On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, ljacobs wrote:
Somehow a user got subscribed as pgyallay@[EMAIL PROTECTED] and this
seems to be causing problems with my list. Unfortunately I am
unable to unsubscribe this user using the command line
remove_members or the web interface.
How do I remove this member from
On 19 Feb 2003, Sage wrote:
My apologies if this has been brought up before, but I do not see any
answers in the recent archives.
The archive pages for my mailman lists do not automatically wrap the
text of each message. Since these pages use the pre tag to display the
message, each message
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Simon White wrote:
Getting an MTA to talk with Win32 might be harder, but apparently Exim
and maybe Postfix will work under cygwin.
Windows 2000 comes with a SMTP server too. Making it work with
Mailman would be a little tricky though. As shipped it is only
meant to relay
The web-admin doesn't work either.
Is there a guide to using withlist anywhere?
alex
On 5 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote:
Can you remove him using the Web-admin?
If not, then you may need to use ~mailman/bin/withlist
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 11:30, alex wetmore wrote:
One of my users subscribed
One of my users subscribed with the address mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
when I was running 2.0.13. Now I'm running 2.1 and he wants to
unsubscribe. 2.1 won't allow him to change his settings, and when
I use remove_members it reports that [EMAIL PROTECTED] isn't a
subscriber.
How can I remove this
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Rowe wrote:
Jon,
Front-end your mailing lists with a procmail filter that uses
SpamAssassin.
Thanks, but as I said, I'm configuring mailman on a SourceForge-hosted
mailing list. Installing SpamAssassin there is not within my power.
Can anyone answer my question
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Mark Rauterkus wrote:
How do you NUKE an address from ALL the lists on your server?
Is there an Unsubscribe ALL trick?
And, rather than looking at a dozen lists -- for one address -- is there a
way to find out (as a SYSTEM ADMIN with Root) what lists an address is
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
I second the recommendation NOT to use Exchange as your mail transport agent.
If you've got a DNS server (even your MS box, shiver me timbers) that's only
a couple milliseconds away, you're not going to see any noticeable performance
hit, especially if
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Jonathan Knight wrote:
Exchange can
send a single message to handle all of those recipients instead of
sending 5 or 10 as would occur when using the recommended batching of
10 recipients per message for
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Angel Gabriel wrote:
Does anyone on this list have MS Exchange as a relay computer? I was
thinking that local DNS speeds up email delivery, and MS Exchange, requires
local DNS to function, so if I relayed all my mailman email via my MS
Exchange box, it should deliver the
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Brian Read wrote:
I've just read the little spiel on this under the non digest options.
I don't entirely understand the batching issue. I understood from a
previous post that Mailman batches up to 100 postings together for the same
domain. If, however there is little
(PST)
From: alex wetmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Mailman-Users] MM2.1 digest headers
I recently upgraded to 2.1 from 2.0.13.
A number of my users are complaining about extra headers being placed
in the digests. I'm using the default setting
I recently upgraded to 2.1 from 2.0.13.
A number of my users are complaining about extra headers being placed
in the digests. I'm using the default setting for
DEFAULT_DIGEST_PLAIN_KEEP_HEADERS which is:
DEFAULT_PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS = ['message', 'date', 'from',
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Erik Myllymaki wrote:
What could cause the msg-footer to NOT appear in regular, non-digest mail to
the list?
HTML or other MIME formatted email. Mailman isn't MIME aware and tacks
the footer on beyond the end of the MIME portion of the body. Most mail
clients won't show
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, sean pambianco wrote:
I'm using mailman 2.0.6. My list is configured so that only members
can post to the list and all posts must be approved by the
administrator. The other day an un-approved post was distributed to my
list. The post was not held for approval and I
It sounds like the config.db for one of your lists was corrupted.
Did you have an unexpected power failure recently? I did on Sunday
and lost the config.db for two of my high traffic lists. About
half of the file was written over with null bytes.
I wrote a tool (Win32, although it should be
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, John Jones wrote:
How does one strip MS Office vcard attachments that salespeople and others
tend to attach to -every- email as an attachment of 15kb-45kb? You know,
the thing that has very little in it except for an 'attachment signature'
and contact information? Who
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, J C Lawrence wrote:
I believe all of the discussion-list type servers (Mailman, listserv,
Mercury, Majordomo, et al) use the same mechanism, so the ISPs that
are using this technique for stopping spam will have to address
legitimate list servers.
Sadly, nope.
