Mailman 3 July 2008 - Mailman-Users

Fwd: General List Info Page without https?
by Steve July 28, 2008

July 28, 2008

Ralf; Is this something I can do as a list owner or do I need to the host where the mailman software is running to do it? If so, how would he do it? I would like to tell him and minimize his work as he is hosting my list for free. Thanks again for taking your time out for this info On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de> wrote: > * Steve <tinker123(a)gmail.com>: >> Hi; >> >> I have a mailing list in the latest version of GNU Mailman. The URL >> for the General Information page is httS:// and asks people to approve >> going into an "insecure" site. The person hosting my mailing list >> understandably does not want to pay the $500 to get a secure >> certificate. This is a nonprofit thing he is doing out of his good >> graces for free. >> >> There is nothing being logged onto on this General Information page. >> Is there something I can suggest to him so that httS:// doesn't have >> to be used? > > ??? > Just turn https: off. Mailman does NOT require HTTPS by default. > > -- > Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrums) Ralf.Hildebrandt(a)charite.de > Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 > Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-962 > IT-Zentrum Standort CBF send no mail to snickebo(a)charite.de > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/tinker123%40gmail.com > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9

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Re: [Mailman-Users] From: header rewrite?
by David Piniella July 28, 2008

July 28, 2008

I mentioned ezmlm because I know how to do it there and figured that it might make what I wanted to do clearer. I'm using postfix on that box I think, I'll look into doing it via the MTA instead of the list software, thanks! ----- Original Message ---- From: Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> To: David Piniella <davidpiniella(a)yahoo.com> Cc: mailman-users(a)python.org Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:06:46 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] From: header rewrite? David Piniella wrote: > Is there an easy way to rewrite the From: address field? I have a list > that is used as announce-only and would like it to appear to come from a > non-list address (e.g., list is jobs(a)lists.domain.tld and I would like > the email to appear as from jobs(a)domain.tld). Reply-To: is good, but not > what I'm looking for. The ezmlm analogue is creating a list using the -3 > switch to rewrite the address. Sorry, I don't know ezmlm, and I don't know that anyone here does. However, header rewrites of the sort you're talking about would seem to be more appropriate to be done in the MTA, not the mailing list manager. In Sendmail, postfix, or Exim, it should be pretty easy to make these kinds of changes by changing your "masquerade" database to rewrite these kinds of addresses. I have no idea how this concept might be applied to your MTA, however. -- Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu>

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From: header rewrite?
by David Piniella July 28, 2008

July 28, 2008

I'm looking to replace an ezmlm server with mailman and have installed mailman 2.1.9-7 on a debian server; lists work but I have a question: Is there an easy way to rewrite the From: address field? I have a list that is used as announce-only and would like it to appear to come from a non-list address (e.g., list is jobs(a)lists.domain.tld and I would like the email to appear as from jobs(a)domain.tld). Reply-To: is good, but not what I'm looking for. The ezmlm analogue is creating a list using the -3 switch to rewrite the address. I have googled, gone through the archives and FAQ and cannot find this info (perhaps I'm not searching for the right terms?) Any help would be appreciated, many thanks in advance.

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Receiving filtered commit messages via a Handler
by Alexander Shopov July 27, 2008

July 27, 2008

Hi guys, I am the coordinator of the Bulgarian Gnome translation team. We have an internal Mailman controlled list that we use for automatic notifications via mail from internal staging VCS repositories and bug tracking systems. Currently I would like to add notifications from upstream vcs - KDE and GNOME. Both projects have commit mailing lists that I will subscribe our notification list to. However the volume from upstream commit lists is really great and I need to apply some filtering. I made the following Handler: ------------------------- import re from Mailman import Errors def process(mlist, msg, msgdata): message_text=msg.as_string() recepients = msg.get_all('To') # GNOME rGNOME=re.compile('/bg\\.po') aGnome='svn-commits-list(a)gnome.org' try: i = recepients.index(aGnome) # To GNOME, so check body if None==rGNOME.search(message_text): # Discard! Does not contain what we want raise Errors.DiscardMessage('GNOME commit - not bg translation') except ValueError: # OK - not GNOME svn pass # KDE rKDE=re.compile('/bg/(doc)?messages') aKDE='kde-commits(a)kde.org' try: i = recepients.index(aKDE) # To KDE, so check subject if None==rKDE.search(msg.get('subject')): # Discard! Does not contain what we want raise Errors.DiscardMessage('KDE commit - not bg translation') except ValueError: # OK - not KDE svn pass ------------------------- Now comes the part I do not understand - how do I ensure that mailman will accept messages that were posted to the commit lists - they all have different 'From:' field (the identifier of the committer). What can I do to ensure that commit messages via the upstream lists are accepted by may mailman instance? Kind regards: al_shopov

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Need some lists
by LindsayClinard July 26, 2008

July 26, 2008

Hi, I would like to request several listservs. Below are the names of the lists we need created. Instead of sending them piecemeal we decided to wait until we knew we had a good amount to send. All the below will have uufwilmington.org after each one. Music Programs SocialAction Buildings&grounds or Buildings/Grounds Stewardship SharedMinistry Communications&Publicity or Communications/Publicity DenominationalAffairs Finance Fundraising Membership Nominating Remembrance SocialEvents&Hospitality or SocialEvents/Hospitality WorshipServices QUEST Childcare Interiors Search Personnel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many thanks. Feel free to contact me anytime. Lindsay Communications Team UUFWilmington LindsayClinard(a)ec.rr.com

