Mailman 3 November 2007 - Mailman-Users

Mailman and Salesforce
by Rosi Bustamante Nov. 30, 2007

Nov. 30, 2007

> Hi, > Our organization uses Salesforce.com for its database management, > and we'd like to make it work with Mailman, so people can sign up > for our newsletter on our website and their info gets automatically > entered into Salesforce. > > Is such a feature possible with Mailman, and if so, where are the > instructions to set it up? I'm not the tech person so I really need > a bit of direction on this, so I appreciate any help I can get. > > Rosi

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HOWTO - integrating Mailman with a Swish-e search engine
by Tomasz Chmielewski Nov. 30, 2007

Nov. 30, 2007

Hi, I just wrote a small HOWTO on integrating Mailman with Swish-e: http://wpkg.org/Integrating_Mailman_with_a_Swish-e_search_engine Let me know what you think about it. -- Tomasz Chmielewski

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Backup and restore
by rich＠edj.net Nov. 30, 2007

Nov. 30, 2007

I need to backup the settings from one mailing list on one domain and restore those settings on another domain(same server.) How does one achieve that?

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Accept all from Domain?
by jproducer Nov. 30, 2007

Nov. 30, 2007

I have a mailing list set up and have used this address for a myspace page that sends to all the members in the band. The reason behind this is so everyone in the band can get notifications and whoever is available can respond. The issue is that everytime myspace sends out a message, it is a different email address. Is there a way to permanently accept all messages from a particular domain? Or is there another reccomendation that anyone has to accomplish having one single address send to three different people at all times? Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Accept-all-from-Domain--tf4913314.html#a14065338 Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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MX records
by Noel da Costa Nov. 30, 2007

Nov. 30, 2007

Hi there, I'm new to Mailman. I've searched through the online docs but can't find anything that seems related to the problem I'm experiencing. I've managed to install Mailman on my server and set up a mailing list, I've received welcome emails both as admin and as a member of the new list. The problem arises when sending mail to the list (I've included the failure message below. Real domain and alias names have been replaced for privacy reasons). I use my hosting co's management console to set up new email aliases on the domain. The only options available when setting up an alias are: 1. Mailbox 2. Forward 3. SMS forward None of those seem appropriate, so I'm not sure how activate this alias. Any clues? Thanks, Noel da Costa > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: MAILER-DAEMON(a)ctb-mesg-1-1.saix.net (Mail Delivery System) > Date: 29 November 2007 16:54:13 GMT+02:00 > To: noel.dacosta(a)magharl.co.uk > Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender > > This is the mail system at host ctb-mesg-1-1.saix.net. > > I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not > be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. > > For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. > > If you do so, please include this problem report. You can > delete your own text from the attached returned message. > > The mail system > > <newlist(a)mydomain.co.uk>: host mx00.1and1.co.uk[212.227.15.150] > said: 550 > <newlist(a)mydomain.co.uk>: invalid address (in reply to RCPT TO > command) > Reporting-MTA: dns; ctb-mesg-1-1.saix.net > X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 79C0928074 > X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; noel.dacosta(a)magharl.co.uk > Arrival-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:54:09 +0200 (SAST) > > Final-Recipient: rfc822; newlist(a)mydomain.co.uk > Original-Recipient: rfc822;newlist(a)mydomain.co.uk > Action: failed > Status: 5.0.0 > Remote-MTA: dns; mx00.1and1.co.uk > Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 <newlist(a)mydomain.co.uk>: invalid address > > From: Noel da Costa <noel.dacosta(a)magharl.co.uk> > Date: 29 November 2007 16:53:46 GMT+02:00 > To: newlist(a)mydomain.co.uk > Subject: THis is a test > > > Hello... are you getting mail? > > > Noel > > Lead Developer Magnet Harlequin This e-mail is intended solely for the addressees named above and any other use is prohibited. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. It may contain confidential information. If you have received this e- mail in error, please contact the sender by return e-mail. We do not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message if it has reached you via the internet. Any opinions expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily endorsed by the company. Recipients are advised to apply their own virus check to this message and all incoming e-mail on delivery.

