Mailman 3 December 2007 - Mailman-Users

Subscriptions being disabled
by Robert Boyd Skipper Dec. 26, 2007

Dec. 26, 2007

Ok. Here is another problem. Today, I found that the subscriptions of twenty or so members have been disabled for excessive bounces. The message accompanying each disabled subscription is: ":fail: Domain skipperweb.org has exceeded the max emails per hour. Message discarded. Now, this is odd, because there seems to have been only one message sent out for the whole day. I did not receive any previous bounce notifications from these addresses, so if they are bouncing something with my listname on it, it isn't coming back to me in any way that I can find it. I've got the list-owner and the list-moderator set for my email address. I've got every notification I can find set for yes. I have bounce processing turned on. The bounce_score_threshold is set for 5.0. So, while I go and enable everyone's subscription again, maybe someone can throw some more ideas at me. Skipper -- Robert Boyd Skipper P.O. Box 593 Wimberley, TX 78676

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Address in accept_these_nonmembers (was Add to filter from commandline?)
by Barry Finkel Dec. 23, 2007

Dec. 23, 2007

>From a posting back in August: Willendrup, Peter Kjær wrote: >> >> I have two mailinglists sitting on the same machine, one being the general >> user mailinglist (A) and the other one the software developer list (B) (B is >> reachable by a commonly known 'support' email adress). >> >> Is there an easy way to allow members of list A to write messages to list B >> without being members of B? > > >See ><http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1220144&group_id=1…> >for a patch to allow this. > > >> My current solution is to add the members of A to the accepts filter of list >> B - something that I am currently doing using the web interface... >> >> My real question is: Is it possible to add addresses to the 'accepts' filter >> of a mailinglist from the commandline? And Mark Sapiro replied: >Not directly, but in a shell script you could prepare a file that looks like > >mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('usera at example.com') >mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('userb at example.com') > >and so on for all the non-members you want to add and then run > >bin/config_list -i filename listname > >where filename is the name of the above file. > >Alternatively, you could just prepare an input file that looks like > >accept_these_nonmembers = [ >'usera at example.com', >'userb at example.com', >'userc at example.net', >'userd at example.net', >] > >wherein all the addresses (not just adds) for accept_these_nonmembers >are listed, and then run the same config_list command. See > >bin/config_list --help I have implemented a script to add an address to accept_these_nonmembers in a collection of Mailman lists, and I am wondering if there is a similar mechanism for deleting an address in accept_these_nonmembers in a collection of Mailman lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Subscribe button not working on
by Robin Walls Dec. 22, 2007

Dec. 22, 2007

On http://lists.mcclatchyinteractive.com/mailman/listinfo/tricitynews, the opening form tags with actions seem to be missing from the html. Is there a place I can go in and manually edit these or another way to repair the page? e.g. of missing tag on "Subscribe" button <FORM Method=POST ACTION="http://lists.mcclatchyinteractive.com/mailman/subscribe/tricitynews"> Thank you, -- Robin Walls McClatchy Interactive (919) 861-1243 AIM:rwallsmi

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Re: [Mailman-Users] recipients addresses visible in To field
by Joel Plane Dec. 21, 2007

Dec. 21, 2007

Turns out you're right. It wasn't my list, it was a client's, so I didn't send out the email. They do have a mailman list, but they didn't use it for some reason, as is evident by the lack of the List headers etc. Thanks. On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 06:50 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 12/20/2007, Joel Plane (joel.plane(a)gmail.com) wrote: > > I have set up a mailing list for sending out a monthly newsletter. It > > works well, except all recipients can see each others email addresses > > in the To field. How do I prevent this? > > Either use the BCC field, or use a real mail list software like > mailman... but you certainly aren't using mailman for this list, so > don't know why you are posting your question here... >

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Some members not receiving all posts
by Robert Boyd Skipper Dec. 20, 2007

Dec. 20, 2007

I've looked through the FAQ and the archives, but can't locate an answer to this. A few members subscribed to my list say they are not receiving every post. They know this by scrolling down the posts that are replies, and seeing chunks in the history that they never saw. They can go to the online archive and find the missing posts. Other users seem not to have this problem. More than one user has reported this problem. Because it is sporadic and unpredictable, I don't know where to start troubleshooting. Also, I did not install mailman myself. My provider has made it available. He is using mailman 2.1.9.cp2. Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- Robert Boyd Skipper P.O. Box 593 Wimberley, TX 78676

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Stability of Mailman 2.1.10
by Cyndi Norwitz Dec. 20, 2007

Dec. 20, 2007

I asked my ISP to upgrade to the new version of MM (they're using 2.1.9). I'm especially excited about the admin_member_chunksize feature. Their reply: "From their site it appears this is not a stable release...I expect we will not be upgrading until it is indicated it is the latest stable release." Any comments I can pass along to them? Thanks, Cyndi

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recipients addresses visible in To field
by Joel Plane Dec. 20, 2007

Dec. 20, 2007

Hi, I have set up a mailing list for sending out a monthly newsletter. It works well, except all recipients can see each others email addresses in the To field. How do I prevent this? I've a had genuine search on the Internet for answers but haven't found anything yet. Thanks. Joel.

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Retrieving list members
by Ben Botes Dec. 20, 2007

Dec. 20, 2007

Hi, I need to get a list of all the members that is still subscribed to my mailing list sent to me. How can this be done? Regards Ben Botes

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SPAM to ******-bounces lists
by Jon Slater Dec. 20, 2007

Dec. 20, 2007

Hi, I am receiving an excess amount of SPAM to my ‘bounces’ lists. For example “board-bounces” or “members-bounces”. Since the ‘bounces’ e-mail only comes to me, I’m the only one that sees it. Is there some setting somewhere that can block these or a way to link these accounts to SpamAssassin that can stop this? Thanks in advance! Jon No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.4/1189 - Release Date: 12/18/2007 9:40 PM

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Changing the From: address...
by Dan Brown Dec. 20, 2007

Dec. 20, 2007

I've got a bunch of mail lists on a server which are all announcement only lists. On all of these lists the "From:" address is like how it is on the mailman-users list. It'll show up like: mailman-users-bounces+danb@zu.com@python.org on behalf of "Some User [su(a)wackedout.net]" Now I know everything from "on behalf of..." onward is due to my mail client and not the list. I would like the emails to be showing as coming from either just: eg. mailman-users(a)python.org on behalf of "Some User [su(a)wackedout.net]" or eg. mailman-users-bounces(a)python.org on behalf of "Some User [su(a)wackedout.net]" Now while there is the "anonymous_list" option, this looks as though it will remove everything so it would just show up as: eg. mailman-users(a)python.org I'm unsure what to call this and the personalization options don't seem to be what I want either but I am playing around with a test list to figure out what option is the correct one to do this. Can someone fast-track me to it? Thanks ___________________________________________________ Dan Brown danb(a)zu.com

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