Mailman 3 March 2007 - Mailman-Users

Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann 17 Nov '23

17 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 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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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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migrating Mailman server
by Peter Matulis 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

I have the task of setting up a replacement for an existing Mailman/Postfix server. I am new to Mailman and I am looking for some guidance in this transition. Mailman is currently being used solely as a diffusion of information. That is, it does not accept contributions from list members (read-only). Firstly, should I attempt to migrate data/files over to the new system or should I start fresh? The new system will be running OpenBSD 4.0. Other comments welcome. Peter

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hello genaliases
by Gustavo U. Navarro 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hello I need generate a file aliases in mailman.. for postfix.. but when I put /bin/genaliases.. I can't generarte.. Could anyone help me... thanks gustavo navarro

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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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Problem with Installing Mailman 2.1.9 on Solaris 10
by David Devereaux-Weber 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

I'm having a problem with building mailman 2.1.9 on Solaris 10. No problems with configure or make, but make install breaks. Here is an extract: /opt/csw/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py:213: UserWarning: 'licence' distribution option is deprecated; use 'license' warnings.warn(msg) unable to execute cc: No such file or directory error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1 *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-packages' Current working directory /usr/local/src/mailman-2.1.9/misc *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: for d in bin cron misc Mailman scripts src templates messages tests; \ do \ (cd $d; make DESTDIR= install); \ done make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `doinstall' Does anyone see something here? Thanks! Dave Devereaux-Weber

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Original sender address stripped from forwarded emails.
by Jeff Thurston 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Hello list, I have a rather simple issue with my mailman list server, when someone forwards an email from the list to someone else, the original senders email address is removed. Instead it says the usual: From: listname-bounces(a)listserver.com [mailto:listname-bounces@listserver.com] On Behalf Of John Doe Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 9:19 AM To: listname(a)listserver.com Subject: [Listname] Subject. --- I read up on the general options for an individual list and saw two functions that might be the answer but they don't seem to have any effect on what I am trying to accomplish. Searching the faq briefly didn't yield much either. How do I change this behavior to include the email address of the original sender, instead of just their name? Thank you in advance for the help! -Jeff

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Footer_msg
by Mark Sapiro 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Justin Denick wrote: > >Has anyone tried putting href's in place. >like >#####<A href =" >%(user_optionsurl)s?password=%(user_password)s&unsub=1">Unsubscribe<\A>##### > >or something like that. This won't work for at least two reasons >I tried but mailman kept messing up the html tags This is one of the reasons. Mailman replaces things like < and > with < and > to avoid cross site scripting (XSS) attacks. The main reason this won't work is that the footer appears in a text/plain message part, so tags will not be interpreted as HTML anyway, but you can just put something like To unsubscribe visit %(user_optionsurl)s?password=%(user_password)s&unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1 in msg_footer and many MUAs will make it a clickable link anyway. Note that you also need the unsubconfirm=1 which corresponds to the "Yes, I really want to unsubscribe" checkbox. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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