Mailman 3 June 2009 - Mailman-Users

Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann Nov. 16, 2023

Nov. 16, 2023

Hi, Is there any way to configure Mailman such that, for an announcement-only type list, when a message is sent to the list, the To: shows the member's address, rather than the list address? Some list software allows the ability to hide the list address itself, so that address is not advertised. I couldn't find any configuration specific to that.

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Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal Feb. 16, 2021

Feb. 16, 2021

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

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Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter July 31, 2011

July 31, 2011

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 … [View More]

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Changing the received time on an outgoing authorized email message?
by Paul Key Sept. 7, 2010

Sept. 7, 2010

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

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Where is the template for monthly password reminders?
by Michael R Boudreau July 21, 2010

July 21, 2010

Where can I find the template for the monthly password reminder email? I'd like to modify it so that it doesn't contain the password (our members object to this being sent unbidden in plain text), and so that it reminds users to make sure their subscription address matches the address from which they currently send email (ideally with a link to their personal options page so they can update). -- Michael R. Boudreau Senior Publishing Technology Analyst The University of Chicago Press 1427 E. … [View More]

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Virtual Domains for Mailing Lists in MailMan
by Gordon Smith April 28, 2010

April 28, 2010

Hello I found this E-Mail address on the MailMan homepage and decided to contact you as I don't seem to be able to locate the information I need elsewhere. To explain my circumstance. I am a visually impaired person, trying to get to grips with administrating a mail server under Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7 (Leopard) server. I need to host mailing lists under virtual domains hosted on our server but can't see quite how this is accomplished. Is there anywhere I can obtain this … [View More]

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not really an umbrella?
by Gruver, Sandi Feb. 25, 2010

Feb. 25, 2010

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, … [View More]

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Mailman, Qmail -> Large Message Lost
by Bradley Cummins, Member Manager Aug. 25, 2009

Aug. 25, 2009

I am running - Mailman 2.1.9 - Qmail - CentOs - MySQLdb module I have been able to successfully send a mail to my list members, who are stored in a MySQL, database. This worked when there were eight members. Now that I'm trying it on a production level with approx. 200 members it doesn't work...or, at least, it hasn't after the first 45 min. SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 500 There are currently only 157 members in my list. /var/qmail/concurrencyremote is 250 /var/qmail/concurrencylocal is 30 … [View More]

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Detecting Autoresponders
by Karl Zander Aug. 2, 2009

Aug. 2, 2009

Is there something specific Mailman is looking for to detect autoreponders, like Out of Office messages? We had an incident this weekend with an autoresponder sending an out of office message over and over and over....to a list. This particular autoresponder is not known to be broken. Its worked well in the past with Mailman. I note the header of the message from the autoresponder contains X-Autogenerated: Reply But I am not sure what Mailman looks at when trying to determine what is … [View More]

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Outlook Indenting messages
by Gerrat Rickert July 27, 2009

July 27, 2009

Recently, and in the past, when posting to a python mailing list (not this one specifically), my message has been indented and placed under the last message (of a completely unrelated post). -ie. it looks like I've hijacked a thread. I didn't however - I created a brand new email message (from scratch) and sent it to the list. Any ideas on how or why it would appear like I was responding to a completely unrelated post? (there was actually nothing I could even find in common on my subject line … [View More]

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Mailman/Qmail/Plesk Problem
by Douglas G. Phillips July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

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/ … [View More]

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Mailman 2.1.9 incorrectly holding messages for "Reason: Message has implicit destination"
by Schmitt, Gordon A. July 1, 2009

