Mailman 3 January 2008 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ghost Moderator Requests
by Dennis Putnam 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

At 07:28 PM 1/30/2008, you wrote: >Did it? > >-- >Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, >San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > Sorry for not getting back to you, I've been unusually busy. Yes, it did. Thanks.

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Efficient handling of cross-posting
by Mikhail T. 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hello! Our site uses mailman to host many mailing lists. Sometimes a person would find it necessary to post to several of the lists at once incurring irritation of the subscribers for the following reasons: 1. People subscribed to more than one list will get the same message multiple times. 2. The same message will be stored in multiple archives increasing their size. 3. The same message will come up multiple times in subsequent searches through the archives. Can our mailman installation be tweaked to eliminate all or some of the above undesirable effects? Thanks, -mi

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encodings in digest messages
by Vassilis Vatikiotis 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

hello all, Ive been having this problem with digests and encoding. Our lists are multilingual and since only a small fraction of the posts are written in utf our digests get garbled, with some parts being unreadable. Is there any way of setting up mailman so as to generate correct digests i.e. with more than 1 encodings ? To that end: I've set mime_is_default_digest = MIME on the web interface of list's digest page. But stil the digests I receive are unreadable when the text is other than english. >From the Digest headers: - Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" (Why? Ive set it to MIME. and why us-ascii? how can I change that?) - (don't know if this is relevant to the problem) - content-transfer-encoding: 7bit (why? I thought that this should be 8bit??? How do I control this?) I've search through mm_cfg and the Default but I couldn't find anything that could help.... any ideas? thx, bill vatikiotis ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Efficient handling of cross-posting
by Brad Knowles 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

On 1/28/08, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Well, depending on the archival method, a message can appear in both, with > only a single copy of it being stored. This can be achived, for example, > using symbolic (or even hard) links. We do not do a "single instance store" within the archiving system of Mailman, and I can pretty much guarantee you that we never will. That's not to say that this is necessarily a bad idea, but I think we have much, much more important issues to resolve -- and probably will, for the entire future history of Mailman. > Similarly, if a relational database is > employed, the same message can be referred to from multiple places. We don't employ a relational database within Mailman, or the archiving system. If you want to implement that kind of function according to the API and programming hooks that we provide, that would be completely and totally outside the scope of Mailman per se. > Hardlinks, for example, is how one IMAP-server (cyrus, I believe) stores > messages sent to multiple recipients. We do not implement any kind of IMAP or other user mailbox service with Mailman. If you want that, you should go somewhere else. > But I was referring to search-results only. Regardless of how the >messages are > stored, if I type the search string and select several of the mailing list > archives to search through, the same message may appear in my search results > more than once. That duplication should not happen -- I don't think, anyone > would disagree. I *violently* disagree with your claim. If a message was cross-posted to multiple mailing lists and indexed by Google, then Google will most certainly return multiple hits for the same message, and this is precisely what any proper search engine should do. De-duplication at this level is absolutely the worst thing you could do -- at least by default, although this could potentially be an alternative that the search engine author could offer as an alternative. -- Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>

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Edit monthly reminder?
by Mikael Hansen 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hello, I searched the archive, but could find no answer to my question. Is it possible to edit/modify the contents of the membership reminder that is sent out monthly by email? Mikael

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script to take debian /var/lib/mailman/vritual-mailman to /etc/postfix/relay_domains /etc/postfix/reply_recipients /etc/postfix/transport_maps
by Dan MacNeil 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

