Mailman-Users July 2005

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Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hi - I have searched FAQ and archives to find an answer. Hoping you can help. I have a new list (with previously imported addresses) for announcements only, and wish these announcements to be received immediately. I set the defaults to allow non-digest and to not allow digest. I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text. QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode? If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default? Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so? Thanks - Steve

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MSN and HotMail "Eating" Messages
by fshagan 24 May '07

24 May '07

Recently, my Mailman list users who use either a HotMail or MSN.COM email address have not received any messages. Mailman does not record a "bounce" from these email addresses, but they do not receive any of the list traffic. When trying to send a message to a Mailman list, the user gets the following error message: "This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed." And it lists the Mailman list email address. However, Mailman does not receive a bounce message. (My server is not listed with SpamHaus.org, or any of the other blacklists, so it should not be a spam filter sort of thing). One user requested help from MSN, and they responded with: "You are experiencing this issue because your .Net Passport <user's email address here> Profile (which is extensively used for authentication purposes) is corrupted (not updated). In order to resolve this issue, I would suggest you to Update your .NET passport profile." They follow that with instructions to go to their MSN .NET Passport profile and re-type all the information by hand (not by cut and paste). Then a 15-step procedure is given to delete all cookies, history and temporary internet files and re-set the disk cache (space for files) to 10MB. They believe that will solve the problem but alas, it has not for the 4 users I have with MSN or HotMail email addresses. Anyone else run into this and resolved it? I didn't see anything in the archives. If any of you have users with MSN or HotMail addresses, be advised they probably will not be able to receive emails, but you will not get "bounce" messages. They only way they will know is if they try to post to a Mailman list.

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Membership Management And Other Problems.
by multimedia-fan＠myrealbox.com 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Greetings, I cannot "Set everyone's moderation bit, including those members not currently visible" to on, in the membership management section in any list. I have set OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = 1 In /Mailman/mm_cfgy.py But still have the same problem. Also I cannot set or unset digest for all users, any thing I overlooked? This was happening before the changes made in the next issue explained below. In the last couple of days we had to reconfigure reverse mapping in DNS for the server, and now the URLs that Mailman builds in the list admin and info pages are pointing to the old host name, is there a way of correcting this, without re-installing mailman from scratch? Any pointers, clues will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your assistance.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe without confirmation
by Sintz, James 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Thanks!! I understand the purpose of the confirmation, I just want the ability to turn it off. It is okay if users get unsubscribed from my list because of a spooked request. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:52 AM To: Sintz, James; mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe without confirmation Sintz, James wrote: >Is there a way to enable unsubscribing without requiring user confirmation? Users are added to the list manually by an administrator, yet we do want to allow users the ability to unsubscribe using the listname-leave@ address. E-mail unsub requests require confirmation to prevent spoofed requests from succeeding. The user can avoid the confirmation by providing his/her password with the e-mailed unsubscribe command, but this only works if an unsubscribe command is mailed to the listname-request address. Mail to the listname-leave or listname-unsubscribe address is not parsed for commands and is treated as if it just contained a plain 'unsubscribe'. Send mail with subject 'help' (w/o the quotes) to the listname-request address for more info on the unsubscribe command. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System intends this e-mail message, and any attachments, to be used only by the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed. This message may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. If the reader is not the intended recipient of this message or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you are prohibited from printing, copying, storing, disseminating or distributing this communication. If you received this communication in error, please delete it from your computer and notify the sender by reply e-mail.

