Re: [Mailman-Users] Error on attempt to create a List in Mailman 2.1.7-15.12.1 from Mailman Web admin UI

2012-06-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mailman Admin writes: The problem is, that even after bin/fixurl is run, the archive directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ has owner:group = mailman:mailman . You have to set it to wwwrun:mailman, in order for the apache server to have write access to it too. The httpd doesn't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error on attempt to create a List in Mailman 2.1.7-15.12.1 from Mailman Web admin UI

2012-06-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mailman Admin writes: On 2012-06-25 09:37, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Mailman Admin writes: The problem is, that even after bin/fixurl is run, the archive directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ has owner:group = mailman:mailman . You have to set it to wwwrun:mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error on attempt to create a List in Mailman 2.1.7-15.12.1 from Mailman Web admin UI

2012-06-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Stephen J. Turnbull writes: The httpd doesn't need access to the archives; the mailman CGI does. So the CGI wrapper should be setgid mailman. Is it? Yes it is. Is /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ group-writable? If not, I'm stumped; it should be possible

Re: [Mailman-Users] Error on attempt to create a List inMailman 2.1.7-15.12.1 from Mailman Web admin UI

2012-06-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: What does ls -l /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/create (assuming that's the correct path to the create wrapper) show? Answer: I have no directory called create in the /var/lib/mailman/directory structure As Mark points out, it's /usr/..., not /var/ Many

Re: [Mailman-Users] google tracking code

2012-07-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: The other way is to just write a script to add the tracking code to every archives/private/*/*/+([0-9]).html file. Shouldn't that be archives/private/*/*/[0-9]+\.html? Steve -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] google tracking code

2012-07-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: No. Sorry! Gotta stop writing non-urgent mail on planes (especially when flying out of a disaster area) What I wrote is a bash extglob *sigh* Yet another reason to hate bash (YMMV of course, not a criticism of you for using it!)

[Mailman-Users] upgrade path from 2.1.13 to 2.1.15

2012-07-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Christopher Adams writes: I am finally getting around to to upgrading Mailman 2.1.13. Should I upgrade to 2.1.14 and then upgrade to 2.1.15, or just go directly to 2.1.15? You can just go directly. Of course check the UPGRADING document for a refresher, but there are no particular tasks

Re: [Mailman-Users] postsuper

2012-07-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Khalil Abbas writes: Hi, Thanks for the tip, but my problem isn’t with deferred mail, no mail is getting rejected from the remote MTA's.. but my problem is that the main hardware node is distributing the mail over the 120 MX nodes slowly.. I have set the SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to 5 per message

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail features

2012-08-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lucio Crusca writes: Feel free to try subscribing to the above list and try posting from gmail. OK, but it will have to wait until tomorrow. I need to sleep after that last goal by Mexico. :-( Like I said, I suspect it depends on the list. My current best guess is that older lists

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail features

2012-08-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lucio Crusca writes: Actually I already suspected that no RFC said what a MUA should do with messages. However Gmail is accessible via POP/IMAP also. AFAICT the same messages are lost also when accessing gmail via POP/IMAP, and in that case GMail is not only a MUA and it does break

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail features

2012-08-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lucio Crusca writes: Again, that's not the point and we basically agree gmail is bad, but... a standard is some set of commonly accepted rules. Be it written down into a RFC or not. It doesn't need to be in an RFC, but it must be written. What is commonly accepted is simply not a standard

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail features

2012-08-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: I really don't think that this is a disk storage issue, I think this is much more likely to be a wrong-headed idea that this kind of thing will be beneficial to the users -- after all, they know that they sent the message and that copy is sitting in the outbox, so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives for Yahoo Groups like Web Features

2012-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: The problem is that you're not going to find a unified solution to all these problems. Not soon, but Mailman 3 will make it easier to integrate such with Mailman (within a few months, I guess). The actual work may take years unless substantial resources are contributed,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Alternatives for Yahoo Groups like Web Features

2012-08-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Adam McGreggor writes: That might be overkill, in which case, if you can ignore/find an additional service for c), and if your users are comfortable with Wikis, a wiki may be a reasonable alternative. Some even have permissions models -- Twiki springs to mind. As does ZWiki, although

