Mailman 3 January 2009 - Mailman-Users

mailbox unavailable
by Denny Zulfikar 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

Dear I am trying build mailman 2.1.11 with postfix virtual, but still got error. Creating lists are success, also invite member also success. but, if I try to reply the invitation mail or send an email to a list, it displays some errors. error on reply invitation mail: Message not sent. Server replied: Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable 550 5.1.1 <crews-request(a)domain.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown error on send to a list (after approved by click the url on invitation mail): Message not sent. Server replied: Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable 550 5.1.1 <crews(a)domain.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown please give your hand. best regards, Denny

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Umbrella lists and scrubbed attachments
by Rich Winkel 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

If someone posts an attachment to an umbrella list, will the subscribers to the sublists be able to access the umbrella attachment archive? Or should umbrella lists never use scrubbing? Thanks, Rich

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Issue with text to Mailman list serve
by Darren G Pifer 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Hello, One of our list serve administrators is experiencing an issue with one of her listserves. Here is her description of the issue. She is sending text to her listserve which is a moderated list. She approves the message but as a member of the list, the email is received with 3 attachments: ATT00001.c, ATT00002.htm, and ATT00003.c. The administrator has 2 other lists and when she sends text, she receives them as text. She would like email sent as text to be received as text. I have checked the configuration settings from her 3 lists, and the difference between the 3 is the one that is having this issue is the moderated. I would not think this to be the cause of the issue. At first, the issue was reported to me that email was sent as html but was received as text so I suspected the issue to be with the Content Filtering settings. So, I checked all 3 lists and they are exactly the same. Just to inform the group, I did check the FAQ archives but have not found the issue. Also, we are using Mailman version 2.1.9. Has anyone seen this and if so, what is the resolution? Regards, Darren ODU

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Mailman receives, archives, acks message but does not send to list
by Wei Qin 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

The server was set up a year ago and has been functioning properly. But recently it no longer broadcasts to the list. The smtp log only shows the acknowledgement message, but no multi-recipient broadcasting message. Can anyone give a clue? Thanks in advance. wqin

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Mailman is Not Receiving / Sending my Posts or Showing up in Archive
by Douglas Edwards 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

Can someone help?? I am using mailman on a hosting package that i purchased. I set up a mailing list and was able to send posts for a while. They were going out to the list members, sending the moderator approval and showing up in the archive. Now this just stopped. I am sending the messages from Microsoft Outlook to the posting address like i did before. I'm not sure what changed? Any suggestions? Douglas F. Edwards

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bccs
by Rick Pasotto 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

I just sent a message to two different lists, setting To: to list1 and Bcc: to list2. The second got moderated because of 'implicit address'. When I then approved it, the To: still showed list1 though the subject line got altered to include [list2]. I thought Bcc addresses would *replace* the To addresses. Do I have to actually post two different messages with different To:s? How are Bcc:s supposed to work? -- "Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment." -- Dale Carnegie Rick Pasotto rick(a)niof.net http://www.niof.net

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max_message_size & scrubbing
by Rich Winkel 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Is the max_message_size test applied before or after attachment scrubbing? Thanks Rich

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Web interface automation
by Krešimir Tonković 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Up to recently we run our own mailman list on an ADSL connected host, and mail delivery was routed through a smarthost - our ISP's mail server. Then our ISP imposed limits on the amount of mail we can send, and now it doesn't work very well any more. The obvious solution is to move the mailing list to a hosted solution, and our ISP offers that - it is even mailman again :-) We use the list for sending our commercial newsletter to subscribed clients. The list of subscribers is not maintained by mailman, but through personal contacts and is stored in our ERP database. So before sending the newsletter, we would generate a list of subscribers in a text file and synchronize this list with mailman using the sync_members.py script (included in mailman). Now, our ISP doesn't offer a shell account and we can't use sync_members.py on the hosted list to synchronize subscriber lists any more. Our idea is to write a script that would use the standard web interface to manage the subscribers list. Adding members with the mass-subscribe form is straightforward, but removing members by unchecking boxes in the list is a bit more complicated. Before we start working on this, have you heard of similar tools already written? Or maybe you know of better ways to do this? Regards, -- Kresimir Tonkovic

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variables in msg_footer
by Kærast 15 Jan '09

15 Jan '09

Hi, I'm having problems with the footers on our mailman server, the variables such as %(real_name)s are being entered as-is and not rewritten to what they should be. I have DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER set at the very bottom of /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER = """ ### To unsubscribe: 1) send blank email to: %(real_name)s-unsubscribe@%(host_name)s 2) reply to the confirmation email ### """ New lists are created with the % variables intact and not the content of them. For good measure I tried setting the msg_footer for all lists by using http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-January/055486.html All lists have the same footer: ### To unsubscribe: 1) send blank email to: %(real_name)s-unsubscribe@%(host_name)s 2) reply to the confirmation email ### Am I doing something obviously silly? Where should I be looking in order to debug this? -- Alice

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Question
by Malik Hemani 14 Jan '09

14 Jan '09

Hello all. this is my first time and lil lost as to where to go for help. Maybe this can help me out. I imported a file in cpanel with forwarders from my old cpanel to the new cpanel. When I went to create a mailing list in new cpanel it gives me this error: Creating an email list creates multiple email forwarders and one is being used already. A forwarder already exists for alumni-admin(a)depsizeta.org. You must delete this forwarder before creating the list But I have checked the forwarders in cpanel and do not see anything. Looks like somewhere it already exist since I had the mailing list in my old cpanel. We are just wanting to create the same mailing list in the new cpanel hosting account. Looking at the file I imported using the restore function in cpanel this was in it.I guess I need to delete all theses forwards but don't know where to find them. alumni-admin(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman admin alumni_depsizeta.org alumni-bounces(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman bounces alumni_depsizeta.org alumni-confirm(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman confirm alumni_depsizeta.org alumni-join(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman join alumni_depsizeta.org alumni-leave(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman leave alumni_depsizeta.org alumni-owner(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman owner alumni_depsizeta.org alumni-request(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman request alumni_depsizeta.org alumni-subscribe(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe alumni_depsizeta.org alumni-unsubscribe(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe alumni_depsizeta.org alumni(a)depsizeta.org: |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman post alumni_depsizeta.org Any help is appreciated. Malik M. Hemani 832.326.1926

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