Mailman 3 February 2010 - Mailman-Users

spam to list address
by Hicks, Robert CTR 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

The email in question is from the list address and to the list address. Can I prevent that from happening? It is a "one-way" list. Bob

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Specific geographical membership in the maillist; Folkemusiklisten
by Martin Ibsgaard 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hi mailman, I have a question from a subscriber, who asks if its a possibility to narrow her receiving mails down to a specific geographical area. She just wants to receive mails on Folkemusiklisten (typical mails about upcoming shows and concerts) from the area where she lives. Can I set the mail list up in mailman, so I can accommodate her request? It should be a feature, where the subscribers themselves can enable this and not as an implied feature for everybody, because many still prefer to receive mails, covering the whole country. My thoughts on this, is that it cant, because the sender is not registered by geographical area, but only by his or hers mail address. Kind regards Martin Ibsgaard Information Services ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Folkemusikkens Fælles Sekretariat Saltholmsgade 22 8000 Århus C Tlf: +45 70225070 www.folkemusik.dk <http://www.folkemusik.dk/>

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Getting rid of footer ?
by John Fitzsimons 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi, I am using the CPanel approach to Mailman. The footer to every post has.. _______________________________________________ my mailing list mylist@mydomain http://mydomain Is there some way to ensure that the above does NOT appear on every post please ? If so then where/how do I remove it please ? Regards, John.

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Warning: I/O Error While Trying To Byte-Compile
by Beyer, Clay 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello, Have successfully set up a Debian server and installed and configured Postfix and have been trying to integrate Mailman. I am receiving the following errors during the apt-get install mailman process: Warning: I/O Error While Trying To Byte-Compile /usr/lib/mailman/bin/qmail-to-mailman.py (2): No such file or directory Warning: I/O Error While Trying To Byte-Compile /usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py (2): No such file or directory Again, this is happening during install and it seems like the install is failing or not completing properly. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but continue to receive the same I/O errors. Can anyone assist? Thanks, ClayB

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Macs & Mailman software
by PJ Mills User 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Does Mailman software work with Macs? Sincerely, PJ Mills

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Create new mailinglist from Java programm
by Tobias Faulstich 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello everybody, I have a question about the possible interfaces from mailman. We want to connect our software written in java with our existing mailman server. To be precisely, we want to create new mailing list with our java program. So we need some kind of interface to access the mailman. When it's possible, we don't want to start a Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec to run the commandline tool from mailman, because in that case we need a separate ssh tunnel through our firewalls to our mailman server. In the Wiki I read about the new REST interface http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/REST+Interface. Is it already available or in development. If not, is it possible to send a suitable POST request to the webinterface from mailman to create new mailinglist? Thanks for your help, Kind regards, Tobias Faulstich

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Our donation by paypal - we desire a listing
by Mark Sapiro 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Holger Joachim wrote: > >a few minutes ago we donate your organisation $500 by paypal. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. >You write on your site >https://my.fsf.org/donate/directed-donations/gnumailman: ...For donations of >$500 or more, if desired, a listing on our "Thank GNUs" web page. The Thank GNUs page referred to in the donation form is at <http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/thankgnus.html> and unless you checked the "Do not publicly acknowledge my donation" box, listing there should be automatic. >We desire a listing. Can you list us like "Best Western Hotel Erb" on your >site <http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html> You are already listed there because of your previous donation and your use of Mailman. Thank you again for your support. -- 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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SSPS-L mailing list using Mailman
by PegasusII 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

My organization, the South Shore Power Squadron, maintains a mailing list using Mailman. We recently had a falling out with several of our members. They are now using the list to communicate with its subscribers and advance their own agenda. Is there anything that can be done by the list administrators to mitigate this? As it is an open list, unsubscribing these members would be pointless. Is there a way to "close" the list or filter/force a moderator review of submissions from certain members? Please advise. Thank you, Ralph Schwartz Commander South Shore Power Squadron

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Question about pipermail archive threading.
by Mark Sapiro 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Mailman's pipermail archives are threaded based on In-Reply-To: and maybe References: headers. It turns out the code always had a fallback to thread by Subject: if there were no In-Reply-To: or References: headers, but this fallback never worked due to a bug. I have recently committed a fix to the 2.1 branch for the bug, so starting with the next release, fallback to threading by subject should work. I have a question however. The current (fixed) code does the following: if the current message has In-Reply-To: thread it to the In-Reply-To message if that message exists in the current volume else if the current message has References: thread it to to the most recent existing message in the current volume in References else thread the current message to the oldest message in the current volume with matching Subject. The subject threading to "oldest" won't always be correct, but the only reasonable alternative is "newest" and that won't always be correct either, and I think either alternative is better than none. That's not my question. My question is the above logic implies that if the current message has an In-Reply-To and the replied to message is not in the archive, the message won't be threaded even if it has a References: to a message in the archive. This occurs often. A posts; B replies off list to A; A replies to B and Cc's the list. Should A's reply to B be threaded with A's original post? I think it should, and it can be by References or even Subject, but I wonder if I'm overlooking some other cases in which it shouldn't be done. -- 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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Mailman no longer working or working very slowly
by Steven Jones 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Hi, Yesterday after 5 years of operation ou mailman application has "died" it seems to be barely running taking 3 or more hours to process lists...previous load was <0.2 now its around 1 with a python process absorbing 1 CPU constantly. We are running on RHEL3-32bit and the errors are, ============ Error log for Mailman (vuwunicosmtp004.vuw.ac.nz:/var/log/mailman/error) says: RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded Feb 17 07:48:26 2010 (13368) SHUNTING: 1266281245.229378+bd3f1d42e27ad38cf532b809460a0b0a8aef00e7 The last number is a message ID in Mailman queue /var/mailman/qfiles/shunt/1266281245.229378+bd3f1d42e27ad38cf532b809460a0b0a8aef00e7.pck ============ We have a similar case via googling suggesting a DNS issue, however we have spent some hours checking DNS as well as the server and cant find any obvious fault. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2008-November/064166.html Any ideas please? Steven

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