Mailman 3 January 2010 - Mailman-Users

export of suscriber list?
by Jeff Weinberger 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction for what I hope is a simple issue.... I need to export the list of e-mails subscribed to one list. Is there a way to do that? (text file, database form, etc. are all ok...) Any help is appreciated!! Thank you!! ----------------------------------- Jeff Weinberger http://disruptivemarketing.jeffweinberger.com

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Oddity with list_members
by Bernie Cosell 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

I'm having some trouble with list_members. I do a list and I see several entries that don't show up in the GUI "Membership List" listings. And the other way around: I got a complaint from a former list member that they were still receiving messages, but list_members did *NOT* list them... but going into the GUI the member was there [and I unsubbed him from the gui]. That got me to checking and I discovered thatAnother odd anomaly: the list_members list is almost entirely in alphabetical order by email addr... *except* for one address that ought to have been with the <s...> addrs and came at the very end of the list. Also, the gui claims there are 326 members on the list, but list_members gives me 328. The member that didn't show up on the list_members list (but was actually subscribed) showed up as just an ordinary list member on the GUI membership list [no "nomail" or anything like that]. And I can't tell anything about members that show up on list_mem but not on the gui -- I'm not exactly sure if they're on the list or not. [I'll have to dig through the sendmail logs to see if they're actually receiving mailings or not]. Is this kind of thing indicative of something wrong in one of mailman's DBs or something like that? Should I be taking some kind of repair/fix steps? Thanks... /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--

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Removal of attachments causes problems
by Ralf Hildebrandt 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

I have a list where the attachments are removed and stored on the mailman server itself. This works like a charm, but SOME image attachments of the type: image/pjpeg are stored as "attachment.bin" instead of "attachment.jpg" Why? Example below: -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : Foto0136.jpg Dateityp : image/pjpeg Dateigröße : 139142 bytes Beschreibung: Foto0136.jpg URL : <http://mailman.charite.de/mailman/private/flohmarkt/attachments/20100106/68…> -------------- nächster Teil -------------- Ein Dateianhang mit Binärdaten wurde abgetrennt... Dateiname : Foto0092.jpg Dateityp : image/pjpeg Dateigröße : 157510 bytes Beschreibung: Foto0092.jpg URL : <http://mailman.charite.de/mailman/private/flohmarkt/attachments/20100106/68…> -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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help: lists set up and "succesfully subscribed" but noone is getting the email
by Heather Peterson 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

I set up a new list and mass subscribed my whole office (5 people), but none of us has received the welcome message that I included, and when I did a test email from outlook to the list, no one received it. Help! Thanks, Heather Heather Peterson | Director of Development Lighthouse Writers Workshop 2007 Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts 2123 Downing Street Denver, CO 80205 heather(a)lighthousewriters.org 303-297-1185

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No e-mail left in the intended e-mail box
by Christus Publishing 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

To whom it may concern, We have set-up but the e-mails coming into the box are not received in the box or left in the e-mail box --- they are just forwarded to the intended recipients. What do we have to do to make sure the e-mails coming in stay in the box? Thanks, peter -- Peter J. Mongeau Founder and Publisher Christus Publishing, LLC 17 Tennyson Road Wellesley, MA 02481 (781) 424-9321 Email: christuspublishing(a)verizon.net Website: www.ChristusPublishing.com

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duplicate messages
by Ryan Stasel 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

All, I did some searching and don't seem to be able to find anything in the archives related to this, so... I previously was running a series of lists on a Mac OS 10.4 Server, which I believe runs Mailman 2.1.3. And there were no real problems with duplicate messages. I have just now updated to 10.6.2, which runs Mailman 2.1.12rc1, and Dovecot (which I wouldn't think would impact anything). And yeah, already had to patch for the admindb error. Anyway, the problem is, I have several lists comprised of different classes of users... in this case: Faculty Staff Admin Students There are a few users that are members of several of these lists. So, let's say I'm a member of Faculty, and Staff. I have "nodups" checked for all the instances that I am in those lists, and in all places, my email address is listed the same (same email address, same all lower case). Okay, then I have a list called "Everyone" that has the above lists as members. In 10.4, with Mailman 2.1.3, if someone emailed to "everyone" I only got one copy of that message. Now in 10.6.2, with Mailman 2.1.12rc1, if I email to everyone, I get multiples. If I'm only a member of 2 of the "child" lists, I get two copies. If I'm a member of 4 of those children, I get 4 copies. Again, nodups is on. I'm really quite lost as to why this is happening. I did just move over the mailman directory from /var/mailman from the previous server to this one, and everything seems to work. The previous server and this one have the same IP and DNS info, so this shouldn't be an issue. =/ -Ryan Stasel

