Mailman 3 November 2009 - Mailman-Users

Personalization - How do I explicitly disable Sender field rewrite
by Tim Van Dyne 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I just upgraded to 2.1.9 and it seems that Personalization now re-writes the "Sender" or "From" field on all recipients' emails to use the 'description' of the list. I've been unsuccessful in disabling this unless I delete the description field, but then there would be no description on the listinfo page. Is there a quick entry I can put into mm_cfg.py or modify on one of the other files to disable the Sender/From rewrite? It seems like defaulting to 'No' for personalization starts out ok. Then I change it to 'Yes' and it makes the From field: "list description" <email(a)address.blah> I want just: <email(a)address.blah> When I change Personalization back to 'No', the effect stays the same. Now I'm unable to get rid of this From field rewrite unless I make a new list. We want Personalization in order to use some variables in the footer, and of course to remedy some external user spam filtering issues. But we don't want the Sender/From field to contain the list's description. -Tim-

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Corrupt 'config.pck' file
by Quintin T. Williams 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hello - I have an issue with my Mailman App. I'm using an OpenBSD server. 3.5 and I have version 2.1.4. When I attempt to go to the web page for the lists for Email groups I get the following mesg: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/src/ports/mail/mailman/w-mailman-2.1.4/fake-i386/usr/local/lib/m ailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 67, in main File "/usr/local/src/ports/mail/mailman/w-mailman-2.1.4/fake-i386/usr/local/lib/m ailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 234, in admin_overview File "/usr/local/src/ports/mail/mailman/w-mailman-2.1.4/fake-i386/usr/local/lib/m ailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__ File "/usr/local/src/ports/mail/mailman/w-mailman-2.1.4/fake-i386/usr/local/lib/m ailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 609, in Load MMCorruptListDatabaseError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/spool/mailman/lists/aq-ngp-ml/config.db.last' I realize that since I don't have a config.db.last file I looked that the Config.pck and the config.pck.last files and they are both empty. I do not have a backup for this email group so I need to understand how to recreate the config. files. Do I rebuild this from scratch OR is there another way besides rebuilding it? Also can I cp files from other lists and use that as my seed to rebuild? I've also performed a 'dumpdb' and found nothing that I could use. Can anyone provide me the steps to take to rebuild this list? I'm new to mailman so any instructions please be very specific with the directions. Thanks in advance for your comments and support. Regards, Quintin "QT" Williams IT Operations Manager TeraRecon, Inc. 2955 Campus Dr. Ste 325 San Mateo, CA 94403 O: 650.653.4305 C: 925.640.3537 F: 650.989.6814

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bounce notifications
by Andrew 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi. Am a novice user. When mailman returns notification of a bounce to an administrator, the content always comes within an attachment. Is there any way of telling it to send the details within the body of the e-mail, because when you have lots there's a great deal of extra clicking involved, and it's more difficult to automatically process the information with code (e.g. within Outlook) Thanks very much Andrew

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Please help
by Abdelmajid Kassem 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello Dear friend: We are a nonprofit organization and our website is www.hc-mambd.org. We are hosting this site with a friend who has a hosting company. However, to my knowledge, he does not support any maling lists which we need. I have another website hosted by justhost.com and they support the mailing lists. My idea is to put the first site in the second's account which I did and create my mailing list. However, when I created the mailing list (info(a)hc-mambd.org) and want to add the members (Membership Management), it tells me this: ----------------------------------------- No such list info_hc-mambd.orgThere currently are no publicly-advertised Mailman mailing lists on hc-mambd.org.To visit the administrators configuration page for an unadvertised list, open a URL similar to this one, but with a '/' and the right list name appended. If you have the proper authority, you can also create a new mailing list. General list information can be found at the mailing list overview page.(Send questions and comments to mailman(a)hc-mambd.org.)------------------------------------------- Can you PLEASE help me create my list (info(a)hc-mambd.org) and add members to it? Thank you, Dr. Kassem.

