Mailman 3 September 2010 - Mailman-Users

Mailman 2.1.14rc1 released.
by Mark Sapiro Sept. 9, 2010

Sept. 9, 2010

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I am happy to announce the first release candidate for the 2.1.14 release of the 2.1 stable maintenance branch of GNU Mailman. Mailman 2.1.14rc1 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. This new feature controls the addition/replacement of the Sender: header in outgoing mail. This allows a list owner to set include_sender_header on the list's General Options page in the admin GUI. The default for this setting is Yes which preserves the prior behavior of removing any pre-existing Sender: and setting it to the list's -bounces address. Setting this to No stops Mailman from adding or modifying the Sender: at all. Additionally, there is a new Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py setting ALLOW_SENDER_OVERRIDES which defaults to Yes but which can be set to No to remove the include_sender_header setting from General Options, and thus preserve the prior behavior completely. Python 2.4 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.5.or 2.6 is recommended. See the changelog at <https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/2.1.14rc1> for more details. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites. For more information, please see: http://www.list.org http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman Mailman 2.1.14rc1 can be downloaded from https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/ - -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFMiVTzVVuXXpU7hpMRAoOBAJ9toQK+LGWfIW0GQ3bwGd7oQlDUJACfe+8a wyxtS0VdLRJfjicrVGewmyA= =uGQl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mailman security patch.
by Mark Sapiro Sept. 9, 2010

Sept. 9, 2010

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I plan to release a Mailman 2.1.14 candidate release towards the end of next week (Sept 9 or 10). This release will have enhanced XSS defenses addressing two recently discovered vulnerabilities. Since release of the code will potentially expose the vulnerabilities, I plan to publish a patch against the 2.1.13 base with the fix before actually releasing the 2.1.14 candidate. I will post the patch to the same 4 lists that this post is being sent to in the early afternoon, GMT, on September 9. The vulnerabilities are obscure and can only be exploited by a list owner, but if you are concerned about them you can plan to install the patch. The patch is small (34 line diff), only affects two modules and doesn't require a Mailman restart to be effective, although I would recommend a restart as soon as convenient after applying the patch. - -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFMgutpVVuXXpU7hpMRAsX1AJ48C0RxSpV7r9lg3J0V7OTs44ISqgCgn1wX LZ5RkuGLo0r04eDNYOBDYpo= =gscN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Help - postfix rejecting mailing list addresses.
by Waldo Ramirez Sept. 9, 2010

Sept. 9, 2010

postfix is rejecting mailing list addresses. I was able to subscribe but when I email list-request(a)domain.com or something : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table -- _-WALDO RAMIREZ_

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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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Creating an invite-only list
by Andrew Hodgson Sept. 6, 2010

Sept. 6, 2010

Hi, Sorry if this is a bit thick, but I can't see what I want to do in the Mailman interface or FAQ. I want to create a mailing list such that the subscribe mechanisms will give a message to the users that this list is for invited members only, and the subscription request will not be held for moderation. I initially configured the banned addresses in the ban_list section by entering in the regular expression "^.*$", however, now we can't subscribe anyone manually to the list, which is the only way we want to add people anyway. Is there any way of doing this without having a tonne of subscription requests in the moderation queue? Thanks. Andrew.

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Subscribed, received Welcome, but no articles.
by StealthMonger Sept. 4, 2010

Sept. 4, 2010

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 For several of the mailman lists that I have subscribed to, I received the Welcome, but no articles. So I subscribed to the mailman-users list to inquire. But no articles here either! (And I see from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2010-September.txt.gz that there were postings as recent as a few hours ago as I write.) I am sending this to the list posting address not knowing whether it will get posted and unable, because of the foregoing, to see the results. So please CC: your response to me. I have looked at the following FAQ pages, but they pertain to what the administrator should do in a circumstance like this, not to what I, as a subscriber, might do. http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8683538 http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/4.78+Troubleshooting-+No+mail+going+out+to… http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/I%27ve+set+up+Mailman,+created+a+list,+and…! I have subscribed to four different mailman mailing lists over the past year or so. Only one is sending both articles and reminders. - From another, I receive the monthly reminders but no articles. A third is sending neither. And now this one is sending no articles. In all cases, subscription was via email, and confirmation and Welcome completed as expected. In all cases, X-Mailman-Version: is 2.1.9 or 2.1.12. In all cases, email response to "set show" /is/ received, and shows delivery on and reminders on. I installed mailman (and apache and exim4) on a throw-away virtual machine here, but have not found a way to provoke the problem. (Each subscriber to the test list that I created receives all postings, whether the subscription was via the web interface or mail.) Help! -- StealthMonger <StealthMonger(a)nym.mixmin.net> Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAkyBvoUACgkQDkU5rhlDCl42mACcDcfEv8LGYbSPfSbDTJIhWeCG mn8AoIcFqf1vu3LpE7imLk/IduyoI6vL =QvrB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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checkdbs memory usage at 32%/33% (pretty urgent)
by salsero72 Sept. 4, 2010

Sept. 4, 2010

Hello, my installation of mailman seems to load the server a lot, causing swap usage (at least 50%) And mail do not get delivered to users.. The TOP command shows checkdbs memory usage at 32%/33% always, qrunner at 22% http://gist.github.com/565031 Debian machine Mailman version I think is pretty old. Mailman versione: 2.1.9 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/checkdbs-memory-usage-at-32--33--%28pretty-urgent%29-… Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Plus in email address
by David Lubkin Sept. 3, 2010

Sept. 3, 2010

One of my users has tried to subscribe with an email address with a + in it, for filtering as a subaddress, e.g., Joe Foo <foo+bar(a)goo.com> I have the list set for moderator approval of subscription requests. The request appears in the log but no email is sent to me and the request does not appear in the moderator action queue. I've looked through the wiki and my archives of this list, but I don't see anything pertinent. It should be legit. There are no imposed semantics on local-part in the RFCs, and in my experience mailman developers are sticklers for standards compliance. So I'm confused. The fact that it's + that's the problem is suspicious and makes me think the issue relates to URL (en | de)coding. Apart from the problem itself, will it work if I manually add him to the list, or will other scripts in Mailman have a problem? -- David.

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mailto: vaild
by Dave Foran Sept. 3, 2010

Sept. 3, 2010

DISREGARD Wrong group THis caommand imbedded in a message does not work when clicking on to reply Any thoughts Dave -- Dave Foran Internet ONLY: dave(a)hamnet.org Cruise Missile Coordinates 41.36.978N 81.25.867W -- Dave Foran Internet ONLY: dave(a)hamnet.org Cruise Missile Coordinates 41.36.978N 81.25.867W

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Cannot set digest mode via URL
by W. Curtis Preston Sept. 3, 2010

Sept. 3, 2010

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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