Don't forget to consider things like SPF, which I think uses the sender field.
Whatever is used for
SPF _must_ be the domain of the mailman box, or you're gonna run into a pack of
trouble.
...Trouble similar to a current problem I am having with AOL: they are bouncing
all email with the
Yeah, I totally agree. I looked at cpanel about a year or so ago. Tried it
on a test server. The thing's config is just so screwy that I couldn't make
(quick) sense of how they handled even just postfix, let alone mailman and all
the virtual domains stuff. Definitely not stock installs of any
In general, an MX record is not necessary if you have an A record.
That's probably not your problem here.
Since when?! For transporting mail, you certainly DO need an MX record!
Bob
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Hi Paul,
It looks fine if you only have a few messages, but gets hard to scan through
when you have 50+ messages per digest. MM 2.0.x's lists were very nice.
Bob
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Subject: [Mailman-Users] Re: Digest Topic Lists
Date: Sat,
Hi Barry and Gang,
We're getting closer with the Digest Topic list! It looks better per line,
except now there is an extra blank line between each entry, as demonstarted by
this latest one:
Today's Topics:
1. [Mailman-Users] postfix 2.0 (Dan Phillips)
2. Re: [Mailman-Users] postfix 2.0
Hi Alex,
I have my Exchange setup to allow 500 recipients per message. Mailman
is also configured to send 500 recipients per message. As a result
all 55 aol.com, 65 yahoo.com, or 51 hotmail.com recipients on my
largest list are send to Exchange on the same message. Exchange can
send a
I second the recommendation NOT to use Exchange as your mail transport agent.
If you've got a DNS server (even your MS box, shiver me timbers) that's only
a couple milliseconds away, you're not going to see any noticeable performance
hit, especially if it's on your local lan. I've found that by
While I can understand why one might not want to bundle HTDIG with Mailman, I
do think it is entirely appropriate to integrade the HTDIG patches into
Mailman, making the adding of HTDIG much easier. Especially since the patch
author has made the patch such that the default usage does not affect
I've noticed that a few of my list subscribers are using AOL's functions to
block email from certain senders, who are on my lists. So as a list admin, I
get all these AOL bounces. Is there a simple script that can be used to
direct these nastygrams bacl to their AOL user, so that the user can
I did a mod in my mailman to handle this problem. Instead of simply placing
text between pre and /pre (I think that's the tag that's used), I
converted the text simply to HTML by translating /n to br,to
nbsp;, and the and characters. Now my archives wrap according to the
browser - just
Just wanted to let everyone know that Wietse just released a new snapshot
version of Postfix which addresses the Mail forwarding Loop problems that
I've reported previously. This fixes the problem of bad MS mail servers
re-injecting delivered mail into mailing lists, and causing bounce messages
I'm now open to any suggestions for an anti-virus solution for
postifx/mailman
Very simple, very easy: block all .exe, .pif, .scr, .bat, .com files from entering
your mail system. Simple to do with Postfix. Check out the postfix site for content
filtering.
Bob
Hello all,
I have been recently seeing a bunch of Mail forwarding Loop messages in my Postfix
mail log. After pouring over this stuff for several hours, I think I found the
problem... Microsoft!
Seriously, here's the scoop: a user sends a message to the list, which gets properly
distributed.
Hi Marc gang,
I think that having those options would be nice, but also please allow for reply-to
being forced back to the list (regardless of user settings). Some of us require that.
Bob
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Check out http://nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman.htm
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I was going to implement this, and I still may in the future.
What I did was to make the link at the top of the message (ReplyTo) be a real
reply-to, with the subject and message ID embedded into the link.
This works as long as the user has a mail client on their system installed and linked
J C Lawrence wrote:
ObNote: While useful, this make quoting the original message rather
difficult.
That is true. The whole deal of being able to quote the original message is a bit
messy. Do you make a form on the bottom of each and every message, with a text box
pre-loaded with the
Hi JC,
Yeah, that's not bad! Only thing is you are depending on php to do the work for
you... Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, because I would suppose most people have
that running on their Apache.
Bob
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Thanks Greg! It's useful information.
Now that we're certain this feature is not available in Mailman (and
it's still needed), what we are doing is writing a CGI form that
collects the information from the user when they subscribe, and that
CGI will then email Mailman to start the
Dan Mick wrote:
I've tried this with a couple lists, and it does NOT seem to work - still get
the 30 members, no matter what you set that value in Defaults.py (or mm.cfg.py)
to.
Did you see my answer to this?
I was replying to your answer! g
Defaults value is for new lists; it's
I am looking for some assistance on finding a web-based script/form for
Mailman that allows the user to sign up for multiple lists
simultaneously. I have seen this done with Lyris and Majordomo
but not with Mailman.
Try something like this:
1. You have a form in a html page to get the
How one would get rid of the long list of urls (List-Help etc.) ans addresses sent
with all posts (you know :
See http://nleaudio..com/bnotes/mailman.htm
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Hey gang,
A while back someone requested a way to get the listing of nomail list members. I
recently needed not
only that, but also the ability to sort out digest mime users, and digest plain text
users.
