Mailman 3 August 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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migrate mailman to new server
by NIKKurer 08 Sep '11

08 Sep '11

Hello, I have old mail server (rabbit.mydomain.com) and new mail server (newbie.mydomain.com). I need to migrate mailman from old to new server. I used the instructions found in this mailing list: 1. Copied all of /var/lib/mailman/lists/ from the old server to the new one. 2. Fixed the permissions with "chown -R mailman:mailman /var/lib/mailman/lists/" 3. Fixed the urls for the new one with "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url [listname]" for each list. (Only necessary if the new server has a different domain name than the old one - one time I was moving from xcski.com to list.xcski.com and the other time I was keeping the same list.xcski.com url.) 4. Copied all /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/*mbox/*mbox to the new server. 5. Fixed the permissions with "chown -R mailman:mailman /var/lib/mailman/archives/private" 6. Regenerated the archives using "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch [listname]" for each list. Note that if your archives are big, this process can consume all the memory in your system and then some, so you may have to split the mbox files up and regenerate the list archives in peices or use the "--start" and "--end" options to arch. But coming on http://newbie.domain.com/mailman I get to http://rabbit.domain.com/mailman/listinfo Could you help me resolve this problem? -- Best regards Alex Trifonov

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mailman + mysql
by Klemen Humerca 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Hello. I'm trying to make Mailman to work with Mysql database. I followed this instructions: http://goo.gl/QkTso and in mail log this is the last line: postfix/local[13381]: AA4B9B38235: to=<clani(a)xxxxx.xx>, relay=local, delay=0.39, delays=0.02/0.04/0/0.34, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post clani) But emails are not send to list members. If I change it back to "file based db" (remove extend.py) mails are delivered. I'm using Mailman version 2.1.9 on CentOS. There is nothing in the Mailman logs. I can see that queries in mysql are executed and I also tested connection to Mysql from python. Everything works, just mails are not send to members. Can someone help me please? -- Klemen Humerca [www.humerca.com|klemen@humerca.com]

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attachment problem
by Iacopo Torrini 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi everybody, I am using mailman 2.1.10 and I think this is really a godsent application, stable and reliable. I am experiencing a problem though and I am not sure if it has to do with the mail server or if it a mailman bug. I cannot remember exactly when it started, so it is difficult to determine the cause. In all the mailing lists I am running if somebody sends the mail with an attachment, the mail disappears. It is not rejected nor bounced, it seems like it went thru but nothing happens. If I sent a mail w/attachment from a NOTregistered mail, I receive the bounce message (both user and admin) and the mail is there, waiting for approval with its attachment. Once I approve the mail/new user, the mail disappears. It does not even leave track in the progressive numbering in the subject. Desaparecido. I tried to: 1) to disable the content filtering (yes, I always kept it disabled) 2) enable the filtering but erase all file extensions 3) set maximum mail size to 0 4) set maximum mail size to 50000 (attachment was 30K) Still no luck... Mails without attachments are just fine. I would appreciate any advice!!! thanks in advance// iacopo

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Hide Senders IP-Adress (not Email-Adress) when sending mail to list
by Sven Reissmann 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Hi, I am trying to find a solution for filtering the first-senders ip/host information out of an email header. (I am running mailman with postfix). I am already doing the anonymization when sending mail for "normal" users by setting smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header=yes and then using header_checks to replace the part of the header where the users ip address can be found with 127.0.0.1. For mailman I found the anonymous list option, that will hide the email-address of the original sender but not his ip address. What I want to do is leaving the senders email-address in the header but hide the ip-address (or replace it by the list servers address). [The reason for this (in case this raises questions) are the data retention efforts of germany and other countries.] So my questions would be: - Is there a possibility for mailman itself to replace the senders address by lets say the mailservers address (IP not Mail). - If not, is there a possibility to add any extra header information (like the Authenticated-Header i mentioned before) by mailman? I would need some unique string inside the header that can be addressed by my rexular expression. Thanks in advance, Sven.

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Searchable by topic Arvhives for Mailman
by Roy - McNix 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

I am currently using Googlegroups and want to move my group to Mailman. The only thing holding me back is the lack of a good Archive that is searchable by topic or key word. Does anyone have any suggestions what to use to allow my group to do research on old posts with a good easy to search archive? Thanks Roy

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