Mailman 3 February 2005 - Mailman-Users

Moderate Posts are not listed
by Jeremi Bergman 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Every day I get an email that states I need to moderate two posts: Pending posts: From: identdep_op42(a)wellsfargo.com on Sun Oct 17 13:02:17 2004 Subject: Wells Fargo billing department: important information [Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:56:23 -0700] Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list From: identdep_op42(a)wellsfargo.com on Sun Oct 17 14:38:49 2004 Subject: Wells Fargo billing department: important information [Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:56:23 -0700] Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list But when I view the Admin Requests, I dont see these two. Any thoughts?

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Automated bounce removal
by Chance Eppinette 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Hello, I am new to this list, but have been a long-term Mailman user. My current Mailman version is 2.0.11 We have a list of over 13000 members. I have the bounce options set to remove & notify the administrator when excessive bounces occur for a subscribed member. However, the system is not removing the subscribers after the minimum bounces of 2 occur. Has anyone encountered this issue and should it be fixed in newer versions? Thanks, Chance Eppinette Technology Support Manager ULM Computing Center eppinette(a)ulm.edu 318-342-5021 (phone) 318-342-5018 (fax)

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How to transfer Majordomo archive to mailman
by trishan de Lanerolle 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hi, I am new to mailman and recently took over the mailing lists administration at my college. The system administrator and I installed and configured mailman to replace the currently used majordomo. We configured it and set it up on new server. My question is are there instructions or scripts available to transfer majordomo archives and subscription lists over to mailman. Mailman is version 2.1.5-6 running on Debian Linux 2.4.26-1-k7. Thank you Trishan Systems & Networking Trinity College Hartford CT

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Home-grown filters
by David Wilson 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

I know a Mailman user who is concerned about slow-connection subscribers, and for that reason wishes to strip attachments and truncate or refuse overlong messages. Does Mailman support inclusion of home-grown filters to modify incoming messages? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005

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2 initial config problems (virtual hosts and permissions)
by FH 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

I just started playing around w/ Mailman this morning so I'm VERY new to all this ;) The initial config and install seemed to go ok but I have a couple of questions/problems/issues I'd appreciate some help w/. I looked around the FAQ and found info on 1 of them but I can't seem to figure out the right syntax to fix my problem. BTW I used the mailman-install.txt file as my guide. I'm running this on a Solaris9 machine w/ postfix as the MTA. 1) Error: Unknown virtual host: machine I was able to create the mailman list via the cli (step 8) w/o any problems. When I try creating a list via the web though I get the above error. I've played around w/ a few combinations of machine machine.domain.tld etc in the mm_cfg.py file and the add_virtualhost parameter but I still either get the error or I get another page which says something about a "bug" in the program (funny thing is even when I get this page the list is created). FWIW as I mentioned the machine is also our mail server, the hostname command returns MACHINE (in case that's important). The DNS name (aka it's not a CNAME) of the machine is MACHINE.DOMAIN.TLD (which is also the DEFAULT_URL_HOST [set via the configure option]), email though is addressed to @DOMAIN.TLD (which is also the DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST [set via the configure option]). As mentioned the error just says "MACHINE" so I've tried things like add_defaultdomain ('MACHINE', 'DOMAIN.TLD') but that's when I get the other "bug" page (apologies I don't have a copy handy but if it's important I can probably regenerate it). Also I noticed when I pull up the http://machine/mailman/admin page at the bottom is says "Send questions and comments to mailman@MACHINE" that's it not mailman(a)MACHINE.DOMAIN.TLD. Is that somehow related? What's the appropriate syntax so that MACHINE is an "acceptable" virtual host. BTW in case it's related I don't have any virtual hosts set in postfix and mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain myhostname = MACHINE.DOMAIN.TLD mydomain = DOMAIN.TLD 2) Looking at the maillog file I'm seeing this error occasionally Feb 28 16:31:31 MACHINE postfix/postalias[1765]: [ID 947731 mail.crit] fatal: open /local/home/mailman/data/aliases.dir: Permission denied Applicable info for this error includes: MACHINE# ls -al /local/home/mailman/data/ total 44 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Feb 28 16:38 ./ drwxrwsr-x 20 root mailman 512 Feb 28 16:02 ../ -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Feb 28 16:22 adm.pw -rw-rw---- 1 root mailman 1165 Feb 28 16:38 aliases -rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 0 Feb 28 16:38 aliases.dir -rw-r----- 1 mailman mailman 1024 Feb 28 16:38 aliases.pag At one point I did chown aliases* to mailman but it has since reverted. When I originally configured mailman I used the --with-mail-gid=postdrop and I didn't specify a username (there is obviously a mailman user ;)). Although the install.txt file recommended using hash my install of postfix has problems w/ that so I'm using: alias_maps = dbm:/etc/mail/aliases,dbm:/local/home/mailman/data/aliases All things postfix are running as the user postfix, all things mailman (qrunner is the only continuous process right?) are running as mailman. I did put the postfix "user" in the mailman group (mailman isn't in there though) thinking that may help but it didn't seem too. BTW the apache server is mostly running as nobody, there is one instance that ends up as root. (The apache server is brand new too but that install/config seems to have gone ok. Eventually though I want to clear up the 1 root instance and integrate SSL in but I figured it was best to get the above issues worked out first ;)) What are the proper owner/permission settings for these files? Thanks for the hints/clues/suggestions.

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Moving of the subscribers with their passwords, preferences etc.
by Andy 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hi! Is that possible during moving of the lists to a new server to move all users along with their e-mails, names, passwords and preferences they set, so that they would not need to resubscribe (or that list-owner would not need to subscribe them again, what would unfortunately generate new passwords for them)? Which files to move in order to do that? Regards ak

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filtering body content
by List Manager 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Hello everyone, I know that it has been asked many many times but I haven't seen any solutions posted about how to filter the body content of the messages. Does someone have a solution for that? Or even a work-around? Best wishes, Rae

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Full Personalization CC: field
by Pantejo, Barbara FTL 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

I turned on Full Personalization under the Non-Digestable area, but I noticed that the name of the mailing list (i.e. the mailing list description) was sent in the CC: field. What should I do to empty the CC: field or at least don't send the name of the mailing list in the CC: field? Thanks for any assistance, Barbara

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block cc?
by Christopher Adams 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

A list owner asked me if a list can be configured so that any message sent to the list could not have a cc (carbon copy) attached. I said I didn't think so and I see that reply headers, though somewhat configurable in Mailman, is not something to mess with. Anyone ever deal with this. I guess that some other mailing list software can do this. -- Christopher Adams

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E-Mail List
by Ken Welch 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

I am the owner of OnlineMortgage.com I have a list of about 85,000 opt-in subscribers I would like to consistently email to 1x week. Do you have a program that can assist me.what's the mo. Cost and set up cost. Ken Welch Ken(a)OnlineMortgage.com www.OnlineMortgage.com 704 Becky Drive Tyler, TX. 75703 Toll Free (866) 351-3816 Cell (303) 349-9054 Fax (903) 509-0216

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