ezmlm-idx FAQ

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This is the frequently asked question list for ezmlm-idx.

This document is a collection of frequently asked questions about ezmlm-idx. Where applicable, ezmlm itself is also covered. This FAQ presumes familiarity with Unix, and with the basic concepts of email and mailing lists. This FAQ is updated for ezmlm-0.53 and ezmlm-idx-7.1.0.

1 General Information
- 1.1 Acknowledgements
- 1.2 What is this document?
- 1.3 Terminology
- 1.4 What is the difference between ezmlm and ezmlm-idx?
- 1.5 What are the major changes between ezmlm-idx versions?
- 1.6 Where can I get all of the ezmlm-related programs?
- 1.7 Where can I find documentation for ezmlm and patches?
- 1.8 Where do I send comments on this document?
- 1.9 How to experiment with new versions of ezmlm-idx
2 Quick start
3 Overview of mailing list management and mailing list managers
4 Overview of ezmlm function
- 4.1 The basic setup
- 4.2 Inventions in ezmlm
- 4.3 The qmail delivery mechanism
- 4.4 What the different programs do
- 4.5 What the different files in the list directory do
- 4.6 The paper path for posts
- 4.7 The ezmlm path for moderation messages
- 4.8 The ezmlm path for administrative messages
- 4.9 The ezmlm path for bounces
- 4.10 Messages to list-owner and list-digest-owner
- 4.11 Structure of subscriber databases
- 4.12 Local case in email addresses
- 4.13 Testing SENDER to allow posts only from list subscribers
- 4.14 How cookies work
- 4.15 How moderator email addresses are stored
- 4.16 How subscription moderation works
- 4.17 How remote administration works
- 4.18 How message moderation works
- 4.19 How QMQP support works
- 4.20 How messages are stored in the archive
- 4.21 How the message index works
- 4.22 How threading works
- 4.23 How digests work
- 4.24 How WWW archive access works
- 4.25 How ezmlm-tstdig works
- 4.26 How sublists work
- 4.27 How sublisting can be made transparent to the user
- 4.28 How to service commands in the subject line
- 4.29 How to support alternative command names
- 4.30 How to add your own commands
- 4.31 How remote administrators can retrieve a subscriber list
- 4.32 How remote administrators can determine the number of subscribers
- 4.33 How remote admins can see if an address is a subscriber or not
- 4.34 How remote administrators can search the subscription log
- 4.35 How text file editing works
- 4.36 How subject line prefixes work
- 4.37 How bounces are handled
- 4.38 How the info and faq commands work
- 4.39 How the global ezmlm list address works
- 4.40 How ezmlm-cron works
- 4.41 How ezmlm-make works
- 4.42 What names can I use for my lists?
- 4.43 Lists in virtual domains
- 4.44 How do I make customization simple for me/my users?
5 ezmlm support for SQL databases
- 5.1 Why use an SQL database with ezmlm?
- 5.2 Why not to use an SQL database with ezmlm
- 5.3 Tables used for SQL support
- 5.4 How to set up a simple list with SQL support
  - 5.4.1 Helper programs for SQL-enabled lists
- 5.5 Manually manipulating the subscribers of a SQL-enabled list
- 5.6 Converting to and from and SQL database
- 5.7 Optimizing MySQL for ezmlm
  - 5.7.1 Address SELECTs, additions, removals
- 5.8 Maintenance of the MySQL database
6 Possible error conditions in ezmlm lists
- 6.1 What do I do if ezmlm doesn't work?
- 6.2 How do I report ezmlm bugs?
- 6.3 Where do I send suggestions for ezmlm-idx improvements?
- 6.4 Using ezmlm-test to check the ezmlm(-idx) programs
- 6.5 Using ezmlm-check to find setup errors
- 6.6 Posts are rejected: Sorry, no mailbox here by that name (#5.1.1)
- 6.7 Post are not sent to subscribers
- 6.8 ezmlm-make fails: usage: ezmlm-make ...
- 6.9 ezmlm-make fails: Unable to create ...
- 6.10 ezmlm-make fails: ... ezmlmrc does not exist
- 6.11 Index/get/thread requests fail quietly or with errors from ezmlm-manage
- 6.12 Digest triggering requests fail
- 6.13 Remote administration (un)subscribe confirm requests go to the user, not the moderator
- 6.14 (Un)subscribers does not receive a (un)subscribe acknowledgement
- 6.15 Messages posted to a moderated list are sent out without moderation
- 6.16 Messages posted to a moderated list do not result in moderation requests
- 6.17 Moderation request replies do not result in the appropriate action
- 6.18 Moderator comments with moderation request replies are not added to the post/sent to the poster
- 6.19 Some headers are missing from messages in the digest
- 6.20 Some Received: headers are missing from messages
- 6.21 My Mutt users cannot thread their digest messages
- 6.22 Posts fail: Message already has Mailing-List (#5.7.2)
- 6.23 The last line of a DIR/text/ file is ignored
- 6.24 No CONFIRM requests are sent to moderators
- 6.25 Deliveries fail ‘temporary qmail-queue error’
- 6.26 How to deal with corrupted subscriber lists
- 6.27 Vacation program replies are treated as bounces by ezmlm
- 6.28 Digests do not come at regular hours
- 6.29 Preventing loops from misconfigured subscriber addresses
- 6.30 A user can subscribe and receives warning and probe messages, but no messages from the list
7 Customizing ezmlm-make operation
- 7.1 Using ezmlm-make to edit existing lists
- 7.2 What is ezmlmrc?
- 7.3 Changing defaults for DIR/text/ files
- 7.4 Changing default moderator directories
- 7.5 Adapting ezmlm-make for virtual domains
- 7.6 Setting up ezmlm-make for special situations
8 Restricting message posting to the list
- 8.1 Requiring the list address in To:/Cc: headers
- 8.2 Rejecting messages sent from other mailing lists
- 8.3 Restricting posts based on the Subject line