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moderation rejection notices, etc.
by Michael Welch July 26, 2008

July 26, 2008

Hi Friends. More newby questions, I am afraid. 1. Is there no capability to edit moderated messages? I have a couple of moderated members that have asked me to edit their messages, and I don't see how. (FYI, they tend to promote their own products within their otherwise extremely valuable posts). 2. When I reject a moderated message with an explanation, the rejection note comes from listname-bounces@ . So when the member replies to that message, it sends me a note saying that it received an unrecognized bounce, and buried in the note is the member's response. Shouldn't rejected & annotated messages come from listname-admin@ instead? I bet there is a good reason for this that I do not know. 3. More of a comment than a question. Mailman archives do not perfectly allow importing Eudora mailboxes, even though they are a form of mbox-formatted mailboxes. Most messages seem to do fine but maybe (I am not sure) those few that do not import well have a blank line before Eudora's "From: ???@??? [date time]" header. Not sure if that is the cause, but it is possible. 4. Finally, I want to reiterate the desire for a web-based interface for responding to messages. I'd estimate that 5-10% of my list members used this feature when we were at Topica. I also would value a way for admins to remove individual messages from the archives through a web-based . I understand that work on Mailman is done by a handful of dedicated volunteers, and I do appreciate the software and its robustness. I appreciate you folks that put so much time and energy into it and into helping us users. - - - - - - - - - - - - Michael Welch, volunteer Redwood Alliance PO Box 293 Arcata, CA 95518 707-822-7884 mwelch(a)redwoodalliance.org www.redwoodalliance.org

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using moderation - admin not on mx
by Mark Heer July 25, 2008

July 25, 2008

Hello, I am running 2 mail exchangers that handle the mailman list distribution and a third machine serves up the list administration web gui. Trouble is that when a message is held for moderator approval, I click on the url mailman provides or go to the list admin page but it says 'There are no pending requests'. I gahter that the message is being held on the mx machines as mailman expects the gui is on the mx right? How can I fix this? Can I send the message for approval to the admin machine, approve it, and send it back to mx somehow? Another topic, Can mailman be configured such that list administrators can use their LDAP passwd for authentication? I currently secure list archives in such a way. Thank you, Mark

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Re: [Mailman-Users] using moderation - admin not on mx
by b19141＠anl.gov July 25, 2008

July 25, 2008

Mark Heer <MHeer(a)lbl.gov> wrote: >Hello, > >I am running 2 mail exchangers that handle the mailman list >distribution and a third machine serves up the list administration web >gui. Trouble is that when a message is held for moderator approval, I >click on the url mailman provides or go to the list admin page but it >says 'There are no pending requests'. I gahter that the message is >being held on the mx machines as mailman expects the gui is on the mx >right? How can I fix this? Can I send the message for approval to the >admin machine, approve it, and send it back to mx somehow? > >Another topic, Can mailman be configured such that list administrators >can use their LDAP passwd for authentication? I currently secure list >archives in such a way. The problem with the "another topic" is this -- an administrator of a Mailman list is ANYONE who knows the administrator password. The e-mail addresses of the administrators are there ONLY to provide addresses to which to send administrator e-mail (e.g., messages awaiting admin/moderator approval). We have list admins here who try to use their Active Directory password to get to their list admin pages, and when it does not work they complain to me. It seems to me that making the requested change would be a major change to Mailman authentication. About the first paragraph - I run Mailman on only one machine, so I do not have this problem. The web server runs on this one machine, and the Mailman machine sends all of its outbound mail to one of our central Mail Tranfer Agent mailers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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Mailman and virtual mailhosting (postfix)
by Jens Meyer July 24, 2008

July 24, 2008

Hello! After several researches with Google and archives of mailinglists please allow me to contact you via this mailinglist. Our postfix-mailserver hosts several domains (virtual mailhosting, postfix/mysql) and "mailman". The "primary domain" myserver.de is a virtualized domain also. So this domain is not listed in mydestination: --> myhostname = mail.myserver.de mydomain = myserver.de myorigin = $mydomain mydestination = $myhostname, localhost <-- As far as I understand mailman forwards all emails to the "primary domain" (mydomain) and mailman is only working if I add $mydomain to mydestination. But when doing this there are warnings from postfix that it is not allowed to list the domain in the virtual aliases (mysql-database) and in relay_domains. Is there any possiblity to configure mailman to forward the emails in ./data/virtual-mailman not to "testliste2(a)myserver.de" but to "testliste2(a)mail.myserver.de"? My actual config is: --> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.myserver.de' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.myserver.de' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' MTA = 'Postfix' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['lists.myserver.de'] add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) <-- Or am I missing an important point? Kind regards, Jens

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[Fwd: how to remove pending moderator requests from the list from command prompt]
by Nitin Bhadauria July 24, 2008

July 24, 2008

what if i remove heldmgs from /var/lib/mailman/data/ of the list like for admin list i will remove all the mgs like.. heldmsg-admin-11088.pck heldmsg-admin-5680.pck ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Mailman-Users] how to remove pending moderator requests from the list from command prompt From: "Nitin Bhadauria" <nitin.bhadauria(a)tetrain.com> Date: Thu, July 24, 2008 12:16 pm To: mailman-users(a)python.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello frnds I am tring to remove the pending moderator requests from a list but when i click on the 'Tend to pending moderator requests' it ends on an error 500 internal server error.. So i want to remove the pending mails from the server ...... where can i find the mails and is it the right way to remove the pending mails from the server . ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/nitin.bhadauria%40tetr… Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9

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