Mailman 3 March 2007 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] changing banned list members
by reikiiii＠comcast.net 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I checked everything you said... I found her email, but it is listed under Sender Filters in "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted." She is not listed in the subscribers at all, and the list still won't accept her. Any further suggestions? Thank you! Where do I find the 'vette' log? -- Blessings, Toni

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Trapping posts with no subject
by Mike Maughan 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi guys, I am aggravated by a few idle list posters who consistently refuse to put in a subject in their posts, and I would like to 'encourage' them to mend their ways :) I've tried putting a spam rule as per the faq, trapping subject containing .*(no subject) but no workie. The cases I'd like to trap are: 1. empty subject 2. (no subject) 3. (no_subject) Is there an easy way? Am I (as has been known on occasion :) missing something obvious? -- Regards, Mike

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Re: [Mailman-Users] changing banned list members
by Patrick Bogen 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

First off, please keep all replies on list, so that other folk can give their input. Check Mailman's 'vette' log to see why her posts are being held. On 3/22/07, reikiiii(a)comcast.net <reikiiii(a)comcast.net> wrote: > I checked everything you said... I found her email, but it is listed under Sender Filters in "List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted." She is not listed in the subscribers at all, and the list still won't accept her. Any further suggestions? > Thank you! > -- > Blessings, > Toni -- - Patrick Bogen

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Posts with no subject
by lookaroundcornwall.com 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi Mike, It wasn't laziness, just an oversight, which I corrected in subsequent posts. Sorry if I aggravated you. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.16/729 - Release Date: 21/03/2007 07:52

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Broken mailman
by lookaroundcornwall.com 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Thanks Patrick, I'll start looking It's getting through to the server - this from the exim log 2007-03-22 14:44:34 1HUOWo-0006sQ-9Z => |/usr/local/home/mailman/mail/mailman owner announce announce-owner(a)mailman.lookaroundcornwall.com R=system_aliases_all_local_domains T=alias_pipe Oddly, I seem to be getting mail addressed to mailman(a)mailman.mydomain.com but nothing else -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.16/729 - Release Date: 21/03/2007 07:52

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UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte
by Steve Burling 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Almost a year ago, in <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-April/043992.html>, Mark Sapiro wrote (in response to a question about this error): > This error caused the message to be shunted (placed in the shunt > queue). You can run bin/unshunt to reprocess the message, but unless > you change the character set of the list language first, the error > will occur again and the message will be shunted again. > > To change the character set to e.g. western european, you can put > > add_language('en', 'English (USA)', 'iso-8859-1') > > in mm_cfg.py and then do > > bin/mailmanctl restart > > followed by > > bin/unshunt Is there any downside to making this change? I notice that iso-8859-1 is the standard charset for the majority of the languages listed in Defaults.py (As you can probably guess, I'm seeing the above error...) -- Steve Burling <mailto:srb@umich.edu> University of Michigan, ICPSR Voice: +1 734 615.3779 330 Packard Street FAX: +1 734 647.8700 Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2910

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trouble seeing migrated list on admin page
by Peter 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I have migrated a list from an old installation (2.1.5) to a new machine (running 2.1.8). It appears that the move was successful since I can access its page at: http://mailman.domain.com/mailman/admin/<listname> But it does not show up on the main admin page: http://mailman.domain.com/mailman/admin This is the procedure I used for the move: cd /var/spool/mailman/lists cp -pr $OLD_MAILMAN/lists/<listname> . withlist -l -r fix_url <listname> cd ../archives/private cp -rp $OLD_MAILMAN/archives/private/<listname>.mbox/ . cleanarch -n < <listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox cleanarch < <listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox > tmp cp tmp <listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox arch --wipe <listname> There are no errors in mailman/logs. Thanks, Pedro

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Dump messages
by Dave Foran 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Gents If there an option to just dump spam that is sent to a list rather than repliy with you have no permission to send I have several mailman lists for reasons only spammers know, love to spam them with all kinds of things and I would love to just send these replies to /dev/null Really not even acknowledge them as in just ignore Thanks Dave -- Dave Foran Internet ONLY: dave(a)hamnet.org Cruise Missile Coordinates 41.36.46N 81.25.53W

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basic postfix/mailman setup issue
by Peter 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I am testing a basic installation of mailman 2.1.8 on OpenBSD 4.0. When I try to reply to the confirmation request I get an error from postfix saying that <list>-request(a)domain.com is not in the recipient table: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table I thought the mailman aliases handles this? I have the following in main.cf: alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases contains: mailman: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" mailman-admin: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman" mailman-bounces: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman" mailman-confirm: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman" mailman-join: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman" mailman-leave: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman" mailman-owner: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman" mailman-request: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman" mailman-subscribe: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman" mailman-unsubscribe: "|/usr/local/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman" What else do I need to do? TIA, Pedro

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Different Mailman "Home" Pages?
by Barry Finkel 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I wrote last week: >>I have some Mailman lists that I want advertised to local users, and >>some Mailman lists that I want advertised to anyone on the Internet. >>Is there a way of doing this? Essentially it would require a two >>front-end pages with some web (apache) logic as to which IP addresses >>see which page. And Mark Sapiro replied: >You do this with two virtual domains in Apache and two virtual hosts in >Mailman. You may or may not need virtual hosting in your MTA depending >on whether or not you want separate email domains. > >See ><http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-March/056108.html> >for a bit more detail on the Mailman side of it. I was able to configure Mailman and Postfix for the second domain. I am running with a Mailman 2.1.9 package I built for Ubuntu Dapper. The two domains are lists-dev.example.com lists-dev1.example.com and I have configured Postfix to accept both. I created one test list via newlist --urlhost=lists-dev1.example.com \ --emailhost=lists-dev1.example.com \ test-extaccess and the list was visable on the lists-dev1.example.com web page. All of the Mailman aliases for both sites are in one alias file /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases In the configuration files, I have separate email hosts lists-dev.example.com lists-dev1.example.com I am not sure that I need both. Mail to either nodename is delivered to the list, even if the list is defined on the other nodename. When I go to URL lists-dev1.example.com I see the two lists I have created there, and I do not see the lists on the other web page. But I am able to get to the lists on the other web page by knowing the name and entering that name in the URL. What do I need to do to get separation of the two web sites - so that one list is not accessible via the other web site? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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