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
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
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
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
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
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I'm running Mailman 2.1.8 and have encountered a problem with email
addresses starting with underscores.
Using a python script to show list members, the first three members of
a list are:
6louisc(a)example.com
_santasal(a)example.com
a1bformk(a)example.com
Using mailman's admin interface, web page
http://localhost/mailman/admin/mylist/members
has the following:
219 members total, 1 shown
[6] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
Note that the script shows a user whose name begins with an underscore
but the admin interface indicates names beginning with "6" and "A" but
none with "_".
Is there a patch that fixes this? If not, I'll create one if
somebody can point me towards the admin module that determines the
"6ABC..." list above?
Regards,
David
Hi friend,
I have some question. in average, How many domain in one list of
mailing list in your server? because refer to RFC 2821 message always
be sent once for one domain
For corporate mailing list how many domain in average?
For public mailing list how many domain in average?
How would I set a MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE to 5MB, for example, for all lists? Or
would this need to be done in the MTA?
I would leave the DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE to 40 KB, but don't want list
owners to set it to 0 (unlimited).
Don Hone
<http://edirectory.ohio.edu/?$search?uid=hone>
Ohio University
I wrote (>>):
with Mark Sapiro's comments interspersed (>):
>>I have on my Mailman 2.1.10 production system and my 2.1.11 test system
>>both created from the SourceForge source and installed on Ubuntu dapper
>>via packages I built:
>>
>>mailman% ls -al /var/lib/mailman
>>total 40
>>drwxrwsr-x 10 root list 4096 2007-02-28 11:11 .
>>drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2008-04-04 13:31 ..
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-06-30 16:13 bin -> /usr/lib/mailman/bin
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2008-06-30 16:13 cron -> /usr/lib/mailman/cron
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-06-30 16:13 Mailman -> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-06-30 16:13 scripts -> /usr/lib/mailman/scripts
>><<Non-relevant lines from the "ls -al" listing have been removed.>>
>>mailman%
>>mailman# ls -al /usr/lib/mailman
>>total 36
>>drwxr-xr-x 7 root list 4096 2007-02-28 11:11 .
>>drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 12288 2008-06-09 12:24 ..
>>drwxr-xr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 bin
>>drwxr-xr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 cron
>>drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 mail
>>drwxr-xr-x 11 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 Mailman
>>drwxr-xr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 scripts
>>mailman#
>>
>>When I run check_perms it complains:
>>
>> mailman# check_perms
>> directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/Mailman
>> directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/bin
>> directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/cron
>> directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/scripts
>> Problems found: 4
>> Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix
>> mailman#
>>
>>As Mailman is running fine, I do not want to change the permissions
>>on the symbolic links. Is this correct? I have 755 for the permissions
>>on the real files to which the symbolic links point.
>You can't change the permissions on a symlink itself anyway. Any
>attempt to do so will attempt to change the target.
>>Is check_perms reporting on the permissions of the symlinks or the
>>permissions of the real files to which the symbolic links point?
>The targets.
>>What problems would I see if I do not have group write not "02"
>>on these four files?
>Typically these directories are SETGID and group writable. The fact
>that they are not SETGID means that anything created subordinate to
>them will be created with the group of the creator and not the 'list'
>group. In practice the contents of these 4 directories are normally
>only read, so as long as everything is world readable, it will work.
>
>But if you applied a patch to some .py file in the Mailman directory,
>Mailman processes running as group 'list' might not have permission to
>update the corresponding .pyc file.
>
>I have to wonder why you are doing this with symlinks at all. It looks
>like what you really want is to run configure with
>
>--prefix=/usr/lib/mailman (the default), and
>--with-var-prefix=/var/lib/mailman
>
>or something similar.
When I built my Mailman 2.1.9 and .11 packages for Ubuntu dapper,
I took the Ubuntu packaging and made as few changes as possible.