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: but if they're going to make modifications to it, they need to share those modifications back with us Doesn't their failure to do so violate the GPL? No. The GPL requires that you grant certain rights to use of your code to downstream recipients, not that you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: Doesn't their failure to do so violate the GPL? In this respect, I believe that they are probably in violation of the spirit of the GPL, but perhaps not in the letter of the law. RMS is adamantly opposed to that interpretation of the spirit of the GPL, and has said

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: More importantly, it would be much less difficult for us to support that part of the community, which would help reduce the support burden that Apple has to maintain. C'mon, Brad, it's *annoying* to have to support that part of the community, but it's never been

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:03 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: Which is probably why they are so very violently opposed to having any GPL-encumbered code anywhere in the company. GCC? gdb? binutils? Make? CUPS? Mailman? Gcc gdb are gone

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Problems under OSX Lion

2012-08-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brad Knowles writes: However, I am starting to wonder if this kind of stuff going away is not part of an overall effort to dumb-down OS X so that it can be unified with iOS. Could be, but in that case I would expect that their strategy is to completely eliminate server support, and try to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Umbrella list behavior - subject_prefix ; undesired result

2012-09-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
On 9/20/2012 12:22 PM, Drew Tenenholz wrote: When I post to the umbrella and I am a subscriber to BOTH child lists, I see: Subject: Child1 UMBRELLA Test Post Subject: Child2 UMBRELLA Test Post It's not really what I want to see, so I wonder if this changed in future versions of

[Mailman-Users] Suspend a Subscriber

2012-10-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dennis Putnam writes: Is there a way to suspend or otherwise prevent a subscriber from posting to a list and send a notice of same, without actually unsubscribing and officially banning them? 1. In the Membership page, set the member to moderated. 2. In the Privacy | Sender Filters page,

Re: [Mailman-Users] GNU Mailman, admins and passwords

2012-10-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Do you understand what I'm saying above? I am not saying that you should not set your subscription to no mail. I am saying that if you make this choice, you should not place the burden of this choice upon others by asking them to Cc you on replies. You should

Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Domain Hosting

2012-10-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
P.V.Anthony writes: Is this true for all versions of mailman? All versions so far released by this project, yes. cPanel and maybe some other third-party distributions have patched versions of Mailman that allow one instance of Mailman to handle multiple domains with independent namespaces for

[Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kalbfleisch, Gary writes: inundated with confirmation request messages, and you cannot delete them all at once on the Tend to pending moderator requests screen. You have to select Discard for each of them individually. I don't know if this has been changed yet. As far as I can see,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kalbfleisch, Gary writes: Kalbfleisch, Gary responds: Messages are batchable, but administrative tasks are not. As you noted you must tick each box, and yes I'm talking pages and pages of bogus subscription requests. Quite tedious. This would be a bigger problem than losing valid

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kalbfleisch, Gary writes: I personally don't care for CAPTCHA but it exists for a reason. Sure, the eternal search for easy solutions to difficult problems. If anyone can suggest a better solution I would love to here it. Right now Mailman is being exploited to email bomb individuals and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: Take a look at http://areyouahuman.com/. I just tried their sample. I'd rather face a CAPTCHA! And their twitter feed reads like spam -- same comments, same apparent author, different avatar. Not a great start if they want to captcha my lists! ;-) Seriously, I can

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kalbfleisch, Gary writes: Note that for the majority of what I have seen in this attack it is the return email messages that the exploiters desire. Yes, this is the most important point for Mailman developers, in fact. Thank you for reiterating it. I have seen some evidence that these

Re: [Mailman-Users] Too many recipients

2012-10-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes writes: Searching google I found that this error isn't related to the number of users in the list, it occurs because the total number of addresses in the To: and Cc: headers of the post equals or exceeds max_num_recipients. The operational issues have already

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-10-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: On the other hand, most people get spam, and hate it, and can appreciate that their own interests are served by having to jump through a hoop or two to make sure that they're entering a bot-free zone. Sure, all of that is true, except for the implication that

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman running very slow

2012-10-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: I would run swaks from the same box on which you run Mailman, and use -f with whatever Mailman uses as the envelope sender address for posts, Wow, that's cool! Thanks for the tip! -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman running very slow

