Mailman 3 March 2009 - Mailman-Users

Mailing lists user management delegation
by David LEROUX March 25, 2009

March 25, 2009

Hi all, I'm a new mailman's user, it seems to be very useful for us at our company I'm just looking for a way to delegate mailing list users management to someone else, that should not access to all mailing list's parameters Is there a way to do that ? It could be in administrative tasks but I'm afraid it's not... Any help would be welcomed Thanks to dev's work Have a nice day -- David Leroux Mac Guff Ligne 6 rue dela cavalerie 75015 Paris 01.53.58.46.46 poste 310

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Well, it appears I'm making progress in getting e-mail to the mailman server, the question now is what does t
by Tim Ferguson March 24, 2009

March 24, 2009

Well, it appears I'm making progress in getting e-mail to the mailman server, the question now is what does the error listed below mean? This is in response to a reply I sent to verify a subscription. Remote host said: 550 <mailman-request(a)hearye.ccs135.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table Thank you! Tim Tim Ferguson Director of Technology Centralia City Schools Centralia, Illinois 62801 618-532-1907, Ext. 1030

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List problems
by Thomas Clark March 24, 2009

March 24, 2009

Hey guys, My name is Thomas Clark and I am using mailman to run my mailing list off of. The problem that I have encountered is that a redirection problem with my lists. How do I set it up so that I can control where the mail is sent, because as of now my moderators are getting error messages saying that the site doesn't exist? Any idea? Thanks, -- Mr. Thomas C. Clark

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Python or Perl Script for manage the administrative requests for mailling list
by Richardson Lima March 24, 2009

March 24, 2009

Dear ALL, What is the procedure for use Python or Perl Script for manage the administrative requests for mailling list,i need mark the options Accept or Reject action to take on all these held messages. [] ' s -- ----------------------------------------------- Richardson Lima http://antnet.wordpress.com http://securityfusion.sourceforge.net (Security Fusion intrusion detection system) Position: Security System Administrator Location: Networking and Telecommuncations Research Group Federal University of Pernambuco Informatics Center, Brazil P.O. Box: 7851, ZIP: 50732-970 Phone: +55-81-2126-8954 Fax:+55-81-2126-8955 Gsm Mobile: +55 81 88725173

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Script for manage the administrative requests for mailling list
by Richardson Lima March 24, 2009

March 24, 2009

Dear ALL, What is the procedure for use Python or Perl Script for manage the administrative requests for mailling list,i need mark the options Accept or Reject action to take on all these held messages. [] ' s -- -- =================================================== Richardson Lima [ HACHID ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Web: www.webdrops.co.cc Skype: richardsonpindoramalinux msn: richardson(a)hachid.com Curriculum: http://webdrops.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/curriculum-vitae-public.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Função: Administrador de Sistemas / Unix Network Security [ GPRT-UFPE - CIn ] Líder do Grupo de usuário OpenBSD-pe: http://openbsd-pe.codigolivre.org.br Membro do CInLUG: www.cinlug-br.org ===================================================

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailing lists user management delegation
by David LEROUX March 24, 2009

March 24, 2009

Maxime Carron wrote: > Le mardi 24 mars 2009 à 13:57 +0100, David LEROUX a écrit : > >> Hi all, >> I'm a new mailman's user, it seems to be very useful for us at our company >> I'm just looking for a way to delegate mailing list users management to >> someone else, that should not access to all mailing list's parameters >> Is there a way to do that ? >> It could be in administrative tasks but I'm afraid it's not... >> Any help would be welcomed >> Thanks to dev's work >> Have a nice day >> >> > > Every list has its own password. > You only need to give the list's password to the person you want to > manage this list. > > Use 'mmsitepass' to set a global password for you/the admin > > Max > > Yes I know that each list have it's own password, but if you have a password for a list, you can change all the list's options I want that some person can only add/remove users to mailing list and nothing more -- David Leroux Mac Guff Ligne 6 rue dela cavalerie 75015 Paris 01.53.58.46.46 poste 310

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Supporting *private* search in private archives with namazu
by Maxime Carron March 24, 2009

