Mailman-Users August 2010

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44 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

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 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

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 in your syslog: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", but the system's web server executed the CGI script as group "apache". Try tweaking the web server to run the script as group "nobody", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=apache'." Thanks Mary

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Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

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 Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text. QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode? If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default? Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so? Thanks - Steve

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URL incorrect in web interface
by Allen Walker 21 Oct '10

21 Oct '10

I am running mailman on one machine which hosts several different virtual hosts. However what I configured as the "mailman" virtual host is "lists.myhost.com". Everything works fine (mail delivery, web site url management) except for one thing: in the web admin url, it's rewriting the links to "myhost.com/..." instead of "lists.myhost.com". This is causing HTTP posts when doing some admin changes to fail as it's hitting the "myhost.com" host instead of "lists.myhost.com". in my mm_cfg.py: # The name of the list Mailman uses to send password reminders # and similar. Don't change if you want mailman-owner to be # a valid local part. MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman' #------------------------------------------------------------- # If you change these, you have to configure your http server # accordingly (Alias and ScriptAlias directives in most httpds) #DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/cgi-bin/mailman/' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/cgi-bin/mailman/private' IMAGE_LOGOS = '/images/mailman/' #------------------------------------------------------------- # Default domain for email addresses of newly created MLs DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'myhost.com' #------------------------------------------------------------- # Default host for web interface of newly created MLs DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.myhost.com' #------------------------------------------------------------- # Required when setting any of its arguments. add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) mailman virtual host file <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName lists.myhost.com DocumentRoot /var/www/lists ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/lists-error.log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/lists-access.log combined <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/ ScriptAlias /admin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admin ScriptAlias /admindb /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb ScriptAlias /confirm /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/confirm ScriptAlias /create /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/create ScriptAlias /edithtml /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/edithtml ScriptAlias /listinfo /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo ScriptAlias /options /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/options ScriptAlias /private /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/private ScriptAlias /rmlist /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/rmlist ScriptAlias /roster /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/roster ScriptAlias /subscribe /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/subscribe ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ </VirtualHost>

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disable a mailing list
by Stoyan Angelov 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

hello all, i want to temporary disable one of my mailing lists while keeping the archives available. i run mailman 2.1.12 with sendmail. i was thinking about doing the following: . remove the appropriate aliases from /path/to/aliases (redirecting the <mailling-list>-owner of the affected list to some real address) . move the /path/to/mailman/lists/<disabled-list> directory to a temporary location is this the proper way to disable a list? is there anything else that needs to be done? greetings, Stoyan

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Making dlist functionality Available to other Groups
by Jennifer Redman 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hello Mailman Users, Systers has developed the ability for a user to subscribe and unsubscribe from threads via Dynamic Sub-Lists. We've have gsoc students working on bug-fixes and improvements the last two years and we'd really like to make the feature available to the larger community running 2.1.x. Right now it's a code branch on http://launchpad.net/systers that we use to update our production server via bzr. We've only tested against 2.1.10. Should we make a down-loadable .tgz of the source code? Or is it better offered as a patch to be applied against GNU MM 2.1.10? What is the easiest delivery method for those of you who might want to take a look at the functionality? You can read more here: http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/good_to_know and some additional information about our changes at the bottom of this page: http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/how_stuff_works_both_default_mailma… . Thanks, Jen

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Changing the received time on an outgoing authorized email message?
by Paul Key 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

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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Cannot set digest mode via URL
by W. Curtis Preston 03 Sep '10

03 Sep '10

Hello all. I'm a long time Mailman user, and am the person behind the Mailman/Joomla bridge mentioned in this Wiki article: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030527 The "bridge" is a PHP script that runs inside my CMS (Joomla) that figures out the user's name and email address, gets the list of mailing lists, and then subscribes them to the mailing list(s) they specify, including setting them to digest mode if they ask. I do this by using the URL interface to Joomla and then doing a "file_get_contents("$url"," FALSE")" in PHP to execute the URL with the appropriate admin password. For example, to subscribe someone I use the following URL: http://<domain>/mailman/admin/<listname> /members/add?subscribe_or_invite=0&send_welcome_msg_to_this_batch=0&notification_to_list_owner=0&subscribees_upload= <email-address>&adminpw=<adminpassword> This works fine (has for a few years now), and we actually documented several of these URLs here: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030567 The one I'm having a problem with is the one to set someone to digest mode. First you have to subscribe them, then you would issue the following URL: http://<domain>/mailman/admin/<listname>/members?user=<email-address>& <email-address> _digest=1&setmemberopts_btn=Submit%20Your%20Changes&allmodbit_val=0& <email-address>_language=en&<email-address>_nodupes=1&adminpw= <adminpassword> This has also worked for a few years, but I just found out that it isn't working. I can set someone to digest mode by manually accessing that same page, but the URL no longer does the job. When I issue the URL manually in my browser, instead of setting the user to digest mode and returning me to the screen with the user on it, it returns me to the /members page, displaying a list of users. Thinking maybe Mailman wants an option that I'm not setting, I even made a longer list of every option that is on the page, and that didn't work: http:// <domain>/mailman/admin/<listname>/members?user=<email>&<email>_unsub=0&<email>_mod=0&<email>_hide=0&<email>_nomail=0&<email>_ack=0&<email>_notmetoo=0&<email>_nodupes=0&<email>_digest=1&<email>_plain=0&<email>_language=en&setmemberopts_btn=Submit%20Your%20Changes&allmodbit_val=0&adminpw=<adminpassword> I am running the Cpanel version of Mailman, version 2.1.3, which I'm surprised to learn is actually more recent than the version running this mailing list (2.1.2)! Any idea of what's going wrong or how I can troubleshoot this thing? Thanks in advance for any ideas.

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Ban_list
by Ricardo Ruivo 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Dear all, there is any option to notify, by email, the user when he attempts to subscibe and list and his email bellow to ban_list? Another question. It is possible to configure the following message (thats appers when a ban_list users attens to subscribe by web interface that mailling list) so Subscription results The email address you supplied is banned from this mailing list. If you think this restriction is erroneous, please contact the list owners at [EMAIL]. Thanks in advanced. -- Ricardo Ruivo System Administrator SIC - Serviço de Informática e Comunicações Department of Informatics Engineering Faculty of Science and Technology University of Coimbra | Portugal My PGP Public Key is available at: http://pgp.dei.uc.pt:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D4F6A4C

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Resident messages for moderation after removing Mailman
by Razvan Deaconescu 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi! I've encountered a problem regarding pending messages for the internal mailman list for Mailman. Each day at 8:00AM, as Mailman admin/owner I was getting a message with the subject "6 Mailman moderator request(s) waiting". The message mentioned accessing the URL "http://${hostname}/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb/mailman". However, accessing it (and typing in the requested password) revealed no pending posts (such as those described in the message). The latest message was dated 28th of December 2009 (quite a while ago). About a week ago I decided to uninstall the Mailman instance but that message is still sent each day at 8:00AM. I've reinstalled it, accessed the above URL, but there are still no pending posts. I've done a recursive grep in /var/lib/mailman (I'm using Debian) for parts of the message (but found nothing). I've checked all cron entries (/etc/cron*, /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*) but found nothing relevant. Could someone please point me to where those pending requests are held and how can I get rid of them and stop that message from being delivered? Many thanks, Razvan

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