Mailman 3 May 2011 - Mailman-Users

Best way to clean old messages
by alexander＠nautae.eti.br 23 May '11

23 May '11

Hi. What would be the best way to completely clean/remove old messages? I mean, in that way it would be absolutely impossible to resend any message already sent? I have to create an bash script to do that. Some days ago an ancient message was resent erroneously by a person who could do that again, and our policy don't permit this kind of mistake. []s Alexander Brazil - Rio de Janeiro ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Adding Subscription box to HTML Webpage
by Zeki 18 May '11

18 May '11

Hello all, Sorry for such a basic question, but I can't find the information anywhere. I have a basic html web site and want to add a subscription box and button to my mail list. All I want the webpage visitor to do is to input their email address and then press the subscribe button. Most of my visitors are not computer literate (a bit like me!!) so I need to make it as simple as possible. And am really looking for the html code I need to use. Thanks in advance for your help. Zeki

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Import email.message fails for Mailman 2.1.14 on AIX 5.3
by Steve Pogue 17 May '11

17 May '11

I'm trying to get Mailman 2.1.14 running on AIX 5.3 using Python 2.6.2. The first part of the installation works fine but I'm getting the following traceback on the update task. I've also tried running list_lists which had the same effect. I am able to go into interactive mode with Python and invoke the imports without any problems. Any idea what the issue is here? TIA, Steve # make update Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 51, in <module> from Mailman import MailList File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 51, in <module> from Mailman.Archiver import Archiver File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/__init__.py", line 17, in <module> from Archiver import * File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 32, in <module> from Mailman import Mailbox File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 21, in <module> import mailbox File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.6/mailbox.py", line 19, in <module> import email.message ImportError: No module named message make: The error code from the last command is 1. Stop.

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Question after 10.6.7 upgrade on osx server
by Mark Prewitt 17 May '11

17 May '11

Good Day, We just upgraded our OSX server from 10.6.5 to 10.6.7, and it was kind enough to nuke our Mailman defaults.py file. We had setup defaults in this so that the include_sender_header always defaulted to 'no' when a new list was created, but apparently, no one remembers how we did this (including me). I cannot find it in the documentation. This upgrade put us at 2.1.14 as the version. I do have the "Allow Sender overrides" set to yes, and we can fix it by going in to each list we have manually and setting the option to 'no' for our lists. However, we'd like to pre-set as many options as possible for when new lists are created. We use this feature for internal project lists and we create and delete lists constantly. I thought I could just put in the variable 'include_sender_header = No' in the mm_cfg.py file and it might work, but that didn't. Help? Mark Mark Prewitt Director of IT M: 503.984.9700 O: 206.521.8717 Seattle | San Francisco | Silicon Valley | San Diego | Phoenix | Austin | Dallas | Houston | Chicago ---------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or confidential information and is protected from disclosure. If you have received this email in error, please delete this message and any attachments without replying, copying, or disclosing the contents and if possible inform the sender of the error. Thank you.

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remove member with \t in address
by Dan Young 14 May '11

14 May '11

Hi all, I've got a few members subscribed with a leading tab character in their mail address. Can't seem to get them unsubscribed with either the web interface, remove_members, or sync_members. This fails: # /usr/lib/mailman/bin/remove_members list_name ' username(a)example.org' No such member: username(a)example.org I'm generating the tab character in bash w/ ctrl-v ctrl-i. Using dumpdb to dump the config.pck, I see: 'members': { '\tusername(a)example.org':0, .... This also fails: # remove_members list_name '\tusername(a)example.org' No such member: \tusername(a)example.org I'm stumped here. Do I need to craft a script to run through withlist to edit the members dict directly? -- Dan Young <dyoung(a)mesd.k12.or.us> Multnomah ESD - Technology Services 503-257-1562

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bounces not working
by Ludo Joosen 14 May '11

14 May '11

Hello, I have set up a number of mailing lists for internal communication in our school and everything looks fine, only I (list owner) do not get any mention when a particular address cannot be reached or is running out of mailbox space. Does anybody have any idea what I might be doing wrong? I expect this has to do with bounces settings??? These are the settings I am using. If anybody could help me find a solution, I'd be much obliged. Ludo

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Inserting usernames
by Alastair Mason 13 May '11

13 May '11

Hi This questions most likely been asked before but I couldn't find an answer on google or the FAQ. How do I insert the users name in to a email to personalise it? I am using Mailman to update a list when new events happen with in our NGO. Thanks for your help

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Missing emails
by Mike McFall 12 May '11

12 May '11

I have a problem with emails that go missing when people respond or send them to the list. It appears to be random. I sent an email to my list, and it didn't get sent out by the list. Anyone else have this issue, or know what might be happening? Thanks! Mike

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clone_member hangs
by Dave Jones 11 May '11

11 May '11

I am having the same problem as this thread: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2008-April/061087.html I have run the 'ls -U' command and know the problem list but I am not able to find any mailman lock files on my server and the above link does not mention the location of the lock files (or at least a link that might is broken). I am running CentOS 5.6 and the problem didn't exist a couple of months ago when I was on CentOS 5.5 and a previous version of mailman. The list it's hanging on was created a few days ago so unfortunately multiple things have changed to complicate the troubleshooting of the root cause. # rpm -q mailman mailman-2.1.9-6.el5_6.1 Thanks, Dave

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Problem with delivery
by Larry Prevo 11 May '11

11 May '11

I got a email this morning telling me. I was going to be disable because of bad mail delivery I don't know what address fail can you tell me larry(a)prevo.net my mail list kofc4090.org

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