Mailman 3 March 2009 - Mailman-Users

[listname]-bounce@mydomain.com ON BEHALF HELP!!!!!
by Wissam Yamout March 6, 2009

March 6, 2009

Dear Sir, Whenever an email is sent to my list I get this : [listname]-bounce(a)mydomain.com ON BEHALF [email] in the mail header Is there a way to get rid of this and put just [email]. Plus how can anyone send emails to the list without the process of approving and confirming and stuff I just need visitors to my website to be able to send emails to info(a)mydomain.com and I want my employees to get these email. I don’t want the confirmation part and approval part by the visitor. … [View More]

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Trapping a post with a blank Subject:
by Hank van Cleef March 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

How can I catch a post sent to the list that has nothing in the Subject: field? It is the first post in a thread that I need to catch. Mailman adds (no subject) before distributing the post, and I can trap all the responses. But evidently that is added after the incoming post headers are scanned. I've tried several strings in the spam filter, but I don't get reliable results. I don't know what various MUA's actually put in that field, but a simple \n seems to provoke a lot of false … [View More]

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access from a corporate network environment
by Dr. Scott S. Jones March 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

Is there any way to enable my mailman installation so that I can access it as admin from behind a corporate firewall? Scott -- "Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Sandy Chiropractic Office Dr. Scott S. Jones V: 801.566.5428 MAILING ADDRESS F: 801.858.9300 PO Box 1154 E: scott(a)fyrenice.com Sandy, Utah 84091-1154

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New crontab query: senddigests
by Savoy, Jim March 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

Hi all, I started a new thread for this as it no longer applies to cron, but rather digests. I just ran the senddigests cron option (again, for the first time ever) but it didn't seem to do anything. I can't really understand what it does anyway (from the description given). All of our lists allow users to select the digest option ("digestable=yes"), and the digests are sent out when the 30k threshold is reached ("digest_size_threshold=30"). The next option asks if a digest … [View More]

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Discard mystery
by Sebastian Hagedorn March 4, 2009

March 4, 2009

Hi, we're running Mailman 2.1.9 and can't upgrade because our Python is too old. Today we had an issue with a message that was sent by our secretary to our staff list. Her message kept being discarded by Mailman and I can't find the reason. The list in question has all filter settings either turned off or set to "Hold". She sends messages to that list regularly and there haven't been problems like that before. She *does* use Outlook 11 as MUA and sends her messages as HTML (with … [View More]

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New User - Cant send to new list
by Mitch Gore March 4, 2009

March 4, 2009

Hi, I am trying to set up a mailman server and having some real difficulties. Details: Using CentOS 5.2 MTA = Postfix I have postfix working, i can log into my user and send and receive messages. I then installed mailman and started configuring based on this page: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=453178&postcount=2 I created a list named test. Now, i logged into the web interface and added some users, all seemed well. Then from my postfix mailbox (who is a member/admin) i … [View More]

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new-to-the-list question
by Evan Perkins March 4, 2009

March 4, 2009

I searched the archives, but couldn't find this question answered there. Is there a way, as the list admin for a number of Mailman-run email lists, to find if someone is subscribed to multiple lists? Thanks, Evan -- ----- Evan Perkins Operations Director KGNU Community Radio 88.5 FM Boulder, 1390 AM Denver 4700 Walnut St. Boulder, CO 80301-2548 streaming online at http://www.kgnu.org 303.449.4885/800.737.3030 (Colorado only) -=-=-=-=-=-=- OK ... so if the Jacksonville Jaguars are known as … [View More]

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SOP for notifying list owners
by Alan Rubin March 4, 2009

March 4, 2009

Hello, Just curious if the community has a Standard Operating Procedure for list administrators to notify list owners when there are changes to the Mailman installation. Maybe like a list of list owners? Regards, Alan Rubin Technician Unix DCS Midrange Services Phone: +61 (08) 8999 5111 Fax: +61 (08) 8999 7493 e-Mail: alan.rubin(a)nt.gov.au

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Tricky admin_immed_notify problem
by george bannerman March 4, 2009

March 4, 2009

Hi all-- I've got a tricky problem on my mailman server. Right now, I have admin_immed_notify set to yes, but I'm not getting notifications when there are emails to approve. I'm also not getting the once-a-day "# list moderator request(s) waiting" either. "Forward messages (individually) to:" doesn't work. They all mysteriously stopped last Friday. I'm running Exim version 4.50 #1, Mailman 2.1.5, Python 2.3.5, and Linux version 2.6.16.13-xenU (Red Hat 4.0.2-8 running on Xen). I rebooted … [View More]the server ("have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?") and the restarted the exim daemon and ran check_perms, to no avail. I can email listname-owner (and it goes through), I can send email from the server, and list emails go out to the lists just fine. It only appears to be the administrator notifications and the forward messages individually to that are affected. I looked at FAQ 4.73: http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/4.73+How+do+I+debug+smtp-failure+problems+… I can telnet into my SMTP port and send mail. I looked at the MTA logs and they seem fine. (They're below.) I'm not running Python 2.4, so I can't do the error log trick I looked at FAQ 6.14: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030722 I don't get any errors when I run the two python scripts interactively as the mailman user. Here's what I'm getting in /var/lib/mailman/logs/smtp-failure: Feb 25 13:54:52 2009 (1052) delivery to administrator(a)example.com failed with code -1: Connection unexpectedly closed Feb 25 14:32:49 2009 (1052) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection refused'), msgid: <msgid(a)list.example.com> Feb 25 14:32:49 2009 (1052) delivery to administrator(a)example.com failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused') Feb 25 14:34:02 2009 (1052) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection refused'), msgid: <msgid(a)www.example.org> Feb 25 14:34:02 2009 (1052) Low level smtp error: please run connect() first, msgid: <msgid(a)www.example.org> -- Feb 25 14:35:55 2009 (1052) Low level smtp error: (111, 'Connection refused'), msgid: <msgid(a)list.example.com> Feb 25 14:35:55 2009 (1052) delivery to administrator(a)example.com failed with code -1: (111, 'Connection refused') Here's what's in /var/log/exim4/mainlog: 2009-02-25 17:17:10 1LcS3p-0003iA-Ek => administrator(a)example.comR=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H= ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com [209.85.217.8] 2009-02-25 17:17:10 1LcS3p-0003iA-Ek Completed 2009-02-25 17:17:24 1LcS46-0003iH-Cj => administrator(a)example.comR=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H= ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com [209.85.217.8] 2009-02-25 17:17:24 1LcS46-0003iH-Cj Completed (These are for a different message, but are representative.) There doesn't seem to be anything in rejectlog. I've tried changing the list administrator to a different email address by a different provider, but that doesn't seem to change anything. Help? Best, george [View Less]

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Forbidden
by Oliver Glueck March 3, 2009

March 3, 2009

Hi, if I click on the archive of a list, I get this error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /pipermail/about-ox/ on this server. But bin/check_perms says, that everything is ok. It is an apache problem? /usr/local/mailman# ls -al archives/private/ insgesamt 56 drwxrws--- 14 root mailman 4096 2009-03-03 10:30 . drwxrwsr-x 4 root mailman 4096 2009-02-27 17:54 .. drwxrwsr-x 5 www-data mailman 4096 2009-03-02 03:27 about-ox drwxrwsr-x 2 www-data mailman 4096 2009-03-01 … [View More]

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