Mailman 3 February 2007 - Mailman-Users

Challenge/response
by Bob Morse 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

I have a client who is concerned about his list subscriber addresses being spoofed. In other words someone who knows the addresses of people on the list can set up a mail server and spoof the subscriber so he can post nasty things to the list. He would like to set up a challenge/response mechanism so that when xyz(a)domain.com posts to the list, xyz(a)domain.com gets sent a copy of the message and must confirm that he/she was the sender before it gets posted. I don¹t see any configuration in Mailman for this. Is it possible? BTW, searching the archives at mail-arcihve.com gets a 404 error.

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User with same name of a mailman list not receiving e-mails
by Centro de Apoio Técnico da APM 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

The problem is this: I have a user with mail account and a mailing-list running in Mailman with the same name of the user. The email for example is this <user(a)domain.com> and the e-mail of the list is this <user(a)mailinglistsubdomain.com>. When I send a message to the <user(a)domain.com>, the message is relayed to the list (but not posted) and not to the local box. If I send a message to the list there is no problem. How can I resolve this? I mean, I want the user to receive the message. Pure and simple. Xserve Mac OS X (10.3.9) João Loureiro.

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Daylight savings
by Jewel 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Still a newbie and was concerned about the daylight savings time issue. The server I have which runs Mailman only runs Mailman and nothing else. Will I need to install a patch or will Mailman not be affected with the time change? -- J

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Blocking particular domains
by BG Mahesh 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

hi I had few basic questions about user management in Mailman 1. How do I know when a user registered himself with a mailing list? 2. How do I block particular email ids/emails from a particular domain from becoming subscribers of a list? -- -- B.G. Mahesh http://www.greynium.com/ http://www.oneindia.in/ http://www.click.in/ - Free Indian Classifieds

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Mailing List subscriptions are 'frozen'
by Derek Cicero 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

I searched the archives for this issue and did not find any relevant messages, so I was hoping someone could help me. We've been running mailman 2.1.4 on Solaris for about 2 years and in the last week the subscription confirmations have seemingly stopped being sent to users. In looking at the subscription log, it's only been able to process 11 new subscriptions today, vs. 5000 pending ones. Now, the 5000+ subscription requests seems odd, since that would match the total number of subscribers to all lists, so I assume those are attempts by spam-subscribers. Do we need to dump out the confirmation queue? Does mailman eventually get full of bad (spam) sign-up attempts? Thanks, Derek -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division

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Adding a Disclaimer
by Kim Moodley 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

How do i add a disclaimer within the mailing list. Is there options to add something like this. Is there any suggestions? Thanks

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Attachment URL's not working
by Michael Lee 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

I've noticed that when I send e-mails with attachments (for example, either an HTML message sent from my gmail account or an attached jpeg) to my test list, I get the following footer blah message

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mailman user account and login
by vancleef＠lostwells.net 08 Feb '07

08 Feb '07

I thought I'd pose this question to the list. The mailman installation manual seems to imply that the mailman account should be added with no ability to log in to it. I translated what appeared to me to be the sense of the line given to Solaris. However, after having gone through several fire drills of resetting file owner from root to mailman, I've set the account up with the directory /usr/local/mailman and "NP" in the /etc/shadow file. This allows me to su - mailman from root, but not to get a login from anywhere else. This is the same setup as is used for other Solaris "blind" accounts. Is there any real reason not to use the account this way? I'm aware that Mailman security is based on group identity, not user, but external programs such as htdig running under cron need to have uid mailman in files it writes to or to be set up as a mailman-uid program. My personal preference is to set the needed uid's in the mailman runtime tree. Hank

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Shell that moves admins to moderators, change admin and moderator passwd
by Cat 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

Hello, not sure anyone will have use for this, but I'm submitting it just in case. I had to do the following on 100+ lists: for each list: the administrator(s) becomes moderator(s) a new administrator is added change administrator's password change moderator's password the list of affected lists is in a file named reglists /home/cat/wk is a directory where I store previous admins lists /home/cat/cfg is a directory where I build the new config file to run on the lists for i in `cat /home/cat/reglists` do echo $i # create list of administrators /usr/sbin/list_admins $i | awk -F: '{print $3;}' | sed -e "s/,/\n/g" |sed -e "s/^ //" > /home/cat/wk/$i # create new configfile echo "# -*- python -*-" > cfg/$i echo "# -*- coding: us-ascii -*-" >>cfg/$i # new moderators MOD="moderator = [" for j in `cat wk/$i`; do MOD="$MOD'$j',"; done echo $MOD |sed -se "s/,$/]/" >>cfg/$i # new administrator echo "owner = ['newadmin(a)yourmom.com']" >> cfg/$i # new passwords echo "import sha" >> cfg/$i echo "mlist.password = sha.new('newadminpasswde').hexdigest()" >> cfg/$i echo "mlist.mod_password = sha.new('newmoderatorpasswd').hexdigest()" >> cfg/$i # apply config file /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -i cfg/$i $i done thanks to Mark for helping me figuring out the change of passwords in the config file -- Cat Burning Man Sysadmin Team

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umbrella lists
by Douglas B. Jones 07 Feb '07

07 Feb '07

I am using "Using Mailman version: 2.1.5" on rhel4 (what comes with the box). I am want to set up a list, call it U1, that is an umbrella list to list L1, L2 and some individual subscribers S1 and S2. Can an umbrella list be set up this way, or is all or nothing - ie: all the subscribers are either list or they are all individual subscribers. If both can be on there, do I list the sublists as (L1 and L2) as L1-owner and L2-owner? I would want password reminders and such to go to S1 and S2 but not to L1 or L2 (although L1-owner and L2-owner would be ok). Also would want email from U1 to post to L1 lists, but would want L2 to decide if the post should go through. Is this possible? Thanks!

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