Mailman-Users August 2011

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52 participants
49 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?

by Mal

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

2 weeks, 3 days

Mailman CGI Error-Group mismatch error

by Wang, Mary Y

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

5 months, 3 weeks

migrate mailman to new server

by NIKKurer

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

9 years, 5 months

mailman + mysql

by Klemen Humerca

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]

9 years, 6 months

attachment problem

by Iacopo Torrini

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

9 years, 6 months

Hide Senders IP-Adress (not Email-Adress) when sending mail to list

by Sven Reissmann

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.

9 years, 6 months

Searchable by topic Arvhives for Mailman

by Roy - McNix

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

9 years, 6 months

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digests stop being sent after a few days if the Mailman interface is changed to Japanese

by 菊地時夫

Hi, (11/08/28 16:18), S. Patrick Eaton wrote: > Mark, Kikuchi-san, > > Thank you both for the very thorough and helpful responses! > > I think the approach would be the one that Kikuchi-san describes, but > it seems like that might involve making changes that our host might > not want to make (particularly if it will affect their other users). I > will check with them and see what they can do for us in that area. > > If it turns out that they are unable to upgrade to the > Japanese-enabled version, would changing the character set for English > to UTF-8 be enough to prevent this problem from occurring? I suspect > that might be a bit easier for our host to agree to. In that case, you should apply the second option which hack the mailman or system supplied email/charset.py. In this case you should watch the mailman or system upgrade because it will revert the hack. > > Thanks again for the suggestions! > > Best regards, > > Patrick Eaton > -- 菊地時夫 tokio.kikuchi(a)gmail.com 2011/3/31 をもって高知大学を退職しました。 (旧メールアドレス) tkikuchi(a)is.kochi-u.ac.jp

9 years, 6 months

RSS Feeds

by David Andrews

Is there a way to add RSS feeds to Mailman lists? Dave

9 years, 6 months

Digests stop being sent after a few days if the Mailman interface is changed to Japanese

by S. Patrick Eaton

Hello, everyone. I'm a long-time user of Mailman, but a first-time poster here. Please go easy on me while I get my bearings, okay? I am running a Mailman list for a group of translators who work with the Japanese language (translating either into Japanese or from Japanese into another language), and because most of the subscribers are native speakers of either Japanese or English (although there are speakers of other languages as well) most of the messages posted to this list are in either of those languages, and often they mix both languages in the same message. I've been having a number of problems with the distribution of digest messages that I am hoping someone here can help me with. The first is that, unless the Mailman administrative interface is changed to Japanese, any Japanese characters included in digest messages get changed into question mark characters when the digest is sent out, even if those characters appeared correctly in the message that was sent out to non-digest subscribers. If the interface is changed to Japanese, this does not occur; Japanese characters then appear in the digests the way they should. This, however, inevitably runs into another problem: When the interface is changed to Japanese, the distribution of digests continues for a while, but inevitably it stops at some point and does not resume until the interface is changed back to English, at which point all of the messages that had not been distributed in digests since the last digest was sent get included in the next digest message, which can be quite massive if the digests have not been getting sent out regularly for a while. I've looked through some of the digest-related bugs recorded at Launchpad, and these give me the impression that this sort of problem (if not this exact issue) is not entirely unknown to the developers, and there may even be a solution of some sort already, but I have not yet found it. If my understanding of the problem is correct, it seems like some non-standard characters that are included in some inbound messages cause problems for the process handling the digests, which for some reason does not recover if it encounters such problems, unless it is somehow manually reset (such as when the interface language changes, as described above). I know that most of the messages sent to the list are encoded as either UTF-8 or ISO-2022-JP, but I don't really know which characters might be causing the digests to get clogged up. I have encountered this very same problem in two Mailman installations, one running Mailman 2.1.9 and another running Mailman 2.1.12, on two entirely separate hosted environments, so I am reasonably sure that the problem is specific to Mailman and not to installation or environment-related issues. If anyone has any advice or suggestions (in either English or Japanese!) that might help me solve this problem, I would be very glad to hear them. Although this is the first time I have posted to this list about this, it is a problem that has been occurring for quite some time, so it would be a great relief to be able to get it resolved. With many thanks in advance for your time and consideration, Patrick Eaton

9 years, 6 months