Mailman 3 May 2009 - Mailman-Users

Line Wrapping - on/off by list.
by Drew Tenenholz May 4, 2009

May 4, 2009

Folks -- I have a request to change the line-wrapping for Mailman on some lists but not others. Is it possible? I have looked at the FAQ and list help and found articles <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-June/037650.html> and <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030605&focusedCommentId=…> which make it clear that the line-wrapping can be changed via the parameter 'raw' when calling the functions findtext() and maketext() in /mailman/Mailman/Utils.py. It seems to me that setting raw='true' works on ALL lists served, not a specific list. It also seems that it is easily possible to change line-wrapping on a language-by-language basis. Is there a way to make this work on a list-by-list basis? I'm not a python expert, but since python is quasi-human-readable, it seems to me that I should be able to specify which list(s) I want to wrap and which ones not. Any ideas on how to go about doing that? -- Drew Tenenholz

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No Admin Notification
by J.R. Constance May 4, 2009

May 4, 2009

I am having a problem with one of my lists where the administrators are not being notified of posts awaiting approval. This list is set right now to "Emergency moderation" so all posts are being held, but neither I nor the other administrator are receiving notifications of held messages. Any ideas on what the problem might be? I actually think it's a problem with a corrupt config.pck but not sure how I might go about even testing that. Thanks, J.R. J.R. Constance Rodric Consulting, LLC jrc(a)rodricon.com http://www.clinical-laboratory-consulting.com Phone: 720.339.3646

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Email commands to "<list>-requests"
by Beau James May 4, 2009

May 4, 2009

Mailman version 2.1.11 on a hosted service ... As far as I can tell by experimentation, the email admin commands (such as "who" to get a membership list) work only when they are in the subject line of the request. The command is not recognized in the body of the message, even if it is the only content in the body of the message and even if there is no subject line in the message. Is this the intended behavior? I'm setting up a cron job to "backup" my mailing list membership rosters, because I do not have access to the Mailman commandline tools on the hosting server. I'd prefer not to put the owner/moderator password in the "Subject:" line, if possible. Granted, putting the password in the message body is not terribly secure. But subject lines get logged by transit MTAs, at least some of the time; message bodies rarely get logged. (As an aside: the "emailed command in message body" works with MajorDomo.) Thanks, Beau

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How to prevent users from making changes to (their) DLs
by Marcos Breguez (DHL US) May 4, 2009

May 4, 2009

We want to take a snapshot of all lists and members in Mailman. So how can we prevent the current lists from being changed while being functional? Thanks.

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Robot Tag
by John Webb May 4, 2009

May 4, 2009

I am still confused about the source of the Meta Tag META NAME=robots" CONTENT="noindex,follow" . Our archive indexes have the "noindex,follow" tag, but the pages for each message have "index, nofollow". We want our archives to be available for unrestricted spidering and indexing throughout all of the pages. What do we need to do to enable the correct tag in our html? What exactly does the follow or nofollow part of it do? On a different topic.... I see several threads and methods concerning the use of search engines for searching the archives. What would be the most simple way for us to add a way for users to search for keywords in our archives? Thanks. John Webb

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Mailman
by Mike Hughes May 3, 2009

May 3, 2009

I have a mailing list that has been running under Mailman. Another fellow has been hosting the mailing list for me. I would like to begin doing so myself. I have a computer available for the task. What Linux version will work best? What will I need to do to set up mailman? Mike Hughes - Minister  Wilmington church of Christ -- P.O. Box 278 303 N. 1st Street Wilmington, IL 60481 Web: www.mikealrhughes.com E-mail: mail(a)mikealrhughes.com Mobile: (815) 545-6497 AIM/iChat ID: im2macmike Wilmington, IL Podcasts - The Bible Says Wilmington Sermons Owner Bible Matters List <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Mikeal-R-Hughes/1314936238 " title="Mikeal R. Hughes's Facebook profile" target=_TOP><img src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/1314936238.325.1190099722.png " border=0 alt="Mikeal R. Hughes's Facebook profile"></a> New Forum address: http://www.network54.com/Forum/602460 Join Bible Matters Group for forum at - http://www.network54.com/Group/158452 Blog: http://biblestruths.blogspot.com/ (OS X is like a jungle no Gates, no Windows, and a Leopard inside.) Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. The contents of this email are personal and private. Please do not forward this communication, in whole or in part, to anyone without my express consent.

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Target individual list member with sub-addressing when sending?
by Charles Rosenberg April 30, 2009

April 30, 2009

Hello all. I am new here, but trying my best to learn as much as possible. I searched far and wide through the Internet/FAQ and archives, but I think my question is rather unique. My Setup: Ubuntu 9.04 with newest Postfix and Dovcot running The steps I took and have done are as follows: 1. I have a list setup for a very small number of subscribers – 10 to 20 max. 2. The mailing list address is australia(a)lists.seishinonline.jp (It’s for a group of people hosting some students from Austrailia) 3. Only one or two addresses can post to the list. All other mailings will be rejected. 4. I have it setup to never show the “poster’s” address, instead using the mailing list address. 5. In addition to number 4, I setup a special “reply-to” address where all replies should go to. 6. Because the vast majority of the subscribers will be using their cell-phones’ built-in capability for e-mail, I found out step 5 actually won’t work for them. (Yay Japan…) 7. Because of 6, I created a re-write rule in Postfix to force all the From: headers to be the “reply-to” address. 8. The “reply-to” address is set to forward the e-mails to the original list “poster” inside of Postfix. Up to this point, everything works ok. My question is: After receiving a message through the “reply-to” address, I want the original poster to be able to send a single message back to the “replier,” possibly answering some question. Problem: I can’t have the “poster” know the individual address of the “replier,” nor can I have the “replier” know the direct address of the “poster.” Would it be possible to use some sort of sub-addressing, extended addressing, plus addressing, etc. to send a message to an individual subscriber based on a “subscriber” username or something? For example sending to Australia+KenYamaguchi(a)lists.seishinonline.jp would cause the e-mail to only go to the subscriber associated with “KenYamaguchi” and NOT the whole list. This way, neither side knows the other’s “direct mail address.” Is this possible? Thanks in advance. chuckyrose

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