Mailman 3 December 2008 - Mailman-Users

multi-list admin report
by Fulvio Casali 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

I manage a few dozen lists on one domain, and I would like to get a view of all my lists at a glance, with info for each list: - #of subscribers, - names of moderators, - date of most recent post, - total# of posts, - etc. Is there such a control panel / admin report? I have version 2.1.11. Thanks! fulvio

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Multiple subscribers set in mailman
by swapan mitra 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi, I am new to mailman and I have List Administrator access only to the mailing list. Can I do the following and if yes how can I do that: We have series of messages (all messages are interlinked by topic) which we want to share with our mailing list subscribers. Now this is fine with already subscribed mailing list members. But who joins new into the same Mailing list we want to send them, messages from the first one and onwards how can we do that? As the new subscribers are only receives the current messages they will find meaning less content. I hope I can get some solutions for this. I am looking forward to have a solution for the requirement. Thanks in advance. Mr. Swapan Kumar Mitra Kolkata, WB, India. Mob:+91 0 98303 34580 E-mail Disclaimer This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. _________________________________________________________________ Wish to Marry Now? Join MSN Matrimony FREE! http://in.msn.com/matrimony

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Tend to pending moderator requests - Nothing happens
by hammond＠txcorp.com 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

When I select Accept (or any action)/ Submit All Data in the list of pending posts, nothing happens. The page is sent, because I see the URL at the top being refreshed, but the pending message is not deleted or accepted. /var/lib/mailman is nfs-mounted, and exported rw,no_root_squash to the apache server. I've been searching for a list of permissions/ownership for the directories. It must be a permissions issue?? Currently: drwxrwsr-x 6 root mailman 4096 Dec 5 12:10 . drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 4096 Aug 25 2007 .. drwxrwsr-x 4 apache mailman 4096 Jul 17 2007 archives drwxrwsr-x 2 apache mailman 12288 Dec 4 16:37 data drwxrwsr-x 64 apache mailman 4096 Dec 4 16:26 lists drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 4096 Oct 1 2006 spam mailman 2.1.9 Thanks in advance < Anne Anne M. Hammond - Systems / Network Administration

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confirm email never send out
by Hung Phan 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hello, folks Just discover this issue with our mailing list. Our lists are set with user confirm but when the user signup, the email never send out. The send log file doesn't list anything. Have anyone run across this issue? Thanks,

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listhost vs hostname vs host_name
by Will 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi - so we have an automated setup between a CMS forum and mailman to create lists, having a little confusion about what values to pass config_list trying to understand what these three values govern: listhost vs hostname vs host_name right now we set -e emailhost via newlist, this has resulted in some incorrect data displaying in emails. this seems to set the listhost value but not host_name or hostname. we are attaching all lists to a subdomain. so like somelist(a)sub.domain.com emails from the lists setup however are coming from somelist-bounces(a)domain.com and in the emails the post to email address is give as somelist(a)domain.com. postfix and mailman however are working find at accepting emails to somelist(a)sub.domain.com and processing them through the lists. so I thought, hmm... maybe we need to set hostname to 'sub.domain.com'. but I also see that the templates for emails have 2 different hostname params: hostname and host_name. can someone explain the differences between all there and how to get our list configurations right using the commandline commands for our subdomained lists? Thanks! oh PS - is there a command also to patch our existing lists to set the host name values correctly. thanks

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Shunting problem and suggestions
by Steve Campbell 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

I've got a single user out of approximately 250 that seems to always get shunted. It's a problem with extended character set characters being sent. She uses Outlook for an MUA. Can a user be whitelisted in any way to prevent the shunt tests from being done? Where might I look on her machine to discover what might be causing her Outlook to send these characters? We have many Outlook users, and she seems to be the only one with this problem? I'm guessing it's characters like the single and doulble quotation marks, as best as I can tell. I'm using mailman 2.1.5-1.25 RH rpm. Thanks Steve Campbell

