Mailman 3 October 2006 - Mailman-Users

Custom Sign-Up Form
by Jason Snodgrass Oct. 18, 2006

Oct. 18, 2006

I want to have a simple form that has an e-mail address field and a submit button to add users to my mailing list. I have tried editing the existing form to give me what I need but I haven't been successful. Does any one have some sample code that they have used to do this?

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Yet Another List Cloning Question
by Jon Forrest Oct. 18, 2006

Oct. 18, 2006

(I've read the archives about list cloning. I hope the question below isn't the same as the rest. This question is for Mailman 2.1.9). I need to create a bunch of email lists, more than are feasible to create using the web interface. I have, however, used the web interface to create one list that I've successfully configured in the way I want all the other lists to be. From reading the archives I know that one way to create the other lists is something like this (oldlistname is the correctly configured list): bin/config_list -o oldlistname.cfg oldlistname # separate list-specific stuff from generic and put in std.cfg bin/newlist newlistname bin/config_list -i std.cfg newlistname Here's what isn't clear to me. In looking at the contents of oldlistname.cfg I see lots of good stuff. Some of it is obviously specific to oldlistname, and some of it is generic list configuration info. Is there any way I, as a new Mailman, can tell which is which? For example, it looks like everything after 'subject_prefix' can be generic but I'm not sure. Also, am I right in thinking that a better way of doing this, once I've created a correct std.cfg, would be to put the stuff from std.cfg into mm_cfg.py? Cordially, -- Jon Forrest forrest(a)ce.berkeley.edu Computer Resources Manager Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept. 305 Davis Hall Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1710 510-642-0904

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GNU Mailman Upgrade
by Kaushal Shriyan Oct. 17, 2006

Oct. 17, 2006

Hi ALL I have GNU Mailman version is 2.1.8 running on my linux box, Just wanted to know "How do i upgrade it to "The current stable GNU Mailman version is 2.1.9, released on 12-Sep-2006" Thanks and Regards Kaushal

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Serious Performance issue
by Peter Kofod Oct. 17, 2006

Oct. 17, 2006

Hi Everyone: I am new to this list having just implemented mailman for an announce-list we host. In short, the performance is horrible. The list has approx 40,000 subscribers and the avg message going out is about 40K (some embedded imagery). I know we can do better with lazy html etc., but the system has become unresponsive. Here are the specifics: Fedora Core 5 Mailman, Postfix (FC 5 releases), Apache, Sendmail It has gotten to the point where we can't even manage the system via the web interface (keep getting a 500 Internal Server error). I am obviously no mailman or postfix guru, so any pointers on where I should look in the logs and make changes would be helpful. Thanks, Pete

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Using a remote email account as a message source
by Patrick Bogen Oct. 17, 2006

Oct. 17, 2006

On 10/12/06, BigglesZX <biggleszx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Patrick, and thank you very much for your reply. > > I've followed your advice and now have fetchmail retrieving mail from > the remote account and forwarding it to the local mailing list > address. Despite my setting the list to accept mail from > non-subscribers etc, mail does not appear to be getting through - so > I'm just wondering where there might exist logs of any mail > transactions taking place, so I can attempt to debug this. The 'post' log will indicate whether or not the message was received. The vette log will show messages that were discarded (or held?), and should indicate the reason. > I have checked the files in /var/log/mailman, and > /var/log/mailman/smtp shows a couple of lines like the following: The error log generally only shows things that caused a message to be shunted, which probably isn't the issue at this point. > > Oct 12 23:01:49 2006 (13491) > <mailman.0.1160690507.13514.listname(a)mydomain.com> smtp to listname > for 1 recips, completed in 0.345 seconds > > The strange thing is that the timestamp on this line is from about 30 > mins before I started sending test messages, so I don't know why it is > there. Crucially, no lines have shown up since I started sending the > tests. /var/log/mailman/error shows nothing relevant (just error > messages from when I restarted mailman a while ago). An earlier test message? Can you double-check that the system's clock is correct? > The messages are definitely being retrieved by fetchmail as I tested > this by directing them to a different local address (a normal mail > account). Is there any way I can get further diagnostic information > from mailman? I tried enabling archiving and nothing shows up so it > appears that the messages do not make it on to the list. > If you generate a mail from the machine running mailman destined for one of the lists, does it go out? My first guess would be that your MTA on the machine running mailman. Double-check that your aliases are set correctly, and check your MTA logs to see that the messages are, in fact, getting passed to mailman. (Fetchmail *might* be configured to deliver messages directly to your mailbox, rather than through the local SMTP. The latter is what you want.) P.S., Please include the list in your replies, in case someone else has better ideas than me. This is an extremely likely situation. -- - Patrick Bogen