SMTP
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Flavio wrote:
My mailman mail head have many users in it. Some ISP don´t accept my
messages. How can I solve it (one message to each user)
This is an MTA issue. Mailman just sends the message to your MTA,
your MTA is responsible for talking to remote MTAs (such as at an
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Angel Gabriel wrote:
Everytime I create a new list, no aliases are being added to sendmail. Mail
cannot be recieved, and I get user not found. Any advice would be
appreciated.
Mailman doesn't add the aliases to sendmail automatically. newlist
prints out the aliases to
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Sead Mujushi wrote:
How can I configure a list so that postings from non-members are
automatically rejected with no action required on my part as an
administrator?
In Mailman-2.0.x you can't without making changes to the source
code. I don't know of any public patches
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
On 7/16/02 10:47 PM, JC Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd be more surprised if your ISP would refuse to do it. Stripping MIME
off mailing list destined posts makes everyone's life easier.
Except that's not where things are headed. Especially
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Kevin Robbins wrote:
Will Mailman work on Red Hat 7.2 and with MS Exchange 5.5 as its SMTP server
?
I do this using Mailman on FreeBSD and Exchange 2000 as my SMTP server.
You'll need to configure Exchange to allow relay from the Mailman
machine. On the Mailman machine
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Tim Hutchinson wrote:
I have recently begun enforcing a plain text only policy based on the
instructions in FAQ 3.10:
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=all#3.10
(adding header values to Privacy Options - Spam-specific posting
filters, e.g. Content-Type:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Scott Courtney wrote:
On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:42 pm, J C Lawrence wrote:
You might to look over the RFCs for SMTP and pay particular attention to
the bits about guarantees and transaction handling.
[...]
It tends to define a whole lot of sync() and
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Tim Crouch wrote:
I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. I am setting up a
new mailing list server for our University. It will host up to 500 lists
ranging from 2 subscribers to 3000 with an average of under 200. We
will archive no more than 1 year's worth
On Wed, 15 May 2002, P.U. Lianos wrote:
I was wondering (and couldn't find any info online) if a list manager has a
way to block attachments from reaching a list that uses Mailman? This is
useful in order to prevent a virus coming from a list member, spreading
within the email list.
Four
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried and shelved stripmime.pl. Demime kicks its butt gives much more
comprehensive service. My advice is to install and use it instead.
They are very different programs with similar end goals. Demime
has a larger feature set, but requires a
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Jon Carnes wrote:
There is no problem. Her mail sending format is set to something funky.
It isn't something funky, it is quoted-printable. Most mail clients
can parse it.
alex
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Marc MERLIN wrote:
The idea was to settle this issue for good by offering, in place of listwide
reply-to munging (which would still be an option in mailman, just not one
that most people would need anymore):
- optional non sending of list posts if you are Cced so
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Marc MERLIN wrote:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:13:33PM -0600, Jorge Cuevas wrote:
Is it possible to configure mailman so when you press the reply button,
the reply goes to the sender of the mail, and if you press the reply-all
button it goes to ONLY the list?
No.
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Morgan Fletcher wrote:
Heiko Rommel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about using MHonArc
http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html#whatis
MHonArc just archives. Wilma wraps MHonArc and Glimpse to get you
search-able archives:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Morgan Fletcher wrote:
alex wetmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a way with Mailman 2.0.8 to filter out HTML and attachments,
per-list?
Look at the privacy page (under list admin) for Hold posts with...
A lot of the mail encoded with HTML doesn't have
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Morgan Fletcher wrote:
With majordomo we had long taboo_body and taboo_headers lists
containing things like this:
/Content-Type: text\/html/
Is there a way with Mailman 2.0.8 to filter out HTML and attachments,
per-list?
Look at the privacy page (under list admin)
On 16 Jan 2002, Andreas Kotowicz wrote:
i have a mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] sending mails to this email
address works great as does sending mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] this is a
sendmail problem i know, but i really don't see how to designate a list
to a specific domain. if you want to make
On 16 Jan 2002, Andreas Kotowicz wrote:
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 22:48, alex wetmore wrote:
Only for subdomains that have mailing lists with competing names. I
host lists on three subdomains using one copy of mailman.
are you using sendmail? let's say you have a list that listens
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, David Dow wrote:
Hi, how do you strip file attachments from messages sent to mailman?
I can't find that option in setup...
You get a 3rd party tool which strips it, or you download the
unsupported patches to do so from sourceforge.
http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.pl
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, marina wrote:
Is there a way to tell Mailman to strip the HTML portions?
