Mailman 3 May 2009 - Mailman-Users

Help! "Stuck Messages"
by Aaron Marcavitch May 24, 2009

May 24, 2009

Hi folks, Brand new here. I have reviewed the troubleshooting and I think I am just not sophisticated to understand the answers. We have a list of about 600. I have been working hard to delete our bouncing members. However, when I do a BIG delete session, no messages show up in the "approval" section. I have the list on emergency moderation because we were having problems adjusting to our switch over from our old system. When I didn't delete emails for a few days it worked fine. Now its going on 12 days since our last email showed up for my approval. I know I am doing something wrong - I just can't figure out what.... I did try to find this answer and I kept on running up on VERP and MTA - but I have NO idea what that means. I am only using the web interface for approval, so I am very unsophisticated about how this works.... Thanks in advance for advice. Aaron -------- http://www.marcavitch.com

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BASH list renaming script
by Ron King May 22, 2009

May 22, 2009

I work with academics, who seem to find perverse joy in needing to reorganize everything at least once a year. I wanted to post this somewhere before I lose it. The script renames a list from the command line, without having to do anything from the web GUI. It has always worked for me. Instructions: Stop mail service. # add this to the script so you don't need to remember to do it ./rename_list.sh oldListName NewListName # the names are usually all lowercase, JIC you get file/list not found errors. Start mail service. # add this to the script so you don't need to remember to do it rename_list.sh contents: #!/bin/bash OLD=$1 NEW=$2 #service zimbra stop # zimbra being our mail program service mailman stop test -a /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW} && echo "*** That mailing list name already exists. *** " mv /var/lib/mailman/lists/${OLD} /var/lib/mailman/lists/${NEW} mv /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${OLD} /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW} mv /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${OLD}.mbox /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW}.mbox mv /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW}.mbox/${OLD}.mbox /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/${NEW}.mbox/${NEW}.mbox /usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch --wipe ${NEW} echo "real_name = '$NEW'" > temp.txt echo "subject_prefix = '[$NEW]'" >> temp.txt /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i temp.txt $NEW rm temp.txt -f /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases service mailman start #service zimbra start -- Ron King IT Manager Magdalena Ridge Observatory - New Mexico Tech 101 East Rd - Socorro, NM 87501 575-835-5772 phone - 878-835-6807 fax rking(a)mro.nmt.edu

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Unmoderated list member recieving msgs, but unable to post to the list
by Millsap, James May 22, 2009

May 22, 2009

Hello, Have not been able to find anything on this. Bit of a strange one. I have a list with about thirty members. One member has reported that he cannot post to the list, ever though he was able to a few months ago. I investigated, and he was not moderated , nor were members disallowed from posting. I removed, and re-subscribed him, deleted and re-created the list without effect. He sends a msg, I can follow it in the MTA being delivered to our mailman server. On the mailman server there is no log or acknowledgement of a msg being sent. I then moderated the list and his msg was waiting for moderation. I released it to the list, and it disappeared. No delivery, no error. Kind of stumped. We have hundreds of lists, with thousands of msgs being posted . Not sure what the deal is with this one list/user. Thanks in advance. James Millsap Computing Services University of Chicago Booth School of Business 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 (773)702-7955

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Personalised Distribution List?
by Lie, Jafaruddin May 22, 2009

May 22, 2009

Hi gang We have a list that we use as a one-way (distribution) list. I was asked whether it is possible to craft an email that has personalised name sent out through one email. For example, a single email sent out to the list, but mailman adds the name of the users from the list into the mail. Not sure if it is possible, I don't think it is without a lot of mucking around. I am happy to be proven wrong though :) Jafaruddin Lie System Engineer Australian Council for Educational Research 19 Prospect Hill Road, Camberwell VIC 3124 t: 03 9277 5599 f: 03 9277 5500 m: 0401 736 979 e: lie(a)acer.edu.au http://www.acer.edu.au -- ------------------------------------------------ Please consider the environment before you print

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Install MailMan On Separate Server?
by Carlos Williams May 21, 2009

May 21, 2009

I asked this a week ago and did not hear anything back and I don't know if the message reached the list so I am re-sending this. Can someone please tell me if I am able to configure Mailman installation on a web server that is separate from my Postfix (mail) server?