2012-10-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: I would have thought that everyone who works with or develops any application or server that handles e-mail would know about swaks. *They* probably do. *I* am an economics professor[1] who moonlights on programmer's editors and host admin for one such project. ;-)

Re: [Mailman-Users] POST based subscribe attacks

2012-10-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ben Cooksley writes: A pity, as the subscription form definitely could do with the same form of protection. Think about what you're saying. Open subscription either means open subscription, or an admin has to do all the work. There's no third way. (Well, there is, but it only applies to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-member posting to the list

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tanstaafl writes: On 2012-11-13 1:52 AM, Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.net wrote: If I knew how to tell if a header was spoofed, I could do that, but I don't know how to tell; do you? Maybe an alternative would be an option that for every message posted to the list, a confirmation email

Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

2012-11-18 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Ben Cooksley writes: If Mailman were to implement basic CSRF protection for all POST requests that would also slow the attackers down I suspect (as they would have to make a GET request first and parse it). It might slow a human down, but as soon as it becomes a feature of Mailman, the

Re: [Mailman-Users] what is a virtual domain?

2012-11-19 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: It's not unusual at all. From the point of view of DNS, there's no difference between a virtual domain and a real one. Actually, that's not true. In the context of Mailman, the most important one is that an MX record must point to a real domain (ie, one with an A

[Mailman-Users] Content Filtering

2012-11-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Roger Richmond writes: I have had a problem with Mailman stripping out MS Word documents, and have partially solved it by adding application/msword to the pass mime types section. However, Mailman still strips out documents created in Office 2007 and later, with the .docx extension.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman needs 20 seconds to complete per email

2012-12-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Karsten Becker writes: WTF? Dec 04 09:25:15 2012 qrunner(8680): connect: ('localhost', 10030) Dec 04 09:25:15 2012 qrunner(8680): connect: (10030, 'localhost') Dec 04 09:25:36 2012 qrunner(8680): reply: '220 mail01.foodmz.local ESMTP Ecologic Institute ready\r\n' Dec 04

Re: [Mailman-Users] {Disarmed} Re: mailman postfix ldap virtual user

2012-12-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Gökhan Alkan writes: the /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases file . And also main.cf file contains the line alias_maps = hash:/etc/mail/aliases,hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases. But it doesnt run and returns unknwon user. As a wild guess, I bet Postfix also wants to be informed about

Re: [Mailman-Users] {Disarmed} Re: mailman postfix ldap virtual user

2012-12-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Gökhan Alkan writes: virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/virtual-mailman virtual_transport = dovecot dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail:vmail argv=/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${user} It looks to me like your mailman

[Mailman-Users] Digest growing to infinity

2012-12-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jan Krohn writes: The Japanese list however is behaving extremely strange. I'm not sure whether this is a bug or misconfiguration on my side. It's not due to it being Japanese. I've run Japanese lists for years with no such effect. The digest being sent out is the same one every day, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spam subscriptionrequest

2012-12-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: The League CA Cities wrote: some of my list are being spammed with bot subscription request. I am looking for a way to add a hidden field to the subscription page of each list that a bot would see but a human user will not. I would like to have Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spamsubscriptionrequest

2012-12-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: The asking of a question which requires an obvious to a human but extremely difficult to a machine answer is probably the best defence as long as the questions and answers aren't fixed over many Mailman installations. That's a great idea, actually! How about a

Re: [Mailman-Users] creating hidden field to stop bot spamsubscriptionrequest

2012-12-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Damon writes: These methods are designed to repel most attacks. Sure, that is understood. The problem is that if a particular method is recommended here, there will be a request to add it to Mailman. At that point it becomes worth breaking the defense. The idea is these bots are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding backup to multi-server config

2012-12-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Python is indentation-sensitive. Do you really mean a dedent there relative to the surrounding stanza? It doesn't seem to be an artifact of TABs or something like that. Find the section in the definition of the files() method that looks like if ext

Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding backup to multi-server config

2012-12-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: No, it's just lack of careful typing and proof-reading on my part. (Also, a clue that what I wrote was inadequately tested at best). Hey, I wouldn't worry about it. You play more games of the season than Ichiro and you bat about .950!wink/

