Mailman 3 October 2011 - Mailman-Users

Command line moderation?
by Thomas Gramstad 19 Oct '11

19 Oct '11

Is there a way to: 1. Approve a message to a moderated mailman list from the command line, when logged into the machine on which mailman is installed? 2. Get a list of the subscribers (who password listname-request) from the command line, when logged into the machine on which mailman is installed? (i.e., what is the file name and path of the subscriber file?) This functionality would be useful in the following scenario: You have a time-sensitive posting. You are the list owner. You have access to the machine with Mailman. But: a) The webserver is down, and the person who can restart it is unavailable. b) The webserver has been restarted, but they forgot something, and all the mailman webpages are still inaccessible, and the person(s) who can fix it is unavailable. c) Mailman also doesn't respond to e-mail commands. Thomas Gramstad

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Include archive URL for the current email (in the footer)?
by Sebastian Kayser 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

Hi, this question has been asked before [1]. Mailman can include various list URLs in the footer [2], can it also include a link to the exact archive URL for the current email? Judging by the wishlist, this feature doesn't yet exist [3]. In absence thereof, what do you guys do to determine the archive URL for an email? Background: I often find myself referring people to our Mailman archives when there were previous emails on the topic in question. My current workflow looks like this: 1) Find email in $MUA (mutt in my case) where search is powerful and close to second nature. 2) Use google to find the relevant archive URL (site:$archive "$topic"). The second step feels disconnected and would be redundant if the mail itself had a link to the archived message. Sebastian P.S.: Only found out about the wishlist after re-reading [1]. Would be a good candidate to be included in the mailman-users intro text [4] (next to FAQ and searchable archives). [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg12190.html [2] http://www.gnu.org/s/mailman/mailman-admin/node18.html [3] http://www.gnu.org/s/mailman/todo.html (API between MM and archiver) [4] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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Remove Members waiting for Moderator Approval via Command Line
by Phil 18 Oct '11

18 Oct '11

I'm sorry if this was posted elsewhere - I've been unable to find an answer. I also realized I originated this e-mail from an account not associated with the mailing list. This e-mail is from a subscribed mailman-user account. I'm trying to kill a pending subscription to a mailing list via the command line because the domain owner forgot to register the main domain of our site and we can't approve/deny membership via the web admin interface. I've tried to remove the e-mail address pending approval via the remove_members command and it seem to only react to active and approved members of a mailing list. Is there a way to approve / deny a pending user request via shell? Thanks for the help Phil / w2lie Monitor Long Island, Inc. <http://www.monitorlongisland.com> | W2LIE.net<http://www.w2lie.net>| LongIslandFirePhotos.com <http://www.LongIslandFirePhotos.com> <http://www.w2lie.net/charity>

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Empty emails to the list
by Luke Tymowski 16 Oct '11

16 Oct '11

Hello, We have a problem with email from one user to our list: the body of his email is stripped once Mailman forwards his mail to the list. His very first email to the list, which had to be approved, showed the email body. But once Mailman forwarded it to the list, the body was stripped. Here's what I think is the relevant bit of header and body: ----- MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi Jason, My account has been deactivated. I would appreciate if you direct me to re-activate it. Thanks,Shayan ---- Any ideas? thanks, Luke

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Messages not getting to mailman
by Kudu 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

When I send messages to mailman, they don't seem to be received by it and don't end up in the archives. One example from syslog: Oct 13 08:00:08 techessentials postfix/smtpd[18546]: 5819914DC14: client=localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Oct 13 08:00:08 techessentials postfix/cleanup[18548]: 5819914DC14: message-id=<mailman.0.1318510802.18540.openglobe-l(a)lists.techessentials.org> Oct 13 08:00:08 techessentials postfix/smtpd[18546]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Oct 13 08:00:08 techessentials postfix/qmgr[353]: 5819914DC14: from=<openglobe-l-bounces(a)lists.techessentials.org>, size=2245, nrcpt=1 (queue active)Oct 13 08:00:08 techessentials postfix/smtpd[18546]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Oct 13 08:00:09 techessentials postfix/pipe[18549]: 5819914DC14: to=<openglobe-l-owner(a)lists.techessentials.org>, relay=mailman, delay=0.83, delays=0.18/0.02/0/0.63, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via mailman service) Oct 13 08:00:09 techessentials postfix/qmgr[353]: 5819914DC14: removed How can I fix this? Note: I'm not subscribed to the list, so please keep me CC'd. -- ~ Kudu

