Mailman-Users April 2008

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94 participants
131 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?

by Mal

I want all mails sent to the list to come from the list's email address... But, in this case, if the user forgets to sign their name at the bottom of their mail body, effectively the mail to the list is anonymous...! Is there a way to add the user name (or email address) to the top of each mail so that the mails have the name of the sender, while the mail itself comes from the list address? I have looked high and low for an answer, but noone seems to have the solution. Thank you! Mal

2 weeks, 3 days

Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers

by Steve Reiter

Hi - I have searched FAQ and archives to find an answer. Hoping you can help. I have a new list (with previously imported addresses) for announcements only, and wish these announcements to be received immediately. I set the defaults to allow non-digest and to not allow digest. I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text. QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode? If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default? Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so? Thanks - Steve

9 years, 7 months

Changing the received time on an outgoing authorized email message?

by Paul Key

When authorizing a moderated list posting is it possible to change the date/time on the outgoing authorized list message to the time it was approved instead of the message showing the time it was first received by mailman? Thanks Paul

10 years, 5 months

not really an umbrella?

by Gruver, Sandi

Mailman 2.1.5 on RedHat Linux - How can I set up a new list that sends to multiple existing lists - but only sends one message to each person - even if the person is a member of multiple lists? a. LSOFT calls this a "superlist" b. Can "Mailman" do this? c. In this case, we have a system newsletter that will be sent to multiple lists. I'd like people to receive the message only once, even if they are on more than one of the lists included in the mailing. Thank you, Sandi Gruver Unix system administrator Center for Information Services Bellevue, WA 98004 phone 425.803.9753 fax 425.803.9652

11 years

Mailman/Qmail/Plesk Problem

by Douglas G. Phillips

OK, I've got another problem with Qmail/Plesk/Mailman (same customer, rebuilt server). Plesk is 7.5.4 reloaded. Mail delivered fails with "need GID 110 got 101" error. I set up the brute-force wrapper to deliver with GID 110, and set the permissions correctly for it to work. Now, I'm getting the following (broken up into multiple lines for courtesy): qmail: 1157518628.995172 delivery 726: success: group_mismatch_error._Mailman_expected_the_mail_wrapper_script_to_be/ executed_as_one_of_the_following_groups:/[mail,_nobody,_mailman],/ but_the_system's_mail_server_executed_the_mail_script_as_group:_"popuser"./ Try_tweaking_the_mail_server_to_run_the_script_as_one_of_these_groups:/ [mail,_nobody,_mailman],/or_re-run_configure_providing_the_ command_line_option:/'--with-mail-gid=popuser'./Failed_to_start_ /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman./did_0+0+1/ I'm about ready to pull my hair out. I even added the popuser user to the mailman group in /etc/passwd. So, that being said, are there any ideas out there? I have been messing with this for a week, and have not come up with anything else to do. -- Douglas G. Phillips Simple Business Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

11 years, 7 months

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to import a list of members?

by lists.mailman-users＠duinheks.nl

Hallo Zbigniew, Op vrijdag 25 april 2008 schreef Zbigniew Szalbot aan lists.mailman-users(a)duinheks.nl: >> Is it possible to import an ASCII list of members for a >> mailing list? ZS> Take a look at bin/add_members script ZS> Run it with --help to see what options there are Lovely! That seems to de exactly what I want. Thank tou very much for your help. Groeten, Hans. jdh punt beekhuizen bij duinheks punt nl --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5/080305 * Origin: The Wizard is using MBSE/Linux (2:280/1018)

12 years, 9 months

Phantom moderation pending requests & heldmsg files

by Chris Waltham

A couple of weeks ago our Mailman 2.0 server crashed (a physical problem, it wasn't Mailman's fault!) and we had to upgrade to 2.1 in a real hurry. As a result, I had to copy the entire ~mailman/data directory... which may not have been such a good idea: [mailman@list ~/data]$ ls -al | wc -l 40054 There are a _lot_ of files prefixed with "heldmsg-" in the data directory, as you can see. There are entries all the way back to 2005, in fact! I realize that I'm going to have to deal with all those files at some stage, but I currently have another problem. A user administers a list called "ams-announce", and they are receiving emails with the subject "The AMS-announce(a)list.bowdoin.edu mailing list has 31 request(s) waiting for your consideration". However, when they or I go to the admin interface, there are no pending requests. The user has been getting the same message for more than a week now, always with the same amount (31) of pending messages but there are never actually any messages there for the admin to discard. Oddly, there are no files prefixed with "heldmsg-ams-announce" in the / home/mailman/data directory, however I did grep for the string "ams- announce" in _all_ heldmsg files and there are many matches -- virtually all of it looks like spam. I suppose, then, that I have two questions: * how can I print how many moderation requests a list has pending, and is there a way to flush the pending requests from the command-line? (The FAQ entries deal with doing it via the web interface, before 2.1.5's feature of "discard all messages") * can I print a list of what lists have what files pending in the format of heldmsg-$listname-$msgID, so that I can cross-reference the files I have on the filesystem (many of which are really old) with what the lists think need to be delievered? This is with a 2.1.9 server. Thanks, Chris

12 years, 10 months

local ip in links

by Hans Gubitz

Hi, Overview of all ... mailing links points here to the local ip of the server, where all other links point to the right url. How can I change that? Hans -- Hans Gubitz <gubitz(a)netcologne.de>

12 years, 10 months

installing mailman and sendmail

by Shams Fantar

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm installing mailman, I created the first mailing list[1], it works fine. So, it's possible to subcribe to the list, that works, but it isn't possible to send mails to the mailing list. It's a probleme with sendmail, I'm reading the documentation of mailman[2], but the output of the command "grep smrsh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf" is empty (sendmail is installed). Do you have any ideas? And when I send a mail to the list, I see nothing in log... In conclusion, mailman nearly works, there is "just" a problem with sendmail. [1] : http://lists.sce.snurf.info/listinfo/sce-project [2] : http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node32.html Regards, - -- Shams Fantar (Website : http://snurf.info) My public GPG Key : http://snurf.info/sfantar.gpg « A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. » -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIGJtI5ChwvXmalbURAgPTAKCawFt3Mpw7KfdcRoP4FcG1ojJ6UwCg9hfT LFF4Awe1+5hyYWRTAhCdvyk= =c++D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

12 years, 10 months

Subscriber names in bulk subscribe

by Web Servant

Howdy! I moved our domain hosting to a new company, and among other things the new service uses Mailman instead of the home-grown mailing list the previous service used. So now I have to manually transfer my 40+ subscribers from the old server to Mailman. Hooray for bulk subscribe! I can just cut-and-paste the list of users, problem solved. Except... I'd also like to bulk populate the subscriber *names* field. Is there any way to do that, or will I have to go back and individually key them in to the user list after I paste in the address list? Thanks, pbs

12 years, 10 months

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