[Mailman-Users] Re: Create a list with multiple admins?

2024-04-14 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 3/14/2024 8:56 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 3/14/24 06:15, Ralf Hildebrandt via Mailman-Users wrote: Using mailman-2.6.x: ??? Is it possible to create a list (via CLI or the WUI) which has multiple owner addresses? The normal CLI and web UI for both MM 2.1 and MM 3 only allow creating a

[Mailman-Users] Re: Attach footer only once?

2024-02-09 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 2/9/2024 10:57 AM, Carl Zwanzig wrote: On 2/8/2024 3:24 PM, Tim Houseman wrote: Is it possible for footers to only be attached once? I am hosting a legal mailing list and their footer is quite long. We recently updated to Mailman 3 and the list has become more active as a result but in that

[Mailman-Users] Re: Where's the installation directions / source, etc, please?

2023-07-19 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 7/19/2023 1:46 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Steven Jones writes: > I feel the same way, hence still running Mailman2 (on RHEL8). It is > simple and low CPU hit, however Red Hat stops it support in May > 2024. That's fine with us. Mailman 2 is pretty bulletproof and low- maintenance

[Mailman-Users] Re: Barrage of bounce notifications

2023-05-25 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/24/2023 12:29 PM, Krone, Elizabeth C via Mailman-Users wrote: Good afternoon all, I manage a few listservs (maintaining members and tending pending posts) and today I have received almost 80 separate "Uncaught bounce notification" emails for one of the lists. There are rarely any for

[Mailman-Users] Re: Weird spate of AOL and Yahoo 'undeliverable' bounces

2023-04-22 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 3/16/2023 11:01 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 3/16/23 16:31, Johnson, Bruce E - (bjohnson) wrote: We sent a message out to our alumni mailing list and got a whole bunch of bounces like this: The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce format was not recognized, or no

[Mailman-Users] Re: AT Blocking (was AOL list member not receiving list traffic)

2022-10-01 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 9/10/2022 8:37 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: No known instances of members reporting us as spam. Un-realised reports are worse, where you only later discover your domain name or an IP number has been falsely listed. I searched for a tool to periodically run, to automatically scan with a list

[Mailman-Users] Re: {Spam?} in subject lines.

2021-12-08 Thread Barry S. Finkel
Yes. Some subscriber to the list receives a message from the list, and that recipient's Mail user Agent thinks that the message might be spam, so that MUA adds "[Spam?]" to the Subject" line. If that recipient then replies to the list, that new Subject: line will appear in his/her reply.

[Mailman-Users] Re: Is it my server or Yahoo's server(s)?

2021-05-29 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/29/2021 11:15 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Robert Heller writes: > Is anyone else seeing this sort of problem? Yes, it's not just you and Mark. There have been several threads on this recently, naming one or more of Verizon, Yahoo!, or AOL as the problematic destination, all of which

[Mailman-Users] Re: Migration to new server questions after having done research & testing ahead of time.

2021-03-17 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 3/17/2021 2:12 PM, Bader, Robert (Bob) wrote: Thanks for the info, So in working with our server team that latest package for centos7 is 2.1.15, However we are finding out that Rhel back ports for security fixes (https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting/) So I am running

[Mailman-Users] Re: Weird no-posting no-moderation queue bouncing of posts

2021-02-26 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 2/26/2021 11:21 AM, Thomas Gramstad wrote: I have a strange, occasionally occurring phenomenon on one of my mailing lists (in Mailman 2.29) which I don't understand: 1. A subscribed address to the list tries to post a message to �� the list. 2. The attempted posting does not go

[Mailman-Users] Re: options page for this list?

2020-09-01 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 9/1/2020 12:43 PM, Russell Clemings wrote: A (probably stupid) question: How does one get to the list options page for this (Mailman2) list? The link in the digest footer ( https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/) goes to the Mailman3 list options. I've been unable

[Mailman-Users] Re: Upgrading from 2.1.12

2020-07-23 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:40 PM Mark Sapiro wrote: On 7/22/20 12:54 AM, Daniel Krause via Mailman-Users wrote: Good Day We have a running 2.1.12 installation that was done long ago via an external consultant. It hasn't been changed in years, but I would like to upgrade this to at least the

[Mailman-Users] Re: Mailman3 list migration possibly new domain

2020-05-31 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/31/2020 6:55 AM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: Mark Sapiro wrote: On 5/30/20 1:41 PM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: Hi, I have a list to migrate to Mailman3 from Mailman2 but the domain of the list may change at some point in the future. I was hoping to marry up the 2 events but its not looking

