Mailman 3 June 2007 - Mailman-Users

Member only list?
by L. H. 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Hi, I am currently running 2.1.9, and am trying to setup a member only list function using config_list. I've found a few instructions, but they seem to be for older versions of which the commands are no longer recognized. What I want to do is have 3 setups: 1) Everyone, members or no members, can post 2) Only members can post, no moderation required for them. Drop all non-member submissions. 3) All emails sent to the list (member + non member) must be approved by the admin. Which configuration lines should I use for this? I currently use: 1) Everyone: generic_nonmember_action = 0 default_member_moderation = 0 2) Members only: default_member_moderation = 0 generic_nonmember_action = 2 3) Moderation for everyone: default_member_moderation = 1 member_moderation_action = 0 member_moderation_notice = 'Sorry, subscribers cannot post to this list.' generic_nonmember_action = 1 Please advise. Thanks!

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Looking for contractor for Mailman maintenance/support
by Don Barraclough 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

We are a for profit company that is looking for assistance with our mailing list strategy and software. Although we are not a large company we are not looking for anything for free. Situation: Our current host provides the Mailman software and we have been using it for almost one year. Lately we find that some of the emails are going out while others are not. We have placed seeds in the database to confirm this result. At first we thought it was a host issue but now we are fairly certain it is a software maintenance thing. Our larger list of 3,100 addresses were deleted and then recreated and it worked perfect for a day or two. Our smaller list of 1,000 seems to send unique headings to our seed hotmail account, but not our daily e-newsletter, although we believe most are going out in any event. Another issue we had not too long ago was when we would approve the send the emails were sent 6 to 8 hours later. Any assistance would be welcome. I can be reached day or night at the below telephone number. Thanks in advance for your attention. 1-866-651-8516 Toronto, Canada EDT

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changing email address on multiple lists
by michael＠livingroutes.org 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

I work for an organization that maintains about 80 different private lists. Awhile back, we had our admissions director manually apply to all 80 lists which took her about 2 hours and she has since left the organization. Is there any way to change her email address on all the lists simultaneously? What's the best way of getting another user onto all the lists?

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Member only list?
by L. H. 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

Hi, I am currently running 2.1.9, and am trying to setup a member only list function using config_list. I've found a few instructions, but they seem to be for older versions of which the commands are no longer recognized. What I want to do is have 3 setups: 1) Everyone, members or no members, can post 2) Only members can post, no moderation required for them. Drop all non-member submissions. 3) All emails sent to the list (member + non member) must be approved by the admin. Which configuration lines should I use for this? I currently use: 1) Everyone: generic_nonmember_action = 0 default_member_moderation = 0 2) Members only: default_member_moderation = 0 generic_nonmember_action = 2 3) Moderation for everyone: default_member_moderation = 1 member_moderation_action = 0 member_moderation_notice = 'Sorry, subscribers cannot post to this list.' generic_nonmember_action = 1 Please advise. Thanks!

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Default Languages
by Bryan Carbonnell 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

Is it possible to have the admin interface for a list in 1 language, English, and have the user interface a different language, French, using 2.1.6 or 2.1.9? The only thing I can come up with is to actually change the language of the list to French, and edit the translation file and remove the translations for the Admin interface so that it gets displayed in the default text, which is English. Is there an easier way to do this? -- 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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(no subject)
by picon＠webmail.co.za 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

Hi there I have been trying to sort out this isue for a while now and I'm not getting anywhere. Every morning I get the following yet, there are no such mails waiting. I am running mandriva 2007.0, mailman-2.1.9-1mdv2007.0 Does anyone know where to disable these? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: mailman-bounces(a)jhb.ucs.co.za [mailto:mailman-bounces@jhb.ucs.co.za] On Behalf Of support.specialty-bounces(a)jhb.ucs.co.za Sent: 22 May 2007 08:00 AM To: support.specialty-owner(a)jhb.ucs.co.za Subject: 3 Support.specialty moderator request(s) waiting The Support.specialty(a)jhb.ucs.co.za mailing list has 3 request(s) waiting for your consideration at: http://jhb.ucs.co.za/mailman/admindb/support.specialty Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. Pending posts: From: lakesvouchers(a)telkomsa.net on Tue Apr 10 10:08:43 2007 Subject: Date: 10/04/2007 10:05:25 Exception: LAKE CELLULAR (SiteID:5127) (Version: 2.2.12.132) Cause: Message has implicit destination From: vodacomballito(a)telkomsa.net on Tue Apr 10 13:07:17 2007 Subject: Date: 2007/04/10 01:06:37 PM Exception: LIFESTYLE CELLULAR (SiteID:4994) (Version: 2.2.12.133) Cause: Message has implicit destination From: active(a)sello.co.za on Tue Apr 10 13:59:29 2007 Subject: Date: 10/04/2007 01:58:53 PM Exception: SELLO ACTIVE CELLULAR (SiteID:5045) (Version: 2.2.12.132) Cause: Message has implicit destination ------------------------------------------- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------ For super low premiums, click here http://www.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm

