Mailman 3 May 2007 - Mailman-Users

Sending html content to Mailman list?
by Tim Tyler May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

Mailman experts, We are running 2.1.5 version of Mailman and I have a problem where we are trying to send an automatic update announcement with hyper links to a particular mailman list. It works fine if we send the message directly to webmail or other pop clients, but all of the html code is exposed as text when sending through a mailman list. We basically lose our hyper links. Is it possible to send html content through a mailman list? If so, how? Note: Here is an example of a … [View More]

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When would mailman 2.2 be a reality?
by shirish agarwal May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

When is work on mailman 2.2 supposed to start? Is there some kind of roadmap or trac something like that so people can see how the progress is happening along? Actually looking forward for the pipermail thing. Thanx in advance. -- Shirish Agarwal This work is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial Sampling Plus 1.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/nc-sampling+/1.0/

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password reminders and unsubscribed users
by Jim Miller May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

I am running mailman 2.1.9.cp2 and have an ongoing issue I can't find an solution for. There are a number of people who have unsubscribed to my list, yet they continue to receive monthly password reminders. A few months ago I even disabled the password reminder for the list as a whole, and that works for all the subscribed users, yet the old unsubscribed users still continue to receive reminders! I verified once again today that these users are not subscribed. They themselves have no access … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman with remote smtp server
by Meenal Pant May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

Thanks Donald and Mark for your help. A few more queries... I want to set up a remote SMTP server using qmail and use it for both inbound and outbound. So what kind of aliases do I require for sendmail and qmail on the remote smtp server to forward the messages on to the mailman server. Are these to be defined in /etc/aliases on the remote smtp server ? Also, do I need to run fetchmail on the mailman server to fetch messages from the remote smtp server ? Many thanks Meenal D G Teed wrote: … [View More]

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Transferring archives question
by Me Myself May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

Is there a way to transfer list archives from one server to another without needing root access? Thanks in advance.

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New to list - Have cpanel questions
by Me Myself May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

Hello, I'm new to the list. Am about to move a Mailman list to a new server that uses cpanel. I understand there is a slightly different version used by cpanel. Any tips for making the move? Any potential problems I should be aware of? If anyone has how-to instructions I'd be grateful. Thanks in advance for any advice/assistance.

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Mailman with remote smtp server
by Meenal Pant May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

Hi , I want to set up mailman to use a remote smtp server. How to achieve this ? I am having trouble understanding how to set up list aliases in /etc/alias in particular? Thanks Meenal

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Counting messages that went to postfix queue
by D G Teed May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

Hi, We're in the final tests of a pilot of mailman at our University. Due to the previous problem with majordomo2 losing about 9% of email (never sent to postfix, on same server) in the mail list, we'd like to verify that the number of emails that were attempted to be delivered equals the number from list_members command. I've tried finding the message queue IDs which were used and grep QueueID maillog | wc but this seems difficult to do since some reappear again in the logs, which were … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Server migration problems
by Aaron Crosman May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:31 PM > To: Aaron Crosman; mailman-users(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Server migration problems > > > > ----- Original Message --------------- > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Server migration problems > From: "Aaron Crosman" <ACrosman(a)afsc.org> > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:22:19 -0400 > To: <mailman-users(a)… [View More]python.org> > > >I know this comes up all the time, but having carefully reviewed the > FAQ > >and archives, I still haven't been able to solve my problem. > > > > > > > >I'm working on migrating my mailman setup from an old SuSE server to a > >new Debian (4.0) server. For the most part everything has gone > >smoothly, but the existing lists have a couple of problems I can't > find > >the cause. I moved the lists, archive, and data directories from the > >old server, and ran update, check_perms and check_db on all the lists. > > > > > > > >If I run list_lists, mailman sees all the lists just fine, but when > just > >the web interface I don't see anything. I naturally assumed that had > >somehow become private during the move, so I exported the > configuration > >of one of them, and saw "advertised = True" and while I know in python > >it shouldn't matter, I went ahead and updated it to be "advertised = > 1", > >no difference. If I browse to the list's admin interface directly it > >seems to work. > > > This certainly seems like FAQ 4.62 to me > <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.062.htp>. > Have you run fix_url? > > > >I'm also having trouble getting into the archives. The files are > there, > >and the sym-links are correct but the permissions seem to be wrong. > > > And what are they? And what's in the web server's error log? > > > >I'm > >assuming I'm having a problem similar to the advertising (that mm > seems > >to be over-tightening permissions somewhat), but I can't find the root > >cause. Any suggestions on where to look? > > > Look at the permissions and whether the web server is allowed to follow > symlinks, and if all that is OK, it might be a SeLinux or other kind > of security polict issue. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan Thanks, you were right on about the domain problem. I looked right passed it, since the server will end up at the same domain, but currently I'm accessing by IP address (I hosts file update on my local machine solved that problem). The archives problem persists. You gave me the right place to look here as well. The archives are all owned by list (group list), but the private archives have restricted access that blocks other users from getting in: ls of /var/lib/mailman/archives: drwxrws--- 200 list list 8.0K 2007-04-25 14:26 private drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 4.0K 2007-04-25 14:23 public A sample from the private directory is: drwxrwsr-x 4 list list 4.0K 2007-04-25 14:18 itd_test Apache's error log: [Fri Apr 27 11:42:14 2007] [error] [client 172.17.201.205] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/itd_test, referer: http://server.org/mailman/listinfo/itd_test I can't browse the file system (in bash) to those directories. I did double check the links in public as root, and they do work just fine, so I'm at a permissions problem. What should the perms here be? Or am I missing something else? Aaron [View Less]

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Error? in accept_these_nonmembers Processing
by Barry Finkel May 2, 2007

May 2, 2007

I create new Mailman (2.1.9) lists via copying template files. One of my template files has: accept_these_nonmembers = ['user1(a)example.com', 'user2(a)example.com', 'user3(a)example.com (Joe Bleaux)', 'user4(a)example.com'] (I have split the line for easier readibility.) When I create a new list via /usr/sbin/newlist $listname config_list -i $1.config $listname I get no complaints, and the administrator web interface shows the four addresses with the parenthesized name after … [View More]

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