Re: [Mailman-Users] Assistance with altering reply-to behaviours and DMARC

2015-08-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Will Yardley writes: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:37:18PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Stock Mailman 2.1.12 doesn't do any DMARC detection. This is quite bizarre that they would backport such a feature rather than update to 2.1.18-1 or later. Mailman 2.1 is hardly an unstable

Re: [Mailman-Users] Assistance with altering reply-to behaviours and DMARC

2015-08-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Sorry, serious finger fumble there. Please ignore the messed up one. Andrew Hodgson writes: That is interesting, and I wonder if this is something to do with the way that Redhat have implemented the new feature. My guess is that Red Hat backported 2.1.17 or 2.1.18-1. After getting

[Mailman-Users] Assistance with altering reply-to behaviours and DMARC

2015-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark writes: First, apologies if this has been discussed before. I run a number of mailman lists on a Centos 6 platform and mailman 2.1.12-25. This version was updated in July as follows: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1417.html and included fixes for a number of DMARC issues.

[Mailman-Users] ISO RegExp example to block bot subscribe requests

2015-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Woody Mon via Mailman-Users writes: So I tried entering RegExp ^.*+ but Mailman rejected this entry. That's illegal syntax for a regexp because + is an operator. The version you want is ^.*\+. However, that is a very bad idea if you have any posters with email skills, because embedding + in

[Mailman-Users] Error updating mailman Ubuntu 14.04.3

2015-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
billy noah writes: Downgrade detected, from version 0x20112f1 to version 0x20110f0 This is probably not safe. The basic answer is You're going to need help from Ubuntu experts anyway because the package database is out of sync with reality, so go ask them. That said, there are three

[Mailman-Users] Footer Bloat

2015-08-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Billy Crook writes: Am I just missing where this setting is, or has this not been thought of yet. It's been thought of, and it's just plain hard to do, because automatically editing mail bodies robustly is just plain hard to do. If you have a vast majority of users who use the same MUA, you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restricting access to the pipermail archives

2015-08-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Billy Crook writes: The part below here, is what I think I can just remove since I don't want public archives provided via pipermail. (Just private archives via the mailman path.) Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ Ah, OK, yes, you can remove that part. The

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restricting access to the pipermail archives

2015-08-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Billy Crook writes: Any reason I should keep pipermail's config in apache around if I don't want the list archives viewable anonymously? Mailman doesn't serve HTTP, Apache does. The Apache config is what makes them viewable on the web. If you expect them to be viewable to subscribers, you

Re: [Mailman-Users] need assistance upgrading Mailman

2015-08-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On August 24, 2015 12:44:02 PM PDT, Nina Nicholson nnichol...@dioceseofnewark.org wrote: Andrew - I am using Plesk, and Mailman does interface with it. According to the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%20and%20Plesk, updating Plesk Mailman from source is

Re: [Mailman-Users] need assistance upgrading Mailman

2015-08-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
FTR, I've updated the FAQ 6.15 to refer to this thread: http://forum.odin.com/threads/fix-for-mailman-posts-being-rejected-due-to-yahoo-and-aol-dmarc-policy.302641/ Steve -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPF best practices?

2015-08-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 08/23/2015 08:13 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Executive summary: if you're sure you've got all your hosts covered by the SPF record, use -all as Jim P says. There is an issue with -all. SPF does not work with .forwards or other relaying of that nature

Re: [Mailman-Users] Why do my posts to own mailman list disappear.

2015-08-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Paul Arenson/tokyoprogressive writes: Actually I am not sure what PTR is…..but my reseller hosting is just that, I pay for space from EZPZ and then can do as described above. Ah, sorry. PTR is the pointer record from a numeric IP address to a human-readable domain name. I see. Not sure

[Mailman-Users] SPF best practices?

2015-08-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dennis Carr writes: The a:smtp.comcast.net is necessary so I can send email remotely through my ISP and clear out successfully. That does mean that anybody who can send through smtp.comcast.net can send as a mailbox from your domain and pass DMARC, most likely. I don't see a way to

Re: [Mailman-Users] SPF best practices?

