Mailman 3 July 2010 - Mailman-Users

Running two list with same email prefix
by Andrea Cappelli Feb. 27, 2024

Feb. 27, 2024

Hi all, I'm running a mail server with Debian Lenny, MTA is Postfix and i will use postfix-to-mailma.py script to run list I would set up Mailman for running mailing list with same email prefix on different domains, obvious with different list names For example we have ml.domain1.com and ml.domain2.net, i would like to have LISTADDRESS LISTNAME tech(a)ml.domain1.com tech-ml.domain1.com tech(a)ml.domain.2.net tech-ml.domain2.net In this way i can have the same address on differente … [View More]

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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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Mailman CGI Error-Group mismatch error
by Wang, Mary Y Sept. 9, 2020

Sept. 9, 2020

Hi, I received the following error this morning. So I rerun configure again with the following command: ./configure --with-cgi-id=apache --prefix=/var/mailman. I'm still getting the same error. Is there any place that I can look for so that I can debug this problem better? Perhaps, looking at the config history file or something. Any other places that I can check the cause of this error? "Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored … [View More]

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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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limitation in name of the account between the mail client and mailman?
by Esteban Torres July 30, 2010

July 30, 2010

RHEL 5.3 postfix-2.3.3 mailman-2.1.9 I have a problem with the mail client (thunderbird and Outlook Express). When sending an email to the list from the mail client and the client has set the name of the big personal information does not commands. I get this error: July 29 11:53:10 2010 (29 383) All recipients Refused: ('=? Iso-8859-1? Q? Administrative = f3n_of_system_and_configurati? =': (550, '5 .1.1 <=? Iso-8859-1? q? administrative = f3n_of_system_and_configurati? =>: Recipient … [View More]

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Someone to install Mailman?
by Alison Epstein July 30, 2010

July 30, 2010

Is there anyone out there who does freelance installations of Mailman? And if so, how much do you charge an hour and how much time do you estimate it would take to install and get me started? Thanks, Alison ---------------------------------- Sign up for The Melton Israel Seminar - The Ultimate On-Site Learning Experience Alison Epstein FMAMS web-content coordinator aepstein(a)fmams.org.il 416-638-2475 North American VoIP phone 815-346-2644 North American fax 052-569-7945 Israeli cell … [View More]

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about address format
by Sandi Gruver July 30, 2010

July 30, 2010

A list member wants to change her subscriptions from @xxx.edu to @mail.xxx.edu. She is unable to do so globally, received this message: > Bad email address provided Member name successfully changed. Later she unsubscribed from a different list and on attempting to re-subscribe with the new address (@mail.xxx.edu) she got this error: The email address you supplied is not valid. (E.g. it must contain an`@'.) Any suggestions for this type of mail address? (Didn't find anything helpful in the … [View More]

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unable to post messages to my list
by sandeep kumar July 29, 2010