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-deleting mail from outside .no?
by Lindsay Haisley Oct. 17, 2006

Oct. 17, 2006

Privacy Options | Sender Filters | reject_these_nonmembers will accept a regular expression. See the help for it. It's a per-list setting. Thus spake Thomas Gramstad on Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:00:31AM CDT > I have many small lists in Norwegian and they're all being > hit by a lot of spam. Yes, the spam filter holds them back -- > but then I get a /lot/ of mail about new messages waiting, > and it's a big job moderating them. > > What I really want is the option to set that anything mailed from > an address that does not end with .no is automatically deleted and > I never see it. Is that possible, per list or even per domain/for > all lists? > > Thomas Gramstad > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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/fmouse-mailman%40fmp.c… > > Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) |

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Question about Archives
by Ken Winter Oct. 17, 2006

Oct. 17, 2006

Is it possible (as a list administrator/owner) to delete old archives?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!
by Allan Trick Oct. 17, 2006

Oct. 17, 2006

Following on to what I read in the archives of a problem Elizabeth Schwartz was having about a month ago, I'm having the same thing happen to me. The last message that made it to any of our lists went out last Wednesday. There are a bunch of .pck files in the qfiles/out directory, so I think there are messages trying to get out. One of them that someone called and asked me about DOES show up in the archives for that list, but no one received it by email, and the .pck file for it is still in qfiles/out. I looked at FAQ 3.14 and did everything I could there. No luck. Any advice? Thanks, Allan

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Question about digests
by Ken Winter Oct. 17, 2006

Oct. 17, 2006

Is it possible to turn off the standard header that gets put on top of digests? I want to replace it with my own.

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Template Token Hell
by Lindsay Haisley Oct. 16, 2006

Oct. 16, 2006

I'm trying to do a bit of work with Mailman templates. I've hacked the Mailman archiving facility to handle PHP, and have done a bit of work to integrate namazu more seamlessly with Mailman (see http://www.fmp.com/namazu) but I'm up against a veritable jungle of different substitution tokens in different templates. %(listname)s is the equivalent of the Python Mailman var real_name (the "pretty" name) in some places, while in others %(list_name)s is the lower-case name used for directories. Yet other templates use replacement sequences that are more like HTML tags, e.g. "<MM-List-Name>". A. Is there any reference (other than reading code) where all these are defined for the different contexts in which they occur? B. Is there any plan to organize this mess into something more logical? In particular, I'm trying to find out if there's a lower case version of the list name available in archtocnombox.html and archtoc.html (where %(listname)s is the "pretty" name selected by the list administrator), and what other substitution tokens are available in the context of these two templates. Because I've hacked these two templates to use PHP in both public and private archives, I can do a PHP strtolower() call on the string when the index.html file derived from the template is served, but without this hack we have a problem with namazu. Using the system described at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037580.html, the namazu CGI and its config program are localized in ~mailman/cgi-bin/listname/ but listname is the "pretty" name, so if I set up namazu for one of my lists and the list administrator changes the capitalization in the real_name, the archive search breaks. Maybe I oughta post this on the dev list. Can anyone here answer it? Brad, maybe I'll see you Thursday and you can answer this personally. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate | <http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | dandelions" | | (Pamela Jones) |

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