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Mailman - a few questions
by andale＠excaliburworld.com 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi All, I am a list administrator for a number of mailing lists hosted on lists.sonic.net. The folks at sonic are great, except they really don't fully understand Mailman, so I am hoping to get a few of my issues resolved here. All my lists are pretty standard (aka, I don't need any help for them), except for one. One of the lists was recently migrated from Autoshare (finally got to say goodbye to Mac OS 9, the only OS Autoshare runs on). There are certain features of Autoshare that are awesome, but I cannot figure out how to configure Mailman to support these features. In a nutshell, this list is a combination announcement list and tech support list, and the list contributions are modified by the list administrator on a regular basis (either to remove excessive text from previous posts, add signatures, remove profane or rude language, and/or remove sensitive data that is commonly posted in error on our list). The way it worked on Autoshare, and they way I want it to work on Mailman, is like this: All posts go directly to the moderator (not the mailman "list moderator", because that puts a bunch of extraneous pre-text in the email that I don't want to have to wade through on every post). Upon acceptance of the post, modified or not, I then redirect the post to the actual mailing list. Redirect means the "TO:" header remains in tact as the original poster, and the moderator email is the "envelope" sender. Autoshare recognized the envelope sender and passed the post through to the list immediately. I have been unable to recreate this configuration on Mailman, but I'm hoping that there is a way to do it. I have successfully set up the list such that the Reply-To goes to the moderator. This sends the post, in tact, with no extraneous pre-text, directly to the moderator. The problems I'm having are as follows: 1. The reply-to does not seem to work for digest members. Digest members are reporting that the reply-to of the digests goes to the list (which then creates the moderator email text before sending to the moderator). How do I get the reply-to for digest members to work the same as non-digest? 2. For members whose email clients use buttons based upon email headers - specifically, list-id - they click on Reply to List and it goes to the wrong place. I would either like to change the list-id value, or remove it entirely. Is there a way to do that? 3. When I redirect the modified/approved post to the list, I want the TO field to maintain the original poster's email, and the moderator's email will be the envelope sender. I would like the Mailman list to recognize the envelope sender to authorize immediate distribution of the post. Currently, however, it holds the post for moderator approval. Is there a way to do this? 4. Lastly, the web archives created by Autoshare automatically created clickable HTML links for all HTML URL's in posts. The Mailman archives are all unclickable plain text URL's. Note, I want the list to remain a plain text list, as it was on Autoshare, but I'd still like Mailman to build HTML code to make the links active in the web archive. Is there a way to do this? I really appreciate any help in this matter. Bill C.

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Held messages not appearing on administrative web page
by Anne Anderson 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

I have a number (about 500) of old held messages in /var/lib/mailman/data that should show up on the administrative interface of the list's website, but don't. 2 questions: 1) what determines if a file in /var/lib/mailman/data shows up in the web interface? 2) How can one reindex or rebuild the contents of /var/lib/mailman/data so the missing data shows up? We are running Mailman 2.1.9 on Linux SLES 10.2. Thanks! Anne -- Anne Anderson Web Application Developer / Database Manager Information Technology Westmont College

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Access
by John Ditzel 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Please help me to access my admin. account I can't get in. Also is there an info page for me to learn just how to use mailman? I'm new and dumb to this and really need some help. I use supergreen hosting and mailman came as an option. I applied with my email jsditzel(a)msn.com<mailto:jsditzel@msn.com> but my password didn't work. But still not sure how to utilize your program to my needs. Which is automated mailing list to send as I develope campaigns for products or services.

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buildup of "attachment" files...
by Troy Campbell 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

On one mailing list I'm seeing alot of attachment files building up in the "archive" directory: # pwd /var/lib/mailman/archives/private # ls listname* listname: attachments index.html listname.mbox: Looking down a couple directory levels in "attachements": # pwd /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/<listname>/attachments/20091116/4763b4e9 # file * attachment.obj: gzip compressed data, was "ErrorReport.21234.txt", from Unix, last modified: Mon Nov 16 11:03:59 2009 [root@albers 4763b4e9]# ls attachment.obj Basically there are many directories in the "attachments" directory that go from "20070808" to "20091116". I'm running 2.1.9. I just need to know how to cleanup and turnoff if possible. Thanks! Troy

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messages won't go through
by alex wisser 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

I am using mailman version 2.1.11.cp3 to handle 6 mailing lists for a small community organization and am having difficulty. Each list has approximately 200 members, subscribed through the mass subscription function on the list admin interface and everything seems to be working, but when I send a message to the list it doesn't seem to be going on to the addresses on the list. I know this because I have put several of my own and other member's of the teams addresses on the list and we haven't gotten anything either to spam or inbox. I have called people on the list and they haven't gotten anything either. The messages are stored in the list archives. I have tried a variety of options including sending them as moderated and non moderated, from the admin address, from a member address, from a non admin address. I have gotten two messages in return. One was a fatal bounce error from one of the member addresses and the other was an automatically generated reply from another list saying that I would have to belong to that list to post there. I have also created a small test list with just three addresses on it (my own) and the messages went through fine. I have compared options on both the real lists and the test list and have found no solution. Can anyone help me? cheers Alex Wisser __________________________________________________________________________________ Win 1 of 4 Sony home entertainment packs thanks to Yahoo!7. Enter now: http://au.docs.yahoo.com/homepageset/

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Allowing non-subscribers to submit messages not working
by Jerry Bell 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

I have been using mailman for a mailing list where non-subscribers are permitted to send messages, but those messages are moderated using emergency moderation. After a recent upgrade, this stopped working. Now, I get a message: Reason: Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this list. I am running 2.1.12.cp3. I do not know what version I was running previously. There does not appear to be a setting to allow non-subscribers to post. Is there a way to re-enable non-subscribers to send messages to the list? Thanks, Jerry

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