Mailman 3 October 2011 - Mailman-Users

spam filtering messages containing certain 8 bit characters
by William Yardley Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

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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Group mismatch returns.
by Bill Christensen Oct. 12, 2011

Oct. 12, 2011

Recent upgrade borked my setup. Group Mismatch error once again, and adding the configure line --with-mail-gid=staff and removing the line --with-mail-gid=${mmgroup} as suggested doesn't fix it. What to do? How can I keep this from happening whenever I do a major upgrade/reinstall on my server?

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Setting defaults for new mailing lists
by C. Marcera Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

Is it possible to change the default settings for new mailing lists when you create them? For example, whenever I create new lists, send_welcome_msg and send_goodbye_msg are on by default. For our internal purposes, I don't want/need those messages going out so I keep turning them off. I've forgotten once or twice and that leads to "What's this email mean?". Is there a way to make the default setting Off instead of On? Thanks in advance. -------------------- Chris Marcera System Administrator Press Enterprise, Inc. Phone: 888.231.9767 x1352 Fax: 570.784.3057 E-Mail: chris.marcera(a)pressenterprise.net

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Digest Delivery question...
by Chuck Johnson Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

Greetings, I am curious if anyone has found a way to specify the time(s) that the digest message is sent rather than depending upon a size condition being met? I'm thinking that it can be done via a cron job and a mailman command, but I'm not familiar enough with the mailman specific commands to know if it is possible or not. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Chuck Chuck Johnson Academic Software Specialist Simpson College Indianola, Iowa direct: 515-961-1866 * optional: 515-961-1681 www.simpson.edu

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missing post for moderation
by Andrew Watson Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

I have a list which has been functioning fine for many years. This morning I found a standard email to me, as moderator, asking that I authorize a posting. The "Date" field says it was sent 6 hours ago. When I go to the administrative page, no message appears for my approval. If I test the system by sending a new message, it does appear in my moderator queue, so otherwise the list appears to be working fine. How can this happen, and is there some way to find the missing message, or should I just chalk it up to the mysteries of mailman, and ask the poster to send again? -Andrew

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Invisible message for approval
by Narcis Garcia - GiLUG Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

Hello everybody and thanks for this helping tool. I administer one list and had a "pending for approval" message on Sun Aug 14 21:11:08 2011 , but after several days I discarded it and no mode appeared in the admindb page. But now I receive every morning an automated message with "The xxx mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for your consideration", while there is'nt any retained message in the admindb page. How can I effectively clean the moderation spool? It's Mailman 2.1.13 on Ubuntu 10.04.2 Thanks.

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problem with Mailman on Mac OS X Snow Leopard client
by Graham Young Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

Mail generated by Mailman hangs in my dedicated, on-board MTA's queue unless I remove a certain bit of custom Postfix configuration that I entered following instructions kindly posted here by one Larry Stone. The instruction in question are those for building Mailman on above platform directly from code downloaded from a source referenced on list.org and the configuration in question is one involving alias maps. Everything about this build of Mailman seems to be working fine. I can create lists and add or remove members. New members receive the expected mail--but here's the catch: only if I remove the above mentioned bit of custom Postscript configuration. I came to suspect this bit of custom Postscript configuration exactly because Postfix reported an error involving it. Therefore I removed the bit of custom Postscript configuration to see if the queue would clear and it did. Everyone got their mail. However and of course, I question whether I can just remove this bit of custom Postscript configuration without consequences. Mailman-users may seem unlikely as a place to inquire about this; but, again, the instruction to use this bit of custom Postfix configuration came from a poster to this list whose particular posting is cited on list.org as authoritative. I am running Mailman on an Intel Mac mini with the client version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard installed. I will gladly post more details about my platform although I am not sure what might be needed. The bit of custom Postfix configuration that I've experimented with removing is exactly as follows: "hash:/etc/postfix/aliases" The context in which this bit is supposed to appear is as follows: "alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases". I just remove the bit, leaving: "alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases". Again, with just this as remnant of my custom Postscript configuration, Mailman-generated mail gets sent. The error message that Postfix repeatedly issues when I don't have the suspect portion of this bit of custom Postscript configuration removed is as follows: "Oct 10 21:10:05 email postfix/local[75578]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/aliases.db: No such file or directory Oct 10 21:10:06 email postfix/master[141]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/local pid 75578 exit status 1 Oct 10 21:10:06 email postfix/master[141]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 10 21:11:06 email postfix/local[75583]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/aliases.db: No such file or directory Oct 10 21:11:07 email postfix/master[141]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/local pid 75583 exit status 1 Oct 10 21:11:07 email postfix/master[141]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 10 21:12:07 email postfix/local[75584]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/aliases.db: No such file or directory Oct 10 21:12:08 email postfix/master[141]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/local pid 75584 exit status 1 Oct 10 21:12:08 email postfix/master[141]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 10 21:13:08 email postfix/local[75593]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/aliases.db: No such file or directory Oct 10 21:13:09 email postfix/master[141]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/local pid 75593 exit status 1 Oct 10 21:13:09 email postfix/master[141]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling" One can see why I investigated Postscript alias maps upon seeing these log entries. I obviously don't understand them, though. Finally, inasmuch as it may be relevant, I next post feedback that I get from a certain "postconf" command, specifically "postconf alias_maps": "alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases" Seeing this as the feedback to said command, makes we wonder: Wouldn't the correct feedback here include reference to Mailman's own "aliases" file given what remains of my custom Postscript configuration? Anyway, something is certainly wrong. Assistance, if offered, will be much appreciated. Indeed thanks for even reading this since its the first thing I hope for that people read about my problem. Hopefully, I have posted well for starters but i am more than happy to take hints about what else I need to submit. I am a first time poster. Graham

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by Dennis Gray Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

I am running Mailman on a server hosted by GoDaddy using the Plesk control panel. I no longer want to run this and have disabled it using the control panel but it continues to send administrative messages to members of the list. How can I completely disable it? Thanks, Dennis M. Gray Democrats Abroad IT Team Email: dennis_gray(a)democratsabroad.org

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Setup problem with Mailman
by Bill Christensen Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

Hi all, (cross posted to Macports-users and Mailman-users lists, as I'm not sure where the answer to the problem is more likely to come from) I upgraded a server the other day to Mac OS 10.7, and due to a new version of Macports required an uninstall/reinstall of Mailman. As seems to be the usual case, the new Mailman/Fetchmail install needs some tweaks to get it working right - the Dreaded Group Mismatch Error in Mailman, SSL required but configured --without-ssl in Fetchmail, etc... I've fought my way through all of those, but... Currently it's telling me that the location of the MDA, which in the previous Fetchmailrc file was /opt/local/libexec/mailman/mail/mailman and worked fine before the upgrade, is a directory which doesn't exist. And that's true, it doesn't. So, the question is, where did it move to? Where *should* Fetchmail be told that the Mailman MDA is? Thanks for relieving my frustration.

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Mailman admindb using http instead of https in form action
by C. Marcera Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

My OS X Server is using mailman v2.1.14. Because we're using/forcing https on all pages on this server, I am unable to submit some forms in the mailman admin pages (so far specifically the "Tend to pending" page). The form action is to "http://myservername" instead of "https://myservername". Is there a setting for this somewhere or a .py file I can make an edit in? Thanks in advance. -------------------- Chris Marcera System Administrator Press Enterprise, Inc. Phone: 888.231.9767 x1352 Fax: 570.784.3057 E-Mail: chris.marcera(a)pressenterprise.net

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