Mailman 3 August 2010 - Mailman-Users

question about log entry of posting to list from list owner
by Christopher Adams 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hello all, I have noticed in my mailman logs an entry like this, which comes repeatedly, and not just for one particular list. My question is, what is posting to the list from the listname-owner that is causing this? Aug 19 12:13:16 2010 (12806) post to yspnetwork from listname-owner(a)mydomain.com size=3047, message-id=< mailman.245.1282239915.26781.listname(a)mydomain.com>, 1 failures -- Christopher Adams adamsca(a)gmail.com

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main page location?
by Syn, Joonho 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi All, I'm trying to make a small edit to the page at http://myhost.com/mailman/listinfo (the page with all my lists listed out with the description). Where can I find the html file for this page?

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postfix-to-mailman.py and local_recipient_tables
by Florian Effenberger 19 Aug '10

19 Aug '10

Hi, I run Mailman and Postfix together using postfix-to-mailman.py, and it worked without any problems. All of a sudden, Mailman lists could not be reached anymore with an "User unknown" code. After lots of digging into the problem, adding local_recipient_tables = to my main.cf solved the problem. It looks like that Postfix is not able to determine valid mailing list recipients. I'd like to avoid setting local_recipient_tables to null, as it has some drawbacks. Anyone has an idea on where the problem lies? Thanks, Florian

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a user turns on his moderation flag?
by Stanisław Findeisen 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Is it possible for an ordinary list subscriber to change (turn on) his own moderation flag? I can see one of my members having this flag on, which is strange because I don't think I ever turned it on and it was off on that member's subscription, too. Everyone else also has this flag off. > mod -- The user's personal moderation flag. If this is set, postings from them will be moderated, otherwise they will be approved. STF http://eisenbits.homelinux.net/~stf/ OpenPGP: DFD9 0146 3794 9CF6 17EA D63F DBF5 8AA8 3B31 FE8A

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Question: How to hide members
by Michael 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Can someone describe how to hide the members from being disclosed when the "who" command is sent to the mailman-request(a)example.com. If I toggle the flag to hide members in the member area, then the member are hidden even to the list admin. What I want to do is HIDE the member list from the members, but keep it available to the list admin using the "who" command to manage the list. Thanks in advance, Michael

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Allow list subscriptions via custom form on my website
by Mauncey 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

I'm trying to figure out how to allow users to subscribe to my mailing list via a custom form on my Website. Other than setting the method="post" and action="http://SERVERNAME/mailman/subscribe/LISTNAME"; and adding the fields for name and password, what else do I need to do? And, I know the web interface for subscribers is configured to require only the email field...but can I also require a first name and last name on my custom web form?

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UTF8 descriptions
by Geoff Shang 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

Hi, My wife is trying to set up a list for a small group of mainly Hebrew speakers. We've configured it to make the Hebrew locale available, and this seems to work. (Apparently my wife doesn't think much of the Hebrew translation, but that's another issue) The problem is that when she tried entering in Hebrew descriptions and welcome messages, she got text like this: קבוצת עבודה וניהול - כלבי נחייה. I'm guessing this is an issue with dealing with UTF8 characters being typed into the Mailman form. Is there anything I can do about this, or is this a Mailman or browser bug? Browser is IE8. Mailman is 2.1.11 running on Debian 5.0. NOte that the default list language was set to English, if that makes any difference. Would the default language need to be set to Hebrew to make these fields input correctly when the form is submitted? Thanks, Geoff.

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network pressure ..
by Khalil Abbas 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

hi, I'm running a mailing list service and have a dedicated server with godaddy for that, the server sends emails thru godaddy's relay servers.. I have 38 lists on this server and all the 38 lists have about 9,000 subscribers .. but some of my customers send to their lists more than once a day.. godaddy has told me that my server is making a pressure on their network and causing them problems because its sending too much data to the relay system very fast, they said that I should find a way to distribute the emails over a period of 12 hours or more to ease the pressure on their network.. is there a way to tell mailman to distribute certain amount of messages over a certain period of time ?? Thanks..

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question about rotating logs from FAQ
by Christopher Adams 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Hello all, I recently upgraded to the latest version of Mailman. I had been using a change in /Mailman/Logging/Logger.py to rename logfiles with the *.log extension. This was as suggested from the Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030580 So, I modified the file as specified and restarted Mailman. Here is the result. It looks like it has a problem with the punctuation in the added line (the last line). This specifically mentions version 2.1.9, so is this still doable with version 2.1.13? Traceback (most recent call last): File "./mailmanctl", line 107, in ? from Mailman import Utils File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 56, in ? from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", line 25, in ? from Mailman.Logging.StampedLogger import StampedLogger File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 20, in ? from Mailman.Logging.Logger import Logger File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 46 self.__filename \+= '.log' ^

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new server not archiving messages
by a.smith＠ukgrid.net 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

Hi, Ive just installed Mailman 2.1.12 to a new FreeBSD 8.1 server. I have copied across the contents of the lists directory from an existing server that I want to copy. When tested the server works, in so much as recieving mails and forward to list members but no data is stored in the archive directory. Ive checked the Defaults.py (I am using the default settings, which are identical to my old working server) and auto archive is on and everything looks setup to work. Ive had a search for similar issues and didnt really find anything helpful. One person said they´d had to log in via the GUI to every list and make some change and then save the config and then it started working. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could cause this, or how to trouble shoot the issue further? thanks in advance! Andy.

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