Mailman 3 March 2005 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Full Personalization CC: field
by Brad Knowles 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

At Mon Feb 28 22:52:08 CET 2005, "Pantejo, Barbara FTL" <BPantejo(a)citco.com> said: > 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? You can't. That's how Full Personalization works -- the recipient e-mail address goes into the "To:" header, and the mailing list address goes into the "Cc:". See also <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.037.htp>. -- Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] E-Mail List
by Brad Knowles 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

At Mon Feb 28 18:32:37 CET 2005, Ken Welch <Ken(a)OnlineMortgage.com> said: > 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. Please see <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.017.htp>. -- Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Install needed on iPower Linux box w/ Plesk
by Brad Knowles 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

At Tue Mar 1 02:57:09 CET 2005, Steve Malm <sm(a)malmz.com> said: > Looking for somebody to do a remote install and configuration on a new > dedicated iPower server with a Plesk control panel. Just need Mailman setup > so I can access it and build lists from the Plesk control panel. It's a bit > over my head and I don't have time to learn. Respond directly w/ rate and a > couple of references if you can help me out. No learners like me please. I believe that Plesk is available with a version of Mailman pre-integrated. If you're going to try to use Mailman with Plesk, I would strongly urge you to take advantage of that pre-integrated version, so that you will be able to get support and assistance with that from their support forums. Trying to integrate your own copy of Mailman with Plesk is an involved and difficult subject. So far as I am personally aware, only one group has managed to get this working. While we hope to be able to take their experience and fold that into the Mailman documentation, that has not happened yet and I don't know when we'll be able to get that done. See also <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.015.htp>. -- Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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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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Install needed on iPower Linux box w/ Plesk
by Steve Malm 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Looking for somebody to do a remote install and configuration on a new dedicated iPower server with a Plesk control panel. Just need Mailman setup so I can access it and build lists from the Plesk control panel. It's a bit over my head and I don't have time to learn. Respond directly w/ rate and a couple of references if you can help me out. No learners like me please.

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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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