Mailman 3 June 2011 - Mailman-Users

can i see alist of mailman messages waiting to be delivered
by Jane Frizzell 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

I am trying to see what messages are waiting to be delivered by mailman to my lists. We just reconfigured the mail system and want to see what is waiting before we restart. Thank you Jane -- Jane Frizzell Network Services Administrator Bates College Information and Library Services jfrizzel(a)bates.edu 786-6457 110 Russell St

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Mailing List
by Ekesa Rhonnie 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hello, I have a mailing list on my Cpanel, but I don't want to log in every time to release the mails Is there any automatic way to release the mails other than me as the admin having to log in now and then? Description: Ronnie

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no response while posting a message
by Victor 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hello, I installed mailman successfully. I created a mailing list named mailman. Then I subscribed to this list and I received the confirmed and welcome email. However, when I posted a message to this mailing list, nothing happened. Nothing wrong appeared in the mailman log files. The urlhost is cs.heilongjiang.edu and the mailhost is cs.heilongjiang.edu. The mailing list address ismailman(a)cs.heilongjiang.edu. I think the problem results from the mailing list address. Could you please give me some advice? Thank you very much!

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Question concerning list of members as relay_recipients in postfix
by Peter Sørensen 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

Hi, I have recently migrated my old mailman installation to a new based on 2.1.14 with postfix as MTA. The prior one used EXIM. The mailman server is just part of a big mail complex and located on the inner side of my network The other parts are GATEWAYS ( postfix based ) and backends ( EXCHANGE based). We use virtual domains ( host around 100 ) domains. Mail is routed GW => EXCHANGE => Mailman server, so if I have a list in a domain called mydomain(a)xyz.com<mailto:mydomain@xyz.com> and also a lot of users in that domain, we need to make EXCHG forward any address it can't solve to the Mailman server, to make sure that mail to the list mydomain(a)xyz.com<mailto:mydomain@xyz.com> is processed. We could of course let the EXCHG system be authoritative for the domain but that would imply that all mailman addresses Is added as contacts in EXCHG. I'm not the EXCHG guy and when I talk about this...... Because if this I get all garbage mail sent to mydomain(a)xyz.com<mailto:mydomain@xyz.com> . We have some sort of address control but I can't Avoid some of the garbage. Due to this I need to make the postfix on the mailman server aware of what addresses to handle and reject anything else. This is not a big problem but before I dig into this and make a script I would ask if this is already done. I have the listnames in virtual-mailman and can get a list of members with the script list_members. Any hints ? Best regards Peter Sorensen/Univ.Of.South.Denmark/Email: maspsr(a)sdu.dk

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Migration to new server
by William Ashworth 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

Currently, a client of mine has a mailman list running since 2006 on a server with a company they no longer do business with. We're wanting to consolidate resources for their organization and migrate them to a cPanel web host that supports mailman. Is there any concern about mailman versions between servers or anything else I might not be thinking of? What's the best way to go about moving them to another server supporting mailman? I can say with fair certainty that we don't have root access to the old server, so I'm not sure what needs to be planned for during a migration between service providers. Thanks. Regards, Will Ashworth

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Injecting old lists into a new mailman aliases setup
by Steven Jones 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi, I have followed http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/How+do+I+move+a+list+to+a+different+server…. and got to, withlist -l -r fix_url listname but I find that afetr running that the lists info has not been put into in /etc/mailman/aliases file (Redhat default location) so obviously I cant send to the lists.... Also is there a way to tell mailman to look into ~lists and do them all at once? regards

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archives of sibling lists
by Lucio Chiappetti 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

I have set up (for a transitory activity lasting about one month) a couple of lists (A and B) with real subscribers, and an umbrella list C with no members, but having A and B as sibling lists. I have set up the lists with private archives. Now it is clear that members of A or B can access the archives of the respective list, using their e-mail and password. But who and how can access the archives of C ? Ideally all members of A and C should For some reason I can, but I'm the moderator and used the moderator passwords and probably there are some cookies that make the browser work anyhow. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Minimal Mailboxes Question
by Dennis Putnam 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Due to various reasons, I had to change my site name from 'mailman' to something else. It is not clear from the documentation what mailboxes are really required. The site list is not used for anything other than processing reminders and other administrative functions. What I need to know is what names are required for proper function. I am limited by my ISP to the number of subaccounts I can have so I can't have more than the absolute essentials. For a regular mailing list I have the following mailboxes: <name> <name>-owner <name>-confirm <name>-join <name>-leave <name>-request For the site list I have: <sitename>-owner <sitename>-bounces For the most part this seems to be working under normal circumstances. What happens to mail from the regular list that bounces? Do I need <name>-bounces or does it go to <sitename>-bounces? Are these mailboxes sufficient or do I need others (I can add a maximum of 2 more) particularly when something goes wrong. It seems like my problem area is when something bad happens, I don't get notified. That is the reason I had to change my site name so I can retrieve bounces. TIA.

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Email commands aren't working
by Pete Bell 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Mailmanit doesn't seem to be changing the settings of user options by email commands as it should. Subscribing is excellent, so I *know* it is receiving the commands by email correctly, and I am CC'ing the emails to myself so that I *know* they are going to Mailman in the correct format, and I *know* they are going to the right address! However, an email which has a subject line of:- set authenticate XXXX address=yyyy(a)zzzz.com set delivery off ...*should* turn the delivery of list emails *off* for the member who is subscribed at yyyy(a)zzzz.com with a password of "XXXX" But it isn't doing it. I even receive an email back saying "done", but the membership roster does not show that delivery is turned off for that member. I have also tested set ack on and set digest plain and so on. Nothing is working except my subscription requests. Any ideas please? For me, Mailman is a server-wide installation shared by all lists on the server. It's not mine alone. Cheers Pete

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List advertised but does not show
by Peter Sørensen 14 Jun '11

14 Jun '11

Hi, I have some lists which all have advertised=1 but they don't show in the web interface. What else could be missing ? Using mailman 2.1.14 best regards Peter Sorensen/Univ. Of Southern Denmark/email: maspsr(a)sdu.dk

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