Mailman 3 May 2014 - Mailman-Users

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by Mark J Bradakis May 28, 2014

May 28, 2014

Currently just over 8,000 queued messages awaiting delivery. But I don't think it is a mailman issue: root@autox:~# ping -c 3 gmail.com PING gmail.com (74.125.225.182) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f22.1e100.net (74.125.225.182): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=20.2 ms 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f22.1e100.net (74.125.225.182): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=22.1 ms 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f22.1e100.net (74.125.225.182): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=20.2 ms --- gmail.com ping statistics --- 3 … [View More]

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Inserting List address into CC: of received posts
by Barry Gates May 28, 2014

May 28, 2014

Am I missing something? I run a cancer support group. Is there some way to append the list address appended to "CC" of incoming messages? I would like my members to simply "Reply to all" and share response with the others in the group. Respectfully Barry Gates O=

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Yahoo Groups' From munging and X-Original-From
by Mark Rousell May 26, 2014

May 26, 2014

What do you think of Yahoo Groups' From munging style and their X-Original-From header? Here is an example: X-Original-From: Mark Rousell <markr(a)signal100.com> From: "Mark Rousell markr(a)signal100.com [some-mail-list]" <some-mail-list(a)yahoogroups.com> I feel this is one of the better combinations of munging and new headers. All the information is there (and is very clear) and the X-Original-From header could (in due course) be recognised by mail clients and mailing list … [View More]

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Digest option for Yahoo and AOL subscribers?
by Allan Hansen May 26, 2014

May 26, 2014

I just realized that setting the digest option could be a temporary solution for my Yahoo and AOL subscribers until things get sorted (hopefully by Yahoo and AOL stopping this nonsense). My Mailman installation comes with the system (Mac OS X). Maiman is 2.1.14 and the OS is 10.5.8. I have no plans to upgrade either any time soon. The idea of using the list address as the From: address is not good. It hides the sender and it messes up the archives. Yours, Allan Hansen Westminster, CA

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Problems with multi-machine slicing
by Jeff Taylor May 25, 2014

May 25, 2014

After doing some upgrades, I noticed yesterday that my multi-machine setup is no longer properly slicing the queue between machines. I probably missed something, but after going through all my notes on the setup I cannot figure out what the problem in. Hopefully someone else can spot the issue? I have four mail servers. Three of them are supposed to slice the queue between them, and the fourth machine is set as a backup to process any remaining messages after 2 minutes. On the three … [View More]slice machines, I have patched mailmanctl as: ---------- def start_all_runners(): kids = {} >>> for qrname, count, machine, nummachines in mm_cfg.QRUNNERS: for slice in range(machine, count, nummachines): <<< # queue runner name, slice, numslices, restart count info = (qrname, slice, count, 0) pid = start_runner(qrname, slice, count) kids[pid] = info return kids ---------- Each of these machines has a QRUNNERS section added to mm_cfg.py which defines the slice of each machine -- 3,0,3 / 3,1,3 / 3,2,3 and contains the line: QRUNNER_MESSAGE_IS_OLD_DELAY = None On the fourth (backup) machine, I have patched Switchboard.py as: ---------- if ext <> extension: continue when, digest = filebase.split('+') >>> now = time.time() age = now - float(when) # Only process defined 'old' entries. if not ( hasattr(mm_cfg, 'QRUNNER_MESSAGE_IS_OLD_DELAY') and mm_cfg.QRUNNER_MESSAGE_IS_OLD_DELAY and age > mm_cfg.QRUNNER_MESSAGE_IS_OLD_DELAY): continue <<< # Throw out any files which don't match our bitrange. BAW: test # performance and end-cases of this algorithm. MAS: both # comparisons need to be <= to get complete range. ---------- On this fourth machine I have added to mm_cfg.py: QRUNNER_MESSAGE_IS_OLD_DELAY = minutes(2) This machine has NOT had the slices patch added to mailmanctl, so there is no QRUNNERS section in mm_cfg.py. OK, so if I only have the backuo machine running, mailman will deliver my test message after 2 minutes. That part works fine. However with the three slice machines running, the first machine (3,0,3) sends ALL of the messages out immediately. If I shut down the first machine and leave the other two running, no messages are sent out until after the 2-minute period, then the backup machine sends them. In other words, the queue is not being sliced, and only the first machine is capable of sending out list messages. I have referenced back to the original article on this subject: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2008-March/060753.html but it appears I did the correct changes. Has something changed in newer versions of mailman that now prevent this technique from working the same way? Or was there something more to getting slicing to work that was not mentioned in that article? [View Less]

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Digest option for Yahoo and AOL subscribers?
by Allan Hansen May 25, 2014

May 25, 2014

Well, never mind. I would have to do this for all users, not just these. A pain this is. Sorry. Allan I just realized that setting the digest option could be a temporary solution for my Yahoo and AOL subscribers until things get sorted (hopefully by Yahoo and AOL stopping this nonsense). My Mailman installation comes with the system (Mac OS X). Maiman is 2.1.14 and the OS is 10.5.8. I have no plans to upgrade either any time soon. The idea of using the list address as the From: address is … [View More]

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DMARC mung not munging in 2.1.16 (Debian)
by Ron Guerin May 25, 2014

May 25, 2014

With great sadness, I'm trying to deal with the DMARC problem certain providers have decided to create for everyone else, and for some reason, even after turning the mung option on in the web interface, there's no munging going on. (wrap doesn't wrap either) I have ALLOW_FROM_IS_LIST = Yes in mm_cfg.py . I have restarted Mailman. Am I doing something wrong? - Ron

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Making a Mailman legacy archive searchable?
by David Roth May 23, 2014

May 23, 2014

Is there anything open-source to make a Mailman legacy archive searchable? What would be useful is a way for visitors to a website to be able to search the Mailman archives using a keyword and have it display those mail messages. I'm also thinking of having a tag cloud made up of the most commonly used words from the given Mailman archive. So when one of those tag cloud words is clicked on it lists as an index those messages. Any suggestions? Thanks! David Roth

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Changing parameters for one [or many] users from the command line
by Bernie Cosell May 22, 2014

May 22, 2014

I'd like to change several of the parameters [digest, nomail, etc] for a bunch of users on one of my lists. I've looked through the list of commands in /bin and I don't see a way to modify the parameter settings from the command line [and it'll be real tedious to do it one at a time from the admin interface]. Is there a way to do it? Thanks! /bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, … [View More]

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Umbrella list and filter sub list members
by Hathawulf Spearbreaker May 21, 2014

May 21, 2014

Hi, We are using Mailman version 2.1.15. I have read everything I can find about filtering for a member of a sub list to send to an umbrella list and not have it moderated. However, it doesn't seem to work for me. I was wondering if someone could comment on my setup to see where I might be going wrong. I have two lists: Testlist@domain Testumbrella@domain Testlist@ has me as a user; -- name(a)yahoo.com --There are no filters set on this list. TestUmbrella@… [View More]

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