Mailman-Users December 2007

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89 participants
118 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 17 Feb '21

17 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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Changing the received time on an outgoing authorized email message?
by Paul Key 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

When authorizing a moderated list posting is it possible to change the date/time on the outgoing authorized list message to the time it was approved instead of the message showing the time it was first received by mailman? Thanks Paul

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not really an umbrella?
by Gruver, Sandi 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Mailman 2.1.5 on RedHat Linux - How can I set up a new list that sends to multiple existing lists - but only sends one message to each person - even if the person is a member of multiple lists? a. LSOFT calls this a "superlist" b. Can "Mailman" do this? c. In this case, we have a system newsletter that will be sent to multiple lists. I'd like people to receive the message only once, even if they are on more than one of the lists included in the mailing. Thank you, Sandi Gruver Unix system administrator Center for Information Services Bellevue, WA 98004 phone 425.803.9753 fax 425.803.9652

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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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Mailman 2.1.10b1 Released
by Mark Sapiro 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to announce the first beta release of Mailman 2.1.10. This is a security and bug fix release and it is highly recommended that all sites upgrade to this version. Mailman 2.1.10 also adds support for two new language translations, Hebrew and Slovak and a few new features. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e- newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites. For more information, including download links, please see: http://www.list.org http://mailman.sf.net http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman Special thanks are due to Barry Warsaw and Tokio Kikuchi for much coding and support, Moritz Naumann for help with security issues and Jim Tittsler for a significant patch. Here's a list of the major changes. Security - The 2.1.9 fixes for CVE-2006-3636 have been enhanced. In particular, many potential cross-site scripting attacks have are now detected in editing templates and updating the list's info attribute via the web admin interface. Thanks again to Moritz Naumann for assistance with this. New Features - Changed cmd_who.py to list all members if authorization is with the list's admin or moderator password and to accept the password if the roster is public. Also changed the web roster to show hidden members when authorization is by site or list's admin or moderator password (1587651). - Added the ability to put a list name in accept_these_nonmembers to accept posts from members of that list (1220144). - Added a new 'sibling list' feature to exclude members of another list from receiving a post from this list if the other list is in the To: or Cc: of the post or to include members of the other list if that list is not in the To: or Cc: of the post (Patch ID 1347962). - Added the admin_member_chunksize attribute to the admin General Options interface (Bug 1072002, Partial RFE 782436). Internationalization - Added the Hebrew translation from Dov Zamir. This includes addition of a direction ('ltr', 'rtl') to the LC_DESCRIPTIONS table. The add_language() function defaults direction to 'ltr' to not break existing mm_cfg.py files. - Added the Slovak translation from Martin Matuska. - -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD4DBQFHVjjPVVuXXpU7hpMRArQHAJ9NE4Fj8b2rpWaXX6+BFa27wWB2MACWIGqJ 1wxPhA7ZBRVG9gSiEhTb2A== =vzXz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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running External Archiver on background/foreground
by Mohamed CHAARI 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi all, I'm using Mailman for lists management, in a collaboration infrastructure site. I configured Mailman so that an external archiver is used, but I hesitate to run this archiver in background or foreground. More concretely, in mm_cfg.py conf file, should I put: PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'cat > /var/run/mailman/mail_tmp; /usr/local/bin/external_arch %(listname)s' or PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER = 'cat > /var/run/mailman/mail_tmp; /usr/local/bin/external_arch %(listname)s &' What do you recommend ? is there a difference, in terms of performance ? Is there a risk of system overload, for one of the 2 solutions, when dealing with too big archives ? (I have some archives exceeding 50 M) Thank you -- --- --Mohamed CHAARI (mailto : mohamed.chaari(a)st.com)

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multiple hosts mounting mailman nfs
by Troy Knabe 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

I have two smtp servers that we use dns round robin for load balancing. I can run it one server at a time, but I am running into some pid lock file issues when I try to run them simultaneously. Any suggestions? Thanks -Troy

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Mailman won't 'start' - but is working?
by Charles Marcus 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Ok, maybe this is an issue with my understanding, but... I am on a gentoo system, trying to clean up some things (inherited) - duplicates, etc. I had an old version of Mailman (2.1.7) and 2.1.9 installed. I removed the 2.1.7 version with no apparent problems, but then updated 2.1.9 to the latest rev - 2.1.9-r2 (this is in the testing/unstable repo on gentoo, so maybe this is a bug with this package)... They aren't supposed to make major changes between minor rev bumps like this, but they did this time: 1. The install directory was changed from /usr/local/mailman to /usr/lib64/mailman. 2. They also split up some of the stuff... if I'm not mistaken, the following directories used to be in the main /usr/local/mailman: archives data lists locks logs qfiles spam but they all got moved to /var/lib/mailman... I got all of this sorted (fixed the paths in the aliases files and in main.cf for postfix), and mailman seems to be working fine - I send a message to a list, I see it processed in the log, and the message is delivered to all list members... but... If I try to 'start' mailman, it won't start - I get the (!!) error. If I try to stop it, it says it isn't started. What am I missing? -- Best regards, Charles

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Variables in welcome message are not replaced
by Stefan Burkard 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hi all I set up a mailman mailinglist (everything preinstalled on a plesk-based hosting) and have a strange effect. When I subscribe a user from my address by using the email-command with the optional "address=<user-address>", the user receives the confirmation-message without problems. BUT if the user replies to the message (to confirm), he gets a welcome-message with the variable-codes instead of the real values. When the user himself does the same procedure (obviously without the address= option, that is not needed in this case), the welcome-message looks just fine. I tried the same with the mailman-users-list itself and it worked, so I think this is not a bug - at least not in the actual version. I am using version 2.1.5. Can anybody help me with this one? Regards Stefan

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