Below is a replacement list_members program (that goes in $prefix/bin) that adds four
I just discovered a show-stopper for Mailman 2.0.6:
A user on one of my lists suddenly started bouncing messages. The bounce causes
qrunner to die
when it gets to that message, and stops processing files after that. Here's the
python errors:
Nov 04 02:56:01 2001 qrunner(2605): Traceback
I also decided on Sendmail because I want to host many domains with their
own virtual mail server ... I don't know if PostFix will do this
... The recommendation to remove Postfix and install Sendmail came from
the book: Linux for Windows NT/2000 Administrators The Secret Decoder Ring
Perhaps this has been asked before, but is it possible with out of
the box Mailman to capture a little more information upon user
registration such as name, occupation, etc.?
See http://nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman.htm
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I've been thinking about changing the default
$prefix to be /usr/local/mailman in MM2.1. It makes much more sense
to me and is in fact, what I use for all my new lists these days. You
would, of course, be able to give configure --prefix=/home/mailman to
get the MM2.0 default.
Would that
I also run a e-commerce program called Interchange (Red Hat), and it uses a CGI very
similar to Mailman (i.e., http://server.com/cgi-bin/cgifile/parameter)
So I would agree with Barry, if your other webserver program doesn't let this work, I
would tend to point the finger at the webserver, not
Is there any way we can set the listserv up in a manner that would allow me to
know who the person is who is signing up? I can't tell by E-mail address alone
and this is causing us some problems.
http://nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman.htm
Bob
Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
On Monday, June 25, 2001, at 08:21 PM, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
Relatively easy. Set a limit on how many messages a user can post in
say a 10 minute period. Make it user editable. If you get 8, you've
got a loop!
that slows it down, but doesn't catch any but
Yes, real mail admins know to mkfs /var/spool with a higher inode
count than the rest of their systems. I'll let you guess what
percentage of mail admins actually do.
There are quite a few lists out there running off i486 boxes with
small disks. Some of them have nice bandwidth but
however, how do you avoid the list administrator from changing
the list preferred domain in the web interface?
aw I don't know that you can. I trust my list administrators to
aw leave that alone, but the only list adminsitrators besides
aw myself are friends.
In
How about this: Put a link to unsubscribe click here at the
bottom of every mail you send out. That link has the
subscriber's email address embedded in it,
That's what has been discussed - it can't be done in the current state, cause the MTA
gets stuff in batches, not just one message at a
ALl this talk recently about unsubscriptions... This came from another list I am on:
Message: 27
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:17:20 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Dan B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ic] (no subject)
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 10:30 AM 6/14/2001
(Changing the subject for this thread to something more relevant)
So what should the default be? While I appreciate this sentiment (a
lot!), I'm still worried that if we turn this on, a naive sys admin
could get themselves in hot water, and start flooding us with Why
does my performance
I'm still trying to find a way to unsubscribe though email without the use
of a user specific password and without a confirm requirement. Is there a
way to do it?
http://www.nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman.htm
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I just wanted to post a note thanking the powers that be for making this list
members-only posting. The reduction in spam has been very much appreciated!
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Anyway, I own a private list and my provider just switched to Mailman (yay)
but my users hate all those List-* headers. Is there a way to remove or
suppress them?
See http://www.nleaudio.com/bnotes/mailman.htm
Bob
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Hello,
I have a couple users on one of my lists that are not receiving any mail. After doing
a bunch of debugging, I have found that indeed the mail is getting to the destination
server, but it looks like the destination server has a "catch-all" account that gets
the mail, then has a
Hello,
I just diagnosed a problem today that I found by looking at the /mailman/logs/bounce
file. I kept seeing in there:
address [EMAIL PROTECTED] not a member.
I did find an address in the membership of: [EMAIL PROTECTED], so I tried sending a
message to that address. Here's the
Is there any way Mailman can store the user's name along with their email address?
Is it perhaps possible to just add another field in the subscription part so that the
administrator can get a better idea of who is subscribing?
Bob
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I also currently have separate mailman installations running with separate cron jobs.
How many of these can be practically run? I'm needing to stagger the digest send
times to keep from overload.
Bob
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Hello,
In one of my recent lists using Mailman 2.01, AND EVEN ON THIS LIST I see a strange
behavior of the daily digests. Here's a copy from today's digest:
Subject:
Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1043 - 18 msgs
Today's Topics:
1. [Question]Mailman
I was just messing with a Lyris list, and note that they have a way in the admin
interface to turn on/off "Friendly headers", which is the exact thing this discussion
has been about.
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I still say they should reject non-menber postings. This is getting unruly.
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Ok guys, here's my second shot at this unsubscription script. This time I used
sendmail, and made the message look like it came from the person, so they get the
unsubscription confirmation message. But there is a serious problem. First though,
here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
#
# Mailman
Ok, think I figured out a safe way. I used the listname-admin as the From: address
in the mail to Mailman. Also added a return message to the originating person
confirming their unsubscription. So far, this looks to be good!
Call it with a couple parameters in your aliases file.
Here is
Please keep me posted on your success with the perl! If I knew more about Perl I
would have tried it. Still learning this script stuff!
Bob
Satya wrote:
On Jan 11, 2001 at 22:04, Bob Puff @ NLE wrote:
Ok guys, here's my feeble attempt (that works!) to allow someone to
unsubscribe by
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