Mailman 3 September 2010 - Mailman-Users

Issues with the administrative interface.
by Llewellyn Curran Sept. 24, 2010

Sept. 24, 2010

Hi, Earlier today I was attempting to login to http://www.mydomain/mailman/admin/mylist and was greeted with a time out. I checked my apache error logs and found the following: [Thu Sep 23 14:18:17 2010] [warn] [client x.x.x.13] Timeout waiting for output from CGI script /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admin, referer: http://www.mydomain/mailman/admin/mylist [Thu Sep 23 14:18:17 2010] [error] [client x.x.x.13] Premature end of script headers: admin, referer: http://www.mydomain/mailman/admin/mylist … [View More]

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spooling question
by Dan Young Sept. 22, 2010

Sept. 22, 2010

A year or so ago I had something in mailman lock. It showed as running but stop sending e-mails. I restarted mailman and it instantly started sending the posts that were not sent as of the issue. Not concerned about the lock since it only happened once in a year. But some of the posts are time sensitive and in the /var/spool/in directory I see some that are a week old and I do not want them to send if I restart mailman. If I just delete these and restart mailman can I be comfortably … [View More]

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How to remove sender email from archive
by Dave Pawson Sept. 22, 2010

Sept. 22, 2010

In the archive view the second line is the sender, name and email address. Is it possible to block this/ hide the email address please? I'm getting complaints that people won't use the list because of spam risks? TIA -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

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Bounce notification when automatic bounce processing is not selected.
by Robert M. Jenney Sept. 21, 2010

Sept. 21, 2010

Is it possible to receive bounce information when automatic bounce processing is not selected? Mailman says, ". bounce messages will still be discarded so that the list administrator isn't inundated with them." However, as list administrator, I'd like to receive them. Thanks, Bob Jenney ____________________________ Robert M. Jenney, Director Aviation Safety Connection, Inc. 11 Lake Street, Unit #121 Wakefield, MA 01880 USA rmj(a)aviation.org; (781) 245-1391 Go to <http://aviation.org> http://aviation.org

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A particular mailing list cant send out emails if have 2000 or more members??
by Ricky Lim Sept. 21, 2010

Sept. 21, 2010

Hi ALL Just wondering if anyone have met with such situation whereby a mailing list have 2000 or more members and it cant send out emails?? I have tried to increase postfix sending recipient (smtpd_recipient_limit and smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit to 5000 each) , but still cant send out emails. smtpd_recipient_limit = 5000 smtpd_recipient_overshoot_limit = 5000 Currently I am running mailman version 2.1.9-4.el5 , postfix version 2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 , python version 2.4.3-27.el5. … [View More]

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deleting mailman subscriber when spaces are in the address
by ljacobs Sept. 21, 2010

Sept. 21, 2010

I have a member who somehow got entered as "info(a)nesa.edu see notes re" (without the quotes) and I cannot delete that member via the usual commands or web interface. Can this be done using some mailman or python commands? Thanks.

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weird messages..
by Khalil Abbas Sept. 20, 2010

Sept. 20, 2010

Hi, I recently started to recieve messages from listname-bounces@mydomain like this: _____________________________________ The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your original message. - Results: Ignoring non-text/plain MIME parts - Unprocessed: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY. Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed: SOMEMEAILADDRESS@DOMAIN Message will be retried for 2 more day(s) - Done.… [View More]

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RELEASED: Mailman 3.0 alpha 6
by Barry Warsaw Sept. 20, 2010

