Mailman 3 April 2011 - Mailman-Users

simple option to unsubscribe from list via email or single click
by Nick Putman 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi, I am looking for the simplest method of users unsubscribing from my Mailman list, either by replying to the list with 'unsubscribe' in the subject or the body, or a one click link in the footer that opens an email that can be sent to unsubscribe or which redirects a user to a webpage confirming they have unsubscribed. Would someone be able to help me set this up? Thanks, Nick

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Is it possible to use html in footer for all emails sent to list?
by Nick Putman 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Hi, I am trying to set up mailman for the first time and would like to add an html image link into the footer of each email that is sent to the list. At the moment all I am seeing is the raw html. So far I have changed the following settings: 1. Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? This conversion happens after MIME attachments have been stripped. - set to "no" 2. Made sure all users have 'plain' unchecked 3. Added 'text/html' to pass mime types But still I am just getting the html and not the image link. Would someone be able to help me get this set up? Thanks, Nick

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Re: [Mailman-Users] regarding specific mail ids
by Arun Gupta 08 Apr '11

08 Apr '11

Dear Steve, what is the mean of posters, it is "sender address" who send to the mailing list. Am i right or wrong ?, please clear and explain. Regards, Arun Kumar Gupta ========================================================================= On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Steve Burling wrote: > --On April 7, 2011 4:28:00 PM +0300 Geoff Shang <geoff(a)QuiteLikely.com> > wrote: > >> You cannot do what you want to do without making two lists. You can >> still set it up so that everyone posts to the same address, but you'll >> still need two lists. > > To which I reply: > > I get the distinct impression that this isn't a question of two lists, but > "n" lists, where "n" is the number of posters. > > Sounds like a nightmare to manage. > > -- > Steve Burling <mailto:srb@umich.edu> > University of Michigan, ICPSR Voice: +1 734 615.3779 > 330 Packard Street FAX: +1 734 647.8700 > Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2910 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Question about Mailman domain and OS X server set-up.
by JRC Groups 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hi Mark (Sapiro) and other members, While discussing some possible DNS set-up issues I might need to resolve on my server a certain IT professional mentioned to me that Mailman shouldn't be run using a virtual domain. I am not sure if this professional was referring to virtual domains in general or only those running on Mac OS X Server. Do you know if this is true ? Do you see any problems with Mailman running from a Virtual domain ? Let me make this a little clearer. I have a Mac server on a single IP address and host several domains. The primary domain name (the one returned when you do a search on my IP address) is domain1.com and the Mailman list is being run on domain2.com (one of several virtual domains hosted on the same server). Any Mac specialists on the list that know the answer to this question ? Thank you in advance, Joe

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mailman not validate namelist
by marcos gonzalez 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Hi list I have diferent mailman lists mounted and I detected a problem making tests to access, If I use telnet using other mailserver (mailserver.es) I receive this information: telnet mail.mydomain.com 25 Trying 84.88.68.66... Connected to mail.mydomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 jupiter.mydomain.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) ehlo hola 250-jupiter.mydomain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 20240000 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN mail from: <jorge.garcia(a)mailserver.es> 250 2.1.0 Ok rcpt to: <wronglist(a)lists.mydomain.com> 250 2.1.5 Ok data 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> subject: test test . 250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 078C028A502 quit 221 2.0.0 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. but wronglist not exist. How it's possible this? Im using postfix making a relay, If you need I can pass postconf. Thanks

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Autoresponder and privacy
by Clare Redstone 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

I've just moved a discussion group from majordomo to Mailman and posted the first message to the group. So far, I've had one autoresponder message sent back. Thankfully, from what I can see, it only came to me and not to the list address, so hasn't started to loop. But I've a problem over preserving members' privacy. The list of subscribers isn't available to other list members. So unless someone posts a message in the discussion, when their email address will show up in headers, I'm the only person who knows who's registered. And some people will be concerned that stays the case. But the autoresponder message came from someone using their work email so it includes their name, job and contact details. It doesn't matter this time, as it came to me. But as soon as someone else posts to the group, I assume they'll get the same out of office message. I can warn everyone about this and suggest that, if they don't want their details revealed, they only use an address that they won't set out of office. But is there anything else I can do? Privacy is important in our group so I would like to do what I can, rather than leaving it people who didn't realise about this vulnerable. Meantime, I may unsubscribe this person so no-one else gets her out of office message. Not a problem with a loop, thankfully. (Yet? Maybe I'd better put some filters in pronto!) I'd be grateful for advice. Thanks Clare

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Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman [Failed]
by kshitij mali 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hello Everyone , I have Newbie in the Mailing list but have 2 years of experience in postfix mailing system. my new project is to setup a mailing for the company internal organization such has eg ( admin dpt should have 5 to 6 email address etc with rules) i have an preinstalled mailman on redhat enterprise linux 4 and by reading the docs i make the configuration of mailmain to use postfix mta after all the setup while starting the mailman service i received the following error: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@relay ~]# /etc/init.d/mailman start Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman [FAILED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please help me in this situation . Regards, Kshitij Mali foreplayboy(a)gmail.com

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External processing failed. communigate and mailman
by Ch Abarguia 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi, N.B. Sorry if it's a duplicate post. I didn't receive the message I sent to the list. Probably because it was done before I change from digest to single. Any way. I really need your help. Back to the message : Installed mailman 2.1.13, via macports, on snow leopard ( 10.6.7) with success. Same results following the procedure Larry Stone described on http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg56923.html Everything is working fine except for the integration with communigate. Error message from communigate : failed on 'mailman post testlist(a)domain.com'. Error Code=external processing failed ( pathname of the wrapper : /opt/local/libexec/mailman/mail ) The answer from the communicate discussion list is : " Make sure that your program reads everything from the standard input up to EOF, exits with zero status code and does not output to the STDERR stream." Extract from the communicate documentation : "The message text (including the message headers and the message body) is passed to the external application as its standard input.  Note: the application must read the entire stdin data stream, otherwise message processing fails. When the external application completes, the PIPE module reads and discards the application standard output. Make sure that your application does not write anything to its standard output, so it is not blocked when the communication channel (pipe) buffer between the application and the Server is full." Thanks in advance for any help and hints to use mailman with communigate. P.S. Same results with mailman 2.1.14

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unshunt
by Troy Knabe 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

I 1/2 read the unshunt documentation and ran unshunt with some 44k messages in the shunt directory. I killed the unshunt process and now all mailman process. I deleted all of the files out of the shunt directory. But I continue to receive duplicates of the 2008 and 2009 messages. What can I do now to stop this, so that I don't duplicate all 44k messages to my users? Thanks for any help you can provide. -Troy

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Mailman unsubscribing my members
by Linda Cunningham 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

I have just had a rush of email messages from my members that they have received notice from Mailman that they are unsubscribed, and they are trying to restate themselves. I have not unsubscribed anyone, and do not want to have my members unsubscribed. How would I fix this, and how to ensure this stops? Your help is appreciated. Linda Cunningham Mongeon Consulting Inc. 301 Sunnymeade Drive Ancaster (Hamilton), Ontario L9G 4L2 Telephone: 905 390 1818 Toll free: 877 390 1818

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