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- Frequently Asked Questions
  - 1 Introduction - What is GNU Mailman?
    - Can I run Mailman under thttpd?
    - Does Mailman have a statistics-log analysis module, or any marketing-related modules?
    - Do you offer Mailman hosting, consulting, or contractor services?
    - How do I administer Mailman using just the web interface (especially via a hosting service)?
    - How do I automatically delete held messages?
    - How do I import-copy-convert my list from Lyris, Listar, LISTSERV, Yahoo!Groups, GoogleGroups, or some other mailing list manager?
    - How do I make the archives searchable
    - How do I run Mailman on Win2k (Win98, etc)
    - How do I search the archives of the mailman-users mailing list?
    - How do I spell Mailman?
    - How do I turn off HTML messages-attachments?
    - How do I turn off passwords completely?
    - How do I use Mailman with Exim?
    - How do I use Mailman with Mac OS X?
    - How do I use Mailman with Redhat Linux?
    - How do I use Mailman with S.u.S.E. 9?
    - How do I use the Apple-provided version of Mailman under Mac OS X Server?
    - I've set up Mailman, created a list, and added myself to the list, but I don't get any messages!
    - I believe that I found a sensitive security bug in Mailman -- who do I contact?
    - I have a basic question -- What kind of information do I need to provide when posting a question to this mailing list?
    - I have a specific-detailed question -- What kind of information do I need to provide when posting a question to this mailing list?
    - I installed Mailman from a package or I followed a HowTo document. Where do I go for help?
    - Is GNU Mailman free?
    - Is Mailman a perfect drop-in replacement for Yahoo!Groups or Google Groups? Do you integrate with web forum, webmail, wiki, or content management products (e.g., Joomla!)?
    - Mailman is not Listserv
    - There is no message threading in my web-archives
    - WANTED gid 0, GOT gid 12 (group mismatch error)
    - What about the listowner.org mailing lists?
    - What does "message has implicit destination" mean?
    - What is an MTA? What is an MUA? What is an MDA or LDA?
    - What is GNU Mailman?
    - What is the largest list Mailman can run?
    - What is the minimum recommended configuration for running Mailman?
    - Where do I go for help?
    - Why do links to the mailman-users archive not work or return an irrelevant message?
  - 2 Help for mailing list members
    - From field displayed by Microsoft Outlook
    - How can I post from 2 or more addresses to a "members-only" list?
    - How can I unsubscribe from a mailing list?
    - How do I send email to people on my list?
    - How do I set member options via email?
    - So what is this VERP stuff
  - 3 List administrator tasks
    - Additional web administration tools
    - All messages from my list are being rejected by AOL (or hotmail, or Yahoo! or Google Gmail-googlemail, etc...) as spam, or being silently thrown away!
    - Can you show me some examples of 'header_filter_rules'?
    - Difference Between a Moderator and Administrator
    - How can I accept (allow) all held messages?
    - How can I Mass Subscribe a list with real names
    - How can I remove a post from the list archive or remove an entire archive?
    - How can I remove duplicate Re- markers from the Subject- field of messages?
    - How can I track subscriber's real names?
    - How does Mailman identify list owner-moderator? aka Why can't I see the roster?
    - How do I accept or reject all addresses from a particular domain (e.g., wildcard addresses)?
    - How do I assign a single password to all subscribers in a list?
    - How do I change a member's password?
    - How do I create a newsletter, announcement, or one-way list?
    - How do I discard, reject or hold messages with no subject?
    - How do I edit held message(s) before approving it or them for the list?
    - How do I edit the archives of a Mailman list?
    - How do I enable personalization (messages tailored to the recipient)?
    - How do I enforce a text-plain posts only policy?
    - How do I extract (export) a list of my list's members (subscribers)?
    - How do I get special characters to appear in my footers?
    - How do I handle list moderation from the command-line?
    - How do I hide the fact that I'm using a mailing list management system?
