Mailman 3 August 2013 - Mailman-Users

virtual domain and alias_maps
by Dr Michael Daly 15 Aug '13

15 Aug '13

Hi I am having problems getting mail delivered to list members, on a virtual domain. This did not happen when a conventional ie non virtual, domain. Maybe there is a problem with aliases...I had to manually create the /usr/lib/mailman/data dir and both the 'alias' and 'virtual-mailman' files in that dir (not sure of what contents should be in the described 'alias' and 'virtual-mailman' files) But running genaliases does not create the expected .db files ownership /permissions on those two files are apache:mailman and 664 In postfix I have: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/usr/lib/mailman/data/aliases virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual, hash:/usr/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman and I have created the list and configured mm_cfg.py as specified Thanks Michael

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Personalized header based on Gender.
by Patrick McEvoy 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

Hello, I have turned on Full Personalization so I can have the individual's email address in the To field instead of the list email address. I am adding a personalized header to the list as well and would like to know if there is any way to personalize the header based on gender. For example Dear Mr for males and Dear Mrs females. Thanks for your help, Patrick

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mailman and web with different hosting companies
by Glenn Shirley 14 Aug '13

14 Aug '13

If I have my mailman and web hosted by different companies (don't ask!) I get 404 errors when clicking on "Submit All Data" buttons. This is presumably because there are absolute references i.e. the POST is to my web domain rather than to the local host where mailman is hosted. Apart from changing the code has anyone dealt with this in an easier way? i couldn't find anything in the archives similar. Cheers, Glenn.

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All the mails are not reaching all the members
by Amit Bhatt 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

HI team, When I aproved the held messages from tend to pending moderation list, they do not reach to the users or do not appear on the mailing list. Or some of them reach to the list very late. Secondly, again all the messages sent by the users are not delivered to other members of the list since last couple of days. An advise with solution would be much appreciated. regards, Amit Bhatt

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Mailman Moderation Queue - recovery possible?
by Drew Tenenholz 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

All -- Ah, the joys of actually using the Mailman interface instead of just managing the architecture....I just did a couple hours of moderation queue cleanup for one of my lists and trying to send some of the messages on to my personal account. I dutifully clicked the button to discard the message, then filled in my personal email address, but forgot to click the check box for 'Additionally forward this message to...' (Possibly because the list is set to Spanish, which I can't actually read.) Is there a way to restore or access the messages once they have been discarded? If I were able to get to a backup snapshot of the system, which file would I be looking to restore? -- Drew Tenenholz

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Bug in 2.1.16rc2 regarding new logging to vette?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

- IncomingRunner now logs rejected messages to the vette log. (LP: #1068837) So I had a look today and found: Aug 06 12:12:59 2013 (11069) doctors: Refused posting: ... Aug 06 14:02:38 2013 (1639) doctorsportal: Discarded posting: Aug 06 14:02:38 2013 (1639) doctorsportal: Discarded posting: Aug 06 14:02:38 2013 (1639) doctorsportal: Discarded posting: I *looks* as if there's something missing, like the message-id or some other identifier... Other log entries do have such an identifier: Aug 06 12:28:12 2013 (22645) doctors post from xxxxkan(a)charite.de held, message-id=<20130806102810.GH14852(a)charite.de>: Post by non-member to a members-only list -- Ralf Hildebrandt Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de Campus Benjamin Franklin http://www.charite.de Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin Geschäftsbereich IT, Abt. Netzwerk fon: +49-30-450.570.155

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Message bodies empty only on gmail mobile
by Walt Mayo 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

I have many users who, when reading list messages using gmail mobile see only blank/empty body text. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Walt

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Howto change Mailman email To field from list@example.com to members individual email address
by Patrick McEvoy 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

Hello, I have just set up a Mailman mailing list. When I send an email to the list the email header each member receives has my email address in the >From field and the list email address in the To field instead of the recipient's email address in the To field. How can I change this? Thank you, Patrick

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Update virtual-mailman for the migrated lists
by DongInn Kim 11 Aug '13

11 Aug '13

Hi, Is there a way to generate the virtual-mailman file for the migrated lists which are hosted by some virtual hosts? It seems that there are patterns to follow in virtual-mailman and I may be able to update it manually. The manual work should not be done on this file but I have no idea how to deal with the migrated mailing lists which are hosted by some virtual hosts. If there is a script to do this kind job properly, that would be nice. Regards, -- - DongInn

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Re: [Mailman-Users] About PostLimit.py again ( was :To restrict sending email messages per day)
by e.c. 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Thanks for these pythons routines, Mark. Since I don't know much about the language, I need some clarification on the part of the code between triple quote marks (""") and also between the lines that have ----------- cut -----. Are these constructs some kind of ad hoc python syntax extensions for commenting out or do they need to be made invisible with prepended # characters? I would especially like to know whether it's possible to substitute worldtime (gmt) in the places where localtime is referenced. This posting throttling functionality is needed to make a mailman list correspond as closely as possible to the functionality once offered by LISTSERV. Is the part of the code between the cut marks only to be used if the globals M, L, and PERIOD are to be set with list attributes via the extend.py file? Could someone comment the code relating to the global PERIOD and localetime. For my purposes PERIOD could be hardcoded to 24 hours and based on gmt. It looks like the code at http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/PostLimit.py can't be inserted as is into Mailman/Handlers/PostLimit.py Am I right about that? Thanks in advance for any help, Ed On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> wrote: > Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > See <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/PostLimit.py> (mirrored at > > <http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~msapiro/scripts/PostLimit.py>)for a script > > that limits the number of posts from a member to a list either per > > calendar day or a configurable period of hours. > > > > It could be made lots fancier with the limit and time period being list > > attributes or mm_cfg variables instead of hard coded and options to hold > > rather than reject, but it will work. > > > I have enhanced the script at the above locations to support a per > member limit and/or a per list limit. I have also made it take > parameters from list attributes if set there and provided a sample > extend.py to enable it and set parameters for a list. > > Additionally, I have created a FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/V4Hz> with > this information. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan >

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