Mailman 3 November 2010 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] post as administrator
by MK Nov. 19, 2010

Nov. 19, 2010

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:07:24 +0000 Tim Faircloth <Tim.Faircloth(a)gsw.edu> wrote: > The best way to do this is to subscribe users with the mod option > (first column of the Membership List page), then uncheck the Mod > option for people you want to post to the list. That is also vulnerable to spoofing. -- "The angel of history[...]is turned toward the past." (Walter Benjamin)

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post as administrator
by MK Nov. 19, 2010

Nov. 19, 2010

I've just started an "announcements only" mail list. That is, I have it set to discard posts from non-members, and to reject posts from members with a explanatory message. This works, however, I cannot post to the list either, although my email is listed as the administrator. I tried subscribing, but then I get treated as a member: my mail is rejected. How can I set this up? Do I have to briefly change the configuration, post my announcement, approve my own post, and then change the configuration back to reject? -- "The angel of history[...]is turned toward the past." (Walter Benjamin)

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Digest Specific Messages
by Brian A. Rellinger Nov. 17, 2010

Nov. 17, 2010

Hello, We are wondering if it is possible for an email list approver to be able to select some messages for immediate delivery to all subscribers (even if the subscriber has elected digest mode), and send other messages in a digest, again, regardless of user settings. For example, we have 3 emails sent today about events that are scheduled for next week. For each of those messages, the approver would like to select "Send via Digest", at which point, the system would combine the emails into one daily message, irrespective of subscriber specific settings. However, perhaps there is one message sent that day that should go to all users immediately regardless of their preferences. Is that possible? I dug around on the wiki and through the archives and was not able to find this question. Thanks, Brian -- Brian A. Rellinger Executive Director of Information Services Ohio Wesleyan University 61 S. Sandusky Street Delaware, Ohio 43015 Phone: 740-368-3131 http://twitter.com/rellinb http://barellin.blogspot.com/ --

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Backing Up the List of Members
by Alan McConnell Nov. 17, 2010

Nov. 17, 2010

Assembled Wisdom! I am big fan of mailman and admin three E-lists managed by mailman. These lists are hosted on remote computers. I am now having the problem: I wish to back up the list of members of a couple of my lists to my home machine. I used to get all the members on one page. Now the members are alphabetized and each initial letter is put on a diffent page. I can still back-up, but it is a laborious process. Is there a command to exhibit all members on one page? or, better yet, is there a command an administrator can invoke to have the members, if possible with their flags, shipped to my home computer? TIA for anticipated help! Alan McConnell -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan When the ax came into the woods, the trees all said: "Well, at least the handle is one of us." (Turkish folk warning, from 'The Nation')

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confirm moderator approval
by Frank Van Damme Nov. 15, 2010

Nov. 15, 2010

Hi, mailman sends messages to the user if his mail is held for approval or when the mail is rejected, but not when approved. Is it possible to configure mailman to send a message to the user when his message is approved? -- Frank Van Damme No part of this copyright message may be reproduced, read or seen, dead or alive or by any means, including but not limited to telepathy without the benevolence of the author.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Approved message is discarded
by Mark Sapiro Nov. 13, 2010

Nov. 13, 2010

Andre van Kan wrote: > >On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 07:12 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> > Can you send me off list a copy of Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py from your >> > system? >> >> I received that. Thank you. Unfortunately, there's nothing there that >> helps explain this issue. I can work up a patch to provide debug >> logging, but before I do that, is there anything in Mailman's 'error' >> log from either the time of the visit to the admindb page or from the >> time the held post arrived? > >Not a single entry in any of the log files. > > >> If so, what's in the error log. If not, is >> it possible that some non-mailman process has removed any of Mailman's >> data/heldmsg* files between the holding of the post and the visit to the >> admindb page? > >I don't think so. The message is removed at the >very moment that the link in Mailman's notification >message is activated. I understand that, but the data/heldmsg* file could have been removed external to Mailman before that. >> Also, it wouldn't hurt to run Mailman's bin/check_perms to see if there >> might be permission issues on Mailman's data/ directory. > >See attachment. Mail restarted, just in case ... >I sent a message to the list. Unfortunately there was no message >waiting for me to be accepted and NO entry was in vette. >I think that it would be great if the logging became a bit >more verbose. Thanks in advance. The attached admindb.patch.txt file contains a patch that will log more information to Mailman's 'debug' log. Try applying the patch and then the next time the problem occurs, post the log - note the log may contain passwords; be careful to remove them before posting. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Moving / upgrading Mailman from Solaris to Linux
by Ivan Fetch Nov. 12, 2010

Nov. 12, 2010

Hello, We are planning to move our Mailman installation from Solaris to Linux, and upgrade in the process. I'd love to hear from anyone who has run production Mailman on Linux. What experiences have list members had with RedHat vs. Ubuntu Mailman packages, vs. compiling Mailman from source? At this point, even though I prefer to use packages when possible, I am leaning toward compiling Mailman from source because of: 1. Red Hat packages are typically more ancient 2. Ubuntu packages seem to include non-standard patches to Mailman (still sorting this out) Additionally, has anyone run into problems with Python packages provided by Red Hat and Ubuntu? Thank you for your time, Ivan.

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Mailman blocks messages based on reply-to address
by Rene Hamburger Nov. 11, 2010

Nov. 11, 2010

Hi everyone, I am forwarding emails to a mailing list after I have included the original sender's email as the reply-to address. It works fine as long as the reply-to address is not on the actual email list. But when it is, mailman recognises it as being moderated and blocks the email. Is that a feature or a bug? :) The reason we are not running it as a regular moderated list is that I have to edit emails slightly before sending them out and that people not on the list would sometimes ask us to forward them to the list. Any thoughts? Thanks, Rene

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Very simple content filtering
by BBands Nov. 11, 2010

Nov. 11, 2010

Hi, We are using Mailman 2.1.9. I'd like to be able to strip potentially dangerous attachments, exe, bat, scr and the like, while leaving virtually everything else about the message intact so that readers see the messages as the composers intended them, often in html with inline graphics and so forth. No combination of settings I have tried seems to accomplish this. What content filtering settings would you recommend? Thanks so much, John

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Email command to find out what lists I am on
by C Nulk Nov. 11, 2010

Nov. 11, 2010

Hello all, I searched through the documentation and the archives but I was unable to find what I was looking for. Is there a command I can send to Mailman VIA EMAIL so that Mailman send a list of all the lists of which I am a member back to me VIA EMAIL? I know I can use the web interface to find out all the lists of which I a member. I don't want to get the information through the web interface. I would like to get the information to and from via email. Thanks for any help, Chris

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