    - How do I move a list to a different server-Mailman installation.
    - How do I preserve HTML formatting while filtering other content?
    - How do I protect my mailing lists against viruses?
    - How do I remove a user name or email address with an illegal character in it (or Mixed or Upper case domain)?
    - How do I remove subscribers from a list and put them on a different list?
    - How do I set (or reset) the moderation setting for all users?
    - How do I set the default moderation status for new members?
    - How do I set up an umbrella list?
    - How do I spoof-proof my one-way (announcements or newsletter) list?
    - How do I unsubscribe a member without them receiving an unsubscribe notice?
    - How do I validate claimed e-mail addresses?
    - How to I get the list administrator to look at all email with attachments, html etc.
    - I forgot my list password! How do I get it back?
    - I receive a daily "n LISTNAME moderator request(s) waiting" email, but there are no requests. Unsubscribed users get password reminders.
    - Is there an easy way to discard all messages waiting to be reviewed?
    - I use Gmail-Googlemail, but I can't tell if any of my messages have been posted to the list
    - I want to completely customize the look and feel of Mailman -- how do I do that?
    - I want to do extensive customization of outgoing messages -- can Mailman do this?
    - My mailing list archives are messed up and have messages with bad timestamps and in the wrong date order
    - Processing old mbox archives with procmail-formail
    - Setting up Web access using MM list passwords - for Apache
    - Some browsers do not appear to recognize the admin password for the list
    - Tracking down elusive subscriber bounces
    - What's the regex syntax for header filter rules (in privacy options-spam filters)?
    - What about setting a "Reply-To-" header for the list?
    - What are all the "special" email addresses used for a list
    - What can I do about users with broken autoresponders?
    - What if I don't want to save any messages for the moderator?
    - What is an Umbrella list - and why doesn't it do what I want?
    - What variables can I use in the headers and footers added to messages by Mailman?
    - Who receives mail to -owner and -admin?
    - Why am I receiving moderation requests that read ...mailing list has -1 request(s) waiting... ?
    - Why are some of my users getting the error "Your mail to ... is being held ... Message has a suspicious header"?
    - Why don't topics work in Mailman 2.1.x?
  - 4 Site administrator tasks
    - 4.01 How do you get rid of the List-* (RFC 2369) headers?
    - 4.02 Which MTA should I use with Mailman?
    - 4.03 Mailman's internal archiver (Pipermail) doesn't understand MIME! What can I do?
    - 4.04 How can I use an external archiver with Mailman like MHonArc?
    - 4.05 Why don't the footers show up on some list messages? (Mailman 2.0.x)
    - 4.06 How can I backup my Mailman lists-membership-etc on a regular basis?
    - 4.07 How can I rotate my Mailman logs?
    - 4.08 How can I add Namazu as a search engine for my Mailman list archives?
    - 4.09 Summary of the mailman bin commands
    - 4.10 How to use Mailman on a linux-grsec kernel
    - 4.11 What about performance?
    - 4.12 What about VERP?
    - 4.13 How do I prevent MIME attachments-HTML-Viruses being sent to lists
    - 4.14 How do I upgrade from Mailman 2.0.x to Mailman 2.0.y
    - 4.15 How do I filter incoming mail before it hits mailman (e.g., using procmail)
    - 4.16 How do I prevent duplicate copies of email coming to the list
    - 4.17 Why are lists missing from the listinfo page?
    - 4.18 How do I backup my lists and their configurations-membership rosters?
    - 4.19 I get "Could not acquire qrunner lock" in ~mailman-logs-qrunner...
    - 4.20 Who should deal with transient DNS errors?
    - 4.21 Why make changes in mm_cfg.py NOT Defaults.py ?
    - 4.22 Messages that are translated from HTML to plain text are empty or have a body like ""-root-8e8Ta4- Permission denied"
    - 4.23 How do I use SpamAssassin with Mailman?
    - 4.24 How do I create unadvertised lists?
