Mailman 3 April 2009 - Mailman-Users

Adding a description to the "<listname>-bounces" address
by Ralph Prichard 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

This seems like such a simple thing that I'm sure it's described somewhere, but after searching the archives and Google I haven't had any success in finding it. We have some Outlook users, and as this FAQ describes... http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/From+field+displayed+by+Microsoft+Outlook ...they see the Sender info glued to the From info. Please note: we're perfectly happy with the <listname>-bounces address itself (I mention that because my searches turned up several people asking if it was possible to change.) All I'd like to know is if it's possible to add a descriptive string to that address. In other words, configure the Sender line to be something like... Sender: The Interesting Example List <example-bounces(a)example.com> ...instead of what it apparently is now... Sender: example-bounces(a)example.com Even just being able to insert the "description" value from the General Options page would help. Thanks, Ralph

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How can I fix a normal answer?
by alexander＠nautae.eti.br 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi everyone. Excuse my English. I have finished the installation of a Mailman 2.1.12. I did all the configurations and when I send a email to a list, the Postfix tell me that everything was right, but... nothing happens. Here's my maillog: ## BEGIN Apr 27 14:36:04 ip-72-167-96-162 imap[26018]: accepted connection Apr 27 14:36:04 ip-72-167-96-162 imap[26018]: login: ip-72-167-96-162.ip.secureserver.net [127.0.0.1] alexander(a)nautae.eti.br PLAIN User logged in Apr 27 14:36:04 ip-72-167-96-162 postfix/pickup[1772]: A362CC233CE: uid=48 from=<alexander(a)nautae.eti.br> Apr 27 14:36:04 ip-72-167-96-162 postfix/cleanup[13518]: A362CC233CE: message-id=<20090427153604.18274lqjyfr1rcmc(a)www.nautae.eti.br> Apr 27 14:36:04 ip-72-167-96-162 postfix/qmgr[1767]: A362CC233CE: from=<alexander(a)nautae.eti.br>, size=822, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Apr 27 14:36:04 ip-72-167-96-162 imap[26018]: seen_db: user alexander(a)nautae.eti.br opened /var/lib/imap/domain/n/nautae.eti.br/user/a/alexander.seen Apr 27 14:36:05 ip-72-167-96-162 postfix/pipe[13520]: A362CC233CE: to=<teste4(a)listas.sitemaldito.com.br>, relay=mailman, delay=0.67, delays=0.02/0.07/0/0.57, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via mailman service) Apr 27 14:36:05 ip-72-167-96-162 postfix/qmgr[1767]: A362CC233CE: removed ## END So... could you see the "(delivered via mailman service)"? And no errors after... What's happens here? I'm using postfix-to-mailman.py script. I've put "MTA=None" inside the mm_cfg.py. How can I log more information to try to fix the complete silence of my system? Here is more information: main.cf virtual_mailbox_domains = hash:${config_directory}/virtual_domains virtual_alias_maps = hash:${config_directory}/virtual_alias virtual_mailbox_maps = ${virtual_alias_maps} sender_canonical_maps = hash:${config_directory}/sender_canonical smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes ... smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/saslpass ... mailbox_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp virtual_transport = lmtp:unix:/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp recipient_delimiter = + owner_request_special = no relay_domains = listas.sitemaldito.com.br transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport relayhost = k2smtpout.secureserver.net myhostname = ip-72-167-96-162.ip.secureserver.net mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1 master.cf: mailman unix - n n - - pipe flags=FR user=mailman argv=/usr/local/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py ${nexthop} ${mailbox} Thanks to any help. []'s Alexander Brazil - Rio de Janeiro ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Switching to UTF-8 and strange unicoded email accounts in member lists
by Ulf Dunkel 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hello Mark et al. Please let me note some remarks on my experiences while switching to UTF-8 for Mailman first: I have now finally managed to switch my Mailman 2.1.9 to UTF-8. I found many helpful hints and comments in this mailing list and want to thank you all for your great work. But now I ran into that miraculous email encoding error (emails listed with u'name(a)domain.tld') which can be detected using withlist as recommended by Mark, running the Python commands: $ bin/withlist listname >>> for mem in m.getMembers(): ... print repr(m.getMemberCPAddress(mem)) This indeed listed some strange email addresses and I have NO idea why, except that I used to use different iso encodings for my own email script before. I fixed all them by doing this: a) mailto:listname-request@mydomain.tld who list-password b) mass unsubscribed ALL members from the relevant list (quietly) b) mass subscribed ALL members using the who reply list Then all emails were listed properly when I re-checked everything. Now all lists run fine (again) and I wonder if the current stable 2.1.12 does already have more "built-in" UTF-8 stuff. Can't wait to update my Debian Etch server to get my hands on the current Mailman version. Maybe my notes can help some other Mailman users out there. Best regards, --Ulf Dunkel

