Mailman 3 January 2007 - Mailman-Users

Configuration Question
by Jay Chandler Jan. 8, 2007

Jan. 8, 2007

Greetings. I'm a bit new to Mailman, as I've yet to actually install it on anything. We currently have a majordomo server that's aging, and I'd prefer to replace it with Mailman for a number of reasons. Is there any reason I can't run Mailman on our outbound SMTP server, or would I want to locate it somewhere else? I'd like to avoid giving it its own dedicated box if at all possible, but I also don't want it to complicate the sending of generic mail, either in terms of hostnames or in … [View More]

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delete moderator requests on the server?
by peter pilsl Jan. 8, 2007

Jan. 8, 2007

I run plenty of lists on my server and on many of them the moderator-requests are piling up over time. Mostly when there is a spam-flood or when I'm on vacation or cause the people that moderate the list dont do their job. Is there a way to delete the moderator-requests with a command on the server instead of going to the moderator-request-page for each list? I found the heldmsg- files in mailman/data but deleting them does not change the fact that I still receive emails that "300 … [View More]

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Mailman Virtual Domains
by Saxvik, Ben Jan. 8, 2007

Jan. 8, 2007

Hi, I want to use virtual domains on my mailman server. Though the problem I'm having at the moment is that any email sent out from the second virtual domain the resulting address matches that of the server itself and not the individual list (domain). For example the mailman server's FQDN is "listserv.testdomain.com.au" and the new virtual domain that has been added to this server is "listserv.anotherdomain.com.au". So any email sent out from "listserv.anotherdomain.com.au" the domain … [View More]

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mhonarc and non-world-readable archives problem
by Frank Cusack Jan. 8, 2007

Jan. 8, 2007

I've built mailman-2.1.9 with the mhonarc patch (http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/mhonarc/index.html) and it works great. I am running on Solaris 10 with python 2.5. The problem I have is that the list archives are not created world-readable. [root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l total 1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 webservd mailman 34 Jan 7 15:32 test -> /var/mailman/archives/private/test [root@mailman:/var/mailman/archives/public]# ls -l test/ total 21 drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman … [View More]

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Delete messages too big
by Manuel Goepfert Jan. 7, 2007

Jan. 7, 2007

Hello, I'm currently trying to find a way to automatically delete messages that are oversized. The max since of messages is defined and I get the approbation e-mail stating that the message is too big. I want to remove this message and directly erase the mail sent to the list without going to the admin page and delete myself the message. Is there a way to do so ? Thanks for your help Manuel

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Re: [Mailman-Users] -request "who" message not returning list members
by Todd Williams Jan. 7, 2007

Jan. 7, 2007

Never mind I finally found a reference in one of Mr Shapiro's posts... The Hide Address check box. I would have never figured that one out. Sorry for the clutter. Todd Todd Williams <williamstdd(a)yahoo.com> wrote: When I send a "who <password>" mail message to list-request@... I only recieve back one or two member names and not the entire list. I have six lists (all hosted by my ISP) five are "production" lists and one is test. The test (only six people) gives me the … [View More]

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-request "who" message not returning list members
by Todd Williams Jan. 7, 2007

Jan. 7, 2007

When I send a "who <password>" mail message to list-request@... I only recieve back one or two member names and not the entire list. I have six lists (all hosted by my ISP) five are "production" lists and one is test. The test (only six people) gives me the entire list, but the "production" lists (~100 people each) do not. Is there some setting I am missing? Todd __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam … [View More]

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Defaults.py doco bug
by Frank Cusack Jan. 6, 2007

Jan. 6, 2007

# If you set MTA='Postfix', then you also want to set the following variable, # depending on whether you're using virtual domains in Postfix, and which # style of virtual domain you're using. Set this flag to false if you're not # using virtual domains in Postfix, ... Actually it has to be an empty list, not false (or False). I wondered if that was wrong since false wasn't capitalized, but I decided it must be a typo and tried False. Which of course doesn't work. -frank