There are a few different programs which can be installed along with
Mailman (or one set of patches for Mailman) that strip HTML and
attachments from messages before they are sent to the list.
One
On 12 Dec 2001, Rodolfo Pilas wrote:
Is there are any way to have the passoword authentication under a secure
server (https) ??
Can you give me some tip?
Sure, you can configure apache-ssl to do this.
What would be the point though? The list still sends out plaintext
passwords, and the
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Alf Christophersen wrote:
Hope this may be a priorited case for new version !
I've read that 2.1 will have the ability to filter attachments.
There are already at least 3 addon packages that will filter
attachments and HTML from list email. I wrote one called
stripmime.
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Jeffrey M. Kenton wrote:
I just got off the phone with the director of external information
for my college. She wants to know if our existing system (Mailman)
will handle lists that contain between 4500 and 7000 email
addresses. They want to set up an alumni newsletter
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Emery Wang wrote:
Thanks, Jon. One thing, however: there is no password involved here,
because I am manually inputting a list of email addresses from
customers who have been in my database before I started using mailman.
So, for email addresses that have not be
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
The archives are not searchable, otherwise I might have found this.
Huh?
I go to this URL which is at the bottom of every message:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Right there I see this paragraph: Archives of this list are
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
Yes, real mail admins know to mkfs /var/spool with a higher inode
count than the rest of their systems. I'll let you guess what
percentage of mail admins actually do.
There are quite a few lists out there running off i486 boxes with
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
For this 55%, the SMTP=1 is 6050K. For 100, it's 1711K bytes. That's 28%
of the first number, so we're cutting 72% of the bandwidth by chunking
at 100. The tradeoff is performance, though -- it takes a lot longer to
deliver those AOL addresses,
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
Is it really? Most of us are already setting that chunking factor very
small (5-10) for performance purposes. Moving it from 10 to 1 isn't
really all that significant, and it's only an issue where people are
already stressing server or network
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
On Friday, June 15, 2001, at 12:26 PM, alex wetmore wrote:
Computers are cheap. Bandwidth isn't necessarily cheap. I run with a
very high chunking factor because my MTA properly handles it
But -- if this went away, what would it do to your
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Mike T. Gholson wrote:
A couple of questions related to filtering.
1) Is there a way to dis-allow the use of HTML RICH text
formatted messages? I'm hosting a list and the majority of
my users do NOT want to see HTML or RICH text formatted
messages. If a user sends a
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Joaquim Homrighausen wrote:
* On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 03:43:32 -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
So, my question sort of remains the same I suppose.. is there a
way to get Mailman to handle this properly?
The normal approach is to stick demime/mailfilter/stripmime in front
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Bernhard R. Erdmann wrote:
Is there a way or a quick patch to put the address with which a user is
subscribed to a list in the trailer that is added to each message?
They could look into the header lines to whom the mail was sent:
Received: from [63.102.49.29]
I'm using pipermail for my non-searchable archives.
Recently I've been auditing my bandwidth usage, and have found that a
fair amount of it is from people downloading mbox archives, rather
than individual messages. I talked to a couple of individuals who
were doing this, and it was so that they
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Bill Bradford wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:05:31PM -0700, Sarah K. Miller wrote:
Have any of you found an automated way to slurp all of the addresses off
of all the lists on your system and then subscribe them to another list
on the system?
bin/list_users
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Nick Seidenman wrote:
Is it possible to have mailman pass Received: (or any other) headers
through? If so, how?
It already does. These came off of your message, as it was received
in my mailbox. The bottom 2 Recieved headers were added before the
message was processed
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Has anyone come up with a way to count the amount of
incoming/outgoing msgs on a per-list basis? I have several lists hosted
under a domain, and I'd like to be able to tell each administrator how
many messages they've received and sent out.
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
On 5/12/01 6:52 PM, Ian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which variables should be changed? It looks like the following could use
some changes:
SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500
Between 5 and 10 - that should be set for any mailman installation. 500 is
way
On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:
There's reason to keep the RCPT TO envelope reasonably small to
prevent triggering some ISP's SPAM traps. Specifically, this
appears to be one of the filter points that AOL uses (and of course
it then drops the caught mail silently without a bounce of
On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2001 16:16:44 -0700 (PDT)
alex wetmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 13 May 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:
There's reason to keep the RCPT TO envelope reasonably small to
prevent triggering some ISP's SPAM traps. Specifically
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Satya wrote:
On May 6, 2001 at 09:42, Bruce Thomas wrote:
I am wondering if there is a method to automatically strip attachments from
messages received by the list prior to sending the message out to the list
I hear there's something called demime out there.
