Mailman 3 August 2011 - Mailman-Users

setup options
by Carl Cappelen 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

First time using Mailman (ver. 2.1.14) as administrator. Trying to set up all options, what I am looking for, if possible is: When a subscriber receives a message, would like his reply to go back to the list sever and also to show (e-mail) address of the sender. This way most reply's go back to the list server, however if recipient wants to, he send a message to the directly originator of the message. TIA Carl,

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Missing pending requests in mailman database i.e no pending requests
by kibirango moses 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

Hullo Users; The administrator/moderator of the list gets a message saying that there is a post pending approval. However, when he logs in and clicks "Tend to pending moderator requests" there is nothing there. Basically we keep getting "pending" notices but the queue is empty. It had been working and no settings were changed. When a message is sent to a mailing list there are no pending requests but if sent to a list and some members of the list have the moderation bit set as off they receive the message . I am using mailman 2.1.13 on slackware linux 13 How can i solve this? thanx in advance

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Creating a list for announcements only
by Atkins, Brian CTR 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

I'm trying to create a list so that 1 member and a select group of non-members can send out announcements with the replies coming back to the poster and limit the amount of email that the moderator/poster receives. I also want to have the ability to have members send to the list but messages go to a specific person rather than the list. I should note that the primary poster is also a moderator, so he receives 2 e-mails for every reply, one for the actual reply and another from mailman telling him he has a post that is moderated. So what I want is: Announcement: Poster => List Reply: Member => Poster New message: Member => Authorized recipient What I'm getting is: Announcement: Poster => List Reply: Member => Poster Admin message => Moderator New message: Member => Held for moderation Admin message => Moderator Thanks, Brian

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Resetting bounce scores globally
by Steven Jones 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Hi, Is there a way to reset all ppls bounces in all lists? Ive tried withlist -a -r reset_bounce but no joy regards Steven Jones

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check_perms -f not working
by Noah 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

hi there, I run check_perms with the -f switch and the program runs the program claims it found 100 problems and asks to run the program again. Next time I run it 100 problems are still found. So I did some research to figure out what the problems are. $ sudo ./check_perms -f /var/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/mail bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/icons bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/scripts bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/pythonlib bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) in some cases there are links to another directory. Does this seem normal? $ ls -l /var/lib/mailman/cron lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 8 02:20 /var/lib/mailman/cron -> /usr/lib/mailman/cron /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/<list-name>/2004-April/index.html bad group (has: mailman, expected list) (fixing) in some cases there are links to another file. Does this seem normal? # ls -l /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/<list-name>/2004-April/index.html lrwxrwxrwx 1 mailman mailman 11 Jul 30 2010 /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/<list-name>/2004-April/index.html -> thread.html also I am getting the following error when visiting the archives page for certain lists. What is a good way to fix this issue? --- snip --- Forbidden You don't have permission to access /pipermail/<list-name>/ on this server. --- snip --- # ls -ld * drwxrws--- 109 www-data list 4096 Jan 27 2011 private drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman list 4096 Jan 27 2011 public # ls -ld <mail-list>.mbox/ drwxrwsr-x 2 80 list 4096 Oct 6 2008 <mail-list>.mbox/ Cheers

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Completely read-only list
by David Lubkin 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

I've moved and renamed a set of lists. Not everyone reads their email, though, so occasionally people try to post to the old names off the old domain name. For now, I want to retain the old lists as is, in case I need to back out of the move. I've set up autorespond text to tell posters that a list has moved, but their postings still go through to the old list that way. If I set everyone's moderation bit (or enable the emergency moderation flag), I still have to manually reject or discard postings. The answer would seem to be a filter that matches on all postings and rejects them with my autorespond text. Is there anything simpler I could do? I've checked the archives, and all the answers are about lists that are *mostly* read-only, not entirely. A truly read-only list has other utility. There are a few extinct lists I'd like to host archives for. Mailman provides the framework for controlling who can access the archives and for generating the browsing pages. For that use case, since I don't need an explanation sent to a would-be poster, I think the simplest solution is removing the list from the mail aliases file. I'm using 2.1.12, for no reason other than that it's working fine and I haven't had a compelling reason to upgrade yet. -- David.

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Subscribers accessing private list archives
by Prietz, Ian 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Hi, I help manage a series of mailing lists. It is currently configured for me to manually subscribe users. We do not offer the subscribers the opportunity to manage their own subscription...they are required to be a part of this list. We do not have passwords setup for subscribers, so they do not have to do the periodic password updates. I also have the lists setup to privately archive. I am looking for a way to give subscribers a generic password that would authenticate them to be able to view the archives (so they can revisit any past messages). Note, I do not want them to be able to access their subscriber settings to be able to unsubscribe themselves. I would almost like to just have everyone be given a generic password (that I could give out upon request), so they can view the private archives. That's all. Any ideas? Our Mailman access is restricted just to accessing our mailing lists administration pages on the web. Our service is hosted...I do not have direct access to the server. Thanks, Ian

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Outgoing mail flow problem
by Jack Barnes 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

I have setup mailman as our school districts list server. For email, we use Google and our domain is ccsuvt.org. The listserv is a subdomain named lists.ccsuvt.org. The problem that we are experiencing is that outgoing email is going to Google that returns a message that there is no user with that name. At the same time, if I am a member of the list, I can send a posting to the list and all of the recipients receive it if they have an account with Google no matter what the domain (xxxxx(a)ccsuvt.org or xxxxx(a)gmail.com. I must be missing something but I can't figure out why outgoing mail is even going to Google. We are using Postfix so is it a setting in Postfix? Is it a setting in our Google account? Thanks for any help you could provide. Jack W. Barnes, CNE Head Network Administrator CCSU jbarnes(a)ccsuvt.org Office 802-857-7000 Ext. 1039 Cell 802-318-0976 Fax 802-879-8197 CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION. THIS MESSAGE MAY NOT BE FORWARDED. The information contained in this communication, including any attachments, is confidential,constitutes privileged communication, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. This message may not be forwarded without prior consent from the sender. The information in this e-mail is also protected by the rights afforded under Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and school district policies. Any unauthorized use, forwarding, distribution,disclosure, printing or copying is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately at 802-857-7000 x1234 or return e-mail,and delete any copies of this message immediately. Any inadvertent disclosure of this communication shall not compromise the confidential nature of the communication.

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mailman talking on ipv6 loopback
by Steven Jones 18 Aug '11

18 Aug '11

Hi, I just upgrade Mailman but for some reason it seems to be talking to postfix on ::1 and postfix does a relay deny....For mailman is this normal? Or do I have a misconfiguration? regards Steven Jones

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User Management
by Douglas D. J. de Macedo 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Hi people, I would like to know more about user management on Mailman system. My problem is that I have more than 50 lists and every time time that one of the users go out of the company I have to go one per one list removing this user. And the other way, when a new person get a job here I have to sign their email list per list .. So there are some tool to help me? Thanks in advance. Doug

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