Mailman 3 September 2007 - Mailman-Users

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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moderation bit silently turns off on some lists
by Michael McAndrew 16 Oct '07

16 Oct '07

Hi there, I operate a number of mailing lists. Some of these lists are announce only lists. The annouce only lists work by setting everyone's moderation bit to 1 apart from those that have posting permission. This is done automatically by a script that takes its data from a remote database via a text file that is created when requested. (and yes, I know that's a long winded way of doing things!) But every now and again on some lists (its only happened so far on large lists) all the moderation bits are set to 0 allowing anyone to post. Any ideas why this would be? Below are the script that sets posting permissions [A] and a sample of the text file that inputs into this script [B]. Any ideas why this would happen? As always, many thanks if you can help. PS I don't blame you if you tell me to use a simpler solution. In fact, I agree and I am completley redoing the project getting rid of the manual synching and using default mailman admin interface. But in the mean time it is still a problem that I would be really grateful if someone could help me find a solution to. [A] from Mailman.Errors import NotAMemberError from Mailman import mm_cfg from os.path import isfile whoCanPostListsData = [] if isfile('vawupdate/scripts/vaw_wcp.txt'): whoCanPostListsVAWFile = open('vawupdate/scripts/vaw_wcp.txt', 'r') for line in whoCanPostListsVAWFile: whoCanPostListsData.append(line.strip().split("/")) def wcpupdate(mlist): global whoCanPostListsData if not mlist.Locked(): mlist.Lock() for whoCanPostLine in whoCanPostListsData: if mlist.internal_name()==whoCanPostLine[0]: if whoCanPostLine[2]=='0': mlist.setMemberOption(whoCanPostLine[1].strip(), mm_cfg.Moderate, mm_cfg.No) else: mlist.setMemberOption(whoCanPostLine[1].strip(), mm_cfg.Moderate, mm_cfg.Yes) print whoCanPostLine[1], ' set' mlist.Save() mlist.Unlock() [/A] [B] bme/person1(a)example.org/1 bme/person2(a)example.org/1 bme/person3(a)example.org/1 bme/person4(a)example.net/1 bme/person5(a)example.net/1 bme/michaelmcandrew(a)gmail.com/0 [/B]

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Preventing spam to list owners
by Gary Spivey 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

My lists are locked down to only allow posts from members, so my members are not getting any SPAM. However, as list owner, every one of my lists is getting a large amount of SPAM - generally sent to the listname-owner or to mailman-owner. My maillog entry looks like this: Sep 23 10:39:34 hostname sendmail[17245]: l8NHdYwF017244: to="|/usr/lib/mailman/mail /mailman owner mailman", ctladdr=<mailman-owner(a)my.domain.com> (8/0), delay =00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=140071, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent Sep 23 10:39:35 hostname sendmail[17247]: l8NHdZV9017247: from=<mailman-bounces@my .domain.com>, size=2069, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<mailman.23.1190569172.40 86.mailman(a)my.domain.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost.loc aldomain [127.0.0.1] Does anyone know how to best stop these? Are these SPAM's coming from the outside direct to the e-mail address, or are they somehow going through mailman? If the latter, can I stop it in mailman somehow? If the former, does somebody have a recommended way to stop them? I have a SPAM filter running on my end system, but I am just tired of the constant flow of SPAM. Thanks for any help.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Beginner questions
by Chris Arnold 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Dan Phillips wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Chris Arnold wrote: >> i am not >> getting an email at my gmail account of the email i sent to the list. I >> should be getting that email back to the gmail account, right? >> > > Nope. See the last paragraph of: > > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.042.htp > > Dan > Thanks Dan. There are some lists that i belong to that i do not get the email that i sent but i see others response to it. Well, i subscribed to my list with my yahoo account and sent an email from gmail to the list and i did not get that email in my yahoo account. Still seems like something is not working.

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Beginner questions
by Chris Arnold 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hello all! I would like to run mailman 2.1.9 at my site. I have a web server with apache2 and a mailserver with zimbra; these are 2 different servers. Where do i install mailman? On the apache2 server or on the mailserver, or does it matter which one? Please excuse my novice-ness. Chris

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Bounce Processing -- Disable/Removal Notification
by Greg Sims 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

We have a newsletter type list that has been running for almost two years now. The list currently has 1,100 members who receive one email each morning. The Bounce Configuration page for this list is configured as follows: Yes, 5.0, 30, 2, 7, Yes, Yes, Yes which I believe may be the defaults. The system is running under RedHat V4. I ran the following command: grep 'score' /var/log/mailman/bounce and received a list of 28 users that have records containing "(score 5.0 >= 5.0)". I can see one duplicate email address in this list of 28 - most of the records appear to be unique email addresses. The dates on the records cover a period of one week. It appears there are a number of candidates that could have their subscriptions Disabled and/or Removed from the list. I have been the list admin for two years now and I have never received an email saying a list member has been Disabled or Removed. This seems odd based on what I am seeing in the logs. I do receive emails for bounce messages that fail detection regularly. Is it possible to see in a log (or through the online interface) when a user is placed in Disabled status? I would like to be able to grep this log and see if anyone is being Disabled or Removed - this may confirm if there is actually a problem or not. Let's say looking at the logs reveals that list members are not ever being Disabled or Removed - what is the next step to debugging this problem? Thank you in advance for your help! Greg Sims

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hacking mailman.po
by Zbigniew Szalbot 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Hello, What are my options when I need to edit some text within /usr/local/mailman/messages/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.pl? Is it enough to just hack the text or does it need to be re-built then? If so, how? I just want to delete 3 lines: " <p>You can now\n" " <a href=\"%(optionsurl)s\">proceed to your membership login\n" " page</a>." Thanks! zbigniew szalbot

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