Mailman 3 December 2010 - Mailman-Users

how to configure in rhel inbuilt sendmail with mailman
by M.Vadivel Kumar 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Dear Friends how to configure in rhel inbuilt sendmail with mailman i install sendmail with mailman it's working i create lists but i cant send mail from sendmail please tell me the steps -- Regards M.Vadivel Kumar Mobile : 9894448512

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query moderation bit in a list
by D G Teed 06 Dec '10

06 Dec '10

Hello, We need to lookup who is not moderated in a list with a large membership. Is there a simple command line query to handle that? I have a feeling we looked this up before, but can't find any notes on it nor previous questions in this support list. --Donald

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Self Subscription Failing
by Troy Knabe 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

We use mailman primarily for internal mail lists, but recently I had a request for an external lists that users could subscribe/unsubscribe to via email listname-join, etc. When I send to listname-join I see an entry in the subscribe log for listname: pending emailaddress, but the user never receives the confirmation email. Dec 3 07:57:42 mx2 sendmail[22248]: oB3Fve9T022246: to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join foo", ctladdr=<foo-join(a)domain.com> (47/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=3327, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent

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Subscription messages don't send out
by Hung Phan 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hello, We found that our Mailman doesn't send out the subscription confirmation messages for some lists but not all lists. The subscribe and smtp logs have the correspondence entries reflect the subscription and the confirmation message send out. In the exim log, we found this: 2010-12-02 12:26:12 1POFjI-0000ff-J2 <= listserv_test-bounces(a)mailman.domain H=localhost (localhost.localdomain) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=2059 id=mailman.0.1291321571.2582.listserv_test(a)mailman.domain 2010-12-02 12:10:32 1POFU7-0000EJ-1n ** testuser-owner(a)canby.k12.or.us R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<testuser-owner(a)canby.k12.or.us>: host canby.k12.or.us.s9a1.psmtp.com [74.125.148.10]: 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try\n550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or\n550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at\n550 5.1.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6596 u3si2832748ybe.73 2010-12-02 12:26:13 1POFjJ-0000fi-Ly <= <> R=1POFjI-0000ff-J2 U=exim P=local S=3394 2010-12-02 12:26:13 1POFjI-0000ff-J2 Completed 2010-12-02 12:26:14 1POFjJ-0000fi-Ly => listserv_test <listserv_test-bounces(a)mailman.domain> R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport 2010-12-02 12:26:14 1POFjJ-0000fi-Ly Completed This testuser(a)canby.k12.or.us exists and able send/receive email without issue. Thank you for any advice

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admin help
by Christian Lefler 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

I just started a new mailing list and its great. I would like to know how to keep subscribers from getting to any screen where they can manage their settings or post to the list. Basically I want to manage the list entirely myself where subscribers simply receive emails and cannot respond. Thanks for any help, Christian

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Setting an Address Enclosed in Apostrophes
by b19141＠anl.gov 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

I have a script that I use to add an address to accept_these_nonmembers It uses "mlist.accept_these_nonmembers.append('$1')" Is there a way I can invoke this C-shell script so that the address is surrounded by apostrophes? I want the resulting address to be 'user(a)example.com' I tried invoking my script ..... 'user(a)example.com' but that did not preserve the apostrophes. I am not sure if this is a C-shell question, or a Mailman-python question, or both. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 240, Room 5.B.8 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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pending request email unreadable
by Guillaume Chartrand 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi, I receive some pending request for a list who I'm the administrator and moderator and in the message body on the web interface is unreadable, it's just something like that Sm9saSBib25uZXQgZGUgbGFpbmUgbGFpc3PDqSBwb3VyIG1vcnQgYXUgZGVybmllciBJbnRlckNB Q0Ugw6AgQ2hpY291dGltaS4gSWwgZXN0IGJydW4gZXQgYmVpZ2UgYXZlYyBkZXMgb3JlaWxsZXMg ZXQgZGVzIGxhbmnDqHJlcyBwb3VyIGF0dGFjaGVyIGF1IGNvdeKApi4NClF1ZWxxdeKAmXVuIGEg Z2Vsw6kgZGVzIG9yZWlsbGVzIGxlIHdlZWstZW5kIGRlcm5pZXI/Pz8/DQoNCk1hbm9uIExhcGll cnJlDQpNYW5vbiBMYXBpZXJyZQ0KYWdlbnRlIGRlIG1pbGlldSBldCByZXNwb25zYWJsZSBkZSBs J2Vudmlyb25uZW1lbnQNCmNvbnNlaWwgZGUgdmllIMOpdHVkaWFudGUNCkPDqWdlcCBkZSBjaGlj But if I approved this message it's send in readable format for all the user list. Why this can happens? I can't verify if it's appropriate content and I need to approve it to see it, it's not useful. I use mailman 2.1.6 on red hat 4 server with sendmail server and ASSP server to block spam. Some test message appears fine and some other is unreadable. ---------------------------- Guillaume Chartrand Technicien informatique Cégep régional de Lanaudière Centre administratif, Repentigny (450) 470-0911 poste 7218

