Mailman 3 March 2005 - Mailman-Users

A funny thing happened while using mail man.
by ICHRONSTUDIO＠aol.com April 1, 2005

April 1, 2005

I incorrectly set up my newsletter. Instead of being announce only it allowed 400 people to reply to all. shortly there after people emails were filled with hundred of "please stop sending me email". If no one had replied there'd be no mess, but that's the funny part. The not funny part is I might get fired over this. its has been three day and the emails wont stop. We removed the database, we stopped using mail man, and we prayed a little that it would fade. However it hasn't yet. I now know how to set it up as announce only. I even know how to put my database on with out sending out a thank you for subscribing mail. How do I stop the continuing replies? Sorry to bother you about this, it was my own ignorance that put me here, but I was hoping that you might be able to suggest sometihng to get me out. Jo Vasquez empireeventscenter.com

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Question about your product
by Heather Arthur April 1, 2005

April 1, 2005

I am currently looking for a system that we can dump thousands of emails into. We will need to be able to send an email out to all of our subscribers from an alias email (that will be attached to a blog site). We need to have unsubscribe option (preferable the htlm so we can use on our current site) and a subscribe option that we can up on our blog site. We need to be able to have different lists. How many people can we have on one list? We also want a web based software. Let me know if you can help me. This is very time sensitive to a quick response would be appreciated. I find phone calls best. Thanks so much and I look forward to hearing from you! Heather

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Non moderated lists
by Xavih March 31, 2005

March 31, 2005

Good morning! It's only few time we have mailman list in use, so I'm new in mailman administration, and I have a request from users I don't know how to solve. As you say in the advise of "Mailman-Users -- Mailman mailing list management users": Please note that posts from non-subscribers will require a human moderator to examine them to determine that they are on-topic and appropriate for the list, and this may cause the message to be delayed by hours or perhaps longer, depending on how busy the moderators are. There is any way to create non moderated list (or open list)? I would like to have a list where anyone can post mails whithout pass though the filter of the moderator, it is possible? Thanks in advance, Xavih

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Moderated group.
by J.R. Constance March 31, 2005

March 31, 2005

Mark, Hmmm. I'm using an installation of Mailman on hosted space at Jumpdomain.com. I did check the admin interface and there are no pending requests for moderators, and nothing in the archives. To be honest, I'm not sure I have access to those other files to review. My access through jumpdomain is restricted to files I can see via their control panel. FTP access gets me into the public_html directory, and I don't have telnet access. Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> wrote: J.R. Constance wrote: >Yes, I have several other lists on this server that are working, but they are not moderated lists. Emails sent to those lists automatically are sent out to all subscribers. This is the only moderated list where emails sent to the list have to be reviewed and approved before going out to the list members. > You may have already done some or all of this, but I would: Check the admindb page to make sure there are no messages there and it's not just that the moderator notices that are lost. Check the MTA aliases and MTA logs to be sure the messages are actually delivered to mailman. Check all the Mailman logs -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Permissions On Mailman
by Rejean Proulx March 31, 2005

March 31, 2005

I've managed to mess up the permissions on mailman as a result of a typo. who should own /var/log/mailman? I am getting the error below. If it isn't permissions on logs, I'd appreciate help in determining what I need to fix. I am running Mailman on Debian. I must admit, I feel rather foolish. st recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 554, in ? main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 366, in main check_for_site_list() File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 276, in check_for_site_list sitelist = MailList(sitelistname, lock=0) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__ self.Load() File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 593, in Load dict, e = self.__load(file) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 559, in __load fp = open(dbfile) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck' invoke-rc.d: initscript mailman, action "start" failed. interfree:/# __________ NOD32 1.1041 (20050330) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.nod32.com ===8<===========End of original message text=========== -- Best regards, Rejean mailto:rejean@interfree.ca _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup(a)braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup __________ NOD32 1.1041 (20050330) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.nod32.com ===8<===========End of original message text=========== -- Best regards, Rejean mailto:rejean@interfree.ca

