COM email address have not received any messages. Mailman does not record a "bounce" from these email addresses, but they do not receive any of the list traffic. When trying to send a message to a Mailman list, the user gets the following error message: "This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed." And it lists the Mailman list email address. However, Mailman does not receive a bounce message. (My server is not listed with SpamHaus.org, or any of the other blacklists, so it should not be a spam filter sort of thing). One user requested help from MSN, and they responded with: "You are experiencing this issue because your .Net Passport <user's email address here> Profile (which is extensively used for authentication purposes) is corrupted (not updated). In order to resolve this issue, I would suggest you to Update your .NET passport profile." They follow that with instructions to go to their MSN .NET Passport profile and re-type all the information by hand (not by cut and paste). Then a 15-step procedure is given to delete all cookies, history and temporary internet files and re-set the disk cache (space for files) to 10MB. They believe that will solve the problem but alas, it has not for the 4 users I have with MSN or HotMail email addresses. Anyone else run into this and resolved it? I didn't see anything in the archives. If any of you have users with MSN or HotMail addresses, be advised they probably will not be able to receive emails, but you will not get "bounce" messages. They only way they will know is if they try to post to a Mailman list.

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Web admin slow
by Jon Harris 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Hi List I have a (bit aged) Redhat 9 box (Pentium II/512Mb RAM) running Mailman 2.1.6 with Postfix. Its only has to run a single moderated mailing list sending out one email every day to around 20,000 subscribers. Sending out the emails is not problem - it works great. The major problem is logging in to approve the email. It (Apache/2.0.40) is so slow that it usually times out with a 500 error after you try and login. Is there a way of speeding up the web interface? Can I approve postings from the command line? There is a large archive as they have been running this for around 3 years. Will it speed up if we trash part of the archive. If so how can I trash archived data that is (say) over a year old? There was a thread on this problem, but it was not really resolved, and that user had 450,000 subscribers. Any help appreciated. Jon Harris

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Mailman move problem
by kevinc＠seaplace.org 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

Dear List - I recently have changed mail servers and my attempt at moving Mailman appears to have only partially succeeded. Currently: check_perms comes back fine - Good. cron is running the news_port command every 5 minutes (good cron check) -Good. The web interface works fine - all list look great - Good. Mail sent to a list appears in a qfile - Good. Qrunner is running - Good. Mailmanctrl is running - Good. Nothing is being sent to Postfix - Bad!!! Qfile In directory purged just in case, still nothing. System: Gentoo 2.6.13 running 2.6.13-gentoo.r3 kernel, 64-bit, on an AMD64 3000. Postfix - but nothing fancy - no virtual domains, etc. Mailman 2.1.5-r3 build via emerge into the standard location Help!!! <with a smile> Kevin

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Membership Management And Other Problems.
by multimedia-fan＠myrealbox.com 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

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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Exchange and attachment
by Susan Feng 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

I saw this thread from a 2003 email, but there was no follow-up to it. We are having similar problem with mailman 2.1.6 version. Exchange users receive their email "body as attachment". Other email clients are fine. The list has content filter turned off. Anyone knows how to configure the list correctly so the message will actually show up for exchange users not as an attachment? Thanks! Susan |I'm having a terrible time with the 2.1.2 upgrade. |Ever since the upgrade, anyone using Microsoft Exchange Server receives |messages as an attachment. So, using the new Content Filtering feature, I |set filtering to Yes and instructed Mailman to convert text/html parts to |plain text. This seemed to work, but then no one could send attachments. |So, within the area marked "Remove message attachments that don't have a |matching content type." I added: |multipart/mixed |multipart/alternative |text/plain | |Didn't help. So, I added: |image |Didn't help. Still can't add images. |Finally, I added: |image/jpeg |image/jpg |image/gif | |. . . but we still can't add images. I've attached a screen shot of my |resulting Content Filtering page. |This is a list for alumni of a college singing group. Most messages don't |contain images, but occasionally people pass around old photos. |Can anyone help? |Thanks. |Tim

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merge archives
by ArteryPlanet.Net :: Manuel Kissoyan 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hi, Wondering if have any script to merge archives. We saved one of the accounts archives and then deleted and re-created the mailing list, were running for a week, now we need merge the saved archives with the existing one after the list re-creation. If were another month is easy but how you merge same month archives? Thank you!

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falling back to login screen
by M. Onur ERGiN 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hello, I am running mailman on a RH9 sever, which has qmail and apache. Everything was very fine since I installed mailman (it's been about 6 months). but lately, I can not make any changes using admin interface. Every single click on links or form submissions causes me to fall back to the login screen and no changes are saved. I cannot change membership preferences, or I can't approve/discard/reject/defer pending messages. I searched through the list archives, but couldn't achieve to find the same prolem. What I have recently done on the server was: I updated httpd from 2.0.xxx to 2.0.40-21.11 I changed the permissions of all the files in /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin to o-x and back to o+x (don't ask me why...) Also, some files that had not o+x perm previously, have it now. I don't remember which were they. And when I do ~mailman/bin/check_perms I only get: Warning: Private archive directory is other-executable (o+x). This could allow other users on your system to read private archives. If you're on a shared multiuser system, you should consult the installation manual on how to fix this. No problems found Any help/idea will be appreciated. Happy new year, and best wishes. Onur. --------------------------------- Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less

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Help sending to multiple lists
by Andy Bardwell 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

I am working with a community radio station which has multiple lists in Mailman that are used to contact volunteers. A volunteer can be on several of the lists. We frequently want to send to all volunteers. Is there a way to send to all the lists, with out duplicates? One way this could happen would be to merge all the lists, eliminate duplicates, and send to the resulting list. Is there a script that will do this or some other way of accomplishing sending an email to multiple lists without duplicates? Any suggestions welcome. Bardwell Consulting Robert A(ndy) Bardwell, Ph.D. 4801 W. Yale Ave. Denver, CO 80219 Voice: 303-934-3851 Cell: 720-219-3627 Fax: 303-975-8513 www.bardwellconsulting.com

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Newbie - Help
by Tom＠tomsfish.net 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

I am new to this list and to mailman My inslation came preinstalled on a server from 1 and 1 using redhat and apache but NOT python...they have it worked around they claim....anyway... I can set up lists...go thru all the steps but users cannot subscribe...it says they have but it never sends out the confirmation email and it doesnt show them as subscribed users. I have scoured the options and i cant find anythign not set properly, but newbies can be dummies...so ideas are welcome. Thanks Tom

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