Mailman 3 November 2009 - Mailman-Users

Cant send emails
by Verdi Ras 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi I can't send an email to my list. It worked well until last week I am the administrator. When I send from outlook it does not notify me that I need to moderate. When I go to mailman for moderation pending, it is there, as soon as I accept it it disappears Is there a solution Regards Verdi Ras

2 1

How to monitor mailman transaction
by Hien HUYNH HUU 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Dear all, How can we monitor mailman transaction with Mail Server ? It means how could we know that how many email are delivered from mailman to mail server at a time point ? I check qfile/out but It didn't show exactly . Please guide me to do this. Best regards, Huu Hien

5 19

Facebook invite not rejected
by Russell Clemings 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

A Facebook invite from invite+zrdoovf=cerf(a)facebookmail.com got posted to two of our lists last night and I can't figure out why it wasn't rejected. It came from a user who was subscribed to both lists, but at a gmail address. I suspect he gave Facebook access to his address book but as I said that facebookmail.com address is not a subscriber. generic_nonmember_action is reject forward_auto_discards is yes accept_these_nonmembers. hold_these_nonmembers, reject_these_nonmembers and discard_these_nonmembers are all empty but ... (listname masked here, the rest is accurate) /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs/post:20404:Nov 15 01:12:06 2009 (13887) post to listname-talk from invite+zrdoozozoigf(a)facebookmail.com, size=3308, message-id=<7f9ef7cb2a8b3dff5957c17d3bb09ace(a)10.16.160.197>, success /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/logs/post:20405:Nov 15 01:12:07 2009 (13887) post to listname-teach from invite+zrdoovf=cerf(a)facebookmail.com, size=3332, message-id=<708a4ec208c585f01494cd7393f0b309(a)10.16.160.197>, success Nothing in the other logs (except smtp) and nothing fishy in the headers that I can see. I'm mystified. Any ideas? These things have always been rejected before ... (Yes, I know, cPanel ... sigh.) rac

3 5

MailMan Configuration under Apple OS X Server 10.6.2
by Gordon Smith 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hello Firstly, can I congratulate you for making such a powerful piece of software as Mailman available for free and open source. I also am grateful to you for allowing Apple to implement it into their server solution. As a new administrator serving the needs of a large group of visually impaired users, I need to take advantage of Mailman to implement our mailing lists. I'm having a problem, however. And I wondered whether you'd be able to help me. I need to host lists in a number of virtual domains and I'm a little unclear as to how to proceed beyond the basic configuration as I'm getting errors. So, to try and explain. My server's fully qualified domain name is mail.tft-bbs.co.uk and I need to host lists, as I said, in virtual domains. So, I modified the paths, correctly I think, to point to the virtual alias and Mailman files so that Mailman and Postfix would interact. First, I used the following commands in Apple's Terminal to view the Postfix virtual maps file: sudo /usr/sbin/postconf virtual_alias_maps Then, I did the following to add the path to the virtual Mailman file: sudo /usr/sbin/postconf -e virtual_alias_maps='hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_users, hash:/var/mailman/data/virtual-mailman' Then, I manually edited: /usr/share/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py Python script to add the virtual domains in the Postfix_style variable, as follows: MTA = 'Postfix' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = '<mail.tft-bbs.co.uk>' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = '<mail.tft-bbs.co.uk>' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ 'cecimac.org', 'dane-trethowan.net', 'gordon-smith.me.uk', 'small-world-radio.net', 'softcon.com', 'tft-bbs.com', 'tft-bbs.org', 'tft-bbs.org.uk', 'tft-bbs.net', ] Can you tell me whether I have that syntax correct? I apologise for what are probably irritating, basic configuration questions. However, being totally blind and having to work by memorising parts of the documentation at a time and then putting them into the correct configuration files, I think it's highly likely that I've overlooked or misunderstood something. When I use the command: sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/newlist -e 'tft-bbs.com' mac-access I am prompted for the administrator's E-Mail address and initial list password. Once those are entered, I'm getting an illegal list name error, which looks like: Illegal list name mac-access@mail I'm puzzled as to what I've done wrong, but it's probably obvious to more experienced administrators. If you would point me to my error, or suggest possible causes I would be extremely grateful. I fully intend to contribute to this most worth while project with a financial donation as soon as I can when we're up and running. This kind of work deserves our support, since it's at the heart of what we use on the Internet every single day. Many thanks in advance for any assistance. Gordon Smith