[Mailman-Users] Re: High CPU Usage After Mailman 2.1 Upgrade

2020-05-02 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/2/2020 5:01 PM, Warren Toomey wrote: On 5/1/20 3:01 PM, Warren Toomey wrote: Hi all, I upgraded to Mailman 2.1.26 on my Ubuntu 18.04 server yesterday. On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 10:12:55AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: There is an issue in 2.1.26 only that can cause this. See

Re: [Mailman-Users] no bounce message with bad address

2019-08-07 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/7/2019 1:20 PM, Loren Engrav via Mailman-Users wrote: sometimes I load an invalid address (invalid name but valid domain) like x...@whidbey.com; whidbey.com is ok but there is no xyz with Mailman 2.1.26 at site5.com and 2.1.29 at mailmanlists.net I do not receive a bounce message is this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Delivery errors and spam grading

2019-03-18 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 3/18/2019 8:44 PM, Jim Dory wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 4:39 AM Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: (You probably should also disable the Digestable option in [Digest options] I'm also receiving several bounces back for errors such as: "SMTP error

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman+Exim in Ubuntu

2018-12-16 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 12/16/2018 3:05 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 at 20:13, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 12/15/18 1:35 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: # User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid # switch to Mailman's configure script. Value is normally "mailman" MM_UID=list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Distributed mass subscribe attack?

2017-08-08 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/8/2017 12:22 PM, David Gibbs wrote: Folks: Anyone else noticing a distributed mass subscribe attack going on their lists? I've noticed a massive number of attempts a small subset of email addresses, with modifiers (address+modif...@example.com), going on. It appears the address is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Non-Delivery of Mail

2017-01-29 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/28/2017 12:26 PM, David Andrews wrote: I run a cPanel system that, among other things, supports about 300 Mailman lists. We have about 20,000 users. I am getting lots of bounced messages from roadrunner.com and various XXX.rr.com domains. It looks like they may be blocking my domain

Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple list owners at creation

2017-01-11 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/11/2017 6:56 AM, Julian Kippels wrote: Hi, is it possible to create a new list with more than one owner? Or do I have to create the list with one owner and add the others later? I'm thinking about doing something like: newlist testlist owner1@domain owner2@domain supersecretpassphrase

Re: [Mailman-Users] bin/genaliases not generating aliases?

2016-12-16 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On Dec 15, 2016, at 8:31 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 12/15/2016 08:26 PM, Caesar Samsi wrote: The mm_cfg.py is in /etc/mailman Which is the one from the Debian/Ubuntu package, not the one that your latest install is using. The one you need to put your settings in is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman and local user collisions

2016-08-12 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/12/2016 4:08 PM, Ezsra McDonald wrote: I discovered recently that there is a local user and a mailman list with the same user@. The mail goes to the list and not the user. What is the trick to make Postfix handle these separately? Lets say the domain is somewhere.com and the list is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message footers

2016-04-17 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 4/17/2016 6:39 AM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote: Hi all The standard message footers for my lists are ___ %(real_name)s mailing list %(real_name)s@%(host_name)s %(web_page_url)slistinfo%(cgiext)s/%(_internal_name)s I would like to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Command output: post script, list not found: XXXXX

2016-04-16 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 4/15/2016 5:40 PM, Steve Wehr wrote: First of all I apologize of there is already ananswer to this question. I have been googling and reading your doc for days in hopes of finding an answer. I was running mailman successfully for years on my server. Then this week I cut over to a new

Re: [Mailman-Users] Encoding problem with 2.15 to 2.18 upgrade with Finnish

2016-01-07 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/7/2016 2:40 PM, Eva Isaksson wrote: 2016-01-07 22:12 GMT+02:00 Mark Sapiro : On 01/07/2016 11:44 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: I think simply re-entering the description and saving changes will fix this, but you should probably go through the entire web admin UI and do the same

Re: [Mailman-Users] mails send from sendmail with commandline to mailman become 'Message has implicit destination'

2015-12-27 Thread Barry S. Finkel
Mack Sapiro wrote in response to MichaelLeung : What output do the following commands produce: ls -l `which mail` ls -l `which sendmail` ls -l `which mailx` Michael, you have not given us the output of those commands (unless I missed something in the dialog between you and Mark). And also,

Re: [Mailman-Users] mails send from sendmail with commandline to mailman become 'Message has implicit destination'

