Mailman 3 September 2010 - Mailman-Users

making the "Your name" Field required
by Doug Warren 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hello I am new to mailman and just learning the basics. I am looking for away to make the "your name" field on the subscription page required for our private list. I have changed the (optional) to (required) on the screen but I have been unable to find out how to get the list to make it a mandatory field. I am hoping someone will be able to give me some pointers on this. any help would be greatly appreciated thank you Doug

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set the "your name" field to Required
by Doug Warren 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hello I am new to Mailman so please bear with me. I am trying to set the "Your name" field on the subscription page of our entire list to required, but I have been unable to find the commands to set this up. I have changed the "(optional)" to “(required)” on the subscription HTML page on a test list and that looks good, but they users can submit a subscription with out submitting that information. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you Doug

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Having trouble with spam filters syntax
by Kit Crawford 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Hi folks, I can't seem to get the correct syntax for filtering based on the Subject line. I want to auto-accept all email that contains the phrase "Digital Commons" in the Subject line. I am using Mailman version 2.1.9. I've run some tests and the Subject line header for every test is: Subject: Interested in Digital Commons tour and the action is set to Accept. The following regex filters did not work: subject: .*digital commons ^subject: .*digital commons \nsubject: .*digital commons Subject: .*Digital Commons ^Subject: .*Digital Commons \nSubject: .*Digital Commons subject: .*digital commons.* ^subject: .*digital commons.* \nsubject: .*digital commons.* Subject: .*Digital Commons.* ^Subject: .*Digital Commons.* \nSubject: .*Digital Commons.* Not sure what other syntax to try! If anyone has any insight on this vexing problem, I surely would appreciate some assistance. Regards, Kit -- Kit Crawford kcrawford(a)bepress.com

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Ban_list
by Ricardo Ruivo 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Dear all, there is any option to notify, by email, the user when he attempts to subscibe and list and his email bellow to ban_list? Another question. It is possible to configure the following message (thats appers when a ban_list users attens to subscribe by web interface that mailling list) so Subscription results The email address you supplied is banned from this mailing list. If you think this restriction is erroneous, please contact the list owners at [EMAIL]. Thanks in advanced. -- Ricardo Ruivo System Administrator SIC - Serviço de Informática e Comunicações Department of Informatics Engineering Faculty of Science and Technology University of Coimbra | Portugal My PGP Public Key is available at: http://pgp.dei.uc.pt:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D4F6A4C

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Resident messages for moderation after removing Mailman
by Razvan Deaconescu 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi! I've encountered a problem regarding pending messages for the internal mailman list for Mailman. Each day at 8:00AM, as Mailman admin/owner I was getting a message with the subject "6 Mailman moderator request(s) waiting". The message mentioned accessing the URL "http://${hostname}/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb/mailman". However, accessing it (and typing in the requested password) revealed no pending posts (such as those described in the message). The latest message was dated 28th of December 2009 (quite a while ago). About a week ago I decided to uninstall the Mailman instance but that message is still sent each day at 8:00AM. I've reinstalled it, accessed the above URL, but there are still no pending posts. I've done a recursive grep in /var/lib/mailman (I'm using Debian) for parts of the message (but found nothing). I've checked all cron entries (/etc/cron*, /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*) but found nothing relevant. Could someone please point me to where those pending requests are held and how can I get rid of them and stop that message from being delivered? Many thanks, Razvan

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Mass flag change
by Joe Curto 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi guys, need an help. I've just created a new list with about 8500 users. Is it possibile (during the creation or after created) to set a flag on or off massively ? Creating the list sets le flag 'text' mail on and I need to set this flag off for all the users. Thank for any help. Joe

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Bad/Invalid email address
by Fabien COMBERNOUS 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hello, I'm using a domain name in my LAN. This domain is used only in my LAN and it is a root domain, ie no dot added. A mail is foo@domain, not foo(a)domain.lan. We mailman does not want to subscribe mail like foo@domain ? Regards, -- *Fabien COMBERNOUS* /unix system engineer/ www.kezia.com <http://www.kezia.com/> *Tel: +33 (0) 467 992 986* Kezia Group

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