July 1, 2009

We had been using mailman 2.1.5 installed on Redhat Enterprise v3.n for several years . A few months ago, we installed a new Redhat system for our mailing list server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) which has Mailman 2.1.9 installed. I followed various instructions on migrating the mailing lists and everything seemed to be working just fine. However, within the past few weeks we noticed that some users sending to their favorite lists are having a lot of trouble with their … [View More]messages being held as: "Reason: Message has implicit destination" . Many users do not have this happen. I have been investigating and testing and I can not figure out why. Our main campus mail system is Exchange 2007. They have put the address in the correct place, i.e. The To: or CC: fields. We create exchange contacts for each mailing list that forwards the message to the mailing list server, e.g. listname(a)stcloudstate.edu forwards to listname(a)lserver.stcloudstate.edu and there was never any problems for the past several years before our upgrade. Below is the header info from a message that is being held that should have passed through. Can anyone think of what is causing this behavior for certain messages? One person mentioned that it happenes when he did a reply-all to a message and it worked after creatomg a new message. I do not know if this could be related because I tried doing this and all my messages went through fine. I may have to experiment more with what email client software the messages are being sent from, I mostly use Entourage on a Mac. The majority of campus use Outlook on some version of Windows. Thanks for any help Gordon Schmitt St. Cloud State University Return-Path: <joesmoe(a)stcloudstate.edu> X-Original-To: listname(a)lserver.stcloudstate.edu Delivered-To: listname(a)lserver.stcloudstate.edu Received: from excserver1.campus.stcloudstate.edu (excserver1.campus.stcloudstate.edu [199.17.15.89]) by lists.stcloudstate.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C9E97745 for <listname(a)lserver.stcloudstate.edu>; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:55:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from excserver2.campus.stcloudstate.edu ([199.17.15.82]) by excserver1.campus.stcloudstate.edu ([199.17.15.89]) with mapi; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:55:26 -0500 From: "Smoe, Joe A." <joesmoe(a)stcloudstate.edu> To: "Olagunju, Am O." <alguein(a)stcloudstate.edu>, "listname(a)stcloudstate.edu" <IMCEAEX-_O=SCSU_OU=First+20Administrative+20Group_cn=Recipients_cn=listname(a)stcloudstate.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:55:25 -0500 Subject: RE: Remedial education requires joint partnerships Thread-Topic: Remedial education requires joint partnerships Thread-Index: Acnulm1RBSQvD3MvQeSh+5ZrkDCZkgA6JTO3 Message-ID: <3D401A37AB144C40AF0D9BE440596A7F12EA6C84EF(a)excserver2.campus.stcloudstate.edu> References: <16EEB76BD19BC343A7E6E591A3A4B82712E41B3061(a)excserver2.campus.stcloudstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <16EEB76BD19BC343A7E6E591A3A4B82712E41B3061(a)excserver2.campus.stcloudstate.edu> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="_004_3D401A37AB144C40AF0D9BE440596A7F12EA6C84EFSCSU80campuss_"; type="multipart/alternative" MIME-Version: 1.0 [View Less]

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Spam Filters ..
by Khalil Abbas June 28, 2009

June 28, 2009

if I want all messages to my list to be discarded and not shown in the pending moderator requests except for only one email address which I'm using to send to the list .. how can I do that thru spam filters ?? Thanks .. _________________________________________________________________ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx

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Close a list
by Maria Gordon June 25, 2009

June 25, 2009

Hi, Mailman Contact. Please could you tell me how to close a list. Thanks. Maria Gordon Office Manager Program on Governance for Sustainable Development Bren Hall 4526 Bren School of Environmental Science & Management University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5131 USA Hours: Mon 9:30am - 1:30pm; Tues 9am - 5pm; Thurs 9am - 5pm Ph: +(805)893-8437 Fax: +(805)893-7064 http://www.gsdprogram.org/ http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/

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new listserv
by Whipple, Michelle M June 25, 2009

June 25, 2009

Hello, How do I go about setting up a new listserv for Purdue Group Exercise participants? Thank you, Michelle M. Whipple Coordinator, Fitness & Wellness Programming Purdue University Recreational Sports Center 355 N. Martin Jischke Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2030 Office: 765.496.6234 Fax: 765.496.1163 mwhipple(a)purdue.edu <mailto:mwhipple@purdue.edu> www.purdue.edu/recsports <http://www.purdue.edu/recsports/index.html>