July 29, 2010

i have created a list with the following command in the command line /etc/newlist mtech-cs-2010 anil_moogala(a)dcis.uohyd.ernet.in password and then i have added the aliases to the /etc/aliases file... then i got a mail in my mail box saying The mailing list `mtech-cs-2010' has just been created for you. The following is some basic information about your mailing list. Your mailing list password is: ***** You need this password to configure your mailing list. You also need it to … [View More]handle administrative requests, such as approving mail if you choose to run a moderated list. You can configure your mailing list at the following web page: http://dcis.uohyd.ernet.in/mailman/admin/mtech-cs-2010 The web page for users of your mailing list is: http://dcis.uohyd.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/mtech-cs-2010 You can even customize these web pages from the list configuration page. However, you do need to know HTML to be able to do this. There is also an email-based interface for users (not administrators) of your list; you can get info about using it by sending a message with just the word `help' as subject or in the body, to: mtech-cs-2010-request(a)dcis.uohyd.ernet.in To unsubscribe a user: from the mailing list 'listinfo' web page, click on or enter the user's email address as if you were that user. Where that user would put in their password to unsubscribe, put in your admin password. You can also use your password to change member's options, including digestification, delivery disabling, etc. Please address all questions to mailman-admin(a)dcis.uohyd.ernet.in. --- when i try to view my list in the interface, it is giving a message No such list mtech-cs-2010 i then added few members to the list using /bin/add_members -r s mtech-cs-2010 s is the file containing list of mail ids it gave the following dcis:/var/mailman/bin # ./add_members -r s mtech-cs-2010 /var/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py:469: DeprecationWarning: raising a string exception is deprecated raise quickexit Subscribed: sandeep(a)dcis.uohyd.ernet.in Subscribed: anil_moogala(a)dcis.uohyd.ernet.in a welcome message is sent to the members subscribed. when i try to post a message to the list i have created, it gave me a Returned mail: see transcript for details The original message was received at Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:23:34 +0530 from localhost [127.0.0.1] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mtech-cs-2010" (reason: 1) (expanded from: <mtech-cs-2010(a)dcis.uohyd.ernet.in>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- post script, list not found: mtech-cs-2010 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 [View Less]

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Test messages
by LuKreme July 29, 2010

July 29, 2010

I may have asked this before, but if so I can't find it in my archives. Is there a way to send a test message to a list without it being sent out to the entire list? Something like a ping that only replies to you? I have a list I host for a friend that is very sporadic. When active it can get 100 posts a day, but those days come infrequently. Sometimes he's concerned that posts are getting lost (it's happened in the past that some configuration muckup has borked the list) and he'd like to be … [View More]

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Regarding Creation of mailing list
by sandeep kumar July 28, 2010

July 28, 2010

I have changed password of list creator password using mmsitepass dcis:/var/mailman/bin # ./mmsitepass New site password: Again to confirm password: Password changed. dcis:/var/mailman/bin # ./mmsitepass -c New list creator password: Again to confirm password: Password changed. dcis:/var/mailman/bin # This was the error i have got when using the password which was change by above Error: You are not authorized to create new mailing lists

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Issue regarding login account
by sandeep kumar July 28, 2010

July 28, 2010

When login an account i get an error ERROR: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. Query: SELECT "INBOX"

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updates to Namazu FAQ entry?
by Syn, Joonho July 27, 2010

July 27, 2010

Hi, found the Namazu FAQ here http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030581 Was wondering if there are any updates to FAQ as it seemed to leave a couple issues unresolved, specifically regarding automatic indexing using a cron job and also hacking in a search box. Have Namazu and mailman been integrated a bit better by now?

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Only allow @company.com to Subscribe and Only allow certain email addresses to post
by Wang, Mary Y July 27, 2010

July 27, 2010

Hi, I've two questions. How do I configure a Mailman list to do the following? (1) Only allow @company.com to subscribe a Mailman list (2) Only allow certain email addresses to post Thanks in advance. Mary

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Problem regarding creating mailing list
by sandeep kumar July 27, 2010

July 27, 2010

1.While creating a mailing list through command line, the owner of the list creator does get any mail regarding creation of mailisg list . What is the procedure actually to create the mailing list , does the owner requires any privelages . 2. While creating mailing list through web interface using http://domain name/mailman/create , it asks for list creater password , We reset the password of admin and list creator password using mmsitepass but the password which is reset is not … [View More]

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Help with MAILMAN list password
by Mauricio Juarez July 27, 2010

July 27, 2010

Hi, - I use mailman to administrate my email lists - I need absolutely change the Admin Lists password - I used the command: change_pw in my /bin Mailman directory, all was OK, I can use my new password for all the lists but My old password work too, do you know why? I change the root password too ( the same) but doesnt work, now the old password and the new one worked Help plz Mauricio

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upgrading from version 2.1.9 to latest available version
by Chad Rebuck July 23, 2010

