Mailman 3 September 2014 - Mailman-Users

Upgrade instructions
by G. Armour Van Horn 06 Sep '14

06 Sep '14

I have a couple of Mailman lists on a server happily running 2.1.9 but I am also a moderator on a very active list that's running on 2.1.12. I do not host this list, just volunteer because I have some experience with Mailman. That list has started to get some significant bounces due to the DMARC issue that isn't addressed in this older version. The host intends to upgrade so that we can address that but they report that they haven't been able to make archives searchable in their experimentation with 2.1.16. I don't know if that search function is part of the more recent versions of Pipermail or if they've installed something else. I'm nervous about attempting to upgrade, given the paucity of documentation for that, particularly the fact that it tells me to use the same configuration options I used for the current install and I haven't a clue what those might have been. If I could find some more robust upgrade docs I'd like to try the upgrade in case I could contribute anything to the problem with the large list. Today I had to clear the bounce flags on 47 members. Not all that hard, but tedious. Van -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations on a theme delivered every morning. Enlightenment! Daily, for free! http://www.qotd.org/subscribe.html For photography, web design, hosting, and maintenance, visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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Message of large size, only the "owner" of the list may authorize
by Fabio Eckhardt 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

Is there any easy way to get Mailman messages of large size, only the "owner" of the list may authorize? And only the smallest message "moderator" can approve them? I'm really getting tired of dealing with those very large messages that are released by the moderator. -- Fábio

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Number of threads
by Chad Cordero 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

I am using MailMan version 2.1.12 and I am being asked for the total number of messages without replies (threads) for a list. I can see the “Messages: “ count in the archives, but this is the total number of messages, not threads. Is there a way to get the number of threads? --- Chad Cordero Enterprise Applications Support 5500 University Pkwy San Bernardino, CA 92407 Tel: 909-537-7281 Email: ccordero(a)csusb.edu

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Erratic mail delivery times
by Peter Shute 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

As a moderator of our list, I know when messages are approved, and I'm seeing very erratic delivery times to my own address, which is on an Exchange server. They used to come through within a minute or so, now they can take 20 minutes or an hour. I subscribed my gmail address for comparison, and am finding that the same list messages come through to it as quickly as ever. >From those observations I would conclude that the Exchange server is having problems receiving external mail, but I've found that test messages sent from my gmail account to my Exchange address come through within seconds. Can I assume this has nothing to do with mailman? Peter Shute Sent from my iPad

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List suddenly stopped adding footers.
by Kevin T. Likes 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

I have a user-managed list that suddenly stopped adding the footer to messages. It appears that after the time footers stopped being added, I started seeing links for scrubbed attachments to messages. What setting(s) could be causing this?

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Configuration question..
by Steve 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Hi - I have recently taken over a webpage that was moved to Wix (which does not offer email accounts) while opting to keep email at the original host - Hostgator. The domain is blpoa.com and is working properly for web and email. The email is on "gator3227.hostgator.com" Mailing lists are another story however. When I provide http://gator3227.hostgator.com/mailman/listinfo/members_blpoa.com page to people to subscribe, Mailman returns http://blpoa.com/mailman/confirm/members_blpoa.com (and a confirmation "key"). The problem is that when this link is clicked - it sends the user to Wix - and simply displays the webpage. The sign up process can not be completed. I have searched all over but can not seem to find an answer. Changing *host_name *to gator3227.hostgator.com made no difference. We're using Mailman 2.1.17. Thanks in advance - Steve

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merging archive volumes
by Fabian Santiago 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Hello, I'm running centos 6.5 x86_64, mailman v 2.1.12, along with postfix. I use pipermail to display my list archives in a private fashion. I originally had my archives set to monthly volumes and then after the 1st month changed it to yearly. now, when i navigate to my archives page, i see two top level volume entries, one for the 1st month when i had it set to monthly archiving and one for everything else. is there anyway i can merge the two into one solid archive volume? thanks everyone. -- Sincerely, - Fabian S.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] bounce processing
by Mark Sapiro 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

On 09/03/2014 11:34 AM, Andrew Watson wrote: > Thanks for your help. > The version is 2.1.10 > I enabled the subscriber at the administrative interface under Member > Management under Membership List (I unchecked the nomail box, which had > a [B] next to it). > I dont think I have a non-standard MemberAdaptor, since I don't know > what that is. What you did should have removed the bounce info for the user assuming that the page refreshed with the nomail box unchecked after you pressed "Submit Your Changes". It should work in your version with the standard OldStyleMemberships.py MemberAdaptor. If by chance you are using the MysqlMemberships.py MemberAdaptor, there is in issue with Mailman 2.1.10 (fixed in 2.1.11) that could cause it to fail. > If this is a onetime curiosity, i don't want either of us to spend too > much time on it. > But if it is going to recur, then I need to fix. It appears to be a "one time" glitch unless you are using the MysqlMemberships.py MemberAdaptor to store list membership info in a MySQL database. -- 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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bounce processing
by Andrew Watson 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

On Aug 29 2014 I disabled bounce processing for my list. On Sep 2 2014 I re-enabled the subscription of a subscriber who had been disabled. On Sep 3 2014 the subscriber received the message below: (list name deleted) Why is this happening after I disabled bounce processing? Why is the subscriber being disabled two weeks after the bounce? > On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 4:05 AM, "" <> wrote: > > > Your membership in the mailing list hs has been disabled due to > excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated > 20-Aug-2014. You will not get any more messages from this list until > you re-enable your membership. You will receive 1 more reminders like > this before your membership in the list is deleted.

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mailman sending to existing subscribers but new subscribe doesn't work
by David Whited-Ford 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Hello, We recently moved our list to a new server. Same domain name. Emails to the list work fine for existing subscribers but we can't add new subscribers. The mass subscription seems to work and the new users appear in the list but don't receive email, even though they receive the welcome email. Possibly related, nothing appears on the moderation page for admins even though they receive a notice of pending items to moderate. I've run check_perms and moved the files by rsync so permissions should be ok. One other difference from the old server, the web pages are hosted using nginx which passes the requests to Apache. Any ideas? Thanks, Dave

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