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Bill Warner wrote:
Yes, I know about the TabooHeaders settings for Eudora, but most of my list
readers don't, and they are probably using some M$ junk to read mail
anyway, and they don't care about things like TabooHeaders in any case.
None of the MS Clients (at least that
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Load balancing. I prefer having one server running mailman and having all
the lists on it, however this means that machine will also get hit pretty hard
when several lists get to receive/send messages.
Most of the pain is in sending the
On 3 May 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
Hi there! I've got some semi-private distribution lists on an MS
Exchange server here at work, which I'd like to propogate off-site using
mailman. I can create a mailing list, and add it to the list of people
on this distribution list very easily. What
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jason Maderios wrote:
Any way my real question is this. I created a text file with a bunch of
dups and thousands of emails to see how easy it was to import records (I
have about 200,000 adr's I am going to have to import). It all worked
great but how do I MASS
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Panagiotis Malakoudis wrote:
A colleague of mine suggested that we add to all the mailing lists an
imap account as a member and then use third party web based software to
searchg through each mailbox. That sounds quite nice and you same all
the time and space that htdig
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the ports used by mailman in tcp/ip traffic should be 25 and 110 (smtp + pop).
Are there any other ports used in connection with mailman ?
Mailman doesn't use POP. You'll need to have port 80 open if you expect
people ot use the web interface
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Erik Parker wrote:
Is there a way to bump this down to say.. 2 people per envelope? Vs.. The
20 or 30 it seems to put in now?
Sorry to waste your bandwidth, I found what I was looking for in the
Defaults.py .. Default was 500, I bumped it down to 2.. What do you know,
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Pug Bainter wrote:
There are a lot of good things about Mailman, but #3 is a big hurdle
that won't be tollerated. After all, not everyone uses a UNIX system to
read mail. There are a large number of people in the world on AOL,
Hotmail, Yahoo, and MSN.
I don't use a Unix
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, JC Dill wrote:
What I do (on a majordomo list) is have the person subscribe all the other
"from" addresses to a companion list that is allowed to post to the main
list. With Mailman, I believe you can accomplish the same thing in an
easier fashion by having him subscribe
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to get a text list of subscribers from mailman?
~mailman/bin/list_members listname
You might want to get seperate lists for digested and non-digested
members.
alex
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Len Hatfield wrote:
But because the user is NOT subscribed to my list via the
secondary address, and I have no way of knowing which of the 100
subscribers has set up the bogus forwarding, which of these is
the primary address in this little routing dilmma.
Wait until the
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, JC Dill wrote:
Is there an option to block completely quoted digests? That would be sweet!
I handle this fairly easily by making my digest size 30kb, and my
maximum message size 20kb. If someone comments to an entire digest
then it'll be larger than the maximum message
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Dan Mick wrote:
rant
I'm just not sure. I mean, if it's that easy, why hasn't THIS LIST BEEN
CONFIGURED TO DO JUST THAT?
/rant
How do I know you aren't misleading me? If it's that easy, certainly this
list would have been properly configured.
Will
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, JC Dill wrote:
I have 2 outstanding questions about mailman configuration options:
I've answered these before.
1) Does mailman have a configuration setting such that everyone who is
subscribed to a list can post unmoderated, but email from a non-subscriber
will be
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Phydeaux wrote:
The spam is *quite* easy for a human to detect. I hereby volunteer for
duty if called
In the past couple of weeks there have been many more messages
complaining about the spam then spam itself...
alex
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Dan Wilder wrote:
There's a middle ground.
For reasons of our own, we keep some of our lists open to posts
by non-subscribers.
A simple procmail front-end looks for "To:" or "Cc:" headers
mentioning the list. Since most spamware is too stupid to
put these in, or
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Steve Hasz wrote:
1. Is it possible to strip attachments from messages or not allow them?
My filter at http://www.phred.org/~alex/stripmime.html does this. At
the bottom of the webpage are links to some other similar scripts.
2. Barring that, I see I can limit the size
From: "Satya" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Feb 18, 2001 at 13:45, Mike Cisar wrote:
Is there a way to add or remove a single user from a list via the
command
line? I've looked at the add_members and remove_members but they
seem to
require a textfile list of user(s) to add or remove from a list. I'd
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Jim Saville wrote:
Are there any guidelines for hardware/software configurations for
using the Mailman program. For example, I am working with an
organization which wants to run 5-20 lists with most lists running
about 2000 subscribers. I am planning on using a Pentium
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