Mailman 3 November 2011 - Mailman-Users

Editing Mailman's text files
by Pete Bell 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hi. I'm a new member of this group but have been running an email list with Mailman for a long time. I am now setting a list up again and want to give a "look and feel" to the list which has more branding of my user group as a whole, and less of a Mailman-feel. I seem to remember that besides editing the public HTML pages, it is possible to edit the text files which Mailman automatically sends out for certain needs (such as 'approve.txt', 'adminsubscribeack.txt', 'invite.txt', and so on). A. Is this still the case? B. If so, where can I find them? (in case they've changed from the ones I have from long ago). C. Where do they need putting, so that Mailman can use them again? It's important that I should tell you that Mailman on my webhosts servers is a "server-wide" installation, and I don't get to edit anything which other clients to their servers need. This would be only for my own use, and as such I need to know where these files go in my own webspace, and how to get Mailman to use them instead of the default ones. I should also say that I have done this before, so unless the facility to do this has been ditched in recent years, I *should* still be able to do it ! Does Mailman perhaps look for these files somewhere in my webspace (which I have to give a specific name), and if it doesn't find them it goes on to find its default versions of these files? Thanks in advance for your help. Pete Bell, UK

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Running two list with same email prefix
by Andrea Cappelli 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi all, I'm running a mail server with Debian Lenny, MTA is Postfix and i will use postfix-to-mailma.py script to run list I would set up Mailman for running mailing list with same email prefix on different domains, obvious with different list names For example we have ml.domain1.com and ml.domain2.net, i would like to have LISTADDRESS LISTNAME tech(a)ml.domain1.com tech-ml.domain1.com tech(a)ml.domain.2.net tech-ml.domain2.net In this way i can have the same address on differente domains and Mailman (my version is 2.1.11) can distinguish between lists because the list name is different. The list name will be also used to access web interface, so we have http://ml.domain1.com/mailman/admin/tech-ml.domain1.com http://ml.domain2.net/mailman/admin/tech-ml.domain2.net Is possible to accomplish this task? Any idea?

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Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Hi, Is there any way to configure Mailman such that, for an announcement-only type list, when a message is sent to the list, the To: shows the member's address, rather than the list address? Some list software allows the ability to hide the list address itself, so that address is not advertised. I couldn't find any configuration specific to that.

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Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 17 Feb '21

17 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 10 Sep '20

10 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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Moderators not getting notifications
by Harvey, Edward 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Ideally, whenever there is any pending moderator request (too many recipients, post by non-member, etc) I would like the moderator to be immediately notified. I have done my best to configure it this way, but it's not working, and I'm not sure what to try next. I have a moderator address entered in both the "owner" and "moderator" fields. I have "admin_immed_notify" = yes. I confirmed it's a valid email address by sending test mail to it. The only thing I can think of is the From address. If it's sending From an invalid name or something, then the recipient spam filter might be rejecting it based on invalid reverse DNS or SPF or something. So ... How can I know From what address the moderator requests will be sent? And any other ideas to figure out what's going wrong? Thanks...

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Mailman + DKIM
by Pablo Arturi 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hello everyone. I have to implement DKIM for every outgoing message from the list. No need for verifying signatures, I would only need to sign the outgoing messages. Do you know of any howto or docs where should I start reading about it? Thank you, Pablo Lionel Arturi Maipú 464 - 1° B - 1006 Capital Federal Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires +5411 5218 4829 parturi(a)bairesweb.com

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/mailman/listinfo page URL gets changed to /mailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomai
by Tim O'Neal 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Colleagues, If I browse to the URL http://mylistserver/mailman/listinfo I get a page not found and the URL gets rewritten into http://mylistserver/mailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman… If I add the trailing slash in my browser as follows http://mylistserver/mailman/listinfo/ I get the listinfo page. I've tried to work around this by in my Apache config to do Alias /mailman/listinfo /myDocumentRoot/mailman/listinfo/ but this only gives me the above result. Also, I've tried using mod_rewrite to add the trailing slash onto the URL, but that still gives me the same result. Anybody have any suggestions??? Not Found The requested URL /mailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfomailman/listinfo was not found on this server. TIA! Tim

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cgi-bin downloading, not running
by Alex Schittko 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

Hey mailman list, I'm using FreeBSD 8 So I'm following this tutorial: http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=18 to set up Mailman with Postfix I installed mailman via ports, but after I configured it in apache and did everything in the tutorial, I go to http://lists.zweis.us/mailman/listinfo and it tries to download the page, instead of excecuting? Can someone guide me in the direction to fix this? I have already added the ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin line in it's virtualhost on apache Much appreciated!

