Mailman-Users November 2008

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62 participants
82 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

I want all mails sent to the list to come from the list's email address... But, in this case, if the user forgets to sign their name at the bottom of their mail body, effectively the mail to the list is anonymous...! Is there a way to add the user name (or email address) to the top of each mail so that the mails have the name of the sender, while the mail itself comes from the list address? I have looked high and low for an answer, but noone seems to have the solution. Thank you! Mal

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Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hi - I have searched FAQ and archives to find an answer. Hoping you can help. I have a new list (with previously imported addresses) for announcements only, and wish these announcements to be received immediately. I set the defaults to allow non-digest and to not allow digest. I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text. QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode? If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default? Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so? Thanks - Steve

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Changing the received time on an outgoing authorized email message?
by Paul Key 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

When authorizing a moderated list posting is it possible to change the date/time on the outgoing authorized list message to the time it was approved instead of the message showing the time it was first received by mailman? Thanks Paul

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not really an umbrella?
by Gruver, Sandi 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Mailman 2.1.5 on RedHat Linux - How can I set up a new list that sends to multiple existing lists - but only sends one message to each person - even if the person is a member of multiple lists? a. LSOFT calls this a "superlist" b. Can "Mailman" do this? c. In this case, we have a system newsletter that will be sent to multiple lists. I'd like people to receive the message only once, even if they are on more than one of the lists included in the mailing. Thank you, Sandi Gruver Unix system administrator Center for Information Services Bellevue, WA 98004 phone 425.803.9753 fax 425.803.9652

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Mailman/Qmail/Plesk Problem
by Douglas G. Phillips 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

OK, I've got another problem with Qmail/Plesk/Mailman (same customer, rebuilt server). Plesk is 7.5.4 reloaded. Mail delivered fails with "need GID 110 got 101" error. I set up the brute-force wrapper to deliver with GID 110, and set the permissions correctly for it to work. Now, I'm getting the following (broken up into multiple lines for courtesy): qmail: 1157518628.995172 delivery 726: success: group_mismatch_error._Mailman_expected_the_mail_wrapper_script_to_be/ executed_as_one_of_the_following_groups:/[mail,_nobody,_mailman],/ but_the_system's_mail_server_executed_the_mail_script_as_group:_"popuser"./ Try_tweaking_the_mail_server_to_run_the_script_as_one_of_these_groups:/ [mail,_nobody,_mailman],/or_re-run_configure_providing_the_ command_line_option:/'--with-mail-gid=popuser'./Failed_to_start_ /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman./did_0+0+1/ I'm about ready to pull my hair out. I even added the popuser user to the mailman group in /etc/passwd. So, that being said, are there any ideas out there? I have been messing with this for a week, and have not come up with anything else to do. -- Douglas G. Phillips Simple Business Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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changing message number
by Mustafa Akgul 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Hello, I will move a few lists to mailman, from ecartis. I want to retain message numbers, and continue current sequence. So I need to start message number from a non-zero number. How can I do that ? I am new to mailman. I can undump, config.pck, I can chnage post-id. I do not know, how to put that fiile in pck format. Secondly, I manage to change post-id, will it break anything else ? Regards Mustafa Akgul

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when does logs/post get updated?
by Ricardo Kleemann 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hi, I'm having some problems with my lists recently. I see in my mail log that "mailman post" has been called. However, when I look in the logs/post file, it's been almost 24 hours since anything has been written there. I'm running mailman on Ubuntu Hardy, and another weird thing is that whenever I stop mailman, it always leaves at least one process hanging around. I have to forcefully kill it. After I stop it, I still see: list 3833 0.0 0.4 83076 7540 ? Ss 08:29 0:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s -q start list 3842 0.1 2.5 105372 38148 ? S 08:29 0:01 /usr/bin/python /var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s Even more strange when I reboot the machine, I'll see 2 entire sets of mailman processes, almost as if the mailman start had been called twice. In any case, right now it seems that mailman has stopped accepting posts. Is there a way to get more debug from mailman when "mailman post" is called? I don't see any errors, yet I don't see the post log file updating. Ricardo

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Mailman Site Admin email Problem
by Sean Murphy 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Mailman used to send me an email as the "site admin" that a new list has been created. I use the web interface to create new lists. This email had the aliases I needed to add to the /etc/mail/aliases file in the body of the email. I have upgraded Mailman months ago but didn't notice that I had not been receiving this until now as the lists were already setup. I know I can run the genaliases command to get the same output but I fear I am not seeing all of the mailman site admin email. Is the email sent from a python script to an alias? is it specified in a config file?

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list tilts!!
by faisal anif 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

hi, I have 5 lists, list1, list2, list3, list4, and list5.. all the lists are working fine except list4, when adding or removing members from list4 it just tilts and nothing happens.. either by MASS SUBSCRIBE, or MASS REMOVAL or using add_members or remove members via SSH it just holds and nothing happens even if I left it for 30 minutes.. nothing until I click Ctrl+C to return to the command line.. what could be the problem? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

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html and footer attachment
by bergenpeak＠comcast.net 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

I've got a tool which generates html mail to a number of mailman lists. I recently converted this to send html formatted mail. The mailman attached footer (the four liner footer which details info about the list) is now being delivered as an attachment to each mail. Is there a way to get mailman to associate this footer to be just a continuation of the html mail body? Thanks

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