Mailman 3 September 2005 - Mailman-Users

Mailing List Questions
by chis4＠mac.com Sept. 4, 2005

Sept. 4, 2005

By the questions you can tell I am a beginner. I tried to find my answers through the many FAQ's. I am a mailing list administrator. There seems to be two ways an address can be added to the list: 1) My entering them by Mass Subscription under the Member Management...Section. Addresses entered this way appear in a Member List table. Good. 2) My approving a request (via email) to add a new address to the list. Addresses approved by this method do not appear in the Member List table mentioned in item #1; I call them invisible. Question: Where and how do I find these invisible addresses? The list has only 100 addresses and is seasonal. The beginning of each season it would be easier to dump all the addresses and Mass Subscribe a fresh list. Question: Is there an easy way to dump the lists generated by the two methods mentioned above? Thank you, Chis

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How to change list name
by John Fleming Sept. 3, 2005

Sept. 3, 2005

My understanding is that you cannot easily change the name of a list other than case changes. If this is not correct, please tell me how or direct me to the proper resource. I've googled and search the FAQ. Thanks - John

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Enabling personalization with Digest Mode?
by David Morris Sept. 3, 2005

Sept. 3, 2005

I have a subscriber to digest mode whose ISP is mandating her email address be in the To or CC header. The only way I can see to do this is through personalization. I have seen where I can do that with non-digest messages, but I can't find where I can do that with Digests. I would prefer (for performance reasons) to not enable personalization for the larger list, and turn it on just for the digest list. Can it be done? If not, how can I work around it (running mailman on Debian Linux with exim4) David -- Rev. David Morris http://www.gomorris.net/wp/index.php United Methodist Church, Dayton and Harcourt, Iowa http://www.daytonharcourtumc.org IEC, EF Foundation for Foreign Study http://www.effoundation.org

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Case sensitive problem w/ list serve
by Darren G Pifer Sept. 2, 2005

Sept. 2, 2005

Hello, One of our list administrators pointed out a problem with one of his list serves with mailman. He tried to send mail to his list Telecourse@list but it did not go through but when he sent to telecourse@list the mail did go through. This problem did not appear in our earlier version of mailman 2.0.13 but now appears it does in our current version, mailman 2.1.6b4. Is there a case-sensitive setting in mailman? I am not seeing any options with this. Darren ODU

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Help // emails not sent out
by Jim Null Sept. 2, 2005

Sept. 2, 2005

HI ... we are using 2.1.5 and have several lists going. On one particular list, the one that is most active, we are having some problems, as follows: 1. Everyone on the list is moderated 2. When a post comes in, we receive a pending notice for approval 3. When approved, the message moves into our archives 4. The message goes out to some on the list, but not all, Please advise any ideas on what might be the issue? --------------------------------- Jim Null Telephone: 903.236.0547 Email: jim(a)jimnull.com or info(a)longviewnet.com Visit our web sites at: www.jimnull.com <http://www.jimnull.com/> or www.longviewnet.com <http://www.longviewnet.com/> Or, contact me on MSN Messenger as jim(a)jimnull.com La Vida de Esperanza... I Peter <http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=67&chapter=1&verse=3&version=3 1&context=verse> 1:3

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combining mailman servers and virt domains and converting to mysql
by Sean Roe Sept. 2, 2005

Sept. 2, 2005

Hi all, I was am in the process of converting an old maillist server over to my new maillist server. It currentl has a couple of lists on one domain running with the mysql patch. What I want to do is combine this server with the old lists that are non mysql based to the new server that is mysql based. I have read the mail archive and the docs and I am not really sure how in what order to do stuff. I think I can just copy over the lists directory and archive directory. I should then run the mysql convert script. Verify that all the lists got on the mysql server then move the IP to point to the new server? Am I in the right ballpark? Sean

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Emails coming through as "maillist-bounces" - is this normal?
by Memmott ＠ HitCatcher.com Sept. 2, 2005

Sept. 2, 2005

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

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Index page for mailman
by Martin Hugo Sept. 2, 2005

Sept. 2, 2005

Hello, As a new user to Linux and Mailman (using ver 2.1.5 w Apache 1.3.3 and Debian Sarge w Exim4) I was pleased to be able to get it up and running without too much list searching and head scratching. I have a couple of questions though: I would like to have a redirect page send people to mydomain.com/mailman/listinfo if they inadvertently arrive at mydomain.com/mailman/ but I can't figure out where to put that page on the server (right now you get a forbidden error). Second question: If I want to change the look and feel to match my site, can I edit the html files in /var/lib/mailman/templates/en so that all list pages look the same (mainly school logos and table widths), or will that "break" something elsewhere. TIA Martin T. Hugo Network Administrator Hilliard City Schools Tel: 614-921-7102 Martin_Hugo(a)fclass.hilliard.k12.oh.us

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Mailman/qrunner dies after 50 weeks
by Tom Limoncelli Sept. 2, 2005

Sept. 2, 2005

I run a number of mailing lists on a server with a few virtual domains (http://www.groupname.org/mailman/listinfo & http://www.plts.org/mailman/listinfo) on a Solaris server. I was always impressed at how mailman needed so little maintenance (I previously ran majordomo since around 1993, and moved to mailman in 2000). It is one of the few bits of software that I run that "runs itself" after installation. I'm currently using Mailman version 2.1.2. Last week I got complaints from users that messages weren't getting through. After some investigation it turns out they were right. I also noticed that the mailman processes had been running for over 50 weeks. I did a "mailmanctl restart" and suddenly the entire backlog of email had been processed and everything was back to normal. You may be wondering what my uptime was. So I'll tell you: newjoisey.whatexit.org% uptime 8:03am up 755 day(s), 11:58, 7 users, load average: 0.86, 0.73, 0.48 newjoisey.whatexit.org% uname -a SunOS joisey 5.9 Generic_112233-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2 Would it be worth it to do a "mailmanctl" every 49 weeks as a preventive measure? Is there a recommended way to automate this? I'm concerned that I might not remember to do it in July 2006. I might be traveling then. Is this a common problem with mailman? Should I be concerned? Tom Limoncelli Author, The Practice of System and Network Administration www.EverythingSysadmin.com http://whatexit.org/mailman/listinfo/tposana-fans P.S. Thanks for the excellent software. 50 weeks! You guys rule! :-)

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keep back mails of users
by Martin Held Sept. 2, 2005

Sept. 2, 2005

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

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