Mailman 3 March 2011 - Mailman-Users

FAQ 4.70 - Renaming a List
by Barry Finkel 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

The FAQ page 4.70. How do I change the name of (rename) a list? is missing one command at the end: /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 240, Room 5.B.8 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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Mailman limit
by Harley Stevens 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi, I have an issue that I can't find an answer for on the wiki. Is there a limit on how many users can be part of the mailing list group? I'm running a Mac OS X 10.6 server that uses mailman and when I send mail via the mailing list to a group with 200+ users they keep getting multiple copies of the email ( up to 50 copies). I have to kill the mail system otherwise it would keep sending more copies. I have created a new mailing list with the same users and it does exactly the same thing. Thanks in advance, Harley ##################################################################################### Disclaimer: The information in this electronic mail message together with any attachments is confidential. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this Internet electronic mail message by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful.

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Subject wrap with tab character
by Edward Howard 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

GNU Mailman Bugs Bug #265915 (sf736559) Hi Does anyone know if this bug is going to get fixed or has done in later versions?. I am using Mailman version 2.1.9 . Edward --

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bilingual list problem
by Henry Olders 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

I'm in Canada, which as you probably know is an officially bilingual (english and french) country. I am attempting to set up some mailman discussion lists, with bilingual footers for the messages. These are on my web hosting service, dreamhost.com. Unfortunately, when I have US english set as the default language, mailman strips out all the accented characters in the french portion of the footer. Using french as the default language prevents this from happening, but most of my list administrators want english for their admin pages. What I would like would be a way to set mailman to NOT strip out accented characters when english is set as the default language. Alternatively, is there a way to have the admin pages open in english when the default language is french? Thank you for your help! Henry

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Remove from All Lists
by David Andrews 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Is there a command-line command to remove a given user from any and all lists he/she might be subscribed to -- without knowing all of those lists? If so -- what is it? Thanks! Dave

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Problem with help2man update
by Bill Christensen 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Attempting to do updates tonight, I ran into problems with upgrading help2man. I was able to manually update most other ports. The log for help2man says: :info:configure configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required :info:configure shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_help2man/work/help2man-1.38.4" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-nls " returned error 1 :error:configure Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details) :debug:configure Backtrace: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details) port installed shows (among many others): gettext @0.18.1.1_0 gettext @0.18.1.1_2 (active) help2man @1.38.2_0 (active) p5-locale-gettext @1.05_3 (active) and port outdated shows: The following installed ports are outdated: help2man 1.38.2_0 < 1.38.4_0 ghostscript 9.00_4 < 9.01_0 ImageMagick 6.6.6-3_0 < 6.6.7-8_0 I'm hoping I don't have to go in and hack the port file for the two ports that are dependent on help2man so that they're looking for 1.38.2_0 instead of 1.38.4_0. Any better solutions? Thanks.

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