[Mailman-Users] Problem with our mailing list

Hi, We have been using your program for a while and every year when we set up a new list we seem to have this same problem ‹ can you help me fix it. The problem: How do we prevent people other than the administrator from posting to the list? We created a new list today and everyone keeps posting

[Mailman-Users] Small list for club

I am a member of a cigar club that would like to make use of a mailing list. I would like to use mailman for the list. I hear running your own email server can be a headache because of all of the security concerns. Is there a free service available for small clubs to make use of the mailman mail

[Mailman-Users] Garbled digest messages

I help run a private Mailman mailing list for a group that is occasionally seeing garbled messages in their plain-text digests. The garbled messages are completely unreadable, with every character of the original message being lost. The garbled messages seem to appear only when: - The original po

[Mailman-Users] MailMan cc_cfg.py

I'm trying to make default 'Require Approval' under Privacy Options. Where do I find a list of config commands so that I can make that default by writing to the mm_cfg.py file. I do know to make changes to mm_cfg.py file, I just need to know the proper syntax to make default for new list an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Microsoft Outlook and footer/signature "attachments"

Mark Sapiro wrote: > See the FAQ at . It is clear that options > 3 and 4 don't work for you. If neither option 1 or 2 works either, you > can see the note at the bottom which will lead you to a patch which we > don't recommend for the reasons discussed in the FAQ, but w

[Mailman-Users] combining 2 mailman servers into 1 - how to merge aliases & aliases.db

We have two servers that have mailman on them (SuSE 2.6.27, postfix, mailman 2.1.11) and we are combining the two servers into one. Keeping the newest one. I understand how to get the lists and archives from the server being decommissioned, by tar'ing the mailman/archives & mailman/lists direc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

LuKreme writes: > Setting up a test list is an idea, but I have had situations where > a one list didn't work (specifically a list on a virtual host) That means your test list wasn't properly configured. If you have a problem with a list on a virtual host, you need a test list on that virtual

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

On 10-Sep-2009, at 15:04, Adam McGreggor wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:53:43PM -0600, LuKreme wrote: Or maybe there's something else I should do? Basically, I wanted to tail -f /var/log/maillog and watch the message come in and get sent to ensure the list was working properly. If you jus

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

Barry Warsaw writes: > >> stop the messages once it gets to the list. What I want to see is the > >> 'full loop' of the message as I send it, and as it gets sent back > >> to me. > > > > Which by definition you can't strictly do because you have to > > alter the outgoing process in some wa

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

(This discussion probably belongs on mailman-developers. Apologies for jumping in the middle and maybe getting the context wrong.) On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:04 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: LuKreme The trouble with this suggestion (and others) is that all it does is stop the messages once it gets to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

LuKreme > >The trouble with this suggestion (and others) is that all it does is >stop the messages once it gets to the list. What I want to see is the >'full loop' of the message as I send it, and as it gets sent back to me. Which by definition you can't strictly do because you have to alter

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:53:43PM -0600, LuKreme wrote: > Or maybe there's something else I should do? Basically, I wanted to > tail -f /var/log/maillog and watch the message come in and get sent to > ensure the list was working properly. If you just want to see that, why not set yourself/ano

Re: [Mailman-Users] Test mesages

On 8-Sep-2009, at 09:18, Malcolm Austen wrote: On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:51:24 +0100, LuKreme wrote: Is there some way to send a test message to a list that is only sent back to me instead of sending it out to the entire distribution? Sometimes I want to examine the logs live when a message com