Mailman 3 January 2006 - Mailman-Users

Beginner's question: no virtual_alias_maps in my main.cf
by Roman Dergam Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

Hello, I have a probably very basic question: I have been trying to setup Mailman and link it to Postfix. I am stuck on the fact that Postfix on my machine uses MySQL. As I went through the Documentation, I found 6.1.2 Virtual domains, where it is written: _____________________________________________________________ First, you need to set up the Postfix virtual alias domains as described in the Postfix documentation (see Postfix's virtual(5) manpage). Note that it's your responsibility to include the virtual-alias.domain anything line as described manpage; Mailman will not include this line in virtual-mailman. You are highly encouraged to make sure your virtual alias domains are working properly before integrating with Mailman. Next, add a path to Postfix's virtual_alias_maps variable, pointing to the virtual-mailman file, e.g.: virtual_alias_maps = <your normal virtual alias files>, hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman _____________________________________________________________ My main.cf contains no mention of virtual_alias_maps, but has ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases transport_maps=mysql:/etc/postfix/transport.cf virtual_mailbox_maps=mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virt.cf virtual_uid_maps=mysql:/etc/postfix/uids.cf virtual_gid_maps=mysql:/etc/postfix/gids.cf virtual_mailbox_base=/var/spool/mail/ mydestination = $mydomain, $myhostname, $transport_maps virtual_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/virtual.cf ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks for any advice. Roman Dergam

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Rejecting Spam Emails
by trichard＠techovations.com Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

I have spamassassin installed on my mail server. I'm getting a ton of spam sent to my mailing list which I have it being blocked unless you are a registered user. Is there a way to automatically reject emails with particular works in the subject? The spam emails I detect get :SPAM: added to the subject. I would like to remove these without having to manually do it, but I still want unapproved user messages sent to me for approval. Any ideas, Thanks, Troy

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mailing list list
by Chris Lange Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

Hello All, I just took over responsibility for this in my Sr. Tech's absence. I have several mailing lists that don't appear in the admin links section, but appear on the server and can be administered if I manually enter their location in my browser. Is there a way to regenerate or refresh the main list to reflect all of the lists that are actually on the server? Thanks Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chris Lange IT Director UW Medical School - Pediatrics 608.445.1711 clange(a)wisc.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- The information in this message (and the documents attached to it, if any) is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken, or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please delete all electronic copies of this message (and the documents attached to it, if any), destroy any hard copies you may have created and notify me immediately by replying to this email. Thank you.

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Tips in using a list addr for another lists's owner address?
by Matt England Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

I have a webmaster(a)lists.mydomain.com email list address that I use as the address of the owner of other lists at lists.mydomain.com. This seems to work exactly as I intended (I can have a floating and/or group responsibility for the mydomain.com webmaster), except that I get a lot of messages like this sent to webmast(a)lists.mydomain.com: From: mailman-bounces(a)lists.mydomain.com on Sun Jan 15 14:12:04 2006 Subject: svn-notify subscription notification Cause: Message has implicit destination ...presumably due to subscribe notices from the other email lists. I haven't investigated this yet, but I thought I'd first ask this group: how can I eliminate/minimize these "Message has implicit destination" administrative notes? -Matt

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there a workaround to this?
by Mark Sapiro Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

JC Dill wrote: > >I could be wrong, but I believe this has been the behavior of MS Outlook >for many years (since ~1997?), long before anyone had conceived of SPF >(~2003). You are probably correct. I really don't know the full history of these ideas. I was only trying to say that Microsoft has some commitment to this behavior that goes beyound the design of a single product line. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Checking 'accept_these_nonmembers' before subscriber list?
by Steven Premeau Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

At UW-Parkside, we are using mailman for (among other things) as a method for targeted announcements to our user base. We have things working via the moderation flags for subscribers and accept_these_nonmembers. However, we have just encountered the situation where one of the subscribers is also a 'non-member' that would be allowed to post, but the moderation flag is being checked first. Is there a way to process the accept nonmember list first, then subscriber moderation? Thanks, Steve. -- Steven Premeau, Network Manager premeau(a)uwp.edu (262) 595-2005 Computer and Network Services University of Wisconsin - Parkside ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A car is more costly, complex, and dangerous than any word processor. Yet you don't find a thousand page operating manual, nor must you check with a friend to learn how to close the window ..." - Cliff Stoll in "Silicon Snake Oil"

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members address in to header
by Aaron Todd Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

I know this has probably been posted a thousand times so I am sorry if I annoy anyone who has been at this for years. I am new to mailman so please take it easy on me. I recently had my ISP set up a list for me and due to their lack of knowledge about mailman I have found myself searching the Internet, reading the manuals, and now posting here for answeres to my questions. So far I really like the system. We have been very impressed. One question that has come up is: Is there any way for the members address to be in the TO header when they get it? Currently when I send out an email to my list each member sees the lists address in the TO and FROM headers. Reply-TO was pretty easy to take care of, but TO is what I am conserned about. The intention of this list is to be an announcment only list. I really do not want to show the lists address to the user that will be getting the message. I am not trying to SPAM people here...I am just trying to keep the message to my customers as personal as I can. If anyone could give me an answer on this or even give me something to search on I would really appreciate it. I've been running through the archives, but so far come up empty. Thanks, toddaa

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Is there a workaround to this?
by Jp Possenti Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

I have been reading throughout the web and it seems that when one is reading a mailing list in Outlook, Mailman does something like this: http://www.washington.edu/computing/mailman/faqs/mailman.header.html Is there a work-around to that yet? Kind regards, Jp

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Changing max_recipients
by Ashley M. Kirchner Jan. 31, 2006

Jan. 31, 2006

If I change my SMTP_MAX_RCPTS (in Defaults.py) while something is being sent out, is there anyway to have mailman ... uh ... recalculate if you will and continue sending where it was, but with the new max_recipient number instead of the old one? Or am I stuck till this queue finishes? -- W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature. +-------------------------------------------------------------------- Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 IT Director / SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . 3550 Arapahoe Ave. #6 http://www.pcraft.com ..... . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] New Lists not getting emails from internal domain
by Neilrey Espino Jan. 30, 2006

Jan. 30, 2006

Many thanks Mark -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:58 PM To: Neilrey Espino; mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] New Lists not getting emails from internal domain Neilrey Espino wrote: >Just realized Mark,,,, The other lists are actually fine,,,I'm only >having problems with the newly created list. I'm not sure if there's a >typo on the aliases. If mail from the internet reaches the list, then it would seem the aliases would be OK. If not, there might be a problem with the aliases or the new aliases may not have been installed properly for the MTA. You could look for clues at whatever logs the MTA produces. If old lists are fine, both locally and from the internet, and the new list is fine from the internet but not locally, then I still think it's an MTA issue and that the aliases for this new list must somehow be installed incompletely or differently from the others. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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