[Mailman-Users] need help with mailman mail is coming into my spam box

2012-12-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Philip R. Canterbury writes: mail is coming into my spam box  I don't know if this is problem for all the people on my list, but is their something i can change? Stop using Yahoo for your mail, as far as your personal situation goes. I'm only half-joking -- I'm in the fortunate position of

[Mailman-Users] Message from a non-subscriber (Dropbox) on a member-only list

2013-01-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
dc writes: How can a non-subscribed address (From: Dropbox no-re...@dropboxmail.com) post to a closed mailing list? That would not authorize the post. However, From is not the only datum checked. Why wasn't this invitation rejected? Because the sender's address appeared in one of the

[Mailman-Users] Amazon SES and Verified Senders

2013-01-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Duane Winner writes: Does anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this dilemma: I am running Mailman+Postfix+Ubuntu in Amazon AWS, and using Amazon SES as a relay.  Although, this problem isn't unique to just SES. This problem is common among many relay services, DynDNS to name

Re: [Mailman-Users] Amazon SES and Verified Senders

2013-01-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
: Stephen J. Turnbull (step...@xemacs.org) f...@acceptable.com You could also do From: Stephen J. Turnbull f...@acceptable.com Reply-To: step...@xemacs.org, l...@your-host.org People would have to be careful to clean out the unneeded address, but everything they need

Re: [Mailman-Users] Amazon SES and Verified Senders

2013-01-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Duane Winner writes: When sending through Amazon SES, instead of using the  From address of your user, instead use your organization's email address with a friendly name which identifies the user. Only the email address portion is verified, so you can send with  From addresses like so:

Re: [Mailman-Users] Amazon SES and Verified Senders

2013-01-12 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Stephen J. Turnbull writes: Duane Winner writes: When sending through Amazon SES, instead of using the  From address of your user, instead use your organization's email address with a friendly name which identifies the user. Only the email address portion is verified, so you

[Mailman-Users] OT - Regex help (was: Re: About Spam Filtering

2013-02-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Like Joseph, I don't know what /.*+/ does, but this $ echo 'From bounce' | perl -ane 'print if /From.*bounce/;' From bounce $ echo 'From bounce' | perl -ane 'print if /From.*+bounce/;' $ shows what it doesn't do. -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] OT - Regex help (was: Re: About Spam Filtering

2013-02-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tanstaafl writes: On 2013-02-15 10:25 AM, Joseph Brennan bren...@columbia.edu wrote: I am uncertain what /.*+/ would do. Remove either * or +. As Joseph says, change the first part of your regexp from ^From:.*+ to ^from:.* or ^from:.+ (I would choose the former because it's more inclusive,

[Mailman-Users] Help! Mailman's Digest Option Sending Too Many Digests

2013-03-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Yosem Companys writes: Hi all, I'm one of the moderators of the Stanford University Program on Liberation Technology at http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/. You've come to the right place. Mailman is a liberating technology! I was wondering whether someone on this list could

Re: [Mailman-Users] Google mail servers reply Multiple destination domains per transaction is unsupported

2013-03-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: It's hard to say, but it seems that you have list members in multiple domains all served by the same google mail MX, and google doesn't like receiving multiple recipient domains in a single SMTP transaction. Other way around, I think. The Google MX in question seems to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Google mail servers reply Multiple destination domains per transaction is unsupported

2013-03-08 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Joseph Brennan writes: I reported this a few months ago, as a Google Apps for Edu customer, and Google refuses to fix it. I spent a couple of weeks back and forth with several people, and I got beyond the first line helpdesk. None of them could give me a good explanation, I bet they

Re: [Mailman-Users] Google mail servers reply Multiple destination domains per transaction is unsupported

2013-03-09 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Joseph Brennan writes: Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote: I bet they think it's an anti-spam measure. None of the big services likes to talk much about that. That's what frontline helpdesk told me, but no one could explain how it reduces spam. Rich man's graylisting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hide sender but keep reply-to sender address?

2013-03-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Joseph Brennan writes: - Andrei - tucsonand...@gmail.com wrote: I would like members to receive email with From: Mailing List Name How will people know who wrote each message? Obviously, the Cabal authored it. P.S. There is no cabal.

