Mailman 3 May 2010 - Mailman-Users

Solving the MIME message footer problem
by Jonathan Kamens May 24, 2010

May 24, 2010

Greetings, The owner of one of the Mailman mailing lists I administer recently asked me to add an important footer to the bottom of every message sent out to the list. I added the footer to the list's configuration, but shortly afterwards, he complained to me that he was not seeing it in messages sent to the list. This, of course, was the result of the problem that is often reported here, i.e., that Mailman adds the footer as a separate part of multipart MIME messages, and although the … [View More]

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Mailman bug or browser behaviour?
by Geoff Shang May 24, 2010

May 24, 2010

Hi, I've noticed an odd thing but am not sure if it's Mailman (2.1.11) or my browser (Lynx 2.8.7dev.9) which is at fault. I've noticed that if I go to pending Moderator requests and approve a message from a particular user, if I leave the resulting page open which says "Click here to reload this page" and another message from that user comes through which requires approval, if I click to reload the page, the message is automatically approved and I'm told there are no pending requests. … [View More]

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Understanding Archiving
by Patricia A Moss May 24, 2010

May 24, 2010

I am running mailman, version 2.1.5.1-34, on a RedHat, version 4.0, server. I am trying to understand how archiving works and/or is set up and configured. I need to understand the difference between the directory and the .txt file (i.e. Directory: "2009-December" and File: "2009-December.txt") located within my .../archives/private/mailman/ subdirectory. My partition, that houses the archives, is running out of space. I am trying to figure out what, if anything, I can clean up while I … [View More]

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Is there a feature that allows for rights to various levels of email?
by Greg Skipper, MD May 22, 2010

May 22, 2010

I need to setup a listserv that allows for assigning rights to 2 or more levels of priviledge (i.e. first level can receive from everyone, second level can only read second class or thread responses from first class). Does anyone know of such an option anywhere? Thanks

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mailman-loop and exim
by Roger Lynn May 21, 2010

May 21, 2010

Hi, Exim doesn't know what to do with mail to mailman-loop (documented at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2001-December/000032.html ) on my machine. I'm guessing this is because the instructions at http://www.list.org/mailman-install/ and http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html don't mention mailman-loop. What do I need to add to tell Exim how to handle this alias? I presume it would be an addition to the router. If it makes any difference, I'm using the Debian … [View More]

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does arch read plain text emails?
by Robert Khachikyan May 20, 2010

May 20, 2010

Dear MM gurus, I've recently installed mailman to migrate from majordomo. And in majoromo I save all emails in plain text. I have about 40000 emails to convert to mailman. And when I issue ~mailman/bin/arch dojo /home/mails/dojo/23048 it returns: Pickling archive state into /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/dojo/pipermail.pck However, I do not see it on the web... How can I convert these emails to mailman? Any info will be greatly appreciated. Regards, --Robert

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Images lose integrity and size changes.
by Ty Nelson May 20, 2010

May 20, 2010

Pretty basic question, I'm hoping. First of all-Hello everyone! W hen sending a newsletter out via mailman (postfix mta), what is the best method for setting the images correctly and in the appropriate places. Meaning, sometimes they shift from where we originally placed them, and the entire framework of the newsletter is compromised. We have been using outlook to build up the newsletters before sending them, but perhaps there is a better method when it comes to using mailman. Is there a … [View More]

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weird message in /var/log/mailman/vette file
by Masaharu Kawada May 19, 2010

May 19, 2010

Dear list, I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. A following message keep appearing in /var/log/mailman/vette at around 12:00 every day. --- Mailman post from root(a)example.co.jp held, message-id=<20100 42900100.xxxxxx0(a)example.co.jp>: Post by non-member to a members-only list --- This seems to be related to a cron job(senddigest), so, one way to make this stopped is to comment out the line regarding senddigest in /usr/lib/mailman/cron/cron.in. #0 12 * * * mailman /usr/lib/… [View More]

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Reject non-members at SMTP time
by glen＠prideaux.id.au May 19, 2010

May 19, 2010

Is there a way to reject non-subscribers at the time of their initial SMTP conversation, as opposed to either rejecting them later (with an associated bounce message) or silently discarding them? I don't want to generate bounce messages because of the back-scatter they generate, but silently discarding is also bad: non-spam senders should get some notification that their message has failed. I'm using exim4 and it seems likely that there is a way to have exim check whether mailman is willing … [View More]

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Just saying Thanks
by Lee, Davis H May 19, 2010

May 19, 2010

Mark, Terri, Thank you for your time, energy, and spot-on assistance. It has helped a lot and really is appreciated. Davis Lee WAN Administrator Albuquerque Public Schools 505 830 6870

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