All I wanted was that the files be placed in the correct directories
for Ubuntu. I used the current source, and I removed all of the
Debian/Ubuntu patches except one:
01_defaults.debian.dpatch
that makes three changes to the file Mailman/Defaults.py.in:
-IMAGE_LOGOS = '/icons/'
+IMAGE_LOGOS = '/doc/mailman/images/'
-DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/'
+DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/cgi-bin/mailman/'
-PIDFILE = os.path.join(DATA_DIR, 'master-qrunner.pid')
+PIDFILE = "/var/run/mailman/mailman.pid"
The other patch files were source changes that I did not want because
they were undocumented, and I had no idea for which SourceForge code
base they were written. I assumed that the SourceForge source needed
no patches.
In the file
mailman-2.1.11/debian/rules
I made a few changes:
mailman# diff rules rules.original
38c38
< --with-mail-gid=list --with-cgi-gid=www-data \
---
> --with-mail-gid=daemon --with-cgi-gid=www-data \
70,71c70
< # The following line was commented by BSFinkel 07/01/2008.
< # Debian removs pythonlib in error to fix a problem.
< # rmdir debian/$(package)/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib
---
> rmdir debian/$(package)/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib
126,128c125
< # The following line was commented by BSFinkel 07/01/2008 because
< # the directory "admin" does not exist in Mailman 2.1.10 nor .11.
< # cp -a admin/www debian/mailman/usr/share/doc/$(package)/html
---
> cp -a admin/www debian/mailman/usr/share/doc/$(package)/html
mailman#
Of course, the admin line was only commented in 2.1.11, not in 2.1.9.
That rules file has two sections of code:
-----
Makefile:
autoconf
./configure --prefix=/var/lib/$(package) --with-username=list \
--with-groupname=list \
--with-mail-gid=list --with-cgi-gid=www-data \
--without-permcheck --with-mailhost=localhost \
--with-urlhost=localhost
-----
binary-arch: checkroot build
$(checkdir)
# rm -rf debian/mailman && install -d debian/mailman
dh_installdirs
dh_installdocs ACKNOWLEDGMENTS README* TODO BUGS NEWS FAQ
dh_installchangelogs
$(MAKE) doinstall prefix=$$(pwd)/debian/mailman/var/lib/$(package) \
var_prefix=$$(pwd)/debian/mailman/var/lib/$(package) \
icondir=$$(pwd)/debian/mailman/usr/share/images/mailman \
ICONDIR=$$(pwd)/debian/mailman/usr/share/images/mailman
-----
and I did not want to make any changes to the directories into which
Ubuntu/Debian stores the Mailman files.
I am assuming that with a straight Debian/Ubuntu package install the
same symlinks and directories that I have are present therein. Can
someone who has an unmodifed Debian/Ubuntu package for Mailman confirm
this? Thanks.
I ran the fixup:
mailman# check_perms
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/Mailman
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/bin
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/cron
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/scripts
Problems found: 4
Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix
mailman# check_perms -f
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/Mailman (fixing)
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/bin (fixing)
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/cron (fixing)
directory permissions must be 02775: /var/lib/mailman/scripts (fixing)
Problems found: 4
Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix
mailman# !!
check_perms -f
No problems found
mailman# ls -al /var/lib/mailman/Mailman
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-06-30 16:13 /var/lib/mailman/Mailman -> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman
mailman# ls -al /var/lib/mailman/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2008-06-30 16:13 /var/lib/mailman/bin -> /usr/lib/mailman/bin
mailman# ls -al /var/lib/mailman/cron
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2008-06-30 16:13 /var/lib/mailman/cron -> /usr/lib/mailman/cron
mailman# ls -al /var/lib/mailman/scripts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2008-06-30 16:13 /var/lib/mailman/scripts -> /usr/lib/mailman/scripts
mailman# ls -ald /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman
drwxrwsr-x 11 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman
mailman# ls -ald /usr/lib/mailman/bin
drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 /usr/lib/mailman/bin
mailman# ls -ald /usr/lib/mailman/cron
drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 /usr/lib/mailman/cron
mailman# ls -ald /usr/lib/mailman/scripts
drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 2008-07-23 14:55 /usr/lib/mailman/scripts
mailman#
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Computing and Information Systems Division
Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277
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