Mailman 3 May 2008 - Mailman-Users

slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source
by David Newman May 31, 2008

May 31, 2008

One or more AOL subscribers is reporting posts to one of our mailing lists as spam. Every time there's a post to this list, both we and our upstream provider get a feedback report from AOL. This report provides the message-ID for the offending email, but not the recipient's address. AOL claims I should be able to find the offended recipient(s) with just the message-ID, but I do not believe they are correct about that. grep'ing for the message-ID in maillog returns *all* of the ~250 recipients for each post. I would like to find which AOL user(s) are complaining and unsubscribe them. One method would be to write a script that sends an individual email containing a unique ID to each subscriber, and see if AOL sends feedback complaint(s) for those. Questions: 1. In putting together a script, do I need to include this header: Return-Path: <mylist-bounces(a)example.org> ("mylist" and "example.org" are fact-free examples) 2. Is there some better way of isolating a given recipient if all I have from a spam report is a single message-ID? This is on OpenBSD 4.2 running postfix 2.4.3 and mailman 2.1.10. Many thanks! dn

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A quicker way to accept moderated messages
by Juliet Fink May 30, 2008

May 30, 2008

We just migrated all of our lists that we host from Listserv to Mailman and several of the list owners and moderators who travel frequently and use handhelds while on the go are wondering if there is a quicker way to accept messages in a moderated list. Right now, an email comes, you click on it, login to mailman interface, click on accept, and then click on submit. So there are a few steps to the process (although I think this isn't particularly an unreasonable amount of steps, I promised I would look into it to keep our users happy). I was wondering if anyone had a quicker way to do this, fewer steps, a script that enables you to accept a moderated message directly from a link in the email or something to that effect. Thanks, Juliet ******************************************************************** Juliet Fink, Director of Education Philadelphia FIGHT The AIDS Library * Critical Path * Project TEACH 1233 Locust Street, 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 P: (215)985-4851 x141 F: (215)985-4492 Email: jjfink(a)fight.org ******************************************************************* Important: This e-mail message and any attachments is intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) named above. It may contain information that is protected, privileged, or confidential, and it should not be disseminated, distributed, or copied to persons not authorized to receive such information. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify the sender immediately.

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Memebership list...
by Dov Oxenberg May 30, 2008

May 30, 2008

Hi, In the Web administration interface, how do I adjust the number of subscribers displayed in the table? Previously I was able to view all the members but now that the membership number has increased to over 30 subscribers the table is only displaying the first three members and I have to search for any other members individually. Thanks!

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archives
by Melinda Gilmore May 30, 2008

May 30, 2008

Is there a way to automate deletion by size of archives through mailman. Has anyone done that out there. I want to delete any archives that have grown large in size by date preferrably. Melinda Gilmore Systems Engineer The Ohio State University Enterprise Messaging/OIT 614-292-4953

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Queued mail
by Melinda Gilmore May 30, 2008

May 30, 2008

Is there any mailman setting that you would need to verify if you were going to shut the server down, to make sure mail is queued. We use postfix with mailman 2.1.6 Melinda Gilmore Systems Engineer The Ohio State University Enterprise Messaging/OIT 614-292-4953

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Customizing mailman to maintain history of unsubscriptions.
by Bob001 May 30, 2008

May 30, 2008

Hello Experts, Looking for guidance on this one. How can we customize mailman to ensure that un-subscriptions are automatically recorded. Once recorded, we also intent to customize subscribe function to automatically ensure that they don't get re-subscribed. If they explicitly ask for re-subscription, we can remove the record from un-subscribed info db. Other idea is to may be we can just customize it in a way so that we just enable the user's noemail flag with 'A' ? Any suggestions? Any patch available to achieve this functionality? Any better ideas to achieve this, please share. - Regards, Bob. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Customizing-mailman-to-maintain-history-of-unsubscrip… Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Selecting Topics Externally?
by brad.plevyak＠highmarkmedicareservices.com May 29, 2008

May 29, 2008

Hi all, We currently use Mailman at our site but do not have the administrative interface open to the public. My workaround to allow users to subscribe and unsubsribe was a CGI script that generated a command line argument to send the subcribe or unsubscribe message along with the e-mail address to mailman, using an e-mail message (it simulated the user sending an email with "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the subject). Pretty simple. I have a tougher job now though -- We'd like users to be able to select a topic or topics to add or remove themselves to on the mailing list. Without a built-in command line option to set topics, or being able to directly post to the mailman application (since it's behind our firewall and will only work for internal company users, not external customers), can anyone tell me if they have written a CGI application that can simulate sending these commands to mailman? I was thinking I could use an HTML form to pass the form field values to a CGI script, which could then build the proper submit logic to in turn pass the commands on to mailman (since the CGI is running our our server internally, this SHOULD work). Can anyone help me? My head is spinning here. Thanks!

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscription errors
by b19141＠anl.gov May 29, 2008

May 29, 2008

"Duncan Drury" <d.drury(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I have recently upgraded my Mailman installation to 2.1.10 and the >online subscription system that I set up stopped working completely >(users fill out a form, which generates an email, which subscribes them >to the list). > >This seems to be related to the known bug in 2.1.10 and I have tried >installing the patch that has been discussed in many places - but I am >still getting the same problem. In log/error I am seeing the >following: > >May 28 23:36:05 2008 (31672) Uncaught runner exception: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower' >May 28 23:36:05 2008 (31672) Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 120, in _oneloop > self._onefile(msg, msgdata) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 191, in _onefile > keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 241, in >_dispose > res.do_command('join') > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 139, in >do_command > return handler.process(self, args) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Commands/cmd_subscribe.py", line 74, in >process > if digest is None and password.lower() in ('digest', 'nodigest'): >AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower' > >May 28 23:36:05 2008 (31672) SHUNTING: >1212014164.9099751+f202edd394843183ffbb4f3cde5b3f52fca1038a > >Perhaps I am not installing the patch correctly? I'm using the FreeBSD >port of Mailman, and haven't had to patch anything before! > >Any help would be much appreciated. This has had me scratching my head >for days. > >Duncan I am not an expert in this particular patch. I did install it on a system where I build an Ubuntu Mailman 2.1.10 package, but I have not yet installed nor tested that package, as I am awaiting maybe more patches. The only thing I can suggest is that maybe the FreeBSD port has a conflicting patch? I know that Debian/Ubuntu has changes to the SourceForge source, so I build my package from the SourceForge source and remove all but one Debian/Ubuntu patch (the one that places files in the proper directories for D/U). I do not know what FreeBSD does. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Mailman hourly limit
by mailmanlist＠jfm30204.e4ward.com May 28, 2008

May 28, 2008

I just purchased a VPS to which I will have root access, so I would imagine that I will have access to Mailman config files. In Webhost Manager, there is an option to set an hourly limit for all Mailman users. Naturally, that's a good idea. But there should be a way to exempt a domain or override the limit for one domain. Is this possible, and, if so, how would it be done? JFM

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setting respond_to_post_requests and header filters in mm_cfg.py
by Florian Effenberger May 28, 2008

May 28, 2008

Hello, is it possible to set respond_to_post_requests and header filters in mm_cfg.py? I want to disable respond_to_post_requests for new lists automatically, and also want to filter out mails with X-Spam-Flags: YES in the header per default. Seems my settings in mm_cfg.py don't get recognized... Thanks Florian

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