Mailman 3 March 2006 - Mailman-Users

Problem w/ alias
by noc ops March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

Hi, I have around 32 aliases setup and they all are working fine with an exception of one in particular which has around 140 users. For some unknown reason sending mail to this alias, not everyone (140 users) on this list get messages. Few do and others don't? Is there a way to check for corruption? What should I be looking for? I'm kinda lost. Any recommendation will be appreciated. I'm running mailman v2.1.5-8 on debian (sarge). regards, /virendra

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mailman and email harvesters
by Matthew Clarkson March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

We have switched half (about 15 so far) of our mailing lists from our majordomo server (with a hypermail based archiving system) to our new mailman server. I have just been notified by my boss that since the start of the switchover (3 weeks ago) he and a few other people have had a dramatic increase in spam based activity on their email accounts. I checked to make sure my robots.txt on the webserver root was fine with the following entries User-agent: * Disallow: /pipermail/ Also, I verified that all my lists private_roster settings were set to List members. Can anyone else think of, if it is mailman that is the culprit here, any settings or ways that email harvesters could grab email addresses from a mailman server? -- Matthew Clarkson

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FAQ 6.9 on Debian Sarge
by Manlio Perillo March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

Hi. I hit the problem described in the FAQ 6.9. However I don't want to chmod 0666 data/aliases* A better solution, IMHO, is: chmod 0660 data/aliases.db chmod 0660 data/virtual-mailman.db adduser www-data list Regards Manlio Perillo

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Creating my own confirm subscribe message
by Lasse Jensen March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

Hi all I am new at using the Mailman and I am pretty impressed of all the possibilities. One thing I cant figure out though, is how to make my own "confirm subscribe"-message. I am sure its possible, but can't find out where to edit the automatic generated message? All help will be deeply appreciated. Best regards Lasse Jensen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Danish Red Cross Youth - Bragesgade 10, 2. sal 2200 København N - Tlf. 35 37 25 55 - <http://www.urk.dk/> www.urk.dk

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Run mailman non-permanently?
by Friedemann Schorer March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

Hi, I'm running a Virtuozzo-based virtual Debian root-server (Sarge) which has some limitations to trouble me a little - maybe you can help me a little? The main problem for me is that there is a limited number of open files allowed on that box, and mailman alone opens more than 600 altogether on that box when started at system startup (according to 'lsof | grep -c mailman') Now that I turned mailman off the box runs smoothly, but I can't use the lists anymore :( I tried to search google on starting mailman on incoming mails for the lists, e.g. via inetd, but to no success. Do you have any ideas on a possible solution? thx, Friedemann

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Archive Scrubbing HTML
by MichiganWxSystem Administration March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

I have a list set up, that sends out HTML emails to my list subscribers. But if you go to the archive page, the HTML is scrubbed and your actually viewing the email source code. Not the idea situation. I need the HTML to be preserved, not scrubbed. I have played with the Archive features but no matter what is selected the HTML is scrubbed What needs to be changed to display the archive in html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Lake K8JSL admin(a)michiganwxsystem.com H: 989-715-0759 C: 989-741-1405 MichiganWxSystem.com WxChat.com WxAlliance.com

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mailman and postfix - postfix works, but mailman doesn't
by John Durkin March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

We have compiled and installed per the instructions mailman using postfix as the MTA. We can send mail fine using postfix command-line. Also, the first few times we would get errors in the maillog about the gid. We read up on that and have fixed it. But - now when mailman should be sending notifications, etc - it does not. No errors appear in the maillog either. Our aliases seem fine. I even tried something else which produced interesting results... Reading the aliases list, I tried this: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner johnlist johnlist is a list i made successfully. i can make lists, subscribe people, etc. through the httpd interface to mailman and command-line. so - anyway - the first time i ran the above command, i received on my console the very same error we were getting in the beginning - about how the mail wrapper was being run by an unexpected user (in the way we are configured, it expects mailman to run it.) So, I su to mailman, run the command again like so: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner johnlist and it behaves almost as if i were running commandline mail email(a)address.com so i type "Test" and hit ctrl-D and it exits, no errors, etc. But - still I get no mail. Any input welcome!!! JD

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permission problem saving attachments to archives
by kristina clair March 30, 2006

March 30, 2006

Hello, I have a list that is producing the following error: Mar 27 17:52:33 2006 (23421) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/archives/private/membership/attachments/20060301/cf7df1b6/attachments.lock.server.com.23421.174' However the permissions on the main archives directory look ok to me? # ls -al /home/mailman/archives/private/membership/ total 4 drwxrws--- 3 user mailman 41 Mar 27 16:34 . drwxrws--- 4 user mailman 45 Feb 21 21:45 .. drwxrwsr-x 2 user mailman 6 Mar 27 16:34 attachments -rw-rw---- 1 user mailman 488 Feb 21 22:00 index.html I actually made that attachments directory myself to see if it would help, but it did not. What can I change to correct this error? Thanks, Kristina

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Removing footer text?
by Matt Singerman March 30, 2006

March 30, 2006

Hello all, First off, I apologize for asking this, as I am sure it has been asked scroews of times before. However, I cannot seem to word search phrases correctly to bring up the desired results. All I would like to do is remove the footer text that Mailman adds on to the end of all messages - the part that reads something like: _______________________________________________ Test mailing list Test(a)domain.org http://list.domain.org/mailman/listinfo/test Is there a way to do this? I have direct server access, so I can get in and modify files if necessary. Thanks!

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Re: [Mailman-Users] create multiple lists resolved
by Carconni March 30, 2006

March 30, 2006

Dear Mr. Shapiro, I just wanted to let you know how I resolved it. Thanks again for your help. #!/bin/sh list=`cat $1` for user in $list do echo $user ./newlist -q $user user(a)eamiladdress.com password done From: msapiro(a)value.net Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] create multiple lists Date: March 29, 2006 5:22:54 PM PST To: carconni(a)earthlink.net, mailman-users(a)python.org Carconni wrote: Were moving to mailman and I need to create over 250 "lists". All the lists will have the same owner and and the same password. Is there anyway to automate this? I can set up a script to loop through a test file but how can I set the owner_mail = args[1] and listpasswd = args[2] to a default value? See bin/newlist --help -- 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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