Mailman 3 February 2008 - Mailman-Users

Automated moderation
by Richard Smits Feb. 21, 2008

Feb. 21, 2008

Hello, I have a difficult problem. (Maybe not for you) Every day we do an import and a member_sync for a couple of lists. # Postings from any of these non-members will be automatically accepted # with no further moderation applied. Add member addresses one per # line; start the line with a ^ character to designate a regular # expression match. accept_these_nonmembers = We have lists where people has to mail to, and which they are a member of. So the [Privacy-options, accept_these_non_members] do not work...., because they are a member.... You have to uncheck the moderate square in the member list. My question is : can we have 1 list of addresses which can mail to the list. Now we have to make an exception for the people who are a member of the list. (We are doing an automated script import etc... so this is an issue for us) Or am i missing something ;-) Greetings.... Richard

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Newbie spam filter (regex) question
by Jason LaMar Feb. 21, 2008

Feb. 21, 2008

OK, forgive my ignorance, but I'm trying to add a Spam Filter rule that allows postings from a specific e-mail address -- as an exception to our normal filtering rules. It hasn't worked thus far, so what would be the proper (best) 'Spam Filter Regexp' entry to accept any messages from this example address: some.person.name(a)gmail.com I know this should be easy and that I'm just missing something silly, so any quick help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jason _________________________ Jason LaMar Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH 43015 IP Tel: 740-368-3131 | AIM/Yahoo IM: jasonrlamar Fax: 740-368-3272 | Web: http://www.owu.edu/

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Mailman not sending mail to list members
by Dave Filchak Feb. 21, 2008

Feb. 21, 2008

Hello, I am running Mailman version 2.1.6 and recently had to move my servers from one data center to another. This necessitated a change of IPs. Since the move, Mailman has refused to send out posts from my lists. Mail gets to the host and is redirected through aliases to the proper location, but then seemingly disappears. To be truthful, mail from the test list does show up very sporadically, sometimes hours later. But ... 90% of the time .. nothing happens. I am also running" Linux ebony.zuka.net 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jun 8 17:54:20 CDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This is CentOS release 4.1 (Final) This is Perl version 5.008005 (5.8.5) This is MailScanner version 4.63.8 I have checked all the logs and can find nothing that sticks out. Nothing, other than the IP numbers have changed after the move. I am stumped so I am hoping someone might be able to suggest somewhere to look and some sort of troubleshooting that I may have missed. Cheers Dave

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bounce question
by Roberto Gherardi Feb. 20, 2008

Feb. 20, 2008

Hi, I have a problem whit the bounce. I would like to know if I can redirect all messages bounce (managed by the engine internal mailman) of a particular news letter on a specific address e-mail Many Thanks RGdC

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Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce question
by Barry Finkel Feb. 20, 2008

Feb. 20, 2008

>Hi, > >I have a problem whit the bounce. > >I would like to know if I can redirect all messages bounce (managed by the >engine internal mailman) of a particular news letter on a specific address >e-mail > > >Many Thanks > >RGdC You can change the aliases file /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (on my Mailman 2.1.9 Ubuntu) by adding to the line: LISTNAME-bounces: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces LISTNAME" this text: ,user(a)example.com This, I believe, will send the bounces for the LISTNAME both to the normal Mailman bounce processor and to the specified e-mail address. Note that if Mailman auto-regenerates the alias file, your change will be lost. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Need ability to allow emails with specificsubject line
by Savoy, Melinda Feb. 20, 2008