2015-12-26 Thread Barry S. Finkel
>> On 12/26/2015 03:10 PM, MichaelLeung wrote: >>> hi all >>> >>> anyone had face this problem before ? >>> >>> if i send the mail from a client end , like thunder, mailman can >>> read it correctly . On 12/26/2015 08:11 PM, MichaelLeung wrote: hi i locate this problem maillman cannot read

Re: [Mailman-Users] List posts sent to AOL list subscribers bounce as undeliverable (v. 2.1.20)

2015-12-04 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 12/4/2015 5:21 AM, Woody Mon via Mailman-Users wrote: Hello, I'm assisting a small non-profit organization with their informational news listserv which is running on Mailman version 2.1.20. The issue is that list posts sent to AOL subscriber addresses are now bouncing as undeliverable

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

2015-08-28 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/28/2015 3:03 AM, Will Yardley wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:37:18PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: 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

Re: [Mailman-Users] merging 2 mailing lists

2015-07-06 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 7/6/2015 8:26 AM, Laura Creighton wrote: 2 somebodies I know want to merge their mailing lists. They are both lists for recipes for people who have impaired kidney function. A complication is that these lists are hosted on different machines, with completely different names, etc. But

Re: [Mailman-Users] mail doesn't return

2015-05-10 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/10/2015 1:28 AM, Camelia Botez wrote: I have a mailing list with a couple of wrong e-mail addresses . When I send a message to this mailing list I see in /var/log/maillog of the mailman server that those addresses get user unknown and the messages is not sent , but I don't get back an

Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking for help

2015-04-24 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 4/21/2015 8:35 AM, Dr. Mikeal Hughes wrote: I have tried to install Mailman on my Ubuntu 14.04 Server. It also has a Website virtually hosted on the server as well. I can’t get it to go and am getting some error messages. There are a lot of user install guides on the internet for this and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Issue with postfix-to-mailman.py (Command died with status 127)

2015-04-19 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 4/19/2015 4:30 AM, Matthieu Berjon wrote: Hello to all, I met an issue in trying to set up Mailman. Here is the error message I get from postfix: Command died with status 127: /usr/local/mailman/postfix-to-mailman.py. Command output: env: python: No such file or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Diagnosing command failures

2015-01-22 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/22/2015 10:10 AM, Gary Merrill wrote: Again, thanks to all of you for your responses. There are a number of thorny issues in attempting to fix (or at least address) what is wrong here. The original conceptual model of something like Mailman isn't quite right for the situation being

Re: [Mailman-Users] Any info on number of Mailman installations?

2014-12-06 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 12/6/2014 3:15 PM, Andrew Stuart wrote: Just wondering if anyone has any idea how many installations there are of Mailman around the world? thanks How do you count? Where I used to work, there were four groups, each with their own Mailman server. Does that count as one organization

Re: [Mailman-Users] Advantages

2014-12-02 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 12/2/2014 6:05 PM, r...@rexgoode.com wrote: I have been a long-time user of mailman and have been on many mailing lists. I am also part of a professional association of social workers that operate in my area. They have been using a list of addresses in a Cc field to manage their mailing

Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive merge and search

2014-11-09 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 11/9/2014 8:37 PM, Hal wrote: Thanks. Unfortunately cleanarch'ing didn't solve my issue. I did some more research and found out that the MBOX format isn't standardized as there are 4 different variations around (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html).

Re: [Mailman-Users] Emails lost due to receipient spam filters

2014-08-28 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/28/2014 1:58 AM, Alan Meyer wrote: Hi, I recently set up a Ubuntu 14.04 server with Mailman 2.1.16. It took a while for me to configure because I needed to modify the setup procedure from Ubuntu's instructions to what the mailman documentation suggested (no use of the

Re: [Mailman-Users] DNS error behaviour with DMARC

2014-08-27 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/27/2014 10:54 AM, Jeff White wrote: With dmarc_moderation_notice set to anything but Accept Mailman will do a DNS query for every message that comes in and check the DMARC record of the sending domain. I have two questions regarding this: 1. Has anyone on this list noticed any performance

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman On Raspbian

2014-08-21 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/21/2014 7:12 AM, Anthony (N2KI) wrote: I am installing Mailman on a Pi. after I installed via the repository I got this message but do not know how to proceed with this request. Thanks for any help to get this operational. To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your