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Removing Illegal address from config.db?
by Scott Thomson 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

Hey Folks, Somehow an address is present in my config.db file for one of my lists that is two email addresses mated into the same entry (ie "user1(a)domain1.comuser2 @domain2.com"). The entry doesn't show up in the membership list nor does it show up if you list_members for the list. I only know its there because one of my cron jobs turns it up, I was only able to manually find it by greping some of the config files till I turned up a match. I can't remove it from the command line as the command line tools don't recognize it as a member, nor can I remove it using the mass unsubscribe option from the admin page for the same reason. We're on Mailman 2.1.9, we've been using mailman for a long time, so its very likely that the bad address was created in a previous version and carried over. So, I'm not sure what my best option is, there are only 38 members of the list, are we better off recreating the list or is there a way to recreate the subscriber list easily? We also have searchable HTdig archives, so recreating the list includes recreating that archive as well. Thanks for any help you can offer. Scott

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Phrase count
by David Doria 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

I am interested in counting the number of times a phrase has occurred on a mailing list in a given time period. For example, I want to know how many times the word "example" occurred from 2008 - 2009. Is it possible to do this? Thanks, David

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Mailman - trouble creating a second list at an existing virtual host
by Dean Suhr 01 Dec '10

01 Dec '10

I have a Virtual Alias error problem on my Mac running OSX Server 10.4.6. I realize that is not a completely typical Mailman install, but I think the problem is Postfix to Mailman related more on the Postfix side. I have a Mailman list working (for months) ... discuss at lists.MLDfamily.org. I've just created a new list ... discuss-adults at lists.MLDfamily.org. The web interface works fine for the new list and it shows lists.MLDfamily.org as its host_name. http://lists.mldfamily.org/mailman/admin/discuss-adults Both lists show up when I run the following command: /usr/share/mailman/bin/list_lists -V lists.MLDfamily.org But deliveries to the Postfix mail server nets me this error on my local server (i.e. the email is making it fine to my server): Nov 28 11:44:11 darcee postfix/smtpd11450 <http://discussions.apple.com/> : NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from mail-pv0-f170.google.comhttp://74.125.83.170: 550 5.1.1 <discuss-adults(a)lists.mldfamily.org>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table; from=<deansuhr(a)deansuhr.us> to=<discuss-adults(a)lists.mldfamily.org> proto=ESMTP helo=<mail-pv0-f170.google.com> Deliveries to the initial discuss list at this virtual domain continue to work but discuss-adults give the virtual alias table error. What do I need to do to get this new list into the virtual domain table? I am thinking I am overlooking the obvious - your help is appreciated. I will respond with more config info if it¹s necessary. Thanks in advance, Dean -- FWIW, this is the process I used to create the list: (did not need to create the virtual domain since it already existed) Stopped the mail server using server admin sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/rmlist -a discuss-adults (to remove all residual old list stuff) sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/newlist discuss-adults sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/list_lists new list showed up sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/list_lists -V lists.MLDfamily.org new list did not show up sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url discuss-adults -u lists.MLDfamily.org sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/list_lists -V lists.MLDfamily.org new list now shows up at the proper virtual domain sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases sudo postfix reload failed since mail server was stopped started mail server using server admin To confirm the updates of the virtual alias table I did the following: ls -l /var/mailman/data aliases, aliases.db, virtual-mailman, & virtual-mailman.db all were time stamped the last few minutes Looking inside aliases and virtual-mailman conformed the proper entries. Aliases and virtual-mailman both contained the following stanzas (in addition to others): ~~ # STANZA START: discuss # CREATED: Sun Nov 28 11:39:09 2010 discuss: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman post discuss" discuss-admin: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman admin discuss" discuss-bounces: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman bounces discuss" discuss-confirm: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman confirm discuss" discuss-join: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman join discuss" discuss-leave: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman leave discuss" discuss-owner: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman owner discuss" discuss-request: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman request discuss" discuss-subscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe discuss" discuss-unsubscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe discuss" # STANZA END: discuss ~~ # STANZA START: discuss-adults # CREATED: Sun Nov 28 11:39:10 2010 discuss-adults: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman post discuss-adults" discuss-adults-admin: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman admin discuss-adults" discuss-adults-bounces: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman bounces discuss-adults" discuss-adults-confirm: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman confirm discuss-adults" discuss-adults-join: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman join discuss-adults" discuss-adults-leave: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman leave discuss-adults" discuss-adults-owner: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman owner discuss-adults" discuss-adults-request: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman request discuss-adults" discuss-adults-subscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe discuss-adults" discuss-adults-unsubscribe: "|/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe discuss-adults" # STANZA END: discuss-adults

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Mailman-Users December 2010