Mailman 3 February 2005 - Mailman-Users

Unable to locate and email address in data base...
by jean＠dancecentral.com.au 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Hello, I am using mailman version 2.1.5 I am puzzled about something that has been happening several times. I have had members who asked me to be removed from my list. Most of the time there is no problem, I can locate the email address or the name and delete it. Once in a while I deal with people who had a forwarding to their email and the email address we have is not the same as the one they want removed, however it's not difficult and with a bit of investigating we can easily locate the email address to be removed and we just do that. lately I have had some people with hotmail.com addresses asking to be removed and no matter how hard I try or how wide I make my search (sometimes just a few letters of their email address), I can't come up with their name or address. They are sure they subscribed under the same name and address.... Is there something I am missing ? Is this a common problem? Jean-Luc Stora Dance Central Level 1 - 268 Cleveland St Surry Hills 2010 Ph: 02 9319-2268 www.dancecentral.com.au

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mailman discarding approved messages on moderated list
by Scott D. Killen 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

I am having a problem that I hope someone can help me with... I run a low-traffic moderated list. The list was working as of 2/6/05, but when I posted a message yesterday, I would then approve the message via the web interface, but then the message would be discarded. Here are the contents of vette that illustrate the problem: Feb 22 15:51:52 2005 (12186) held message approved, message-id: <421B9AA6.5020308(a)killencpa.com> Feb 22 16:02:54 2005 (13487) held message approved, message-id: <421B9D15.1060705(a)killencpa.com> Feb 22 16:17:29 2005 (13684) Edisto_Church_News post from scott(a)killencpa.com held, message-id=<421BA124.60802(a)killencpa.com>: Post to moderated list Feb 22 16:24:59 2005 (13921) held message approved, message-id: <421BA124.60802(a)killencpa.com> Feb 22 16:25:00 2005 (13684) Message discarded, msgid: <421BA124.60802(a)killencpa.com> Feb 22 16:36:42 2005 (15281) Edisto_Church_News post from scott(a)killencpa.com held, message-id=<421BA5A9.8080002(a)killencpa.com>: Post to moderated list Feb 22 16:38:56 2005 (15400) held message approved, message-id: <421BA5A9.8080002(a)killencpa.com> Feb 22 16:38:58 2005 (15281) Message discarded, msgid: <421BA5A9.8080002(a)killencpa.com> Feb 23 07:57:47 2005 (15281) Edisto_Church_News post from scott(a)killencpa.com held, message-id=<421C7D8F.9090706(a)killencpa.com>: Post to moderated list Feb 23 08:01:21 2005 (22185) held message approved, message-id: <421C7D8F.9090706(a)killencpa.com> Feb 23 08:01:22 2005 (15281) Message discarded, msgid: <421C7D8F.9090706(a)killencpa.com> Can anyone shed some light on why this is happening, and what broke? The configuration has not changed in several months, but my server does auto upgrades. Other than that, I swear nothing has changed. (famous last words... :)) Thanks for your help!

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[trivial problem] How to delete an unusual address
by pbm 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hello, looking for the reason of some strange tracebacks of the daily maintenance jobs, I found out they were caused by the presence in a mailing list of a very peculiar address: foo bar baz(a)domain.tld (read as: "foor\r\nbar\r\nbaz(a)domain.tld") Is there a simple way to rip it out of the db? Is there, more generally, a way to rebuild a DB from a (possibly edited) dump_db output? I'm sure there is a trivial answer to this question - that's why the question has been marked as "trivial" itself. Thankyou. -- pbm - "Earn cash in your spare time: blackmail your friends."

