Mailman 3 June 2010 - Mailman-Users

zeusmail.org and answerpot.com linked
by Russell Clemings 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

An FYI for anyone interested ... Yesterday I was notified of a site, http://answerpot.com, that was archiving two of our lists (without permission, which we require for republication). I couldn't find anything fishy in the logs, so I turned on personalization. But the site was stripping out email addresses from the message bodies (including those I was inserting into the footers). So I ended up putting user_optionsurl in the footers, waited for someone to post, then checked the answerpot.com site for the message and finally identified the culprit. It turned out to be a zeusmail.org address. That domain was discussed here a few months ago after some people noticed a large number of subscriptions/attempts from there. I've unsubscribed everything from that domain and added it to the banned list. I haven't heard of any legitimate subscribers from that domain -- yet -- so I'm hoping that will take care of the problem. They had actually subscribed late last year, but apparently started archiving only in April. rac

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Removing members containing special characters
by Warden, Les 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

All, I'm running Mailman version 2.1.9 with several lists. One of my lists has a member that begins with a double-quote. I can't remove the member via web or underlying using the command-line. I've seen the scripting before, but can't seem to find it now. Any direction is greatly appreciated. Thanks. -les

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Spam - from where?
by Lindsay Haisley 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

I just checked my mail logs and find a very large number of attempted deliveries from the list to various users @gamblingplanet.org. e.g., Jun 8 17:27:52 kali courierd: started,id=00000000001B562E.000000004C0E7E65.00004AF9,from=<cyberpluckers-bounces+playwrightcl=gamblingplanet.org(a)autoharp.org>,module=esmtp,host=gamblingplanet.org,addr=<playwrightCL(a)gamblingplanet.org> Jun 8 17:28:52 kali courieresmtp: id=00000000001B562E.000000004C0E7E65.00004AF9,from=<cyberpluckers-bounces+playwrightcl=gamblingplanet.org(a)autoharp.org>,addr=<playwrightCL(a)gamblingplanet.org>: Connection timed out Jun 8 17:28:52 kali courieresmtp: id=00000000001B562E.000000004C0E7E65.00004AF9,from=<cyberpluckers-bounces+playwrightcl=gamblingplanet.org(a)autoharp.org>,addr=<playwrightCL(a)gamblingplanet.org>,status: deferred There are no addresses @gamblingplanet.org on the cyberpluckers list! Has the list server been hacked? What could be going on here? I'm not seeing any incoming probes which would generate a list DSN or NDR. -- Lindsay Haisley | "We are all broken toasters, but we still FMP Computer Services | manage to make toast" 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com | - Cheryl Dehut

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply address
by b19141＠anl.gov 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Richard Smits <R.Smits(a)tudelft.nl> wrote: >Hello, > >We have a strange problem with our mailman server and some mailclients. >I will explain. Sometimes when a member sends email to a list, and >someone replies to that mail, the reply goes to the list. > >And sometimes the To : adres is listname-bounces(a)listserver.ourcompany.net > >My question is, is there maybe an issue with specific mailclients not >responding correctly to the headers inserted by mailman ? > >Our company uses a lot of different mailclients, so i am not yet after >the cause of this. But is it possible that this happens ? > >I will hunt for more specific information, but maybe someone could give >me some hints ? I have seen the problem when someone on a BlackBerry does a "reply all". I have contacted postmaster(a)blackberry.com, but I have not yet gotten a reply. The other times that I have seen it, I have contacted the sender. When I get a reply, I learn that the sender saw the address and manually used it as a reply address. Obviously, when I don't get a reply, I have no idea how the -bounces address got into the mail headers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Change password doesnt work on user page
by J.A. Terranson 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Greetings, It has come to our attention that the password change facility is not functioning, despite other things on the same page working fine (unsubscription, password reminder etc). Thoughts or hints? Thanks in advance, since you guys are never slow nor wrong (amazing as that is)! //Alif -- "Never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty." Joseph Pulitzer, 1907 Speech

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Reply address
by Richard Smits 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hello, We have a strange problem with our mailman server and some mailclients. I will explain. Sometimes when a member sends email to a list, and someone replies to that mail, the reply goes to the list. And sometimes the To : adres is listname-bounces(a)listserver.ourcompany.net My question is, is there maybe an issue with specific mailclients not responding correctly to the headers inserted by mailman ? Our company uses a lot of different mailclients, so i am not yet after the cause of this. But is it possible that this happens ? I will hunt for more specific information, but maybe someone could give me some hints ? Greetings .. Richard -- R. (Richard) Smits TU Delft / Shared Service centre ICT r.smits(a)tudelft.nl

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Virtual domains and password reminder emails
by Andrew Hodgson 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, Is there a way of getting the password reminders to go out from the virtual domain instead of the base domain that is configured in mm_cfg.py and thus what the Mailman list was created with? I haven't actually tried this yet, but want to configure everything correctly before creating the list. Thanks. Andrew.

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Is it required to have a mailing list for mailman for Mailman 2.1.9?
by Wang, Mary Y 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi, I just migrated my Mailman lists to another server. I noticed that in my /etc/aliases file, I've the following. I don't really remember now. Is it required to have a mailing for mailman as well? ****************************************************************************** mailman: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" mailman-admin: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman" mailman-bounces: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman" mailman-confirm: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman" mailman-join: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman" mailman-leave: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman" mailman-owner: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman" mailman-request: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman" mailman-subscribe: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman" mailman-unsubscribe: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman" ************************************************************************************ Thanks Mary

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Maximum number of members per list
by Sergi 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hello, i'm sorry if this has already been discussed here but my web search didn't bring much results. Did this patch somehow made or will make it to the official mailman source? https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558151 If not, is there any way of limiting the number of members in a list? Thanks, Sergi Seira

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Apache startup warning/error: mailman DocumentRoot?
by Tanstaafl 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hello again, There's another annoying warning message I get that I'd like to resolve, but I only get it at startup, so I keep forgetting about it. I had to shutdown the server this morning to move it to a new UPS, and saw it again when I started the server up, so now I'm asking. I know there's something obvious I must be missing, but I'm used to getting whacked by 2x4's when asking questions like this so I'm wearing my Spartan warriors helmet. Anyway, here's the warning/error: Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/localhost/htdocs/mailman] does not exist apache2: Could not reliably determine the servers fully qualified domain name, using ###.###.###.### for ServerName Now, the path is correct, but there is no mailman directory in the htdocs folder, so the warning is correct - and, to make matters worse, I *do* have this path explicitly set in the /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/lists.example.com config file, although I'm not sure why now. Everything works fine... I can go to lists.example.com and manage my lists, and all links in the list messages are of the form "...lists.example.com/..." and they all work for managing bounces, etc. 50_mailman.conf contains: ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"> AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Alias /pipermail/ "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/" <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> So, my question is, what should the path in /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/lists.example.com be pointing to? Where *is* the mailman DocumentRoot? Tia...

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