Mailman 3 May 2005 - Mailman-Users

Limits question
by Tom Ray 28 May '05

28 May '05

I'm wondering is there a way I can limit two things 1) Number of lists per site and 2) number of members per list? I'm doing virtual hosts with mailman and it's working fine but I don't want the users to have the ability to add unlimited lists or members to their lists. -- Tom Ray Detroit Online http://www.detroitonline.com Toll Free: 888-235-6817 x501 Toll: 313-887-0805 x501

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Looking for Postfix install-and-config consulting
by Matt England 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hello, I am investigating a switch of my qmail-based email servers to postfix. In order to expedite the process, I seek some consultant to help get me up and running and familiar with Postfix as quickly as possible. I am an experienced Unix/Linux sysadmin and software developer with knowledge of a variety of web- and email-server applications, but Postfix is not one that I yet know well. I suspect an interactive conversation with an experienced Postfix sysadmin/consultant spanning a few hours may save myself days of doc reading and testing. I'm not sure what market rate may be for this effort, but I'm willing to match it within reason and/or negotiate for any other payment terms. I have paid a consultant for help with another open-source application in the past, and it was a successful endeavor. I require a phone conversation somewhere along the way to help get things going; email alone is a bit too slow for this stuff. Instant-messaging is also an option. As for any face-to-face meetings: I live and work in the Chicago area and can also come to you (if you live/work in the Chicagoland area). Thanks for any help. I look forward to any responses from those interested in helping and/or any references to other places/websites/consulting sources that can help get me going. -Matt mobile: +1-312-543-9916 matt(a)mengland.net

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archive indexed by google ?
by Christophe Meessen 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hello, I have two questions related to archiving with pipermail. 1° If the archive is made public, will google be able to index it ? 2° Is it possible to cutomise archive pages (list specific customisation) to append ads for instance ? Thanx.

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No Headers
by David Wills 27 May '05

27 May '05

My headers and footers are not sent in either instant or digest email broadcasts to the list. Any ideas? Disclaimer of Content and Validity Mr David T Wills Managing Director & Co-Founder Naughty Vend (UK) Ltd. Office Suite 610 456-458 The Strand London, WC2R 0DZ This email is intended solely for the addressee, is strictly confidential and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee please do not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on it or any attachments. Instead, please email it back to the sender and then immediately and permanently delete it. Naughty Vend (UK) Ltd., Company Number SC270576 This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses but does not guarantee that it will be virus free.

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digest threshold problem
by Sean 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hi, I'm Running Mailman 2.1.5 and Python 2.3.4. I have a list with digest_size_threshold set to 30kb and digest_send_period set to NO that had a digest sent that was only 737 bytes in size when the daily senddigests was run. Has anyone else experienced something like this? Is this a bug and is there a patch for it? Thanks, Sean

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How to figure out which way my leads were unsubscribed
by Nazar Voznyak 26 May '05

26 May '05

Hi, I've figured out that this week about 200 subscribers were unsubscribed from my mailman mailing list. This never happens before so I'm going to investigate how they were unsubscribed. I've checked out apache logs and they were not unsubscribed via link, probably the emails were dropped from the list automatically because they had reached a bouncing limit, but how can I know this for sure. Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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Filtering with procmail.
by Niels Richter 26 May '05

26 May '05

Hello mailman-users, I'm running a mailman-installation at a seperat server. It only gets the mails, an spread them to the users. The SPAM-filtering is running at another machine but also the SPAM-marked mails are send to the mailman-server. So my problem is to get procmail in contact with the incoming mails to filter this mails. I read two interessting articles at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.015.htp> and <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.023.htp> but after doing this steps I got the problem, that after rebuilding the aliases-file my changes to that file were overwritten. My question is: does someone have a solution for this problem or is there a better method to filter already marked SPAM-Mails? Maybe I can use some files from this page: < http://www.jamesh.id.au/articles/mailman-spamassassin > Or would it be the best to install spamassassin also at the mailman-server an follow the instructions linked above? Thanks for your help! -- Niels.

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txt file and txt.gz file
by Jean-Philippe GIOLA 26 May '05

26 May '05

Hi all! concretely, what is the serve of the txt files in the archives considering there are the files mbox? And what is the serve of the txt.gz files ? reguards -- Jean-Philippe Giola - 6577

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Re: [Mailman-Users] [install] set-gid bit
by Peter Schnitzler 26 May '05

26 May '05

Am 25.05.2005 um 16:13 schrieb dave(a)umiacs.umd.edu: > On Wed, 25 May 2005, Peter Schnitzler wrote: > >> when i go there i get the following output: >> >> [portal mailman]$ df -k >> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >> /dev/hda1 743371 679010 64361 92% / >> /dev/hda3 198275 43625 154650 23% /var >> /dev/hda4 17673711 2878405 14795306 17% /home >> >> So this says that it is not a NFS/automount problem? >> >> > That's what it sounds like. To test, create a script with sgid and > see if indeed it works eg > echo "#!/bin/sh">/home/sites/mytest > echo "touch /tmp/myfile">>/home/sites/mytest > chgrp mailman /home/sites/mytest > chmod 2755 /home/sites/mytest > > /home/sites/mytest > > and see if /tmp/myfile gets a group ownership of mailman i get the following output: -rw-rw-r-- 1 portal root 0 May 26 14:57 myfile after I did: [portal portal]$ echo "#!/bin/sh">/home/sites/mytestecho "#!/bin/sh">/ home/sites/mytest [portal portal]$ [portal portal]$ echo "/bin/sh">/home/sites/www.afser.de/users/portal/ mytest [portal portal]$ echo '#!/bin/sh'>/home/sites/www.afser.de/users/ portal/mytest [portal portal]$ echo "touch /tmp/myfile">>/home/sites/www.afser.de/ users/portal/mytest [portal portal]$ chgrp site76 /home/sites/www.afser.de/users/portal/ mytest [portal portal]$ [portal portal]$ chmod 2755 /home/sites/www.afser.de/users/portal/mytest [portal portal]$ /home/sites/www.afser.de/users/portal/mytest So I guess it did not work? > > I suspect you may have probs with this if you don't have root on > the machine > which may be the initial problem. Can you > > chgrp mailman /home/sites/www.afser.de/users/portal/mailman > chmod 2755 /home/sites/www.afser.de/users/portal/mailman > > If you can't do this, then you don't have enough privs to install it. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > David Stern University of Maryland > Institute for Advanced Computer Studies > >

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Moderated list
by Tariq Javaid 26 May '05

26 May '05

I am still having trouble where I can set my list to a moderated list. I would like to view all of the messages reviewed by admin before they get posted. I check all the settings but it does not work. I have messages to be held in the queue but when I post a message they never appeared in the queue. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Tariq

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