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list error ..
by Khalil Abbas 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

hi, I have 6 lists on the same server posting to them onced daily .. but nearly half the members are not being sent to.. when going to web interface, there's a specific list (let's call it list5) always gives an error: bug in mailman when going to membership list .. on SSH server side, the list_members works, but on sending the command: ./list_members --nomail list5, I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./list_members", line 286, in ? main() File "./list_members", line 262, in main if nomail and not whymatches(mlist, addr, why): File "./list_members", line 138, in whymatches status = mlist.getDeliveryStatus(addr) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 139, in getDeliveryStatus self.__assertIsMember(member) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 113, in __assertIsMember raise Errors.NotAMemberError, member Mailman.Errors.NotAMemberError: samloutyAyahoo.com note that the --nomail option works on all other lists.. How to fix this error ?? Thanks .. _________________________________________________________________ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx

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What does this message mean?
by James Reid 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi Everyone, I have one single user on one of my lists whose posts regularly (though not always) result in her messages coming to me as list owner with the following message: The attached message has been automatically discarded. As far as I can see: - The user is sending from a subscribed address (only subscribers can send to the list) - The message is not too big The only thing that I can guess might be a problem is that the user is renown for bcc'ing quite a few others in her posts, but I can't see how that could affect things (the other addresses would have disappeared by the time it got to my mailman server - the user is on the internet) Can someone give me some suggestion on what the problem might be? Thanks! James.

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mailman not sending email - "data format error"
by Lars Olson 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

I’m noticing these “data format errors” in my maillog when someone subscribes to a list. Apr 24 21:54:18 www sendmail[14880]: n3P2sIXc014880: from=<testing-bounces(a)mydomain.com>, size=1602, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<mailman.0.1240628056.14879.testing(a)mydomain.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mail.hostingdomain.com [127.0.0.1] Apr 24 21:54:19 www sendmail[14883]: n3P2sIXc014880: to=<lars(a)testing-domain.com>, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=121602, relay=mail.testing-domain.com. [204.112.168.252], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error Apr 24 21:54:19 www sendmail[14883]: n3P2sIXc014880: to=<testing-bounces(a)mydomain.com>, delay=00:00:01, mailer=local, pri=121602, dsn=5.1.1, stat=User unknown Apr 24 21:54:19 www sendmail[14883]: n3P2sIXc014880: n3P2sJXc014883: postmaster notify: User unknown

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Migrate a list from one server to another
by Edward Ned Harvey 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

I¹m actually building a ³sandbox² machine, to test some config changes before attempting on the production machine. I installed the OS and mailman on the new machine, configured it all up until I was able to browse the web server, and see the ³Mailman² list ... And then I copied the /var/lib/mailman directory from the old server to the new one. I expected to be able to browse the mail archives here, but ... list_lists does in fact work. Produces a list of all the lists. But when I browse to listinfo, it just says ³There currently are no publicly-advertised Mailman mailing lists² I¹ll poke around some more, but lots of times the answer will appear here before I can figure it out on my own... Thanks for any help...

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How can I fix a normal answer? - More
by alexander＠nautae.eti.br 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi. I've forgotten to say: Yes, I've put the line in /etc/transport and have run postmap: listas.sitemaldito.com.br mailman: []'s Alexander Brazil - Rio de Janeiro ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Mailman 2.1.12 and htDig integration patches
by Hank van Cleef 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

I'm wondering what is the situation with Mailman 2.1.12 integration with the htDig search engine. In the past, I've relied on Richard Barrett's excellent support at openinfo.co.uk and have a 2.1.11 build with his patches. However, I don't see anything listed there for 2.1.12. While I can work through the exercises needed to get 2.1.12 to work with htDig, I thought I'd ask first. Do we need a different patch set for the indexer and the archiver integration? Hank

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How to configure mailman replica on secondary server
by ankush grover 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Hi Friends, I am running mailman 2.1.5 version on RHEL ES 4.1 with Postfix 2.1.5. I am trying to configure mailman replication that is there will be a primary mailman server and a secondary mailman server. The secondary server will keep the lists and data in sync with the production and will be brought up manually whenver primary server goes down. Currently I am syncing the data b/w primary and secondary servers through rsync utility, however there are some issues like mailman does not shows the mailing lists on the secondary server. I would like to know what is the best way to configure replica of mailman primary server and what changes needs to be done for making secondary server as live mailman server. Data currently being sync is /usr/lib/mailman(full directory), /var/lib/mailman/data and /var/lib/mailman/lists directories Please let me know if you need any further information. Thanks & Regards Ankush

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