Mailman 3 February 2010 - Mailman-Users

distributing load to multiple server for announce-only list.
by bob 001 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hello Experts, Can someone suggest distributed server configuration of fairly large (50k+ messages ) announce only list? List is getting increasingly large and I am thinking if there is any way to distribute the load to muliple linux/mailman servers. Currently it takes almost whole day to send single message to this entire list. Is it possible to distribute such load? Or it should be done at postfix level? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Bob.

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Turn moderation bits on/off from script?
by Rosenbaum, Larry M. 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

The GUI has an option to do this: Set everyone's moderation bit, including those members not currently visible o Off o On Is there a way to do this from a script? Thanks, Larry

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Folkemusiklisten - Importing existing member to our new host
by Martin Ibsgaard 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello mailman, We have resently changed our webhost and now I want to import our existing members to our new host. I can still login to the old admin site in mailman, and see a list of the old members (289 mail-adresses) But in our new folkemusiklisten I have to add them. Do I have to do that manually or is there a way to copy/paste the subscribers/members to our new webhost? Kind regards Martin ibsgaard The Danish Folk Council ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Folkemusikkens Fællessekretariat Saltholmsgade 22 8000 Århus C Tlf: +45 8676 1141 www.folkemusik.dk <http://www.folkemusik.dk/>

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TR: 4 Test moderator request(s) waiting
by Romuald Gabarel 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello, I receive everyday the email below but i don't know the adminpassword... Can you close the solumag.fr acompte please ? Thanks. Sincères salutations, Romuald Gabarel ________________________________ Tél : 04 74 80 58 14 Fax : 04 74 80 58 14 www.solumag.fr -----Message d'origine----- De : mailman-bounces(a)facverte.org [mailto:mailman-bounces@facverte.org] De la part de test-bounces(a)solumag.fr Envoyé : jeudi 18 février 2010 08:00 À : test-owner(a)solumag.fr Objet : 4 Test moderator request(s) waiting The Test(a)solumag.fr mailing list has 4 request(s) waiting for your consideration at: http://lists.solumag.fr/mailman/admindb/test Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. Pending posts: From: chcastel(a)solumag.fr on Wed Dec 23 18:18:45 2009 Subject: Solumag - Joyeuses F?tes Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list From: chcastel(a)solumag.fr on Wed Dec 23 18:44:11 2009 Subject: Solumag - Joyeuses F?tes Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list From: newsletter(a)poker.fr on Mon Jan 4 14:20:01 2010 Subject: [Poker.fr] Bonne Ann?e ! Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list From: newsletter(a)poker.fr on Mon Feb 15 18:46:39 2010 Subject: [Poker.fr] Poker.fr c?l?bre son nouveau site en organisant la Poker.fr Cup ! Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2692 - Release Date: 02/16/10 19:35:00

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changing only the web interface url
by leonardo maccari 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Dear list, during a change in a domain name the follwoing has happened. - a list XXX was created with domain newdomain.org, that is the default domain. - I had lists on olddomain.org that I don't want to keep. - the list interface was redirected initially lists.olddomain.org - now I completed the set-up and redirected the web interface to lists.newdomain.org - admin login for XXX on lists.newdomain.org does not work, i believe because the web interface is still convinced to be on lists.olddomain.org I understand that if I use fix_url it will change both the web interface url and the list domain, which is something unwanted. So What I think I'll do is to make a command.txt file containing: web_page_url = 'http://lists.newdomain.org' and run config_list -i command.txt XXX this should change the web_page_url variable, right? I'm asking to the ML because if I run the config_list -o command I see that the web_page_url variable is used but never set and if I run with -i -c options it tells me that a "non-standard parameter" has been found named web_page_url. Mailman is debian stable standard version dpkg -l mailman ii mailman 1:2.1.11-11 thanks, leonardo.