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some commands does´t works
by Sérgio Marques June 25, 2009

June 25, 2009

hi, when i send an email with set delivery off or set delivery on the mailman send me a bound email please say me how can i solve de trouble? Sérgio Marques

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Question
by Amanda Widom June 25, 2009

June 25, 2009

Hi, The organization I work for has a mailman account and I have encountered a problem. We have a list called "RG List" of all of our members and I have been unsubscribing people that request to be taken off. The problem is when an en email is sent to rglist(a)nystla.org those unsubscribed people are still being sent emails. How can I fix this? Thanks! Amanda Widom Membership Coordinator New York State Trial Lawyers Association 132 Nassau Street New York, NY 10038 Phone: 212-… [View More]

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Sender address domain expanded - posts rejected by privacy options
by Drew Tenenholz June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

Dear fountain of Mailman knowledge -- Something strange is happening on a Mailman 2.1.9 installation that is being run for me. I wonder if it makes sense to any of you out there. We are running a closed list, which severely restricts who is allowed to post and subscribe. This is mostly for an internal discussion about a post before it is sent to the announce-only (parallel) list. One newly added user is having trouble posting. I believe Mailman may be doing something I didn't expect, … [View More]

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changing message number
by Mustafa Akgul June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

Hello, I will move a few lists to mailman, from ecartis. I want to retain message numbers, and continue current sequence. So I need to start message number from a non-zero number. How can I do that ? I am new to mailman. I can undump, config.pck, I can chnage post-id. I do not know, how to put that fiile in pck format. Secondly, I manage to change post-id, will it break anything else ? Regards Mustafa Akgul

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sender filter-hold and reject nonmember problem
by Burcu İnci June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

Hi , I have hold_these_nonmembers set for some domains for example from .edu addresses and also i have addresses in discard_these_nonmembers list. my problem is when an address in discard list with .edu post an email it is hold for moderation so my hold filter overrides the discard filter. is it normal or is there a way to change its order Thanks, Burcu İnci

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Internal 500 Error (Ubuntu jaunty / Mailman 2.1.12 / Python 2.6.2)
by Dev Guy June 23, 2009

June 23, 2009

Hi, I've tried to look this up on the lists, forums, etc. but have failed to find anything that resolves this issue, so forgive me if I have missed a solution mentioned elsewhere. I have recently upgraded my Ubuntu distribution to Jaunty. This upgrade included an upgrade on Mailman, Python and Apache2. I'm currently running the following versions: ii apache2 2.2.11-2ubuntu2.1 Apache HTTP Server metapackage ii apache2-mpm-prefork 2.… [View More]

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Approve all held?
by Alexx June 22, 2009

June 22, 2009

Hi list-ees, After googling and searching the list archives, haven't been able to find an answer to: how could I approve all messeages (around hundred of'em) held for moderation due to one reason or another? I could manually approve some of them with "confirm in subject and approved:password message", but there are PLENTY of old ones held for more than 3 days in queue. I suppose it has to be done via /bin/withlist and a script, or is there another solution? TIA, Alexei.

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free Mailman hosting
by Antonio Piu June 22, 2009

June 22, 2009

Hi all! Does anybody know some free Mailman hosting services? I could not find anything. Thank you for your help. Antonio

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Re: [Mailman-Users] footers and members of the list
by Hal Huntley June 22, 2009

June 22, 2009

> Hal Huntley wrote: > > >We have a request from a list administrator asking if he can have the all > >the members of the list listed in the footer of the message. This list is > >under Mailman 2.1.9. > > > >This isn't a "personalization" listing with just the name of the member > >subscribing. He wants all the messages going out to have all the list > >members in the footer. > > > >Is there a variable that can handle that? Or must … [View More]

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Mailman repetitively trying to drop addresses
by Ralph Prichard June 22, 2009