Re: [Mailman-Users] tabs or whitespaces added at subject line

2013-03-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Sergio Bastian Rodríguez writes: Thanks for your answer, Mark. I can not understand one issue of that behaviour. All emails are send/receive by the same email client, Outlook 2003 and 2007 versions. So, when all costumers used the same client software , is possible that sometimes

Re: [Mailman-Users] strange problem

2013-03-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
I see the conversation has continued as I wrote. I'll try to avoid duplication, but it would be a mess to rewrite the whole thing. Bruce Harrison writes: OK, there are no headers in the Sent folder as the mail message gets copied in there before it goes thru the mail systems, so nothing

Re: [Mailman-Users] strange problem

2013-03-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Bruce Harrison writes: Thanks for a good, detailed explanation. You're welcome. This kind of problem gets sadly technical really quickly. Our one remaining Barracuda boxes is an outgoing mail filter, I really should keep my random opinions to myself. I'm sure it does a good job, I was

Re: [Mailman-Users] strange problem

2013-03-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 3/14/2013 3:22 PM, Bruce Harrison wrote: j...@mailman.utm.edu was not in the Sent folder message at all. We understand that and never expected it to be. The question is in exactly what context in the Cc: in the sent folder is Judy found. To be specific, we

Re: [Mailman-Users] Some Approvd messages don't get broadcasted

2013-04-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
fr...@library.iisc.ernet.in writes: grep -r Fri Mar 8 10:09:05 IST 2013 * Try grep -r Fri Mar 8 10:09:05 IST 2013 * (note two spaces before 8 in Mar 8) Grep is not very smart that way -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Messages not arriving - deep into filtering and delivery

2013-04-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Aside: If you'd post from your subscribed address, you'd avoid moderation delay and possible rejection of your post. I think Drew already knows this, but since Mark mentions the member filter here, I'd like to remind users that if one has several possible posting

Re: [Mailman-Users] receive your own posts problem

2013-04-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Neil Anuskiewicz writes: You guys are saying that I could contact Google and actually have some influence? Have a lot of other people brought up the issue with them? No, that was ironic. A lot of people (including several on this list) have contacted them and asked them to make it

[Mailman-Users] Making a Mailman legacy archive searchable?

2013-04-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David Roth writes: Is there anything open-source to make a Mailman legacy archive searchable? FreeWAIS (oldie but still goodie), Namazu, and Xapian come to mind. They all require some effort on the part of the user, though. I don't know of anything that you can trivially install (eg, from RPM

Re: [Mailman-Users] receive your own posts problem

2013-04-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
William Bagwell writes: As long as it defaults off and is user selectable I think this would be a nice feature. No, by definition it's a nasty feature, as it involves nonconformance to RFC 5322. Suggested similar in the past... It will break threading for those of us who want full

Re: [Mailman-Users] receive your own posts problem

2013-04-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
William Bagwell writes: So if a list adds a footer to the body of a message (many do) then that implies that the Message-ID /should/ be changed. No. As the section you quoted later shows, that is a syntactic difference and clearly *not* a reason for changing the Message-ID. Obviously

[Mailman-Users] member address in envolope ID and From: lines

2013-04-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Al Black writes: Specifically, I have some users on a couple of lists that are gmail users with multiple accounts linked to that gmail address. They use it to send mail while at work, but still have it appear to come from their home address. This means that the envelope address will not

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Mail

2013-04-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: I have nothing to add to Mark's answer to question 1. 2- If that email consumes 200GB of my monthly bandwidth, while my monthly bandwidth limit is only 8GB, sending that one email will explode and break down my whole website or it will just give me an error that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass Mail

2013-04-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Damon writes: There is a fourth case, Host Provider sends the emails then sends you a bill for the overage at the rate specified in the contract. This could be very expensive for going that much over limit. All I can say is, ouch! :-(

[Mailman-Users] unsubscribe problem

2013-05-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Brian Canty writes: I have removed all my subscribers from a list, but 2 of them will not unsubscribe. Does anyone know of any way I can get to the raw subscription list and manually remove them? Membership management | mass remove from that list's admin page? Or is that what you've

