Mailman 3 April 2011 - Mailman-Users

accept_these_nonmembers @ notation
by Lucio Chiappetti 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

I have now upgraded to mailman 2.1.14 (to run on suse 11.3 with bundled python 2.6) and it runs nicely. The help text for accept_these_nonmembers says Add member addresses one per line; start the line with a ^ character to designate a regular expression match. A line consisting of the @ character followed by a list name specifies another Mailman list in this installation, all of whose member addresses will be accepted for this list. I succeed (not surprisingly, I tested this already on other installations) using regex. E.g. to allow posting to any list from root of any machine (which is exposed) this works ^root@.+\.lambrate\.inaf\.it I cannot manage to have the @ notation working though. I am testing this with two lists, pseudoastro of which I'm the only member, and pseudotecno (with a colleague as member, and me as non member). Ideally I'd want to set up a list as template and then work for all others (we will have some 6 DISJOINCT lists with categories of our staff, we want to be able that members of each can post to any other [and in addition to set up some umbrella lists]) Notation @pseudoastro @pseudotecno fails at web level entry (Error: Invalid value for variable: accept_these_nonmembers) Notation (with a blank between @ and list name) @ pseudoastro @ pseudotecno gives an entry in the error log *_these_nonmembers in pseudotecno references non-existent list pseudoastro *_these_nonmembers in pseudotecno references non-existent list pseudotecno I tried capitalizing the first letter, adding the host and domain, using a notation list_host.domain (according to a posting found on the net), but in all cases I get the "non-existent list" error !! What's the correct syntax ? (and by the way ... are those checks to be considered effective as antispam measures ? do they just use the value of the header From field (which can be faked) or use info from the SMTP dialogue ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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removing post from mail archive
by Schwartz, Robert 13 Apr '11

13 Apr '11

Is there a way to remove some test posts from the mail archive. I have found a message: 3.3. How can I remove a post from the list archive / remove an entire archive? But I do not have access to the server. Can I do it from another system from the cmd prompt by using something like: Mailman-subscribers.py -c -o output-members.csv (link to webpage) (list) Which I use to export my mailing list. Where link to webpage is the URL to my website and list is the name of the member list that I want.

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IGNORE message cannot update regular_include_lists
by Lucio Chiappetti 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

Please ignore half-edited message just sent. I should have cancelled it. It left by mistake.

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cannot update regular_include_lists
by Lucio Chiappetti 12 Apr '11

12 Apr '11

upgraded mailman 2.1.14 (on suse 11.3 with bundled python 2.6) In addition to the unwanted behaviour with accept_these_nonmembers described in a previous post, I'm getting strange behaviour with regular_include_lists I want to make an umbrella listtwo lists, pseudoastro of which I'm the only member, and pseudotecno (with a colleague as member, and me as non member). Ideally I'd want to set up a list as template and then work for all others (we will have some 6 DISJOINCT lists with categories of our staff, we want to be able that members of each can post to any other [and in addition to set up some umbrella lists]) Notation @ pseudoastro @ pseudotecno fails at web level entry (Error: Invalid value for variable: accept_these_nonmembers) Notation (with a blank between @ and list name) @ pseudoastro @ pseudotecno gives an entry in the error log *_these_nonmembers in pseudotecno references non-existent list pseudoastro *_these_nonmembers in pseudotecno references non-existent list pseudotecno I tried capitalizing the first letter, adding the host and domain, using a notation list_host.domain (according to a posting found on the net), but in all cases I get the "non-existent list" error !! What's the correct syntax ? (and by the way ... are those checks to be considered effective as antispam measures ? do they just use the value of the header From field (which can be faked) or use info from the SMTP dialogue ? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Unmodetate A Subscriber via Command Line?
by Barry Finkel 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

I have a list where I build the list from an external file via cron. I need to un-moderate those who are allowed to post. Obviously, I cannot use the web interface in the cron job to do the un-moderation. Is there a CLI tool? Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 FAQ URL
by Barry Finkel 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

What happened to the Mailman FAQ? When I go to the URL http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 I get some login screen from Atlassian Confluence. That page is wider thanmy Firefox window, and there are no scroll bars. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] msg file as attachment gets striped out
by rpschwar＠knology.net 11 Apr '11

11 Apr '11

That worked for adding the attachment. However, the From, To and Subject are removed. Robert On Thu 07/04/11 3:17 PM , Mark Sapiro mark(a)msapiro.net sent: > rpschwar > @knology.net wrote: > >Trying to add a file of type .msg as a mail > attachment. Have added:> > >application/vnd.ms-outlook > >application/msoutlook > >application/octet-stream > > > >to the content filtering: Remove message attachments > that don't have a matching content type. Leave this field blank to skip > this filter >test > > > You really don't want to add application/octet-stream unless you want > to accept all sorts of potentially nasyt stuff. Neither > application/vnd.ms-outlook nor application/msoutlook are registered > mime types at all. See > http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html>. > The type you want for a message attachment is message/rfc822. > > In general, if you are trying to find the mime type to allow for a > particular message attachment, look at the raw source of a message > containing the attachment and find the Content-Type: header of the > part containing the attachment. > > Note that even if you accept attached message/rfc822 parts, the > sub-parts of that message are still subject to your content filtering > rules. > > E.g. putting > > multipart > message/rfc822 > text/plain > > in pass_mime_types will filter all but the text/plain parts from > multipart and attached messages. > > -- > Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro > .net> The highway is for gamblers,San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > > >

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pending moderator request question
by Glen Page 09 Apr '11

09 Apr '11

For the last several days, I have been getting a "1 Mailman moderator request(s) waiting" message daily from my mailman server. I have logged on as administrator to the list. I click the "Tend to pending moderator requests" link and am told that there are no pending moderator requests. How can I manually clear whatever flag in the system is causing this? Thanks, Glen Page Technology Systems Administrator ThetNet - Thetford Academy and Latham Library 802.785.4805.x231 Passwords are like underwear. You shouldn’t leave them out where people can see them. You should change them regularly. And you shouldn’t loan them out to strangers.

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msg file as attachment gets striped out
by rpschwar＠knology.net 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Trying to add a file of type .msg as a mail attachment. Have added: application/vnd.ms-outlook application/msoutlook application/octet-stream to the content filtering: Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. Leave this field blank to skip this filter test the file get striped out. Have added .pdf, .doc, .excel to allow those file which does work. Robert

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regarding specific mail ids
by Arun Gupta 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi, I have a one mailing list test(a)example.com and there is 10 people (mail ids) i have added, Is it possible if a(a)example.com send mail to test(a)example.com mailing list then out of 10 only 5 people get the mails (i want to deliver specific mail ids) and if b(a)example.com send mail to test(a)example.com then all people should get the mails. Please tell me procedure and settings Thanks & Regards, Arun Kumar Gupta ========================================================================= -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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