Mailman 3 December 2010 - Mailman-Users

How to add a footer to every user?
by Schwartz, Robert - IS 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

I would like to know how to add a footer to every user in my list and I want to let everybody in my list unsubscribe just clicking over a link that I will add in to the footer. How do you set this up in the web interface?

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unsubscribe request
by Schwartz, Robert - IS 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

How can I add an unsubscribe request to the bottom of all emails sent out? Example: "To unsubscribe select this link"

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Spam emails
by Schwartz, Robert - IS 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Recently I've started receiving spam messages submitted to by mailing list. How can I reject all email not submitted by members without having to add them to a list? Robert P. Schwartz CAS Group of Wyle Inc. 100 Quality Circle Huntsville, AL 35806 Phone: 256.922.4203 Fax: 256.922.4243 E-mail: robert.schwartz(a)wyle.com<mailto:robert.schwartz@wyle.com>

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Moving administrative information to bottom of digest
by Carl Shuller 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Take the digest from this list for example: Send Mailman-Users mailing list submissions to mailman-users(a)python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mailman-users-request(a)python.org You can reach the person managing the list at mailman-users-owner(a)python.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mailman-Users digest..." Is there a way to configure Mailman so this information is at the bottom of the digest? Thanks. Carl

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Interesting problem with gmail users
by Paul Tomblin 08 Dec '10

08 Dec '10

Note: this is NOT the frequently asked question about why GMail users don't see their own posts. I run a bunch of mailman mailing lists, and I'm subscribed to those lists from my GMail account. I also set up a filter to tag the posts from those mailing lists. However, the messages from some other GMail users on those mailing lists show a banner that says "Due to a filter you created, this message was not sent to Spam. Edit Filters". Other GMail users do not show that banner. The ones who do show the banner show it consistently for every message they send to the list (although not on messages they send me directly) and the ones who do not show the banner never show it. I've never seen it for a non-GMail address. I suspect it has something to do with the way GMail puts a DKIM-Signature and DomainKey-Signature on outgoing mail. Something Mailman is doing is making the signatures invalid. As a matter of fact, doing a "Show original" on a couple of the flagged messages seems to confirm that, with messages like Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of geeks-bounces(a)list.xcski.com designates 69.164.214.240 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=geeks-bounces(a)list.xcski.com; dkim=neutral (body hash did not verify) header.i=(a)gmail.com So what are my options here? Can I strip out the DKIM headers within Mailman? Or should I just configure my mailserver to add a DKIM header? -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/paultomblin http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ptomblin

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htdig integration patches to be updated for 2.1.14?
by Chris Toomey 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Hi, I'd like to do a fresh install of mailman with the htdig integration as described at http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg11713.html . However, the 2 patches were last updated for mailman 2.1.10 and mailman's now up to version 2.1.14. Can somebody update those patches for 2.1.14, or should I just go with 2.1.10? Also, I've not been able to find any documentation on the changes made in each mailman release so it's hard to tell what I'd be giving up in going w/ 2.1.10 -- can someone point me to where that release info. is? thx, Chris

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Problems with hostnames
by Ruud van den Bercken 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Hi, On my debian leny I run the mailman 2.1.11 stable version in english language. I have different hostnames pointing to the server. Lets say, default is domain1. When I create a newlist and login to de admin-interface, I change the hostname to domain2. When the system sends mail to recipients (using postfix), it use only the default domain1 hostname in the links in the message. How could I change this/fix this so message sended to the users with links in it, points to the configured second domainname, domain2? Regards, Ruud

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Problems with different hostnames
by Ruud 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Hi, On my debian leny I run the mailman 2.1.11 stable version in english language. I have different hostnames pointing to the server. Lets say, default is domain1. When I create a newlist and login to de admin-interface, I change the hostname to domain2. When the system sends mail to recipients (using postfix), it use only the default domain1 hostname in the links in the message. How could I change this/fix this so message sended to the users with links in it, points to the configured second domainname, domain2? Regards, Ruud

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Permission problems with /etc/mailman/*.db
by Robert Moskowitz 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

This is a clean install on Fedora 12, which provides Mailman 2.1.12 This time my cookbook seemed to be all in order. Everything was going great. Mailman list created and user added, message sent, then I locked up the Mailman list so it would not be available to viewers once I moved this box to a public network. Then I went to create my first list via /mailman/create. I got a bug. On checking the error_log, I see that create does not have permissions to /etc/mailman/aliases.db I go over to /etc/mailman, and I see that both aliases and virtual-mailman were updated, but NOT the .db files. The permissions on the .db files is 640, not 660! How come? So I ran check_perm -f as Mark recommended for the last permission problem (that I caused, but this time it was straight install stuff), and it fixed a number of errors: # /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected mailman) (fixing) directory permissions must be 02775: /usr/lib/mailman/cron (fixing) /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected mailman) (fixing) directory permissions must be 02775: /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman (fixing) /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.pyc bad group (has: root, expected mailman) (fixing) Warning: Private archive directory is other-executable (o+x). This could allow other users on your system to read private archives. If you're on a shared multiuser system, you should consult the installation manual on how to fix this. /etc/mailman/aliases.db owned by root (must be owned by mailman (fixing) /etc/mailman/aliases.db permissions must be 066x (got 0100640) (fixing) /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman.db owned by root (must be owned by mailman (fixing) /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman.db permissions must be 066x (got 0100640) (fixing) Problems found: 9 Re-run as mailman (or root) with -f flag to fix That is a LOT of errors for just installing with yum and running the mailman mmsitepass and newlist scripts! Now this is Fedora 12 with is eol, so we IF the problem is Fedora's packaging, we probably won't get it fixed here. But what about Fedora 13 & 14? I won't be working with 13 for mailman. I will be working on a Fedora 14 migration probably around February, so I can't check this out there for a while. I hope I won't encounter this little supprise then... But other than this little speed bump, I GOT IT UP AND RUNNING!!!! THANK YOU for your help. I know have to configure all the users in the SQL database (not really that hard), then rsync to mail from the old server to the new (after stopping mail on the old), then switch the servers out. I could be in production tonight.

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Help in understanding Mailman setup
by Robert Moskowitz 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

I have been plowing through the Mailman documentation and trying some things on a test system and need lots of help. First my system is Fedora 12 with Postfix and an SQL database for the users, virtual domains, forwarders, and transport. See: http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squir… So I installed Mailman, ran the script to set its password, then the modified the config file to support virtual host (http:/mailman.domain.com/mailman) and postfix. After this, I could run the script that created the mailman list that then prints a bunch of entries to add to /etc/aliases. I am having major problems with these aliases. I don't know how to put commands in the SQL database (perhaps it SHOULD work with the forwarder table) and the SQL virtual domain setup is NOT working with what Mailman is expecting and these aliases commands. So that is one problem I am not figuring out. But I went and created a second list via the http://...../mailman/create URL. Where is the information about this list kept? I can't find it. No changes were made to /etc/aliases for this new list. Perhaps if I saw what a web created list needed I might figure out a way to get things integrated. I have asked over on the postfix list if anyone there is running Postfix with SQL and mailman and so far only one person has piped up siging the praises of Postfix with the SQL backend, but nothing on Mailman. So I need a bit of help here...

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