Mailman 3 April 2013 - Mailman-Users

Don't reply to held messages
by Norbert Aschendorff 21 Apr '13

21 Apr '13

Hi, I'm the list administrator of a list which frequently receives spam messages which then are hold because of an implicit destination. As it isn't considered as clever to reply to spam mails (because it's a confirmation of the validity of your address to the spammer), is there the possibility to disable the automatic reply to a held message (/Your message to [List] awaits moderator approval/)? I didn't find information on the web (but maybe I just used the wrong keywords :) And yes, I know what I'm doing. Legitimate users will not experience held messages without information where the post is gone (because anyone may send mail to the list, only /require_explicit_destination/ holds posts -- and only spammers use implicit destinations) --Norbert

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moving a mailman server
by Con Wieland 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hello all, It has been a while since I've done this but I am moving one of our mailman servers to a new machine and upgrading at the same time from version 2.1.9 to version 2.1.14. I have in the past installed mailman, postfix, and apache and then copied the ~mailman/lists and ~mailman/archives files over and renamed the machine. With a few caveats I have made this work quite successfully before. This time it seems to work but the problem I am having is after I copy the lists they do not appear on the web interface when I goto: http://dev-maillists.nac.uci.edu/mailman/admin I only see list created locally on the server. I can goto the admin page and what not of other lists and things seem to work ok there. As always any help would be greatly appreciated Con Wieland University of California at Irvine

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member address in envolope ID and From: lines
by Al Black 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi everyone, I'm working with an issue that is related to: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-March/073047.html> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2012-June/073641.html> Specifically, I have some users on a couple of lists that are gmail users with multiple accounts linked to that gmail address. They use it to send mail while at work, but still have it appear to come from their home address. All good except when they a) screw up with the wrong address, or b) when that old address is no longer active. (And there is a history of people forging mail on the lists, not the case now, but you know people are sensitive about the issue...) I have modified the mm_cfg.py file from: SENDER_HEADERS = ('from', None, 'reply-to', 'sender') to: SENDER_HEADERS = ('from', 'reply-to', 'sender') and it works. Thinking about it a bit more, it would be better if there was a check to make sure the email address in the envelope ID matched actually matched the address in the "From:". Is there a way of setting that in the mm_cfg.py file? Ideally, my preference would be to work with the individual users on this, in part because it only happened on a couple of lists. Could a Regexp catch this in the spam filters settings. Thanks! al

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migrating to a VPS and large mail archives
by Jason Fayre 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Hello, I am administering a server that runs around 150 lists. The mail archives are around 26gb in size. Due to the server being hacked and various other reasons, we want to move the mailing lists over to a virtual server. Most VPS plans only give you around 20 to 30gb of disk space. I'm sure I'm not the first person to run into this sort of issue. What have other people done for things like mail archives? I was thinking of doing something with amazon s3. Looking for any thoughts people may have.

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Bug in mailman2.1.0
by Sneha Bhattacharya 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

I had been using mailman properly since the last few days but suddenly i am getting this error while going to my admin page : Bug in Mailman version 2.1.10 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. there are no errors in the error log. can anyone please help? Regards Sneha

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removing mailman@list
by Fabio Dalan 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Dear all, I am using Mailman in a website to manage some list. The system automatically generates thise pages http://lists.ermes-group.eu/mailman/admin http://lists.ermes-group.eu/mailman/listinfo sending users to the email address mailman@ermes.... that does not exist. Do you know how I can costumazie those pages? Many thanks in advance. Fabio Dalan

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mailman 2.1.14 stops sending mail
by Millsap, James 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hello, I have mailman 2.1.14 running on RHEL 5.9 with sendmail 8.13.8-8.1.el5_7, and Python 2.4.3. The problem presents itself by mailman no longer sending out mail sent to the lists. The mail is queuing up, and when mailman is stopped and started it all delivers. That leads to the other strange part. All of the mailman daemons stop when I run the stop script, except mailman 15854 1 0 10:01 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s start mailman 15861 15854 0 10:01 ? 00:00:06 /usr/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s I have to kill the outgoingrunner specifically. The only thing I see in the logs is a lack of logging. It has been running with stunning reliability on this machine for the last few years, so I am not sure what is going on. Perhaps one of redhat's patches killed it. James Millsap The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 (773) 702-7955

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receive your own posts problem
by Neil Anuskiewicz 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

Hi, I just setup a small mailman list (hosted by Bluehost) for a small organization. I've set "Receive your own posts to the list?" to yes but i'm still not receiving my own posts. I'm wondering how might go about resolving this issue? Thanks. Neil* *

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Running an External Command on Subscribe
by Dennis Putnam 11 Apr '13

11 Apr '13

Is there a way to have an external command executed when a subscribe request is received (both web and email)? If so, how and how do I pass the requestor's address to it? Thanks.

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Need to extract subscribers from Mailman files
by David Roth 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

I'm helping out a friend. His server had a hardware failure. He has a backup, and has retrieved the Mailman files for the mailing list he maintains. The mailman directory he sent me has the following directories at the top level: archives data lists spam His goal is to extract the e-mail addresses of the subscribers so he can re-invite them to a new mailing list system. How can I extract the e-mail addresses of the subscribers? I looked around in the files and unless I missed something there doesn't appear to be a text file with a list of the e-mail addresses. I'm guessing that I could install Mailman on my Linux server and do something to extract these e-mail addresses? I'd greatly appreciate some helpful suggestions with this. Thanks in advance! David Roth

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