Mailman-Users January 2012

mailman-users@python.org

40 participants
40 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

5 months, 1 week

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

10 months, 3 weeks

slow "out" queue

by Anil Jangity

We just moved a very old mailman infrastructure mailman to Solaris and sendmail. It seems, when a message is posted, the "out" directory doesn't seem to clear out fast enough. 1K archive 1K bounces 1K commands 1K in 1K news 403K out 1K retry 1K shunt 1K virgin The size just stays like that forever and slowly decrements. When I look in /var/log/syslog (mail log of sendmail), I see deliveries going through. I do a 'truss' of the OutgoingRunner python process and I see: % truss -p 11997 recv(10, 0x00748454, 8192, 0) (sleeping...) ... % What is it waiting for?

9 years, 4 months

can I use a mailman list address as a (qmail) sender address?

by Stefan P. Wolf (NassRasur.com)

scenario: I run a discussion forum and we have a closed list where the members are the moderators of the forum. Forum users can write to all moderators through this list's address. Let's say the address is mods(a)myforum.mydomain.com Now I would like to be able to create also a *real* mail account with the same address, for SENDING (outgoing mail) only. Each moderator is then able to send mail though this mail account so that the sender of their mails is the (anonymous!) list address mods(a)myforum.mydomain.com -- incoming mail for this address should be ignored by our MTA (qmail) so that mailman correctly takes it. Is this possible and how must mailman and qmail be set up? We are using Plesk but we also have root access if Plesk is not capable of configuring this. Thanks for any help! Best regards, Stefan.

9 years, 5 months

Thoughts about migrating to Mailman instead of Sympa (from Majordomo)

by Geoff Mayes

Hello Mailman gurus, I hope a general question about Mailman's features and future direction (along with some Sympa comparisons) are appropriate for this list. The University of Oregon is migrating away from Majordomo. We decided on Sympa because Mailman sends passwords over email while Sympa provides centralized (e.g. Shibboleth, LDAP, etc) authentication. If Mailman provided a way around the passwords in the clear issue, I'm pretty sure we'd go with Mailman because: - Mailman is more thoroughly used and thus tested (one stat that gets at this is Alexa Traffic Rank: 165,692 vs 749,729 for Sympa) - Mailman is more mature (the max bug ID for mailman in its issue-tracking system is ~913,400; the max bug ID for Sympa is 8,117 and there is still no bug category for Sympa's latest version -- 6.1.7 -- even though it has been out for over 4 months) - Mailman has greater branch stability and code reliability (I noticed that Barry ran a pre-checkin acceptance suite for the Postgres patch for Mailman 3 before he checked it in) - Mailman has a bright and well-documented future (Mailman 3 and its bug tracker, source code, milestones, etc) - Mailman has a more active and supportive community, which is very important in resolving future issues (Mailman had 150 list postings in December and through mid-January while Sympa had 44; I've been impressed with Mark Sapiro's responsiveness on this list) Does anyone know a way around the emailed passwords issue in Mailman, clever hacks, certain plugins, or a timeline for Mailman 3's release? I've written a number of Django apps using my own LDAP module, so I was also wondering if folks think now is a mature-enough time to perhaps grab Mailman 3, its Django front-end, and hack together what I'm after? A final, random question: Mailman 3 is still in alpha, but is it stable given that it's almost been in alpha for 4 years? Many, many thinks for any help, pointers, or information, Geoff Mayes

9 years, 5 months

Hidden address list

by Pierre KUHN

Hello I want to change the configuration of the mailing list so that all messages are sent directly to the recipient, and the name of the mailing list does not appear anywhere in the heads. Is possible now? Sla dan because I find information FAQ from 2006 Cordially Pierre

9 years, 6 months

Mail sent to 2 different mailinglists under one domain fail..

by Nils Kolstein

Hello, As a list administrator for several mailinglists I encounter the following issue: I have two mailinglists under one domain. When sending an E-Mail to both mailinglists the message is only delivered to one mailinglist. I don't recieve a "recipient unknown" message or similar back so it seems the message is blackholed somewhere. This behaviour is seen when mailing from several different domains (gmail, hotmail etc.) The version of Mailman installed is 2.1.9 I checked the FAQ and list archives and was unable to find a similar issue. Does anyone know what's going on? Is there some setting I have to change? Many thanks in adavnce for your help. regards, Nils Kolstein

9 years, 6 months

CSRF prevention in mailman3

by Anil Jangity

Will mailman3 have any security measures in the form submissions to prevent CSRF? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery This is one of our requirements for using mailman. Thanks, Anil

9 years, 6 months

Mailman and delivery of messages

by Mallory S Woods II

Greetings all, I have mailman version 2.1.9 installed in a shared environment. I don't have root access and I can't access the log files. My client has 5000 emails that I have successively imported all of the emails and have done my configuration on mailman. I added a gmail account to the list so that I could test to see if the message had gone through. Two days after I sent the message, I have not seen a sign that the gmail account received the email. There is no message in the spam folder of this account. I wanted to know if there was an easy way of determining if the message reached all of the members. As a side note, I did receive the email message to my account which is not a gmail account. Thanks!

9 years, 6 months

Modify options-login page

by Michele Federle

Hi everybody! I have a problem with the public page "options"; I've already modify the html structure of the page but, first logging in, appears an other page, which asks for password and/or email. My question is: can I change that page, too?? How?? Thanks -- :: Michele Federle :: Twitter: @mikecesure :: Skype: mikecesure

9 years, 6 months