Mailman 3 February 2006 - Mailman-Users

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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confused about how to use fix url
by Thomas Waters 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

I need some help understanding the use of fix url. I see that I need to use it with withlist, but past that, I'm confused. Upgraded the hardware for our server, and in trying to move everything to it my lists aren't working. I can create a new list, and it works, but the migrated lists won't function. In the web page UI, the links to the archives show the wrong URL. I have read everything in the server (man and help) about withlist and fix url, and still confused. Thx, -- Thomas Waters Director of Information and Communication Services University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy 412-383-7471 waterstc(a)pitt.edu http://www.pharmacy.pitt.edu

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Mass Subscription Problem
by Will Nordmeyer 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

I was having this problem with V2.1.5 and upgraded to V2.1.7 this AM and still have this problem: I created a new list and am trying to mass subscribe all the users from an old list to this one. I put the email addresses in (about 260 addresses) and hit submit changes (direct subscribe instead of an invitation, turned off welcome emails, no list administrator notification). When I click submit changes, I am put right back at the Mass Subscription page, and no addresses have been subscribed. Any suggestions? --Will

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AOL to Implement E-mail Certification Program
by Brad Knowles 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Folks, Just saw this article at <http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3581301>: AOL to Implement E-mail Certification Program ð ð ð ClickZ News By Kevin Newcomb | January 30, 2006 In a bid to protect its members from e-mail fraud and phishing, and to offer consistency to commercial e-mail senders, AOL today will begin implementing Goodmail's cryptographic CertifiedEmail program and phasing out its IP-based Enhanced Whitelist. As part of its e-mail security practices, AOL blocks the display of images and hyperlinks on most high-volume messages, except if senders are on the AOL Enhanced whitelist and maintain very low complaint rates. Beginning today, AOL will also allow senders who have undergone accreditation through Goodmail to display images and hyperlinks by default. Goodmail charges accredited companies a fraction of a cent per message sent. Read the rest at the URL above. So, any thoughts on what that means for mailing list operators around the world? From my perspective, it looks like FAQ 3.42 (see <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.042.htp>) is going to take a turn for the worst. Basically, unless you want to pay GoodMail to certify everything sent by your list, you just won't get through to AOL recipients. So, I guess it's time to unsubscribe all AOL users. Thoughts? -- Brad Knowles, <brad(a)stop.mail-abuse.org> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 LOPSA member since December 2005. See <http://www.lopsa.org/>.

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Problem with arch after upgrade
by Jon Harris 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

Hi List I have just got round to upgrading from 2.1.6 to 2.1.7 and the upgrade went well. I just thought I had better run ./arch to tidy up the archives which gave me a series of errors. I got a whole series of these, which looks good: ---------------------- Updating index files for archive [Week-of-Mon-20060130] Date Subject Author Thread Computing threaded index Updating HTML for article 1174 Updating HTML for article 1175 Updating HTML for article 1176 Updating HTML for article 1177 Updating HTML for article 1178 Updating HTML for article 1179 -------------------------- Then this happened: ------------------------ Pickling archive state into /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/cafcnews/pipermail.pck Traceback (most recent call last): File "./arch", line 200, in ? main() File "./arch", line 188, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 585, in processUnixMailbox self.add_article(a) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 626, in add_article filename)) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1116, in write_article f.write(article.as_text()) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 579, in as_text '\g<1>' + _(' at ') + '\g<2>', body) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/sre.py", line 143, in sub return _compile(pattern, 0).sub(repl, string, count) UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128) -------------------------- Which doesn't look good :-( Should I be worried? Does anyone know what this means? TIA Jon Harris

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about python
by reema jamil 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

hello, I want a detailed tutorial on python. Also want to know that does this language support pointers, enumeration, record ,union , abstract data types etc... Thanks for your help. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses.

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Turning off confirmation?
by David Ellsworth 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

I saw the archive thread regarding turning off just unsubscribing confirmations. My client wants to turn all confirmations off. Can this be done? They want to add addresses as they get approval in person (it's a political campaign) but without all the confirmation process. Is that possible? Thanks David

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bounces stopped on all lists
by Kaitlyn Taylor Considine 04 Feb '06

04 Feb '06

A few weeks ago all mailman list owners stopped receiving bounces of any kind. They are not being misdirected to any of the cpanel WHM server contacts either. They can be seen briefly at /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/data/bounce-events-#####.pck and then those disappear as well, likely assuming they were delivered. My sys guy has been unable to fix it....thinks it's a cpanel issue. Any ideas? Kaitlyn

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Upgrade mailman-2.1.4 to mailman-2.1.7
by Pad Hosmane 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

Hi, We are using mailman-2.1.4 on HP-UX. It is running without any issues. Now we want to upgrade it to latest version 2.1.7. I searched online for documentation about upgrade, and I could not find any. Can anyone guide me how to do the upgrade or provide URL where I can get information about upgrade? Thanks PAd

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Newbie struggling with add_virtualhosts
by Alan Chandler 03 Feb '06

03 Feb '06

I want to achieve a situation in which some mailing lists are only visible from my external web site, where as others are only visible on my "within home" lan Also, I can appear to be going to an internal web site by creating a port forwarded ssh tunnel from localhost:80 to one of my internal web sites port 80. Therefore, for a single e-mail domain (mail.home) I want to map several web server synonyms to it (www.home, mail.home, roo.home and localhost). Similarly for my external web site (at www.chandlerfamily.org.uk). I thought the directives below would achieve this, they don't seem to - in particular I get different mailing lists anounced when I visit roo.home and mail.home (ie on theri listinfo address). Its just possible that one of the mailing lists was created by mistake with roo.home as its e-mail domain. Could that be the cause of the problem? DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'chandlerfamily.org.uk' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.chandlerfamily.org.uk' #add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST,DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) This should already be set #Following map internal mail lists to several potential host names add_virtualhost('mail.home', 'mail.home') add_virtualhost('www.home','mail.home') add_virtualhost('roo.home','mail.home') #Following done so virtual connection via ssh also works add_virtualhost('localhost','mail.home') -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk Open Source. It's the difference between trust and antitrust.

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