Mailman 3 May 2009 - Mailman-Users

phantom subscription requests
by David Newman May 18, 2009

May 18, 2009

Mailman 2.1.12 on OpenBSD 4.5 Don't know if this is a coincidence, but ever since rebuilding a Mailman server that crashed last week and restoring the lists from archives, the site admin address has received a few dozen bogus subscription requests to lists on that server. This is odd, in that I'm site admin and have not sent any such requests. >From the little bit of spot checking I've done, the requests appear to come mostly from machines in RIPE space in Europe. Is anyone else seeing … [View More]

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Problem with mailman install
by LuKreme May 18, 2009

May 18, 2009

I have had mailman running for many years now, and have updated it semi regularly over the years (currently 2.1.9). A few days ago, I tried to post a message to a list I host and got: Command died with status 4: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post listname". Command output: No such file or directory I went in and tried to look at the install, but everything appeared to be fine. So I tried to reinstall via portupgrade mailman. After the upgrade completed, I got this error: … [View More]

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Installation On Separate Server Plausible?
by Carlos Williams May 18, 2009

May 18, 2009

I am being told that my Postfix email server can no longer run Apache on the same physical server. The management has decided for specific reasons that Apache can only be installed and configured on the web server, not the mail server. The mail server will simply run Postfix / Dovecot. This will force me to move web mail (RoundCube) & MailMan to my web server! My question is can I have MailMan function from scratch (no data needs to be migrated to the new install) from my web server and … [View More]

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emails are not being sent
by Khalil Abbas May 18, 2009

May 18, 2009

Hi fellas .. I have a list of 15000 subscribers .. and everything was working fine till like 2 weeks ago, when sending to the list and checking the mail statistics.. I find out that the outgoing emails are only 9000!! I used to check the logs and all the 15000 were being sent successfully .. but now it's 9000 only and people has been complaining that they are not recieving my messages.. the list has no members with "no mail" option .. and no one has been automatically removed due to the … [View More]

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shunting after "decoding Unicode is not supported"
by David Newman May 18, 2009

May 18, 2009

Mailman 2.1.12 Had a server crash. Built a new server, compiled MM 2.1.12 from source and restored the lists, data, and archives from a backup. Messages are going to the list but most aren't getting archived, with errors like the one pasted below. This has come up before: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-May/057100.html I'm wary about screwing up the digests, so two questions: 1. Is there any way of clearing this error without renaming/moving the digest? 2. If I do … [View More]

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Fetchmail with Mailman
by Bryan Humphreys May 17, 2009

May 17, 2009

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Discarding defers from the command line
by Bernie Cosell May 16, 2009

May 16, 2009

Is there a command-line way to "discard all messags marked defer"? /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--

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Deleting messages from archive....
by Charles Gregory May 16, 2009

May 16, 2009

Has anyone ever developed a point-n-click tool to delete a message from an archive, preferably by just eliminating the From/To/Subject and body, but leaving the links intact, with a placeholder message that says "message content removed", etc? I found lots of FAQ's and posts on the 'manual' way to do it. Just surprised there were no references to a quick-n-easy tool.... It would be really nice if this could integrate with the mailman admin pages, so that list owners could manage their own … [View More]

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Mailman + Postfix - Too Many Connections
by Lie, Jafaruddin May 16, 2009

May 16, 2009

This is not strictly a mailman issue, but I would assume some people here would have encountered this issue. We sent out mailing lists to schools here in Australia, and recently we've been getting "Too Many Connections #421" errors from them. Mails destined to gmail or hotmail are OK. We're not trying to spam them (we have put links to unsubscribe, etc) but since the same mail server hosts emails for almost all the school domains, it's not liking us. I've set postfix variable of … [View More]

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Patch for use of Postfix VERP support
by Jesper Dybdal May 16, 2009

May 16, 2009

I've just installed Mailman version 2.1.11. I was surprised to find that the standard distribution had no support for the Postfix VERP feature, which can create VERP return paths much more efficiently than when Mailman does it itself. I did find a patch for the FreeBSD port of an earlier Mailman version (at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2007-October/128777.h…), and changed it to match the standard 2.1.11 distribution. It seems to work fine. If anybody should be … [View More]

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