Mailman 3 November 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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listname-leave@domain.com isnt working
by Ken Cheney 05 Dec '06

05 Dec '06

When I send email to listname-leave(a)domain.com the names don't unsubscribe from the lists. Why would that be? Thanks. --------------------------------- Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.

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Moderation action
by Dominika Tkaczyk 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Hello, I would like my mailing list to have the following configuration: the messages from most of subscribers are rejected, and there are a few subscribers whose messages are hold for moderation. Is there any way to do so without changing the source code? Or maybe there are already some patches? If I check the moderation checkbox for all subscribers, then I can set only one moderation action, but when I uncheck the box for the "priviledged" subscribers, their messages aren't hold for moderation. I am using Mailman 2.1.9. My second question is: does Mailman use any email authorization or it simply checks the From: header of messages? Regards, Dominika

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Mailman, Fedora Core, 500 Internal Server Error
by Vernon Webb 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

I've installed mailman using Yum. I'll create a list which sends out the email that the list has been created. When I subcribe using the email it works fine, however if I click on the link back to the server I get a 500 Internal Server Error. I look in my Apache logs and get the following error message: [Wed Nov 22 19:19:56 2006] [error] [client X..118.247] attempt to invoke directory as script: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ [Wed Nov 22 19:21:22 2006] [error] [client X..118.247] Premature end of script headers: admin [Wed Nov 22 19:22:30 2006] [error] [client X.X.118.247] Premature end of script headers: listinfo Next I look in my /var/log/httpd/suexec.log and I get: [2006-11-24 10:07:27]: uid: (500/morganfundingcorp) gid: (500/500) cmd: confirm [2006-11-24 10:07:27]: file is either setuid or setgid: (/usr/lib/mailman/cgi- bin/confirm) So I change from 2755 with User as root, Group as mailman to 0755 and now I get: [2006-11-25 14:45:43]: uid: (500/morganfundingcorp) gid: (500/500) cmd: admin [2006-11-25 14:45:43]: target uid/gid (500/500) mismatch with directory (0/41) or program (0/41) [2006-11-25 14:45:49]: uid: (500/morganfundingcorp) gid: (500/500) cmd: listinfo [2006-11-25 14:45:49]: target uid/gid (500/500) mismatch with directory (0/41) or program (0/41) Anyone have any clues? I am at a dead end.

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New Mailman Installation - Can't Send Email to a New List
by mcjathan 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

Greetings, We've recently installed Mailman 2.1.9 on our server. We have installed and configured Mailman in a postfix environment that is using mysql (See our server configuration at the bottom of this email). We can create a new list, log onto the admin and user web interface. However, we are unable to send email to a newly created list. When we try to send an email, the send process hangs with the following message: Alert An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: <testlist(a)ourserver.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in the local recipient table. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preference and try again. We've followed the instructions in the pages below and still been unable to fix the problem: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.007.htp http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp We've noticed that the .../data/virtual-mailman.db does not populate. Running genaliases populates the .../data/aliases and ...../data/aliases.db. Adding a new list updates the aliases.db, but in either case, the virtual-mailman and virtual-mailman.db files have no data. Questions: 1) Is our inability to send email to the lists due to the fact that the virtual db files aren't being populated? 2) If so, how do we fix this for our already created lists? 3) If so, how do we fix things so that lists we create from now on don't have this problem? Regards, Jeff ===================== Server Configuration Linux version 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 Postfix mail_version = 2.2.5 -2 virtual domains -multiple aliases for each virtual domain phpMyAdmin 2.7.0-pl1 -MySQL 4.1.14-log SquirrelMail version 1.4.5 Mailman version: 2.1.9 (not fully functional at this point)

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Subject line filtering
by Duane Clark 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

First let me say that I realize that filtering is supposedly better done at the MTA level (and we are running spam assassin), but I don't have access to that level; I am only a moderator for several lists, and I would like to be able to do simple filtering without bothering the sys admin. With discard_these_nonmembers, I use regular expressions such as: ^.*paypal\.com ^debora.* Those seem to work fine. But I would like to be able to filter on subject lines, and suppose this would be done with header_filter_rules. About half of the spam that gets through are those recent ubiquitous spams with subject lines like "Linda wrote:" and "hi it's Linda". I tried the rules: ^subject:.*hi\sit ^subject:.*wrote: But they don't seem to work. I am not very familiar with regular expressions. Can someone point out something I am doing wrong?

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