Mailman 3 August 2008 - Mailman-Users

How do I backup the emls in database?
by Strategic Web Design Aug. 15, 2008

Aug. 15, 2008

I'm in a pickle here. I have a couple of websites that have over 2000 emails in the mailing list. I am moving the sites to another server. How do I extract the emails [preferably a .txt file] so I can put them in the new mailing list on the new server [which is also "mailman"] I go to members list, and the only options are clicking on the "letters" to view the email addresses. Thanks for all your help! :o) ~Melissa

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set up HTML form to feed into Mailman
by Dave Briggs Aug. 14, 2008

Aug. 14, 2008

Hi all How hard would it be to create an HTML form for a website which could be used to subscribe people to a list, rather than using the one on the mailman site for the list? Thanks Dave Briggs db(a)davepress.net | www.davepress.net | 07525 209589

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changes at aol
by Rick Pasotto Aug. 14, 2008

Aug. 14, 2008

debian Linux mnr.niof.net 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu May 8 02:16:39 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux mailman 2.2.11-2 exim4 4.69-6 Before sending out my last mailing (it's an announce list) I set mailman to do 'full personalization' so I could find out who was hitting the spam button. The TOS notifications I got back had this at the top: ALERT: Your feedback loop is not in ARF (Abuse Reporting Format). Beginning September 2, 2008, all feedback loops will be converted to ARF. To learn more about how this will impact you, please read more about how AOL uses ARF at http://postmaster.aol.com/fbl/arfinfo.html. Also read the announcement of our plan to convert all feedback loops to ARF on our blog at http://journals.aol.com/pmtjournal/blog/entries/2008/06/27/aol-converting-a…. Please make any necessary preparations to accept ARF feedback loops before the September 2, 2008 conversion. To change your existing non-ARF loops to ARF, fill out our online support form at http://postmaster.aol.com/waters/fbl_change_form.html. What exactly is this telling me? Does mailman or exim need to be changed or do I need to do something? -- "First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst." -- Dale Carnegie Rick Pasotto rick(a)niof.net http://www.niof.net

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Newsrunner infinite loop
by Max Lanfranconi Aug. 14, 2008

Aug. 14, 2008

Hi, I have a mailman 2.1.11 installation running about 1000 mailing lists. Each of them is bi-directionally gatewayed via NNTP. I have been hitting the following scenario: Email 'a' is made of a text body and email 'b' as a text attachment. Email 'b' is made of a text body and another non-text attachment. Posting email 'a' to any mailing list gets email a distributed to all the mailing list members but puts NewsRunner in the following infinite loop (1 traceback per second. Needless to say, the posting never makes it to the newsgroup) Aug 13 14:36:30 2008 (25129) Uncaught runner exception: Aug 13 14:36:30 2008 (25129) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/NewsRunner.py", line 86, in _dispose conn.quit() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/nntplib.py", line 600, in quit resp = self.shortcmd('QUIT') File "/usr/lib/python2.4/nntplib.py", line 260, in shortcmd return self.getresp() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/nntplib.py", line 215, in getresp resp = self.getline() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/nntplib.py", line 207, in getline if not line: raise EOFError EOFError Any hint about what may cause this ? Thanks! Max

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about mailing lists
by Danny Shain Aug. 13, 2008

Aug. 13, 2008

Dragon, Mark, Thanks for the quick replies. Dragon, I'd been having a brief conversation with Mark away from the listserv and we actually got to just about the same point. I have a webmail account provided by my hosting which is technically the recipient of all mailman emails, which I then have forwarding to a gmail account. I didn't understand why it was forwarding welcome/approval/error messages but not my actual posts, which I eventually verified were in fact being sent to my webmail account. POP3 refused to fetch them too. Your responses seem to answer this perfectly though, and I now understand that gmail is intentionally hiding them from me. (Even though the gmail account is not registered with mailman, I'm sending my posts out from gmail under the identity of my webmail account, and I guess google is "smart" enough to know that when it sees the forwarded message coming back.) Aside from the data collecting I've generally been a fan of every gmail feature, but I guess I was bound to find one that seems stupid eventually. I can't believe there's not even an option somewhere to disable this "feature" if you so choose. I turned on "receive acknowledgment of own posts" and I get those, and I do see a copy in my sent mail. So I guess everything was working perfectly all along and I just didn't know it. Plus it was in the FAQ. Hope saying thanks again makes up for that :). Thanks for helping me out and saving me a lot of wasted time and effort, I really appreciate it, ~Danny On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Dragon <dragon(a)crimson-dragon.com> wrote: You are using a gmail address to post here. Did you subscribe this gmail address to the list? If so, that is the problem as gmail will not send list posts back to you that are already present in your outgoing mailbox. This is a known problem and Google appears to not give a damn about fixing it. Please see: http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/I+use+Gmail-Googlemail%2C+but+I+can%27t+te… Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> wrote: > >I have a webmail account (provided by the hosting) which I have told to > >forward all mail to gmail. I'd been receiving forwarded > >welcome/approval/error messages on my gmail during testing, but I decided > to > >double check the webmail to see if it was at least getting there. It > was... > >all my test emails were in my webmail inbox, inexplicably not forwarding > >like the other messages. Nor are they being retrieved by POP3. > > > It doesn't sound like this is applicable in this case, but see > <http://wiki.list.org/x/2IA9>. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > >

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email address obfuscation
by Masquith, Michael CTR Aug. 13, 2008

Aug. 13, 2008

Hello, Is there in place any method to obfuscate/hide email addresses so spammer spiders/robots can't harvest them? If not, could I edit a page to use an external JavaScript function to do so? Even more basically, can JavaScript be used at all when editing pages? Thanks. Michael Masquith USGC, Inc. Contractor Support to: The United States Coast Guard National Maritime Center 100 Forbes Drive Martinsburg, WV 25404 (P) (304)433-3456 1-888-427-5662 Michael.J.Masquith(a)uscg.mil

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about mailing lists
by Dragon Aug. 13, 2008

Aug. 13, 2008

Danny Shain wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I want to start off by saying I think it's great that this community exists, >with people willing to help people. I have a question that is dealt with on >the FAQ, but before you roll your eyes I'm still posting here because the I >didn't find the FAQ entry helpful. Maybe you're still rolling your eyes, >but hear me out. > >FAQ Entry 1.7. I've set up Mailman, created a list, and added myself to the >list, but I don't get any messages! > >That's my problem. Maybe it's because I'm using mailman through a third >party (Lunarpages webhosting), but I don't see anything about cronjobs or >aliases, etc. But I send emails to the mailing list, the emails show up in >the mailing list archives, and yet nobody on the list receives messages. If >anybody has an idea of what I can try next I would greatly appreciate it! >Otherwise I'll probably end up using yahoo or something. ---------------- End original message. --------------------- You are using a gmail address to post here. Did you subscribe this gmail address to the list? If so, that is the problem as gmail will not send list posts back to you that are already present in your outgoing mailbox. This is a known problem and Google appears to not give a damn about fixing it. Please see: http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/I+use+Gmail-Googlemail%2C+but+I+can%27t+te… Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Question about mailing lists
by Danny Shain Aug. 12, 2008

Aug. 12, 2008

Hi everyone, I want to start off by saying I think it's great that this community exists, with people willing to help people. I have a question that is dealt with on the FAQ, but before you roll your eyes I'm still posting here because the I didn't find the FAQ entry helpful. Maybe you're still rolling your eyes, but hear me out. FAQ Entry 1.7. I've set up Mailman, created a list, and added myself to the list, but I don't get any messages! That's my problem. Maybe it's because I'm using mailman through a third party (Lunarpages webhosting), but I don't see anything about cronjobs or aliases, etc. But I send emails to the mailing list, the emails show up in the mailing list archives, and yet nobody on the list receives messages. If anybody has an idea of what I can try next I would greatly appreciate it! Otherwise I'll probably end up using yahoo or something. Thanks, ~Danny

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Re: [Mailman-Users] about reply
by Mark Sapiro Aug. 11, 2008

Aug. 11, 2008

Jaione Arrieta wrote: >Yes, I have it set to receive my own post and I don´t have problem if I send a "new"post as a user, the problem is when I reply to someone else post I don´t receive the reply I sent. >is weird isn´t it? This could be caused by filtering rules in your MUA (mail client). There's nothing in Mailman that would send or not send you a copy of your post based on whether it was an original post or a reply. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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about receiving
by Jaione Arrieta Aug. 11, 2008

Aug. 11, 2008

I have a question, I´m the administrator of the list (so I can make the changes) but I´m also a register user and when I received any message from the list as an user (as everybody does) and I answer the mail to the list, the response arrives to the list (I can see it in the archives) but I don´t receive it myself as an user, and I want to receive it, so how can I change that? I have my individual account set as to receive the mails I sent, but for some reason I need to find out, I don´t receive the answers I reply to the list Please some one help me out... Thank you Jaione -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/about-receiving-tp18930531p18930531.html Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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