Mailman 3 April 2013 - Mailman-Users

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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E-mails going out with wrong url.
by McNutt Jr, William R 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

I've created a new list, sccbt. The welcome message is going out with the urls: http://mybox/mailman/listinfo/sccbt They should read http://mybox.mydoman.edu/mailman/listinfo/sccbt Where is my error? Bill McNutt Technology Coordinator Center for Literacy, Education & Employment at the University of Tennessee

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ISP Policies: Maintaining a clean reputation and getting the configurations right
by Max Pyziur 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Greetings, While we've managed to master keeping our reputation clean on CBL and Spamhaus, we're now getting pushback from the ISPs, critically, the older ones like earthlink.net, yahoo.com, and a few other similar ones. Not long ago, I had some issues regarding AOL; a list respondent was very helpful. Here is a link covering most of the major ISPs: ISP Summary Information http://wiki.wordtothewise.com/ISP_Summary_Information fyi, Max Pyziur pyz(a)brama.com

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Mailman installation problem : "User unknown in relay recipient table"
by Mustafa Cagatayli 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi, Together with the proper A and MX records for "mydomain.com", I have a fresh Ubuntu 12.04LTS server. I have followed the "http://library.linode.com/email/mailman/ubuntu-12.04-precise-pangolin" and installed Mailman. I have created a few lists through the web interface. One important problem I came accross is not being able to send message to any of the lists. The members do receive the "Welcome to the list" message from the server, but Whenever any member of any list sends a message to the list, s/he immidiately receives a message saying *********************** <test(a)lists.domain.com>: host lists.domain.com[10.0.0.24] said: 550 5.1.1 <test(a)lists.domain.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command) *********************** I have tried Ubuntu Forums, and was advised to check the thread "http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2011-January/070896.html". I have followed this thread and added VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN = 'localhost' into mm_cfg.py, and also added "hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases" at the end of the line starting with "alias_database" and "alias_maps" in the file main.cf of postfix. But unfortunately I ended up with a setup responding "mail for lists.domain.com loops back to myself" for every message sent to the list. At the end of the thread, the gentelmen who seems to found a solution, points to a howto page, which does no longer exists. So I reverted my setup back to the "User unknown in relay recipient table" situation. Any help appriciated. Regards. --------------------- Mustafa Cagatayli UKU CC

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Managing junk subscription requests?
by hk 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

I'm getting ready to move a large (800+ member) unmoderated list that's existed on L-soft to a mailman list. Never had to deal with "junk" subscriptions before with this list. Any suggestions on how to not have to deal with them in Mailman? Below is a message from this morning from another list I've managed.... -h -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 13 xxxxx moderator request(s) waiting Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 08:00:01 -0500 From: xxxxx-bounces(a)xxxx.org To: xxxxx-owner(a)xxxx.org The xxxxx(a)xxxx.org mailing list has 13 request(s) waiting for your consideration at: http://xxxx.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb/xxxxx Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. Pending subscriptions: vznend(a)rvkmvs.com (zkcpikpv) Wed Apr 3 13:55:05 2013 jmbzdp(a)mkpqwt.com (lyiawz) Wed Apr 3 16:00:36 2013 eumwov(a)hxxyhq.com (hlgaqwmmlw) Wed Apr 3 23:13:08 2013 qzlhzb(a)nbwhyi.com (zwgnbwmpte) Thu Apr 4 01:39:23 2013 emhody(a)olqryu.com (ksgwimsimjt) Thu Apr 4 06:06:54 2013 hxpqyw(a)gykoiw.com (esntidwcc) Thu Apr 4 07:38:42 2013 xtrhgo(a)vuwigf.com (amooqp) Thu Apr 4 08:48:31 2013 nlojeo(a)hswzqx.com (xwddyqyfvs) Thu Apr 4 10:32:42 2013 kxvbsk(a)ymjbaf.com (dczzstty) Thu Apr 4 16:39:15 2013 pfrazw(a)zdgdiz.com (uknobk) Thu Apr 4 17:15:55 2013 gcnrsr(a)oszhmu.com (fotyvcmlyt) Thu Apr 4 22:38:54 2013 slucxa(a)xhbqzn.com (fqxvsvyou) Thu Apr 4 23:33:19 2013

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python
by Paul Kleeberg 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

Odd how things come back again. Searching for a solution to a problem I am having with a clean install, I found this. Apparently this problem was solved for me almost 4 years ago for me by installing Xcode. Now it is not. I have a clean install of MacOSX 10.8.3 server, downloaded Xcode 4.6.1 from the App Store and installed it. Was following the instructions on Allen's post http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2013-March/074888.html and when I went to run: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mailman --with-cgi-gid=_www --with-mail-gid=_mailman Got the message: ***** Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python Grr… Searching the Xcode documentation for distutils, I find: The Python modules included in the standard package for OS X are the following: • bdist_mpkg — Builds OS X installer packages from distutils So I assume it should be in there. Interestingly the command found in http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg56963.html produces: mini53:~ paul$ sudo Python -V sudo: Python: command not found While mini53:~ paul$ sudo python -V Python 2.7.2 Is the problem in that my partition is case sensitive? Suggestions as to what I should do? Paul -- Paul Kleeberg paul(a)fpen.org On Dec 14, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Jerry Stratton <jerry(a)sandiego.edu> wrote: > On Dec 14, 2009, at 8:39 AM, Paul Kleeberg wrote: > >> Distutils is not available or is incomplete for /usr/bin/python > > > > http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Distutils+is+not+availa… > > > Have you installed XCode? > > Jerry > > On Windows, use Alt-PrtScr to take a screenshot; you can then paste it into an e-mail message. > On Mac OS X, use Command-Shift-3 to take a screenshot (or if you only want to send a single window, use Command-Shift-4, position the mouse over the window you want, and then use the space bar). This will create a file on your desktop that you can drag into any document, such as an e-mail message. > > Jerold Stratton, jerry(a)sandiego.edu > http://home.sandiego.edu/~jerry/ > User Services Consultant, Web Systems and Programming > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park, Maher Hall 190 > (619) 260-4810 x8773 > -- > "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."--Douglas Adams (Mostly Harmless) > > >

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gnu Mailman Configuration
by Doug Walker 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

The verbiage: Machi1964 mailing list Machi1964(a)list.machi1964.com http://list.machi1964.com/mailman/listinfo/machi1964_list.machi1964.com is appended to each piece of mail sent by gnu Mailman. I would like to add this additional verbiage below that: machi1964 Web Site http://machi1964.com Login: Email User User name (example: doug4r) Password: gogrizzlies How do I do this? -- Doug Walker Email: doug4r(a)gmail.com <doug4r(a)gmail.com> Phone: 386-562-8125

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Mailman SMTP reasonable response time
by Hung Phan 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

We use OpenNMS to monitor services such as SMTP and HTTP on our Mailman server. OpenNMS logs issues throughout the night (every 20 minutes apart) that "SMTP outage identified on interface Ethernet 1 with reason code: Did not receive expected response within timeout timeout: 3000ms retry: 1 of 1." What is the reasonable response time for Mailman SMTP? Any other factors that may affect the response time? We never receive these errors before, just starting last night. Thank you,

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