Mailman 3 April 2007 - Mailman-Users

List Query
by Matt Zimmerman April 25, 2007

April 25, 2007

In mailman is it possible to send a email to a certain list and recieve a list of the members on that list? Thanks, Matt

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data/pending.pck
by Steve Burling April 25, 2007

April 25, 2007

Only because I'm anal-retentive... Now that our upgrade/migration of Mailman has settled down, I've noticed from my nightly 'mmdsr' run that data/pending.pck is just sitting there, unchanging. The last change date on the file is the date of our migration, so I have two questions: 1) What's it used for? 2) Can I safely delete this copy, assuming that it'll get re-created as necessary? -- 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting the FONT globally for the mailman GUI?
by Bryan Carbonnell April 25, 2007

April 25, 2007

On 4/24/07, Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> wrote: > At 1:30 PM -0700 4/24/07, Dragon wrote: > > > Actually no, those are not the best way to do this IMO. If ALL of the > > web pages were template-based, it would be a simple matter of > > defining the CSS you want in a CSS file and adding it to the page header. > > Yup, that would be nice. I did write a patch a while back to make Mailman's UI XHTML compliant using CSS. The patch for 2.1.7 is sourceforge tracker # 1415956 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1415956&group_id=1… It also gives the UI the ability to have sitewide headers and footers, giving the UI the ability to look more the hosts site in general. Updting it to MM 2.1.9 is one of the many things on my TODO list. Hopefully soon as I want to get my site upgraded to 2.1.9 -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb(a)gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!"

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Newb to list serv having errors
by Jeff Haugen April 24, 2007

April 24, 2007

Hello Mailman Users: I am new to list servs and am experiencing the following error when sending out to the ctap_survey mailing list. Looking for some advice to remedy...Please advise if you have experienced and resolved this error. Could someone dechiper this for me. The mailing lists were working with no known changes...Thank you! Mailman version 2.1.5 This is the Postfix program at host borg.ctap1.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be 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 Postfix program <ctap_survey-request(a)borg.ctap1.org>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman request ctap_survey". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "nobody". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=nobody'. Jeff Haugen Technology Manager CTAP Region 1 Mendocino Office of Education (707) 467-5085 office (707) 468-5781 fax

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The results of your email commands
by Ki Song April 24, 2007

April 24, 2007

Is there a way to disable to message that is sent automatically from Mailman when a person subscribes to a list through the mailinglist-join(a)domain.com command? I only want to "welcome message" to be sent, not the "Results of your email commands" email. Thanks!

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Setting the FONT globally for the mailman GUI?
by Ivan Van Laningham April 24, 2007

April 24, 2007

Hi All-- On 4/24/07, Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> wrote: > At 3:19 PM +0200 4/24/07, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > > How do I globally set the font the mailman HTML pages use? > > Mailman does not (currently) have those kinds of facilities. See FAQ 3.40. > > > If you add anything along these lines to Mailman, we would love to > see your modifications be contributed back to the community. > > You should also check the SourceForge patches page to see if anyone > else has made this kind of a modification, and contributed their > changes back to the Mailman project, although they may not have (yet) > been accepted into the mainstream codebase. > There's no global option for this, but it's not particularly hard to do, just a bit fiddly. I've done it with my lists, with only a few false starts. The basic idea is to grep -i through all the config files, templates and .py files looking for '<head'. Then edit the file and plug in a style sheet, something like this: <style type="text/css">  </style> Once you make all the changes, restart Mailman for the changes to take effect. It'd be nice to have an easier way, yes. We'd have to have a special web page devoted to Mailman settings, not list settings. Threel ways to organize such a meta-page would be: 1) on a per-machine basis; 2) on a per-list basis; and 3) on a per-virtual-host basis. Metta, Ivan -- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.pauahtun.org/ http://www.python.org/workshops/1998-11/proceedings/papers/laningham/laning… Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours

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Request for some additional configuration features
by D G Teed April 24, 2007

April 24, 2007

I'm not sure if these are features which I've just not figured out how to do, or feature requests. 1. We are not interested in RFC 2369 headers in email. None of our mailing lists are public lists driven by users opting in/out. Users are on the list and we don't allow them access to the website to flick their options on/off. I'd like all mailing lists created to have List-* headers suppressed. I have not seen an option for that in Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py 2. We have an announcements only list to which we would like to have the moderator-only post it, hold it for moderation (to prevent accidental use of Send), and also receive a copy to verify if there were any delivery delays. We have played with moderation tag on the user, and followed the guide on how to make a one way list, but it seems the only solution is to have the moderator subscribe on another email address so that they can post to the list as well as receive, while it is one-way list. Am I missing a combination of options which provides for this sort of one way list with a hold for moderation? Any suggestions are appreciated. --Donald Teed

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Integrating mailman with joomla/mambo
by David Southwell April 24, 2007

April 24, 2007

Hi Has anyone done this? If so how successful? How about username/password integration? It would be really great to have mailman as a joomla/mambo module If not does anyone have any ideas how to go about this? I am posting a similar question in the joomla forum David

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Changing the Name of the Mailman Machine
by Barry Finkel April 24, 2007

April 24, 2007

If I need to change the name of the Mailman machine, I can run bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url to update for each list the configuration parameters mlist.web_page_url mlist.host_name I am not sure what to do with the archives, which have the current/old machine name buried therein. Will the bin/arch utility accomplish that task? It is not clear from the help displayed with the "-h" option. I know that there will be apache2 and Postfix changes in addition to the mm_cfg.py changes. 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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Setting the FONT globally for the mailman GUI?
by Ralf Hildebrandt April 24, 2007

April 24, 2007

How do I globally set the font the mailman HTML pages use? Right now the pages look ugly as hell in IE, which my lusers use. I never noticed, since I don't use IE :) Basically, I want to use a serifless font. How can I do that in a simple fashion? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrums) Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-962 IT-Zentrum Standort CBF send no mail to plonk(a)charite.de

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