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Delayed Mailman Email Notifications
by Acoshi May 21, 2009

May 21, 2009

I have created a mailman mailing list and enabled email notifications. But when ever someone responses to the list it take more than 12 hours for me to receive an email notification of their list response. Even though it only takes a few moments to receive the notification the "Pending Moderation Request section" I am not sure if its mailman that causes the delay in email notifications, my ISP's server, or my mail program. FYI: I am using MacMail and Thunderbird for my mail programs. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Delayed-Mailman-Email-Notifications-tp23622231p236222… Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Invite Message
by Brian Canty May 21, 2009

May 21, 2009

Does anyone know where I can locate the invite message? I would like to change it and can not find it. Thanks. Brian Canty Manager Computer Information Services American Psychoanalytic Association 212-752-0450 x17

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Moderator request(s) waiting but ... nothing to moderate
by Manuel Vacelet May 20, 2009

May 20, 2009

Hello, One of my list admin is asked to moderate pending emails on daily basis with a mail like: > The listname(a)lists.server.com mailing list has 2 > request(s) waiting for your consideration at: > > https://lists.server.com/mailman/admindb/listname > > Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of > pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. But when he goes on the given url there is nothing to validate just the following message: > Database Updated... > listname Administrative Database > There are no pending requests. Click here to reload this page. but the day after, the very same message is still sent by mailman. Any idea of what happens ? Manuel

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maintain bounce info but no deactivate user
by Luis Antonio Donoso de Dio May 19, 2009

May 19, 2009

Hello everybody, I'd like to maintain the bounce stadistics about users but only for information proposals, I don't want mailman automatically deactivate users when the threshold is achieved. I'd tried this solutions: - Set bounce_processing to No: no bounce information is saved in logs neither database. - Set bounce_score_threshold to 0: users a deactivated with the first bounced e-mail. I'd set a big bounce_score_threshold, but Is there a smarter solution? Thanks in advance, Luis

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mailman mali list already created
by Noah May 19, 2009

May 19, 2009

Hi there, I am migrating my old mailman system. mailman thinks the mailman mail list is not created although it is as identified correctly by the newlist program. What is going on here? root@enabled:/usr/local/mailman# /etc/init.d/mailman start * Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing. * Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start. root@enabled:/usr/local/mailman# bin/newlist mailman Create a new, unpopulated mailing list. Usage: bin/newlist [options] [listname [listadmin-addr [admin-password]]] Options: -l language --language=language Make the list's preferred language `language', which must be a two letter language code. -u urlhost --urlhost=urlhost Gives the list's web interface host name. -e emailhost --emailhost=emailhost Gives the list's email domain name. -q/--quiet Normally the administrator is notified by email (after a prompt) that their list has been created. This option suppresses the prompt and notification. -h/--help Print this help text and exit. You can specify as many of the arguments as you want on the command line: you will be prompted for the missing ones. Every Mailman list has two parameters which define the default host name for outgoing email, and the default URL for all web interfaces. When you configured Mailman, certain defaults were calculated, but if you are running multiple virtual Mailman sites, then the defaults may not be appropriate for the list you are creating. You also specify the domain to create your new list in by typing the command like so: newlist --urlhost=www.mydom.ain mylist where `www.mydom.ain' should be the base hostname for the URL to this virtual hosts's lists. E.g. with this setting people will view the general list overviews at http://www.mydom.ain/mailman/listinfo. Also, www.mydom.ain should be a key in the VIRTUAL_HOSTS mapping in mm_cfg.py/Defaults.py if the email hostname to be automatically determined. If you want the email hostname to be different from the one looked up by the VIRTUAL_HOSTS or if urlhost is not registered in VIRTUAL_HOSTS, you can specify `emailhost' like so: newlist --urlhost=www.mydom.ain --emailhost=mydom.ain mylist where `mydom.ain' is the mail domain name. If you don't specify emailhost but urlhost is not in the virtual host list, then mm_cfg.DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST will be used for the email interface. For backward compatibility, you can also specify the domain to create your new list in by spelling the listname like so: mylist(a)www.mydom.ain where www.mydom.ain is used for `urlhost' but it will also be used for `emailhost' if it is not found in the virtual host table. Note that '--urlhost' and '--emailhost' have precedence to this notation. If you spell the list name as just `mylist', then the email hostname will be taken from DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and the url will be taken from DEFAULT_URL (as defined in your Defaults.py file or overridden by settings in mm_cfg.py). Note that listnames are forced to lowercase. List already exists: mailman

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