Mailman 3 February 2008 - Mailman-Users

Need ability to allow emails with specific subject line
by Savoy, Melinda 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

I am new to the administrative functions of CPANEL and I've tried reading the Mailman online manual at the Python website but I cannot find an answer to my question. I have setup several email lists whereby only specific email addresses are accepted to go through to those defined in the email list. I would like to create the ability whereby if an email has specific text in the SUBJECT then, like the accepted email addresses, I would like these emails to be accepted as well and go through to those defined in the email list. I tried using the SPAM filter where in the regex textbox I entered: Subject: Here is my text but this did not work. Any direction or suggestion on how to best accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Regards. Melinda Savoy Sr. Programmer Analyst Financial Applications - Enterprise Systems 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] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 41
by Thomas J Casey 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Help please remove me from distribution. Jacsdad aka Thomas J Casey Upon his retirement, a former NASCAR Winston Cup Champion was quoted: "the Older I get... the Better I was" -----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-bounces+jacsdad=nc.rr.com(a)python.org [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+jacsdad=nc.rr.com@python.org] On Behalf Of mailman-users-request(a)python.org Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:04 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 48, Issue 41 Send Mailman-Users mailing list submissions to mailman-users(a)python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mailman-users-request(a)python.org You can reach the person managing the list at mailman-users-owner(a)python.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mailman-Users digest..."

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Dumb question from a newby - Re-Phrased
by quinnten＠cheerful.com 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

I appreciate y'all's responses. RESPONSE: "....Unless you really need the excitement of the technical administration, sticking with the moderation/human issues may be the best solution....." ME: I DO WANT THE EXCITEMENT AND THE FINER CONTROL OF TECHNICAL ADMINISTRATION. There is a good FAQ on making a Mailman list do what you want. It is not hard and requires no hacking at all. Just proper setting of parameters available from the web interface(s). RESPONSE: "....There is a good FAQ on making a Mailman list do what you want. It is not hard and requires no hacking at all. Just proper setting of parameters available from the web interface(s)...." ME: <<<<NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT... WHERE IS/ARE THE WEB-INTERFACE(S)>>> 2ND QUESTION: Can Mailman be ran on with a simple POPMAIL account..... <<<<LIGHTBULB>>>>... oops.. sorry guys/gals.. I just remembered... the last time I did this I had a domain name and my web hoster provided the Mailman Interface. In leui of a hosting service ...... are there any other pretty good interfaces BESIDES Yahoo Groups? Better yet, I'll search for one myself... unless anyone wants to comment. Again, I sincerely appreciate all your help. Sometimes you just need a sounding board. THANX, Q -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com!

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mailmain starting twice
by Zbigniew Szalbot 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

Hello, I am using mailman 2.1.9 on a FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. My rc.conf only has one mailman entry defined: $ cat /etc/rc.conf |grep -c mailman 1 $ cat /etc/rc.conf |grep mailman mailman_enable="YES" However, when I restart the system, there are 16 qrunners. When I do /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl stop it shuts down 8 qrunners, leaving the others 8 running. When I repeat the procedure, it asks me that perhaps the qrunners aren't running (no pid) but greping ps ax shows 8 qrunners active. In the end I had to kill the master qrunner to make the other qrunners disappear. Then I started mailman manually and it worked as expcted (showing 8 qrunners in process list). Any advice how to debug this? Other than that Mailman has been running great! Thank you! -- Zbigniew Szalbot

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Dumb question from a newby
by quinnten＠cheerful.com 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

This is a question from a complete novice so don't humor me with "there's no such thing as a dumb question". Beckground: I worked in IT for many years back in the days of DOS 3.3, Lotus 1-2 -3 and Word Perfect. I've even had the fun of being the sole Administrator of a Novell Netware network (no bosses) back in the dark days of computing. Question: Not being happy with the new fangled and pre-packaged Yahoo Groups, I'd like to manage my own mailing list. I like to do it myself. Once upon a time I stumbled across a web-based interface for creating a Mailman mailing list. I even set up a prototype kinda list as a Newsletter (with nobody able to post except me/the owner). Then other passions consumed me. I had a problem with alcohol that I'm proud to say I have under control. But for the life of me, I cannot remember where on "World Wide" Web I did this. Any help given would be appreciated. In the absence of such help, can anyone refer to a a *GOOD* place to start as far as getting started? This newsletter is very important. Although this list is exlusively for Mailman... are there any other suggestions? Or is Mailman a good place to start for someone who is a little bit familiar with batch files, scripts, CPL's for the AS/400 and such? ThanX, Q -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com!

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Footer Question
by Bruce Clark 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

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.

