Mailman 3 October 2009 - Mailman-Users

Changing the port number used to when you need to approve messages
by Glenn Magle 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Can you tell me where to look to change the port # of the web link to approve messages. We have some lists using port 8080 and they will not work, all ports without this are fine.

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phantom bounces
by Michael Shulman 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi, I am having a strange problem. One of my users is repeatedly being automatically unsubscribed from a mailing list, supposedly due to the receipt of too many bounces from his (working) email address. The list is configured to notify me when bounces trigger a disabling or unsubscription, but I didn't receive any such notification. I see in the "bounce" log a record of many received bounces from his address, although most of the time there was no email sent to the list at that time to produce a bounce. Moreover, when I configured my mail software to forward me a copy of everything sent to listname-bounces, I didn't receive any bounces from his address. Is there a way to configure mailman to keep a copy of all the bounce messages it receives somewhere, so that I can inspect them? Thanks! Mike

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Help with removing my messages
by Jan Peters 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Dear MailMan, Before I knew that my name would be published on the web, I wrote about six messages on a genealogy list. I need to have them removed due to safety concerns. The list administrator has not been able to do this. May I please ask you for your help? Thank you, Jan Peters

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message bounce from good addresses
by Rik Pierce 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Is this a place to ask for help with Mailman? If not, please point me in the right direction We have 3 mail lists. The big one is a Notify list in which people sign up to get information about events. A smaller one is our members who we enroll to send our newsletter and members info to. I include the members in with the notify list by mass subscribing them. Mailman weeds out the duplicates and we are left with one large Notify list that contain those who signed themselves and members who we subscribed. Recently I discovered that some of the members were not getting Notify messages. I checked the list and see that the addresses are correct and the same on Notify as they are on the Members list. However many bounce. I cannot determine which are good and which are not. But if I go to view the list of email addresses on the Notify list, I can click on each of them to get information about them. More than half of them show this warning: We have received some recent bounces from your address. Your current *bounce score* is 1.0 out of a maximum of 5.0. Please double check that your subscribed address is correct and that there are no problems with delivery to this address. Your bounce score will be automatically reset if the problems are corrected soon. This appears with email addresses I know are good. Addresses on the Members list that do work. I do not know what to do. Help? Rik Pierce

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hepl with python syntax, etc.
by marisa＠umn.edu 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hello! I have three questions. I really will appreciate your help! As you will notice from the questions, I am dealing with spam mail from people who writes from "konwn" servers -- I already filter messages with heathers that show "spam" and "unknown". One of the major problems is some people that uses for the "from" address the name of the mailng list, so I like to be able to filter messages by individual names as well. 1) What is the expression that I should use for: "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be immediately held for moderation." If I want to allaw all but a few users (like list1 and list2) from my domain (stat.umn.edu anbd/or umn.edu) to be hold for moderation? I tested with combinations like: ^.*\(a)*\.umn\.edu | =! suzane\(a)stat\.umn\.edu | =!jerry\(a)stat\.umn\.edu but things do not work. If I use only: ^.*\(a)*\.umn\.edu yes, I can accept people from this domain and no one else, but when I add an "and" ("|") everything seems to break and no one from the umn.edu domain is is accepted. I also try to use the example from a mailng list topic -- "How do I accept or reject all addresses from a particular domain". I included in "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically discarded" the names of the users that I want to discard (list1 and list2 on my exaple) plus the negation of all the others from the domain I will alllaw: That box looks like: list1(a)stat.umn.edu list2(a)stat.umn.edu ^[^@]+@(?!(.*\.)?umn\.edu$) and no good resoults neither. 2) how does mailman builds the lists that show on: "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically rejected" and "List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically discarded." and other places like for some spam filters as well? and 3) I understand that mailman will retry when mail can not be sent once each hours for five days, according with: DELIVERY_RETRY_PERIOD = days(5) DELIVERY_RETRY_WAIT = hours(1) but by looking at logs (mailman and postfix) it seems like mailman attempts to send the messages again each time it gets the error 450 from postfix. that becames a never ending dialogue! Am I missign some settings? Thank you!

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Re: [Mailman-Users] regexp help
by Savoy, Jim 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

>> To: "Name, Unique" <unique.name(a)uleth.ca> >George Booth wrote: >Jim, I don't know if this will help, but this is what I use for our lists' >spam filters to accept from our domain: >^[^@]+@(.+\.|)unique\.name$ >Worth a shot? OK, but the domain isn't "unique.name" - that is the username. The domain is uleth.ca. And when I think about it, the dot couldn't be messing up my regexp because it just means "a single character" so unique.name and unique\.name would each accept unique.name. But I did find something in google (no date on it) from Mark Sapiro that could be at the root of my problem. ---------------- Mark wrote: You can't bypass holds for bounce_matching_headers. You can't bypass membership and moderation checks. You can't bypass other holds such as message too big, etc. This is because the Accept action on a header_filter_rules rule only means pass the header_filter_rules tests. It doesn't mean unconditionally accept the message. So assuming that what you want is to bypass the other header_filter_rules, you need to "add new item" before the current rule 1 so the new rule becomes #1. Then the new rule 1 regexp should be ^from:.*(\s|<)some\.person\.name(a)gmail\.com(\s|>|$) and the action Accept. ------------- So perhaps the problem is that I cannot over-ride the membership and moderation checks, which state that only list members may post to this particular list. That is my problem. I need to over-ride them. - jim -

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regexp help
by Savoy, Jim 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi all - I am trying to have all of the mail sent to a certain email account automatically forwarded to a moderated mailing list (moderated to everyone accept the mail from this particular email account). So I created the account (we'll call it unique.name(a)some.domain) and set up the mailing list (we'll call it abc-l(a)some.domain). The only way I can think of getting the mailing list to accept the forwarded mail is to use the spam filters under [Privacy Options]. I create a new Spam Filter Rule like so: /^.*unique.name.*$/ (I will make this more specific later) But that doesn't seem to work. Mail sent to unique.name(a)some.domain returns the error message "you are not allowed to post to this mailing list" to the original sender. I assumed that unique.name would be somewhere in the email headers, which is what the Spam rules are filtering on, right? Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Thanks. - jim - -

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basic set-up question regarding gnu mailman
by Thomas Reale 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

To whom it may concern, I am about to begin the installation process for gnu mailman. I'm learning some Python for this very purpose, but I seem to be getting hung up on some of the jargon, and I believe I might be intuitively inept at a starting point. I have two questions: 1) Does the installation need to occur on an always-turned-on computer? 2) Will others be able to manage the list remotely via the web (I know that I can access any other Linux-based machine remotely)? I think the answer to number 2 is yes, but I need to verify my hunches before I move ahead for a small marketing project. Thank you, Thomas

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Re: [Mailman-Users] regexp help
by Savoy, Jim 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

>Jim, try from: .*(a)(?!.*uleth.ca) The 'anything before the @ sign' is obvious, but the '?!.*' is to test for possible machine names, in case they're there. Nope. That failed. I added a "\n" to the front of this and that failed as well. I didn't think I would have to make any accommodations for the "machine names" though because I have given this account a very unique name, so my goal here is just to accept the mail if that unique.name is found in any header at all. This is why I was sure that: \n.*unique.name would be good enough. But it was not. I probably don't really understand what this filter is looking for though... - jim -

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regexp help
by Savoy, Jim 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Sorry to break the thread on this (my previous message didn't go through, so I guess this list is being moderated now). Anyway, just wanted to say that I fixed my regexp problem. I am running an older version of Mailman, so tried this instead: \nfrom:.*unique.name and it worked! - jim - -

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