Mailman 3 March 2011 - Mailman-Users

Clear the "Importance:" flag (or how to clear certain headers)?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

One of my lists' members is complaining about the "Importance:" flag not being cleared for mails passing through the list: From: "sender, Heike" <Heike.Sender(a)charite.de> To: "'fleamarket(a)charite.de'" <fleamarket(a)charite.de> Importance: high X-Priority: 1 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:39:33 +0100 Thread-Topic: Suche Videorekorder Thread-Index: Acvi9OP5K98V+31vSQuzl4GsbSPJSA== Message-ID: <6FDCB96F850BF34591250B4EDBBA5F79012D2F6F15(a)EXCHANGE41.charite.de> So, how can I clear that header line from mails passing through that particualr list? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de | http://www.charite.de

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Emails missing in hotmail
by Website Administrator 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hi, I am running multiples lists on my server and I am having issues with people not receiving emails who are using any of the msn email address or work addresses. Can you please advise what can be the reason behind that? All your help in this matter will be really appreciated. Thanks, With Regards, Sent from my iPhone device on the Fido Wireless Network Amyn Gilani Reduce your carbon footprint, please think before you print DISCLAIMER This E-mail is privileged and confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Nothing in this message should be interpreted as a digital or electronic signature that can be used to form, execute, document, agree to, enter into, accept or authenticate a contract or other legal document. Any distribution, use or copying of this E-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient(s) is unauthorized and may be subject to legal restriction. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately and delete this e-mail. Electronic mail through the internet is not guaranteed to be a secure, confidential or prompt means of communication. As such transmitted information could be intercepted, lost, destroyed, tampered with, received late, or incomplete. The contents of any attachment to this e-mail may contain software viruses or other defect which might affect your own computer system once received or opened. While companies under Gilani & Associates Inc. and its affiliates take reasonable precautions to minimize that risk, we cannot accept liability or responsibility for any damage or loss which may occur or be sustained as a result of a software virus or other defect. You are responsible for virus checks before opening any attachment. The sender also accepts no responsibility or liability for any errors and omissions, loss or damage from use, or breach of any confidentiality related to the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission.

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mailman question concerning member limit
by Frank Caltabiano 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

I have looked around and didn't find a definitive answer to my question either in the FAQ's or web search. I am maintaining a list using Mailman v2.1.12 and Windows 7. I find that I can only have 100 users to my list. Mailman will not let me enter more than 100 users into it. From what I have read, it is possible to have many more users than that. I just don't know what to do or how to make the number bigger. I would greatly appreciate if I could get some help on this matter. Thank you in advance.. Frank

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Bounce Question
by Dennis Putnam 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Due to some long time configuration issues, which have now been resolved, I think was missing some list events. Now I have to play catchup. I am not sure how bounce processing works. Lets assume that a list member's email address goes bad. Exactly what happens to the bounced message and how does the list owner get notified? Assuming the owner missed those notifications, how can (s)he tell which users have invalid addresses? Thanks.

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Mailman integrate
by Sisil Perera 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Dear all Can any one tell me how to integrate mailman with Exchange 2010. or can we use the Exchange Server as a Mail Server and Mailman As a Mail Distribution server. if answer is YES, please advice me to do that. -- *Sisil Perera Solution Specialist (MSc-TT, CCSP, CCNA, MCSE+S, DCSE) *Greenwich Lanka Pvt Ltd Level 2, No. 451, Galle Road, Colombo 03, Sri Lanka. Phone: +94 (0) 11 7724280 Mobile: +94 (0) 77 2078561

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Delivery failure postfix/mailman
by Damijan Sencar 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi! I have problem with my postfix/mailman system (CentOS mailman-2.1.9-4.el5, postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2). It has been working well 3+ years. During the weekend our root file system run out of space. After resolving file system space problems we noticed that our mailman system doesn't work any more. i.e. sending mail do mail list resulted in following error in /var/log/mailman/smtp-failure file: ........ failed with code -1: Server not connected I restarted mailman and nothing changed. When I restarted postfix some shorter mailing lists were available again. But after sending message to larger (200 addresses) mailing lists mailman stopped delivering with same error error as before. Any idea how can I repair the system? Best regards, Damijan

