Mailman 3 February 2005 - Mailman-Users

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by José Pablo Orozco Marín Feb. 2, 2005

Feb. 2, 2005

Hi, my name is Pablo, im from Costa Rica and my english is a shame. In the past moths we were using Mailman through Outlook but a virus attack my Outlook Contact List and sent a infected mail to all my contacts including the mailing list, now im using ThunderBird for sending mails through Mailman, and some strange characters appear in the messages, things like that:   And some of our contacts are annoying with this strings. :( This a mailman or thunderbird bug, or something misssing in the configuration of mailman or thunderbird? We are using Mailman version 2.1.1 under Linux. Any tip or help is welcome. Thanx. :) -- --------------------------------------- Estrategias Electrónicas Bien Pensadas José Pablo Orozco Marín http://www.open-antz.com/ --------------------------------------- --

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someone can tell me the serial numbet ib subject
by 克拉國際 AKLS Feb. 2, 2005

Feb. 2, 2005

hi : I was make a mailing list info the subject is display [info] but I want to chang it into [info 11233] with serial number can someone tell me how to do ?? thanks

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help needed for aliases
by Dinar Ali Kadri Feb. 2, 2005

Feb. 2, 2005

hi, mailman is install and site is here but the problem is the aliases i made them but how can i masquerade them or i cant i mean mail-bounces is set to an alias but mail-bounces(a)pakishop.com is not so when i subscribe for a list i gets an error (smtp-failure) mailbounces(a)pakishop.com is not a recognize address mail-bounces is a right one, so how to masquerade or to do to set it working.I tried to put @ on aliasess but when i try to made it , it said only local addressess can be aliases, so i am stuck.So what shall i do now to make it working ? Thanks Bye.

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newbie question
by Julie S. Lin Feb. 2, 2005

Feb. 2, 2005

BlankHi can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm getting "no publicly advertised lists" via web interface, however when I run the cgi manually, I see my lists. i'm also unable to create a list via web interface i am also using a proxy in front of the mail server. i'm running sendmail, 2.1.5 mailman, python2.3 on mandrake 9 Julie S. Lin

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Mailman
by José Pablo Orozco Marín Feb. 2, 2005

Feb. 2, 2005

Hi, im from costa rica, my english is a shame. In the past i always send emails to our mailing list with Mailman through Outllok, now im using mailman through Thunderbird, and the mail messages are sending with things like that:  How i fix this? Is a mailman or thunderbird bug? Thanx. -- --------------------------------------- Estrategias Electrónicas Bien Pensadas José Pablo Orozco Marín +506 820 7280 josoroma(a)open-antz.com http://www.open-antz.com/ --------------------------------------- --

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Unshuntable files & Spammed Pending List
by Tom Anthony Feb. 2, 2005

Feb. 2, 2005

Hi all, I noticed recently that the qrunner process on my server was going really nuts sometimes, and using over 90% of the CPU (causing various problems). I'm aware of a couple of reasons for this, and understand that 2.1.5 addresses some such issues. I am currently running 2.1.2, and want to upgrade to 2.1.5; but I thought it would be a sensible idea to spring clean a little first, especially once I found out how much junk I have laying around. I have 42 lists, some are large, some small, some busy some basically dead. My qfiles/shunt/ directory has over 3800 files, and the bin/unshunt command doesn't seem to work. It runs for a while then leaves the files there. I understand the qfile format has changed in 2.1.5, so I wanted to clear these out. Can I just delete them all? (I'm not worried about their being being lost or whatnot). Otherwise, why wouldn't unshunt work? The permissions are all correct (now - I just fixed that). Additionally, a couple of my lists got spammed, and now have a lot of pending requests (over 17,000 on one and 3,000 on another). I looked up how to remove these, but my install lacks a bin/discard utility; I presume it came in a later install. Is there anyway for me to clear these up before I upgrade? Additionally, is there any other steps users would recommend to prevent such CPU heavy qrunner processes? I heard that archiving more often can help, is that correct? Any other ideas? Many thanks. --------- Tom Anthony / Ambrosia Software, Inc.

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change password reminder From: header?
by Matt Ruzicka Feb. 1, 2005