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thread-throttling (feature idea, needs more thought)
by Jim Popovitch Nov. 30, 2007

Nov. 30, 2007

Elsewhere in the intertubes I know of a great list that oft suffers from the all too common thread-gone-wild effect. This got me thinking about a Mailman feature request... but it needs more thought to assess it's validity. ;-) What if Mailman had a thread-throttling feature where after a preset number of posts, further posts (with same msgid or Subject, etc.) would automatically induce a queuing delay. Obviously this would need a few points of configuration, these things come to my mind: regexps for posters to never throttle regexps for posters to always throttle throttle method (ascending, static, %load, etc) throttle delay (minimum seconds?) a pck to store recent msgids/subjects/etc for past 24 hours Note: this has nothing to do with bandwidth throttling, but rather conversation throttling. The idea is to auto inject pauses into heated and passionate discussions. Like I said, some things remain to talk through.... but I think there is a gem in there. Thoughts? -Jim P.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] another question about invitation confirmationsubject line/VERP
by Christopher Adams Nov. 29, 2007

Nov. 29, 2007

Thanks to all for the plethora of information about VERP and how it is used by the MTAs and Mailman. Just for clarification, I don't have a list of 250,000 subscribers, just a site that has a total of 250,000 subscribers over 500+ lists. I think the largest is about 40,000. So, if all I want to do (which was my original question) is to VERP confirmations, I only have to add this to Postfix: default_verp_delimiters = += verp_delimiter_filter = -+=x and this to mm_cfgy.py: VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes All other VERP setting are whatever is the default in Defaults.py. VERPing the confirmations seems to work as expectedc and I assume that there is not much of a burden on the server without VERPing every message or even VERPing a sample of messages. Thanks again for the good information. On Nov 27, 2007 8:38 PM, Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> wrote: > On 11/27/07, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > As a point of reference however, there are lots of lists on python.org > > and some are quite busy (e.g. Python-list(a)python.org) and they are > > personalized and it seems to work OK. Brad has posted on this in the > > past > > <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-September/058231.html>. > > I also updated FAQ 1.15 with the latest information about python.org. > See > <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.015.htp>. > > > -- > Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> > LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> > -- Christopher Adams adamsca(a)gmail.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] programmatically managing list membership
by Barry Finkel Nov. 29, 2007

Nov. 29, 2007

Scott Chapman <mail(a)scottechapman.com> wrote: >Is there a way to programmatically manage th members of a list? > >I am am managing a club, where we track current and former membership in >a database. One wouldlike to b able to send an email to all the current >members, but that requires a SQL query. > >Is there a way for me to do this? Thanks in advance! I do it every day. Once a day, for some of my lists, someone creates a file of subscribers; this comes from a database. I have cron jobs that take each (possibly changed) file and run ./sync_members -w=no -g=no -d=no -a=no -f filename $listname This will quietly synchronize the membership list. I get the output of the cron, so I can keep track of who was unsubscribed and who was subscribed. One problem - if an address in the database is incorrect, then the subscriber address will be unsubscribed eventually by Mailman at the end of its bounce processing. If the bad address has not been corrected, it will be re-subscribed the next time the cron job is run. My script does some other processing, as I allow for static entries (persons automatically subscribed to a list even though they are not in the database). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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programmatically managing list membership
by Scott Chapman Nov. 29, 2007

Nov. 29, 2007

Is there a way to programmatically manage th members of a list? I am am managing a club, where we track current and former membership in a database. One wouldlike to b able to send an email to all the current members, but that requires a SQL query. Is there a way for me to do this? Thanks in advance! -Scott.

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nginx + thttpd configuration for mailman
by Manlio Perillo Nov. 29, 2007

Nov. 29, 2007

Hi. I have successfully configured nginx to handle the mailman web interface. CGI executions is delegated to thttpd. If someone is interested I can post the configuration. Manlio Perillo

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