Mailman 3 March 2008 - Mailman-Users

Mailman does not deliver messages any more
by Tomasz Chmielewski 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Recently, Mailman stopped delivering messages to list members, administrators etc. The messages are archived just fine, I can browse them in a web interface, but it looks like Mailman does not want to deliver any message any more. There is nothing interesting in Mailman logs, nothing in mail server logs. The server had a crash recently, but everything else works just fine and I have really no idea what should I look for. Any clues? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org

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Mailman 2.1.6 and Office 2007 documents
by Whitcomb, Jeff 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Has anyone run into issues with the Barracuda SPAM filter catching emails sent through mailman 2.1.6 with the new Office 2007 format documents attached? The email admin says Barracuda is seeing the messages as containing a .zip attachment, not a .docx attachment. We disabled the .zip filtering temporarily to work around the problem. The email admin is contacting Barracuda to see if this is there problem, and I thought I would ping here to see if others might be having the same problem. Thanks in advance for any help or light you can shed on this issue. Jeff Whitcomb Technology Services Manager Member: Staff Advisory Council Cumberland School of Law - Samford University 205-726-4662 P Think before you print

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how do I delete a pending subsc request for the mailman list
by Steve Lindemann 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

When I installed mailman a default list called mailman was created (as I'm sure everyone here already knows) and I understood it was not used for anything but management. I've pretty much ignored it since the initial installation. Anyway, a member of one of our other lists somehow got herself listed as requesting a subscription to the mailman list. I keep getting this message every morning: > The Mailman(a)marmot.org mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for your > consideration at: > > http://email.marmot.org/mailman/admindb/mailman > > Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of > pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. > > Pending subscriptions: > xx.xxx(a)colostate-pueblo.edu (Xxx, Xx) Mon Mar 17 13:36:44 2008 Following the provided link doesn't take me to the usual login page, instead I end up on the generic listinfo page (email.marmot.org/mailman/listinfo). I can log into the list management interface for the mailman list, but when I click on the link to "Tend to pending moderator requests" I end up on the same general listinfo page instead. I found the controlling file(s) in /var/mailman/lists/mailman... leastwise the members name and address are in the request.pck file. Can I simply delete request.pck (and/or request.db) to clear this? Is there anything else I need to do to clear the pending subscription? Thanks! -- Steve Lindemann __ Network Administrator //\\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Marmot Library Network, Inc. \\// against HTML/RTF email, url: http://www.marmot.org //\\ vCards & M$ attachments email: mailto:steve@marmot.org voice: +1.970.242.3331 ext 116 fax: +1.970.245.7854

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list_lists -V is omitting a list
by Harold Paulson 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, When I run # bin/list_lists without arguments, it shows all of my lists, as I would expect. However, when I run: # bin/list_lists -V dom.ain It is omitting one list associated with that dom.ain, which I recently created. The list's host_name is set correctly (verified with config_list), and it works otherwise. Any ideas why it isn't showing up in list_lists -V? Thanks. - H -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFH6sHYOy/dHTCUq6oRAnJoAKDTDjyJpkPgr6J8TDTFmfTWc0CuZgCeLhC+ kZld2EPHAbnRichBzP6Xlm4= =J+0D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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export mailman lists
by CienciasAmbientales.com 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

I have search in the FAQ and ARCHIVE but not find a solution to migrate/export the mailman lists (users, config options, etc.) from one Server to another. Any help or link? Thanks Greetings from Spain. Antonio

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Adding html to the Archive page
by Admin 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

I was unable to find anything searching this list. Is there a simple way to add html to the archive output pages? I want to change the look and feel of every message in the archives, adding headers and footers there. Thanks

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Mailman discarding messages
by Zbigniew Szalbot 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hello, I am looking for help. One of my mailman lists suddenly started discarding messages sent to it. The list had certain non-member email address configured to post without moderation. It worked well. Today I changed the setting so that emails from that particular address should be held for moderation. However, message sent from this address now get discarded. At least that is what the vette log says and no post makes it to the list. I tried other tricks (1) setting the email address back as not requiring moderation, (2) subscribing the email address with moderation bit turned on, (3) subscribing the email address with moderation bit turned off. No matter what I do, I have not been able to post to the list. All messages are marked as discarded. I am using Mailman 2.1.9. What can I do to remedy this situation? Many thanks! -- Zbigniew Szalbot