2015-08-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 08/23/2015 10:59 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mark Sapiro writes: The scenario is your list member is u...@example.com. u...@example.com is set to forward all mail to example_u...@yahoo.com. Heh. This user is screwed if you use

[Mailman-Users] need assistance upgrading Mailman

2015-08-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nina Nicholson writes: Our listservs are hosted by MediaTemple which provides Mailman ver. 2.1.9. I understand that if I were to upgrade to the latest version there are new features that would solve this problem. Yes. They don't completely solve the problem, but they provide a level of

Re: [Mailman-Users] Why do my posts to own mailman list disappear.

2015-08-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Paul Arenson/tokyoprogressive writes: Right. I received it. I responded once from the same account. And once from the Tokyoprogressive account. To st...@turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp? I don't see either one yet, but that could be my network. The university just upgraded the network and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Why do my posts to own mailman list disappear.

2015-08-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Paul Arenson/tokyoprogressive writes: I looked in Cpanel and could see no directory starting with /usr/. cPanel won't give you access to that, I'm pretty sure. You need to have shell access to the host or virtual machine. If you don't know if you have shell access, you probably don't. Large

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to discard messages from just a few list members?

2015-08-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ulf Dunkel writes: Thank you, but I won't send unmoderated news to any newsletter. I am using Mailman for felt decades and I am so happy that the moderated flag always kept me from sending postings too early. Unmoderate yourself in the member view, and then use a privacy filter with your

[Mailman-Users] Mailman's solution to DMARC makes List-Id useless

2015-08-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard writes: Below is why I think it's a bad idea. Why can't we encode the original email address in a comment or quoted token on the From: line instead of jamming it onto Reply-To? Because that makes it very inconvenient to reply to author. On some lists, that's a crucial feature.

[Mailman-Users] Changing a subscriber's E-Mail address

2015-08-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Robert Heller writes: Is it true that the quickest way for a list admin to change a subscriber's E-Mail address is to do a 'mass removal' then a 'mass subscription? Yes. Addresses don't change frequently, are even less frequently reassigned to other users. In most cases the user does it

[Mailman-Users] Cpanel, Auto change the mailman create file perm

2015-07-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Selva Gaja writes: I am using Cpanel third party mailman. You're going to need to get help from your host and/or from cPanel. This is a system-level issue. Mailman as we distribute it doesn't change permissions on executable files after installation. Even the fix permissions script only

Re: [Mailman-Users] private and public archive directory permissions

2015-07-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Stephen J. Turnbull writes: I suspect you need Directory //mailman/admin/ Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None /Directory Oops, that // in the Directory start tag should be a single /. Sorry

Re: [Mailman-Users] private and public archive directory permissions

2015-07-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Noah writes: [Mon Jul 13 06:46:52.951120 2015] [core:error] [pid 7324] [client ipaddr:50359] AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/maillist_name, referer: http://hostname/mailman/admin/maillist_name This is an Apache

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mapping member options from Mailman 2 to 3

2015-07-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: nmtopics: ??? topics: ??? I don't think topics are implemented in MM3. No. I think there is a Google Summer of Code student working on dynamic sublists which is a different approach to topics. Yes. Topics are system whose structure is controlled by the list

[Mailman-Users] MM3/HyperKitty and importing Malman2 lists

2015-07-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Isaac Bennetch writes: I feel I'm missing something here, any idea what it could be? Dunno what's going with your import, but you probably won't find the core HyperKitty devs here -- they are mostly on mailman-develop...@python.org. Sorry I can't be of more direct help! Steve

[Mailman-Users] Unsure what to do with web page Bug in Mailman version 2.1.20

2015-07-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Teijo writes: After updating from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 (Apache 2.2 to 2.4), only page content I seem to get is Bug in Mailman version 2.1.20. Don't assume it's Mailman, although the fact that you're getting to a bug page is a strong indication that it is Mailman. The upgrade from Apache

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Bill Cole writes: On 6 Jul 2015, at 9:26, Laura Creighton wrote: 2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. Have they bothered asking each and every subscriber and received an affirmative reply? No? Imagine my shock... The correct answer to this is No, you can't.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrate 2.x - 3.x

