Mailman 3 April 2007 - Mailman-Users

No hitches
by Paul Tomblin April 8, 2007

April 8, 2007

Debian just marked Debian 4.0 (etch) as stable, so I upgrade my Debian 3.1 (sarge) colo box to Debian 4.0. Along the way, it upgraded Mailman from 2.1.5 to 2.1.9. Just wanted to let anybody else contemplating such an upgrade that it went without a hitch. The stage where it says "Updating old qfiles" takes rather a long time, but it eventually finishes. Mail continues to flow, the web interface works, the archives work. -- Paul Tomblin <ptomblin(a)xcski.com> "Stay calm, be … [View More]

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confirmation problems
by Bill Bedford April 8, 2007

April 8, 2007

I am getting a number of confirmations failing with SMTP errors similar to this Out: 220 mousa.uk.com ESMTP Postfix In: HELO smtp806.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Out: 250 mousa.uk.com In: MAIL FROM:<xxxxxxxx(a)btopenworld.com> Out: 250 Ok In: RCPT TO:<bbmodels-confirm+9cb3f11ed497099e1a64a5c4e87f08dee4b6448e(a)mousa.uk.com> Out: 550 <bbmodels-confirm+9cb3f11ed497099e1a64a5c4e87f08dee4b6448e(a)mousa.uk.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local … [View More]

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Unknown User
by Bill Loy April 7, 2007

April 7, 2007

I have set up mailman on a server with postfix, I duplicated the settings (I think I got them all the same) from the old server which was working fine, but now when i send an e-mail to my list I get back a mailer-deamon <list(a)domain.name>: unknown user: "list" Any ideas?? Bill

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Standard address protocol for joining by email?
by Adam Boettiger April 7, 2007

April 7, 2007

I checked the FAQ and found no entry for this. I assume it is probably a very standard question so admins may want to add to the FAQ. Is there a standard address protocol for list members who wish to join a mailman list by email without using the web form? I have tried 'join-listname(a)domain.com' and it didn't install as a joining address on mailman. Thanks

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Messages not being removed from server in IMAP mode
by Adam Boettiger April 7, 2007

April 7, 2007

I've checked settings in both prefs and each account but when I delete a message in an IMAP account in TB other mail clients are still downloading it later on. Is there a setting that I've missed that is causing messages to remain on the server?

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Nth post moderation?
by Adam Boettiger April 7, 2007

April 7, 2007

I see from the FAQ that it is possible to set all list member settings to moderated. I also see that it is possible to set the privacy settings such that future new subscribers have the moderated flag. What I don't see is if it is possible to do what I want, which is to set the settings such that for all new subscribers the first five posts or N posts are moderated, after which the moderated flag is removed. Is this possible to do?

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Two Problems with Mailman
by janedoe＠mardiweb.com April 6, 2007

April 6, 2007

My first problem is that the program seems to be inserting a carriage return at 80 characters in the archives and in the digests. This is causing URL's to be truncated and has elicited a lot of complaints from my users. The second is not really a problem, but a request. Is there any way to sort the archives by date in descending order rather than ascending order? It makes no sense for the newest posts to be at the bottom of the list. Thanks. Jane Doe

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Re: [Mailman-Users] /var/mailman/cron/checkdbs
by Robin Bartholomew April 6, 2007

April 6, 2007

Mark, Thank you. The added print statement narrowed the offending request.pck down very quickly. I am posting the solution to the list so other non-python programmer can make use of this useful information. Problem: cron/checkdbs error. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 178, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 109, in main text += '\n' + pending_requests(mlist) File "/var/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 128, in … [View More]

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/var/mailman/cron/checkdbs
by Robin Bartholomew April 6, 2007

April 6, 2007

I am trying to track down the cause of the following error message and have been quite unsuccessful. Has anyone dealt with this or something similar before? I thought the number of pending requests might have been too large on some of the lists; however I am still receiving the error after purging the pending requests. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 178, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 109, in main text += '\n' + … [View More]

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Subscription confirmation
by Bill Bedford April 6, 2007

April 6, 2007

Can some tell me, please, where I can increase the time allowed for subscription confirmations? -- Bill Bedford "Nothing is as important as model railways and even that isn't very important" -some wiseguy somewhere

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