Mailman 3 February 2012 - Mailman-Users

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by George, Harry G Feb. 13, 2012

Feb. 13, 2012

I'm a long time happy user/admin for mailman lists, but am stumped on a new request. User wants to do a send-only list, where neither "mailman" or the list's name appears in mailings. It would look like a simple email from poster, and bcc'd to receivers who could reply to that poster (but not to the list). (Sometimes the very existence of a list, or the name of a list, can be sensitive - even if just exposed to members of the list.) I was tempted to just do it as a batch python … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] can I use a mailman list address as a (qmail)sender address?
by Stefan P. Wolf (NassRasur.com) Feb. 13, 2012

Feb. 13, 2012

Hi! Someone already suggested this (use of an existing account and spoof the From-Line) and I replied to (and thanked) him over the list -- we will do it this way, it's the easiest solution. It also has the advantage of an individual account for each admin, so if someone quits we simply delete his account. With the single account of the "correct" mail user we would have only one username/password for each and every admin and would have to change the password after every parting admin. Best regards, Stefan.

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can I use a mailman list address as a (qmail) sender address?
by Stefan P. Wolf (NassRasur.com) Feb. 13, 2012

Feb. 13, 2012

scenario: I run a discussion forum and we have a closed list where the members are the moderators of the forum. Forum users can write to all moderators through this list's address. Let's say the address is mods(a)myforum.mydomain.com Now I would like to be able to create also a *real* mail account with the same address, for SENDING (outgoing mail) only. Each moderator is then able to send mail though this mail account so that the sender of their mails is the (anonymous!) list address mods(a)… [View More]

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wrong link on the website
by NGUYEN Thanh Tu Feb. 11, 2012

Feb. 11, 2012

Hello, I just installed a mailgman instance on my server and some of the links are wrong this is the website http://listes.campus.ec-nantes.fr/admin/mailman (sorry, the site is in french) I put a virtual host on listes.campus.ec-nantes.fr and some of my links refer to campus.ec-nantes.fr/something Futhermore, the email seems wrong this is an extract of my mm_cfg.py #------------------------------------------------------------- # The name of the list Mailman uses to send password … [View More]

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error after migration
by nikos Feb. 10, 2012

Feb. 10, 2012

Hello list. I have a problem after migration. I move all list to a new centos server with mailman-2.1.12-17.el6.x86_64. Lists seems to works fine, but I in error file I see some IOErrors like: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mylist/index.html check_perms -f dont find problems: Warning: Private archive directory is other-executable (o+x). This could allow other users on your system to read private archives. If you're on a shared … [View More]

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Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)
by Geoff Mayes Feb. 10, 2012

Feb. 10, 2012

Hello Mailman gurus, I hope a general question about Mailman's features and future direction (along with some Sympa comparisons) are appropriate for this list. The University of Oregon is migrating away from Majordomo. We decided on Sympa because Mailman sends passwords over email while Sympa provides centralized (e.g. Shibboleth, LDAP, etc) authentication. If Mailman provided a way around the passwords in the clear issue, I'm pretty sure we'd go with Mailman because: - Mailman is more … [View More]

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Coworking member mailing list - help!
by Susan Evans Feb. 9, 2012

Feb. 9, 2012

Hello fine Mailman Users! I am one of the owners & operators of Office Nomads<http://officenomads.com/>, a coworking <http://coworking.com> space in Seattle, WA. We have been using Mailman to manage our internal member mailing list for several years, to enable our members to contact one another about job postings, events going on, and requests for help. It's a fantastic system that is easy to use, but we're running up against a challenge: we've hit the 100 member mark and … [View More]

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non-digest member received message in digest format
by Christopher Adams Feb. 8, 2012

Feb. 8, 2012

Hello all, This particular issue has me perplexed. I had a call from a user who is subscribed to a list in regular/non-digest mode. He received a message in digest mode, a day later than when it was sent, which is what should happen with digests. However, as I said, he is not on digest. I checked logs and his status hasn't changed in the last 30 days. Others on the list received it yesterday. What might be going on here? -- Christopher Adams adamsca(a)gmail.com

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Setting hard limit on message size for mailman
by Christopher X. Candreva Feb. 7, 2012

Feb. 7, 2012

Is there a setting I could use to limit the size of a message mailman will process, that even a list owner can't approve to get around ? ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- chris(a)westnet.com -- (914) 948-3162 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/

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List not sending out a welcome message
by Brian Carpenter Feb. 7, 2012

Feb. 7, 2012

Hi All: I have one list that is not sending out it's welcome message to new subscribers and password reminder to its list members. All of the other lists on the server are. I assume it's a db issue but could be wrong. Any suggestion on where to look at what the problem could be? -- -- Brian Carpenter Owner | EMWD& dotList brian(a)emwd.com | http://www.emwd.com | http://www.mailmanhost.com

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