Mailman 3 April 2010 - Mailman-Users

Frustration with set-gid
by Jeff Rush 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

I'm wrestling with getting $prefix/mail/mailman to run as user 'mailman' under Gentoo Linux and can't see what I'm doing wrong. When running it manually (for debugging my setup): # mail/mailman post dfwPython Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "root". # bin/check_perms No problems found The executable in question has permissions/ownership: # ls -l mail/ total 12 -r-xr-sr-x 1 root mailman 9664 2010-04-13 23:56 mailman and I wrote a tiny C pgm that just prints out the real/eff uid/gid as a sanity check. It has the exact same permissions/ownership: # ls -l printid -r-xr-sr-x 1 root mailman 7106 2010-04-14 08:13 printid # ./printid Real UID = 0 Effective UID = 0 Real GID = 0 Effective GID = 280 where 280 is the correct GID for group 'mailman', so the set-gid mechanism is working, just not with the mail/mailman executable. This is with mailman-2.1.13 under Linux 2.6.31. What am I overlooking? The mailman package is built from the standard Gentoo Linux distribution, not something I cobbled together. -Jeff

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Relay recipient not found.
by Peter Clark 15 Apr '10

15 Apr '10

Hello, I apologize if this is trivial but I am not sure how really ask this question and as such I am struggling to google for an answer. I used to have one mail server (in/out bound smtp and imap). I now have an inbound AV/Spam gateway, an imap server (with postfix doing local delivery via lmtp) and an outbound smtp server, for a total of 3 boxes. My instance of mailman is currently installed on the outbound smtp server (maybe this location was a mistake). My problem is that people send to the "staff" list and that leaves the out-smtp, hits the AV/Spam gateway and dies due to "staff" not being a real address (relay_recipient not found). I am not sure if I need to devise a way that the gateway expands the mailman aliases during relay-recipient checks or if I need to try to get the "staff" alias to send to the actual addresses on the outbound side. I have myself a bit confused by this so again, I am sorry that my question is not very clear. Any help with this would be appreciated.

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Email from Listname
by Fitzpatrick, Ted 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

Hi, A hacker recently broadcast email to a discussion list by setting the "from:" header to be the name of the list, e.g., listname(a)emaildomainname.ca.gov<mailto:listname@emaildomainname.ca.gov> What's the best way to resolve this issue? If I block incoming email from this address, will that interfere with Mailman's normal operations? Thanks, Ted

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Subscribing from Web site
by Lee Underwood 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

I have used the subscription form shown at http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030596 but I don't want to have our visitors go to the "subscription results" page at our mailing list provider (which is different from our Web host provider). Is it possible to either change a Mailman setting so that the "results" page is on our Web site; OR how would I go about having the "subscription results" page appear in a popup so the visitors will stay on our site? I'm thinking that maybe I could use the format of our Web site for the results page. That way people could use the navigation back to our site and would not really notice the difference, except for the domain name. I'm a bit new at this so I appreciate any patience. Lee Underwood http://leeunderwood.org/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/LeeUnderwood2 http://twitter.com/Lee_Underwood

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Moving lists
by Geoff Shang 12 Apr '10

12 Apr '10

Hello, I'm aware of the FAQ entry on this topic.. Hopefully what I'm about to ask isn't really covered there, I don't think it is. I have someone moving their lists off our server which runs regular Mailman to a server running Mailman under CPanel. Since it's a Mailman variant, I'm a bit reluctant to just copy stuff en mass over there, not that I'd be installing it anyway. On the other hand, the list has 679 members, 37 of whom are on digest and 46 of whom have delivery disabled (10 by bounce). Also, the configuration is a bit complicated. So I'm not exactly sure how or if I can do anything to aid migration of the list, particularly since there's no way from the web to subscribe a batch of people to digest or to nomail. Any thoughts? This needs to happen in a few days and I need to start telling peple how I'm going to manage this. Geoff.

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Monthly Announcement
by Stumpie 10 Apr '10

10 Apr '10

I'd like to send out a monthly announcement reminding users that they are on a list and to remind them of some list etiquette. I want to do this automatically. I've looked at the FAQ, but I can't find a way to do this. TIA for help. Paul

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-Hi-
by Stylus Studio 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

http://sandbox.schwartzie.com/Tgc8IjbQPK.htm

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How to change bounce_score_threshold value?
by Mailman Admin Universitaet Konstanz 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

Hi all, we have about 300 lists. We would like to change the bounce_score_threshold value in all existing lists. How could we do it automatically? Next, is it possible to set another default value for the new lists? Thank you! Kind regards, Milda

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accept_these_nonmbers Regular Expression
by b19141＠anl.gov 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

I have a question about regular expressions and accept_these_nonmembers. If I want any address in anl.gov or example.com to be able to post, is this correct for the accept_these_nonmembers box? ^.*anl\.gov ^.*example\.com Do I need a "$" at the end of each regular expression? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 240, Room 5.B.8 Internet: BSFinkel(a)anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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Hooking to listen for new mails?
by Bibek Shrestha 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

How can a 3rd party application listen to new incoming mails in mailman? Can this be done? Right now, I'm more thinking into adding a route in our local exim but a direct integration with mailman would be better. Has anything as such been done? -- Bibek Shrestha bibekshrestha at gmail dot com Blog: http://bibekshrestha.com.np Twitter: http://twitter.com/bibstha

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