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Viewing Digests
by Christopher Jovais 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hello, I'm new to the list and I've tried to find this myself through the FAQ and numerous other resources without success. I administer a list (limited to web interface) and can't seem to view past or current digests or their content. Is this possible? If so, how? Any assistance greatly appreciated. Christopher Jovais

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mailing list
by Sal - ReadyIn10 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to use this software. I am the administrator of my mailing list. I would like to be the only one who can send a message to my list. I would also not like anybody to be able to view any subscribers on my list...I checked off the option, but they can still see them. I just want to be able to send messages to people who subscribe to my list, and read replies to my messages. Is this possible using this software? Thanks, Sal www.ReadyIn10.com

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my server is very low by mailman
by johanna 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

hi. my server is very low, i think is by mailman, becouse when i do top there are much process of python running and the user is list any can help me, i don't know to do? ----------------------------------------- G. Johanna Chala T. Estudiante IX semestre Ing. de Sistemas y Computacion Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali Web Master Facultad de Ingenieria TEl: 321-82-00 EXT:575

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Mail over limit not chopping
by genesis 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

I have the defaults set at 40 kb. I often get my own messages stuck for moderation because they are bigger than 40k. Shouldn't mailman be chopping these mails from the bottom? I use Outlook 2003. Regards, genesis Spot Network: http://www.spotnetwork.net/ Sites under spotlight: http://www.gamingforums.ca/

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searching private archives
by Ted Targosz 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

I'd like to enable text searching of our private archives on some of our Mailman 2.1.5 mailing lists... I've read the FAQ http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.011.htp and since the archives are private, i can't use a public search engine such as google.. so I'll need to utilize something like the pipermail patches described in the FAQ Is this still the best, easiest solution? I don't like patching mailman since I'm using yum to maintain the system and I'll have to go back and patch it every time i update ... If so, do i only need to apply [ #444879 ] Archive indexer control to improve indexing and [ #444884 ] Integration of Mailman & htdig for archive search since I'm running 2.1.5? Finally, is there any particular reason why a search box hasn't been included in the archives for mailman by default? -- Ted Targosz Business Development/Operations Manager Jobstreet.com Phone: 604-6445912 Hand Phone: 6012-2063600 Fax: 604-6428653 email: tedtarg(a)jobstreet.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] auto-rejecting BCCs?
by Tokio Kikuchi 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Thank you Brad. I went to bed after my last post. Brad Knowles wrote: > At 9:37 AM -0800 2005-02-22, John Owens wrote: > >> So, um, would you mind summarizing your suggestion? >> The large number I got makes me nervous about doing >> the right thing. > > > Tokio did. Put this in your rule 1, and make your action "Accept": > > \nto:.*your-list-name > cc:.*your-list-name > > Put this in your rule 2, and make your action "Reject" or "Discard" > as appropriate: > > . > > Yes, that is a single dot. That will allow the rule to match anything. > I've just posted a new entry in the Mailman FAQ Wizard. http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.051.htp Feel free to add/edit this to grow the list of recipe. -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/

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RES: [Mailman-Users] Mailman converts the body of messages into attachments
by Athos Rothen 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

Hello Brad! Yes, this is the same issue of FAQ 04.039 . Now it is clear for me: the messages have 2 or 3 different MIME types (considering body and footer), so there is no way to have only one body part. But I will have to try option #2 (Configure Mailman to strip all HTML and MIME formatting and send out all messages as text-only (text/plain)), before give up. Because, I am user of others lists (in others servers) using Mailman here at Brazil, and never noted this issue before. I will also try to make contact with some sysadmins of these servers to check if they had this issue and how they have it solved. Thank you very much for your enlightening and the references. That was exactly what I was looking for (but with different terms) and you help me efficiently. Thanks!!! I will give you feedback when I do get somewhere. Regards, Athos Rothen -----Mensagem original----- De: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad@stop.mail-abuse.org] Enviada em: terça-feira, 22 de fevereiro de 2005 17:59 Para: Athos Rothen Cc: mailman-users(a)python.org Assunto: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman converts the body of messages into attachments At 4:49 PM -0300 2005-02-22, Athos Rothen wrote: > I am using Mailman 2.1.5 and have this list that converts text/html > parts to plain text (content filtering options enabled). It works > fine for most of users/messages. But when some users, those that use > webmailers (yahoo, hotmail, outlook web access), send messages to the > list, the body of their messages is converted to plain text and it's > being attached into their messages. I think you answered your own question -- webmail users are likely to be sending HTML/MIME messages, and you're converting them to plaintext. However, they're probably still MIME formatted, or they need to be MIME formatted in order to deal with international character set issues, and therefore your clients perceive them to be attachments. This is basically the same issue discussed at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.039.htp>. -- Brad Knowles, <brad(a)stop.mail-abuse.org> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.

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