Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestions for handling archive growth

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/14/2016 10:36 AM, Gretchen R Beck wrote: > > As our archives approach a terabyte in size, I was wondering if anyone had > suggestions or tips for handling archive growth and storage. I've got some > ideas, but am wondering what others might be doing. Just as background, we > have a few t

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Sean McBride writes: > I'm not aware of the problems you refer to. "launchctl load -w" > works fine in my experience, though the details of exactly how it > works have changed between releases. Like the man page says: "In > previous versions, this option would modify the configuration > fil

Re: [Mailman-Users] duplicate entry: "mail...@lists.example.org" in virtual-mailman.db

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/14/2016 08:58 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 04/13/2016 10:19 AM, Manuel Vögele wrote: >> >> What am I doing wrong? > > > Nothing really. You have just discovered two bugs. First, the appending > of VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN should also be applied in the SITE > ADDRESSES stanza, and the add

Re: [Mailman-Users] Suggestions for handling archive growth

2016-04-14 Thread Carl Zwanzig
On 4/14/2016 10:36 AM, Gretchen R Beck wrote: As our archives approach a terabyte in size, I was wondering if anyone had suggestions or tips for handling archive growth and storage. I've got some ideas, but am wondering what others might be doing. Just as background, we have a few thousand list

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/14/2016 02:53 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:16:33 -0700, Mark Sapiro said: > >> You also need to register as a user and let us know your registered user >> name. > > Yes, sorry, I read too fast. Done that too now. :) And you now should have permission. -- Mark Sapiro

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Sean McBride
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:16:33 -0700, Mark Sapiro said: >I've done that now in the online versions (refresh the page if it isn't >the 'April 14' version. The update will be in the tarball of the next >(2.1.22) release. Nice! >That section has a highlighted note at the top saying: "Much of the >fol

Re: [Mailman-Users] New Mailman lists - inform users

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/14/2016 01:43 PM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote: > > Therefore it would be helpful if we could mass-mail the same > "welcome"-message which is usually sent to new subscribers. > > What are our possibilities here? Or can all subscribers ask themselves for > such a message? S

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/14/2016 12:57 PM, Sean McBride wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:07:29 -0700, Mark Sapiro said: > >>> - the docs say "Mailman should work pretty much out of the box with a >> standard Postfix installation. It has been tested with various Postfix >> versions up to and including Postfix 2.1.5."

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Steve Burling
On 14 Apr 2016, at 12:03, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: If you're working with Mailman 2, dubious. There may never be another release of Mailman 2 (but Mark is authoritative). And Mac OS X has been somewhat unkind to us (Apple's Mailman has been a long-term source of support requests to which we

[Mailman-Users] New Mailman lists - inform users

2016-04-14 Thread Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users
Hi all We have moved 3 mailing lists from another system to a Mailman installation (Mailman version 2.1.20). All user addresses have been imported from the old installation, so a user should not notice the new software - unless he wants to change something in his subscription. Therefore it w

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Sean McBride
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:07:29 -0700, Mark Sapiro said: >> - the docs say "Mailman should work pretty much out of the box with a >standard Postfix installation. It has been tested with various Postfix >versions up to and including Postfix 2.1.5." I'm assuming that version >number is just out-of-dat

[Mailman-Users] Suggestions for handling archive growth

2016-04-14 Thread Gretchen R Beck
Hi Folks, As our archives approach a terabyte in size, I was wondering if anyone had suggestions or tips for handling archive growth and storage. I've got some ideas, but am wondering what others might be doing. Just as background, we have a few thousand lists, and support a mid-sized univers

Re: [Mailman-Users] duplicate entry: "mail...@lists.example.org" in virtual-mailman.db

2016-04-14 Thread Manuel Vögele
Thanks for your help. I cannot remove the @localhost mapping because that would cause postfix to append @example.org which is then handled by dovecot (and thus will fail). This is also the reason wh i can't put @example.org as the preferred host for the list. However since this is caused by a bug

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Sean McBride
On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:03:18 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull said: >If you're working with Mailman 2, dubious. There may never be another >release of Mailman 2 (but Mark is authoritative). And Mac OS X has >been somewhat unkind to us (Apple's Mailman has been a long-term >source of support requests t

Re: [Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/14/2016 06:32 AM, Sean McBride wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm setting up mailman for the first time, and have a few questions/comments: > > - the docs say "Mailman should work pretty much out of the box with a > standard Postfix installation. It has been tested with various Postfix > versions u

[Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Sean McBride writes: > I'm assuming that version number is just out-of-date? Does mailman > work with modern postfix? Yes and yes. Beware the Debian mailman-to-postfix.py script, however. (There's a FAQ about it at http://wiki.list.org/FAQ somewhere.) > - I'm doing this on OS X, and notice

Re: [Mailman-Users] duplicate entry: "mail...@lists.example.org" in virtual-mailman.db

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/13/2016 10:19 AM, Manuel Vögele wrote: > > Indeed the virtual-mailman file generated by mailman contains multiple > mail...@lists.example.org entries: > > file: virtual-mailman > ... > # We also add the site list address in each virtual domain as that address > #

[Mailman-Users] My first time setting up mailman, some misc questions/comments

2016-04-14 Thread Sean McBride
Hi all, I'm setting up mailman for the first time, and have a few questions/comments: - the docs say "Mailman should work pretty much out of the box with a standard Postfix installation. It has been tested with various Postfix versions up to and including Postfix 2.1.5." I'm assuming that vers

[Mailman-Users] duplicate entry: "mail...@lists.example.org" in virtual-mailman.db

2016-04-14 Thread Manuel Vögele
Hi everyone. I just set up a mailman installation and almost everything is working as expected. However everytime i create a new mailing list mailman prints the following warning: postmap: warning: /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman.db: duplicate entry: "mail...@lists.example.org" Indeed the

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC bouncing of yahoo and hotmail users

2016-04-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: > There have been workarounds for this issue since 2.1.16, but they didn't > get serious until 2.1.18 and have seen continuous tweaking since > then. In other words, Mark is too modest. Get 2.1.latest (.20, I think?), 'cause Maintainer Markie kicks a--! Technically, he's