- 8.4 Restricting the size of posts
- 8.5 Restricting posts based on MIME content-type
- 8.6 Restricting posts to list subscribers
- 8.7 Restricting posts to an arbitrary set of email addresses (higher security option)
- 8.8 Completely restricting posts
- 8.9 A general solution to restricting posts based on SENDER
9 Customizing outgoing messages
- 9.1 Adding a trailer to outgoing messages
- 9.2 Adding a subject prefix to outgoing messages
- 9.3 Adding a header to outgoing messages
- 9.4 Adding a message number header
- 9.5 Removing headers from outgoing messages
- 9.6 Removing MIME parts from messages
- 9.7 Limiting ‘Received:’ headers in outgoing messages
- 9.8 Setting ‘Reply-To: list@host’
- 9.9 Configuring the list so posts are not copied to the original sender
- 9.10 Customizing ezmlm notification messages
- 9.11 Specifying character set and content-transfer-encoding for outgoing ezmlm messages
10 Customizing archive retrieval
- 10.1 Specifying the format for retrieved messages
- 10.2 Specifying the default format for digests and archive retrieval
- 10.3 Limiting the number of messages per -get/-index request
11 Restricting archive retrieval
- 11.1 Restricting archive access to subscribers
- 11.2 Restricting available archive retrieval commands
- 11.3 Restricting archive retrieval to moderators
- 11.4 Allowing archive retrieval from a non-public list
12 Customizing digests
- 12.1 Setting up a digest list
- 12.2 Generating daily digests
- 12.3 Generating the first digest
- 12.4 Adding standard administrative information to digests
- 12.5 Controlling the digest format
- 12.6 Customizing bounce handling
13 Remote administration
- 13.1 How can I remotely add moderators, subscriber aliases, etc?
- 13.2 Moderating posts from a secondary account
- 13.3 Moderating subscription from a secondary account
- 13.4 Automatically approving posts or subscriptions
- 13.5 Allowing remote administrators to get a subscriber list
- 13.6 Allowing remote administrators to retrieve or search a subscription log
- 13.7 Allowing users to get a subscriber list
- 13.8 Changing the timeout for messages in the moderation queue
- 13.9 Finding out how many messages are waiting for moderation
- 13.10 Using the same moderators for multiple lists
- 13.11 Using different moderators for message and subscription moderation
- 13.12 Setting up moderated lists with the list owner as the “supermoderator” able to add/remove moderators remotely
- 13.13 13.13 Customizing ezmlm administrative messages
- 13.14 Manually approving a message awaiting moderation
- 13.15 Manually rejecting a message awaiting moderation
14 Sublists
- 14.1 Sublists of ezmlm lists
- 14.2 Sublists of non-ezmlm lists
- 14.3 How to set up a cluster of list and sublists with standard databases
15 Migration to Ezmlm from other Mailing List Managers
- 15.1 Basic Concepts
- 15.2 Setting up ezmlm to respond to host-centric commands
- 15.3 Commands of other mailinglist managers recognized by ezmlm
16 Optimizing list performance
- 16.1 Crond-generated digests for better performance
- 16.2 Optimizing execution of ezmlm-warn(1)
- 16.3 Decreasing ezmlm-warn time out to increase performance
- 16.4 Use ezmlm without ezmlm-idx for maximum performance
- 16.5 Not archiving to maximize performance
- 16.6 Sublists to maximize performance
17 Miscellaneous
- 17.1 How do I quickly change the properties of my list?
- 17.2 Open archived list with daily digests
- 17.3 Variations in moderation
- 17.4 Lists that allow remote admin, but not user initiated subscription or archive retrieval
- 17.5 Lists that allow remote admin, user archive retrieval, but not user-initiated subscription
- 17.6 Lists that restrict archive retrieval to subscribers
- 17.7 Lists that do not allow archive retrieval at all
- 17.8 Lists that do not allow archive retrieval and do not allow digest triggering per mail
- 17.9 Lists that allow archive retrieval only to moderators, but allow user-initiated subscription
- 17.10 Lists that do not require user confirmation for (un)subscription
- 17.11 Announcement lists for a small set of trusted posters
- 17.12 Announcement lists allowing moderated posts from anyone
- 17.13 Announcement lists with less security and more convenience
18 Ezmlm-idx compile time options
- 18.1 Location of binaries
- 18.2 Location of man pages
- 18.3 Base directory of qmail-installation
- 18.4 Short header texts, etc
- 18.5 Arbitrary limits
- 18.6 Command names
- 18.7 Error messages
- 18.8 Paths and other odd configuration items
19 Multiple language support
- 19.1 Command name aliases
- 19.2 Text files
- 19.3 Multi-byte character code support
20 Subscriber notification of moderation events
- 20.1 General opinions
- 20.2 Users should know that the list is subscription moderated
- 20.3 Subscribers should know that posts are moderated
- 20.4 Senders of posts should be notified of rejections
21 Ezmlm-idx security
- 21.1 General assumptions
- 21.2 SENDER manipulation
- 21.3 ezmlm cookies
- 21.4 Lists without remote admin/subscription moderation
- 21.5 Message moderation
- 21.6 Subscription moderation
- 21.7 Remote administration
- 21.8 Remote editing of ezmlm text files
- 21.9 Digest generation and archive retrieval
- 21.10 Convenience for security: the ezmlm-manage -S and -U switches
- 21.11 Denial of service
- 21.12 Moderator anonymity
- 21.13 Confidentiality of subscriber email addresses
- 21.14 Help message for moderators
- 21.15 Sublist security
- 21.16 SQL databases
- 21.17 Reporting security problems

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