Mailman 3 June 2005 - Mailman-Users

Non-subscribed distribution list?
by Mailbag 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

I'm a brand new user of Mailman currently scoping out its capabilities. I apologize if this question is out of line for this forum. I've searched the FAQ and the web in general but haven't found my answer. We need a mailing list that is just a distribution list. Here's the deal: We have a neighborhood committee that's composed of several individuals. We would like to have a single address that any resident can send e-mail to. That single address would then turn into the several addresses belonging to the committee members. The distribution list cannot require the sender of the message to subscribe. It needs to be an open list. So, I have two questions: 1. Is this possible with Mailman? 2. If yes, can you please point me in the general direction (docs, etc), so I can find out the full answer myself? Thanks in advance! Adolfo

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mbox + references field
by Jean-Philippe GIOLA 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

HI all In the mailman mbox archives, there is sometimes a "References" field for mails. Why does this field not present for all mails ??? when I say "present", I mean "present" for all answer to mails. I understand very weel that the first mail of a new thread can't have a reference field. reguards -- Cordialement, Jean-Philippe Giola - 6577

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PRIVATE AND PUBLIC EXTERNAL ARCHIVER
by Jean-Philippe GIOLA 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

HI all When you use the private or public external archiver, are mails arrives one to one ? and what their form when they arrive ? reguards -- Jean-Philippe Giola - 6577

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List Members Getting Multiple Copies?
by Hunter Hillegas 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

I have an announce only list on MM2.1.5 running on RHEL3. I have had several members complain that they are getting multiple copies of each message from the list. I checked to make sure that these folks were not subscribed more than once. Any ideas what could cause this? Thanks, Hunter

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Missing pending requests
by Nigel Allen 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hi all Ever since we had a screwed up mailman list and corrected it, we have been getting the message below. > The xxx(a)foo.bar mailing list has 2 request(s) waiting > for your consideration at: > > http://www.foo.bar/mailman/admindb/mailman > > Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of > pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. > We've deleted the xxx mailing list and recreated it but still get the same message every morning. Can anyone enlighten me as to what triggers this please? I just want to get rid of them. They were an "accidental" subscribe TIA Nigel. -- Nigel Allen, Snr Consultant, ProSmart Consulting Australia 48 Tiarri Avenue, Terrey Hills, NSW 2084, Australia Tel: +61 2 9450 2690 Fax: +61 2 9450 2691 Mob: +61 4 1494 5269 http://www.prosmart.com.au

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A plug for Mailman-phpBB-Mail2Forum.com-qmail integration
by Matt England 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hello Mailman admins, I recently configured an email and web server serving phpBB and Mailman to "bridge" email lists to phpBB forums. This includes managing attachments between the forums and email lists. This works so well that I thought I would share. It's really really really really really cool. Did I mention it was really cool? It makes every email-list archive mechanism look foolish, imho, and it has the added benefit of taking all the phpBB posts and sending them to the email list as well. Among other things, this allows an existing phpBB-based community (and all of its discussion content) to transparently integration with a Mailman-based community...all while both sides not knowing that the other side was plugged in (other then seeing new discussion content/posts/emails from new users from "the other side")! No more segregation between forum-based and email-based communities talking about the same thing (or at least, the technical obstacles seem to now have been greatly lowered). One can also import existing Mailman archives to a phpBB forum via Mail2Forum. I realize there are references to Mail2Forum.com already in the GNU Mailman FAQ, but I thought it worth mentioning here again, given that I just got my "virtual domain" server running all this stuff, seemingly quite well. (However...it's a private server, behind an SSL "firewall", so I'm not inclined to open things up to a public demo/usage...yet.) I have a placeholder info doc here: http://www.mail2forum.com/wiki/index.php?page=Mail2Forum-phpBB-qmail-GNUMai… One can also find lots more info here: http://www.mail2forum.com/ http://www.mail2forum.com/forums/ A side note: if you want to manage virtual domains on your server, then qmail's functionality far surpasses postfix's implementation. qmail's vpopmail is soooooo easy to manage (once you get the thing setup, of course), AND it has the .qmail files for STDIN content forwarding needed for the above stuff (unless you want to hack it with cron jobs), while postfix virtual domains setup takes much configuration with maps and even then can not support .forward/.qmail based stuff. I have both installed on my server and have tested them, and qmail is the clear winner. Granted, the qmail architecture seems to be growing older and more antiquated every day, but until Postfix can get it's virtual-domain-management house in order, there's really no choice for me. -Matt

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Outbound smtp email problems: (110, 'Connection timed out')
by Matt England 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Hello, I'm having outbound email problems on my qmail-based server. I've had the outbound email working previously on this server, so I know it CAN work. I upgraded Mailman to 2.1.6rc4 since then. Here's some of the smtp-failures log: May 15 17:58:22 2005 (6656) Low level smtp error: (110, 'Connection timed out'), msgid: <6.1.2.0.2.20050515175456.0421ac40(a)pop.bizmail.yahoo.com> May 15 17:58:22 2005 (6656) Low level smtp error: please run connect() first, msgid: <6.1.2.0.2.20050515175456.0421ac40(a)pop.bizmail.yahoo.com> May 15 17:58:22 2005 (6656) delivery to mailman-admin(a)mengland.net failed with code -1: (110, 'Connection timed out') Outbound email from my /bin/mail command is working ok; I am running a virtual lists domain, however, not sure if that has anything to do with it. While I'm hunting down this bug I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on it for me. Thanks in advance, -Matt

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Missing digests
by PeteBell 05 Jun '05

05 Jun '05

Why should some digests miss out? I have members asking where particular digests missed out, and when I look, there seems to be no reason why they weren't sent (ie, there WERE messages available to the digest, but it just didn't go. As a result, my digest members miss 12-20 messages every now and then. Cheers Pete Bell, UK (no access to the Mailman installation)

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Listing bouncing addresses
by Nico 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

Hi, from a previous mail: On Tuesday 19 April 2005 04:59 pm, Michael Loftis wrote: > IS there any pre-built way of getting a list of users disabled for bouncing > for a given list (CLI or web...)? Or am I just going to have to throw > something together using withlist? bin/list_members --nomail=bybounce [listname] I did this on my list, but it does not give me the addresses with a bounce score > 0. How do I get a list of all the subscribers with a bounce score > 0 (and not de-activated)? Thanks Nico

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OK, hopefully an easy question
by Phil 04 Jun '05

04 Jun '05

I have a mail list that keeps stopping messages because the poster has "too many recipients" The posts are fine with me, how do I allow them to pass without me approving them?

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