Mailman 3 August 2005 - Mailman-Users

Moved mailman, not arhchiving
by David Clark 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hi, I have looked everywhere, tried everything, with no luck.. We have recently switched webhosts, and have migrated existing lists (about 10 of them). People can send to the list (it gets broadcasted no problem), and new users can join existing lists. The mail is not being added to the archive, and moderated email is not added to the queue (even though the moderator does get notified of pending mail). I added a new test list, and everything worked fine. The only difference that I can find is that the db for the new list has the "sticky bit" on.. I need other ideas to try. Thanks, --- David Clark

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revised question to university users
by Dave Rasmussen 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Can anyone out there from another major university using mailman to allow communication for all of their course sections, comment on their hardware configurations for suitable usage? You can email me offline. Sorry for the previous semi-inept request.

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how much can one mailman support?
by Dave Rasmussen 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Just how many lists can you run on one mailman server on a uniprocessor dell server running linux and have enough left over so when users request to know which lists they're on, your box doesn't come to a grinding halt? We're considering putting 6000 course/section lists on it plus migrating another similar number of existing lists that used to be sendmail include style reflectors (prone to spam). I suspect it may be able to handle the lists, but as soon as users request to know which lists they're on, are they going to bury the server?

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Bug in Mailman
by plaza c 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hi, Im new to mailman.I've configured mailman-2.1.6 and getting the list mailed to my email id . while trying to access the list through my apache sever ,im getting the following error.. Bug in Mailman version 2.1.6 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. Is this error of postfix or cgi or something else pls help -- Regds, plaza c

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Problem with cgi-bin files
by Will Twomey 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

I'm using Debian testing, with Postfix 2.x I installed mailman via apt-get, as well as postfix. Apache2 was installed from source. I use virtual domains (which are defined in a mysql database, along with the users) in postfix. Mailman is working quite well, except that many of my cgi-bin files don't seem to work. (I can send and recieve mail, and mailman sends out emails just fine to people in my lists) I added, in httpd.conf: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ And now I can access http://servername.com/mailman/admin/csc (csc = list name) I can get past the password prompt, and see the General Information, but when I click on any link in there, I get 'The document contains no data'. I changed apache user/group from nobody to www-data (so mailman would work with it). /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin has the following permissions lrwxrwxrwx 1 root list 24 Aug 25 12:56 cgi-bin -> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman The files in that directory all have the following permissions -rwxr-sr-x 1 root list 6276 May 28 06:54 admin I'm confused why some pages load fine, and others do not. Does anyone know of a solution? Thanks -Will

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private or public list ?
by Jean-Philippe GIOLA 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hi all! Is there a way to know, by a command line, if a list is public or private ? reguards

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Bounce probe question
by Lorenz Adena 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hi, since i really would like this as an option is there any way to prevent mailman (2.1.5) from sending list probes to the members who have reached the lists bounce threshold? I do not want to disablem bounce probing in general, just for some lists. Regards Lorenz Adena -- Lorenz Adena Information & Medien Rechenzentrum Universität Stuttgart Tel: (++49-711) 685-5993 Allmandring 30 Fax: (++49-711) 68702041 70550 Stuttgart *** RUS-Mailadresse: poststelle(a)rus.uni-stuttgart.de ***

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Mailman bounces
by Darren G Pifer 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hello, Yesterday, one of our list admins sent mail to a bunch of his list serves, however, he got the same message from each one. I did not see anything is mailmans logs to know why this failed. Has anyone seen this and know a resolution?: mailman-bounces(a)list.odu.edu To 08/23/2005 03:19 listxxxx-owner(a)list.odu.edu PM Subject Uncaught bounce notification The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted from it. This mailing list has been configured to send all unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s). For more information see: http://list.odu.edu/admin/listxxxx/bounce Our user needs to get these out TODAY! So any help is appreciated. Darren Old Dominion University

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Question about 'Footer' that is automatically added by MailMan & Members List Info
by Joe Espinoza 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Greetings All; I'm a band new user to MailMan and I have a few quick questions. 1.) Questions On Footer In a few test messages that I've sent out with MailMan, I notice that MailMan adds a footer, something like this: _______________________________________________ %(real_name)s mailing list %(real_name)s@%(host_name)s %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s Now in your FAQ, it does give some examples of variables that are used in order to generate the footer. My question is, if I want to totally edit the footer and possibly add let's say a jpeg/gif to it...is this possible? If so, how? If I want to completely strip out the footer, so it either shows no information or the footer is not even added...is this possible? If so, how? 2.) Questions On Members List Within the MailMan WebUI it allows me to view the Members List. I can also go to the specific WebUI for each specific Mailing List and view the member info there. My question is, is there a way to 'download' or 'export' this information in plain ascii/text format? Is this information already kept in a similar format somewhere in the MailMan directories? FYI, I have a VPS Server running Fedora-Core 2. I have full root/ssh access as well and I'm utilizing MailMan through the cPanel interface. Thanks ahead of time! Joe

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Having admin problem with 1 list
by Richard Barnes 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hello, On the mailman server I have setup there is 1 list not functioning correctly. When I try to subscribe to the list, there is no entry created on the pending subscribe page, but there is a entry in the subscribe log. Also, the admin pending requests email is not function for this list either. All other lists are working properly. This problem just started a few days ago and there have been not updates to mailman or postfix. Unfortunately,this server was setup by someone else and I am not sure exactly what I'm looking for. Especially since the log files seem to be in order. Any help in getting pointed in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rick

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