Re: [Mailman-Users] I'm Stuck

2014-08-21 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/21/2014 8:17 AM, Anthony (N2KI) wrote: Tried to start mailman and this is what I get. Not sure how to proceed. It appears that is is looking for a list names mailman but I do not know how to create it. pi@raspberrypi ~ $ /etc/init.d/mailman start Traceback (most recent call last):

Re: [Mailman-Users] postfix errors

2014-07-21 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jimmy g17ji...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure why it's trying to use a username 'list', if that is the problem. Here are the things you mentioned. Thanks. ==master.cf== mailman unix - n n - - pipe flags=FR user=list

Re: [Mailman-Users] Erratic mail delivery times

2014-07-14 Thread Barry S. Finkel
-Original Message- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:m...@msapiro.net] Sent: Monday, 14 July 2014 10:55 PM To: Peter Shute; GNU mailman users Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Erratic mail delivery times On July 14, 2014 4:29:16 AM PDT, Peter Shute psh...@nuw.org.au wrote: Can I assume this

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about rejection messages.

2014-07-01 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 7/1/2014 6:50 AM, Robert Heller wrote: I am the site admin of a server that hosts a bunch of Mailman lists and on the 1st of the month Mailman sends out its monthly reminder messages. Some of these messages are bouncing. Some are *obviously* for people who have changed E-Mail providers (the

[Mailman-Users] DMARC

2014-06-24 Thread Barry S. Finkel
I have in one of my mailboxes a scam from June 10 that has From: Chase Notification ad...@enews.sbmedianews.com In the web MUA I use for this account, only the display name Chase Notification is shown on the screen as the sender. DMARC obviously will not help in this case. I have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Export all subsribers

2014-06-09 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 06/09/2014 01:16 PM, EyeLand wrote: urlhttp://vps1.ournet.biz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailman emailmail...@vps1.ournet.biz control panel ISPConfighttps://vps1.ournet.biz:8080/ now I want only to export all emails (10 000) to txt file from that mailman list If I interpret the poster's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Get newer version of Mailman for Debian 6?

2014-05-15 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/14/2014 2:40 PM, Sascha Rissel wrote: Hello there, I am running a vServer on Debian6. Via apt-get install mailman I installed and set up Mailman 2.1.13, which is running fine with 5 mailing lists on my server. Motivated by all those discussions about Yahoo's DMARC on this list, I wondered

Re: [Mailman-Users] Executive summary of DMARC issues

2014-05-14 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/14/2014 2:49 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Gary Algier writes: I have been following the discussion of the DMARC issues and Mailman's attempts to live with it. I was wondering if anyone has an Executive Summary of the DMARC issue in a general sense. How about the following:

Re: [Mailman-Users] quick question

2014-04-13 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 4/13/2014 3:34 PM, Al Black wrote: Hi gang, I'm getting a little tired of going through the mail logs just to get an idea of how are the damn dmarc bounces doing today. Has anybody written a little script to sort through and count the bounces? Ideally, it would mail me the results,

Re: [Mailman-Users] subscribed address that forwards to secondary address can't be identified

2014-04-04 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 4/4/2014 4:29 PM, Christopher Adams wrote: Hello all, This is not necessarily a Mailman question, but I thought someone administering Mailman may have come across this before. A person is receiving mail through a list. The address that they are currently using (@gmail.com) is not subscribed

Re: [Mailman-Users] Sending password reminder emails.

2014-03-05 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 3/5/2014 1:03 PM, Richard wrote: Hello Everyone, I have more than once wished I could send out password reminder emails to either individuals or an entire list. However, I haven't found a way to do that yet. How can I do this, please? Thanks, Richard There should be a cron to send

Re: [Mailman-Users] control delivery processes

2014-03-03 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 3/3/2014 3:25 PM, DongInn Kim wrote: Hi, Is there a way to send a mail after it is archived and then add the archive link to the new mail? Currently it seems to be pretty difficult to implement this because all the new mails are delivered first and then mail archives are generated. As

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman list questions about password and bounces-back for invalid emails

2014-02-28 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 2/27/2014 1:01 PM, s7r wrote: Hi, I have 2 simple questions about mailman mail lists: 1). I can see there is an option to receive monthly reminder of password, and the password is sent in plain text. Is the password in plain text visible to the mail list owner / administrator? Or mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD run once?

2014-01-03 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/3/2014 11:28 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:01:02 -0600 Barry S. Finkelbsfin...@att.net wrote: On 1/2/2014 8:42 AM, Gary Algier wrote: Hi, I just installed a new Mailman (2.1.12) server on Centos 6.4. One question I have had for a while - As 2.1.17 is the latest

Re: [Mailman-Users] POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD run once?