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No subscription is made despite confirmation
by Henrik Rasmussen 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

One of my list administrators have celled me regarding some users not being subscribed to a list. Mailman have sent the users in question a confirmation ticket, and the subscribe log shows that the users have been put in pending mode. Jan 31 13:09:33 2008 (2223) listname: pending me(a)privacy.net <mailto:me@privacy.net> me(a)privacy.net <mailto:me@privacy.net> When the users returned the mail, Mailman issued a New command Jan 31 13:11:29 2008 (2223) listname: new "me(a)privacy.net <mailto:me@privacy.net> " <>, via email confirmation but still the users wasn't subscribed (list_members listname still did not show the user as member of the list). A few days later one of the users retried subscribing, and the same happened. The log does not show any signs that the user have tried unsubscribing (deleted). According to the error log at the particular time, Mailman seems to have failed subscribing the user. Jan 31 11:36:09 2008 (2223) SHUNTING: 1201775768.8376081+629ed6771846a9304e6eca2178f2047980aa8630 Jan 31 13:10:06 2008 (2223) Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf8 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128) Jan 31 13:10:06 2008 (2223) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 237, in _dispose res.process() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 110, in process stop = self.do_command(cmd, args) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 135, in do_command return self.do_command(cmd, args) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 137, in do_command return handler.process(self, args) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Commands/cmd_confirm.py", line 86, in process if line.lstrip() == match: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xf8 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128) >From the log entries above, can some of you explain to me what might be wrong? Henrik

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Error compiling mailman 2.1.9
by Mario Silva Borrego 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hi guys: I am trygin to compile mailman 2.1.9 and I got this error: configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time My gcc version is: gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9) My Linux distribution is: CentOS 4.3 I am calling the configure with this little script: CONTENTDIR=/var/www PROG=mailman # Installation directories MMDIR=/usr/lib/${PROG} VARMMDIR=/var/lib/${PROG} DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/${PROG} CONFIGDIR=/etc/${PROG} DATADIR=${VARMMDIR}/data LOCKDIR=/var/lock/${PROG} LOGDIR=/var/log/${PROG} PIDDIR=/var/run/${PROG} QUEUEDIR=/var/spool/${PROG} HTTPDCONFDIR=/etc/httpd/conf.d HTTPDCONFFILE=${PROG}.conf # Now, the user and group the CGIs will expect to be run under. This should # match the user and group the web server is configured to run as. The scripts # will error out if they are invoked by any other user. cgiuser=apache cgigroup=apache # Now, the user and group the scripts will actually execute as. mmuser=mailman mmuserid=41 mmgroup=mailman mmgroupid=41 # Directory/File modes & permissions dirmode=2775 exemode=2755 # Now, the groups your mail spoolers run as. Sendmail uses mail(12) # and postfix used to use nobody, but now uses postfix mailgroup="mail postfix mailman nobody daemon" # Python binary __python=/usr/bin/python # The mail wrapper program mail_wrapper=mailman ./configure --prefix=${MMDIR} \ --prefix=${MMDIR} \ --with-var-prefix=${VARMMDIR} \ --with-config-dir=${CONFIGDIR} \ --with-lock-dir=${LOCKDIR} \ --with-log-dir=${LOGDIR} \ --with-pid-dir=${PIDDIR} \ --with-queue-dir=${QUEUEDIR} \ --with-python=${__python} \ --with-mail-gid=${mailgroup} \ --with-cgi-id=${cgiuser} \ --with-cgi-gid=${cgigroup} \ --with-mailhost=localhost.localdomain \ --with-urlhost=localhost.localdomain \ --without-permcheck -- Mario Silva Borrego Systems Administrator Supreme Court of New Mexico Judicial Information Division 2905 Rodeo Park Dr. East, Bldg. #5 Santa Fe, NM 87505 Phone: (505) 476-6959 / Mobil: (505) 660-1026 Fax: (505) 476-6952 Website: http://www.nmcourts.gov mailto: mario.silva(a)nmcourts.gov LEGAL DISCLAIMER: The content of this data transmission is not considered as an offer, proposal, understanding, or agreement unless it is confirmed in a document signed by a legal representative of Supreme Court of the State of New Mexico or the Judicial Information Division. The content of this data transmission is confidential and it is intended to be delivered only to the addresses, therefore, it shall not be distributed and/or disclosed through any mean without the original sender's previous authorization. If you are not the addressee you are forbidden to use it, either totally or partially, for any purpose. AVISO LEGAL: El contenido de este mensaje de datos no se considera oferta, propuesta o acuerdo, sino hasta que sea confirmado en documento por escrito que contenga la firma autógrafa del apoderado legal de La Suprema Corte del Estado de Nuevo Mexico o de la Division de Informatica del Estado. El contenido de este mensaje de datos es confidencial y se entiende dirigido y para uso exclusivo del destinatario, por lo que no podrá distribuirse y/o difundirse por ningún medio sin la previa autorización del emisor original. Si usted no es el destinatario, se le prohíbe su utilización total o parcial para cualquier fin.

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Update member's fullname
by Fabiano Caixeta Duarte 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Hi folks! I realized that there are scripts for automating creation, deletion end listing of list's members. How can I update (actually insert) member's fullname in batch mode? I have a file which contains member's fullname and e-mail address. Members were added to mailman with any names associated. Thanks in advance! -- Fabiano Caixeta Duarte Especialista em Redes de Computadores Linux User #195299 Ribeirão Preto - SP

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Announce only mailing list
by Adam Gabriel 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

I want to create a list that's only used for announcements, and only one or two member can post to it. I have made users moderated by default, and set the moderation to reject posts from mod'ed users. I also set it to discard all non-member posts. It seems to work how I want it to, but I just wanted to make sure of a few things... Is this the best way to do it? Is there something else I need to do to make this work the best way (best practices)? Can someone spoofs a user's email addresses that IS allowed to send to the list (the non-mod'ed users)? Is there a way to stop that (besides changing moderation to all posts being held)? Thanks in Advance! -Adam

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