Feb. 20, 2008

Well I found a workaround for my problem. I used in the CGIEmail, as was suggested yesterday, to just use an email address in the FROM line of my CGI form file that was accepted by the email list and it worked famously. I don't know why I had not thought of that but I appreciate the insight and direction that was given. Thanks so much for all the help and the responses. Jason, thanks for all your help and the code that you gave. I may be using it in the future. Thanks so much. Regards. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Pruim [mailto:japruim@raoset.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:58 PM To: Savoy, Melinda Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Need ability to allow emails with specificsubject line Hi Melinda, I haven't done much with CGI myself, but I guess you would just have to change the form to process this new script :) Obviously make sure to change any of contact(a)raoset.com to what ever you want it to be. And this form is setup to use the POSt method, but can be changed to use GET... Let me know if you have any questions about it. And if you improve it, definitely let me know... This was something I cooked up on my own, and there could be issues with it, but it's been working great for me for about a year with no spam... But that could be because I don't allow hardly any spam into my system... Or I'm just lucky :) I went ahead and zipped both the php script, and my webpage that I display to gather the info, just so you can see how everything fits together. -- Jason Pruim Raoset Inc. Technology Manager MQC Specialist 3251 132nd ave Holland, MI, 49424 www.raoset.com japruim(a)raoset.com The information contained in this message and any attachments is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is PRIVILEGED, CONFIDENTIAL, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are prohibited from copying, distributing, or using the information. Please contact the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the original message from your system.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer Question
by Barry Finkel Feb. 20, 2008

Feb. 20, 2008

> >Hi All, > >Apologies if this is a bit simple; I have looked through the FAQ... > >I have a bit of footer text which I put in msg_footer (digest and non >digest). > >Some people can see it, but some people cannot. Those that cannot see it, >get a small file as an attachment (ATT). > >Am I doing something wrong, or would this be specific to a mail client? > >Thanks, > >Bruce. Maybe this FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.039.htp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 41
by Jan Steinman Feb. 20, 2008

Feb. 20, 2008

> From: "Thomas J Casey" <jacsdad(a)nc.rr.com> > > Help please remove me from distribution. > > -----Original Message----- > ... > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users :::: Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power. -- Benito Mussolini :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com>

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Allowing posting to list "A" by members of list "B"?
by Beau James Feb. 20, 2008

Feb. 20, 2008

Thanks for the quick response. --> >At the same time, we'd like to allow member of the related list --> >still to be able to post (postings still to be moderated). That --> >is, we'd like the members of list "A" to be allowed to post to --> >list "B", without registering as members of list "B". --> --> There is a patch at --> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1220144&group_id=1…> --> which is included in the Mailman 2.1.10 base. This enables putting --> list B in one of list A's *_these_nonmembers via the syntax @listb. --> --> With Mailman 2.1.10 or with the patch in prior versions, you can put --> @listb in lista's hold_these_nonmembers to accomplish what you want. Perfect! --> >Any hints on how one might best accomplish this? --> --> It's as simple as installing the patch or upgrading to Mailman 2.1.10 --> (currently in beta with a release candidate due soon). All you need to --> do is convince your provider to do it.<wink> I'll take a run at that. Even if we don't get quick satisfaction, it's good to know that there is relief on the horizon. Thanks again. Beau

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Allowing posting to list "A" by members of list "B"?
by Beau James Feb. 20, 2008

Feb. 20, 2008

We sometimes have related but distinct mailing lists, e.g. one for coaches and one for referees in the same league. Both lists are moderated. We'd like to turn on the flag to allow postings (still moderated) only by members of the list. For the usual reason: SPAMmers are overwhelming the volunteer list moderators. At the same time, we'd like to allow member of the related list still to be able to post (postings still to be moderated). That is, we'd like the members of list "A" to be allowed to post to list "B", without registering as members of list "B". We could do this by, in effect, maintaining two copies of each mailing list: one is the actual mailing list "A", and the other is in the 'allowed posters' section of the list "B". (And vice-versa). This is rather painful to administer, of course. (Assuming both the mailing list memberships and the allowed posters lists are stored in files, one could create a script and cron job to periodically sync/merge the membership of list "A" into the "allowed posters" of list "B". Unfortunately, we do not have that kind of shell access to the our list server.) Any hints on how one might best accomplish this? Thanks. Beau

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