Mailman 3 April 2006 - Mailman-Users

Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Hi, Is there any way to configure Mailman such that, for an announcement-only type list, when a message is sent to the list, the To: shows the member's address, rather than the list address? Some list software allows the ability to hide the list address itself, so that address is not advertised. I couldn't find any configuration specific to that.

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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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spamming of my list
by Louis Headley 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

I have started to receive spam to my list. While my members are not recieving them (all posts must be approved), is there a way to discard all requests at once? At the moment, I must go thru the list one by one. THere as many as 40 per week. How can i stop people from spam my list? Help?

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language encoding for archives
by kristina clair 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

Hello, I've noticed that changing the language preference for a list will change the character set for the list pages, but not for the archives. Do I need to modify the archive templates in order to have the archive pages use the same character set? Or is there another way? Thanks, Kristina

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Getting duplicates when people CC list
by Tony G 17 May '06

17 May '06

It seems I am getting duplicate messages from mailman v2.1.5 when senders send both TO and CC to the list. For some reason no one else in the list is acknowledging this issue so I look like an idiot complaining about it, but I'm seeing several instances of it per day. I do not get dupes of all mails otherwise I'd suspect double subscription. The Avoid Duplicates flag is set. This only happens for mails that have the list in the CC - I understand the dupe flag is for when people use ReplyAll and the recipient is in both the list of subscribers and the CC for the mail. I believe the code is supposed to filter duplicate Message-IDs to a given recipient no matter how those dupes are generated, but I'm getting them. Any ideas? Thank you kindly.

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Charset problem. cmd_confirm assumes ascii code.
by Osmo Kujala 15 May '06

15 May '06

Hello We have problem with confirm mail when mail body contains characters out of ascii code (range(128)). Mailman version is 2.1.5 . I think Mailman could leave the body unread when Subject contains the confirm code or at least it should stop to "end" line. If Mailman wants to check through the body it would be fair not to bug with the non-ascii codes. People have auto-signatures with different character codes and they may have automatic copy of the original mail as citation (quotation). Mailmans request for confirmation contains non-ascii code if the language code of the list is such. Excerpt of the error log: Apr 26 12:53:40 2006 (11216) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) Apr 26 12:53:40 2006 (11216) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 237, in _dispose res.process() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 110, in process stop = self.do_command(cmd, args) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 135, in do_command return self.do_command(cmd, args) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 137, in do_command return handler.process(self, args) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Commands/cmd_confirm.py", line 86, in process if line.lstrip() == match: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) Apr 26 12:53:40 2006 (11216) SHUNTING: 1146045219.7761891+6b2f2afceea57f26e6a9302e6a615bbd8266d493 Copy of the shunted file: /usr/lib~mailman/bin/dumpdb -p /var/spool/mailman/shunt/1146045219.7761891+6b2f2afceea57f26e6a9302e6a615bbd8266d493.pck [----- start pickle file -----] <----- start object 1 -----> >From KUJALA(a)jylk.jyu.fi Wed Apr 26 12:53:39 2006 Received: from posti1.jyu.fi (posti1.jyu.fi [130.234.4.32]) by lists.jyu.fi (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3Q9rdOt029242 for <ok-testi-request(a)lists.jyu.fi>; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:53:39 +0300 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by posti1.jyu.fi (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3Q9rdAc030411 for <ok-testi-request(a)lists.jyu.fi>; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:53:39 +0300 Received: from jylk.jyu.fi (jylk.jyu.fi [130.234.4.141]) by posti1.jyu.fi (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k3Q9rcUj030404 for <ok-testi-request(a)lists.jyu.fi>; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:53:38 +0300 Received: from jylk.jyu.fi by jylk.jyu.fi (PMDF V4.3-7 #2482) id <01M1PGKIPOB4ECWZZ9(a)jylk.jyu.fi>; Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:54:35 EET Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:54:11 +0200 (EET) From: Osmo Kujala <KUJALA(a)jylk.jyu.fi> Subject: Re: confirm 8e7af57ba7a721f68c96b0111f988ad36c8804f7 In-reply-to: Your message dated "Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:52:38 +0300" <mailman.0.1146045158.29214.ok-testi(a)lists.jyu.fi> To: ok-testi-request(a)lists.jyu.fi Message-id: <01M1PQ8OVNMYECWZZ9(a)jylk.jyu.fi> X-Envelope-to: ok-testi-request(a)lists.jyu.fi MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cc.jyu.fi X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.794 required=5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-3.3, AWL=0.105, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Level: end 123ä 23456ö ÖÄ <----- start object 2 -----> { '_parsemsg': False, 'lang': 'en', 'listname': 'ok-testi', 'received_time': 1146045219.7761891, 'torequest': 1, 'version': 3, 'whichq': '/var/spool/mailman/commands'} [----- end pickle file -----] What's especially nasty is that the waiting time for confirmation stops with this error and the entry disappears from the list. So it's hard to find out what happened. I tried to find help from mailman-users archives. Found some identical cases from years 2003 and 2004 by searching keywords "ascii ordinal confirm" but no solution to the problem. best regars Osmo Kujala (Sorry about the typo's and I hope the scandinavian characters won't stop you reading this)

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