Mailman 3 February 2008 - 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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Changing the received time on an outgoing authorized email message?
by Paul Key 07 Sep '10

07 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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News Groups (local) mirrored with mailinglists
by David Hláčik 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi to all , i am looking for a solution to provide : News Groups (local) mirrored with mailinglists Best solution i see is INN + mailman. What i am looking for is some script which will make my life easier. I want to be able to automatically create News Group with same Mailinglist name . I want to be able to have a user -based access to a particular news groups. Thanks in advance! David

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Some detail questions about migrating lists
by Frank Griffin 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

Hi all, I need to migrate lists from an *old* Slackware system running MM 2.0 (0x200000f0) to a new system where MM is installed via RPM (2.1.9). I've read the posts linked to by the FAQ, and the basic procedure is to copy the data, lists, and archives directories and run withlist fix_url. But I have a couple of minor questions: According to the UPGRADE document, file formats have changed as have actual files (some new, some gone). What triggers the 2.1 version to do the necessary conversions ? Is it just finding files of the old version and recognizing them as such ? Does the last_mailman_version in the data directory trigger this ? There are various minor concerns, such as file permissions, aliases, redoing public archive symlinks, and so forth. This made me wonder if it would be easier/possible to run bin/newlist for each existing 2.0 list in the 2.1.9 system, and *then* bring over the data, lists, and archives/private directories. Advisable ? TIA

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mass subscribe by email
by Julian Bradfield 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

This appears to be a moderately FAQ, but I haven't yet found an answer in the archives, and I can't immediately extract one from the source. As a list owner, how do I *by email* subscribe a number of users, without requiring either their or my separate approval? (The normal list setting is to require admin approval.)

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Regular expressions in list config files?
by bernholdtde＠ornl.gov 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Our corporate mail gateway adds a header to flag things it believes are spam. I'd like to be able to take advantage of this in my Mailman lists. I'm having some problems setting the header_filter_rules properly. If I use a simple regex, like '^x-spam-flag: *yes' it seems to show up properly in the configuration. But if I use a more precise regex that accounts for all forms of whitespace with the "\s" sequence, like this '^\s*x-spam-flag:\s*yes\s*$' then what appears in the config file is '^\\s*x-spam-flag:\\s*yes\\s*$' in other words the backslashes have been quoted and are now literals. I have tried this through the web U/I and using config_list and I get the same result. It seems pretty clear that both interfaces are sanitizing inputs by quoting things that could cause problems, but I haven't dug deep enough to find where that's happening. (I don't really want to have to customize Mailman for something like this.) I was surprised that I couldn't find any other mention of these kinds of problems, and that the only examples people were using to illustrate the use of regexes in Mailman config files didn't involves special sequences like "\s". Is anyone else using more sophisticed REs successfully? Is there some trick or Python arcana that I'm missing (I know barely enough Python to get _into_ a paper bag)? I haven't verified, but I assume the same treatment is applied to any config field that can take a regex. Thanks in advance for any help. -- David E. Bernholdt | Email: bernholdtde(a)ornl.gov Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Phone: +1 (865) 574 3147 http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~bernhold/ | Fax: +1 (865) 576 5491

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