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Rather perplexing set of problems with a new 2.1.14 vhost install on a DirectAdmin box -- and I'm new to Mailman
by Christopher Woods (CustomMade) 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

Hi all, After becoming frustrated with Majordomo I decided to install Mailman on a DirectAdmin box I fell into managing. After some research I found Mark Sapiro's 2.1.14 vhost port (https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/vhost) which includes some fixes and merges of virtual hosting patches to the 2.1.13 base; I followed the instructions on http://projects.ict4schools.nl/public/wiki/linux-alg/Installing_Mailman_on_D irectAdmin and initial install seemed to finish OK. I configured it with the default_email_host of lists.primarydomain.tld and default_url_host of lists.primarydomain.tld (I'm obfuscating all URLs) in mm_cfg.py; I also set up three additional virtualhosts in mm_cfg.py with the add_virtualhost() command, let's call those lists.domain[2-4].tld. I could load the mailman listinfo page -- and after a couple of small fixes to Apache aliases, including realising that running "check_perms -f" on an already-functional installation resets the permissions on "/cgi-bin/" and breaks the install, I thought I was up and running. After checking DNS had refreshed, I could bring up the mailman/listinfo welcome page for all of the domains configured. Having created the mailman list as part of the installation at the command prompt without issue, and received the email as expected, I went straight to the http://lists.domain1.tld virtualhost and set up a new list named 'announce-test' via "http://lists.domain1.tld/mailman/create". This seemed to work ok and threw no errors; however when clicking on the list from the success page, I just got "No such list announce-test(a)domain1.tld". NB that this error message also shows "domain1.tld" and not "lists.domain1.tld" as expected, so it looks like it's ignored the subdomain -- why, I do not know. I then went back to my email and noticed that mailman had sent me an approval email with two attachments: the original "confirm" email and a "gate_news" email, containing the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 293, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 268, in main lock.lock(timeout=0.5) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 243, in lock self.__write() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 422, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.node1.customhost.org.uk.12404.0' The body of the main message reads: As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting: List: mailman(a)lists.primarydomain.tld From: root(a)sub.primarydomain.tld [note -- node1.primarydomain.tld was the Xen subdomain assigned to the CentOS VPS when it was first configured] Subject: Cron <mailman@node1> /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/gate_news Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list At your convenience, visit: http://lists.primarydomain.tld/mailman/admindb/mailman to approve or deny the request. If I then visit http://lists.primarydomain.tld/mailman/admindb/mailman But attempting to log in with any password just shows "Bug in Mailman version 2.1.14 We're sorry, we hit a bug!" and an indication to check tracebacks and the Mailman error logs (which I have done, and can see nothing untoward except this: admin(17706): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(17706): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main admin(17706): main() admin(17706): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 106, in main admin(17706): cgidata.getvalue('adminpw', '')): admin(17706): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 244, in WebAuthenticate admin(17706): print self.MakeCookie(ac, user) admin(17706): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 262, in MakeCookie admin(17706): path = parsed.path admin(17706): AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'path' Calling 'list_lists' from the commandline shows 'announce-test' and 'mailman', as expected. The only thing I haven't done is added the list's aliases yet to the 'aliases' file -- I'm guessing they need to go into /etc/aliases rather than in a DirectAdmin /etc/virtual/<domain> aliases file (which don't currently exist anyway, as the subdomains are only set up as A records in DA's DNS management panel). Finally, tailing /home/mailman/logs/error shows the following when I try to load the announce-test listinfo page: No such list "announce-test(a)domain1.tld": I'm at my wit's end; I feel like I'm so close but I'm still building up my Linux experience and this has gone beyond the scope of my current knowledge. I really don't want to have to revert to Majordomo but I don't honestly know what to look at yet to try and fix these misconfigurations. Any help *greatly* appreciated -- happy to let people examine the system if they so desire, I understand it's difficult chasing bugs without being able to examine specific settings impromptu. Regards Chris

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