Mailman 3 July 2006 - Mailman-Users

subject filtering
by gtnet＠hok.juris.u-szeged.hu July 19, 2006

July 19, 2006

Dear Mailman users and admins! My server is behind a router, and all the mails coming via that router. THAT router tag the mails with a ****SPAM***** subject line when it reaches a limited spam score. ANd now comes my problem: i cannot filter it out via the mailman admin interface. all the spams get into the list, and my users and me getting annoyed. what do you suggesst me to do ? i w8ing for ur reply greets Tamas Gabor ---------------------------------------------------------------- … [View More]

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FW: FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server
by Greg Sims July 19, 2006

July 19, 2006

Thank you for the feedback on this issue ... I wanted to give you an update about the newsletter this morning. The newsletter was generated by the server but it was never distributed to the mailing list. My first action was to get the newsletter out. I added the server mail id and the "From: " mail id in the header of the email to accept_these_nonmembers. I ran the script from the server manually and the newsletter was distributed. I looked at the header of the newsletter I received. The "… [View More]Approved: <list password> line was removed before the newsletter was distributed. Version says I am "Using Mailman version: 2.1.5" by the way. I had some new people subscribe to the list last night. Default_member_moderation is set to Yes but the moderation bit of the new members is not being set. It still looks like we have some bugs to work out with this scheme. Thanks again for your help! Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 8:00 PM To: Dragon; Greg Sims; mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] FW: No One Can Post a Message but the Server Dragon wrote: > >Yes, the Approved: line with the password gets stripped from the mail >if and ONLY if it meets one of two criteria. > >1. It is the very first line in the body of the e-mail, there can be >no other lines before it. Actually, if it is in the body, it can be preceded by blank lines, but it must be the first non-blank line in the first text/plain part of the message. However, there is a safety valve in that if the password is incorrect or the Approved: line is somewhere where it won't be recognized and stripped, the post will be held/rejected/discarded and will not be sent to the list. >2. It is used as a header (I think this is really the best approach >if you can do it, I am certain this can be done in Python, Perl and >PHP, not so sure, about a bash script). The Header is definitely better. If it is in the body, there can be issues in removing it from all alternative parts of a multipart/alternative message. I'm working on improving this process, but it currently can fail (and isn't even attempted pre Mailman 2.1.7). >>Should the <list password> be the administrator for the list? This is the >>way it is setup for the server early Tuesday morning. I hope it is correct. > >I believe the moderator password will work too. I am sure somebody >will correct me if I am wrong. If so, you ought to use it because if >it somehow becomes disclosed accidentally, there is much less >potential for damage by malicious people than with the administrator password. Excellent suggestion! -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan [View Less]

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Scaling Question
by Ki Song July 18, 2006

July 18, 2006

First, I'd like to thank everyone for helping me through this installation. I made it so much harder than it needed to be (made 2 installations at the beginning, and forgot about the first installation)! Anyways, I just wanted to hear some feedback as far as the scalability of mailman. I have a mailing list of approximately 50,000+ subscribers. I just wanted to know if mailman would be able to handle it without any issues. I am on a business cable connection with approx 384k upstream / 6000k downstream.

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HTML Formatted Email
by Ki Song July 18, 2006

July 18, 2006

How do I send an HTML formatted e-mail to all the subscribers to my mailing list? Basically, I'm trying to use Mailman to send a monthly newsletter to all of our customers. This newsletter will only be an announcement list, where only the administrator can post to the list.

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listinfo page
by Dany Cuyt July 18, 2006

July 18, 2006

Our listinfo page looks as follows: Welcome! Below is a listing of all the public mailing lists on maillists.psb.ugent.be. Click on a list name to get more information about the list, or to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change the preferences on your subscription. To visit the general information page for an unadvertised list, open a URL similar to this one, but with a '/' and the list name appended. List administrators, you can visit the list admin overview page <https://maillists.… [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Rebuilding archives, stop mailman?
by Dragon July 18, 2006

July 18, 2006

Dewhirst, Rob sent the message below at 05:03 PM 7/18/2006: > > My suggestion to minimize impact is to create a copy of the > > .mbox file in another directory, edit it as needed. Shut down > > mailman, move the file over to where it needs to be using the > > mv command. Restart mailman. > > > > Better safe than sorry. > >that very close to my plan -- I've already done the editing and /arch >--wipe on a test system, but my main question was whether … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Rebuilding archives, stop mailman?
by Dragon July 18, 2006

July 18, 2006

Dewhirst, Rob sent the message below at 16:05 7/18/2006: >I am importing about 66MB worth of converted mail into an active list >.mbox file. Should I shutdown mailman while I do this? Basically I >want to know what mailman will do if the listname.mbox file is gone for >a few minutes. ---------------- End original message. --------------------- My suggestion to minimize impact is to create a copy of the .mbox file in another directory, edit it as needed. Shut down mailman, move … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Quick spam regex question
by Mark Sapiro July 18, 2006

July 18, 2006

Jason LaMar wrote: >Thanks for helping me out with this. As a follow-up question, because >(obviously) I'm a regexp newbie: If I wanted to use this statement as a >basis ... > >\nfrom:[^@]*@(?!fubar.com[>\s]) > >... BUT I also wanted to allow messages from any fubar.com sub-domain >(mail.fubar.com, as an example), how should I modify this regexp to >accommodate that? If it would make it any easier, the specific (additional) >sub-domain I would need would be cc.… [View More]

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Rebuilding archives, stop mailman?
by Dewhirst, Rob July 18, 2006

July 18, 2006

I am importing about 66MB worth of converted mail into an active list .mbox file. Should I shutdown mailman while I do this? Basically I want to know what mailman will do if the listname.mbox file is gone for a few minutes.

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Error: You are not authorized to create new mailing lists
by Ki Song July 18, 2006

July 18, 2006

I've setup mailman to the letter using the GNU Mailman Installation Manual (Release 2.1), and I have been getting this error message when trying to create a new list using: http://mail.knifecenter.com/mailman/create Error: You are not authorized to create new mailing lists I have configured the List creator's (authentication) password and entered it in the last field. Also, I have tried to manually create a list using a text interface by ssh'ing into the server, and that looks like it is … [View More]

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