March 24, 2009

Hi there, I installed mailman and namazu (on Debian 5). Everything works well for public archives. My main problem now is supporting authentication and acces control for namazu researchs in private archives. I want to allow research in <my-ml>'s archives only if mailman allow <USER> to browse the archive. Anyone did that already? Eventually, does anyone know a good howto/examples to use SecurityManager.py (provided in /var/lib/mailman/Mailman in mailman's debian package). Thank you. Max

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Changing the "<listname>-bounces" address
by David Eisner March 23, 2009

March 23, 2009

Background: PHB: "I don’t like this ‘bounces’ in the header .. I think it makes people nervous" So I've been asked to change this somehow. Would it be possible to change the bounce address used for Sender: from "foo-bounces(a)domain.org" to "foo-noreply(a)domain.org" or something similar? I've looked through the configuration settings for the list but don't see where this would be changed. Is it hard-coded? Thanks. -David P.S. I think this would be less of an issue for the PHB if the Outlook GUI made the "Sender" header less prominent than the "From" header (as Thunderbird, and Google do, e.g.) in the message display.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Error Creating List
by Jeff Bernier March 23, 2009

March 23, 2009

Once again Mark, Thank you. Adding the two lines you mentioned fixed it. As I'm getting acquainted with Mailman, I'm trying to pay close attention to the how-tos, fixes, and workings of things. Maybe some day I'll be a help to a newbie. -Jeff Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> 3/23/2009 2:10 PM >>> Jeff Bernier wrote: >Those docs are all very confusing to me... I still don't see how to fix this. My mm_cfg.py file has the following section: > >################################################## ># Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line. >MTA = 'Postfix' >DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'hostname.risd.edu' >DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'hostname.risd.edu' If the above are actually required - i.e., if they are different from what's in Defaults.py - then you also need VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) following the above. Then you also need add_virtualhost('webdomain', 'emaildomain') for each other web domain you support. >>When attempting to create a list from Mailman's web interface, I get: >> >>Error: Unknown virtual host: lists.risd.edu This is telling you that lists.risd.edu (the host in the URL that you went to for the create page) is not a key in the VIRTUAL_HOSTS dictionary - i.e. it is not the first argument to some add_virtualhost(). -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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adding a list to a virtual domain
by David Newman March 23, 2009

March 23, 2009

Greetings. I have a mailserver running OpenBSD 4.4, Postfix 2.5.3 and Mailman 2.1.0. The machine hosts multiple virtual domains and Mailman already hosts several mailing lists in one of these domains. This evening I tried creating a new list but posts from a subscriber to the new list bounce with the message "User unknown in virtual mailbox table." AFAICT Mailman is set up to work with Postfix virtual domains as described in sections 6.1 and 6.2 of the Mailman docs. Mailman runs fine for other lists in this domain on this host. I did notice that the virtual-mailman file was not updated when I created the list at 18:37: root@mail:data# pwd /usr/local/mailman/data root@mail:data# ls -l total 164 -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Apr 19 2008 adm.pw -rw-rw---- 1 root mailman 7596 Mar 21 18:37 aliases -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 65536 Mar 21 18:37 aliases.db -rw-r----- 1 root mailman 41 Apr 19 2008 creator.pw -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 10 Apr 22 2008 last_mailman_version -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 6 Feb 19 02:53 master-qrunner.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 14114 Jun 21 2008 sitelist.cfg -rw-rw---- 1 root mailman 5077 Mar 21 18:33 virtual-mailman -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 65536 Mar 21 18:37 virtual-mailman.db Not that aliases, aliases.db and virtual-mailman.db all got updated when I created the new list but virtual-mailman did not. I've tried restarting apache, postfix and Mailman, but no joy. I've also pasted lines from the end of mm_cfg.py below. Thanks in advance for clues as to what's missing here. dn from mm_cfg.py (with the domain name scrubbed out): MTA = 'Postfix' MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mydomain.tld' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mydomain.tld' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/' PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'https://%(hostname)s/pipermail/%(listname)s' IMAGE_LOGOS = '/icons/' POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/local/sbin/postalias' POSTFIX_MAP_CMD = '/usr/local/sbin/postmap' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [ 'mydomain.tld' ] VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = Yes VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = Yes VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1 OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = Yes add_virtualhost('mydomain.tld', 'mail.mydomain.tld')

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