Feb. 1, 2005

I'm sort of surprised to not see this come up more often at the first of the month so I' wondering if I'm searching for the wrong string in the archives and Google or if I'm doing something foolish. Same question as I found asked back in 2002. Is there a way that I can cause mailman to send the password reminders as the list owner instead of the site owner? I realize the answer given in this thread (to ignore them) would "work", but really I am more interested in getting these bounces, and more importantly the responses to the password reminders, to the list owner so they can address them. I'm equally as disinclined to silently trash them as I am in taking the time to find the list they are from and forward them to the appropriate list owner. Am I just missing something? I am guessing there is not a "reminders_from_listowner" option I am just missing, so I was interested in how others deal with this. Is there a technical reason this option isn't available and if not is this something that is being considered for future releases? Thanks in advance for any insight and suggestions. - Matt On Tue, Sep 3 17:07:27, EDT 2002 Jon Carnes wrote: > > If I recall correctly, Mailman ends the subject of the those messages > with: "mailing list memberships reminder" > > If you use your email rules to throw away any messages with that in the > subject - as long as the mail does not come from "mailman-owner" - then > you'll be tossing all that cruft away that you don't want to see, yet > your own reminders will still get through. > > HtH - Jon Carnes > > On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 14:42, Christopher Adams wrote: > > > > If password reminders are set to monthly by default, and a list owner > > chooses to use that setting, is there a way to set the From: header to > > the list owner address and not mailman-owner? > > > > As the administrator of over 200 lists, I don't want to be getting all > > the "out of the office" messages in reply to the password reminder, > > nor do I want to have to deal with the messages in reply, like "why am > > I on this list?", "what is this password stuff all about?", etc. > > > > I have read the archives and FAQ, but can't find anything definitive > > about this. > > > > > > Christopher Adams > > Automated Systems Matthew Ruzicka - Systems Administrator Front Range Internet, Inc. matt(a)frii.net - (970) 212-0728 Got SPAM? Take back your email with MailArmory. http://www.MailArmory.com

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Mailman problem
by Matthew R Anderson Feb. 1, 2005

Feb. 1, 2005

Hey guys- I don't mean to give you such a tough problem but I really need some expert help here. I've moved my mailman install across a few servers and as of recent it's been exhibiting some strange behavior. Key Problem - Monthly reminders aren't being sent out to some lists; I have several configured to do so. I've checked logs/smtp, logs/smtp-failure, and logs/error and I can't even see an attempt to mail reminders, let alone any errors to provide an explanation. In all other regards, lists seem to be working wonderfully, and I've really not begun to tackle this problem after 2 months because I've been so blessed. The one thing I can see that seems to coincide with the trouble is that any action on these lists isn't being properly logged in logs/smtp. Whereas I would properly see something logged like so: Jan 31 00:47:35 2005 (1192) <mailman.0.1107154053.16170.list(a)lists.iddx.net> smtp for 538 recips, completed in 1.197 seconds ...when I see activity on the "questionable" lists, I see this: Feb 01 02:01:36 2005 (1192) n/a smtp for 22 recips, completed in 2.479 seconds n/a? :) I can't seem to locate any explanation for this. Help! Furthermore, is there a way to manually generate password reminders? I'd like to be able to manually kick out a reminder once I get this all fixed up. My configuration of Mailman is v2.1.5, upgraded a few minor revisions after a more-or-less filewise rsync from the previous host. It is talking and receiving mail via some horrible qmail/vpopmail system, and mail is delivered to the lists via .qmail-list-function aliases in my lists.iddx.net virtual mail domain. It works pretty nice, I guess, if it weren't qmail I'd be happier. :P Any information you can provide is warmly received and I appreciate the effort. Best regards, -Matt --------------------- Matthew Anderson Executor Internet Distributed Data Exchange - IDDX.NET

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Pse explain smtp log
by John Fleming Feb. 1, 2005

Feb. 1, 2005

Could someone please explain the entries below? I understand the obvious ones where more than 1 recipient is logged, but what do the very numerous 1-recipient entries represent? Tnx excerpt: Feb 01 05:00:12 2005 (1302) <mailman.226.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.014 seconds Feb 01 05:00:12 2005 (1302) <mailman.227.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.018 seconds Feb 01 05:00:12 2005 (1302) <mailman.228.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.015 seconds Feb 01 05:00:12 2005 (1302) <mailman.229.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.075 seconds Feb 01 05:00:12 2005 (1302) <mailman.230.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.032 seconds Feb 01 05:00:13 2005 (1302) <mailman.231.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.023 seconds Feb 01 05:00:13 2005 (1302) <mailman.232.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.015 seconds Feb 01 05:00:13 2005 (1302) <mailman.233.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.021 seconds Feb 01 05:00:13 2005 (1302) <mailman.234.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.016 seconds Feb 01 05:00:13 2005 (1302) <mailman.235.1107252003.17384.mailman(a)wa9als.com> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.022 seconds Feb 01 09:18:59 2005 (1302) <mailman.0.1107267537.22436.prayerfax(a)impactoveneto.org> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.016 seconds Feb 01 09:20:07 2005 (1302) <mailman.0.1107267606.22440.prayerfax(a)impactoveneto.org> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.014 seconds Feb 01 09:38:17 2005 (1302) <41FF94AE.000014.02836@DH8NCM31> smtp for 1 recips, completed in 0.025 seconds Feb 01 11:23:39 2005 (1302) <006c01c5087a$96cd5ac0$2201a8c0(a)105.56.105> smtp for 218 recips, completed in 0.252 seconds

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a lot of bounces in qfiles generate a big file in data
by Carlos Costa Feb. 1, 2005

Feb. 1, 2005

Hello all, I had a lot of files in qfiles/bounces (4000+), most of them with 0 bytes. Each time I started mailmanctl, a big bounce-events-*.pck file was generated in data/ directory (that eat all my memory). What I did was delete the content of bounces directory, and all runs fine now. Now, in the qfiles/bounces there aren't files. Any tip about this? Thank you very much, Carlos.

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