    - 4.25 What is the purpose of the site-wide mailing list?
    - 4.27 Securing Mailman's web GUI by using Secure HTTP-SSL
    - 4.29 Where can I change a list or the default URL used for the web interface?
    - 4.30 How do I configure the admin webpage to show more members per page?
    - 4.31 How do I remove a list via the web or command line?
    - 4.32 How Do I Upgrade version 2.0.x to version 2.1.x?
    - 4.33 How do I put a subscribe form for my list on a web page?
    - 4.34 I don't want the "download full raw archive" link which provides non-antispammed email addresses
    - 4.35 What do I do with a shunt (qfiles-shunt) directory full of files?
    - 4.36 Creating a new list from Web CGI result in "Error- Unknown virtual host"
    - 4.37 How do I stop the archiver from "scrubbing" HTML messages sent to the list?
    - 4.38 How to change some configuration for ALL lists?
    - 4.39 Mailman is munging HTML & MIME-formatted messages before they are sent out? (problems with Mailman 2.1.x footers)
    - 4.40 HowTo Patch Mailman Source Code - a basic overview
    - 4.41 How do I deal with qrunner processes that suck up all available CPU?
    - 4.42 I installed or upgraded Mailman, but now I get the error "NameError global name 'True' is not defined". What can I do?
    - 4.43 How can I add auto-numbering to the subject line of mailing list messages?
    - 4.44 I've installed-upgraded Mailman, but now I get the error "KeyError- 'getgrnam()- name not found'" What can I do?
    - 4.45 The admin web interface is not saving my changes and may or may not ask me to re-enter my password -- what is wrong?
    - 4.46 File extension in pipermail archive is obj or bin, not xls or doc. why?
    - 4.47 Virtual domain hosting with Mailman?
    - 4.48 How can I change the HTML (or .txt) templates used by my mailing lists?
    - 4.49 How do I enable automatic alias generation with sendmail?
    - 4.50 I just did a portupgrade on FreeBSD, but now I get the error "ImportError- No module named os" -- what can I do?
    - 4.51 How do I limit the rate (throttle) at which Mailman sends mail?
    - 4.52 How do I change the subject line format for subscription confirmations?
    - 4.53 Why has my change to mm_cfg.py been ignored?
    - 4.54 How do I get qrunner to run under daemontools?
    - 4.55 Is there a GUI installation tool for Mailman?
    - 4.56 What's with all these Mailman-python-qrunner processes? Why are they eating up all the memory on my server? (performance-tuning tips)
    - 4.57 How do I administer the 'mailman' list (site list)?
    - 4.59 Why is the Mailman mail-to-USENET-news gateway munging the Message-Id- header?
    - 4.62 Why doesn't my public list appear on the listinfo overview page? aka Why can't I create a list from the web?
    - 4.64 What other method to prevent spam-worm?
    - 4.65 Admin Web interface requires reauthentication (e.g., re-entering the password) at every step and doesn't save changes.
    - 4.66 How do I disable "bulk" pipermail archive files (.mbox and .txt)?
    - 4.67 How do I implement a custom handler in Mailman, e.g. to mung headers or filter posts based on regex searches of the message body?
    - 4.68 Why do I get -Errno 2- No such file or directory- referring to a qfiles .pck (or .bak) file in my error log.
    - 4.69 Why aren't my mm_cfg.py settings for DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN, DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST effective?
    - 4.70 How do I change the name of (rename) a list?
    - 4.71 Accessing the web admin interface or private archives via a framed page requires constant reauthorization (e.g., asking me to re-enter my password).
    - 4.72 How do I configure Mailman to use an external SMTP server?
    - 4.73 How do I debug smtp-failure problems - delivery to user-example.com failed with code -1- and Low level smtp error-
    - 4.74 How do I manually remove held messages from the command-line?
    - 4.75 How do I set up a Mailman cluster or to load-balance Mailman between multiple servers?
