Mailman 3 January 2006 - Mailman-Users

Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann 16 Nov '23

16 Nov '23

Hi, Is there any way to configure Mailman such that, for an announcement-only type list, when a message is sent to the list, the To: shows the member's address, rather than the list address? Some list software allows the ability to hide the list address itself, so that address is not advertised. I couldn't find any configuration specific to that.

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Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

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

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MSN and HotMail "Eating" Messages
by fshagan 24 May '07

24 May '07

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.

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Web admin slow
by Jon Harris 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Hi List I have a (bit aged) Redhat 9 box (Pentium II/512Mb RAM) running Mailman 2.1.6 with Postfix. Its only has to run a single moderated mailing list sending out one email every day to around 20,000 subscribers. Sending out the emails is not problem - it works great. The major problem is logging in to approve the email. It (Apache/2.0.40) is so slow that it usually times out with a 500 error after you try and login. Is there a way of speeding up the web interface? Can I approve postings from the command line? There is a large archive as they have been running this for around 3 years. Will it speed up if we trash part of the archive. If so how can I trash archived data that is (say) over a year old? There was a thread on this problem, but it was not really resolved, and that user had 450,000 subscribers. Any help appreciated. Jon Harris

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Mailman move problem
by kevinc＠seaplace.org 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

Dear List - I recently have changed mail servers and my attempt at moving Mailman appears to have only partially succeeded. Currently: check_perms comes back fine - Good. cron is running the news_port command every 5 minutes (good cron check) -Good. The web interface works fine - all list look great - Good. Mail sent to a list appears in a qfile - Good. Qrunner is running - Good. Mailmanctrl is running - Good. Nothing is being sent to Postfix - Bad!!! Qfile In directory purged just in case, still nothing. System: Gentoo 2.6.13 running 2.6.13-gentoo.r3 kernel, 64-bit, on an AMD64 3000. Postfix - but nothing fancy - no virtual domains, etc. Mailman 2.1.5-r3 build via emerge into the standard location Help!!! <with a smile> Kevin

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Membership Management And Other Problems.
by multimedia-fan＠myrealbox.com 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

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.

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user is removed, but they still receive list emails
by Zack Beatty 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I've removed sevaral list members, using the Mailman Admin interface. However, they're still gettting my mailings, and are threatening to complain to the spam cops? I've double checked to confirm that these email addresses are NOT in my membership list. What's the deal? ZB __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Weirdness
by Lawrence Bowie 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

Team: I have some issues with my mailing list. I have users subscribe to a list but yet I always have to approve their posts for some reason. And when I do have it accept this address for future posts, it still emails me to apporove it. Any ideas??? Thanks, LDB

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Permission of data/bounce-events-?????.pck
by imacat 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Dear all, I was checking my system for world-writable files, and found lots of data/bounce-events-?????.pck that are world-writable: imacat@rinse ~ % ls -lt /var/lib/mailman/data | grep 'rw. ' -rw-rw-rw- 1 list list 0 2006-01-31 01:26 bounce-events-02258.pck -rw-rw-rw- 1 list list 4786 2005-12-26 17:36 bounce-events-26086.pck ... imacat@rinse ~ % I searched the archive and know that they can be safely deleted. But, is that "world-writable" intended? I'm a little worry about it. -- Best regards, imacat ^_*' <imacat(a)mail.imacat.idv.tw> PGP Key: http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.txt <<Woman's Voice>> News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/ Tavern IMACAT's: http://www.imacat.idv.tw/ TLUG List Manager: http://lists.linux.org.tw/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tlug

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Exchange and attachment
by Susan Feng 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

I saw this thread from a 2003 email, but there was no follow-up to it. We are having similar problem with mailman 2.1.6 version. Exchange users receive their email "body as attachment". Other email clients are fine. The list has content filter turned off. Anyone knows how to configure the list correctly so the message will actually show up for exchange users not as an attachment? Thanks! Susan |I'm having a terrible time with the 2.1.2 upgrade. |Ever since the upgrade, anyone using Microsoft Exchange Server receives |messages as an attachment. So, using the new Content Filtering feature, I |set filtering to Yes and instructed Mailman to convert text/html parts to |plain text. This seemed to work, but then no one could send attachments. |So, within the area marked "Remove message attachments that don't have a |matching content type." I added: |multipart/mixed |multipart/alternative |text/plain | |Didn't help. So, I added: |image |Didn't help. Still can't add images. |Finally, I added: |image/jpeg |image/jpg |image/gif | |. . . but we still can't add images. I've attached a screen shot of my |resulting Content Filtering page. |This is a list for alumni of a college singing group. Most messages don't |contain images, but occasionally people pass around old photos. |Can anyone help? |Thanks. |Tim

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