Mailman-Users August 2005

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137 participants
172 discussions

Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers

by Steve Reiter

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

10 years, 2 months

MSN and HotMail "Eating" Messages

by fshagan

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.

14 years, 5 months

Membership Management And Other Problems.

by multimedia-fan＠myrealbox.com

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.

15 years, 7 months

Re: [Mailman-Users] unsubscribe without confirmation

by Sintz, James

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.

15 years, 10 months

Exporting subscribers list

by Arlequín

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

16 years

Mailman 2.1.5 and virtualdomains and/or subdomains

by Konrad Mauz

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

16 years, 1 month

Emails coming through as "maillist-bounces" - is this normal?

by Memmott ＠ HitCatcher.com

Hi everyone, I've searched the FAQ and come up with nothing. Please be gentle if this is a dumb question... A client of ours has a mailman list set up called awake(a)domain.org. For some reason, when anybody posts to this list, the return address of the list comes across as "awake-bounces(a)domain.org [mailto:awake-bounces@domain.org] On Behalf Of firstname lastname" (User and domain specific details modified) Anyways, is this the default behavior/ Is there any way to force it to send out emails as awake(a)domain.org and not awake-bounces? Thanks in advance, Matt

16 years, 1 month

keep back mails of users

by Martin Held

hi i'm a beginner and i have a question. perhaps somebody of you know the answer. i created a new list for mailman. now a want 2 kinds of users: - the first group should be able to send the mail directly to mailman and mailman should dispose the mail to the list members. - the second group of users can send mails too. but the mail needs a release by the administrator. is this possible ? how ? thanks for help best regards emmi

16 years, 1 month

max_num_recipients variable question

by lkolchin＠univ.haifa.ac.il

Hello All, I have a question: Does "max_num_recipients = 10" in the default configuration of the list, means that when I'm posting to the list I can additionaly write only 9 e-mails along with the list address and no more? If I'm writing more than 10 e-mail addresses along with the list address it goes to list admin approval? Is it for "To" "Cc" and "Bcc" alltogether? Best Regards, Leon Kolchinsky

16 years, 1 month

preserve feature

by Sean

Hi, In mailman 2.1.5, when tending to held posts there is a 'Preserve messages for the site administrator' option under the 'Action to take on all these held messages.' If Accept, Reject, or Discard is selected the message gets removed from the Administrative requests page. Only if Defer is selected does the message remain there. Am I missing something as to the functionality of the 'Preserve messages for the site administrator' option? Thanks, Sean

16 years, 1 month

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