Mailman 3 October 2006 - Mailman-Users

Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann 16 Nov '23

16 Nov '23

Hi, Is there any way to configure Mailman such that, for an announcement-only type list, when a message is sent to the list, the To: shows the member's address, rather than the list address? Some list software allows the ability to hide the list address itself, so that address is not advertised. I couldn't find any configuration specific to that.

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Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

I want all mails sent to the list to come from the list's email address... But, in this case, if the user forgets to sign their name at the bottom of their mail body, effectively the mail to the list is anonymous...! Is there a way to add the user name (or email address) to the top of each mail so that the mails have the name of the sender, while the mail itself comes from the list address? I have looked high and low for an answer, but noone seems to have the solution. Thank you! Mal

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Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hi - I have searched FAQ and archives to find an answer. Hoping you can help. I have a new list (with previously imported addresses) for announcements only, and wish these announcements to be received immediately. I set the defaults to allow non-digest and to not allow digest. I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text. QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode? If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default? Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so? Thanks - Steve

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Mailman/Qmail/Plesk Problem
by Douglas G. Phillips 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

OK, I've got another problem with Qmail/Plesk/Mailman (same customer, rebuilt server). Plesk is 7.5.4 reloaded. Mail delivered fails with "need GID 110 got 101" error. I set up the brute-force wrapper to deliver with GID 110, and set the permissions correctly for it to work. Now, I'm getting the following (broken up into multiple lines for courtesy): qmail: 1157518628.995172 delivery 726: success: group_mismatch_error._Mailman_expected_the_mail_wrapper_script_to_be/ executed_as_one_of_the_following_groups:/[mail,_nobody,_mailman],/ but_the_system's_mail_server_executed_the_mail_script_as_group:_"popuser"./ Try_tweaking_the_mail_server_to_run_the_script_as_one_of_these_groups:/ [mail,_nobody,_mailman],/or_re-run_configure_providing_the_ command_line_option:/'--with-mail-gid=popuser'./Failed_to_start_ /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman./did_0+0+1/ I'm about ready to pull my hair out. I even added the popuser user to the mailman group in /etc/passwd. So, that being said, are there any ideas out there? I have been messing with this for a week, and have not come up with anything else to do. -- Douglas G. Phillips Simple Business Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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MSN and HotMail "Eating" Messages
by fshagan 24 May '07

24 May '07

Recently, my Mailman list users who use either a HotMail or MSN.COM email address have not received any messages. Mailman does not record a "bounce" from these email addresses, but they do not receive any of the list traffic. When trying to send a message to a Mailman list, the user gets the following error message: "This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed." And it lists the Mailman list email address. However, Mailman does not receive a bounce message. (My server is not listed with SpamHaus.org, or any of the other blacklists, so it should not be a spam filter sort of thing). One user requested help from MSN, and they responded with: "You are experiencing this issue because your .Net Passport <user's email address here> Profile (which is extensively used for authentication purposes) is corrupted (not updated). In order to resolve this issue, I would suggest you to Update your .NET passport profile." They follow that with instructions to go to their MSN .NET Passport profile and re-type all the information by hand (not by cut and paste). Then a 15-step procedure is given to delete all cookies, history and temporary internet files and re-set the disk cache (space for files) to 10MB. They believe that will solve the problem but alas, it has not for the 4 users I have with MSN or HotMail email addresses. Anyone else run into this and resolved it? I didn't see anything in the archives. If any of you have users with MSN or HotMail addresses, be advised they probably will not be able to receive emails, but you will not get "bounce" messages. They only way they will know is if they try to post to a Mailman list.

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Web admin slow
by Jon Harris 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Hi List I have a (bit aged) Redhat 9 box (Pentium II/512Mb RAM) running Mailman 2.1.6 with Postfix. Its only has to run a single moderated mailing list sending out one email every day to around 20,000 subscribers. Sending out the emails is not problem - it works great. The major problem is logging in to approve the email. It (Apache/2.0.40) is so slow that it usually times out with a 500 error after you try and login. Is there a way of speeding up the web interface? Can I approve postings from the command line? There is a large archive as they have been running this for around 3 years. Will it speed up if we trash part of the archive. If so how can I trash archived data that is (say) over a year old? There was a thread on this problem, but it was not really resolved, and that user had 450,000 subscribers. Any help appreciated. Jon Harris

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Can't send messages to list
by Lukasz Szybalski 24 Nov '06

