Mailman 3 July 2009 - Mailman-Users

Disable attachment scrubbing?
by Edward Harvey Aug. 2, 2009

Aug. 2, 2009

Sometimes people post messages with attachments. They get archived with the message “attachment was scrubbed...” and renamed simply “attachment” and if the mime type wasn’t recognized, also the file extension is changed. Is there some way to completely disable scrubbing? Just allow the attachments to come through as-is? No renaming. For my group, this feature is causing more harm than good. All the people who are allowed to subscribe or post are trusted not to send corrupt or malicious attachments.

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Detecting Autoresponders
by Karl Zander Aug. 2, 2009

Aug. 2, 2009

Is there something specific Mailman is looking for to detect autoreponders, like Out of Office messages? We had an incident this weekend with an autoresponder sending an out of office message over and over and over....to a list. This particular autoresponder is not known to be broken. Its worked well in the past with Mailman. I note the header of the message from the autoresponder contains X-Autogenerated: Reply But I am not sure what Mailman looks at when trying to determine what is … [View More]

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Missing confirmation requests and held messages
by Gregory Skelton Aug. 2, 2009

Aug. 2, 2009

Hi All, I'm kinda new to the administrating mailman lists, and I've recently run into a problem with our current setup. We have multiple list, all the data is mounted over nfs, and we're seeing missing emails. For instance, we've had some users try to subscribe to a list but don't get a confirmation email, other times we're seeing "held" messages no show up in the qeue for the administrator to authorize them. This is starting to become a real problem for our scientific colaboration, and … [View More]

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Trivial prob in migrating
by viz＠lug.zhaw.ch Aug. 1, 2009

Aug. 1, 2009

Hi all This must be triavial. Our mailman installation worked too good, too long. So we forgot its details. Now we are mirgrating to a new (virtual) server and I'm faced this problem. Old box: slackware 12.0, mailman installed from sources New box: Ubuntu Server 2009.4, mailman got with apt-get, the standard exim was replaced by postfix, also through apt. This is roughly what I did: - copied old:/usr/local/mailman/{lists|archives|data} to new:/var/lib/mailman/ - chown -R list /var/lib/… [View More]

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Membership Management Question
by Boes, RaeLynn Aug. 1, 2009

Aug. 1, 2009

I can't seem to find where to add a new member to an existing list. Can you help? RaeLynn ----------------------------------------------------------- RaeLynn Boes UGRL Operations Coordinator Purdue University Libraries (49)4-2842 rboes(a)purdue.edu

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sitewide mailman list
by Melinda Humphrey-Gilmore Aug. 1, 2009

Aug. 1, 2009

I feel like this is a silly question, but I have search all of the setting files on my mailman server. When users send a message to mailman@, a copy of the message is going to another email address. This was done by another tech no longer with us. I cannot find where he made that change. I want to remove this address he assigned to receive a copy of any message that goes to mailman@. Just need pointed in the right direction. Thank you, Melinda Humphrey-Gilmore Enterprise … [View More]

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Error Running bin/genaliases
by anirudh nair Aug. 1, 2009

Aug. 1, 2009

Hii Guys I get the following error while running bin/genaliases anirudh@ani-lap:/usr/local/mailman/bin$ ./genaliases postalias: fatal: bad string length 0 < 1: setgid_group = Traceback (most recent call last): File "./genaliases", line 116, in <module> main() File "./genaliases", line 102, in main MTA.create(None, nolock=True, quiet=quiet) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/… [View More]

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held messages problem
by Gregory Skelton Aug. 1, 2009

Aug. 1, 2009

Hi All, I'm kinda new to the administrating MailMan lists, and I've recently run into a problem with our current setup. We have multiple list, all the data is mounted over nfs, and we're seeing missing emails. We're seeing "held" messages in a qeue, but when its authorized, it doesn't get sent to the rest of the list and looks as if it disappears. We're running mailman 2.1.9, and sendmail sendmail-8.13.8-2 on a Centos 5.2 system. Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] The email command interface is not working
by b19141＠anl.gov July 31, 2009

July 31, 2009

Jibin <Jibins.Joseph(a)lntinfotech.com> wrote: >Hi, > >Please tell me wat is the default or expected action when we send a mail to >'listname-owner(a)domain.com'. Will it send to a mail to all the list owners? > >What is the difference between a lisy owner and a list admin. > >Please guide me in this.. > >Sorry to bother you a lot and thanks a lot in advance. It will send e-mail to all of the addresses listed in the General Options owner box … [View More]

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The email command interface is not working
by Jibin July 31, 2009

July 31, 2009

Hi, The email command interface is not working for me. I have seen the following in mailman configuration : "example-list-request(a)mydomain.com : Allows you to run commands on your list via email. This is the address you would send to when requesting a subscriber listing." But the same is not working for me. is there any special configuration for this. I have configured mailman in a linux server and using the '/mail/aliases' file. And the entries for each mailing list in the 'aleases' file … [View More]

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