Mailman 3 May 2011 - Mailman-Users

Mail content arriving as attachments
by AEGN 03 May '11

03 May '11

We use Mailman 2.1.14 to send mail to a list of about 90 subscribers. There is an exchange server sitting between us and the outside world. The mail is arriving in various formats to different mail-clients e.g. an email with content in the body, including one image, only arrives back to us (Outlook 2003) as an email with a header in the body plus two text attachments (one with a footer and the other with the email body content) plus one html attachment (with image and email body content). Sometimes the email arrives back to us with the email content in the body of the email and not converted to attachments. If there are attachments sent these seem to stay as attachments wherever they go. To a person external to us the content arrives as we would want it i.e. in the body of the email. To another person external to us using a Mac (Safari?) it arrives with the content in the email but includes a header and footer. We'd like the emails to arrive as they are sent i.e. with the content in the body, and not as attachments. What settings do I need to adjust to achieve this? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Mail-content-arriving-as-attachments-tp31529646p31529… Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Minor addition to Mailman/Cgi/options.py
by C Nulk 03 May '11

03 May '11

Hello all, Don't know if this small addition would be useful to anyone else but I will pass it along. A little explanation first. It seems our users have some difficulty in unsubscribing from the lists they are on. I know it is simple, yet I get a lot of email complaining the process is to difficult. The biggest issue I see is when the user puts in their email address then clicks the "unsubscribe or edit options" button and the user lands on the Options page. Apparently, the users see the password field and try a password and then find out it is not the correct one. The users just don't seem to read the page first which even tells the users to click the unsubscribe button if they are trying to unsubscribe. Well, they don't read, have problems, then email me that they have tried "everything" and it doesn't work. My solution was to modify the Mailman/Cgi/options.py file to add a line under the Password field telling the user to leave the password blank and click on the unsubscribe button. As I said, don't know if it will help anyone but if you have user's with problems reading, it might help. Below is a diff file with the changes. I modified the original file from Centos 5.6 (their mailman package is v2.1.9-6). If you are running a different version, take care when making any changes. --- options.py.original 2011-03-30 13:28:26.000000000 -0700 +++ options.py.SCU 2011-05-02 14:04:44.000000000 -0700 @@ -880,6 +880,10 @@ ptable.AddRow([Hidden('email', user)]) ptable.AddRow([Label(_('Password:')), PasswordBox('password', size=20)]) + # SCU added 20110502 - Start + ptable.AddRow([Label(_('')), + _("""If unsubscribing, leave Password blank and<br>click the 'Unsubscribe' button below.""")]) + # SCU added 20110502 - Finish ptable.AddRow([Center(SubmitButton('login', _('Log in')))]) ptable.AddCellInfo(ptable.GetCurrentRowIndex(), 0, colspan=2) table.AddRow([Center(ptable)]) Mark, if you think this is useful, let me know what I need to do to get it put into 2.1.15 (you are still working on) and / or 3.0+. Disclaimer: the change(s) I made works for me with my implementation of mailman. Your mileage may vary. Use at solely your own risk. Just because it worked for me, doesn't guarantee it will work for you. Thanks, Chris

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Getting Spam from Banned Address
by Henry Hartley 03 May '11

03 May '11

I have a list that started getting a lot of spam from a particular address. Most of them get sent to moderation because of "Too many recipients" and they are easily dealt with. The address in question was an alternate address for one member and after speaking with him, we decided it would be OK to take the address off the list completely. I have done so but continue to receive spam from that address. The list has generic_nonmember_action set to discard but the messages continue to come in, although they still mostly go to moderation rather than the list. But I don't see how they are getting there. I tried adding the address to discard_these_nonmembers but that, too, seems to have no effect. Looking at the header of one of the message, however, and I see that although they show up as From that single banned address, there are multiple addresses in the From field. At least one other of the addresses is a valid list address. I assume that as long as at least one From address is valid, mailman will let it through the gate. Is that right? Should there be some setting to only let in mail with a single From address? I can't see any reason to allow multiple From values. Or possibly a setting that says "all From addresses must be on the list". Or am I missing something? -- Henry

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Monthly reminder sent twice
by Andreas Rittershofer 02 May '11

02 May '11

Some of my users are complaining that they receive the monthly reminder twice - and I have no idea what the problem could be. Viele Grüße Andreas Rittershofer -- Hier könnte keine Signatur stehen.

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