Mailman 3 July 2006 - Mailman-Users

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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Lists not shown on "listinfo"-site
by IT-Support ＠ AStA TU Darmstadt 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

Hello, we had some problems with apache2 and mailman - after upgrading the server the lists are not shown anymore on the listinfo-site http://myserver/mailman/listinfo Under /var/lib/mailman/list my lists are still there - i guess the databaseconfig isn't read properly or could it be missconfiguration in apache2? Thanks! Ivan

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Stop Already Subscribed Message
by Ki Song 17 Aug '06

17 Aug '06

I recently installed mailman. How do I stop mailman from sending a confirmation e-mail if the e-mail address is already subscribed to the list? Right now, a message is sent stating that the e-mail address is already subscribed.

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message body is blank for some users
by Heal Secretary 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hello One of my users' messages are always sent out to list members with a blank body. I have tried unsubscribing him and resubscribing him. Same result. Most other members are posting fine (though some never bother!). What could be causing this and how can I run diagnostics to trace the problem? Or, even better, how can I fix it? I am running Mailman v 2.1.7. I am not allowed to upgrade to 2.1.8 as the installation is provided by a third party (CPanel) via my web host. Any ideas? Many thanks Nigel

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Namazu search engine w/Mailman
by Dewhirst, Rob 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Would someone mind pointing me to a site where they've incorporated this engine into their mailman archives? I'd like to see the interface and operation before I try to set it up.

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duplicate messages from shunt queue
by Charles Sprickman 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hi all, Recently I found a fairly huge amount of files in the shunt queue (around 1500). All I could gather from the error log is that most of them were from an old bug in parsing weird charsets and the later ones were due to the post and smtp-failur logfiles being owned by root. So I fixed the perms (had already upgraded to 2.1.8 a month or so ago) and all was well. Then I ran bin/unshunt. Then people started complaining that they were getting a few hundred old messages. :) What am I missing here? From what I've been able to dig up on the list archives the qfiles/shunt directory should only contain messages that never made it out to any lists due to some error in config, perms or some bug in mailman itself. But it's looking like these all did somehow make it through mailman previously and were sent a second time. A few other tidbits: -looking at some samples, msgids are the same, so it wasn't a user getting a rejection and then posting again -the dupes DO NOT show up in the web archive Any other info I can supply here? Mailman 2.1.8, ruby 1.8.2, FreeBSD 4.7. Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net spork(a)bway.net - 212.655.9344

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Where do I find mm_cfg.py
by troubleshooter＠jimstudebaker.org 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

I wish to filter the emails to a mail list owner by doing the following: insert the line: OWNER_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'SpamAssassin') in mm_cfg.py. I am using fedora core linux server system. Thank you in advance for your reply.

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