July 23, 2010

I realized today that the unsubscribe via web page feature of version 2.1.9 is not working for my list. Maybe it is a known bug or something that just doesn't work for my site due to previous upgrades. The list is very low volume so upgrading it has not been a priority. I would like to understand how much effort is involved in upgrading from version 2.1.9 to the latest available. I am running fedora 5 if that matters. Thank you. Chad

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Is Mailman right for us?
by Alison Epstein July 22, 2010

July 22, 2010

Hello, We're considering using Mailman for our organization's listservs. But I'm having trouble finding a demo to try or some screen snapshots so that I can even determine if this is the right software for us. I need something for our discussion lists. (We also have announce-only lists.) The discussion lists ideally would have an archive that is accessible. Also, some of our lists need to have the ability to have multiple "moderators / posters" who may or may not be list subscribers.… [View More]

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Icons
by Peter July 22, 2010

July 22, 2010

Hi I have Debian (stable) running with Apache 2.2.9 and Mailmain 2.1.11 I can't see the Icons at the footer I looked at the FAQ http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030628 But this old information A search tells that Apache icons are at /usr/share/apache2/icons The mailman icons are at /usr/share/images/mailman A copy of the mailman icons to the Apache2 dir doesn't show the images at the footer. What is the solution? Peter

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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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Is Mailman right for us?
by Anthony R. Thompson July 21, 2010

July 21, 2010

On 7/21/2010 5:12 AM, Alison Epstein wrote: > We're considering using Mailman for our organization's listservs. But > I'm having trouble finding a demo to try or some screen snapshots so > that I can even determine if this is the right software for us. > > I need something for our discussion lists. (We also have announce-only > lists.) > > The discussion lists ideally would have an archive that is accessible. > > Also, some of our lists need to have the … [View More]

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Encoding Error in Mailman
by Brian Carpenter July 20, 2010

July 20, 2010

Hi All: Hope everyone is having a nice summer. Yesterday I had a UK client have two messages from two different posters shunted for the following reason: Jul 19 05:24:03 2010 (28056) Uncaught runner exception: windows-1252 Jul 19 05:24:03 2010 (28056) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 120, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 191, in … [View More]_onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 74, in _dispose self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 132, in process Decorate.process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py", line 133, in process msg.set_payload(payload, newcset) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/email/Message.py", line 218, in set_payload self.set_charset(charset) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/email/Message.py", line 242, in set_charset raise TypeError(charset) TypeError: windows-1252 Jul 19 05:46:50 2010 (28056) Uncaught runner exception: iso-8859-1 Jul 19 05:46:50 2010 (28056) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 120, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 191, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 74, in _dispose self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 132, in process Decorate.process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py", line 133, in process msg.set_payload(payload, newcset) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/email/Message.py", line 218, in set_payload self.set_charset(charset) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/email/Message.py", line 242, in set_charset raise TypeError(charset) TypeError: iso-8859-1 Looking at the error log, the above type of error message is VERY rare however it is strange that I had two of these show up within a close time of each other. The question that I have is does the above error message indicate a problem going on with the mailman server or was there an issue going on with the posters' email formatting? Thanks for any insight into this problem. Regards, Brian Carpenter EMWD.com -------------------------------------------------------- http://blog.emwd.com/ Curious comments from a web hosting techie [View Less]

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delivery limitation there users?
by Esteban Torres July 20, 2010

July 20, 2010

I have configured a list of 150 members and everything works fine. Now I want to create another list with 1885 members. I have to change something in the configuration of mailman? There is some limitation in the default configuration of mailman to deliver as many members? In the configuration of postfix I have: smtpd_recipient_limit = 2700 I must be careful with anything? Thanks

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Is it possible to configure Mailman to receive/send Outlook encrypted email messages?
by Wang, Mary Y July 19, 2010

July 19, 2010

Hi, Is it possible to configure Mailman to receive/send Outlook encrypted email messages? Thanks Mary

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