[Mailman-Users] Mailman security question

2013-05-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Lindsay Haisley writes: Is there any support in any version of Mailman for total end to end message security? Not in a distributed version, although as mentioned in another post there's a patch. There's a GSoC proposal to implement some such thing for Mailman 3, with a reasonable UI for

Re: [Mailman-Users] Importing old archives into Mailman

2013-05-10 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Barry S. Finkel writes: The in front of From in message bodies IS REQUIRED. Only by the archive builder. Specifically, AFAIK you are correct, Pipermail will split an mbox to messages on any line matching ^From , and leave any From lines in the resulting archive. There are two ways to

Re: [Mailman-Users] mails without MIME delimiter break when sent through mailman

2013-05-16 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 05/16/2013 01:48 AM, Jan Lausch wrote: Is that a correct MIME-set? As Mark says, it's conformant to MIME in that a MIME conforming MUA is perfectly happy to process that encoded file as part of the message body's text, completely oblivious to the fact that it's really

[Mailman-Users] Fire Wall Ports - 80, 25, others?

2013-05-28 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Drew Tenenholz writes: Is there a good reference to what ports and protocols they should leave alone so we can keep working? These can be changed in mm_cfg.py, I believe, but incoming 80 (HTTP) and 25 (SMTP) and outgoing 25 (SMTP) cover most sites. Incoming 443 (HTTPS) is another

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Pages

2013-05-31 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Janice Boothe writes: It seems rather odd and extremely limiting that Mailman functiuons as you describe in regards to confirm. Yes, it's limiting, and the limitation was probably deliberate. Because the confirmation page is viewable by just about anybody, providing a customizable template

Re: [Mailman-Users] Custom Pages

2013-06-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Janice Boothe writes: Perhaps you are adding in additinal languages that have such little use just to be able to say you offer a huge number of languages?  If there was a real use for all of the others, then someone soudl; translate. There was a real use. That's why someone *did*

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is Mailman 2.1 not plushack aware?

2013-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jay Ashworth writes: A few grafs on this in the doco or on the wiki might not go amiss, unless I'm really the only person who's ever asked, in which case nevermind. :-) I still don't understand what you're asking for, unless it's Mailman subscribes *exactly* the address you give it. In

Re: [Mailman-Users] Privacy Options Filtering

2013-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: On 06/03/2013 03:21 PM, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: Could there be an easier way? I don't want to run the risk of list owners overdoing this, but some spam usernames are super obvious. Like freecredit or onlinepoker. Learn simple regular expressions. There are lots

Re: [Mailman-Users] Privacy Options Filtering

2013-06-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: The bug is only that if you select Add invalid address to one of these sender filters: Mailman will add the address to one of the *_these_nonmembers filters and later you will be unable to edit that filter through the web UI unless and until you remove the invalid

[Mailman-Users] MM3 [was: Re: Custom Pages]

2013-06-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jan Lausch writes: I mean, the main wiki page http://wiki.list.org/display/DEV/Mailman+3.0 has been last updated 3 years ago. Yeah, this is a problem. There's been a lot of water flowed under that bridge since then, but you can only see it if you look at the source trees (I mean the NEWS

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unsubscribe queue resend to patron after the email was subscribed

2013-06-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: Your patron requested unsubscribe and answered the confirmation on Mar 1 and was then removed from the list. Subsequently on May 6 the patron replied again to the original May 1 confirmation email which was still in his/her mailbox. This time the confirmation token had

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ordering of messages in the moderation queue by date?

2013-06-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Jan Lausch writes: Deal all,     I typically would prefer to see the queue of messages awaiting moderation in time order, not alphabetically by email address as happens by default. I totally second that notion. Is it worth thinking about threading them?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ordering of messages in the moderation queue by date?

2013-06-17 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Damon writes: I will say that for a list I run, I find the alphabetical ordering useful. Indeed. Ordering will be an option, and since this request is hardly a FAQ (though I think it a pretty obviously worthwhile feature), I suppose that the default will be the traditional

Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply e-mail options.

