Mailman 3 August 2005 - Mailman-Users

Problem in gateway_to_mail processing
by Martin Wolske Aug. 22, 2005

Aug. 22, 2005

We have run into a problem with the gateway_to_mail function in our Mailman 2.1.4 install on our Redhat Linux server that seems to have begun recently. Unfortunately, we can't pinpoint the exact time or cause of the problem. Each of our lists performing nntp gating was properly gating news to and from our local news server when this was setup earlier this year. However, recently we began getting reports that some postings to the newsgroups were not being gated to the corresponding … [View More]

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Howto change subject line for subscription invitation
by Sergio P. Cesar Aug. 21, 2005

Aug. 21, 2005

With default setting the user will get a request for confirmation like: confirm 7170e089130f398d634715bb1cfd4a8a8845542f Is there a way I can change this for each list to something like: An invitation from the President: confirm 7170e089130f398d634715bb1cfd4a8a8845542f -- Sergio Cesar Wireless Net Connections Network Communications & Consulting Sig Key (do not delete): mQGiBDt/Ap8RBADdBbLfOhOGJcOdYAUwm9z0xqD+rc5gnq/SE/LAeMC5jpJ6kggO

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__getmsgids in ListAdmin.py (via checkdbs) reports "ValueError: too many values to unpack"
by Michael Scott Fischer Aug. 21, 2005

Aug. 21, 2005

Does anyone know what causes the following error message, and if so, how to make Mailman happy again? This is Mailman 2.1.6, Python 2.4.1 on a FreeBSD 5.4 system - both are installed from ports. I've upgraded Mailman several times, but only after the 2.1.6 upgrade did I begin to receive these errors. Thanks, --Michael Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 203, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 104, in main discarded … [View More]

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Auto-resending mails to sublists
by piotr＠mallorn.ii.uj.edu.pl Aug. 21, 2005

Aug. 21, 2005

Hi, I'd like to have a couple of lists: year1@host, year2@host, ..., year6@host. And when someone sends mail for example to year3-5@host it'd be resent automatically to year3, year4 and year5. Is it doable with standard mailman (preferably 2.1.5), or does it need some changes to the code? Would it be easy to implement or not? Or maybe mailman has some kind of modules/plugins? (although I don't remember seeing anything about plugins in docs) -- Piotrek irc: #debian.pl Mors Drosophilis melanogastribus!

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Re: [Mailman-Users] HA: how to avoid mailmanSite list creation
by lkolchin＠univ.haifa.ac.il Aug. 21, 2005

Aug. 21, 2005

Thanks man, That’s the solution for me, I can just rename it "MAILMAN_SITE_LIST in mm_cfg.py". Best Regards, Leon Kolchinsky -----Original Message----- From: Carl Zwanzig [mailto:cpz@tuunq.com] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 7:21 PM To: לאון קולצ'ינסקי Cc: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] HA: how to avoid mailmanSite list creation In a flurry of recycled electrons, lkolchin(a)univ.haifa.ac.il wrote: > Thanks for your reply, > > 1) Maybe someone could … [View More]

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Mailman digest headers
by Fred H Olson Aug. 21, 2005

Aug. 21, 2005

I'd like to have a less verbose and more appropriate "masthead" on digest messages for an announcement list. The limited ability to do this in Mailman was explained in an earlier message: Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Moving "Today's Topics" to top of Digest? From: Mark Sapiro Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 > This "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" information is built from the > masthead.txt template which can be edited to shorten it (see > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&… [View More]amp;file=faq04.048.htp), > but the order - masthead.txt template, digest header if any, table of > contents - is fixed in Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py I wish the contents of masthead.txt (or similar) were the default in the digest header so it could be edited. Footers have default text, why not the digest_header ? Then if masthead.txt were eliminated, the default would result in digests looking the same. Is it possible to do this on a given installation now? Is there a way to change the default contents (at a given installation) of a string option like digest_header ? If so, this change plus deleting the contents of masthead.txt would result in what I'd like to see. One of the parts of the masthead.txt (see example below) that is inappropriate for announcement lists is "submissions" and "reply" portions. Ideally the defaults for the header would be conditional depending on whether a list were an announcement list. BTW the it would be nice if the Info page text related to post used a similar conditional. ---- Example of Mailman digest "masthead" ---- Send Mn-prog-events2 mailing list submissions to mn-prog-events2(a)justcomm.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.cohousing.org/mailman/listinfo/mn-prog-events2 or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mn-prog-events2-request(a)justcomm.org You can reach the person managing the list at mn-prog-events2-owner(a)justcomm.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mn-prog-events2 digest..." ---- END Example of Mailman digest "masthead" ---- Fred, Mailman-users no mail mode subscriber - copy of replies direct appreciated -- Loose Lips Deserve Pink Slips. Fire Karl Rove. Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Communications for Justice - My new listserv org. UU, Linux My Link Page: http://fholson.cohousing.org Ham radio:WB0YQM fholson at cohousing.org 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm Central time) [View Less]

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Message digest/archive oddity ...
by Jason LaMar Aug. 21, 2005

Aug. 21, 2005

Sorry about that. Let's try this again. A list subscriber submitted an HTML e-mail message from Outlook with a Word attachment. It came across as a multi-part MIME, with these content type headers (in this order): ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C5A33B.DBC4C170 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0002_01C5A33B.DBC4C170" ------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C5A33B.DBC4C170 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ------=… [View More]

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Archive access permission problem - can you think of something beyond the obvious?
by Jay Batson Aug. 20, 2005

Aug. 20, 2005

Hi -- Our web/mail server (I think) got hacked recently. (There were various bits of stuff that broke.) While list mail seems to (now) be running again (had to restart qrunner), access to list archives is still busted. Attempts to access the archives via browser give the well-known "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /pipermail/discussion/ on this server." I've done the following: - run check_perms -f to make sure directory permissions are correct - Made sure the … [View More]

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Automatic email every 15 days?
by Zach Dexter Aug. 20, 2005

Aug. 20, 2005

Hello everyone, What's the easiest way to automatically send out an email to all users on a mailing list every 15 days? Is there an addon for Mailman, or is a cron job the best way to do this? Thanks!

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retry qfiles
by asterix＠lagaule.org Aug. 20, 2005

Aug. 20, 2005

Hi all, I had some pb with my mail server: my LDAP database crased, so my users couldn't receive their mail, especialy me :) So mailman (that run on the same machine) put messages for me in the qfiles/retry folder. The pb is that now I can receive mails but mailman still continue to put mails for me there. Is there a way to tell him to really retry to send me thoses mails and to stop storing them there ? Thanks in advance Yann Le Boulanger

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