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Questions about current/future functionality
by Tanstaafl 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hello, There is currently another (this is probably the 3rd or 4th) discussion going on right now on the tdf-discuss list (tdf = The Document Foundation, which is hosting all of the libreoffice lists) about issues with their list infrastructure... They are currently using mlmmj, and have said there were very specific reasons they decided not to use mailman, namely: 1. The problem with virtual hosting and lists with the same name for different vhosts. This is one of their biggest reasons. I know this will be properly addressed in MM3, but that is of course not an option now (how close it is, really, to release stage? Months? A year or more?). I guess my main question is, is there a decent page I can point their developers to as to how to make this work? Iirc, there are two different ways to accomplish this, but they dismissed the idea of having 20 or 30 multiple instances of mailman... 2. Multiple moderators all sharing the same password. Is it possible for each mod to have a different password? If not, isn't this a security issue if you decide to boot a moderator? If not, why not? 3. Moderation via email is impossible or difficult. This is their second biggest reason to not use mailman. Is there a web page/FAQ that describes how to do this? Is it really that difficult (I've never used the email moderator interface). The reason this is such a big deal is they allow posts from non-subscribers, all of which must be moderated. Also, it would be nice to be able to add a [Moderated] tag to the subject if possible, and possibly even inject some bracketed text into the message body at the top. Thanks for any comments/pointers... Charles

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AV/AS on lists
by Andrew Hodgson 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Hi, What is the best practise for doing AV/AS on lists? I do strip out attachments which works well enough, but we are getting some spam messages on the list which point people at dodgy sites etc., usually through subscribed addresses which have been hijacked. I am worried that by installing SpamAssassin on the list that it will reject good mail, and be yet another place to look for issues. Thoughts? Andrew.

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Using Mailman to manage a voting process?
by Peter Hitchmough (Twokan) 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Greetings Mailmen - Please can anyone advise me on the suitability of Mailman (and variants) for the following use? I am investigating approaches to manage a lightweight process to approve documents for a shortlist. This process takes place several times a year and has 20-30 interested parties and 1 administrator. A mailing list, particularly managed via Mailman, appeals to me. I have glanced briefly at the Vote-MM add-in. Mailing lists are often used to review things for publication but I would like to automate the tracking. features I want to implement include: - announcement of start, end of voting periods - announcement of new items for consideration - collecting Yes and No votes (possibly More Info Please votes) - announcing final result, including list of items approved I believe I will have the wherewithal and skills needed to add this to my server. Hope you can advise me... -- /Peter

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Explicit destination causes implicit destination bounce
by Ian Gibbs 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

Dear all, I have read http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030676 FAQ 1.9 about implicit destination. I am sending directly To: the list with no other recipients. The host_name setting is pumb.org.uk. The conversation I had with the SMTP server is shown below. It still results in an implicit destination error. Can anyone suggest why, please? I'm in the process of migrating my lists from one server to another. I have not yet updated the MX records for the domain, thus my sending the mail directly to the server rather than using a mail program. Thanks for the help. user@workstation:~$ telnet server 25 Trying IP... Connected to server. Escape character is '^]'. 220 server ESMTP Exim 4.71 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:43:29 +0000 HELO workstation 250 server Hello workstation [89.16.174.50] MAIL FROM:external@email.address 250 OK RCPT TO:mailman@pumb.org.uk 250 Accepted DATA 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself Subject:Testing from guinevere 3 This is a message 3 . 250 OK id=1Py3ZU-0003YI-Rz QUIT 221 server closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. -- Regards, -- Ian Gibbs ian(a)flash.org.uk Mon - Wed: +31 (0) 629 202752 Thu - Sun: +44 (0) 7815 142001

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