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Mailman 2.2: automatic newaliases from GUI list creation?
by Chris Waltham 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Just a quick question, as it's certainly not a deal-breaker: will Mailman 2.2 support appending to /etc/{mail}/aliases, and the execution of the newaliases command? I understand that there are privilege concerns and security questions involved in this, but I'm curious to hear if there's a roadmap for this functionality or if it is too low-demand to be included. If it's the latter, my feelings won't be hurt! I am curious more than anything. Thanks, Chris Now at Mailman 2.1.9, so I can stop asking Mark questions about implementing 2.1 features in 2.0. :)

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Limiting the number of posts from a list member
by David Scribner 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

I am running Mailman 2.1.5 on OSX Tiger server. Is there any way of implementing a limit on the number of daily posts to a list from a member? We have a couple of members on one list that have nothing to do but send off posts to the list they belong to, some times 10 - 12 separate posts within a short period of time. I would like to be able to set a number of allowed posts for them to say 4 or 5 per day. Is this possible? Thanks David Scribner BI Consulting

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Content filtering problem...
by Glenn Sieb 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Hi everyone! I'm highly puzzled. I have a user trying to post on a list I own. She's getting "The message's content type was not explicitly allowed". The message is just a "Test post" from her, headers (anonymized) follow the email. There are *NO* entries in any of the mailman log files showing her posts being rejected or why. Postfix mail logs just show the outgoing mail from list-I-own-owner@.. going to her. Settings from content filtering: Should mailman filter? Yes Remove message attachments that have a matching content type: (blank) Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. Leave this field blank to skip this filter test: multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain Remove message attachments that have a matching filename extension: exe bat cmd com pif scr vbs cpl Remove message attachments that don't have a matching filename extension. Leave this field blank to skip this filter test. (blank) Should Mailman collapse multipart/alternative to its first part content? Yes Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? This conversion happens after MIME attachments have been stripped: Yes Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules: Reject I'd appreciate any help :-/ Thanks in advance! Best, --Glenn (headers follow) > Subject: test post > From: yahoo user <yahoo_user blat yahoo.com> > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:41:01 -0700 (PDT) > To: list-I-own <list-I-own blat lists.wingfoot.org> > Return-Path: <yahoo_user blat yahoo.com> > Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org > (Postfix) with ESMTP id A15AD39DC50 for <list-I-own blat > lists.wingfoot.org>; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:44:12 -0400 (EDT) > X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at wingfoot.org > X-Spam-Flag: NO > X-Spam-Score: -0.641 > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.641 tagged_above=-999 required=6 > tests=[AWL=-1.097, BAYES_00=-2.599, DKIM_SIGNED=0.001, > DKIM_VERIFIED=-0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.5, FREEMAIL_FROM_D3=1, > HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG=0.097, MIME_HTML_ONLY=1.457] > Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wingfoot.org > [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OWGZ3AAEsz1y for > <list-I-own blat lists.wingfoot.org>; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:44:04 -0400 > (EDT) > Received: from web55805.mail.re3.yahoo.com > (web55805.mail.re3.yahoo.com [216.252.110.51]) by wingfoot.org > (Postfix) with SMTP id E460C39DC4C for <list-I-own blat > lists.wingfoot.org>; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:44:03 -0400 (EDT) > Received: (qmail 88759 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Mar 2008 02:41:01 -0000 > DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; > h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; > b=K84BI4SQEiUyUvh4rBhj838igaj9r7XQZd2tOkltVxl0+MuKo5YZE7KUJBiPj7DNMiK5VmB/PW9OMVjRdnj93QUkaYEWn1BrbEh1fv5OzN1SzIsNAAA5VtqVfJN//RNiuKuLb5FFhIO3jGYeidkoYMm5Zvxk6oOtgvvy9HMNvcQ=; > X-YMail-OSG: > 7uudDSEVM1nvrn9SdsHKiA2dp9RH51bGQkhyhO.WpWE5pYs4qUOZ8_JgLMK7q9ZrBg-- > Received: from [24.233.189.167] by web55805.mail.re3.yahoo.com via > HTTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:41:01 PDT > X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.185 > Reply-To: yahoo_user blat yahoo.com > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Message-ID: <498709.88720.qm blat web55805.mail.re3.yahoo.com> > >

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