24 Nov '06

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-August/thread.html#52865 Hello, I have similar problem as was discussed in link i just gave. When i send email to the list. It get's received, Oct 16 14:11:12 localhost postfix/qmgr[1153]: BECCC25C12A: from=<email...>, size=203906, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 16 14:11:13 localhost postfix/pipe[13741]: BECCC25C12A: to=<list(a)lists.example>, relay=mailman, delay=3, status=sent (lists.example.com) Oct 16 14:11:13 localhost postfix/qmgr[1153]: BECCC25C12A: removed then it gets archived and then it tries to sent it out. /var/log/mailman/smtp-failure says Oct 18 11:47:06 2006 (29893) delivery to email@email failed with code -1: (110, 'Connection timed out') /var/log/mailman/smtp says: Oct 18 11:47:06 2006 (29893) <804e5c70610161138j444c3757j7e406a9b9ac81a65(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp for 34 recips, completed in 378.081 seconds when i do >mail my(a)email.com ...etc /var/log/mail.log says: Oct 18 12:01:03 localhost postfix/qmgr[29672]: 2EE1025C0C2: from=<lucas(a)example.com>, size=317, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 18 12:01:04 localhost postfix/smtp[29961]: 2EE1025C0C2: to=<myadress(a)site.org>, relay=smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.229.41], delay=1, status=sent (250 ok 1161194556 qp 85909) Oct 18 12:01:04 localhost postfix/qmgr[29672]: 2EE1025C0C2: removed compname:/var/lib/mailman/locks# ls master-qrunner master-qrunner.compname.29686 and /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/out and retry has files in it My setup is here: http://acm.cs.uic.edu/modules/mediawiki/index.php/Debian#Mailman_on_Debian_… OS: Debian stable/ postfix/ mailman with relay through sbcglobal Permisions for mailman folder are: drwxrwsr-x 4 root list 4096 2006-06-16 13:02 archives lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-10-18 10:44 bin -> /usr/lib/mailman/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2006-10-18 10:44 cgi-bin -> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2006-10-18 10:44 cron -> /usr/lib/mailman/cron drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 2006-10-18 11:59 data lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-10-18 10:44 icons -> /usr/share/images/mailman drwxrwsr-x 5 root list 4096 2006-06-23 17:37 lists lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2006-10-18 10:44 locks -> ../../lock/mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2006-10-18 10:44 logs -> ../../log/mailman lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2006-10-18 10:44 mail -> /usr/lib/mailman/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2006-10-18 10:44 Mailman -> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman drwxrwsr-x 29 root list 4096 2006-06-16 13:02 messages drwxrwsr-x 11 list list 4096 2006-06-16 13:05 qfiles lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2006-10-18 10:44 scripts -> /usr/lib/mailman/scripts drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 2006-03-29 13:58 spam lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-10-18 10:44 templates -> /etc/mailman drwxrwsr-x 4 root list 4096 2006-10-18 10:44 tests Could you guys tell me what might be the problem? Lucas

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mailman: how to display subject and date for archives when listing of archives?
by Jana Nguyen 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

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password management
by Melinda 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Has anyone come up with a good management for passwords. We are about to introduce Mailman to the university and many are concerned about password management and generating a lot of helpdesk calls. We currently are running Listproc on a Solaris. We want to move to Mailman on a RedHat Linux box. Any pointers would be much appreciated. I am also new to this world. Mindy

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Umbrella List / Moderation
by Bruce E. Breeding 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

I'm implementing an umbrella list over three other lists. When I send mail to the umbrella list, three events occur: (a) For each of the three lists, I (as owner) receive a request for approval with the message: Message has implicit destination (b) Duplicate receiving email addresses (on two or all three of the sublists) are not being eliminated. (c) I do NOT receive a request for approval from the umbrella list (yes!) I would like for the approval to be automatic and I'd like for duplicate email addresses to be eliminated. I've probably missed the obvious, but I've invested several hours in troubleshooting ... What I've done: (1) added the sender's email address to the privacy options / sender filter / non-member (even though the sender is a member and the sender's email moderate check-box is not checked). (2) done (1) above for each sublist and the umbrella list, although in the umbrella list, the sender is not a member. (3) added the <umbrellalistname>@listdomain.org as a sender not needing approval as in (1) above, but I didn't think I should have to do this, since it's not the original sender. I've presumed that email addresses are not case sensitive, and routinely enter all addresses in lower case. Solutions or next troubleshooting step suggestions are welcomed. Thank you, Bruce (newbie to mailman, oldie to information technology, and embarrassed that I can't figure this out on my own)

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