Mailman-Users February 2006

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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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Redirect all -bounce emails
by Tom Kavanaugh 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hello Folks, I recently setup a mailman server with ver 2.1.6, and I am liking it so far. Since I am not with the IT Team of my organization, I am working around some mailman problems and this is where I need some ideas. I setup a few mail lists (including default mailman list) in name.comdomain, and worked with my IT folks to redirect <maillist>@ name.com to my mail server <mailist>@mine.name.com I do get a few <maillist-name>-bounce(a)name.com emails, and I would like to re-direct all these emails to mailman(a)name.com (or mailman(a)mine.name.com) Does someone have ideas how to accomplish this? I do not administer the company's mail servers. Folks here are not open to the list.name.com domain idea, for legacy reasons. I have a bunch of /etc/aliases entries for each of my mail lists on mine.name.com server. Is there a way I can use these alaises to re-firect <maillist-bounce>@ name.com to mailman(a)name.com Any help / ideas are appreciated. Thanks! Tom

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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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Resetting usenet watermark?
by Steven Haigh 04 Mar '06

04 Mar '06

Hi all, I've just copied my mailman configs from one system to another, and after reinstalling innd on a private news server, I'm now getting the following in the logs: Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) rgsouthern: [0..0] Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) nothing new for list rgsouthern Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) rgsouthern watermark: 12 Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) melbwireless: [0..0] Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) nothing new for list melbwireless Feb 26 23:50:02 2006 (2757) melbwireless watermark: 37 As the newsgroups were reset, the watermark is obviously incorrect. Is there a way to reset this watermark so that the system starts gating news correctly again? -- Steven Haigh Email: netwiz(a)crc.id.au Web: http://www.crc.id.au Phone: (03) 9017 0597 - 0412 935 897

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Spam check and bounced email's body
by Oliver Schulze L. 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi, I use spamassassin to filter spam. So I configured a rule in mailman that detect the string "{Spam}" in the subject of the email and then defer the email. The problem is that mailman sent to owner of the list the email that is spam with the body of the email. So, spamassassin detects the body and mark the email as spam, and mailman differ the mail sended to the owner. My question is: how can I configure mailman to not sent the body of the email in the notification to the owner of the list? Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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user is removed, but they still receive list emails
by Zack Beatty 03 Mar '06

03 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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Integrating htdig
by Dragon 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I've spent a lot of time over the last few days trying to make htdig work with my installation of mailman 2.1.5. I installed the patches and rebuilt everything, set up the configuration, rebuilt my archives using arch and everything seemed (mostly) fine until I tried to index the archive and do a search. The indexing problem I have is an htdig issue (segmentation fault while running htfuzzy) so I won't go into that. Even with that problem during the index process, I can use htsearch from the command line and it gives me a valid search response. When I try to do a search from the form on the archive index page, it bombs badly and just gives me a useless error message (something like Search failed 12). I noticed in the documentation that the 3.2 version of htdig is not supported by the patches for using htdig with mailman. I've tried rolling it back to version 3.1.6 but am having difficulty getting it to install so it looks like for the moment I am stuck with 3.2 Is there any way to get this patch to work with the 3.2 version of htdig? Is there any plan to support this in the future? Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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