Mailman 3 December 2014 - Mailman-Users

Hot to eliminate Untitled Attachments?
by Brook Powers Dec. 8, 2014

Dec. 8, 2014

Greetings, I have configured a listserv to support our non-profit. The Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 listserv is maintained by Hostgator.com, where we have our domain hosted. When sending to the list, I receive the email in Outlook 2013, with an attachment “Untitled attachment 00240.txt (342 B)” The attachment contains; “_______________________________________________ tech-comm mailing list tech-comm(a)listserv.domain.org http://listserv.domain.org/mailman/listinfo/tech-comm_listserv.domain.org” I understand this may be caused by sending the message in html (Outlooks native format), instead of sending it in plain text. Is there any way I can configure my hosted listserv to strip these unnecessary, “untitled attachments” if users send to the list in html? TIA

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Advantages
by rex＠rexgoode.com Dec. 8, 2014

Dec. 8, 2014

I have been a long-time user of mailman and have been on many mailing lists. I am also part of a professional association of social workers that operate in my area. They have been using a list of addresses in a Cc field to manage their mailing list. I can't imagine anything more fraught with problems than that, but I can't convince these people to let me host a mailman mailing list for them. I can think of a lot of advantages myself, but I'm wondering if anyone has seen a good list somewhere. I'm a strange combination of software engineer and social worker, so I understand both worlds. My social worker colleagues tend to think of something like a mailing list as complicating things rather than simplifying them. I'm not necessarily asking for a discussion here, but I'd like some feedback on this. Viva Mailman! Rex Goode

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Problems sending email
by Bob Hacker Dec. 7, 2014

Dec. 7, 2014

I have a problem with one person on my members sending emails to our members list. The email goes out but no one receives it. If she sends the email to me, I can forward it to the members list and everyone gets it. Please help, Bob

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Any info on number of Mailman installations?
by Andrew Stuart Dec. 6, 2014

Dec. 6, 2014

Just wondering if anyone has any idea how many installations there are of Mailman around the world? thanks

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Is there a way to post "silently" to a mailing list?
by Andrew Stuart Dec. 5, 2014

Dec. 5, 2014

What I mean specifically - is it possible to send a message to a list such that it goes into the archives, but it not distributed to list members? thanks

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Apache 2.4 and Mailman
by Lindsay Haisley Dec. 5, 2014

Dec. 5, 2014

This is a relatively minor thing, but perhaps it should be mentioned in the Install docs on http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node10.html Recent Ubuntu server installs of Apache 2.4 need "Require all granted" in place of, or in addition to "Allow from all" to grant access to a portion of the filesystem. So somewhere in the conf files for Apache2 is needed something like: <Directory "/var/lib/mailman/archives/public/"> Options FollowSymLinks .... etc. Require all granted ...... etc. </Directory> I see that this has been mentioned in discussions on the list, but it ought to be included in the online install docs. This seems to be in line with a policy of hardening Apache2 server security, and I'd tripped on this before in other places in the web server setup, so I guessed the proper solution fairly quickly. Someone with less experience might spend a lot more time troubleshooting this, and a note in the documentation might help. Keeping up with the times is good :) I went to the Launchpad bug database for Mailman and it looks like it's ages out of date, so I thought I'd pass this on here, and y'all can run with it to the developers list or wherever. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works if you let it" FMP Computer Services | 512-259-1190 | --- The Roadie http://www.fmp.com |

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MHonArc Patch for Mailman
by Karl Zander Dec. 5, 2014

Dec. 5, 2014

I realize MHonArc is not part of Mailman. The Mailman FAQ indicates patches are available at http://www.openinfo.co.uk/mm/patches/mhonarc/index.html The patches listed there are up to version 2.1.12 of Mailman. Anyone aware of any patches for Mailman 2.1.18? Or even 2.1.17? Thank you --Karl

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Posting silently
by Nelson, Brian Dec. 5, 2014

Dec. 5, 2014

All, I can offer a reason for silent posting. When I originally set up my email list it was hosted elsewhere without an archive. I have many months to years of old posts saved that I would love to get into the archive of the current host...a silent post would make that really easy. -Brian Brian Nelson Assistant Curator of Fishes 410-659-4288 [P] | 410-576-1080 [F] National Aquarium, Baltimore, MD 111 Market Place, Suite 800 (Office) | 501 East Pratt Street (Aquarium) | Baltimore, MD 21202 [The National Aquarium]<http://www.aqua.org> The National Aquarium inspires conservation of the world's aquatic treasures. [WATERblog]<http://www.aqua.org/blog> [Like us on Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/nationalaquarium> [Follow us on Twitter] <http://twitter.com/natlaquarium>

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FW: [Eevb-gf] FW: SpikeKey Beach Winter Clinic
by Richard Heiles Dec. 5, 2014

Dec. 5, 2014

Hi Mark, I use Mailman for emails to 20,000 players who compete in my events. I have the lists broken down into groups based on the region of the country where they live. When I send out a mass email to all of the groups some of the emails go through fine but some end up getting converted to untitled attachments like the ones here. I have checked all of the settings for the different lists and they are all exactly the same. Yet some lists always send out the emails that look just like the originals and others switch them to untitled attachments. Each lists does the same thing each time. The messages are all sent at one time. Any idea what is causing this? Thanks. Richard Heiles East End Volleyball PO Box 49 Hampton Bays, NY 11946 www.eevb.net 631-728-0397 or cell 631-355-1293 Become an EEVB fan on Facebook.com/eastendvolleyball Check out videos on the EEVB YouTube Channel Twitter @eevb Richard Heiles East End Volleyball PO Box 49 Hampton Bays, NY 11946 www.eevb.net 631-728-0397 or cell 631-355-1293 Become an EEVB fan on Facebook.com/eastendvolleyball Check out videos on the EEVB YouTube Channel Twitter @eevb -----Original Message----- From: eevb-gf-bounces(a)cosmoweb.net [mailto:eevb-gf-bounces@cosmoweb.net] On Behalf Of Richard Heiles Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 12:12 PM To: eevb-gf@cosmoweb. net Subject: [Eevb-gf] FW: SpikeKey Beach Winter Clinic To be removed from this list send an email to eevb(a)i-2000.com with REMOVE in the subject column

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group mismatch error
by David Benfell Dec. 4, 2014

Dec. 4, 2014

Hi all, This seems to be a problem with a long pedigree. Perhaps something should be done to make this easily fixable. In my case, I'm running FreeBSD. I initially installed mailman from ports, but I'm having way too much trouble with ports in general, and so I am moving to the pkg system which does precompiled packages. Apparently the maintainer for the pkg version decided to use a different group than the ports maintainer. I'm using postfix. I don't really see how postfix even runs the script, let alone how to tell it to run it with a different group. How do I fix this? -- David Benfell <benfell(a)parts-unknown.org> See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment.

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