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 (second best)? Thanks! kazar

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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 archive 250GB of mails every month for two years . The size of which would exceed 7 Tera Bytes approx. Would this be a feasible option using mailman.(out of curiosity !!) What has been the largest mail archive volume anyone has ever deployed into mailman ? (out of curiosity !!) Regards -Alpesh

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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 gentleman enough to offer it. Can someone send me the code that would normally display that options? Thanks Chuck "red-faced" Puckett, Esq., BS, ~MS, ThD www.puckettpublishing.com "The unexamined life is not worth living." (Socrates) "The unexamined faith is not worth believing." (Chuck) "Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind." (Arabian proverb) "I don't want to steal the show... I only want to borrow it for a while." (Chuck)

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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/listinfo`; Thank you so much! :oD Bob R ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

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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/listinfo command, from there I can print or extract content from the HTML as useful. My problem is, to get any list-specific output from the mailman/cgi-bin/* scripts, I need to be able to pass the listname to the script - and I can't figure out how to do this with the shell command. If I follow the standard syntax from the web (e.g. `/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/somelist`) the shell looks for a non-existent program in the non-existent listinfo directory (listinfo is, of course, a script). Using the scheme outlined above, how can I pass the listname to the various cgi-bin scripts from mailman to capture their list-specific output for customized pages? I do realize there are templates for customizing the HTML, but these are not useful for server side include files and scripts, on which my site depends heavily. Thanks in advance... :o) Bob R ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

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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 listname address=<address> Is it because the revised code would catch this (and similar) lines: Who is it? 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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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 this problem and got round it? Or anyone know of newsgroup providers that don't require login? Or of any software that does emails, web based forums and newsgroups in one? Thanks David

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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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091

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