This section contains questions pertaining to site administration of GNU 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?
4.08 How can I add Namazu as a search engine for my Mailman list archives?
4.13 How do I prevent MIME attachments-HTML-Viruses being sent to lists
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
4.18 How do I backup my lists and their configurations-membership rosters?
4.19 I get "Could not acquire qrunner lock" in ~mailman-logs-qrunner...
4.29 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?
4.33 How do I put a subscribe form for my list on a web page?
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?
4.41 How do I deal with qrunner processes that suck up all available CPU?
4.43 How can I add auto-numbering to the subject line of mailing list messages?
4.46 File extension in pipermail archive is obj or bin, not xls or doc. why?
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?
4.51 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?
4.59 Why is the Mailman mail-to-USENET-news gateway munging the Message-Id- header?
4.66 How do I disable "bulk" pipermail archive files (.mbox and .txt)?
4.72 How do I configure Mailman to use an external SMTP server?
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?
4.80 How do I upgrade from Mailman 2.1.x to a later Mailman 2.1.y?
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 - using fetchmail to deliver from an ISP to Mailman.
4.89 How do I use MySQL or LDAP to store/retrieve list member settings and information.
4.91 Can I limit the number of posts in a given time period per member and/or per list?
My change to a source module is inneffective; When do I need to restart Mailman?
Why are there both periodic .txt.and .txt.gz files in the archive?
Why areWhat log files (logs) does Mailman write? there long delays in Mailman's message delivery?
Comments
Ok - in the spirit of the wiki, I went in and added the numbers back in to the page titles. I added leading 0's to the early numbers as the wiki sorts alphabetically. Hope this is useful to others.
Hm. I specifically left the numbers out of the titles when I converted the FAQ because I figured they made it harder for people to find the things they wanted when browsing the list of entries, and anyone who wanted to find FAQ 4.3 or whatever could just search...
That could be true, but doing a search (or asking a question of a mailing list) then getting an answer that then has to be resolved by doing a further search is a step too far for me. And removing the numbers still leaves a list where most of the questions begin with "How do".
IMHO the numbers are more useful in the list than they are in the articles themselves. Although, having put them back in I see that the numbers don't imply any order to the actual FAQs. Breaking up this list into different categories might be useful, but I'm not sure how to achieve that with this wiki system.
Yeah, the numbers only provide info on when an entry was added. It's useful historically, and because people have in the past referred to FAQ entries by their numbers, but somewhat counter productive when it comes to grouping information. I figured people were better off with just titles so they wouldn't assume any ordering. (edit: Plus, you don't have a whole pile of pages that start with "4..." in the dashboard change listing...)
I'd love to see someone organize the FAQ into better sub-categories. We've just had the wiki software upgraded, so there may be better tools for this now.
What would be super cool would be some way of forwarding links from the old FAQ sections to the new ones - everyones bookmarks now get forwarded to the front page of the FAQs. Again - having the numbers in the list allows one to look at the old URL and figure out where the page they are looking for is.
Agree that some better organisation would be useful. Maybe I'll roll up my sleeves one of these days.
This section used to have numbers for each question, and a LOT of archived mailing list questions are answered with "See FAQ question 4.29" then link to this page.
But this page does not have numbered questions, nor are the questions in numerical order any more. This makes it hard to find answers to questions that could otherwise be easily answered by a search in Google or the mailing list.