Mailman 3 November 2008 - Mailman-Users

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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show both list and user address in the header
by Bettina Olker 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Hello, is there a way to use the anonymous_list function, but add the original user mail address somewhere in the header/mail? I'd like to use the list name in the "from" field (to make it easily recognizable in the mail program), but also offer the possibility of a direct reply to the user by adding the user's mail address. Thanks for your help B. Olker

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How can I get an ascii dump of the mailman users list for a backup?
by Robin McCain 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

I need to backup my mailman database and do some user maintenance - how can I get a .csv file or something similar so I can compare the present list to the list I entered 6 months ago? I tried to install Mailman using MySQL so this would be easy to do, but it ignored MySQL and created its own database. Are there any tools to extract statistical data out of the mailman database?

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Stored attachments in /var/lib/mailman/archives/private
by win_tho 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hello, I'm using mailman in combination with Plesk. Now I discovered, that mailman stores all attachments under /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/<maillist_name>, but the archive-function of Mailman is disabled in every single list. My Question: Why does mailman store all these filen, respectively is there any way to delete these attachments automaticly? Thanks in advance! Thomas -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Stored-attachments-in--var-lib-mailman-archives-priva… Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Monthly password reminders not functioning
by Rob 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, Using v.2.1.9 on Mac OS X Server v10.5.5 Everything else is working nicely, but I just realized that our monthly password reminders are not being sent. I can manually trigger a password reminder using the options page 'Remind' button, and that goes through immediately. I have checked all of the mailman logs and don't see anything suspicious. Any clues on where I would start looking for the root of this problem? Thanks in advance, -Rob McLear

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Minimal mailman
by Rich Winkel 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, I'm trying to set up a very minimal installation here, I'm the sole list manager and all administrative stuff goes through me, so I don't need or want a web interface, just simple command-line stuff would work for me. I can't find any instructions specific to this setup, although it's apparently a fairly common issue. Is there any info out there? Thanks, Rich

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Re: [Mailman-Users] privacy options, SPAM, regex
by Helmut Schneider 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

>> Helmut Schneider wrote: >>> >>> I have lots of problems with out-of-office replies. I tried to set up >>> a few filter rules using 2.1.10. Unfortuantely they don't catch them. >>> Are the expressions case sensitiv? Are the expressions basic or >>> extended? >>> What I tried yet: >>> >>> ^subject:.*Accepted.* >>> ^subject:.*Declined.* >>> ^subject:.*is out of office.* >> >> >> There are two different filters at # Privacy options... ->Spam filters, >> and they work differently. >> >> The more flexible of the two is header_filter_rules. For >> header_filter_rules the regexps are matched against a multi-line >> string containing all the unfolded headers in the message, both >> message headers and sub-part headers. The regexp is a python regexp >> <http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax> and >> the headers are searched >> <http://docs.python.org/library/re.html#re.search> for a match of the >> regexp in MULTILINE and IGNORECASE mode. This means the '^' matches >> the beginning of the string or the null character immediately >> following a newline and the match is case insensitive. Thus your above >> expressions look good. > > That's weird. Messages still pass with e.g. > > Subject: [Somelist] Declined: Invitation to workshop on 13rd Dec. 2008 > > in the Header. Do I need to escape the colon? Or something else? Interesting, with "^subject:.*Declined.*" Subject: Declined: [Somelist] Invitation to workshop on 13rd Dec. 2008 matches while Subject: [Somelist] Declined: Invitation to workshop on 13rd Dec. 2008 does not. Huh?!

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Mass update settings of multiple lists
by Singbartl, Thomas 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi there, we have mailman set up to generate (script-controlled) about 60 lists out of our school management system. Now we figured we have to change only one parameter, but on every list. Is there an easy way to update just one setting on multiple lists? Cheers, Thomas

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privacy options, SPAM, regex
by Helmut Schneider 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi, I have lots of problems with out-of-office replies. I tried to set up a few filter rules using 2.1.10. Unfortuantely they don't catch them. Are the expressions case sensitiv? Are the expressions basic or extended? What I tried yet: ^subject:.*Accepted.* ^subject:.*Declined.* ^subject:.*is out of office.* Thanks, Helmut

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Import list of users with moderated setting
by Hung Phan 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hello, folks We try to import a list with members that are moderated for not-send. We look at options for list_members and not see one specifically for preserve moderated setting. Is the setting stores somewhere and can be backup? Going through 3000 users to set the moderated bit doesn't sound fun :) We using Mac OS 10.5 Thank you in advance for any advice,

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