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Changing Auto-responder subject
by Joe Sporleder March 31, 2005

March 31, 2005

I am using Mailman 2.1.2 that came with my MacOS X 10.3 Server. When using the auto-responder, it has this format in the subject field "Auto-response for your message to the "listname" mailing list". Is there an easy way to change what the Auto-response does to the subject? I would like it to make the subject header be: RE: sender's subject. Thanks. Joe

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prob: Downgrade detected, from version 0x20200a0 to version 0x20106b5
by Jan Kellermann March 31, 2005

March 31, 2005

Hi! Certainly you may help: we installed 2.2 some month ago and want now update to the current 1.6-version. the 2.2-version came from the cvs-rep on sf.net while installing we got the message -------------- Downgrade detected, from version 0x20200a0 to version 0x20106b5 This is probably not safe. Exiting. -------------- Thank for help Jan

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Re: [exim] Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman/Exim problem with very slow outgoing mail on one list
by Stephanie March 30, 2005

March 30, 2005

Heather Madrone wrote: > > If you go to <www.dnsstuff.com> or a similar site, you can see what > the world sees. Aha! I had to run out of the house this morning so I didn't even think of trying DNSstuff! Thanks for the reminder and since it shows "No PTR records exist for brillig.net" for PTR lookup, obviously there is something wrong there. I'll fix that this as soon as I get home! > If you're having reverse DNS problems, you should also have a lot of > refused deliveries for those lists, and it doesn't sound like you do. They probably got recorded as bounces - and it may be part of the reason there's been some problem with deliveries to the 4 or 5 Verizon members (which I had written off as Verizon's bugginess). -- hth, Stephanie Links blog: http://alice.ttlg.net/links/ Glenfinnan Web Hosting: http://www.glenfinnan.net/ The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery [Wind, Sand, Stars]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Handling multiple subscriptions with one confirmation
by moto wrench March 30, 2005

March 30, 2005

> > I'm hosting several related list using MM 2.15 on Freebsd. I would > > like to enable members to subscribe to several list with only one > > confirmation. > > Unless you're manipulating things behind-the-scenes, I don't > think there's a way to do this with the current version of Mailman. > > Once you are subscribed with a given address, there is a way to > do certain things to all lists for which that address is subscribed > (e.g., change your address on all affected lists, set yourself to be > NOMAIL, etc...), but this only works once you're subscribed. I realize this would take some work but I think it might be doable using code from MM. Here is my idea, please let me know what you think, Create: 1) pop email account to recieve mulit-sub confirmations and bounces. 2) python script to generate and send the confirmation email 3) python script to check the multi-sub email account and process the confirmations. The python scirpts would import as much relevant code from MM. I'm not familiar with the confirmation process but I'm guessing when a confirmation is sent it is recored someplace?

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Re: [exim] Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman/Exim problem with very slow outgoing mail on one list
by Stephanie March 30, 2005

March 30, 2005

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:23:47 +0200, Brad Knowles <brad(a)stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote: > At 10:51 PM -0600 2005-03-29, Stephanie wrote: > > > So now I suspect it's related to that domain. I'm going to do some > > digging in its hosting account settings, see if something got set > > oddly for it. > > You may have reverse DNS problems for that IP address, or lame > delegation problems for the domain, or any number of other > DNS-related issues. There are lots of ways to cause things to slow > down if your DNS is messed up. Which would affect ALL mail going out from my server, not just one list, right? DNS issues was my first thought when this initially cropped up but mail from other lists I host and all private mail continues to fly right on thru at about triple the speed of this one list's outgoing mail. And I do have proper rDNS set up, that was something I got done as soon as the server was set up almost two years ago and nothing has changed there. -- hth, Stephanie Links blog: http://alice.ttlg.net/links/ Glenfinnan Web Hosting: http://www.glenfinnan.net/ The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery [Wind, Sand, Stars]

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