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Problem with a single list
by Charlie Clark 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, we have a problem with just one of our mailing lists. Unfortunately I do not have direct access to the Mailman install. There are lots of errors of the form: Oct 16 21:45:01 2008 (2881) SHUNTING: 1224186301.857964+44d57ae24346f2e593571310b2fb5a9262fdf059 Oct 16 21:50:03 2008 (2881) Uncaught runner exception: bad marshal data Oct 16 21:50:03 2008 (2881) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Moderate.py", line 109, in process Hold.hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, Hold.NonMemberPost) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 207, in hold_for_approval id = mlist.HoldMessage(msg, reason, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 205, in HoldMessage self.__opendb() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 82, in __opendb self.__db = marshal.load(fp) ValueError: bad marshal data I have access to a copy of the Mailman install but I've not been able to work out how to check which file is defect. I can see that e-mails are still arriving and being processed and added to the archive but nothing is actually sent to the list. Other lists are fine. Any tips? Charlie Clark -- Charlie Clark Helmholtzstr. 20 Düsseldorf D- 40215 Tel: +49-211-938-5360 GSM: +49-178-782-6226

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Moving server and location
by Marc Beyer 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, I'm trying to move the lists and archives of an existing Mailman 2.1.8 installation to a new server with a newly installed 2.1.11 version. On the old server, everything was kept under /opt/mailman-2.1.8, whereas on the new one (due to disk space issues) the archives and lists should be kept separately under /var/adm. Both of this is on HP-UX btw. This is my configure-line for the new install: /configure --prefix=/opt/mailman-2.1.11/ --with-mail-gid=mailman --with-var-prefix=/var/adm/mailman The install worked fine as far as I can see. I then moved over the directories "archives", "lists" and "data" from the old server to the new one and fixed the symbolic links within archives to point at the new path. If I now run /opt/mailman-2.1.11/bin/list_lists it finds all the previously existing lists. check_perms also runs fine. Problem: both http://newserver.url/mailman/listinfo and http://newserver.url/mailman/admin say that there are no lists installed. What can I do to see these lists in the web interface? Also, shouldn't I be prompted for the old admin password at some point(where is that kept)? If there's any FAQ I've missed please be so kind as to point me to it, I've spent several hours scouring the online docs as well as the list archives but am still missing a solution. Cheers, Marc

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Duplicate detection: a plea
by Dan Mahoney, System Admin 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

We recently moved over to mailman from Ecartis at $dayjob, and one of the largest annoyances is that mailman seems to have no ability to strip duplicate messages that are sent to the lists. We moved over from our main domain name, foo.com, to lists.foo.com, so what happens is this: A user posts to list(a)foo.com -- the mailer forwards it to list(a)lists.foo.com. People reply to the list and hit reply-all, which directs replies to the LIST (listname(a)lists.foo.com) but also to the original recipient (list(a)foo.com). Bam, duplicates. I don't want to get into an evangelical holy-war about reply-all. We already had it here. I've seen mention of a fix for this via procmail, that basically creates a "lockfile" based on the message-id. Our mail server's not running procmail, and since it's only hosting lists, not and mailboxes, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to use it. All mailman would have to do is touch a per-list lockfile based on message-id (one line of shell), and then at some point in the posting process, if that lockfile exists, drop the message (as it's already come through). Cleanup is one line of shell (find foo -ctime xxx -delete) or can be handled from the qrunner. Heck, if you want to be fancy, give me a list of regexes that match recipients, and more than one must match to make this happen. I also tried sending this to the -developers list. No response. But maybe that's the wrong place since I'm not developing, or submitting a patch. Just saying I need a simple feature and could pay something for it if need be. Not something amazing, but enough for a nice dinner and drinks (or if you're local to silicon valley, I'll buy). Can mailman please have this functionality natively? -Dan -- --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------

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add admins and moderators
by faisal anif 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

hi, I have about 120 lists on my server for different customers, some are small (50 subscribers max) and some are medium and big (100 - 300 subscribers) I need to add my email address as a server owner to administrate and moderate the lists to make sure no illegal actions are taken.. is there a SSH command line that I can use to add my email as moderator or administrator instead of logging into the web interface of each list and adding it manually? if SSH is applicable I can make a script to do it automatically.. Thanks _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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