June 22, 2009

We imported about 1000 addresses from an old mailing list into a new Mailman list, and we were hoping Mailman's bounce processing would start removing any addresses that are clearly no longer valid. This is old info; if we've got a bad address, we just want it dropped without any further resuscitation efforts. Here are our bounce processing settings: bounce_processing = Yes bounce_score_threshold = 3.0 bounce_info_stale_after = 21 bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings = 0 … [View More]bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval = 7 bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner = Yes bounce_notify_owner_on_disable = Yes bounce_notify_owner_on_removal = Yes These settings have been adjusted a few times, but not by any radical amount. I'm sure I also inadvertantly dropped the "bounce_score_threshold" from 3.5 to 3.0 while the latest message was still being distributed. However, the previous message exhibited the same problematic behavior I'm seeing today, and the values were all left alone during that period. After messages went out that resulted in bounce scores over the threshold, there were a couple of issues... 1) Mailman tried to send a notification to the bad addresses indicating that they've been dropped from the mailing list. It does so despite the fact that "send_goodbye_msg" is set to "no". So my first question is almost identical to this one: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-August/052688.html Does anyone know how to get the bounce processing system to respect the "send_goodbye_msg" value, while still sending the moderators/list owners notification that an address has been dropped? 2) Mailman tried to drop 2 addresses (out of an apparent list of 55 bad addresses) over and over again, until after 10 attempts, when the BounceRunner stopped. (Nothing at all seemed to happen to the other 53 addresses.) The first notification that the list owners received regarding the drop attempts referenced the actual message that a list member sent. But the next 10 notifications referred to the fact that the "You have been unsubscribed from the 'somelist' mailing list" messages were _also_ bouncing. (Which is another reason I'd like to suppress those messages from ever being sent in the first place.) But back to the failure to drop the address... There are the 11 restarts shown in the qrunner log file: Excerpt from /var/log/mailman/qrunner: ====================================== Jun 22 14:58:16 2009 (2047) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit (pid: 2073, sig: None, sts: 1, class: BounceRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] Jun 22 14:58:16 2009 (4880) BounceRunner qrunner started. Jun 22 15:13:16 2009 (2047) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit (pid: 4880, sig: None, sts: 1, class: BounceRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] Jun 22 15:13:16 2009 (5102) BounceRunner qrunner started. ...7 more occurrences removed (each BounceRunner startup has a different PID, if that's what the number in the bracket represents)... Jun 22 17:13:18 2009 (2047) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit (pid: 5522, sig: None, sts: 1, class: BounceRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] Jun 22 17:13:18 2009 (5574) BounceRunner qrunner started. Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 (2047) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit (pid: 5574, sig: None, sts: 1, class: BounceRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 (2047) Qrunner BounceRunner reached maximum restart limit of 10, not restarting. There appears to be more interesting information in other files in /var/log/mailman. I'll include one excerpt from the "errors" file below. If anyone thinks the other information would be handy, please let me know and I'll try to trim it down a bit before sending a copy along. Excerpt from /var/log/mailman/error: ==================================== Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): Traceback (most recent call last): Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 278, in <module> Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): main() Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 238, in main Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): qrunner.run() Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 88, in run Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): self._cleanup() Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 263, in _cleanup Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): BounceMixin._cleanup(self) Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 137, in _cleanup Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): self._register_bounces() Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 125, in _register_bounces Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): mlist.registerBounce(addr, msg, day=day) Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Bouncer.py", line 167, in registerBounce Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): self.setBounceInfo(member, info) Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 362, in setBounceInfo Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): self.__assertIsMember(member) Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 114, in __assertIsMember Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): raise Errors.NotAMemberError, member Jun 22 17:28:18 2009 qrunner(5574): Mailman.Errors . NotAMemberError : userA(a)hotmail.example.com Checking via the web interface for the list, "userA(a)hotmail.example.com" definitely is still a list member. Why can't Mailman drop the address? Every 15 minutes -- according to the bounce log and the messages to the list owners and moderators -- it thinks it's trying. Has anyone seen this before? Ralph [View Less]

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