Hello,
I am having some problems with a mailman list that i administer. The list is configured to send digest emails once a week (via the web ui) but this is not happening, instead emails are being sent individually, as they are posted to the list, but tagged as digest.
Would anyone have any suggestion how to fix this so they are sent weekly?
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and mailman 2.1.14-1
ml lists wrote:
I am having some problems with a mailman list that i administer. The list is configured to send digest emails once a week (via the web ui)
Lists can be configured to send digests periodically (digest_send_periodic = Yes), but the frequency is determined by how often Mailman's cron/senddigests runs.
You have probably set digest_size_threshhold to 0 thinking this means unlimited instead of 'send a digest with every post'. See the current doc at <http://www.list.org/mailman-admin/node19.html> and the bug report at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558274>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 13 March 2013 22:56, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
I had/have the following digest_size_threshhold = 30 digest_send_periodic = no digest_volume_frequency = weekly
And if I understood correctly, this regardless of threshhold size should only send weekly, no?
With "cron/senddigests" should there be a crontab entry on the system for this or is it controlled elsewhere?
ml lists wrote:
No. This will send a digest whenever the size reaches about 30K bytes and only then. If posts to the list are large, I.e. greater than about 30K, this will send a digest for each post.
Periodic digests will not be sent.
Digest volume frequency has nothing to do with when digests are sent. It controls how often the Vol number in the Subject line "LISTNAME Digest, Vol ##, Issue ##" is incremented and the Issue number reset to 1.
With "cron/senddigests" should there be a crontab entry on the system for this or is it controlled elsewhere?
There should be a crontab for mailman that runs several jobs. Depending on how Mailman was installed, this may be a system crontab, e.g., /etc/cron.d/mailman, or the Mailman user's crontab, e.g., /var/spool/cron/mailman.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
ml lists wrote:
I am having some problems with a mailman list that i administer. The list is configured to send digest emails once a week (via the web ui)
Lists can be configured to send digests periodically (digest_send_periodic = Yes), but the frequency is determined by how often Mailman's cron/senddigests runs.
You have probably set digest_size_threshhold to 0 thinking this means unlimited instead of 'send a digest with every post'. See the current doc at <http://www.list.org/mailman-admin/node19.html> and the bug report at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558274>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 13 March 2013 22:56, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
I had/have the following digest_size_threshhold = 30 digest_send_periodic = no digest_volume_frequency = weekly
And if I understood correctly, this regardless of threshhold size should only send weekly, no?
With "cron/senddigests" should there be a crontab entry on the system for this or is it controlled elsewhere?
ml lists wrote:
No. This will send a digest whenever the size reaches about 30K bytes and only then. If posts to the list are large, I.e. greater than about 30K, this will send a digest for each post.
Periodic digests will not be sent.
Digest volume frequency has nothing to do with when digests are sent. It controls how often the Vol number in the Subject line "LISTNAME Digest, Vol ##, Issue ##" is incremented and the Issue number reset to 1.
With "cron/senddigests" should there be a crontab entry on the system for this or is it controlled elsewhere?
There should be a crontab for mailman that runs several jobs. Depending on how Mailman was installed, this may be a system crontab, e.g., /etc/cron.d/mailman, or the Mailman user's crontab, e.g., /var/spool/cron/mailman.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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