Mailman 3 October 2008 - 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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not really an umbrella?
by Gruver, Sandi 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Mailman 2.1.5 on RedHat Linux - How can I set up a new list that sends to multiple existing lists - but only sends one message to each person - even if the person is a member of multiple lists? a. LSOFT calls this a "superlist" b. Can "Mailman" do this? c. In this case, we have a system newsletter that will be sent to multiple lists. I'd like people to receive the message only once, even if they are on more than one of the lists included in the mailing. Thank you, Sandi Gruver Unix system administrator Center for Information Services Bellevue, WA 98004 phone 425.803.9753 fax 425.803.9652

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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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changing message number
by Mustafa Akgul 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Hello, I will move a few lists to mailman, from ecartis. I want to retain message numbers, and continue current sequence. So I need to start message number from a non-zero number. How can I do that ? I am new to mailman. I can undump, config.pck, I can chnage post-id. I do not know, how to put that fiile in pck format. Secondly, I manage to change post-id, will it break anything else ? Regards Mustafa Akgul

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Default cahrset for 'de' to ISO8859-15/UTF-8?
by Stefan Förster 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hello world, I wonder if there are any plans to change the default charset for the 'de' locale of Mailman to anything else than ISO8859-1, because this charset cannot even represent our current currency symbol. I have changed this myself for now (adding needed variables to mm_cfg.py, converting translated templates to the new charset, recreating pod files), but I think it _might_ be a good idea to change the default charset for all languages spoken mostly by countries which are in the 'Euro' currency zone to at least ISO8859-15. I acknowledge there might be some difficult cases (for exmaple, in Switzerland, there are people who might be interested in running a mailing list with a 'de' or 'fr' locale, but they don't use the 'Euro' as currency there). Cheers Stefan -- Stefan Förster http://www.incertum.net/ Public Key: 0xBBE2A9E9 Insanity isn't a disease, it's a way of life

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Spam to "mailmain" list oddity
by Bill Moseley 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Mailman version 2.1.8 I administer mailman on a few domains, and on one I receive a lot of spam seemingly sent to the mailman@ list. I can work on my spam filters, but I'm trying to understand the path the mail is taking through mailman. The mailman@ list has only me as the admin and NO members. I have just a handful of lists on this machine: users@, dev@, svn@, etc. When mail is sent to mailman@ I get a message with the following headers: Return-path: mailman-bounces@ Envelope-to: <my email address> X-Original-To: mailman@ Delivered-To: users-owner@ The body of the message is simply the sender's body only -- it's not a mailman-generated message (e.g. approval message). In my sender filters I have: generic_nonmember_action: hold My question is why is mail to mailmain@ seemingly getting delivered to users-owner@? Another thing I'm finding curious: I have RFC2369 headers enabled on all lists (including the "mailman" site list). And indeed messages on the other (e.g. users@) lists include these headers. But mail sent to mailman@ does not include these headers. Why is that? Because List-Post, List-Subscribe, etc. have no uses for the mailman list? -- Bill Moseley moseley(a)hank.org Sent from my iMutt

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message delivery eating disk space ..
by faisal anif 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi, I have a Virtual private server (Fedora, 256 RAM, 10 GB HDD). I'm hosting an announcement list of about 15,000 addresses. I noticed that each time I post a message to the list, the free disk space (command: df -h) is decreasing even after mailman finishes delivering all the messages. I had to reprovision the server and format the hard drive twice and restore my data when the disk is full! is there a kind of temporary files that mailman doesn't cleanup? what can I do? Thanks _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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