Mailman 3 January 2013 - Mailman-Users

virtual domain https and admin interface
by Matthias Schmidt Jan. 29, 2013

Jan. 29, 2013

Hello, I have mailman 2.1.14 running on OS X Server 10.6.8 One list runs on a virtual domain. All webpages for the list are addressed via https. I achieved that with a redirect rule in apache, it simply redirects all http of that domain to https. That works fine so far, but when I try to approve the message of a moderated user nothing happens, the page just gets reloaded with no change. What I'm missing here? thanks Matthias

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Not showing the correct number of subscribers....
by Amit Bhatt Jan. 28, 2013

Jan. 28, 2013

Hi, I suspect that my mailing list: sayeverything(a)sayeverything.org is not showing the exact number of total subscribers. Since last couple of weeks I have been approving the subscription request but the total number is shown as it was as earlier. total members reached to 406 a Month back but I am not able to see any change in numbers, wile I am subscribing other members too. Please suggest. Regards, Amit Bhatt

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Information about config_list and change_pw
by Chris Nulk Jan. 28, 2013

Jan. 28, 2013

Hello all, Before I go and completely savage the lists we have here, I thought I would try to get a little more information about using config_list. I get the list information from a file sent to me. I want to use a script to process the file, output the processed data to a file, then use config_list to make the changes to the appropriate list(s). The only values I want to change are the list's owner, moderator, and the *_these_nonmembers. Can I create a file (properly formatted) to input into config_list containing only the values I want to change? Or, do I have to dump the entire file, make the changes, then reload? Next, I see the change_pw allows me to change a list's password. Is that the owner's password, the moderator's password, or both? If it is only the owners password, is there a way to change the moderator's password through some other mechanism/program? Thanks, Chris

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Suggestions
by Khalil Abbas Jan. 27, 2013

Jan. 27, 2013

Hello guys.. Thanks you for this greatest piece of software I’ve ever seen & has been using for over 6 years now :) I have a couple of suggestions: - Many users do not have SSH access because they’re on shared hosting, and it’s pain in the act when moving from one hosting provider to another.. it would be nice to have an option to import/export list setting (./config_list) from the web interface.. - on the other hand, it would be great to have an option in ssh prompt to list messages awaiting moderation and have options to approve or reject them.. - also a FULL content & settings backup option in one tar ball file will be great, i.e. moving from one server to another is also pain in the act if you have many lists.. if I came up with more suggestions I’ll update you guys, and I urge other users to contribute if they have useful ideas like these maybe we’ll benefit from them in the next mailman version.. Thanks again :)

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Mailing List is down
by Nick Wells Jan. 27, 2013

Jan. 27, 2013

Our mailing list is down. Whenever someone tries to send an email, there is an error message received. I'm also not able to connect to our mail server. Is this an issue on our end or is Mailman experiencing problems? Is there anything to do about this?

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Upgrade for Postfix & Mailman
by Jeff Bernier Jan. 25, 2013

Jan. 25, 2013

Hello All, I am currently running Mailman (2.1.14) and Postfix (2.4.3) on an aging Mac OS X server (10.5.8). Mailman and Postfix on this system are Apple's implementation on their platform of course. Apple no longer supports the Xserve platform, and I am in need of replacing this system, and upgrading to newer versions of Postfix and Mailman. We use Postfix for our on campus SMTP Gateway, and Mailman for a small number of active lists. The traffic is light. Can anyone recommend a good replacement to this? Recommended Unix/Linux? Is a VM environment an option? I would like to get away from the Mac solution, and set up some flavor of Unix with more current versions of Postfix and Mailman. I know this is a very broad question, but I have a blank canvas here... just looking for a direction to go in. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks <http://risd.cc/finadmin-faq> Jeff Bernier Email & Accounts Administration Rhode Island School of Design 20 Washington Place, Providence RI 02903 401.454.6168

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Mailman-subscibers.py
by rpschwar＠knology.net Jan. 25, 2013

Jan. 25, 2013

I have been using Mailman-subscibers.py to get a csv output of the list of my users. However, I had to rebuild my database and the path has been changed from the default location and is now …/cgi-bin/mailman… instead of just …/mailman . This cause the command that I was using: Mailman-subscribers.py -c -o output-members.csv m-c-b.org members_m-c-b.org <password> To not work any more I was told that I have to add a “-u” option with the path but cannot get it to work. I have tried: Mailman-subscribers.py -c -o output-members.csv m-c-b.org –u http://m-c-b.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/members_m-c-b.org <password> and Mailman-subscribers.py -c -o –u output-members.csv m-c-b.org http://m-c-b.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/members_m-c-b.org <password> What is wrong with this command?

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Storing mailing list members in a separate Database
by Kevin Nowaczyk Jan. 23, 2013

Jan. 23, 2013

I run a drupal site which contains email addresses of all my club members. Is there a way to configure mailman to use a custom query of a mysql database for the list information? I can easily add digest versus individual mail selection to each user's account. I'm trying to minimize duplication of effort when adding and removing members to the club rolls. A way to do it without mailman would be to have a cron script query the database and save the results in a postfix/virtual file. I'm guessing this would be quite messy. This can't be a new problem, so there must be a solution somewhere. Thanks, Kevin

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Moving list members and passwords to Mailman on a new server
by Paul Kleeberg Jan. 21, 2013

Jan. 21, 2013

I am finally migrating a copy of mailman lists off of an older Mac running 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Server to a new Mac with Mountain Lion 10.8 server. I found the instructions on http://www.livetime.com/mountain-lion-mailman-mailing-list/ very helpful to install mailman on 10.8. Since the paths seemed to be vastly different, I migrated the config.pck files with config_list, extracting the settings from 10.6 and importing them to the new config.pck file on the 10.8 box. Subscribers were not migrated though it appears they are in the pickle file. I tried to use step 6 from the website above ln -s /usr/local/mailman/bin/paths.py python import paths import Mailman, pickle configFile = open('config.pck') config = pickle.load(configFile) config['created_at'] <a title="members" href="http://www.livetime.com/members/">members</a> = config['members'].keys() members.sort() print 'n'.join(members) But it did not work for me. I tried pasting line by line, but after the python command, I was stuck. I also fear that, thought it might be successful, it may not migrate passwords. Can anyone tell me how I might migrate the list members to the new server along with their passwords? Paul -- Paul Kleeberg paul(a)fpen.org

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Subscription page alteration.
by JCGroups Jan. 20, 2013

Jan. 20, 2013

Hi, everyone. Is there a simple way to edit the subscription page? Where it asks subscribers for their names I would like to have the '(optional)' removed so that subscribers provide their first and last names during the subscription process. Is there a way to change this using the browser-based user interface or does the file for this page need to be modified? TIA, Joe. Sent from my iPad

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