Mailman-Users May 2007

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124 discussions

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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multiple header_filter_rules?
by David R Bosso 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

Howdy, I'm seeing the following oddity with header_filter_rules. I have 2 rules set up. For a given test message, Rule 1 does not match, and Rule 2 does. If I have Rule 1 set to discard, and Rule 2 set to Hold, the message is discarded. If I make the single change of setting Rule 2 to Defer, then the message is accepted. Any idea why the Action for Rule 1 is being used when Rule 2 is hit? Can anyone else reproduce this? Am I misunderstanding something about Rule processing order? Using Mailman 2.1.9 Thanks. -David

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a question about unadvertised lists and spam
by Dennis Morgan 01 Jun '07

01 Jun '07

We have a site: http://eaachat.org/ with several mailing lists. We have some lists advertised on a non-default public list info page that we "branded" (thank you Mark for your help!) here: http://eaachat.org/maillist.html and shows only the publicly accessible pages. These pages have a mailto: owner(a)eaachat.org which is forwarded to list(a)eaachat.org. We all have various filters set in our MUA to cope with this. We check the moderator pages of the public lists frequently for legitimate help requests, in other words the admins are the spam filters for the domain. The default mailman list info page is here: http://lists.eaachat.org/mailman/listinfo All lists are closed to non member posts and the subscribe policy is confirm and approve. My question is - are spamers able to pick up lists from the default (but not easily accessible) default mailman listinfo page and start bombarding us with spam on all lists? Or should I set the "Advertise this list" option to "no" for the lists on the default listinfo page? Thank you, Dennis

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odd empty bounce message generated upon posting to a mailing list
by Jon Pauli 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hello, I have been looking around in the docs and have not seen anything that matches my issue. I have a couple of mailing lists and every time anyone- member or non-member posts, everything works fine but the list owner gets 1)An uncaught bounce notification containing an empty attachment called ForwardedMessage.eml. Thunderbird is the MUA so I'm guessing it is responsible for determining how to interpret the attachment, but even if I save it as a text file it is a 2 byte long file with no visible characters in it...I didn't take a hex editor to it. I understand why listowner gets these, I'm just not sure how it can work with a 2 byte file and no headers ;) 2. An email where no subject and no sender appear in the MUA. The headers are as follows: Delivered-To: me(a)mydomain.com Return-Path: < mailman-bounces(a)mail.mydomain.com> Received: from [192.168.10.22] (softdnserr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mydomain.com with esmtp; Thu, 31 May 2007 09:57:36 -0500id 00A9A0CA.465EE260.00010B2E Sender: mailman-bounces(a)mail.mydomain.com Errors-To: mailman-bounces(a)mail.mydomain.com Message-ID: <courier.465EE260.00010B2E@mydomain> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 09:57:36 -0500 To: undisclosed-recipients: ; The interesting things I noticed are: 1. The Received: header line is wrong. The mail server has a DNS server running on it as well as the MTA. its IP is 192.168.11.22 NOT 10.22 There is no 192.168.10.22 on my network. This happens only for mailman emails. I don't recall having to set any IPs when I set up mailman. What is wrong here? 2. The end of the Message-ID: line contains only mydomain, not say, mydomain.com like non-mailman emails. 3. There is no Sender showing up in the MUA but the Sender: header is present. It looks like Thunderbird maybe uses the From: header instead of the Sender header despite naming the column where this would appear "Sender". I'd appreciate any thoughts or insight into this. I am confused.

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Point of Clarification for announcement lists
by bishop＠disinfo.net 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hi all, I'm a serious newbie to Mailmain, but I've worked through most of my installation and basic configuration issues to get it up an running. I do need some clarification regarding announcement lists. The instructions tell me to create a new directory: "In Mailman 2.1.x you can customize the welcome message. Create a directory lists/<yourlist>/en (assuming English :) and copy templates/subscribeack.txt to this directory. Then edit this file for your specific wording. Mailman will use this specialized template for the English welcome messages." I'm assuming that this directory is in the root of the /usr/lib/Mailman/ directory. Is this correct? I've created the following directory structure: /usr/lib/mailman/Lists/XXXX-high-school-announcements/en and copied over the subscribeack.txt file. I've edited the subscribeack.ext file to reflect what I want the welcome message to say, but it doesn't seem to be working. I think I need to configure Mailman to use the new template, but I couldn't find any such instructions. Am I missing something? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks, David

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Low level smtp error: Server not connected
by Leonard Jacobs 31 May '07

31 May '07

I am trying to run Mailman 2.1.9 on a CentOS 4 server with postfix 2.4.1. I had Mailman 2.1.5 running on a slower system and wanted to offload some apps to this newer server but am having problems. check_perms has no errors. Creating lists works fine and when postings are submitted the messages are delivered to the list admins re posting verifications. But only a few of the messages are getting delivered. logs/smtp-failure shows many of this type of error: "delivery to someone(a)gmail.com failed with code -1: (104, 'Connection reset by peer')" I am also seeing many " Low level smtp error: Server not connected, msgid" errors. I did try all the suggested fixes in the FAQ including adding the line to get error output in the logs/error file. And this file is showing successful delivery, such as "May 26 16:33:44 2007 qrunner(20744): reply: '250 2.1.5 Ok\r\n' May 26 16:33:44 2007 qrunner(20744): reply: retcode (250); Msg: 2.1.5 Ok May 26 16:33:44 2007 qrunner(20744): send: 'rcpt TO:<somebody(a)surewest.net>\r\n"" but the majority of the messages are simply stuck in the qfiles/out and qfile/rety directory. I am running python 2.5.1 so that I could get the error logging to work but this problem happened with python 2.3. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated since my mailing list no longer works at all. Thanks.

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