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moving mailman lists to new server, same domain name
by Andrew Watson 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

I am moving a number of lists to a new server. Eventually the new server will have the same domain name as the old, so I don't think I need to change urls. I have read the FAQs, and lots of emails on this list, and I think I know what to do, but would like to be sure I am not missing something. I have installed mailman 2.10 on the new server, and now plan to move the lists and archives. /.migrate contains copies of files from the old server on the new server. The commands I plan (on the new server) are as follows: cp -npvR /.migrate/usr/local/mailman/archives/ /usr/local/mailman/archives cp -npvR /.migrate/usr/local/mailman/lists/ /usr/local/mailman/lists Sound right? Is there anything else I need to do? Also, does it matter what I selected during installation for the mailman administrators email? (I accepted default: root(a)mydomain.com ) Andrew

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Delete and re-create a list with same name
by Hung Phan 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

Hello, We have a list which transfered over from a different platform and it has multiple issues that we couldn't figure out. We thinking of delete the list and re-create it with the same name. Will there be any issue with re-create the list with the same name? Will bin/rmlist erases all settings of the list? Thank you very much,

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odd problem with mailman holding mail in outgoing queue
by Alan McKay 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Hey folks, I've been running a FreeBSD / Postfix / Mailman list server for some 7 or 8 years now. The last time I updated FreeBSD was about 3 years ago so it is only at 6.0. That was also the last time I updated Postfix and Mailman until this recent spat of problems which prompted me to upgrade both to the latest stable versions (as of yesterday). So 2.1.13 in the case of Mailman. Things have been running fine on this server for years with nary an issue. I have not made any changes recently, so it was quite troublesome when this problem started a few days ago. My lists started experiencing 10 and 12 hour delays between mail coming in, and going back out again. If I look at message headers I can see Postfix gets the message, then hands off to mailman, then it sits there for hours on end, and finally gets sent out. I should mention that this is a pretty lightly loaded system. The lists are basically personal hobby lists - the busiest of which gets maybe 100 to 200 emails a day. It is also a web server but traffic is pretty light. Load average is usually under 1. I spent a good 12 to 14 hours yesterday looking into this - went through some of the archives for this list, as well as the FAQ wiki. Found a few similar problems but nothing just the same. I look in the Mailman logs dir. Nothing really onerous that I see. I look in smtp and see what looks like normal processing. e.g. one of my lists looks like it had a number of messages just a few minutes ago, but I have not seen them yet where normally I would expect to see them almost instantly. Jan 04 12:08:18 2010 (85805) <3f1854170912301503l375e2259k439e633f55b8bffa(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to brewers for 3 recips, completed in 0.055 seconds Jan 04 12:08:18 2010 (85805) <3f1854170912301511m39e7eb9djc157df16d753bef1(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to brewers for 3 recips, completed in 0.041 seconds Jan 04 12:08:18 2010 (85805) <6e40ba2b0912301514j5bbd84b5maef5a93e4c46b11(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to brewers for 3 recips, completed in 0.053 seconds Jan 04 12:08:18 2010 (85805) <54a6f3cb0912301520r2dd77b03i5ebd8492b4af5bbc(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to brewers for 3 recips, completed in 0.040 seconds Jan 04 12:08:18 2010 (85805) <b9ff8c7d0912301529r1411fbdtb1860e06ef539bb0(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to brewers for 3 recips, completed in 0.050 seconds Jan 04 12:08:18 2010 (85805) <8d0a26d70912301627o1571ababscf8396703e9bbb27(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to brewers for 3 recips, completed in 0.052 seconds smtp-failure seems to contain not much else other than reports of bogus email addresses. I've used this as an opportunity to weed out most of them, but there are still messages that had been queued up for them so I'm not sure how long it will take those to fail delivery. For example if I "tail -10000" (ten thousand) that file and grep out the 5 main bogus email addresses, I get one single line : Jan 04 12:07:50 2010 (50034) Low level smtp error: (4, 'Interrupted system call'), msgid: <b100e8e71001021626l470dc99fmcea7aceba072823b(a)mail.gmail.com> But i have been unable to find out what this means. But given that I only see it once I am not too worried about it really. Can someone tell me where to look as to why stuff is getting backed up in the outgoing queue? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

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Mailman < > forum ?
by John Fitzsimons 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Hi, Are there currently *any* web forum(s) that enable forum/mailman mirroring ? In other words a Mailman email going to a web forum and vica versa ? I believe that something like this could work with phpbb2 but not the current release. Can anyone help please ? Regards, John.

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