Mailman 3 March 2005 - Mailman-Users

What am I missing: HTML messages are being stripped?
by Ivan Fetch 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hello, Probably a temporary brain moment here, but our lists are stripping HTML messages, although the settings are as follows for content filtering: filter_content is yes, filter_mime_types and pass_mime_types are both empty, and convert_html_to_plaintext is set to no. If I turn off content filtering for the list, HTML messages arrive ok, however it seems as though we should be able to have content filtering turned on yet HTML messages passing through unharmed with the settings indicated above - what am I missing? Thanks, Ivan Fetch.

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problems getting installing
by Kenneth Sunshine 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I ham having problems getting mailman too work with sendmail. When I go to my web server and try to create a list I get an error. Am not sure what this means. I am not sure what this means. Have been trying to get postfix running but can't get it to send or receive mail. Any help would be much appreciated. Ken Sunshine Galey & Lord Phone: 336.665.3063

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old domain showing up
by Troy Richard 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I changed the domain on my mail list. When I log into the admin site all the links still show the old domain. Anybody know what i need to do to change this. Thanks Troy

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'Group mismatch error' problem
by Kevin Ratcliffe 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Can anybody help me please. I've installed Mailman as per the install instructions. I am using exim as my MTA. I configured mailman with './configure --with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=apache' I installed exim with the user and group 'mail'. I followed the instructions to configure exim for mailman. My MTA seems to be working fine. But I cant seem to get any mailing lists to work. I can sbuscribe to groups but never get an email reply. when I do a '$MM_PREFIX/mail/mailman post', I get: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mail", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "root". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mail", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=root'. when I check Mailmans smtp-failure log, I get: Mar 23 14:27:36 2005 (1390) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection refused'), msgid: <mailman.0.1111586446.1267.mailman(a)magic.bolton-sfc.ac.uk> Mar 23 14:27:36 2005 (1390) delivery to kev(a)bolton-sfc.ac.uk failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused') I am assuming that exim cannot do the delivery because it cannot run the '$MM_PREFIX/mail/mailman post' script. Can someone please give me a clue where I am going wrong. Kev

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Nothing gets posted to mailman
by Jim Tittsler 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

On Mar 24, 2005, at 17:21, Rabbie Zalaf wrote: > And that's it.. I have put mailman in /etc/mail/smrsh and I have the > jokes > aliases in my aliases file... > > Any help would be appreciated. Did you remember to start Mailman? (mailmanctl start) Are the messages collecting in qfiles/** ? What is in the Mailman logs? <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp> -- Jim Tittsler http://www.OnJapan.net/ GPG: 0x01159DB6 Python Starship http://Starship.Python.net/ Ringo MUG Tokyo http://www.ringo.net/rss.html

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Setting Header For Postings
by Staven Bruce 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

We are using Mailman 2.1.5 and I was going through the FAQ's trying to figure our the most secure way to set up an announce only list. I saw under FAQ 3.11, the suggestion to moderate all users, and for the approved posters to do the following: "...A more secure alternative is for your approved posters to add an Approved header to their postings as a header, or as the first line of the post)." My question is where and how do I "add an Approved header" ? I've been through the Mailman interface, but I am a little confused on how to do this. Any info you could pass along would be appreciated. Thanks, Staven

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Mailman 2.1.6 beta 5 released
by Tokio Kikuchi 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi, Sorry for the delay of 2.1.6 but a serious bug was found in the previous beta releases. I put a final beta release before jumping up to the release candidate. The bug is related to 'Privacy -> SPAM filter -> header_filter_rules'. So, I want all of you, who have had brave souls to upgrade 2.1.6 beta and who use this feature, to upgrade again to 2.1.6 beta 5. The tarball is placed at http://mm.tkikuchi.net/mailman-2.1.6b5.tgz # Sorry but it looks like I have not access to the file releases on SF. -- Tokio Kikuchi tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/

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Could not get immediately message
by 王博 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hello: i am using Mailman-2.16beta on my RedHat linux box,it works.But here is the problem i got now: the Digest works fine,the members can get daily digest without any problem,while if member sent a individual message to the list,after it was approved,members who register as "non-digest" should get it,right? but actually not.... Please tell me where the problem is or how can i solve it,is there anything should be set in configuration field ? (non-digestable function already ON,i am 100% sure). BTW,before i used version 2.15,the digest and non-digest both work,but the problem is the delievery of all messages randomly delayed sometimes,then i upgraded to 2.16beta,the delay problem seems solved,but this new one came.... This is urgent for me to solve it,appreciate if anyone can help,Thanks a lot _________________________________________________________________ 与联机的朋友进行交流，请使用 MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Archives missing on newly-created list
by John W. Baxter 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

On 3/23/2005 8:44, "Charlie Summers" <charlie(a)lofcom.com> wrote: > Before I get to the meat of my situation, I need to verify that I do indeed > have a problem; since I have not been able to find _any_ reference to anything > similar through searching this list's archives, the web, et al, I'm not > convinced this isn't either "installer-error" or even just a mistaken > impression on how things are supposed to work. Short of VERP, I've been considering configuring Exim on the mailing list servers to send AOL messages one per connection, and through another of our servers rather than directly. That way the second of our servers will log the "for blah(a)aol.com" phrase, and we'll have a chance. I haven't done the deed yet, so I don't yet know how (and moving to a newer Exim and Mailman takes precedence when I have the time). (It would be nice to be able to configure Mailman to VERP on a per receiving mail domain basis. But that's not in there.) --John

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RE: [Mailman-Users] "User unknown in local recipient table" Error
by Olson, Gary 23 Mar '05

23 Mar '05

In rereading http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.009.htp <Thanks Dan!>, I checked that data/aliases and data/aliases.db were both group writable. Oddly aliases.db was not but the aliases was. When I changed that to make it group writable all three lists now work. Odd that two lists worked with that setting and the one didn't. Another strange aspect is that there were no errors logged for this. The latter warrants further investigation. Thanks for the help. Gary -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 4:12 PM To: Olson, Gary; mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] "User unknown in local recipient table" Error Olson, Gary wrote: > >The Postfix aliases are the same for all three lists except for the >list name, of course. > >By the way, this third list created today was created with Mailman >Admin while the others I did from the command line. > >Any ideas on why this is happening or where I might look to see what is >causing this? Perhaps there is a permissions issue that prevented the postalias command from updating the aliases.db file with the third list's aliases when run from the web interface. You could try running postalias manually and see if that fixes the problem. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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