Mailman 3 September 2005 - Mailman-Users

Revised patch #820723 Mailman/pipermail/MHonArc integration patch
by Richard Barrett Sept. 23, 2005

Sept. 23, 2005

Just posted revised patch to: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&aid=820723&group_id=103&atid=300103 and also available here (and also a revised version of the prepack Mailman distribution mm-ht-mh-2.1.6-0.2.tgz): http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/mhonarc/index.html Reason for revision is as follow: mhonarc-2.1.6-0.2.patch.gz corrects an error in the modified code of $prefix/bin/arch introduced by the mhonarc-2.1.6-0.1.patch.gz - the problem was not present in patches for previous MM versions. In some circumstances, after running $prefix/bin/arch --wipe, the HTML message archive pages of subsequent posts to a list and per period archive index page my be generated using the wrong archiver. Examining index and message pages in the archives of a list will show if this problem has affected that list. Reinstallation with this revised patch and rerunning $prefix/bin/arch --wipe should resolve the problem for any affected list.

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X-Mailing-List and non-local domain names?
by Christopher Woodfield Sept. 23, 2005

Sept. 23, 2005

Hi, I recently took over running a list that runs on a friend's domain (let's call it foo.com) on my box, which is bar.com. We currently have everything working by setting up a "list(a)bar.com" list on the local mailman, pointing a "list(a)foo.com" alias to it (the original address of the list), and setting up an explicit reply-to to point to list(a)foo.com so the replies go to the right place. The only other thing going on here is the fact that all of the mailing list headers (X-Beenthere, List-Id:, etc) still say "list(a)bar.com". I would prefer if bar.com's involvement in the list be transparent, which obviously isn't happening. Is there a way to configure mailman to change this behavior? Thanks, -Chris

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Mailing list creation mail has no Date header (bug#1212066)
by Bjorn-Erik Townsend Sept. 23, 2005

Sept. 23, 2005

Greetings all, I'm using Mailman 2.1.6 (stable) with Courier-MTA, and I'm encountering bug 1212066 (mailing list creation mail has no Date: header). Unfortunately, Courier does not seem to insert a Date header if none is already present, so I'm receiving message creation mails with no date header. It's setting off spamfilters and generally being problematic for me. My question is twofold: 1) This bug hasn't been updated since May; are there any plans to fix it? 2) Does anyone know of a way to get Courier to insert Date headers if needed? I know RFC2822 says that this is not its job, but it would be nice to have a workaround until this issue is fixed. Thank you for your attention! -- Bjorn Townsend | bjorn(a)sourcelabs.com

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new and improved stupid error
by Sean Roe Sept. 23, 2005

Sept. 23, 2005

Hi All, I am getting the following error now when I start up mailman: [client 192.168.4.199] Exception exceptions.A ttributeError: "MysqlMemberships instance has no attribute 'cursor'" in <bound m ethod MysqlMemberships.__del__ of <Mailman.MysqlMemberships.MysqlMemberships ins tance at 0x40221a8c>> ignored I think the other sysadmin may of removed something by accident (or on purpose) :) Again, I am not a python guy at all, so be gentle. Thanks, Sean

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Small reply address problem
by paul collen Sept. 23, 2005

Sept. 23, 2005

Hello there, I was wondering if someone could help with a small annoying problem. I've inherited a mailman system (2.1.5) but I'm not exactly up to speed with Linux and GNU software (but I'm trying). The problem we have is that I can't seem to change the display name of the reply address. When you receive an email from our live digi-tech list or even from a test list I've setup it says it's come from bounces-digi-tech@ or bounces-test@. I've looked through the admin pages and I've forced the reply address to be digi-tech@ and this changes the actual reply address to digi-tech@ or test@ but the display names are still prefixed with bounces-... Is this prefix hidden in a text file somewhere? Thanking you in advance :o) Best regards, Paul.