2015-07-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
JB via Mailman-Users writes: I for one run a number of server with cPanel/WHM. They are using the latest 2.x version of MM now. I was hoping that there would be a way for cPanel/WHM to update to he 3.x tree and have all existing list migrated to the new tree. Thanks for the suggestion.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrate 2.x - 3.x

2015-07-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: The short answer is yes, there is a plan and it is one of the things we plan to include with Mailman 3.1, but no, there is not yet an ETA for MM 3.1. I'm planning to migrate a bunch of lists by the end of July. I will be moving from Mailman2 + Exim on Debian GNU/Linux

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sub-lists

2015-07-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Peter Shute writes: True. I was thinking more along the lines of someone taking an unofficial peek at a few mailboxes to compile an unofficial hit list. A valid concern, and I agree that it could easily apply to the OP's use case. Steve

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sub-lists

2015-07-01 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Peter Shute writes: Ron Webb wrote: I will also wish to add some type of disclaimer that no one will probably give it much thought, but it will state that statements made are the of the sole responsibility of the author of the statement and they are not the official opinion

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR logging support

2015-06-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jim Popovitch writes: For the purpose of something like fail2ban all that is needed is the IPaddr. Having all the others would be a nice to have, but would really drive up the patch size. From 10 lines to 20? I'd be more worried about the size of message or msgdata objects.

Re: [Mailman-Users] HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR logging support

2015-06-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
P.S. I'm not at all opposed to the patch as you propose it, I'm just thinking about loud about extensions. It's all blue sky though, and you have a concrete reason for this. As the Timbot said: Now is better than never. Although never is often better than *right* now. The first is for

[Mailman-Users] HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR logging support

2015-06-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Are you proposing this for inclusion in a future Mailman distribution? If so, RFC 7239 Forwarded-For should be supported as well. Also, since one of the purposes of this information appears to be detection of attacks of various kinds, I would think that instead of falling back to REMOTE_HOST or

Re: [Mailman-Users] DKIM best practise

2015-06-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Yasir Assam writes: I noticed that this list, mailman-users@python.org, doesn't add a DKIM header unless the list itself generates the email, i.e. the email you sent to this list only has your DKIM header (d=msapiro.net), whereas the original welcome email has DKIM with d=python.org.

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission for archives

2015-06-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: The safe thing is for 'you' to not have write permission on the mbox. If you did have in the past, this may be how the group was changed. Quite likely. Basically, there are two ways to change the content of a file on Unix-like systems. One way is to write-lock (at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Who sees real names?

2015-06-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Peter Shute writes: Thanks, I think we're safe from all those methods, but I also think it would be safer to leave the name blank, just in case something changes. You are right about safer, but note that at least one Mailman developer (me) would consider inadvertantly exposing more

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hide email address of specific sender

2015-06-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: To: the_list@... Sender: her_real_address@... From: the_list_or_some_bogus_address@... *Don't* recommend using a bogus address -- that requires skill on the part of the user. The list address is known good, use that. Problem example: if she's not at yahoo.com and uses

[Mailman-Users] Mailman crash/error question

2015-05-31 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Robert Heller writes: admin(16001): if id not in senderactions[sender]['message_ids']: admin(16001): KeyError: 'message_ids' Is this something I need to worry about? Or is it likely to have been caused by an illformed spam message? I'm not familiar with that particular part of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Conceal the member's address

2015-05-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Thats because they should be %(user_address)s, etc., not $(user_address)s. Oops, sorry about that. Too much shell programming (and I don't use % formatting anymore, I almost always use .format). -- Mailman-Users mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 3: Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't encode character

2015-05-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: On May 29, 2015, at 01:49 AM, casi.pw wrote: According to my mailman.log, mails with special characters (in this case €, but also Germanic umlauts as ö) in their bodies are shunted and not delivered. This looks like a legitimate bug. It doesn't just look like

[Mailman-Users] X-Spam-Score: 22.4 and still sent out to the list...