If you are running debian etch postfix with heavy spam filtering on one machine and debian etch mailman on another machine without much spam filtering this script will take the postfix virtual-mailman file on the listserv mailman machine and create the files needed by postfix to relay the mail to the listserv machine after spam filtering Changes to DNS and /etc/postfix/main.cf left as exercise to reader. ########### cut here ########## #!/usr/bin/perl -wT # copyright dan(a)thecsl.org # license GNU GPL v3 or later # (a bit self important to dignify # this hack w/ a license) # script converts contents of mailman-virtual # generated on csl-lists-01.thecsl.org to # form needed to postfix needed to relay to that host # see book of posfix chapter 13 'mail gateways' # before running: # from your listserv machine: # copy /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman # to: /tmp/ #... on your postfix machine use strict; # untaint $ENV{PATH}=''; my $VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_FILE = '/tmp/virtual-mailman'; my $RELAY_RECIPIENTS_FILE = '/etc/postfix/relay_recipients'; my $TRANSPORT_MAPS_FILE = '/etc/postfix/transport'; my $RELAY_DOMAINS_FILE ='/etc/postfix/relay_domains'; { #main warn_if_old_file($VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_FILE); my @emails = get_emails($VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_FILE); my @domains = get_domains(@emails); my @relay_domain_map_lines = map { sprintf "%-55s OK\n", $_ } @domains; my @transport_map_lines = map { sprintf "%-35s smtp:[$_]\n", "$_"; } @domains; my @relay_recipient_lines = map { sprintf "%-55s OK\n", $_ } @emails; write_and_postmap($TRANSPORT_MAPS_FILE,@transport_map_lines); write_and_postmap($RELAY_RECIPIENTS_FILE, @relay_recipient_lines); write_and_postmap($RELAY_DOMAINS_FILE, @relay_domain_map_lines); # reload postfix config my $cmd="/usr/sbin/postfix reload"; (system($cmd)==0) or die "FAILED: $cmd \n" } sub warn_if_old_file { my $file = shift; my $change_time = ( stat $file )[9]; warn "\n\n$file is more than an hour old. Did you forget to copy the new file?\n\n" if ( time() - $change_time > 3600 ); } sub get_emails { my $file = shift; my $IN; open $IN, $file or die "$! "; my @emails; while ( my $line = <$IN> ) { # next if $line !~ /lists.thecsl.org/; next if $line !~ /\@/; my $email = ( split /\s+/, $line )[0]; push @emails, $email; } @emails = sort @emails; close $IN or die "bad close: $!"; return @emails; } sub get_domains { my @emails = @_; my @domains; foreach my $email (@emails) { $email =~ /([\w_\-\.]+)$/; push @domains, $1; } my %unique_domains; foreach my $domain (@domains) { $unique_domains{$domain}++; } return sort keys %unique_domains; } sub write_and_postmap { my $file=shift; my @lines=@_; my $OUT_FH; open $OUT_FH, '>', $file or die "couldn't open $file for writing: $!\n"; print $OUT_FH @lines ; my $cmd="/usr/sbin/postmap $file"; (system($cmd)==0) or die "FAILED: $cmd "; } ########### cut here ##########

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Missing mail
by Melinda Gilmore 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

I am totally stumped, I have looked at all the logs including our mail logs. I send a message to a list and it just goes to lala land. I have attached a copy of the logs, hopeing somebody else eyes can see something I cannot, or another place to look. I have lookd in the mailman logs, and the email server logs Here are some logs of an email that did not go to the list, and no bounced messages. Jan 29 11:26:23 lists sendmail[11450]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m0TGQNHg011450: from=<gilmore.126(a)osu.edu>, size=2467, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<008d01c86294$b50a92b0$aef39280(a)ad.service.osu.edu>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=defang19.it.ohio-state.edu [128.146.216.133] Jan 29 11:26:23 lists sendmail[11451]: [ID 801593 mail.info] cd: to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post it_fin_team", ctladdr=<it_fin_team(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu> (101/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=32727, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Jan 29 11:26:23 lists sendmail[11450]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m0TGQNHg011450: from=<gilmore.126(a)osu.edu>, size=2467, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<008d01c86294$b50a92b0$aef39280(a)ad.service.osu.edu>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=defang19.it.ohio-state.edu [128.146.216.133] Jan 29 11:26:23 lists sendmail[11451]: [ID 801593 mail.info] m0TGQNHg011450: to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post it_fin_team", ctladdr=<it_fin_team(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu> (101/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=32727, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Melinda Gilmore Systems Engineer The Ohio State University Enterprise Messaging/OIT 614-292-4953

