Mailman 3 October 2009 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fake Email
by Conrad Richter Oct. 31, 2009

Oct. 31, 2009

Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 31, 2009, at 1:28 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > >> A better way to do this would be to set up the MTA on Mailman's host >> to only deliver to the list address (ie, Mailman) if the sender has >> been authenticated (eg, with TLS). > > Or to use digital signatures for sender verification. This is not > something that Mailman currently supports. > > -Barry > I tried posting to the list several times now without success. I hope this this one finally gets through. Another way to deal with this is sender confirmation by email, where, like subscriber confirmation by email, a message is sent with a confirmation link. Mailman doesn't have this capability presently but it seems to me that since it already has subscriber confirmation, it should be possible to adapt that sender confirmation. This sender confirmation by email feature is available in L-Soft's LISTSERV, and it is an essential way to avoid fake email. In a post a few years ago Barry said that this feature was going to be in vers. 2.2, but that version never materialized. Will it be in vers. 3? -- \/\/\/ Conrad Richter /\/\/\ tibet(a)richters.org

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 68, Issue 54
by molly-burns＠pacd.org Oct. 31, 2009

Oct. 31, 2009

I am currently out of the office. If you require immediate assistance, please contact the PACD office at (717) 238-7223. Thank you, Molly Burns

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 68, Issue 53
by molly-burns＠pacd.org Oct. 31, 2009

Oct. 31, 2009

I am currently out of the office. If you require immediate assistance, please contact the PACD office at (717) 238-7223. Thank you, Molly Burns

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Restore Mailman lists to default setting
by Hung Phan Oct. 31, 2009

Oct. 31, 2009

Hello, We have a few lists that have different settings than Mailman default settings. We believe that some of these settings are conflicting and create two issues that we are currently experiencing (subscribe email not sent out and sender not receive posted message) We went through changing the settings on the lists but not making any difference. With newly created lists, they don't have the issue. Is there a way to restore a list setting to the default setting but keep the membership? Thank you,

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Is there a security checklist available for Mailman ver 2?
by Frederic E Riggle Oct. 30, 2009

Oct. 30, 2009

Hello All, Has anyone developed a security checklist (equivalent to the type of checklists found at http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/ncp/repository) for Mailman ver 2? If a security checklist is not available, can anyone suggest resources (websites, etc.) where I can find information that I could include in a checklist? The configuration documentation would probably be a good place to start. I would also be willing to help or assist anyone in developing a security checklist. I am going to be tasked with setting up a Mailman server - and I will have to develop a System Security Plan (SSP) for it - a security checklist would be an excellent start at developing a SSP. Thank you. Fred Riggle

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bad url specification & internal errors
by Robert Rust Oct. 30, 2009

Oct. 30, 2009

I'm trying to get mailman installed and working on Solaris 10 using the mailman 2.0.12 package from blastwave and coolstack's apache. The problem I'm encountering is that after I create a list, when I try to go to the admin page for it, I get an error in the page "Bad URL Specification". My listinfo page generates an internal server error which shows up in the apache logs as follows: (22)Invalid argument: exec of '/apps/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo' failed The 'create' page actually shows up but doesn't work due to permission issues (I don't think I'm inclined to remove it anyway since I don't want lists created via the web). How can I solve these? I'm not finding much in the line of information on what's wrong. -Robert -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert J Rust Application System Administrator UWRF Division of Technology Services (715) 425-4357 robert.j.rust(a)uwrf.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Emails not being sent
by Matt Smith Oct. 30, 2009

Oct. 30, 2009

Hello, Where does one start troubleshooting this? I have several lists and nothing was changed but mailman simply does not seem to deliver messages. I have been told that it takes a long time to deliver but my preliminary email test produced nothing in about 1 hour so far with no error email. Where does a Mailman greenhorn start to track this issue down? Thanks, Matt

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Regenerating pipermail archives
by Lindsay Haisley Oct. 27, 2009

Oct. 27, 2009

I've done this before but it's been a while, and I don't remember the answer - so maybe one of you kind folks will give me the answer and save me the research. When editing a Mailman pipermail archive to expunge one or more posts prior to using the arch utility to regenerate all the archive files, what's the master file that one needs to edit? - the listname.mbox file, the listname.txt file or the listname.txt.gz file? Is there a HOWTO somewhere on editing pipermail archives? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Never expect the people who caused a problem FMP Computer Services | to solve it." - Albert Einstein 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com |

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Is There a Hack to Add Author Confirmation of Messages?
by Conrad Richter Oct. 27, 2009

Oct. 27, 2009

[Sorry if this post appears twice. My original post sent yesterday still does not seem to have made it to the list.] I need to move a LISTSERV list to a new listserver. The main hurdle to moving to Mailman is the fact that Mailman lacks the ability for authors to confirm their own messages. The principle is similar to the way Mailman confirms new subscribers, with a web-based message confirmation link emailed to the subscriber. Is there a hack somewhere for adding this confirmation feature for messages? The fact that Mailman already has an email confirmation ability for subscriptions built-in suggests to me that someone, somewhere has figured out a way to use that facility for message confirmation. For those who are interested, we implemented message confirmation on the LISTSERV list as a security measure. We did not want to use moderation because that tends to slow down the discussions and the dissemination of urgent information. But at the same time we wanted a way to prevent non-members from spoofing a list member and getting their offensive postings out to the list. The list is an invitation only list, so once a member is on the list, they are trusted enough to post freely to the list

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Error message on upgrade
by dhottinger＠harrisonburg.k12.va.us Oct. 26, 2009

Oct. 26, 2009

I upgraded our version of mailman from 2.0.x to the newest release of 2.1.12rc2 using ./configure --prefix=/var/mailman --with-cgi-gid=apache --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.4. I started mailman using the mailmanctl script. As soon as I did, I started getting the following error from the qrunner: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 89, in ? from Mailman.Handlers import HandlerAPI File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 26, in ? from Mailman.pythonlib.StringIO import StringIO ImportError: No module named pythonlib.StringIO. I did some googling and found quite some people with the same error, but no real fixes. Does anyone have a fix for this? Im running 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6PAE #1 SMP Tue Apr 10 18:21:36 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux, on Fedora. thanks, ddh -- Dwayne Hottinger Network Administrator Harrisonburg City Public Schools "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality." -- Dante

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