Mailman 3 July 2007 - Mailman-Users

enhancement patches
by Brian Kantor July 19, 2007

July 19, 2007

I have a patch for mailman 2.1.9 that makes it direct all logging to the system syslog 'maillog'. We have found this useful. It can be viewed at http://noh.ucsd.edu/~brian/Mailman-syslog-patch How should I submit this patch for consideration to be included in a future release? - Brian

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searchable archive interface desired
by Datatude July 19, 2007

July 19, 2007

Hi there -- I'm a new & very lightweight mailman list owner, with almost no experience doing anything (beyond using the Plesk c.p.) on my domain server. One list I jsut started has already started accruing in the archives incredibly valuable technical information posted by my colleagues. However, it appears there is no Search feature for the archives. Is there an easy way to replace the UI for the archives so that they are searchable and return a hit-list of posts (preferable) or threads … [View More]

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problem in archiving the large mbox file
by alpesh gajbe July 17, 2007

July 17, 2007

I am not sure whether this mail belongs to the users or developers list so I am sending to both. Apologies. I have a large 1.2 GB mbox file which i need to archive, the messages in mbox typically have jpeg image attachments whose approximate image sizes is 4 KB. when i run arch script in /usr/lib/mailman/bin/ on my ubuntu 7.04 I get the following error *File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 172, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 31] Too many links: *My basic objective is to … [View More]

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Unsubscribe code
by Chuck Puckett July 17, 2007

July 17, 2007

Ooh, here's an embarrassment: I edited the user info page to be more "like" the rest of my web site (and to remove things that I didn't want the user to be able to do). Unfortunately, as I macheted the HTML, I apparently hacked away the form/text that deals with Unsubscribing. So I can no longer put my polite addendum in my mailings that instructs the recipient to visit that web page to unsubscribe, should they desire to do so. Now obviously, no one will desire to do so (J), but I should be … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Passing the list name to the cgi scripts, called with back...
by BobLaJolla＠aol.com July 17, 2007

July 17, 2007

In a message dated 7/17/2007 1:16:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, msapiro(a)value.net writes: >Hi Mark - hope I don't sound obtuse, but how would I apply the above to my >backtick perl script call? Disclaimer: I am not a Perl programmer. $ENV(PATH_INFO) = "/somelist"; $listinfo_output = `/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo`; -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> This worked: $ENV{'PATH_INFO'} = "/somelist"; $listinfo_output = `/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/… [View More]

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Passing the list name to the cgi scripts, called with backticks in Perl
by BobLaJolla＠aol.com July 17, 2007

July 17, 2007

Hello, In order to utilize my site's dynamic header, footer, banner ad programs, etc., I am generating the mailman HTML enveloping content with a Perl script, and calling mailman's cgi scripts, as appropriate, using a shell command. Example below: $listinfo_output = `/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo`; Note backticks to invoke this script from the shell in my Perl script. This successfully loads the variable "$listinfo_output" with the output from the mailman/cgi-bin/… [View More]

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Administrivia Checks
by Barry Finkel July 17, 2007

July 17, 2007

I am converting most of our Majordomo lists to Mailman. After I converted one list, the list administrator sent the command who LISTNAME to the converted list. It was not caught as administrivia. In the 2.1.9 source Utils.py, I see ADMINDATA = { # admin keyword: (minimum #args, maximum #args) ... 'who': (0, 0), Is there a reason why the max #args for "who" is not set to 1 or 2 to catch these commands? who password listname who listname who … [View More]

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Newsgroup interface and registration
by David Beaumont July 17, 2007

July 17, 2007

Our usenet newsgroup 'annexcafe' have started requiring registration, to prevent spamming of the newsgroup. However since they did this the interface with out mailman list has stopped working both ways. Emails no longer get posted to the newsgroup and newsgroup postings no longer get sent out as emails. The newsgroup now requires users to log in with their username and password, but there is no option to put login details into mailman that I can find. We have mailman v 2.1.8 Has any had … [View More]

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Format conversion - round 2
by Bill Suarez July 17, 2007

July 17, 2007

All, I made the suggested changes to convert text/html to plain text and it did improve the situation. However I am still seeing a problem when a post originates from Hotmail. The "body" of the message ends up being an attachment and the Mailman inserted footer (our disclaimer) is all that is in the body of the message. Any further guidance here? Thanks in advance, Bill Suarez _________________________________________ Bill Suarez - mailto:wsuarez@wsuarez.com http://www.wsuarez.com/

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Messages are not delivered?
by Mohammad Reza jamshidian July 17, 2007

July 17, 2007

Dear friends, I have made a mailing list by Mailman. I tested that by subscribing 3 emails and sent email to the list. All the emails delivered. After I subscribed about 20,000 people to list, I tried again to send another post. The post is not delivered to none of my colleagues emails!! and I guess it must not be delivered no where else. I am in hurry to send email to the users to announce an exhibition. Anybody can help? Best for all, Mohammad … [View More]

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