2014-01-03 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/3/2014 2:52 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Barry S. Finkel writes: When I was working as a systems programmer with an IBM mainframe, Interesting anecdote, but it addresses the wrong end of the issue. We already know that distros should keep their packages up to date. The question

Re: [Mailman-Users] POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD run once?

2014-01-02 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/2/2014 8:42 AM, Gary Algier wrote: Hi, I just installed a new Mailman (2.1.12) server on Centos 6.4. One question I have had for a while - As 2.1.17 is the latest release Mailman, why do people do new installations with versions that are old? 2.1.12 released 2009-02-23 2.1.17 released

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rejected or bounced messages.

2014-01-01 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/1/2014 3:28 PM, Joe wrote: Hi, everyone. I have received several messages returned as rejected that were sent by my Mailman server as the 1st of the month subscription reminder. These messages contain a technical explanation about the reason for their rejection I don't understand but it

Re: [Mailman-Users] Rejected or bounced messages.

2014-01-01 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/1/2014 4:33 PM, Joseph Brennan wrote: These three were stopped after RCPT, so the problem is not about content. Most likely the recipient address is not deliverable. m...@me.com: host mx6.me.com.akadns.net[17.158.8.114] said: 550 5.1.1 unknown or illegal alias: usern...@me.com (in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Preventing monthly membership reminder

2013-12-05 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 12/5/2013 8:42 AM, Gary Lee Phillips wrote: Oddly enough, I have the opposite problem. We do want monthly reminders, but everyone is getting two identical reminder messages each month. How do I limit this to a single reminder without turning off reminders completely? -- Gary Lee Phillips

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman reusing message-id, leads to duplicate message suppression

2013-11-06 Thread Barry S. Finkel
In cases like this, I suggest that the user check the list's archive. Only if the list has an archive. --Barry Finkel -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ:

Re: [Mailman-Users] tuning bounce behavior with VERP

2013-09-02 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 9/2/2013 12:52 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: I have a Postfix setup with VERP turned on for some lists that I run. (I'm cool with the load using VERP with every message implies.) I'd like to be able to tune bounce behavior, but the documentation for this seems a bit spotty. What can I adjust

Re: [Mailman-Users] aliases file: using globally unique user IDs (as in Sympa virtual domains)

2013-07-29 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 7/29/2013 11:27 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 29/07/13 17:53, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 07/29/2013 08:35 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Migrating to Mailman, I'd like to do something like this: lists.example.org-list1: |/var/lib/mailmen/lists.example.org/mail/mailman post list1 where I have a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems after server migration

2013-07-16 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 7/15/2013 9:49 AM, a...@alv.cl wrote: Hi, I just migrated my mailman installation from an old fedora server to a new centos server. I followed the instructions described here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-January/055208.html The URLs remained the same, but the IP

Re: [Mailman-Users] Gmail RFC 2822

2013-05-17 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/15/2013 10:45 AM, Dave Jones wrote, in part: I am not sure the best place to solve this problem but I will start with this list since the problem is impacting a heavy traffic mailman listserv. Since Mark did not respond to this, I will. Mailman is not listserv. Listserv is a registered

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

2013-05-10 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 5/10/2013 10:27 AM, Larry Kuenning wrote, in part: Fortunately my old archives were already in mbox format. Or rather, almost in mbox format. The old incarnation of my lists had been on a server where I had a low usage quota, so I had been downloading all archives over a year old and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade for Postfix Mailman

2013-01-25 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/25/2013 2:05 PM, Jeff Bernier wrote: Hello All, I am currently running Mailman (2.1.14) and Postfix (2.4.3) on an aging Mac OS X server (10.5.8). Mailman and Postfix on this system are Apple's implementation on their platform of course. Apple no longer supports the Xserve platform, and I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate Messages

2013-01-06 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 1/6/2013 1:31 PM, David Andrews wrote: My Mailman system sends out duplicate (two copies) of some administrative-type messages. There are two password reminder messages sent out each month, two copies of the once-a-day message that announces pending messages in a list, and two messages

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Mailman

2012-10-11 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 10/10/2012 8:13 PM, Gotham Webmaster wrote: I manage a website http://www.gothamnetworking.com that uses Mailman as it's listserv We have over 775 members, 40 groups and run about 146 separate mailing lists Once list in particular is not working and I don't know why. I could use some help.