    - 4.76 I can't access one of my lists via the web interface. One of my lists is not sending mail. List locked.
    - 4.78 Troubleshooting- No mail going out to lists members
    - 4.79 I upgraded mailman, but now the web interface says "Bug in Mailman version X.Y.Z" and the apache error log says "IOError- -Errno 13- Permission denied- '-usr-local-mailman-logs-error'"
    - 4.80 How do I upgrade from Mailman 2.1.x to a later Mailman 2.1.y?
    - 4.81 How do I change one setting on all lists?
    - 4.82 How do I filter or scrub content before checking if a message is "too big"?
    - 4.83 What are the Mailman Public HTML variables and their meaning?
    - 4.84 How do I run Mailman using separate email and web servers?
    - 4.85 Why am I receiving bounces of password reminders following upgrade to 2.1.11+
    - 4.86 How do I use VERP with a '-' delimiter (Postfix recipient_delimiter)?
    - 4.87 How do I invoke some process on messages as they are added to the pipermail archive
    - 4.88 How to run Mailman as a relay
    - 4.89 How do I use MySQL or LDAP to store/retrieve list member settings and information.
    - 4.90 My list's moderator interface and plain format digests have garbled non-ascii. Change English charset to utf-8.
  - 5 Downloading and installing Mailman
    - "Site list is missing- mailman" error after upgrade
    - Adding a second version of Python to a server
    - Configuring cron to run with the correct privileges, troubleshoot cron error.
    - How do I download the latest version from CVS (now Subversion - SVN)?
    - How do I import an archive into a new mailing list?
    - Howto select a language while installing Mailman
    - localhost.localdomain is used inside admin email URLs
    - RHEL file changes after version 2.1.5-20
    - SELinux errors after upgrade - RedHat
    - What MTA features are required for use with Mailman 2.1.5?
    - What version of Python is required for Mailman 2.1.5 and 2.1.9 and 2.1.10 and 2.1.12?
    - Where are my icons?
    - Why don't I see error reports from Mailman's cron jobs.
    - Will Mailman work with Windows 2000?
  - 6 Integration issues (with mail or web servers)
    - After installing the cronjob you receive a -bin-sh- mailman- command not found error
    - Apache+Suexec
    - Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 31, GOT gid -1. (Reconfigure to take -1?)
    - How do I configure postfix_to_mailman.py?
    - How do I integrate Mailman with PHP, or any other web enabling technology?
    - I get a "RuntimeError- command failed- -usr-sbin-postalias" when creating lists and Postfix is my MTA
    - Improving performance by local DNS caching
    - Initial Mailman v2.0 with TMDA and MIME filtering HOW-TO
    - Integrating with Apache -- OpenSolaris Specific
    - Mail delivery fails with "(-2, 'Name or service not known')", aka I am not receiving any notification messages from Mailman.
    - Mailman + postfix + amavisd-new HOWTO (anti-spam)
    - Mailman and Allegroserve
    - Mailman and CPanel
    - Mailman and lighttpd
    - Mailman and nginx
    - Mailman and Plesk
    - Mailman Performance Tuning for Mail Delivery
    - Mailman - Postfix integration with Mailman generated transport or other maps
    - MemoryError exceptions from the web interface.
    - MTA Performance Tuning Tips for EXIM
    - MTA Performance Tuning Tips for Postfix
    - MTA Performance Tuning Tips for Qmail
    - MTA Performance Tuning Tips for Sendmail
    - Understanding group mismatch errors - how mailman implements security
    - Why do virtual host domains (CNAME aliases) get replaced by the primary host domain in outgoing mail?
- Installation requirements
- Mailman 2.1 List Administrators Manual
- Mailman 2.1 Members Manual
- Mailman 2.1 Site Administration Manual
  - Integrating Mailman with postfix
  - Integrating Mailman with Sendmail - Method 1
    - Integrating Mailman with Sendmail - Method 2
- Making Sure Your Lists Are Private
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