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Re: [Mailman-Users] {Disarmed} Re: Problem Bounce Processing Category
by Mark Sapiro 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Roberto Gherardi wrote: > >this is my log bounce : > <snip> >Jan 29 10:17:22 2008 (29795) sending prova1 list probe to: >m.lariccia-eds(a)libero.it (score 2.0 >= 2.0) The probe is not bouncing, or more likely it is bouncing but postfix is not delivering it back to Mailman, > > >this is my log postfix: <snip> >Jan 29 10:17:23 PRILNL01 postfix/cleanup[770]: EEC9411F73F: message-id=< >mailman.10.1201598242.29795.prova1(a)nli.inail.it> >Jan 29 10:17:23 PRILNL01 postfix/qmgr[27729]: EEC9411F73F: from=< >prova1-bounces+2274385f755d822304e48e7ea880d630703e9a6b(a)nli.inail.it>, >size=7833, nrcpt=1 (queue active) >Jan 29 10:17:24 PRILNL01 postfix/smtp[771]: EEC9411F73F: to=< >m.lariccia-eds(a)libero.it>, relay=10.243.255.112[10.243.255.112], delay=1, >status=sent (250 2.6.0 <mailman.10.1201598242.29795.prova1(a)nli.inail.it> >Queued mail for delivery) This is the send of the probe. Note that the envelope is from prova1-bounces+2274385f755d822304e48e7ea880d630703e9a6b(a)nli.inail.it The +2274385f755d822304e48e7ea880d630703e9a6b part is a token that identifies this particular probe when it bounces. There are a few possibilities: 1) The probe actually doesn't bounce. This is unlikely. 2) The probe bounces, but Postfix doesn't know that prova1-bounces+2274385f755d822304e48e7ea880d630703e9a6b(a)nli.inail.it should be delivered to prova1-bounces(a)nli.inail.it. Do you have recipient_delimiter = + in your Postfix main.cf (see postconf -n). You need this for this to work. Your Postfix log excerpt didn't go far enough to show the probe bounce if any. 3) The probe bounces after a delay that is long enough (3 days or more by default) that the probe token has expired. If your Mailman version is 2.1.6 or later, you can set VERP_PROBES = No (or remove VERP_PROBES = Yes) in mm_cfg.py to turn off the probe feature. If this is Mailman 2.1.5, VERP_PROBES cannot be turned off. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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really dumb question on getting started; extracting archive
by Holmes, Deb 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

How do you unzip the .tar and .gz files prior to install? For most applications that I'm running on my unix based web server, my process is to unzip on my Windows XP box prior to uploading to the web server. I know basically nothing about unix except how to post files and write simple .cgi code. I'm wanting to install mailman in conjunction with a WordPress plug-in and am pretty much expecting that between WordPress and the WP mailman plug in I won't need to know very much about the unix stuff underneath. But the archive format has me stumped before I even get out the gate. I searched the FAQ on "extract" and "unzip" and found nothing on point. I searched the archives for this mailing list and found 3 other people with the same question but none of the answers were helpful. One person suggested http://www.gzip.org, but that web page states that the solution for unzipping on a windows machine is to use winzip: "To extract .tar and .tar.gz files on Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP use <http://www.sfsu.edu/ftp/win/utils/> PowerArchiver 6.1 (freeware) or <http://www.7-zip.org> 7-zip (freeware) or <http://www.winzip.com> Winzip (commercial)." Winzip says the file format of the files downloaded from SourceForge isn't valid. Specifically the error when I try to extract mailman-2.1.10b1.tgz.gz is "invalid directory" And when I try to extract mailman-2.1.10b1.tar I get "Error reading header after processing 0 entries" Another respondent suggested the GNU installation manual , but those instructions go from this: 2.2 Create the installation directory You are now ready to configure and install the Mailman software. To this SECTION0013100000000000000003.1 Run configure Usually you can just cd to the directory you unpacked the Mailman source tarball into, and run configure with no arguments: Without ever stopping to say how to unpack the file. I'm sure it's obvious to those with passing familiarity with unix, but if its that easy it couldn't hurt to enumerate the steps could it? Thanks, in advance!

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problem Bounce Processing Category
by Barry Finkel 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

"Roberto Gherardi" <roberto.gherardi(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I have a problem with Bounce Processing Category's configuration. With >this configutation : > > >*bounce_processing = yes > >**bounce_score_threshold = 2.0 > >**bounce_info_stale_after = 365 > >**bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings = 2 > >**bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval = 5 > >**bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner = yes > >**bounce_notify_owner_on_disable = yes > >**bounce_notify_owner_on_removal = yes > >with this configuration after > > >The users which exceed the **bounce_score_threshold = 2.0 should be disabled >but it doesn't happen automatically . How can I resolve this problem ? What is not happening that you think should be happening? I believe what should occur is this - after the bounce_score reaches 2.0, the subscriber is set to NOMAIL. Then Mailman will send two "Your subscription is NOMAIL" warning messages to the subscriber. You have bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval = 5 so there will be an additional 10 days (2 warning messages sent to the subscriber) delay. If there is no reply to the second warning message, then finally the e-mail address will be unsubscribed from the list. Look at the list membership and see if the e-mail address in question has been set to NOMAIL [B]. I do not know the interval between the bounce_score reaching 2.0 and the sending of the first warning message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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