Mailman 3 April 2007 - 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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migrating Mailman server
by Peter Matulis 19 Sep '07

19 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 07 Aug '07

07 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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Disable member configuration options
by John Papapanos 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi to all, Is there a way to disable users-members from changing some or all of their configuration options? I think this is very important because some of these options should in some cases be available only to administrators. In my case I want to have a public list in terms on who can post to the list but I want the list to be private in terms of who can access the archives and to whom messages can be forwarded to. About the private archives there is an option and can be configured only by the admin. But for me I want posts to be forwarded only to people that are members of the list and belong to my domain and not to the members that do not belong to my domain. This way my mail server wont forward spam to other domains (via the list) and people outside my domain will still be able to read the list's posts. This could be solved if the option to Enable mail delivery was not available in user's configuration page, or if the user could be dissalowed to change his options somehow. Thank you __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Lists stop working
by bjames＠cisco.com 07 May '07

07 May '07

Did you ever find a solution to this issue? I realize that this is a really old posting: I send an eMail to one of the lists, I can see in my /var/log/maillog; Jun 10 11:27:03 osiris sendmail[2756]: h5A9R392002756: from=<Niklas.Nikitin at xxx <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users> >, size=502, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<5.2.1.1.2.20030610112857.00b9b740 at xxx <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users> >, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=cassini.xxx [193.10.220.37] Jun 10 11:27:03 osiris sendmail[2757]: h5A9R392002756: to="|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post nicke-test", ctladdr=<nicke-test at xxx <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users> > (8/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30704, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent that the server is receiving the eMail and is forwarding it to Mailman. But in Mailman's logs I will not find any information that it has received the eMail and no eMail is sent to the members on the list. If I dump all members of the list to a file, remove the list, create the list again and add all members, the list is working again for a while, and then it repeats again. but I've run into a very similar problem with two mailing lists that are managed using the current release of Mailman. The first symptom was that messages sent to the mailing lists were not distributed to the list, and did not show up in the list archive. After my ISP reinstalled Mailman, messages to the list started to show up in the list archive again. But the messages were still not distributed to members of the list. We found that if we add a new user, then a message to the list *is* delivered to that new user, but still not to any of the existing users. If the *new* user posts a message, that message appears in the list archive and the message is delivered to the entire mailing list. There doesn't seem to be a way to dump and reload the mailing list that preserves all per-list-member configuration options, so if possible, we'd like to avoid that workaround. Especially if it only works temporarily. Any insight / help / pointers appreciated. Beau

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Server migration problems
by Aaron Crosman 01 May '07

01 May '07

> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:31 PM > To: Aaron Crosman; mailman-users(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Server migration problems > > > > ----- Original Message --------------- > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Server migration problems > From: "Aaron Crosman" <ACrosman(a)afsc.org> > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:22:19 -0400 > To: <mailman-users(a)python.org> > > >I know this comes up all the time, but having carefully reviewed the > FAQ > >and archives, I still haven't been able to solve my problem. > > > > > > > >I'm working on migrating my mailman setup from an old SuSE server to a > >new Debian (4.0) server. For the most part everything has gone > >smoothly, but the existing lists have a couple of problems I can't > find > >the cause. I moved the lists, archive, and data directories from the > >old server, and ran update, check_perms and check_db on all the lists. > > > > > > > >If I run list_lists, mailman sees all the lists just fine, but when > just > >the web interface I don't see anything. I naturally assumed that had > >somehow become private during the move, so I exported the > configuration > >of one of them, and saw "advertised = True" and while I know in python > >it shouldn't matter, I went ahead and updated it to be "advertised = > 1", > >no difference. If I browse to the list's admin interface directly it > >seems to work. > > > This certainly seems like FAQ 4.62 to me > <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.062.htp>. > Have you run fix_url? > > > >I'm also having trouble getting into the archives. The files are > there, > >and the sym-links are correct but the permissions seem to be wrong. > > > And what are they? And what's in the web server's error log? > > > >I'm > >assuming I'm having a problem similar to the advertising (that mm > seems > >to be over-tightening permissions somewhat), but I can't find the root > >cause. Any suggestions on where to look? > > > Look at the permissions and whether the web server is allowed to follow > symlinks, and if all that is OK, it might be a SeLinux or other kind > of security polict issue. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan Thanks, you were right on about the domain problem. I looked right passed it, since the server will end up at the same domain, but currently I'm accessing by IP address (I hosts file update on my local machine solved that problem). The archives problem persists. You gave me the right place to look here as well. The archives are all owned by list (group list), but the private archives have restricted access that blocks other users from getting in: ls of /var/lib/mailman/archives: drwxrws--- 200 list list 8.0K 2007-04-25 14:26 private drwxrwsr-x 2 list list 4.0K 2007-04-25 14:23 public A sample from the private directory is: drwxrwsr-x 4 list list 4.0K 2007-04-25 14:18 itd_test Apache's error log: [Fri Apr 27 11:42:14 2007] [error] [client 172.17.201.205] Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/itd_test, referer: http://server.org/mailman/listinfo/itd_test I can't browse the file system (in bash) to those directories. I did double check the links in public as root, and they do work just fine, so I'm at a permissions problem. What should the perms here be? Or am I missing something else? Aaron

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