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Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager, is a program to manage mailing lists. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager

Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

Further details are available on the Mailman home page.

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Migrating GNU Mailman server to new hardware

We have a GNU Mailman server running on some old hardware that is due to be retired soon. I have been trying to figure out where the list/archive data stored so I can just rsync it over to the new server when it comes in but I haven't had much luck.…
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Preventing a single list subscriber from unsubscribing from a mailman list

I run a technical mailman list with a lot of subscribers on it. One company, whose presence on the list is highly desirable, has many of its readers subscribed by an internal "exploder" list; that is, a single address which is itself an internal…
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Mailman cannot relay e-mails to non-local domains

My e-mail server runs Debian with postfix, dovecot, amavis, mailman, with postfixadmin in a virtual domain setup. All works fine, except for mailman which is not able to relay e-mails to non-local domains ("relay access denied"), while I can relay…
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MailMan moderator subscribe via email

I am setting up a MailMan list server and I am trying to find a way for moderators to subscribe users through email. We are only using the MailMan website for the administrators and need the moderators to be able to at least subscribe people and/or…
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Mailman: How to split up mails into batches

Having huge mailinglists with maybe 10k subscribers, is there a way to split list forwarded by mailman into batches maybe a 1000 mails sending out each batch maybe with an offset? Or would it make more sense to configure postifx a little smarter?
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Can mailman/exim reject nonmember postings at connection time?

I am using Mailman with Exim. When a nonmember posts to a mailing list, Mailman can be configured in any of the following ways, each of which has a problem: Accept it -- this distributes spam to all the list members. Discard it silently -- this is…
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Is there a way to change the Require Explicit Destination flag on a list from the command line, with Mailman?

I have a mailing list within mailman that has the flag "Require Explicit Destination" set to True. I would like to turn this off but only have access via command-line. How can I turn this off/set to false using the command-line?
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Mailman and Apache Virtual Hosts problems

I am creating a set up of Mailman, Apache2.4 and Postfix. My problem is as follows. When I access the mailing list with the domain name, I get the correct result in my browser. Here the picture However if I try to access directly using my server's…
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Using Mailman, how to unshunt message back into hold queue for moderation?

How can I get Mailman to reprocess messages in a queue directory? Or alternately, how can I transfer all the messages from a queue directory into the moderation hold queue for the relevant list(s)? My problem is that my in queue directory is full…
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What are the steps to integrate a new mailman list?

I am using Mailman version 2.1.12 running on a Linux CentOS 6.3 final system, and there are already many successfully operational mailman lists in operation. sendmail is the transport. I have created a new list -- using newlist for the…
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Stuck with unsatisfactory performance using PHPList & Amazon SES

I have a PHPList 2.11.7 development version, installed and running on AWS EC2, I made a micro instance, and uploaded an image that contains CentOS 5.8 32-bit version since supposedly PHPList isn't working perfectly with newer PHP versions (5.3 and…
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Mailman sending messages as wrong domain

I've got mailman and exim on my server for our mailing lists. When you send a message to it ( testlist@bar.company.com ), the message sender is testlist@foo.company.com. This server is locally known as foo.company.com, with bar.company.com as an…
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Automatically reject any mailman mailing list posts that contain Russian?

I'm running a small mailman-based mailing list on a Linux server, and the only spam posts we seem to get are in russian. They are automatically moderated of course, since they're not subscribed to the list, but it's still a hassle to have to always…
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How can I migrate mailman lists from one domain to another?

I have some internal mailman mailing lists on my intranet. The company domain name has changed. Can I automate the process of resigning 'user@old-domain.com' and assigning 'user@new-domain.com' from/to the list? I have 11 lists, the busiest one has…
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Can Mailman log the IP address of each message sent?

It is possible to configure Mailman to log the IP address of the sender of each message? It appears the correct configuration directive (from Defaults.py) is SMTP_LOG_SUCCESS. It logs to /var/log/mailman/post: SMTP_LOG_SUCCESS = ( 'post', …
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