2015-05-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
James Nightly writes: How can I configure mailman on Debian to reject messages with X-Spam-Score over 8? We are getting bombarded with spam, messages are tagged by Spamassasin, but for some reason Exim4 still sends these to Mailman. Evaluating numbers by regexp is finicky, but there's a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Conceal the member's address

2015-05-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
EyeLand writes: insert next variables on mail, top and futer user_address user_delivered_to user_password user_name user_optionsurl but they are not convert and I receive on subscriber email simple text user_address user_delivered_to

[Mailman-Users] How to know if all messages were distributed

2015-05-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Regis writes: Indeed 72 hours after the mailing, i continue to see permanently about 500 messages in the queue of my messaging server (i have a linux centOS VPS with Qmail). Using Qmail is asking for trouble. Dan Bernstein is unquestionably a genius, but his software tends to assume

[Mailman-Users] DMARC hack

2015-05-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Allan Hansen writes: 69,74d68 # Added to deal with DMARC issuej name, addrs = parseaddr(msg.get('from')) addrs += '.invalid' This is known to be a bad idea, as it increases the spam score at many sites (because the author's mail domain doesn't resolve).

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC hack

2015-05-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Allan Hansen writes: Checking for aol.com and yahoo.com here alone will not work. I have a bunch of other subscribers that have accounts with providers that are owned by Yahoo (mostly) and AOL, but whose addresses are not of this form. Oddly enough, it turns out that they only use DMARC

Re: [Mailman-Users] Could Mailman cope with extra Mime sections intended for Apple Watches?

2015-05-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 05/17/2015 04:04 PM, Peter Shute wrote: This isn't something that's happening right now, and I doubt it will, but you never know. Apple is playing with mail formats intended to display as a message summary on an Apple Watch, but show the full message on a

[Mailman-Users] Issue since 2.1.13-5 to 2.1.13-6 update

2015-05-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
renaud courvoisier writes: Hi, since I've updated from 2.1.13-5 to 2.1.13-6 the language option keep chinese (taiwan) event if I uncheck it. 2.1.13 is very old, and the -5 is not part of the Mailman version. You may be able to get better help from your OS distributor than from us. Try

[Mailman-Users] Trying to get mail working

2015-05-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Steve Matzura writes: I have charge of a very mixed system--current OS (Fedora 20--OK 21's out but I just haven't upgraded yet), current (or nearly so) Mailman (2.1.18-1), Postfix 2.10 with a configuration file sfrom something a lot older which I've run through the upgrade-configuration

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 3

2015-05-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 05/12/2015 06:56 PM, bill.co...@unh.edu wrote: I installed Python v3 yesterday with no problems. But I am finding the Mailman v3 install instructions a bit hard to follow. If I run into brick wall, is this the appropriate forum for any questions I may

[Mailman-Users] Possible problems using a site-wide list auto-responder?

2015-05-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
bill.co...@unh.edu writes: The auto-responder feature built into Mailman looks like it would be perfect for the site-wide list as a way of letting users know when somebody will be looking at their questions (normal business hours) and to point them to self-help documentation.

Re: [Mailman-Users] /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py

2015-05-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 05/03/2015 06:17 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: On all the machines I can ssh to, I have an /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py as well as a /usr/lib (or /var/lib) /mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py, and the second is a symbolic link to the first. Why do we have an

Re: [Mailman-Users] /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py

2015-05-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Debian also puts the files where they belong, including putting mm_cfg.py in /etc/mailman/ which I agree is the right place, but Mailman still thinks all the files are in /var/lib/mailman Ah, OK, I see what you mean. Except IIRC Mailman proper knows the absolute paths

Re: [Mailman-Users] Conceal the member's address

2015-05-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
EyeLand writes: I not see OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION and VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES Defaults are set in /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py on my Debian system. You should not change that file, any changes will be overwritten the next time you upgrade. Instead, add those variables

[Mailman-Users] mailloop exim lmtp

2015-05-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Thomas Stein writes: Exim gives no error. Just a loop between goodnews-bounces and goodnews. What did i wrong this time? :-) It appears that Exim can't send mail at all, and so first the error happens in the mailing list, then it tries to send the error information to the list-owner, but