Re: [Mailman-Users] local emails cannot receive.

2012-09-13 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 9/13/2012 12:36 AM, P.V.Anthony wrote: Hi, I really have a very strange problem. I must have messed up somewhere. When I create mailling lists named supp...@example.com and sa...@example.com, local users like us...@example.com and us...@example.com cannot receive the emails. Where else

Re: [Mailman-Users] Unable to approve messages

2012-09-07 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 9/7/2012 2:05 AM, Alex TW LAM wrote: Dear All, We have a mailman system setup a long time ago, it requires approval for any messages posted on the mailing list. Starting recently, the moderator of list no longer able approve newly posted message, they are still able to receive the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Something is hiding Subject/Sender for Hotmail/MSN recipients

2012-09-06 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 9/5/2012 11:28 AM, ChuckPuckett wrote: This just started, but it may be result of change in Settings. I use Mailman list primarily as an announcement service (of theatrical events in the area). I myself receive the emails, once in my Hotmail account, once in my Gmail account. I send the

Re: [Mailman-Users] add_members with password

2012-08-28 Thread Barry S. Finkel
On 8/28/2012 2:45 AM, Eric Smith wrote: How do I add_members and allocate a password? For members who do not wish to subscribe through the web interface, what is the way to subscribe them so that they have a password for subsequent login? Thanks Eric Smith When I was managing a Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] Duplicate Messages

2012-07-01 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 7/1/2012 2:12 PM, David Andrews wrote: I am getting duplicate messages once a day, the 8:00 a.m. messages sent out by every list telling of what messages pending. My users also get two copies of the password reminder once a month. And ... not sure if it is related, but probably, I get two

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.15 final released.

2012-06-17 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 6/16/2012 2:04 PM, David wrote: How would I update from the version of Mailman 2.1.14 from Ubuntu's repository (on Ubuntu 12.04)? You can do what I did when I administered a Mailman system running on Ubuntu - I generated my own package from an existing Ubuntu package and the new SourceForge

Re: [Mailman-Users] Clearing Bounce Scores Globally

2012-06-07 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 6/7/2012 10:23 AM, Terry Earley wrote: We need to clear/reset bounce stats for Yahoo members on our list. we modified Mark Sapiro's script at: http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/reset_bounce.py to modify only Yahoo email addresses, but it cleared only 2 that had been bouncing. That squares with

Re: [Mailman-Users] User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change

2012-05-29 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 5/29/2012 4:23 PM, Drew Tenenholz wrote: All -- Sorry if this has been answered before, I don't have the time to go through the archives at the moment. Mailman 2.1.9/Red Hat Linux When migrating tens of thousands of users form an ancient Majordomo system to a new Mailman system, can I

Re: [Mailman-Users] Ubuntu release of Mailman

2012-05-11 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 5/11/2012 2:30 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: Lindsay Haisley wrote: I just installed, and just as promptly un-installed mailman on Ubuntu server 10.04.4 LTS. The offered pacakge version of mailman for this release, which I used, is 2.1.13-1. The Ubuntu packages are based on Debian. I have a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with Bounce Processing

2012-05-10 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 5/9/2012 7:17 AM, Futchko, Rose wrote: Hello, Yes, I meant 2.1.5 -- thank you. This is the additional information: mail...@list.informs.org 5/7/2012 9:58 AM This is a Mailman mailing list bounce action notice: List: Listname Member: email address Action:

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I find out if a mailing list is used?

2012-05-02 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 5/2/2012 2:16 PM, Ma, Yuan wrote: Hi, I am trying to find out the if a mailing list is used or not for all the mailing lists on our mailman server. May I know how I can find out such information? Thank you very much in advance. Yuan --

Re: [Mailman-Users] how to get my letter is opened information without Delivery or read receipts are being checked

2012-04-16 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 4/16/2012 7:26 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: Generally, don't do it because just someone opened the mail, it doesn't imply that s/he read it. And reading it doesn't imply the s/he understands it. IIRC, the mail RFCs state that the header line: Return-Receipt Requested: is not

Re: [Mailman-Users] A list is rejected by email server after migration

2012-03-01 Thread Barry S, Finkel
On 2/29/2012 11:21 AM, Frank Bell wrote: All, within the last ten minutes my linux sysadmin discovered that the mailman-aliases file at /etc/mail did not for some reason contain one or two entries. (yes after migration I ran genaliases ) Solution was: He brought the old mailman-aliases from