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Bounced messages with Mailman 2.1 and Postfix 2.5 Virtual Mailboxes
by Jennifer Redman 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Hello! Trying to setup Mailman with Postfix 2.5 on FreeBSD 6.2. The web part works fine. However, the integration with Postfix -- not so good, appears to be something to do with the Virtual Mailbox setup. Messages keep bouncing with : The mail system <main(a)foo.org> <main(a)freejen.org> (expanded from <main(a)lists.blah.org> <main(a)lists.buunabet.org>): unknown user: "main(a)foo.org" <main(a)freejen.org> Below please find my main.cf and mm_cfg.py, vhosts, and vmaps. I've pretty much tried every modification I can find in the postfix/mailman/freebsd faq's, docs in addition to some tinkering of my own. When a list is created the virtual-mailman gets updated and "appears to be correct." Anyone able to take a look as say "oh this isn't working because of x?" Thanks, Jen Here is my main.cf: queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix command_directory = /usr/local/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix mail_owner = postfix mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.0/8 xxx.xx.xx.xx/29 debug_peer_level = 2 debugger_command = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5 sendmail_path = /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases_path = /usr/local/bin/newaliases html_directory = no manpage_directory = /usr/local/man sample_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix readme_directory = no alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases myorigin = $mydomain mailbox_size_limit = 0 inet_interfaces = all #Virtual Mailboxes for blah.org, foo.org, blah.com virtual_mailbox_domains = /usr/local/etc/postfix/vhosts.txt virtual_mailbox_base = /var/spool/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/vmaps.txt virtual_minimum_uid = 100 virtual_uid_maps = static:1002 virtual_gid_maps = static:1002 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/valias.txt, hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman # For SMTP-AUTH smtpd_use_tls = yes smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/newname.pem smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/newname.pem #smtpd_tls_CAfile = /usr/local/etc/postfix/ssl/permit.pem smtpd_tls_loglevel = 3 smtpd_tls_received_header = yes smtpd_tls_session_cache_timeout = 3600s tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom #For SMTP-AUTH smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_relay_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated #Mailman recipient_delimiter = + owner_request_special = no Here are the relevant entries from mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.blah.org' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.blah.org' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) MTA = 'Postfix' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['lists.blah.org'] Entries from vhosts.txt: foo.org OK blah.org OK blah.com OK lists.blah.org OK Entries from vmaps: jen(a)foo.org foo.org/jen/ jen(a)blah.org blah.org/jen/ jen(a)blah.com blah.com/jen/

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Announcement List
by Mark Bomgardner 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

I am using Mailman 2.1.9 with an announcement list. I don't want to use the moderated option, so I am using the Approved: <password> option. The problem is that this shows up in the announcement. Can this be removed and still allow the message to go through? markb

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removed subcribers still there
by Juan Miscaro 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

I have removed a lot of stale subscribers from my lists with the command $ remove_members --fromall <user(a)example.com> $ mailmanctl stop $ mailmanctl start I have also restarted my MTA (postfix). Nevertheless, my mail logs continue to show sending attempts to the removed addresses. The peculiarity here is that the subscribers happen to reside on my own internal domain. The accounts however do not exist. As expected, when I search for the recipients I see in my mail logs I do not find them: $ find_member .*\(a)example.com$ What's happening? I am running Mailman 2.1.8 on OpenBSD 4.0 with Postfix 2.3.2. Juan Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca

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does mailman filter
by Media Alliance JobFile 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

I have been sending an email to my list with the same subject, and it does not go to "pending moderator requests." I have tried about 10 times, and I am thinking it might be blocking me because it thinks I am spamming. Is this a possibility? My email is a job list, so it probably contains many spammy elements, like repetition and similar format. It is mostly plaintext with a bold here and there. Any help is appreciated.

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