Mailman 3 March 2006 - Mailman-Users

Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann Nov. 17, 2023

Nov. 17, 2023

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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Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter July 31, 2011

July 31, 2011

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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MSN and HotMail "Eating" Messages
by fshagan May 24, 2007

May 24, 2007

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 Dec. 1, 2006

Dec. 1, 2006

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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Redirect all -bounce emails
by Tom Kavanaugh Sept. 22, 2006

Sept. 22, 2006

Hello Folks, I recently setup a mailman server with ver 2.1.6, and I am liking it so far. Since I am not with the IT Team of my organization, I am working around some mailman problems and this is where I need some ideas. I setup a few mail lists (including default mailman list) in name.comdomain, and worked with my IT folks to redirect <maillist>@ name.com to my mail server <mailist>@mine.name.com I do get a few <maillist-name>-bounce(a)name.com emails, and I would like to re-direct all these emails to mailman(a)name.com (or mailman(a)mine.name.com) Does someone have ideas how to accomplish this? I do not administer the company's mail servers. Folks here are not open to the list.name.com domain idea, for legacy reasons. I have a bunch of /etc/aliases entries for each of my mail lists on mine.name.com server. Is there a way I can use these alaises to re-firect <maillist-bounce>@ name.com to mailman(a)name.com Any help / ideas are appreciated. Thanks! Tom

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Mailman move problem
by kevinc＠seaplace.org July 28, 2006

July 28, 2006

Dear List - I recently have changed mail servers and my attempt at moving Mailman appears to have only partially succeeded. Currently: check_perms comes back fine - Good. cron is running the news_port command every 5 minutes (good cron check) -Good. The web interface works fine - all list look great - Good. Mail sent to a list appears in a qfile - Good. Qrunner is running - Good. Mailmanctrl is running - Good. Nothing is being sent to Postfix - Bad!!! Qfile In directory purged just in case, still nothing. System: Gentoo 2.6.13 running 2.6.13-gentoo.r3 kernel, 64-bit, on an AMD64 3000. Postfix - but nothing fancy - no virtual domains, etc. Mailman 2.1.5-r3 build via emerge into the standard location Help!!! <with a smile> Kevin

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encoding problem Umlauts - windows-1258
by Marcus Sobchak April 7, 2006

April 7, 2006

Hei, I got the following error if some people using MS Outlook send mails with german umlauts in the subject. Those mails don't go through! I'm using Mailman 2.1.5 on debian woody. Is this a mailman or user side problem? Thanks, Marcus ----------- Subject: =?windows-1258?Q?Deutsch-Polnisches:_Anmeldung_jetzt?= =?windows-1258?Q?_m=F6glich?= Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:51:33 +0200 ----------- ----------- Mar 29 11:51:36 2006 (330) Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding Mar 29 11:51:36 2006 (330) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py", line 74, in process prefix_subject(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py", line 265, in prefix_subject h.append(s, c) File "/root/backport/mailman-2.1.5/debian/mailman/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Header.py", line 285, in append LookupError: unknown encoding -----------

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UnicodeError in admindb interface
by ts North April 3, 2006

April 3, 2006

I run several mailing lists under Mailman 2.1.6. Recently one of my mailing lists received 2 spam messages, I was able to delete one of them using the moderator admindb interface, but when I tried to delete the second message, I got the "hit a bug" page (traceback is listed below). At that point I: ran check_db and check_perms, restarted the daemon, cleared out the locks. No luck. I found the heldmsg in data/ and deleted the message manually, which seems to have made matters worse. Now when I access the admindb web page for the mailing list, it throws the error right away before displaying the admindb page (same traceback as before). I suspect I may have not deleted everything I need to delete. I have considered upgrading to 2.1.7, but thought I should resolve this issue first. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks, -Tom admin(24303): [----- Traceback ------] admin(24303): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6//scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main admin(24303): main() admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 2 34, in main admin(24303): num += show_helds_overview(mlist, form) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 4 85, in show_helds_overview admin(24303): mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 167 , in HandleRequest admin(24303): forward, addr) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 353 , in __handlepost admin(24303): syslog('vette', note) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", lin e 40, in write admin(24303): self.write_ex(kind, msg, args, kws) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py", lin e 58, in write_ex admin(24303): logf.write(msg + '\n') admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.p y", line 73, in write admin(24303): Logger.write(self, "%s %s" % (prefix, msg)) admin(24303): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.6/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", lin e 91, in write admin(24303): f.write(msg) admin(24303): UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128) admin(24303): [----- Python Information -----] admin(24303): sys.version = 2.2.3 (#1, Mar 9 2006, 18:16:14) [GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-53)] admin(24303): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(24303): sys.prefix = /usr admin(24303): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(24303): sys.path = /usr admin(24303): sys.platform = linux2 admin(24303): [----- Environment Variables -----] --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.

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Turn off wraping a line
by DongInn Kim April 3, 2006

April 3, 2006

Hi, Is there a simple configuration to turn off the functionality of wrapping a line in a mail? I have mailman-2.1.6 installed on RHEL 4. I apprecate your help in advance. Regards, -- DongInn

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550 Recipient Address Rejected Error
by Phelps Williams March 31, 2006

March 31, 2006

After creating a new list with a (clearly not properly setup) new install of mailman, when sending a message to the list address I get the following error back: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: testlist(a)mydomain.com Technical details of permanent failure: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550 <testlist(a)mydomain.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table I pulled my actual domain out of this error. Oddly enough all messages regarding subscribing etc work just fine. Users simply cannot post messages. Any ideas? Thanks.

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