Mailman 3 January 2007 - Mailman-Users

subscribe people without notify
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) Jan. 20, 2007

Jan. 20, 2007

Hi all, I manage a website that has a newsletter. The newsletter is send by the website embeded PHP script. I would like to switch to a mailman based newsletter. An "announce only" Mailing list, then. I will have to batch subscribe thousands of email adresses, but I dont want them to be affraid by the subscription notification of Mailman. I know they will be, even we announced the switch. They was event affraid of the annouce of the switch, think then... Well. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.

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Interesting request...
by Rob Poe Jan. 20, 2007

Jan. 20, 2007

AOL has implemented a abuse reporting system. IF someone who legitimately subscribes to the list (for whatever reason) marks the list traffic as SPAM, AOL will email a report to the server owner (if they sign up) with an abuse report. The BAD part about that is, that AOL will not tell you WHO it is. The best suggestion is to embed a piece of identifiable data into each message so you KNOW who the user is who received the email. Not knowing exactly how MailMan handles sending of email (… [View More]

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Attempt to block spam using X-Spam-Flag blocks all messages to list
by Kelly Jones Jan. 19, 2007

Jan. 19, 2007

One of my users added this as a spam filter: ^x-spam-flag:.*yes (all lower case since spamfilter regexps are case-insensitive-- hyphens not backslashed by accident), and the list started dropping ALL emails. Why? We're running SpamAssassin on another box (mail gets forwarded to the "mailman box" after SpamAssassin is done with it), and I've confirmed that SpamAssassin is running properly and not setting "X-Spam-Flag: Yes" across the board. Even with the forgot-to-backslash-hyphens error, … [View More]

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Preserving auto-discarded messages for site administrator
by Kelly Jones Jan. 19, 2007

Jan. 19, 2007

I administer a Mailman site with many user-owned mailing lists. Users sometimes setup poor auto-discard rules (+ "do not forward auto-discards", of course) and lose important messages to mailing lists. Can I site configure Mailman to preserve all auto-discarded messages in a location where only I can see them? That way I can tell my users they're stupid, but still give them the messages they lost (the best of both worlds!). Users occasionally also manually discard messages by mistake, but my … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] htdig authorization problem
by Mark Sapiro Jan. 19, 2007

Jan. 19, 2007

Hank van Cleef wrote: >The esteemed Mark Sapiro has said: >> >> Did you change the archive from public to private? Do you have to enter >> the password each time (not normal) or only once (normal for a private >> archive)? >> >I used bin/arch to build the archives from the mbox file, all in the >private directory. Then manually ran nightly_htdig to get the data >bases built. But was the archive 'private' or 'public' (admin Archiving options) … [View More]before the problem started? >The scenario plays like this: > >On cold entry (no cookies in the browser) go to the archives page from >the main page. User validation screen pops up. Enter username and >password, and you get to the pipermail archives. You can now read those >all day without needing to revalidate. Good. >Now, set up an htdig search, which returns a few pages of hits. Click >on one of those hits, and the validation screen pops up again. >Validate, and the message is displayed. Go back and click on another >hit. The validation screen pops up again, and displays the page after >another validation. > >Trying to display the second page makes the I assume you mean the second page of hits. >htdig Archives Access Failure > >template page pop up. > >This happens with either a user or the admin password active. > >The error log message that accompanies this is: > >Jan 19 11:12:55 2007 (23983) htsearch for list: mercedes, cause: auth, >detail: -10- > >It seems clear to me that the htdig process is not able to find the validation >cookie. I don't think that is the issue. It seems to me that the htdig process finds the cookie the first time, but then removes it. This explains why you need to revalidate when you try to visit the message, and it explains why you get mmsearch.py's authorization error when you try to get the second page of hits. >If this were compiled code and not Python, I'd dbx the thing, >but don't know enough about Python to know how to use the debugging >resources. If there's some sort of crash and traceback message, I don't >know where to look for that either. There wouldn't be a traceback in this case. >For reference, the htdig (3.1.6) build was a default ./configure build. >It wouldn't compile with either the Solaris Studio 11 CC or g++ 4.1.1. >I loaded g++ 2.95.3 on another Solaris 9 machine, did a build there, NFS >mounted the source tree, and did a make install to get it on this >machine. The only additional step needed to get htdig to run its own >rundig was to copy libstdc++ into /usr/lib (a bug in the Solaris >Companion Disk g++ build). > >The default overrides in mm_cfg.py relative to archiving (you'll notice >that some are commented out----I copied this file from the old host >installation, and left the last guy's commented-out stuff in place) > ># HTDIG_MAILMAN_LINK = 'htdig-mailman' >HTDIG_RUNDIG_PATH = '/opt/www/htdig/bin/rundig' >HTDIG_HTSEARCH_PATH = '/opt/www/cgi-bin/htsearch' >USE_HTDIG = 1 > ># ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX = 1 > >GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES = 0 It seems that htdig per se is working fine. It returns the hits. I think the problem is in mmsearch.py. It checks to be sure it is authorized for the private archive, and it is. It does the search and displays the results and somehow in this latter step the cookie is removed. -- 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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htdig authorization problem
by Hank van Cleef Jan. 19, 2007

Jan. 19, 2007

I have mailman 2.1.9 with the htdig patch installed. Set up to do local search. I rebuilt the archives from the list mbox file a couple of weeks ago, and htdig would search on it, deliver pages, and they could be viewed. This week (several days later), to view a post requires entering a password before viewing. Trying to pull up a second page gets an error message. This affects using the list admin password as well as user passwords. To view any hit, a user account name or the admin … [View More]

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spam filters should only match list-members
by Bettina Hafter Jan. 19, 2007

Jan. 19, 2007

hey there i'v been searching through all archive and FAQ Wizard but could not find the answer. We have a list, which discards all non-members. We have 2 filters which go for spams. 1st filter, if the X-SPAM-header contains xxxxxxx, discard it 2nd filter, if the X-SPAM-header contains xxxx, set it on hold now all the spamers which are marked by our spamassin with xxxx in the mail-header are set on hold. is there a way to teach mailman to do something like that: - discard mails of non-… [View More]

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newsletter
by Gustavo U. Navarro Jan. 18, 2007

Jan. 18, 2007

Hi One questions!! Is there a tools in mailman for integrate a mailman list with a newsletter!!! Thanks gus

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Bounce - raw bounce messages?
by Carl Paukstis Jan. 18, 2007

Jan. 18, 2007

I am the system admin and list admin. We're running Mailman 2.1.9 on RHEL. On a moderately high-volume social/chat list, a list member keeps getting disabled for bounces, though he does get SOME or most of his list mail, and gets the "you are disabled" message. What's the best way for me to get/find and examine the actual "raw" bounce messages coming back from his mail server that are causing him to get disabled, so we can work with his provider or filter to prevent this? -- Carl Paukstis … [View More]

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Python Requirement
by maillists Jan. 18, 2007

Jan. 18, 2007

Hi, I am upgrading to Mailman 2.1.9 from 2.1.1. I have Python 2.2.2. installed. I am going to un-install and re-install Mailman altogether because I only have a few lists, and I currently have Mailman installed from an RPM and I now want to install it from source. The manual says that Python 2.1 is required, but 2.3 is preferred. http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node2.html Is it OK to keep Python my 2.2.? Am I headed for trouble at all? I still need a push to jump off … [View More]

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