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Group mismatch
by Mollatt Ntini 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Dear List, I hope I find you all well. I hope someone can point me in the right direction. I am getting this group mismatch error on my list server: ===== mailman(a)lists.me.com R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport: Child process of mailman_transport transport returned 2 from command: /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman ===== My server specs are as follows: ===== FreeBSD 8.2 Exim 4.76 Python 2.7.2 Mailman 2.1.14 ===== On checking again, I get: ===== /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mail", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "wheel". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mail", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=wheel'. ===== ... and this was after I had recompiled mailman with wheel as the "gid" which it was expecting. Before then it was giving me: ===== Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman other mail daemon", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "wheel". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman other mail daemon", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=wheel'. ===== I am not sure what I am missing. Many thanks, Molla.

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Merging List Administrator with List membership
by Syafril Hermansyah 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hi there, Some of list-name on my list server having more than one List-administrator (List-owner)/List-moderators. The problems are when one of List-owner/list-moderators approve held message, adding/removing members, change list-administrator page password there is no notification to others list-administrators. They are already common with my old list (listar aka ecartis) which the list administrator merging with list member (just have different menu). So some list administrator do easy going to change list-administrator/list-moderators password without notify others [1] How can I merge list adminitrator page with list member page on mailman? [1] I don't know why if one list-administrator change the password there is no notification to others list-administrator, is the default install doing like that? -- syafril ------- Syafril Hermansyah

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Integrating mailman with postfix, using virtual domains
by Nick Bright 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

I'm sure this has been covered many times; however nothing I've found so far in the mailing list archives has alleviated this problem. I've followed the mailman documentation for integrating mailman with postfix, according to http://www.list.org/mailman-install/postfix-virtual.html as well as various mailing list posts on this list. Note that I am attempting to configure a virtual_mailbox_domain with mailman (not a virtual_alias_domain). mm_cfg.py contains: POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['valnet.net'] MTA = 'Postfix' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mail.valnet.net' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'valnet.net' VIRTUAL_MAILMAN_LOCAL_DOMAIN = 'valnet.net' A mailing list was created with the newlist, which created /etc/mailman/aliases and /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman (and their associated db files). I've added /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman to my virtual_alias_maps, and added /etc/mailman/aliases to my alias_maps and alias_database in main.cf: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mailman/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mailman/aliases virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/mailman/virtual-mailman If I'm reading all of the documentation correctly, that should be all that is necessary to make it work. Unfortunately, when I send an email to testlist(a)valnet.net I receive a bounce back of: <testlist(a)valnet.net>: unknown user: "testlist(a)valnet.net" With an associated postfix log entry of: Oct 10 19:22:47 mail postfix/virtual[22090]: DBF7241F5F: to=<testlist(a)valnet.net>, relay=virtual, delay=0.39, delays=0.36/0/0/0.03, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (unknown user: "testlist(a)valnet.net") When I test the alias maps I see: [root@mail postfix]# postmap -q testlist(a)valnet.net hash:/etc/mailman/virtual-mailman testlist [root@mail postfix]# postmap -q testlist hash:/etc/mailman/aliases "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post testlist" That output *seems* correct, but I don't know if that's really correct or not. In case it's worth noting, the list administrator specified in newlist does receive an email about the list being created. I really think I've just missed something simple in the documentation, but the documentation for how to do this is strung out in so many different places and is a bit difficult to find, that I'm not entirely certain I've read it all. Any tips or things to check would be appreciated. Thanks, Nick

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mailman on localhost
by Pedro Sánchez 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Hi everyone... Im trying to test mailman in my local server (127.0.0.1) whit local user. the problem is that when i'm trying to add a new list whit the email address user@localhost mailman not allow me to do that or if i put a valid email address like user(a)domain.com mailman give an error when i'm trying to add local user to the list , local users has a emal address like this user@localhost some clue? Thank you

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spam filtering messages containing certain 8 bit characters
by William Yardley 13 Oct '11

13 Oct '11

Does Mailman base64 decode the subject before applying a regex, and if so, can I use UTF-8 character names in the regex to match various types of 8-bit characters? Say, for example, that I want to block messages with "电话卡" somewhere in the subject line. Obviously, the actual raw Subject header will be more like: Subject: =?GB2312?B?[encoded stuff here]?= Subject: =?utf-8?B?[encoded stuff here]?= I tried putting in a regex to hold messages matching: Subject: .*\u7535\u8bdd\u5361 And that didn't seem to work. As far as I can tell, there is no way to find a substring that will always match when the Subject header is base64 encoded. (Putting in 'Subject: .*电话卡' also does not work).

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