Mailman 3 April 2011 - Mailman-Users

Attempting to update Mailman, but qfiles/* has files
by Dennis Carr April 29, 2011

April 29, 2011

Note, running Debian Stable on the server. I'm attempting to update Mailman through aptitude, but it warns me that all files in the qfiles tree will be wiped out. This includes files that have been bouncing back and forth between qfiles/out and qfiles/retry. It's not quite clear as to when these messages have landed there. Moreover, I noted that I have a good sized stack of messages in qfiles/bad - which I'm not too worried about, since the dates are pretty old. In short, what is the … [View More]

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Qmail and mailman - alias problems
by Stefan Hesse April 27, 2011

April 27, 2011

Hi, I am trying to set up the aliases for qmail. I used the Skript (manually) from the FAQ for 2.1 version of mailman. But after executing it I stillt get this error: "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)" A few things I am not sure about: I wrote in my virtualdomains: lists.mydomain.net:list 1. Is the list user correct? I used list because mailman doesn't exist and list is the only one, that is linked some how to mailman 2. Where am I supposed to execute the script from the FAQ? I … [View More]

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Approved header, mailman password and security
by Dag Wieers April 27, 2011

April 27, 2011

Hi, We have been using the Approved header as a way to automtically approve commit logs to a read-only mailinglist. We recently moved our infrastructure to github and I wrote a patch to the github Email service hook to add an Approved header. https://github.com/github/github-services/pull/84 Now the problem of course is that this secret currently is either the list admin or the list moderator password, which is far from secure. Especially if the mails are not created on the mailman … [View More]

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Bounce emails and Qmail
by Mike Manning April 27, 2011

April 27, 2011

Hi there, We use Mailman 2.1 with Qmail and Plesk (v10.2). Everything works nicely with Mailman however it's not sending out the bounce emails to the owner to say there are pending requests. Upon checking the /var/log/mailman/smtp-failure logs, it's showing that website-owner(a)website.name doesn't exist when mailman tries to send the bounce request to the list owner. It does however send back the user who sent the email a pending request saying that their email is awaiting … [View More]

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moderated Posts question
by Noah Garrett Wallach April 26, 2011

April 26, 2011

Hi there, two questions: 1) I want to reject all posts from members as well. What is the setting to do that? 2) I am getting Messages from members with "Too many recipients to the message" Where is the setting to turn off "Too many recipients to the message" checks? Cheers, Noah

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From address
by Website Administrator April 26, 2011

April 26, 2011

>> Hi, >> >> >> >> Can you please advice why the email is going through like this? Is there anyway to change this? >> >> >> >> From: hq_test-bounces(a)dummy.com [mailto:hq_test-bounces@dummy.com] On Behalf Of Amyn Gilani >> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 11:59 PM >> To: hq_test(a)groups.dummy.com >> Subject: [HQ Test] New List Test >> >> >> >> Is there anyway to change the From? First … [View More]

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Gmail Admin/Owner Notifications
by L. James Prevo April 26, 2011

April 26, 2011

Having a weird issue with my mailman list. I am using my gmail account as the list owner and moderator. When an email is sent to the list from someone else I get the email from the list just fine, the problem is when someone joins the list I am not getting any of the email notifications at all, not even in spam. I switched to a non-gmail email address and I then get the notifications just fine. Very weird. Any help/suggestion?

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qfiles/bad is full of files...how do I find out why?
by Dennis Carr April 23, 2011

April 23, 2011

Running this on Debian Lenny, pending an upgrade. I just discovered that there are hundreds of files in qfiles/bad for some reason. The manual tells me nothing, except some basic installation troubleshooting. So this raises a few questions: 1) Any ideas as to what causes this? 2) How do I find out the exact cause? 3) What is the best way to solve the problem? -Dennis

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disaster recovery help
by Chris Haumesser April 23, 2011

April 23, 2011

My filesystem recently crashed, breaking some aspects of my mailman installation. The email portion of the list itself is still functioning (for non-digest subscribers), and all the archives are intact. But I seem to be missing some config pickles that are preventing digest delivery, emergency moderation, and probably other features that I haven't stumbled upon yet. All of the broken items generate the following message in the logs: Apr 21 09:00:01 2011 (29813) couldn't load config file … [View More]

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messages not going out now (though they did when I tested the list)
by Kathy Bilton April 23, 2011

April 23, 2011

Hi - I just set up a mailing list via the host of my website. They are using Mailman 2.1.14. I tested it out right after I first set it up. The initial three addresses which I placed on the list and to which I sent some test mails all received them without problem. So then I added a whole bunch of addresses - about 250 - which I took from a list to which I had been sending mails via BCC. (In searching archives of the mailman-users list, I found reference to 100 addresses as a … [View More]

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