[Mailman-Users] Mailman and dmark help -- please

2015-05-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dennis Longnecker writes: I really -- really want the list set so when someone gets an e-mail from the list they can see who sent it and when they click reply it goes to the original sender. Given your user base, the only way to accomplish this is to set your list so that there is *no*

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

2015-04-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: As I said before, this is reported as a bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1447445 which is fixed for the next release, and which fix has been installed for the mail.python.org Mailman. Note that the RFC-ly correct fix would involve a reverse lookup, which is

Re: [Mailman-Users] DMARC documentation lacking

2015-04-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Fil writes: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Fil f...@rezo.net wrote: 1) how to add a default value in mm_cfg.py from the release notes I guess it's something like DEFAULT_DMARC_MODERATION_ACTION = 1 # Munge just to be clear: this line doesn't seem to bring anything to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Adam McGreggor writes: I think that will help drive community contributions, immensely. It's one barrier removed. Immensely? I'm not terribly optimistic. I personally want to use git, but moving to git has not appreciably changed the equation for Emacs (which also made the move from Bazaar

[Mailman-Users] Bounces being detected as spam/virus sending rate

2015-04-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Steven D'Aprano writes: Can you suggest anything I can do to avoid triggering the ISP's system? humor mood=DMARC black, very very black, Sir! Start by removing all yahoo.com and aol.com addresses! ;-) /humor The timing is wrong, and knowing you I suppose you probably already have a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

2015-04-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Laura Creighton writes: become all the more common in the future. Is insisting that the IP addresses match serving a useful purpose? Yes. Differing request origins is the characteristic signature of a CSRF attack.[1] I suppose the site could resolve the IP to a domain, but that would slow

Re: [Mailman-Users] Somebody could not subscribe to pypy-...@python.org

2015-04-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Laura Creighton writes: Maybe at the point where we mention 'you must have cookies enabled' we should mention that load balancers can cause problems? I don't think nontechnical users will know what load balancer means. By now most users either know about cookies because they've disabled

[Mailman-Users] Version number?

2015-04-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Thomas Gramstad writes: How can I find out what version number of Mailman I'm using? Visit the web interface (for subscribers, moderators, or admins), it's in the footer. If you have shell access to the server, you can look in mailman/Mailman/Version.py. If you have a package manager and

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Executive summary: 1. Some aspects of accessibility (providing text alternatives for non-text media) can be treated like translation (and will increase the burden on translation!) 2. Frameworks need to help point out the pain points. Like: Yo! there's an ALT-less image here that

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Teijo writes: As to WCAG 2.0, it's W3C's recommendation for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/). Maybe this standard is better, but most W3C standards are not very helpful to app developers. They're intended for library and framework developers, as well as

Re: [Mailman-Users] What would your dream Mailman web interface look like?

2015-04-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David Andrews writes: A reminder that any web UI, whether end user, or administrator, needs to be accessible to disabled persons -- preferably it will use the WCAG 2.0 AA standards. We do use industrial-strength web frameworks, mostly Django. To the extent they support the

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Peter Shute writes: But this time I tried unticking the Plain option for my subscription. I was surprised to see that they did start coming through as individual attachements, and that I could open them and reply to them properly. This works in both Outlook and iOS Mail. But all I

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Peter Shute writes: I've seen a plain text section that didn't match the html version (if I'm remembering that incident correctly). Indeed, occasionally you'll see the arrogant your MUA doesn't deal with MIME properly notice in a text/plain MIME part, rather than in the preamble.

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: One of two things is eventually going to have to happen. Either people who design and publish standards for email are going to have to come to agreement on a proper standard for this kind of content enhancement, We have that, IMO. It's called HTML5 + link

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 11:58 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Yes. The MIME type of the digest part is multipart/digest. The individual messages are message/rfc822 sub-parts. So ideally, a proper MUA should be able to extract and deal with the message/rfc822

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Al Black writes: I spent a few hours yesterday thinking about a cleaner to improve the signal noise for the kind of posts were talking about. Not a simple problem to solve (well for me anyway). If you're serious about maintaining the relevant content, it's *very* hard (requires AI natural

[Mailman-Users] CC pruning: does it work?

