Mailman 3 August 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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Changing the received time on an outgoing authorized email message?
by Paul Key 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

When authorizing a moderated list posting is it possible to change the date/time on the outgoing authorized list message to the time it was approved instead of the message showing the time it was first received by mailman? Thanks Paul

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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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Message received by mailman and archives, but won't deliver
by Kyle Banerjee 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Howdy all, I've been stumped with a problem with my installation of mailman 2.1.9. OS is BSD, and MTA is sendmail if that matters. Problem is that if I send mail to a list, it never gets sent out I can see the mail come through in maillog just fine. It shows up as posted with success in post. It shows up in smtp as sent to the number of recipients. I even see an outgoing message in maillog. But no one gets it. I really don't think it is a spam thing because the lists are huge and no one is getting them. Yet if I send messages to people directly from the server (not using mailman), everything gets through in a jiffy. Any light that could be shed on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, kyle

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Hyphenated Lists Stopped Working
by Andrey Falko 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Hi everyone, Here is how I migrated mailman from one server to another: 1) Create all mailings lists on destination server. 2) Copy the following folders to the destination server. archives data lists lists-generic locks logs qfiles spam 3) Ran fixurl for all lists (probably not relevant). Lists with hyphens like, "-", no longer work. Postix has no trouble delivering mail to these lists to the maildir, but the emails simply lie in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/maildir/cur/ and nothing appears to happen to them.. Log files show nothing helpful: Aug 31 17:32:08 2007 (14022) <mailman.0.1188595927.11401.hyphen-ated(a)reservoir.com> smtp to hyphen-ated for 1 recips, completed in 0.058 seconds Aug 31 17:33:12 2007 (14022) <mailman.0.1188595990.11581.hyphen-ated(a)reservoir.com> smtp to hyphen-ated for 1 recips, completed in 0.040 seconds Aug 31 17:33:50 2007 (14022) Aug 31 17:33:10 2007 (11581) hyphen-ated: held subscription request from falko(a)reservoir.com When a user request is made to add a user to these lists, the confirmation email does not get sent to the admin. Postfix does not report any delivery problems. I tried googling this, but found nothing. Does any one have any suggestions? Thank you. Best regards, Andrey Falko

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problems with new web host and "too many complaints"
by Jonathan Dill 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Greetings, I hope this is not too OT, hopefully someone here has had a similar experience and can offer some practical advice, I'm not sure what to tell this customer at this point. I have a customer who has a fairly large opt-in only mailman mailing list (~40,000 subscribers) that they use to send out a weekly newsletter, people seem to primarily subscribe for the weekly contest for free tickets to events. Unsubscribe links are conspicuous, and people who otherwise complain are unsubscribed from the list. Recently, they moved their web hosting to a new service, and the new service shut down their website because they had received "too many complaints" about the newsletter, which mentions the website address. I would have thought it would be easier to follow the unsubscribe link than track down the hosting company for the website, which makes me wonder if these "complaints" are being generated by some kind of antispam software. The host forwarded a "sample" but stripped out some of the message headers, so all I can tell is that it really was in response to the newsletter. Now the web host is talking about requiring that all of the subscribers be required to "opt in" again or be unsubscribed from the list--to be honest, that might not be a bad idea, but the customer wants to avoid this. Has anyone else run into a situation like this and have some practical advice? They have been asking me about technical ways to circumvent the problem, but that sounds like a really bad idea to me for several reasons, I don't want to be a party to that. I'm wondering if they should just say to heck with this hosting company, but the customer is concerned that moving to yet another ISP is going to be just as painful a process as it was moving to this one, and I am not entirely sure that they wouldn't run into the same "complaint" problem with another host. Thanks, Jonathan

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Limit to the Number of Subscribers for each list?
by wittygal 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Hi, I have my account hosted on bluehost. I have 5 new email lists that have been transferred to me from other mailman lists on a closing isp. The problem is there are delays from when a message is receive until it is sent out. Blue host support tells me that mailman only supports up to 150 subscribers per list. Is this true? What other reason could there be for such a problem. They tell me that phplist doesn't have the problems mailman does. Is there some response to this I could refer them to.

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