Mailman 3 November 2012 - Mailman-Users

A question about IncomingRunner
by METU E-List Admin 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hello, We are using Mailman 2.1.13 from Debian repositories (which is the latest version for squeeze). We are facing late mail delivery problems and after some research, we think we managed to overcome these problems by changing some configuration options. Although Mailman seems to running fine, we have observed an issue. The issue is related with IncomingRunner. This qrunner process takes up approx. 1 GB RAM and sometimes causes high loads. We couldn't determine what causes high RAM and CPU usages. The question is; this is an expected result of Mailman process? If not, how can we determine the root cause of this problem? Thanks,

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Spam mails being received on the mailing list, solution needed....
by Amit Bhatt 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

dear all, we are receiving around 1000 spam E-mails on a daily basis via one of our mailing lists. Most of these spams are received in form of subscription requests. The spam appearing in a huge scale is badly effecting the performance of the list. Would appreciate if anyone can suggest us the proper remedies to resolve this issue. Regards, Amit Bhatt

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsub in the Mmembership List Does Not Work
by Vladimir Mikhelson 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

On 11/9/2012 2:37 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Vladimir Mikhelson wrote: >> The address was fine as far as I can tell, no special characters, no >> mixed case. >> >> The only relevant record in subscribe is as follows: >> >> Nov 09 11:48:05 2012 (14361) surcharge-letter: deleted user(a)domain.tld; >> admin mass unsub > > And presumably that's the mass unsub you did after the checkbox unsub > failed. > > Can you set user options frem the membership list, e.g. set mod, ack, > hide, etc. on and off for a user? > Yes, I can. I have tried "nomail" and "ack" back and forth with no problems.

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Unsub in the Mmembership List Does Not Work
by Vladimir Mikhelson 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi, Has anybody run into a problem where the "unsub" check-box + Submit Your Changes in the Membership List does not work? Mass Removal works fine. Thank you, Vladimir

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mailman across firewall
by E Kogler 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hello, my task is to establish access to mailman across a firewall. The configuration looks (of course ;-) ) like that: INTERNET---FW--INTERNAL On the Firewall there is a mail-relay with postfix installed, on the Internal server the courier-mta does the job. I'm wondering how to cross the firewall without much work for me as the sysadmin. What I came up with is to have each list with all its addresses on the valid recipients list on the mail-relay but it seems to me a little bit complicated because I'm planning to have a few lists running on the internal server. The other solution which came to my mind is to have mailman on the FW and tweaking the mail-relay. Is there a better way doing this ? Edgar

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Why is Mailman still sending bounce messages?
by Josh Berkus 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Folks, 1) I set bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings=0 2) Using a withlist script, I removed all list members with any bounce stats at all. Yet, when I checked today, there were 98 outgoing bounce warnings (undeliverable) in the queue. Huh? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com

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Mailman continues to deliver to deleted list
by Josh Berkus 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Folks, I deleted a mailing list using rmlist. However, mailman continues to send out messages to the recipients on this list, and I can't seem to make it stop. There's ~~ 3000 pending deliveries, so I'd really rather that they not go out. For now mailman is shut down. How do I clean out its pending messages queue entirely? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com

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suppress duplicate when posting addressed to list and its alias name
by Sahil Tandon 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Many of our lists have full addresses in the form of 'foo-bar(a)baz.org', with corresponding alias names 'bar(a)baz.org'. When someone sends a message To:foo-bar@baz.org and also Cc:bar@baz.org, his or her MUA sends two separate messages to the list which transmits these duplicates to list members. However, only one copy makes it to the pipermail HTML archives. Is there a Mailman way to activate, in the context of delivery, the same duplicate suppression that occurs when archiving? If not, I will have to do this based on Message-IDs on input at the MTA, but I would prefer to do it via the mailing list manager if this is already possible. Thanks, -- Sahil Tandon

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Mailman archive - archive date does not match the date the message was posted
by Anthony Wilson (Jaf) 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

There is an existing Mailman list with an archive which needs to be moved to a different server, however it seems that the archive is a bit messed up. I assume that the list was set up in 2006, but for some reason there is a 2002 archive, and all of the posts in there seem to have been posted in 2012. It's a public archive so I assume there's no harm in posting a link to it - https://secure.neap.net/pipermail/montrealers/. Is there some way to fix this?

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Adding custom header
by Eric Smith 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

I want to receive all mail relating to lists that I create and manage into my inbox. Because there are arbitrary list names and also numerous domains, I think that the best way is for all list mail to carry an identifying mail header. Having searched the archives, I understand I should edit the source. I am thinking like appending a tag to an existing header like List-Id: Is this giving the corre t file to edit. $ find /usr/lib/mailman -type f -exec grep -l List-Id {} \; /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py Any caveats, guidelines, bearing in mind this: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-December/072595.html -- Eric Smith

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