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Joshua S. Freeman | 2 Aug 1999 14:40

question...

I am using mailman to run about 8 software product support lists and some 
product release notification lists.

 (the notification lists are one way, only I am able to post without
approval)

My question is this:

As I have lots of Internet newbies (it seems) subscribing to these lists),
there is way too much list mail of the "How do I unsubscribe" variety.

Which script/file should I edit to add something to the bottom of each and
every mailman processed email that tells folks where to go to begin the
unsubscription process?  It seems that it's not enough to have the web
address of the list info page on each message.

Thanks for any advice.

J.
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Bek Oberin | 2 Aug 1999 15:05
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Re: question...

Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> Which script/file should I edit to add something to the bottom of each and
> every mailman processed email that tells folks where to go to begin the
> unsubscription process?  It seems that it's not enough to have the web
> address of the list info page on each message.

I just altered this:

> Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users <at> python.org
> http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

To add a line in the middle so it comes out like this:

> Mailman-Users maillist  -  Mailman-Users <at> python.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, go nomail or digest, go to:
> http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

Which meant I didn't have to touch the weird incantatons
there!  It's in the "regular (non-digest) subscribers" page
of the admin site.

bekj

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Jim McKay | 2 Aug 1999 21:16
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Upgrading

I'm running Mailman v 1.0rc1 on a SUSE 5.3 Linux system.  Once I have
downloaded and g-unzipped  the distribution file, what steps need to be
performed to upgrade to Mailman v 1.0rc3?

Thanks,

Jim McKay
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Ricardo Kustner | 2 Aug 1999 21:40

RE: Upgrading

On 02-Aug-99 Jim McKay wrote:
> I'm running Mailman v 1.0rc1 on a SUSE 5.3 Linux system.  Once I have
> downloaded and g-unzipped  the distribution file, what steps need to be
> performed to upgrade to Mailman v 1.0rc3?

first the usual './configure' and 'make' from the 1.0 source tree
if you still have the 1.0rc1 source from the previous install 
then run 'make update' (if you still have the 1.0rc1 source-tree,
check config.status to see what you used as options to configure the last time)

note that you might have to do something different if you used a SuSE package
for rc1 (in which case it's best to wait for a 1.0 release of that SuSE package
i guess)

Ricardo.

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Christopher Kolar | 2 Aug 1999 21:58

qmail install docs wrong

FYI:

I just did my first-ever installation of qmail and noticed a problem
  in the mailman docs.  Installing v1.0 the directions given in
  INSTALL.QMAIL for the changes to the inetd.conf and hosts.allow
  are incorrect.  The settings in this file did not work, and when
  I looked in the doc/FAQ in section 5.4 I noticed that the instructions
  are different.  The settings in the FAQ did manage to get things 
  working the way that the should -- it looks like just a couple of 
  changes in syntax, but it would probably be a good idea to change
  the INSTALL.QMAIL doc.

Cheers,

--chris
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Adahma | 3 Aug 1999 01:42
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Delivery lag

I'm cunning the recent 1.0 release of Mailman, on a RH6.0 system. 
Hopefully I didn't miss this in any of the docs, but can someone tell
me why there is such a long delay on mails sent to the list, and how
this can be configured for immediate delivery?

TIA,
jdk

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Jeff Schneiter | 3 Aug 1999 03:39
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Re: mailman aliases

I have not yet gotten for enough to determine whether Mailman
can read the NIS map aliases. I wasn't worried about it because
I thought it a normal enough thing, but these latest questions
about aliases makes me wonder. Is NIS:mail.aliases workable?

thanks,
jeff
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Glen Malley | 3 Aug 1999 08:32
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New User message and Unsubscribe message

What part of the system is used to send the new user
and unsubscribe messages?

Mailman has no problem sending Japanese encoded text
in messages TO the list....but if Japanese is included
in the new user and/or unsubscribe messages, garbage
results. Are these handled differently than normal mail?
Why?
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sen_ml | 3 Aug 1999 09:51

Re: New User message and Unsubscribe message

At around Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:32:45 +0900 (JST),
 Glen Malley <glen <at> ranma.interq.or.jp> may have mentioned:

> What part of the system is used to send the new user
> and unsubscribe messages?
> 
> Mailman has no problem sending Japanese encoded text
> in messages TO the list....but if Japanese is included
> in the new user and/or unsubscribe messages, garbage
> results. Are these handled differently than normal mail?
> Why?

which encoding scheme are you using for the messages?  euc, jis, shift
jis, something else?  

when you say garbage, is it that the actual data is actually garbage
or that the way a mail client displays the info results in garbage?

perhaps the Content-Type and charset for the headers are incorrect for
the messages where there are problems.  you'd usually want:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

for messages sent in japanese, right?  does that appear in the 
messages which contain garbage?

can you tell if the garbage is a result of a stripping of the high
bit?
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Ken Kyler | 3 Aug 1999 11:31
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FAQ on Moderating?

Is there a FAQ available that deals specifically with how to setup a MailMan
list with multiple moderators? I'm leery of giving the admin password to all
the moderators.

Ken Kyler
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