2 1

Question about Mailman
by Liz Bugh 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi, We are attempting to use your mailing program through our webhost, Bluehost, for mail-outs to clients we do business with. In setting up a test mailing group, we encountered problems and Bluehost was not able to answer our questions or help us at all. Here is the issue: The test mailing list I set up was named "lizcontacts". I sent an email to a member list of 3 people. The member with Gmail received the email correctly ... from " lizcontacts(a)txlands.net" ... plain and simple. The members with Hotmail and Yahoo received the email from "lizcontacts-bounces(a)txlands.net on behalf of Liz Bugh (liz(a)txlands.net)" Why the difference? What actually bothers us is the "bounces" word ... not very appealing for someone to view in their inbox in a day where spam and destructive email is so prevalent. How can we eliminate "bounces" from the sender title? I would greatly appreciate your help with this. Thanks, Liz Bugh Heritage Select Investments, LLC Secure Covenant Interests, Ltd. 1619 Sam Houston Avenue Huntsville, Texas 77340 www.txlands.net (936) 291-7141 - office (936) 291-3036 - fax

2 1

Problem with reply in the mailing list
by bernardo＠outpost.be 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hello, I have a question on how to manage a mailing list in order that all the members can only send a mail to the admin and not to everyone on the list. Thanks in advance, Bernardo

3 2

Complex accept_these_nonmembers rule
by Patrick Brueckner 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hello list, I'm looking for a solution to solve this problem: I have a few lists (~20) in which i have a lot of members. A lot of members receive their eMails from an adress example1(a)domain1.com; but they can only send their mails from example1(a)domain2.com Is there a way have mailman accept emails from example1(a)[domain1.com|domain2.com] without having to enter all example1@... example2@... to the accept_these_nonmember rules? In logic this would look like this: if SENDER_DOMAIN = "domain1.com" { if SENDER_USER(a)domain2.com exist { approve } else { deny } } I hope you get what I am looking for. Regards, Patrick

2 1

Mailman not receiving any emails.
by Bibek Shrestha 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

I have mailman running in my virtual server with cpanel and whm (web host manager) I can easily create mailing lists and add subscribers to it through administration login. The problem is, the mailman does not receive any emails when a subscriber sends it to it. What might be the possible cases? I've checked the mta logs which seem to be routing the emails sent to mailing lists. here is the log entry of exim while receiving email for mailing list. 2009-11-11 23:00:16 1N8Qr2-0006Fx-QO <= bibekshrestha [at] gmail.com H= qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.27] P=esmtp S=2257 id=868f3a740911111959y 7b997720s6491f2038ae8c895(a)mail.gmail.com T="[Mailman-yipl] testing sample email" 2009-11-11 23:00:16 cwd=/var/spool/exim 3 args: /usr/sbin/exim -Mc 1N8Qr2-0006Fx-QO 2009-11-11 23:00:17 1N8Qr2-0006Fx-QO => sample1 <sample1 [at] yiwebhost.com> R=mailman_virtual_router T=mailman_virtual_transport 2009-11-11 23:00:17 1N8Qr2-0006Fx-QO Completed Where should i look now? Bibek Shrestha -- bibekshrestha at gmail dot com Blog: http://bibekshrestha.com.np Twitter: http://twitter.com/bibstha

2 2

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fake Email
by Conrad Richter 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

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 > 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? -- \_\ RICHTERS HERBS / / Goodwood, ON, L0C 1A0, Canada \_\ Tel +1.905.640.6677 Fax +1.905.640.6641 /_/ http://www.richters.com

4 4

How To disable bounce handler?
by John 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

I am having problems with my service provider handling outgoing list email... I would like to temporarily disable bounce handling for debug so I can see the complete bounces immediately. Thanks, John

3 4