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.[56] installation problem w/ KoreanCodecs
by Frank Cusack Jan. 6, 2007

Jan. 6, 2007

Hi, found this message back from 2005/11/28: > "make install" dies with > (cd ./$p ; umask 02 ; PYTHONPATH=/home/mailman/2.1.5/pythonlib > /usr/local/bin/python setup.py --quiet install --install-lib > /home/mailman/2.1.5/pythonlib --install-purelib > /home/mailman/2.1.5/pythonlib --install-data > /home/mailman/2.1.5/pythonlib); \ > done > /usr/local/lib/python2.4/distutils/dist.py:222: UserWarning: 'licence' > distribution option is deprecated; use 'license' &… [View More]

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Mailman on Mac OS X Server 10.3: Outgoing messages stuck in qrunner/in folder
by Pierre Igot Jan. 5, 2007

Jan. 5, 2007

Hi, I am running Mailman on an Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.3.9. The version of Mailman is the one included with Mac OS X Server 10.3.9. (It's 2.1.2.) I've just started experimenting with mailing lists on this server using Mailman. Things worked fine until I actually got to the stage of mass-subscribing a series of nearly 500 email addresses. I used the web-based Mailman interface to submit the list of 500 email addresses for new subscribers, through the "Mass Subscription" … [View More]web form. I just copied the list of email addresses (separated by return chars) from a text editor and pasted it in the field and submitted. My mistake (I think) was that I submitted the entire list of 500 email addresses at once. Initially it SEEMED to work, i.e. I got a confirmation page listing all the subscribers that had been added to the list. But then I became unable to access the admin page for the list altogether. The server would simply not respond. I could still access other parts of the web-based Mailman interface, but not the pages for this particular list. After a bit of on-line research, I discovered that the problem was probably due to "locks" in the /var/mailman/locks/ folder. Indeed, when I looked inside that folder, I found a whole series of files named: enseignants.lock enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.421.1 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7150.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7166.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7216.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7228.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7286.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7470.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7696.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7819.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7918.0 ("www.cprp.ca" is my server and "enseignants" is the name of the list) The instructions for dealing with this were not exactly clear, so I just removed all these files so that the "locks" folder was empty. After that, I was able to access the list's admin pages again. So I thought everything was good. Then I tried to send a message to my subscribers. (It's a receive- only list, so I'll be the only one sending messages.) However, the message that I sent never got sent to the mailing list's subscribers. After more online research, I found out that my message was actually stuck inside the /var/mailman/qfiles/in/ folder. I also found that I could force Mailman to send the message by using the command: /usr/share/mailman/bin/qrunner -r All That worked and the message got sent out to the list (although I then had to control-C the process to return to the prompt). But I find that this now happens every time I want to send a message. The message never gets sent automatically as expected. Instead, it gets stuck in that /qfiles/in/ folder and I have to run the qrunner - r All command to get it sent. This never happened with this list before I added the 500 subscribers and had to fiddle with the /locks/ folder. Prior to that, when I was still in the stage of testing the mailing list with only a handful of test subscribers, everything worked fine and the messages would get sent automatically. My suspicion is that the problem is due to what I did in the /locks/ folder, that maybe I wasn't supposed to remove all the files. (I have kept them on a local disk in case I need to move them back to that folder.) But unfortunately further on-line research and a search through the mailman-users archives didn't return anything that would help me. I found people describing various similar problems, but the troubleshooting steps seem suggested totally foreign to my actual problem. Hence this message. I would REALLY appreciate it if someone could help me with this. I simply do not have the required Mailman expertise. I just want to use Mailman for a single announcement list. I suppose I could erase everything and start from scratch again, but maybe someone here has an easier solution. Thanks in advance for any help. Pierre Igot -- Pierre Igot, administrateur des systèmes / Systems Administrator www.cprp.ca 902-837-7391 [View Less]

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