2015-03-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: There is one case with Mailman lists where [to vs. cc] matters, at least in MM 2.1, but I think MM 3 too. If a list member has 'avoid dups' set and that member is a Cc: addressee of a post, that member will not receive the post from the list AND that member's

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: I never quite understood all the fuss about top posting. Usenet over UUCP via 300 baud modems on backbone servers with 5MB disks.[1] The reason behind quoting in the first place is to provide context for a reply, but some MUAs make it very difficult to not top

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
jdd writes: Le 20/03/2015 01:45, Mark Sapiro a écrit : This is a major hot-button issue for me, The above is only scratching the surface. smartphones makes things horrible, on android, selecting text for deletion is nearly impossible :-(( This is true. On many lists I

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Andrew Stuart writes: For example I’m still not really clear on which field the list address should go into, To or CC. Most Mailman lists will refuse to accept mail BCC'd to the list. and does it matter what other addresses go into to and cc fields. It doesn't matter for mechanical

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry Warsaw writes: This is an interesting question for me because I think the netiquette rules I've been using for decades may be changing. http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Teach/IntroSES/socsys.html Yes-Virginia-economics-can-be-useful-ly y'rs,

Re: [Mailman-Users] The right way to reply to a mailing list

2015-03-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: As far as editing, top posting, bottom posting, etc. it's just a matter of using good sense. But there's one aspect of good sense you left out, namely When in Rome This list strongly prefers interlinear posting (posting below the relevant paragraph) if you reply

[Mailman-Users] Mailman RSS patch, revised

2015-03-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Hey, if anybody is interested in *using* this patch, speak up *now*, because tomoorwr GSoC intern applications open. I can add this to the task list (specifially, port to MM3 and maintain for MM2 preetty please). But I'd like to know how high to prioritize when evaluating proposals. Steve

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman RSS patch, revised

2015-03-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Thanks for the feedback, Jim and Ron! GSoC project description here: http://wiki.list.org/DEV/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015 (#12). Steve Jim Popovitch writes: On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Hey, if anybody is interested in *using* this patch

Re: [Mailman-Users] Jump from Python 2.4 to 2.7...

2015-03-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Laura Creighton writes: Apologies, apologies ... (from somebody who only learned that about CentOS only _after_ she thought thatinstalling a more modern Python system-wide would be in everybody's interest) Yes, indeed. Don't touch /usr/bin/python is an ancient Red Hat and Centos

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sendmail and apache on Different Servers

2015-02-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
John McIntyre writes: 2015-02-20 0:16 GMT+00:00 Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org: For the webserver, I think a virtualhost configuration in Apache like VirtualHost *:80 ServerName mailman.example.com [...] /VirtualHost Thanks for that, I'm about to try

[Mailman-Users] Sendmail and apache on Different Servers

2015-02-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
John McIntyre writes: I'm guessing that apache can proxy for the mailman server, but what about e-mail? For the webserver, I think a virtualhost configuration in Apache like VirtualHost *:80 ServerName mailman.example.com ServerAdmin y...@example.com Location /

[Mailman-Users] Mailman Bounce Messages

2015-02-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tapia, Rene writes: The only issue that I have is that when certain large email lists send emails containing attachments the .pck bounce messages in /var/lib/mailman/data grow rapidly and fills up all the disk. These lists are large and I know for a face a lot of these email addresses

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with regular expression filters

2015-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Malcolm Austen writes: What I would really like is a (simple) way to trap the absence of a subject header but I think, we can (understandably) only trap on the content of something that is present :-( As a workaround, procmail supports negative assertions of that kind: :0: * !

[Mailman-Users] How to configure mailman to only deliver mail a few times a day?