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problem with html emails with signature
by Χρήστος Ράμμος Sept. 23, 2005

Sept. 23, 2005

Hello all. I came into a very strange condition. I sent one HTML email with a signature to a Mailman mailing list without having a footer and the email arrived well and perfectly signed. When i tried to do the same but with the difference that i included one or more reciepients in the CC field then the email arrived with broken signature The above problem came using Netscape/Thunderbird email client but when i used MS Outlook Express then the signature was perfect!!!!! Does anyone had any similar problem? P.S.: i am signing this message too.. and making *bold and /italic /to have some html things to see if it fails to your list too.!!!*

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Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist
by Lloyd F. Tennison Sept. 22, 2005

Sept. 22, 2005

I actually have had zero problems with them after the initial whitelisting eighteen months ago - except it took over a week when I moved my server. (They said it should take 48 hours.) I send almost 300,000 to them three times a week - all without problems, plus normal hosting emails. They are always extremely responsive. Now with all the changes in Hotmail last week - THEY are a problem. Their whitelist through BondedSender.com will cost me almost three grand a year. ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] AOL Whitelist Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:26:55 -0700 From: Heather Madrone <heather(a)madrone.com> At 9:15 PM +0100 9/22/05, Martin Dennett wrote: >Oh, and just as an aside, myself and my co-moderators have given very >serious thought to banning AOL addresses on our list. Not a decision >we've taken lightly, but after 3 such instances with the same ISP in >less than 5 months (and no othe ISP giving us anywhere near the amount >of trouble that they have), it's time for action. That's what I've done. AOL was an ongoing headache, and I got tired of their high-handedness. AOL subscribers who want to receive my list can use free yahoo or gmail accounts, and many of them do. -- Heather Madrone <heather(a)madrone.com> The Home-Ed List: http://www.madrone.com/Home-ed/helist.html You can lead a child to learning, but you can't make her think. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman- users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman- users/lists%40viplist.us Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw- mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp Thanks. Lloyd F. Tennison lloyd_tennison(a)whoever.com No trees were harmed in the transmission of this message. However, a rather large number of electrons were temporarily inconvenienced.

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AOL Whitelist
by Jon Harris Sept. 22, 2005

Sept. 22, 2005

Hi List After about a year of trying, I think I have finally got AOL to whitelist my (subscription only!) mailing list :-( http://postmaster.aol.com/cgi-bin/whitelist.pl (if anyone is interested) In the mailing list I have around 1500 members with aol addresses with their 'nosend' ticked. Obviously, after repeated bounces mailman has given up trying to send it to them. I could, through the web interface, untick the 'nosend' flag, to switch them all back on again which would take ages. Is their a way of clearing the nosend flag from the command line for all @aol.com addresses? TIA Jon Harris

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Mailman daemon broken.
by Arnaud de Prelle Sept. 22, 2005

Sept. 22, 2005

Hi, I had two mailing list perfectly running on a FBSD 5.4 server. Since last reboot the daemon of the mail manager seems broken: root(a)bep-pc1|120#/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh start Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 547, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 389, in main lock = acquire_lock(force) File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 213, in acquire_lock lock = acquire_lock_1(force) File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 205, in acquire_lock_1 hostname, pid, tempfile = get_lock_data() File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 173, in get_lock_data pid = int(parts[-1]) ValueError: invalid literal for int(): be> smtp to polytech2010 for 1 rec Could anyone help me resolving this problem ? Thank you in advance. -- Arnaud de Prelle BEPolytech Server Admin eM@il: apn(a)bepolytech.be Web: http://bepolytech.be

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Mailman Master Unsubscribe
by Lloyd F. Tennison Sept. 22, 2005

Sept. 22, 2005

I would like to be able to have a main page where a person can remove themselves from all lists on the server with just one command/entry. I know they can eventually get to the unsubscribe all button, but I want to be able to have an all button like some of the large list services have. I have thought of making a master list and having that on the main page - but cannot find an easy way to link to that unsubscribe all button. I do not see a way that the umbrella can help me here either.

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