Sept. 20, 2010

I happy (and somewhat relieved :) to announce the release of the sixth alpha for Mailman 3.0. There is much new coolness that you will want to explore. The biggest change is that the administrative REST API has been greatly improved and is now reasonably well fleshed out. You can create and delete domains and mailing lists, subscribe and unsubscribe members, and reconfigure your mailing lists through the REST API. The documentation has specific examples of how to do it. This means that you … [View More]can actually start to try to integrate Mailman with your web sites. The big push between now and the first beta will be to complete the import of Mailman 2.1 data, and integrate it with the UI work done by Anna and Florian for the GSoC. The tarball can be downloaded from Launchpad or the Cheeseshop: https://edge.launchpad.net/mailman http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman/3.0.0a6 The full documentation is also available online: http://packages.python.org/mailman/docs/README.html See below for the changes since alpha 5. Please note that Mailman 3 is not yet ready for production, although we'd love it if you test it and provide feedback! Enjoy, -Barry 3.0 alpha 6 -- "Cut to the Chase" ================================= (2010-09-20) Commands -------- * The functionality of 'bin/list_members' has been moved to 'bin/mailman members'. * 'bin/mailman info' -v/--verbose output displays the file system layout paths Mailman is currently configured to use. Configuration ------------- * You can now configure the paths Mailman uses for queue files, lock files, data files, etc. via the configuration file. Define a file system 'layout' and then select that layout in the [mailman] section. Default layouts include 'local' for putting everything in /var/tmp/mailman, 'dev' for local development, and 'fhs' for Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.3 (LP #490144). * Queue file directories now live in $var_dir/queues. REST ---- * lazr.restful has been replaced by restish as the REST publishing technology used by Mailman. * New REST API for getting all the members of a roster for a specific mailing list. * New REST API for getting and setting a mailing list's configuration. GET and PUT are supported to retrieve the current configuration, and set all the list's writable attributes in one request. PATCH is supported to partially update a mailing list's configuration. Individual options can be set and retrieved by using subpaths. * Subscribing an already subscribed member via REST now returns a 409 HTTP error. LP: #552917 * Fixed a bug when deleting a list via the REST API. LP: #601899 Architecture ------------ * X-BeenThere header is removed. * Mailman no longer touches the Sender or Errors-To headers. * Chain actions can now fire Zope events in their _process() implementations. * Environment variable $MAILMAN_VAR_DIR can be used to control the var/ directory for Mailman's runtime files. New environment variable $MAILMAN_UNDER_MASTER_CONTROL is used instead of the qrunner's --subproc/-s option. Miscellaneous ------------- * Allow X-Approved and X-Approve headers, equivalent to Approved and Approve. LP: #557750 * Various test failure fixes. LP: #543618, LP: #544477 * List-Post header is retained in MIME digest messages. LP: #526143 * Importing from a Mailman 2.1.x list is partially supported. [View Less]

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Mailman 2.1.14 released.
by Mark Sapiro Sept. 20, 2010

Sept. 20, 2010

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to announce the final release of GNU Mailman 2.1.14. Mailman 2.1.14 is mainly a bug fix release, but it contains one security fix as previously announced at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2010-September/000151.html> and one new feature. It differs from the previously released 2.1.14rc1 only in wording clarifications and typo corrections in a few messages. This new feature controls the addition/replacement of … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't change settings in Web Interface
by Oliver Schad Sept. 20, 2010

Sept. 20, 2010

Am Monday 20 September 2010 schrieb mir Néstor Díaz Valencia: > Who is serving mailman web interface? apache2? Yes. > Have you checked web server logs? Yes. If I post something, I get a HTTP 302. The redirect points to the site, where you come from. No error nowhere. > Have you checked web interface HTML code? (It's ctrl+u in most > browsers) > > Fore example, in general Options web page in my setup I can read this: > <FORM action="http://somedomain.com/admin/… [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't change settings in Web Interface
by Oliver Schad Sept. 20, 2010

Sept. 20, 2010

Am Monday 20 September 2010 schrieb mir Mark Sapiro: > On 9/19/2010 1:37 PM, Oliver Schad wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've migrated an existing mailman list from one system to another > > with a complete different linux distribution. > > > > I changed the domain also and everything works fine. But the Web- > > doesn't accept changes. I found no error message anywhere. The Web > > Interface shows all information, I can log in. But I can't make … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Reply to sender and list
by Mark Sapiro Sept. 20, 2010

Sept. 20, 2010

>The last chance is to patch the sources, modifying the Header Cooker, I >already tried, but is unclear how it works and I just obtained a mess ;) The attached patch to CookHeaders.py will do what you want. With the patch, if the list's first_strip_reply_to is No and the original post does not contain a Reply-To:, Mailman will add a Reply-To: with the address from the From: header (or the Sender: header if there is no From:). So with the patch if you set first_strip_reply_to to No and … [View More]

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Can't change settings in Web Interface
by Oliver Schad Sept. 20, 2010

Sept. 20, 2010

Hi all, I've migrated an existing mailman list from one system to another with a complete different linux distribution. I changed the domain also and everything works fine. But the Web- doesn't accept changes. I found no error message anywhere. The Web Interface shows all information, I can log in. But I can't make any change. Commandline tools works fine too. This looks like a permission problem I thought so I checked the permissions manually and with the script "check_perms". It fixed … [View More]

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Mailman automatically unsubscribe user without permission
by eagseek Sept. 19, 2010

