Mailman-Users May 2011

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42 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

I want all mails sent to the list to come from the list's email address... But, in this case, if the user forgets to sign their name at the bottom of their mail body, effectively the mail to the list is anonymous...! Is there a way to add the user name (or email address) to the top of each mail so that the mails have the name of the sender, while the mail itself comes from the list address? I have looked high and low for an answer, but noone seems to have the solution. Thank you! Mal

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Mailman CGI Error-Group mismatch error
by Wang, Mary Y 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hi, I received the following error this morning. So I rerun configure again with the following command: ./configure --with-cgi-id=apache --prefix=/var/mailman. I'm still getting the same error. Is there any place that I can look for so that I can debug this problem better? Perhaps, looking at the config history file or something. Any other places that I can check the cause of this error? "Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", but the system's web server executed the CGI script as group "apache". Try tweaking the web server to run the script as group "nobody", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=apache'." Thanks Mary

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Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hi - I have searched FAQ and archives to find an answer. Hoping you can help. I have a new list (with previously imported addresses) for announcements only, and wish these announcements to be received immediately. I set the defaults to allow non-digest and to not allow digest. I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text. QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode? If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default? Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so? Thanks - Steve

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reboot servers
by Khalil Abbas 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

hi, I have several vps servers with very limited resources running several large mailman lists, n these servers keep stopping from responding n sometimes mailq shows several errors like: too many open files in the system and not enough resourses ... etc. so every hour I do the following: mailmanctl stop postfix stop reboot to free up the system resources, and eventually the mailq shows empty n the mail gets delivered.. is that a good thing I’m doing? for I can’t afford to upgrade the hardware, is there a better solution? is there any side effects?? Thanks..

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reboot servers
by Khalil Abbas 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

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Integrating with a forum
by Ed Pastore 31 May '11

31 May '11

Hi, folks. I admin a list for a community which wants to expand our list to a forum. Some of us really like list communication; others would prefer a forum. Instead of forcing the issue, we want to do both, with bidirectional mirroring. I know this issue has been raised before, and I know it's tricky. I'm not a programmer, but we have a programmer on hand who is willing to do the integration. All I need to do is scope the requirements properly. Here is my initial requirements definition, which is all very tentative: http://metagovernment.org/wiki/Forum_integration In there, you can see that I did find M2F, which appears to be a list<- >forum integrator. Great. But it only works with phpBB 2. Not only is phpBB2 out of date, but also from past experience I find phpBB to be pretty underwhelming. So I'd like to use a more sophisticated (but still FOSS) forum such as MyBB (or others if you can suggest one that is up to the task). There is an alpha of M2F that claims to it eventually will do the trick, but it is indeed very alpha. I'm posting here to see if anyone has any better insights than I have had so far and/or any comments on my existing document linked above. Apart from the technical difficulties, the additional problem I see is with message overload. So I'm thinking of setting a second list. The existing one would be a full bidirectional mirror of the forum, and a new one would just be an announce list of any new topics posted to either (ie, anything that is a new topic on the forum or a new thread on the list). Or can I do that with umbrella lists somehow? Am I dreaming. Is this just way too complicated to tackle? I further want the forum to support OpenID. I imagine that adds additional layers of complexity when combined with list integration. Any thoughts on any of this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Ed Pastore http://metagovernment.org/wiki/User:Ed_Pastore

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is it possible to hide email addresses...
by marci Boskie's Mama =^..^= 30 May '11

30 May '11

Hey guys, New to this list but am a long-time Mailman user. I host a mailing list for artists . We have about 1500 members . Most of our members get the digest version but a few opt for the individual mails. I am running Mailman 2.1.11 through LFChosting . My question is ... is there a way to set the system so that the email addresses of the people writing in dont show up on the digest ? I have a few troublemakers who pick fights with other members offline and I also have a few who have gleaned email addresses from the list, given me a big F.U. and then went off to start their own lists with my members.. so I d love to be able find a way to hide the email addresses from being displayed. ... so that just the name would show ( as in my case, the marci Boskie's Mama" part .. but not the email address in the brackets ... ( The problem is that the members are afraid to rat out the troublemakers.. and by the time I find out who it is, the damage is done ....so if there is a way to prevent them from being able to see the emails of those who write in , that would be great !) Is there any way to do this? I LOVE Mailman ! It has been extremely stable and easy to use . Marci

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setting to use IP address rather than normal URL
by coldbee 30 May '11

30 May '11

We are hosting our website on a different web host than the email and Mailman mailing lists. This is causing problems with the Admin side of Mailman as the DNS servers point to the web site host and not the mail host. I can get around it for much of the admin tasks by changing the URL to the IP address except for some (i.e. moderating). Is there someplace in Mailman where I can input the IP address so it always goes there instead of the normal URL (i.e. website.com)? TIA! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/setting-to-use-IP-address-rather-than-normal-URL-tp31… Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Mailman keeps forward mail to Unsubscribed member
by javadev3 26 May '11

26 May '11

I unsubscribed a user from a list because the destination mailbox for that user was full. Yet everytime a message is posted to that list, I get a bounce notification informing that the address had delivery problems. I've looked again at the membership list to make sure the member is not on the list and have no idea why list emails keep being forwarded to that address. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Mailman-keeps-forward-mail-to-Unsubscribed-member-tp3… Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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migrating lists off an old RHEl3 server to RHEL6.1
by Steven Jones 26 May '11

26 May '11

Hi, Can I just move the aliases file and the various lists directories and archive off the old server and more them to the correct place on the new server restart mailman and it will work? Or is there other work to do regards steven

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