2015-02-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Laura Creighton writes: Hi Laura! While some people want to continue receiving digests, and some people don't, everybody is in favour of having the mail only go out in batches at set intervals during the day. So maybe once a day is too infrequent, and 3 times a day would be nicer, but

[Mailman-Users] master list to allow users to subscribe all the other lists without admin approval

2015-02-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kim, DongInn writes: Is there a way to setup a master list to allow any users in the master list to subscribe all the other lists in the same domain without admin approval? Not exactly that without altering the code. Such a facility will probably be available in Mailman 3. (If it isn't

[Mailman-Users] Need help

2015-02-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dan Speranzo writes: i am attempting to create a new email address to be used for posting. Please help. This is a personal address, so that you can send mail to a mailing list? We can't help you with that. Or is this a mailing list that can have mail addressed to it and will be delivered

Re: [Mailman-Users] Diagnosing command failures

2015-01-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Peter Shute writes: A lot of people use the cPanel version and can't do anything complicated for support. Even though this particular case is about trying to help a difficult user to do something that's normally straightforward that's probably pointless anyway, I hope v3 at least gives

Re: [Mailman-Users] Diagnosing command failures

2015-01-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Gary Merrill writes: I know the kinds of problems you guys are facing -- although you should be somewhat grateful that you aren't dealing with the FDA, insurance companies, gigantic healthcare organizations, the CDC, and multiple pharma companies. :-) I don't have to deal with them, but

Re: [Mailman-Users] Which from, reply and DMARC settings for a discussion group?

2015-01-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
John R Levine writes: [About munging p=reject addresses in From] I've been doing this for the better part of a year, with some very non-technical users on lists for my church and a bunch of folk dancers. For the most part, they don't even notice it. Perhaps one or two wrote to me to ask

Re: [Mailman-Users] Which from, reply and DMARC settings for a discussion group?

2015-01-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
John Levine writes: Have you tried any sort of reversible rewriting? On my lists, sending addresses in dmarc'ed domains get a local domain appended on the From: line, e.g. mail From: mari...@yahoo.com - mari...@yahoo.com.dmarc.fail. [...] It's gross and disgusting, but no worse than

[Mailman-Users] Redirected email address as entrypoint to mailing list

2015-01-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Andrew Stuart writes: Image a mailing list myl...@example.org Is there any reason why the users could not be told to use adifferentl...@adifferentdomain.org which simply forwards mail to myl...@example.org Would this raise any potential problems? Depends on what you are trying to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing name of mailman list that I own

2015-01-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Timothy Murphy writes: So it seems the simplest thing to do is to get my sysadmin to create a new list, and delete the old one. Yes. Since you're at a university, it seems likely there are lots of such lists and the sysadmin is familiar with the procedure. I don't know if it's easy to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Robots.txt

2014-12-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 12/26/2014 09:21 AM, Greg Sims wrote: Is there a way to have a robots.txt file for the lists.raystedman.org subdomain? Absolutely. Just put it in the root directory that contains the page which is served when you go to http://lists.raystedman.org/. I.e., put

[Mailman-Users] Yahoo spam detection

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Steven D'Aprano writes: Some of my Yahoo subscribers are reporting that emails from my mailing list are being flagged as spam. As far as I can tell, I'm not using spammy words, and the emails are plain text not HTML. I have SPF set up. I think it might be helpful to set up DKIM as well.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest indexes

2014-12-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lucio Chiappetti writes: I hope it is allowed to post a few screendumps to demonstrate Unfortunately, Mailman @python.org doesn't pass those, and they don't get into mail-archive.com because it's subscribed by mail, not direct from the Mailman daemon. This satisfies your item 1 in three

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest indexes

2014-12-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lucio Chiappetti writes: Actually, most Emacs-based MUAs are able to treat digests as folders by default. No customizations required. Then you are beyond my mark, Not really. My primary MUA is VM, which presents a rather simple menubar toolbar interface to the average user.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest indexes

2014-12-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Peter Shute writes: They create problems when they reply by constructing the reply by hand with a different subject line, or by simply replying to the digest email, with unchanged subject line and quoting the digest in full. The only reason they use digest mode in the first place is

[Mailman-Users] Digest indexes

2014-12-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Andrew Hodgson writes: I run a high volume list (around 80 messages per day), and we have complaints from digest users that the digests are difficult to work with. One requested feature is could the digests be in HTML format, and a link be presented in the table of contents to go to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest indexes

2014-12-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Andrew Hodgson writes: One of the examples I saw from another setup was to use in page links for each message in the TOC, so the links in the TOC just put the focus onto the next message. I don't understand what this means in terms of the link's href. It's definitely not a matter of just

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