Sept. 19, 2010

Hello everyone, We have a mailman mailing list system. Everything works fine except for one mainling list. For this mailing list, whenever a new user is added to the member list, that user will receive two welcome emails with two different passwords first. And you can search and find that user in the members list under the mailing list administration page. Then after a few minutes, the user will receive two emails saying "You are unsubscribed from the mailing list blah". At this point search … [View More]

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disable a mailing list
by Stoyan Angelov Sept. 19, 2010

Sept. 19, 2010

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 … [View More]

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mailman web interface via reverse proxy ; hostname is set properly on list pages, but not on base listinfo
by Daniel Maher Sept. 19, 2010

Sept. 19, 2010

Hello, I have made the mailman web interface accessible via a reverse proxy on a publically-accessible web server. After reading through the documentation and list archives, i set the hostname variables in mm_cfg.py, and fixed the hostnames associated with the existing lists via the withlist tool. On each of the individual list pages (and list headers / footers / etc.) the hostnames are set properly ; in fact, this was very straightforward to do, and works perfectly. However, on the … [View More]

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Create two list with same name
by Ricardo Ruivo Sept. 17, 2010

Sept. 17, 2010

Dear all, Is it possible to create two lists with the same name but in different virtualhost? My configuration is: File:mm_cfg.py add_virtualhost('lists.domain1', 'domain1.pt') add_virtualhost('lists.domain2', 'domain2.pt') I created the allusers list in domain1 without any problem, with the command newlist --emailhost=domain1.pt allusers But, when I try to create the allusers list in domain2 I have get this error newlist --emailhost=domain2.pt allusers Error: … [View More]

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Reply to sender and list
by Michele Bonera Sept. 16, 2010

Sept. 16, 2010

Hi. I have a particular ml, used by our team to manage the info requests that arrive to info(a)ourdomain.tld Actually the ml is configured to set the reply-to to the sender, so you have to reply using reply-to-all button in the mua to forward the reply to the list too, informing the others that you have already reply to the info request. What happens is that there is often someone that forget to use the reply-to-all and reply just to the sender. Is there a way to configure mailman to set … [View More]

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nginx + fcgiwrap, web interface problems
by Jon Evans Sept. 15, 2010

Sept. 15, 2010

Hi all, I am trying to configure Mailman on a system using nginx, and fcgiwrap for CGI, according to this guide: http://wiki.nginx.org/Mailman After doing so, I have a problem: The main listinfo page displays, and shows my public lists, but all other links redirect back to listinfo. I can't get to any specific list information page, and I can't get to any parts of the admin for any list. I have run check_perms and nothing is wrong there. There are no errors reported in the web server logs.… [View More]

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mailman installation gone wild
by Eric Alan Solo Sept. 15, 2010

Sept. 15, 2010

Hello, I'm really struggling to resolve this issue. I'm trying to get mailman working on ubuntu server 10.04, python version is 2.6 When I go to http://[domain]/cgi-bin/mailman/admin I get this message --------------------- Bug in Mailman version 2.1.13 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. ---… [View More]

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Help with list mail not sending
by Trevor Bekolay Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

Hello, I've gone through all the steps in http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/4.78+Troubleshooting-+No+mail+going+out+to… but I'm still unable to get email to send out on my mailing list. I'm using Postfix and Mailman 2.1.12 on an Ubuntu server. Most things work fine: - Users get subscribe/unsubscribe and welcome emails - Web interface works as expected, can create new lists and the like - Emails sent to the list get added to the archive, viewable through the web interface However, two kind of … [View More]

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Making dlist functionality Available to other Groups
by Jennifer Redman Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

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 … [View More]

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Setting Nomail flag from command line
by Jeff Bernier Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

Is there a way to set a list members Nomail flag from the command line? -- Jeff Bernier Office of Information Technology Rhode Island School of Design 401.454.6168

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Questions on subscription page.
by JRC Groups Sept. 14, 2010

Sept. 14, 2010

Hello, everyone. Please forgive me if my question seems rather basic to most on this list. I am new to Mailman and am just now beginning to implement my own mail lists. I would like to implement my own web page as part of a website I am designing so those interested can subscribe from this page or in case this isn't possible be redirected to another page external to my website where they can subscribe. Do you have any suggestions, instructions and sample designs on how to implement this … [View More]

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Setting Moderation Flag via command line
by Jeff Bernier Sept. 10, 2010

Sept. 10, 2010

Hi, I am using the command line to set, or unset a members moderation flag as follows: ./withlist -r set_mod staff -u emailaddress(a)domain.com Is there a way to do this for many members by specifying them with an input file, rather than entering them all in a very long command line? Mailman 2.1.13 Thanks for any help you offer. Jeff

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