Mailman 3 September 2008 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Old server settings applied to some lists
by charlie derr Sept. 18, 2008

Sept. 18, 2008

Anne, I just had cause to change a config setting for all lists we manage and found the instructions at http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030597 to be thorough and complete. good luck, ~c Anne Anderson wrote: > Hello! I hope someone can help me fix some bad configuration. > > We am running mailman 2.1.9 here at Westmont College and we have > hundreds of lists which have been set up over the last 10 years or so. > In that time, we have had several … [View More]different mail servers. We now use > the name mail.westmont.edu to refer to our current mail server, > regardless of what its real hostname is. > > However, some of the lists which were created long ago seem to be still > configured with other server names. > > This results in bad links being sent out in email notices from these > lists, such as notices to moderators that messages are being held. > > The only way I have found to fix this is to remove and re-create the > list. Needless to say I'd rather fix the bad configs in a more direct way. > > I'm a programmer (perl and php), and although I don't speak python, I > tend to be one of those who likes to look at the scripts to find an > answer to a problem. > > So I looked at mm_cfg.py and Defaults.py and discovered these settings: > > In mm_cfg.py (last modified 2002-10-07): > > DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'mail.westmont.edu' > DEFAULT_URL = 'http://%s/mailman/' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME > > This is correct. > > In Defaults.py (last modified 2006-08-04): > > DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'down.westmont.edu' > DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'down.westmont.edu' > DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' > > # DEFAULT_HOST_NAME has been replaced with DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST, however some > # sites may have the former in their mm_cfg.py files. If so, we'll believe > # that, otherwise we'll believe DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST. Same for DEFAULT_URL. > > DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = None > DEFAULT_URL = None > > This is not correct... we have not had the server named > 'down.westmont.edu' for many years. However, this hostname is > configured into many of the lists that were created at the time. > > When doing a grep for 'down.westmont.edu' in /var/lib/mailman/Mailman, > it also tells me that the binary file Defaults.pyc matches. > > We are cautioned not to edit Defaults.py by hand, and I wouldn't know > how to recompile it anyway. :) > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this so that all our lists will be > configured for mail.westmont.edu? Thanks! > > Anne > > Anne Anderson aba(a)westmont.edu > Web Application Developer / Database Manager > Information Technology > Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, USA > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/cderr%40simons-rock.edu > > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 [View Less]

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email subscription sends two messages
by hone+mailman＠oak.cats.ohiou.edu Sept. 18, 2008

Sept. 18, 2008

Using Mailman version: 2.1.9 [Corrected message] I sent a subscribe command to join a mailing list and received two confirmation messages. Could this be the result of putting the word subscribe into the subject as well as the body? If not, any other ideas? Could this be a bug or should we use only body or subject for the command? Don Hone <http://edirectory.ohio.edu/?$search?uid=hone> Ohio University

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Tracker migration to Launchpad
by Barry Warsaw Sept. 16, 2008

Sept. 16, 2008

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We're planning on migrating the current SourceForge trackers for the Mailman project to Launchpad, this Thursday at 1200 UTC. Expect the conversion to take several hours. The SF trackers will still be available during the conversion, though I will try to remove as much write access to them as possible. Please be aware that any changes that occur to SF issues during the conversion will be lost. I'll send another announcement when the … [View More]

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Bad Character
by David Andrews Sept. 16, 2008

Sept. 16, 2008

I manually added an address to one of my lists using the web UI. There must have been a space or odd character at end of address, that I didn't notice. The subscribe message indicated that: xxx(a)yyy.org&nbsp has been subscribed to ....... I can't delete the address using the web interface. How do I remove it? Dave

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Default ban_list for new lists
by Edward Ned Harvey Sept. 16, 2008

Sept. 16, 2008

I have a mailman server, where port 80 is only accessible within the company, but port 25 is open to the outside world. It is intended for internal mailing lists only. I want to close the hole, where a malicious user can subscribe via email, who isn't part of our domain. I easily created a ban_list for ^(?!(^.*(a)mydomain.com)) and this is applied to all existing lists. I would like this ban_list applied by default to all new lists. I've seen many such default defaults, under mm_cfg.py, … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Default ban_list for new lists
by b19141＠anl.gov Sept. 16, 2008

Sept. 16, 2008

>I have a mailman server, where port 80 is only accessible within the >company, but port 25 is open to the outside world. It is intended for >internal mailing lists only. > >I want to close the hole, where a malicious user can subscribe via email, >who isn't part of our domain. I easily created a ban_list for >^(?!(^.*(a)mydomain.com)) and this is applied to all existing lists. I would >like this ban_list applied by default to all new lists. > >I've seen many … [View More]

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Mailman 2.1.9 Bounce info needed
by john bradford Sept. 15, 2008

Sept. 15, 2008

Hi: I am using Mailman that is run from my ISP's location. I use this as a "one way" tool so send identical email messages to about 350 people.I've made everything work but I would like more. I would like to be able to see any and all email bounces as soon as they are seen by Mailman.I have set the bounce level to 0.5 so that every bounce is emailed to me. This works but this also causes the bounced email address to be removed from my mailing list. I must then re-enter them in my list if I want … [View More]

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Global aliases
by Edward Ned Harvey Sept. 15, 2008

Sept. 15, 2008

I would really love it if I can create a global alias list, such as... edward.harvey -at- lyricsemi.com edward.harvey -at- lyricsemiconductor.com eharvey -at- lyricsemi.com eharvey -at- lyricsemiconductor.com So these addresses could globally always be treated as synonyms. Suppose I subscribe with Outlook, which is configured to use alias #1, and then I try to post from webmail, which is configured to use alias #2, and so on. I'd love the system to know I'm really the same person. Is … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Listproc config files
by Mark Sapiro Sept. 15, 2008

Sept. 15, 2008

Melinda Gilmore wrote: > My main concern is the configurations, for example, if they have the > list set to only owners can post, or have it set to can have digest. > Things like that. I think I can get the archives and subscribers. At You would need some kind of process to extract this information from listproc and then translate it into the appropriate combination of Mailman list settings for input to bin/config_list. I'm not aware of any existing programs or scripts to do this. … [View More]

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Listproc config files
by Melinda Gilmore Sept. 15, 2008

Sept. 15, 2008

We are still in the process of moving from listproc to mailman. Each time we create a new listproc list we duplicate it with some scripts on the mailman server. So we already have all the list on the mailman server, but when we get ready to go, we need to be able to pull the most current config files from the listproc for the mailman list. I have seen some post on scripts for migrating the list to mailman, but I just want to be able to pull the list config information so that it will … [View More]

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