> Paul Williams wrote: > >>1). A user added a large number of subscribers by uploading >> an Excel spreadsheet. Mailman accepted the file and >> addresses appeared reasonable when viewed with IE but >> not so good with mozilla (each alpha char was followed by >> a box). I was able to remove the names using the >> remove_members command by removing all members. >> >> It seems that it might be a good check when importing a >> list of users, for mailman to make sure it is a text file >> so users don't mess things up inadvertantly. > > > > What Mailman version is this? Current Mailman (2.1.6) is pretty good > about weeding out addresses with non-printable ascii characters. In > particular, it won't accept whatever characters were displaying as a > 'box'. > >
We are using mailman 2.1.5. Is 2.1.6 that much better? > >>2). The second problem that developed is that the user has >> set notification on subscribing to yes and so she and >> her boss bere getting several thousand emails. >> I finally had to completely delete the list. >> Is there a better way to tell mailman to stop sending email >> from a specific list? If that is possible, I have not >> bumped into an explanation how mailman works so I would >> be able to stop it sending emails. > > > > Mass subscribe allows subscribing with or without notifications > regardless of list settings. > > The notifications are created and placed in Mailman's virgin queue > (qfiles/virgin/) and then processed by VirginRunner and placed in the > out queue (qfiles/out). They are then picked up by OutgoingRunner and > delivered to the outgoing MTA. > > You can stop Mailman (bin/mailmanctl stop) and then simply delete files > from the queues. You can use bin/show_qfiles to examine qfiles if you > are in doubt about what to delete. > > Of course, none of this deals with messages that have already been > delivered to the MTA and are queued there. paulw ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
