Mailman 3 July 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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Sanity-checking individual lists for health?
by Chris Waltham 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi folks, I have been tasked with moving a Mailman 2.0.12 installation from a Solaris (SPARC) server to a Linux (x86) server. The Linux server will be receiving a copy of Mailman 2.1.9, so obviously I am making the 2.0.x -> 2.1.x jump in there. Also, on Solaris, Mailman lives in / home/mailman but on Linux I will be putting it in /blender/mailman (and thus using move_list to update archives, fix_url, etc.) What makes this migration slightly tricky is that the server hosts around 840 lists. Therefore, going through each list pre- and post- migration by hand would be a little time-consuming for me, so I want to avoid that where possible :-)I noticed that, when doing a "make update" when installing 2.1.9, a couple of lists from 2.0.12 failed the update process and I had to Control-C them for the process to continue. I'm not sure what the exact problem was, hence I'm wondering if there is any kind of check that I can run in a FOR loop to verify a list's integrity. And, yes, I've run check_db and check_perms and neither report problems, this just seems to be a handful of lists out of the 800-odd that seem a little flaky. Thanks, Chris

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rare problem
by Jesús Oliván 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

Hi! i'm using mailman 2.1.5 on a Solaris box, and i've got a very rare issue... if i try to post a list using a non-suscribed email address, and this email address is included in non-suscribers allowed senders, it accepts my post... but if i use a regular expression like this ^[A-Za-z0-9.\-_%]+(a)[A-Za-z0-9.-]*mynet.com$ and try to post using a from line using more than 30 characters (from line splits in two in mail header then) and an accent. Then, mailman doesn't accept this mail and return it to me, although this email address is under my.net.com domain. Anyone can help, plz? =)

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Looping Moderator Approval Requests / Mailman&Exim
by Mike Peachey 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

I am having trouble with held posts for the lists I run at Jennic. We've recently set up Mailman to run in conjunction with Exim and it's working very well (withlist -r is invaluable though), but we're having trouble with the moderation because it is ending up in a loop (that thankfully stops itself after about 30 iterations) but is nonetheless proving to be a big pain. When a post is received that is held for moderation, an e-mail is sent to list-owner, but when that is sent back into mailman for forwarding, mailman treats the message as if it was going onto the list and holds it (because of the included message that was originally help). This then generates another moderation e-mail which is sent to list-owner which is then held and so on. I'm not sure if there is a fundamental failure in my understanding of the system of if there's something I've not thought about, but I cannot get it to work properly. I've seen a lot of documentation suggesting that every list should have 10 aliases in the Exim aliases file for piping into mailman, and -owner is included in these, however I think I am right in saying that that doesn't apply in this situation because I have configured the Exim transport/router as directed to pipe all mail into mailman that hasn't been caught by aliases instead. Can anyone shed any light on this for me? P.S. The main issue here is that we run SpamAssassin on the mailserver and it adds an X-Spam_Bar header which we then check for in the list Spam Filters. Before, every single spam e-mail was generating 30 moderator requests.. now we have told the lists to discard anything with an X-BeenThere: ListName@company, but it doesn't just stop the loop, it prevents all moderator requests reaching the list owner because in the end it seems the moderator requests are trying to head for the lists not the list owners. It's all very confuzzling. -- Kind Regards, __________________________________________________ Mike Peachey, IT Tel: +44 114 281 2655 Fax: +44 114 281 2951 Jennic Ltd, Furnival Street, Sheffield, S1 4QT, UK Comp Reg No: 3191371 - Registered In England http://www.jennic.com __________________________________________________

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Missing reject message
by Par Leijonhufvud 31 Jul '07

31 Jul '07

I have two lists on one mailman server. Due to recent spam influx I've set them to automatically reject posts from nonmembers (generic_non-member_action is reject). But for one of the lists rejection messages are sent, but not for the other. Any clues on what I might be happening? /Par -- Par Leijonhufvud par(a)hunter-gatherer.org Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of Religion. -- William Blake

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