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Questions regarding Mailman FW: Irexintl Digest, Vol 3, Issue 1
by Jason Vuong Do 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello there! I will be using mailman to send out weekly digests to our staff globally. Is there a way to reconfigure the format to make it look more readable (Please see example below)? Also, can users send emails with attachments to be included in the digest? I'm assuming no, but please let me know if there is a loop hole around this. Thanks so much for your help! Jason Vuong Do New Media Coordinator | IREX | +1 (202) 628-8188 x113 | jdo(a)irex.org | www.linkedin.com/in/jasonvuongdo | Skype: Jason.V.Do | Follow me! @jasondodo -----Original Message----- From: irexintl-bounces(a)info.irex.org [mailto:irexintl-bounces@info.irex.org] On Behalf Of irexintl-request(a)info.irex.org Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 1:34 PM To: irexintl(a)info.irex.org Subject: Irexintl Digest, Vol 3, Issue 1 Send Irexintl mailing list submissions to irexintl(a)info.irex.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://info.irex.org/mailman/listinfo/irexintl_info.irex.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to irexintl-request(a)info.irex.org You can reach the person managing the list at irexintl-owner(a)info.irex.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Irexintl digest..." Today's Topics: 1. USG policy change: no more kittens as cost share (Keith Mellnick) 2. test post from Keith (Keith Berner) 3. test no. 2 (Keith Berner) 4. JVD: Test Story 2 (Jason Vuong Do) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:34:26 -0500 From: Keith Mellnick <kmellnick(a)irex.org> To: "'Irexintl(a)info.irex.org'" <Irexintl(a)info.irex.org> Subject: [IrexIntl] USG policy change: no more kittens as cost share Message-ID: <52D2887F7CED084A8B52EFBCD599C7C99772C3408B(a)exchange2.irex.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hey all, turns out we need to make some big changes in our cost-share planning. State is no longer accepting kittens as cost share. Puppies and orangs are still legit but I don't know for how long. Full details here: http://bit.ly/6B9lpb.

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Spam filtering
by Geoff Shang 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello, I have two spam-related questions, one relevant to Mailman and one not. Apologies for the one that isn't, but I hope you will endulge this query. A person has been spoofing Email addresses on a number of blindness-related Email lists this week. I won't go into the particulars as it's probably of little interest to this list. They're also using some quite sophisticated techniques to hide their identity and point of origin, and this is definitely outside the scope of this list. My questions here are more focused at helpping list/site admins to block such mail. 1. It's possible to use an IP address to block(at least temporarily) these messages. If I put this IP address into a Mailman spam filter, will this be checked *before* checking whether or not the person is a member of the list? I want to know if list admins can block these without bugging their site admins to do it upstream. 2. One idea I came up with for rejecting spoofed mail is for the receiving SMTP server to somehow check if the sending one is an MX for the domain given in the From header. Are there any obvious problems with this approach? Is anyone actually doing this? It seems so simple that there surely must be some reason why it's not done. Geoff.

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Slow mail problem fixed
by Mark J Bradakis 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

A current thread reminded me of the trouble I was having with Mailman taking 2 - 3 hours to process messages and send them out. I requested the list's help in tracking down the problem. Turned out to be a hardware issue. Some bad disk blocks showed up in the qfiles tree so some qrunner processes were waiting and waiting and waiting on bad I/O calls before timing out and continuing on. Problem fixed, Team.Net is back to maybe a minute or two between receipt and resending list messages. Gee, it wasn't a mailman problem after all, should I say thanks for nothing ;-) mjb.

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Status of virtual mailing list management
by martin f krafft 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hey folks, I only just returned to mailman after a long time away and found 3.0 in active development. Yay! Looking at the docs at http://packages.python.org/mailman/docs/README.html, I cannot find any mention of virtual hosting. Will mailman 3 be able to host foo(a)bar.com as well as foo(a)baz.org as two separate lists? Thanks, -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "the truth is rarely pure and never simple. modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!" -- oscar wilde spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net

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delivery failed with code -1: (4, 'Interrupted system call)
by Peet Grobler 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

What exactly does the message in the subject mean? This is for messages delivered via SMTPDirect to local users on the machine itself. I don't see any remote addresses in smtp-failure for this domain. Also - my out/ queue keeps filling up at times. I'm not sure if this is related. I'm using exim as MTA and configured everything according to the installation docs. Can anyone tell me exactly what happens with messages in the out/ queue? Is it delivered serially to the MTA by the Outqueuerunner, and with a failure there's a retry time of several minutes? I'm trying to get my head around this to understand mailman better.

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