Mailman 3 April 2010 - Mailman-Users

Logo contest voting is open!
by Barry Warsaw 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Hello everyone. Earlier this year, we announced the contest for a new GNU Mailman logo. We received over 30 entries from many talented artists, and we thank all of them for their generous contribution. The Mailman Steering Committee has narrowed the selection down to 5 finalists, and we have identified a decent free internet voting site. With that, I'd like to announce the opening of the community driven poll for the new GNU Mailman logo! Vote here: http://bit.ly/cUpAA2 The poll will remain open until Friday May 7, 2010 at 2200 UTC. Please participate by ranking the logos from most favorite (1) to least favorite (5). While the voting software will prevent double votes, I have confidence that this community will also be good citizens and play fairly. You will have to enable JavaScript to properly interact with the voting site. GNU Mailman is free software so of course you may forward this announcement to other interested mailing lists. We invite anyone in the free software and open source communities to participate in the vote. Thanks again to all of our great artists, and to you for your continued support. If you have any questions, please do ask. Cheers, -Barry (on behalf of the GNU Mailman Steering Committee)

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UPPER CASE URLs
by Hicks, Robert CTR 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

http://my.server.com/MAILMAN/LISTINFO/LIST-GROUP --> goes nowhere but http://my.server.com/mailman/listinfo/list-group --> goes where it should I don't see a redirect anywhere that I can find. Bob

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Messages being archived but suddenly stop being sent
by Gaël Lams 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Hi all I've mailman 2.1.13 and postfix configured to use a reg-exp with mappings between virtual alias domain recipient addresses and local recipient addresses with the "classical": # mandatory /^(postmaster|root|abuse)(a)lists\.mydomain\.org$/ $1(a)mydomain.net # aliases /^(.+)-(subscribe|on)(a)(lists\.mydomain\.org)$/ $1-join@$3 /^(.+)-(unsubscribe|off)(a)(lists\.mydomain\.org)$/ $1-leave@$3 # commands /^(.+)-(post|admin|request|owner|join|leave|confirm|bounces)(a)(lists\.)?mydomain\.org$/ mailman_$2+$1 # lists (command -post) /^([-a-zA-Z0-9_]+)(a)lists\.mydomain\.org$/ mailman_post+$1 This server has been running since a few months. New mailing lists have been added recently and it happens that emails sent to these lists are accepted by postfix, transferred to mailman ("delivered to command: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post $EXTENSION"), they are archived (they appear on the web-based mailman's archive) but then nothing happen. I don't find any errors on neither the postfix nor the mailman logs. I did try to send an email on a older mailing list and I got the same problem: postfix accepts the message, gives it to mailman, email appears on the web-based archive, but then it's not sent to the members of the mailing lists. I'm quite baffled by this problem and would appreciate any pointer. Kind regards, Gaël

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no list info in cc
by Dan Young 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

I have mailman set up so we can send our group newsletters. The users should never post, just receive info from us. I have it set so they are shown in the To: and my e-mail (sender) is the From:. But mailman is putting the list address in the cc . Is there anyway to alter mailman so it does not include the list address anywhere (bouces or whatever). I want it to appear like I just sent it directly to them. All is great except the cc. Thanks, Dan

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HTML, Rich Text, Embedded and Attached Files and Images
by Mike Bean 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

I want to install a mail server on my photographic club's web site to allow all members to send questions announcements etc. to all other members using HTML, Rich Text and Plain text format e-mails and allow embedded and attached files and images (although I accept there may be issues with Outlook user). I will want to manage the registration of all users none of whom will be allowed to self-administer their accounts. Is this practical with Mailman and are there downsides. Mike

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Mailman Approved: header
by Dag Wieers 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

Hi, For the RPMforge project (and for various other organizations) I set up subversion to use svn-mailer to send out commits to a mailinglist. Since we have been getting our vast amount of spam targetting this list as well (using forged email addresses) I today looked at the Approved: header, which is a way for Mailman to authorize certain posts without moderation. http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030685 However svn-mailer only allows to add custom headers prepended with "X-" according to RFC 2822. And today that caused me to publicize our Mailman password to the list by accident while testing ;-) http://opensource.perlig.de/svnmailer/doc-1.0/#groups-custom-header Which leaves us two options if we want to be able to make Mailman and svn-mailer work together for the Approved: header. - Allow svn-mailer to add custom headers without prepending with "X-", so that we can add the Approved: header using the configuration file. - Make Mailman accept X-Approved: as well as Approved: headers. To be honest, I see a benefit in both solutions and my preference would be to accept each of these modifications in both svn-mailer and Mailman. For myself, I patched svn-mailer to not prepend "X-", but I prefer a solution that is accepted by upstream for others. Kind regards, -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

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hide admin email from listinfo page
by Ton Oosterhoff 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

On a mailing lists public listinfo page I read three lines in the footer: <listname> list run by <email> <listname> administrative interface (requires authorization) Overview of all <domainname> mailing lists My question is about the email address. is there any way to prevent this admin email address from showing up on this page? The email is sent to <listname>-owner, but the actual text shows the real admin's email address.

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Mailman and Postfix Best practices to avoid fake senders
by Dimitrios Karapiperis 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Hi all! I am still investigating ways how to eliminate the danger on malicious postings on a moderated list (announce-only - newsletter) by forged sender or From addresses. Except from the moderation, are there any ways on the MTA side (postfix) asssting on this situation? thanks in advance Dimitrios

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public and private messages in the same archive?
by Jack Bates 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

How can I make some messages in a Mailman list archive public, and others private? or what is the closest I can get to this behaviour? I'm setting up mailman at my housing coop, http://campcoop.com/ We're a small group and historically we've no tradition of online communication - so I wanna keep any friction or overhead to a minimum There are many benefits to working in the open and having public list archives - I'd like to encourage this - but there are some messages which, for good reason, members don't want publicly archived To minimize friction, I don't want to confuse members with membership in two mailing lists: one with public archives and one with private archives Is there any way to make some messages public and others private, in the same list archive? It's OK for all messages' subjects to be public in the archive index, so long as following the link to view private messages requires a password One thought was to make <list-name>-private(a)campcoop.com an alias of <list-name>@campcoop.com, then have a cron job periodically crawl the archive and regenerate .htaccess files to require passwords to access any messages sent to <list-name>-private(a)campcoop.com

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[MM2x] Monthly Reminders not going out.
by J.A. Terranson 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Is there a page for troubleshooting this functionality you can refer me to? Thanks! //Alif

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