2013-06-25 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Joe writes: I would like to have mail addressed to the list with a simple 'Reply' and addressed to both the list and the sender with a 'Reply All'. Can Mailman be configured to behave this way ? No. Replies are generated by subscriber-side mail clients, not by Mailman. Mailman

[Mailman-Users] Confirmation logging

2013-07-02 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kip Warner writes: Apparently Mailman doesn't handle opt-in confirmations in a way that is compliant with it. Specifically, it doesn't log new subscriptions or the IP addresses of the confirmation. Is this correct? Each step of a subscription is logged. IP addresses of web requests are

Re: [Mailman-Users] Confirmation logging

2013-07-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kip Warner writes: Hey Stephen. Thanks for your help. I passed on your comments to DH and this is what they said: The web interface has the same problem as the mail interface -- the logs rotate and are not available after a certain span of time. Everything

[Mailman-Users] How to create a topic?

2013-07-03 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Javad Hoseini-Nopendar writes: I have created a mailing list named iranr...@iranravi.com, but I have a problem. I believe a few members of the mailing list don't really like to receive all the emails of the list. They don't like to take part in discussions. but they only like to receive

[Mailman-Users] Migration to a new server: recommendations for testing the new Mailman server before changing DNS records; also how to avoid lost/bounced messages during change-over?

2013-07-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
David writes: If anyone has or can come up with an itemized, file-by-file, checklist, There's not going to be anything like that. These things differ from OS to OS and from site to site. I can tell you that aside from standard Mailman code, docs, and website data, Debian's mailman package

Re: [Mailman-Users] Confirmation logging

2013-07-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Kip Warner writes: Yes indeed. I'd say it's just pure lazyiness. Sorry to hear that. If there's anything we can do to help, let us know. And they may see the light. Anything's possible, these days: cPanel has decided to adopt a positive attitude and support us with feature requests and

[Mailman-Users] bounce processing / bounce score

2013-07-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Dave Blakemore writes: Specifically I have one user who is not receiving notes It would help if you are more precise about this. Never received anything since subscription? Check the subscribed address for accuracy. I'm not sure how you can check for invisible characters (like space and

[Mailman-Users] To restrict sending email messages per day

2013-07-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Nezih Yasar writes: Hello everybody, I am an owner of a list using Mailman. We have more than 200 active senders in a 2000-member list. We need a setup tool to restrict 2 messages per day for every user. Is it available such a setup in Mailman? No. Does anyone have any experience

Re: [Mailman-Users] To restrict sending email messages per day

2013-07-15 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Damon writes: On 7/15/13 4:03 PM, Nezih Yasar wrote: We have enough additional lists sharing the traffic but this is an alumni list without moderation. It has a central role. Each alumni has a right to affiliate the list. OK. I still suspect that starting a new list for

[Mailman-Users] Migrate from Lyris to Mailman

2013-07-24 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Stephen Cook writes: I've been asked to migrate the mailing lists from Lyris Listmanager running on Windows 2003 to Mailman on Red Hat Enterprise.  ... requests to http://oldserver.mydomain.com; should go the the old Windows server, and myl...@oldserver.mydomain.com should go to the new

Re: [Mailman-Users] Migrate from Lyris to Mailman

2013-07-29 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Stephen Cook writes: Yes, oldserver will only be a web server, so all mail can be forwarded to the new server. In brief, it looks I should: 1) Forward all mail from oldserver.mydomain.com to newserver.mydomain.com using an MX record or an SMTP forward on oldserver.mydomain.com 2)

[Mailman-Users] Howto change Mailman email To field from l...@example.com to members individual email address

2013-08-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Patrick McEvoy writes: Hello, I have just set up a Mailman mailing list. When I send an email to the list the email header each member receives has my email address in the From field and the list email address in the To field instead of the recipient's email address in the To field.

[Mailman-Users] Help with Reverse-Proxy Integration

2013-08-07 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Thomas Murgan writes: This does not work for me: ProxyPass /mailman http://internal-server/mailman ProxyPassReverse /mailman http://internal-server/mailman If you want all URLs starting with http://external-server/mailman; to be forwarded to corresponding URLs at

[Mailman-Users] Personalized header based on Gender.

2013-08-13 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Patrick McEvoy writes: For example Dear Mr for males and Dear Mrs females. Best avoided, for various reasons as Mark mentions, and also because of the Miss/Mrs/Ms issue for women. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org

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