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Exporting subscribers list
by Arlequín 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hello, there! I am using MailMain trough its web-based interface. I don't have access to the server where its runs, because it's a third-party hosting company which provides me the MailMan service. I want to export the subscribers list in a format like this: subscriber1(a)mydomain.com subscriber2(a)mydomain.com . . . . . . . subscriber9(a)mydomain.com I wasn't able to find the way to perform this operation, searching deeply into the options tree. Is it possible to obtain this kind of list? T.I.A. -- Arlequín _o) amahoro_AT_adinet_DOT_com_DOT_uy / \\ http://counter.li.org/ _(___V Linux Registered User #207262

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Mailman 2.1.5 and virtualdomains and/or subdomains
by Konrad Mauz 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi, I'm trying to setting up mailman and having trouble with virtualdomains and subdomains. I need a listing name schema of: xyz(a)a.fh-konstanz.de xyz(a)b.fh-konstanz.de xyz(a)c.fh-konstanz.de and so on. but I can only have "one" xyz list, since the domainname is not part of the "listname" My first workaround was: xyz(a)a.fh-konstanz.de is a-xyz(a)fh-konstanz.de and maps with sendmails virtusers and aliases database. Then I change the preferred hostname in the list configuration to a.fh-konstanz.de, but the sender adress is now a-xyz(a)a.fh-konstanz.de. Is there a better way to handle lists with equal names but different domain/subdomain names? With kind regards, Konrad -- Konrad Mauz Rechenzentrum Fachhochschule Braunegger-Strasse 55, D 78462 Konstanz e-mail: kmauz(a)fh-konstanz.de Tel.: +49(0)7531-206-472

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No mbox / No Archives
by Michael J McCafferty 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

All, I am using Mailman 2.1.5 with Postfix on CentOS 3.5 (RHEL 3). My problem is that I have no archives. They are not being created. Each list is set to archive, and to make the archives public. I do have Apache set to follow symlinks. I also do not have any mbox directories or files being kept. I don't know why. I figure that I have no archives because I have no mboxes. I have checked the permissions (check_perms). Any thoughts on how to remedy or what to check next ? Thanks, Mike

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arch + EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER + lock files
by Jean-Philippe GIOLA 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

Hi all In my mm_cfg.py, Y have this line : PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'cat > /tmp/mail_tmp ; /home/mailman/bin/arch %(listname)s /tmp/mail_tmp' So, when a mail is sent to a list, it is store in a temporary file and then this command is execute : /home/mailman/bin/arch %(listname)s /tmp/mail_tmp The problem I have is that the execution of this last command create lock's files in the locks directory : listname.lock ... and so arch can't re-create the archives from /tmp/mail_tmp. then, when I remove the lock files, the execution of the arch script go on. Does someone has a idea to resolve my problem ? NB : When I execute "/home/mailman/bin/arch listname /tmp/mail_tmp" directly from the command line, it works very well... -- Cordialement, Jean-Philippe Giola - 6577

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Problem running sync_members under cpanel
by Hilton 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

I'm using a hosting company that runs cpanel. CentOS 4.1, cPanel 10.2.0-S83, Mailman 2.1.5p1 I don't have access to root, but what I'm trying to do is synchronise the membership database via an uploaded text file. This is the command that I've setup in the cron. /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/sync_members -w=no -g=no -a=yes -f /home/lrocorg/mailman/export-lists/test.txt test_landrover.org.za 'lrocorg' is my username on the system and 'test_landrover.org.za' is the mailman list that is assigned. The actual list name is just 'test'. So I FTP the 'test.txt' to the respective directory under my home directory and then run the cron job. I then get this error message; ---------- Ignore : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/sync_members", line 286, in ? main() File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/sync_members", line 220, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(listname) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 126, in __init__ self.Lock() File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 159, in Lock self.__lock.lock(timeout) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock self.__write() File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/locks/test_landrover.org.za.lock.s53.tm. crucialx.net.13496.0' ----------- Any pointers please? As I said before, I don't have root access. Regards _______________ Hilton J Ralphs -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 28/07/2005

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Installation Questions
by Bob Cohen 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

Hi. I'm getting ready to install Mailman and have a few questions. The procedures outlined in the Installation Manual at list.org seem odd. Other software that I've installed from source usually does things like creating the necessary user, setting permissions, creating the installation directory. Also, the documentation says not to install Mailman as root. Am I following this right? Or am I missing something? Bob

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