Mailman 3 May 2010 - Mailman-Users

Bounceback from Another List
by Ben McGee May 26, 2010

May 26, 2010

I have a fairly large Mailman Installation on Ubuntu server 9 with several thousand subscribers and about a dozen lists. When users post to List1 they receive a bounce message from List2. For example, the list administrator receives this notice... As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting: List: list2(a)lists.someserver.net From: listadmin(a)myemail.com Subject: [List1] Testing 1 2 3 Reason: Message has … [View More]

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private lists with real name signatures
by Doug Gaff May 26, 2010

May 26, 2010

Hello all, Sorry if I missed this in the FAQ. I'm a heavy user/admin of mailman, but this is the first time I've had "anonymous_list" set to Yes. The request I'm getting from list members is to have their "Real Name" displayed but not their email address. I see two ways to do this: 1. The "on behalf of" text in the header could put the real name only and not the email address. 2. An auto signature can be appended to the end of each sent message. I can't find any … [View More]

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Bounce notification not handled normally
by Keith Blackie May 26, 2010

May 26, 2010

I have a situation where subscriber email addresses are being bounced after the failed address has been forwarded to an autoresponder. The problem is that the mailman strips the sender's address out of the response before it is sent to the administrator for action. On the mailing list, I have the unsubscribe threshold set to 3 bounces, but the email response (bounce), while being recognized as a bounce, it processed as a post to the mailing list and is subsequently sent out to all list … [View More]

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How to put date & sequence in body?
by Robert Khachikyan May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010

Dear Mailman Guru's, How can I prepend the body of each email with say: ****************************************************************************** DOJO Email Report 23 Feb 10:49:06 PST 2010 Message Number 18316 ****************************************************************************** So here we have the list name (well list name is dojo, but i want to say dojo email report), the date, and the sequence number. This will go on top of the email's body. Any ideas? Thanks, --Robert

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How to tell ./mailmanctl to pick a specific directory for the python?
by Wang, Mary Y May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010

Hi, I just did ./mailmanctl start, and I looked at the processes of the qrunner: 1 S mailman 29354 1 0 76 0 - 2202 wait4 May24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python ./mailmanctl start 0 S mailman 23035 29354 0 75 0 - 2059 schedu 10:14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /var/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=BounceRunner:0:1 -s 0 S mailman 23036 29354 0 75 0 - 2076 schedu 10:14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /var/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s 0 S … [View More]

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acknolegement of accepted messages..
by Khalil Abbas May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010

Hello guys.. is there a way to let the list owner or moderator to get an email telling him that a message has been approved and distributed to the list ?? Thanks.. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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Moderation approval glitch
by Michael Welch May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010

Just had a very odd occurrence. I have a handful of users on moderation, for various reasons. I received a single moderation notice for one of them, and after reading the user's text, went to the web site to approve it. There was only one message there for approval. I approved the message, and it was sent -- but here's the glitch: it got sent along with another separate message from him. Then in my next mail check there was the second moderation request, which never showed up for approval on … [View More]

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Seeking Email Client Recommendation - Specific use scenario
by Drew Tenenholz May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010

All -- I know that Mailman is intended to be more or less sender agnostic, however, I would like your recommendations for email client software that will suit my specific needs and still play well with Mailman (announce-only lists). (preferably version 2.1.9, or whatever the folks over at Red Hat linux are approving these days...that's another story. I have a development server that is currently on the standard distribution of 2.1.12, and am happy to move up at any time, but the … [View More]collaborators are sticking to Red Hat's release.) Here are my specific client software needs: 1) a cross-platform client (Mac & Windows; Mac 10.5 & up, Windows XP & Windows 7) 2) capable of sending "plain-text" messages (see below) 3) capable of sending to mailman in many languages (e.g. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Thai, Khmer, Lao, Chineese), without munging the characters such that they come out incorrectly in the list messages 4) reasonably simple to configure and maintain for a user base of 10-40 users located all over the world 5) capable of off-line message creation (so not solely web-mail based solutions) Any suggestions from folks experienced with a specific email client and Mailman are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Drew Tenenholz Read on if you like too much detail..... I work part-time for a non-profit which has a subscriber base of about 50,000-60,000 across a number of lists. Some lists are still being faithfully served by majordomo, but growth is forcing us to move on to a list-serve that can handle the languages mentioned above (and with more growth more languages are likely). Russian (Cyrillic) was the first real hurdle, and since I've gotten that to work (Mailman 2.1.12), we've started playing around with French (Mailman 2.1.9), which one would think is simpler...but is not turning out to be so. One thing I'm seeing is that French accents sent from MS-Entourage (Mac version of Outlook) end up with surrounding spaces in the SUBJECT LINE ONLY ( e.g. pand é mique instead of pandémique) while my very old & trusty Eudora 6.2.4 has absolutely no problems with the same text; go figure! The business rules for the organization state that mailing list mail MUST: 1) Be in 'plain'-text, not rich text, HTML, etc. (But obviously, needing non-ASCII characters means some updated character allowances are required.) 2) NEVER contain attachments of any sort 3) NOT contain personal signatures or signatures added by corporate/governmental/education server like "This communication was sent to me(a)me.com and is intended only for that recipient, if you are them, don't read this message...." The goal is to send to people all over the world (we're sending to 196 countries right now) in a way that readers in New York and the African bush can all read that same message and not need a very fancy computer setup or lots of bandwidth to receive. They've been 'standardized' on Eudora for a lot of years, but the Russians don't use it, and anyway it can't be installed on Windows 7. So, it is time to change, and I'm hoping to find something that I can help all of my list posters. It would be helpful if this email client had a setting to NOT line-wrap messages, there is this whole long editing and proofing process before sending out the announcement (all managed by a closed [soon to be Mailman] list), and line-wrapping becomes a real PITA. Our allowed posters are happy to use what I tell them to (more or less), and they don't need a single email client for all of their email accounts; in fact sometimes it is better if they use one client for messages related to this organization and a different client for any other accounts. The off-line message creation is necessary because frankly we have people who a are off the grid a lot (either travelling or in places without any meaningful internet access). Also, the posts require a good deal of thought, formatting, and correction. Having a tiny little composition window is just not going to cut it. What some people do now is literally that: 'cut' from the email application, 'paste' into MS-Word for corrections, then cut/paste back into email & send. (Talk about your encoding glitches....) Any suggestions from folks experienced with a specific email client and Mailman are greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Drew Tenenholz [View Less]

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remove moderator password from all lists
by Florian Effenberger May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010

Hello, is there any tool or script to remove the moderator passwords from all mailing lists? I've lost the plot on which lists have a moderation password and which don't, so I'd love to reset all of them. Thanks, Florian

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Subscription Confirmation to Welcome Delay
by Greg Sims May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010

Hey There, We are using mailman to support a 5,000 person distribution list. The majority of our interactions with users is by email between the users and the mailman software - humans do not get involved. The way our software is configured, the users see the following sequence to subscribe to our email list: 1. Web form is filled out to subscribe by user 2. Sever generates an email to the user to confirm the subscription request 3. User replies to the subscription … [View More]

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