Mailman-Users October 2012

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47 participants
43 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

8 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

1 year, 1 month

Simplified mailman installation setup for corporate internal list server

by Sriram Karra

Hi, I am exploring deploying a simple mailman setup for the small company I work at. By simplified I mean the following: 1. All users are authenticated already using a single sign on. No password should be required for any activity. 2. Any user should be able to create lists (only owners can administer lists). We will still have private and public lists. 3. A user on logon should be able to manage her subscriptions using a simple "on/off" click, without per-list passwords, or confirmation emails and stuff. Another way to put it is I want a "/mailman/userinfo" script in addition to the /mailman/listinfo interface. I am quite sure someone else has also thought of this sort of a deployment. Is there any code or customization sample I can look and explore. If no such instances are known, what do you think is the best way for me to start exploring my own implementation. I can hack a little python. Regards, Karra

8 years, 10 months

Download pipermail archives, convert to mbox file (script)

by John Magolske

Hi, Sometimes before subscribing to a list I like to download the archives and convert them into an mbox file for nice threaded browsing & searching using familiar tools (for me, Mutt and mairix). Not finding an automated way to do this [1], I put together the following shell script. Simple & rough, but seems to do the job: #!/bin/sh # automated retrieval of pipermail archives & conversion to mbox file # Last edit: 2012/10/09 Tue 23:16 PDT listname=$(echo "$1" | sed 's:^$http.*$/$[^/]*$/$:\2:') cd /tmp wget -r -l 1 -nH -A *.txt.gz "$1" touch /tmp/pipermail/$listname/$listname.mbox chmod 600 /tmp/pipermail/$listname/$listname.mbox cd /tmp/pipermail/$listname for f in $(ls |sort) do zcat $f | iconv -f iso8859-15 -t utf-8 | sed 's/$^From.*$\ at\ /\1@/' >> "$listname.mbox" done rm /tmp/pipermail/$listname/*.gz mutt -f /tmp/pipermail/$listname/$listname.mbox I call this script piperget, and by doing: piperget http://example.tld/pipermail/somelistname/ the file /tmp/pipermail/somelistname.mbox is created and opened by mutt. If I like what I see, I move the mbox file to an appropriate location in my Mail directory, subscribe to the list, and filter the list traffic into that mbox. This could be made more robust and tweaked to better suit varying needs. Being able to specify a range of archive dates would be nice. Another thought is to have the option of leaving the last few *.txt.gz files laying around (somewhere other than in /tmp), checking against them to only wget new archives or an archive with a newer time-stamp, then concatenating newer messages onto the existing mbox. A sort of a pseudo-subscription to a list. Repeatedly re-downloading an entire monthly/quarterly archive as it changes would be rather bandwidth-wasteful though, better to subscribe and update the *.mbox via SMTP. Not sure if there's some rsync way to incrementally download only the parts of an archive that've changed... Anyhow, mostly I just use this to catch up on a list at the moment of deciding whether or not to subscribe to it. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome. [1] After writing this script I did find: https://github.com/wesleyd/pipermail-archive-to-maildir Which could be another option for those interested in the maildir format. I prefer mbox for mailing lists. John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

8 years, 11 months

Problem with Administrative requests for Mailing List

by Tim Chesnutt

I have enabled mailing lists under cPanel on my hosting package and am doing my own testing to ensure I understand how it works before inviting other users, and putting the system into service. Everything was going great with all my tests, till I tried sending a few messages to the list from addresses not yet subscribed. I (as List Administrator), received notice that there were posts that needed my authorization to post. When I visited the "Administrative requests for mailing list" page I see all the options, but none of them have any functionality. That is no matter what option or options I select, when I click "Submit All Data" the page cycles, and returns with no change in the message status - no messages get Accepted, no messages get Rejected, no messages get Discarded, and no message is sent back to the author of the post (I have tried all possible combinations to see if there were someway to trigger action from this page, but to no avail. In addition to not being able to administer these posts while signed in as the List Administrator, I note that I also can not cancel these posts from the email address they were originally submitted: When I follow the link to cancel the posting, I am asked for a "confirmation string (i.e. /cookie/) that you received in your email message". There is no confirmation string received in the email system message telling me that my post is awaiting moderation. The Mailman version provided is 2.1.14-1, and the hosting company has been of no use to date in this question as they are unfamiliar with this functionality. (there is another quirk that I mention here in case it is in some manner related, though I think not: While in cPanel, looking under the heading Mailing Lists, the resulting page allows me to set up mailing lists, but for some reason the "modify" link with each mailing list does not take me to the Mailing List Administration page but to a broken link. I had not worried about this lack of convenience as I can enter directly) Thank you, Tim. -- Do something EPIC today! Tim Chesnutt Race Director Subaru EPIC Dartmouth June 30th, 2013 - Three Great Races, One EPIC Day! AQUA Dartmouth - 3.8k / 180k / 300m EPIC Dartmouth - 3.8k / 180k / 21.1k IRON Dartmouth - 3.8k / 180k / 42.2k www.EpicDartmouth.com

8 years, 11 months

Re: [Mailman-Users] mailan and postfix config problems

by soportek

On 10/30/2012 10:12 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > soportek wrote: >> >> Unfortunately after fixing the error and restarting postfix it still >> doesn't write any data to /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman > > > Did you run bin/genaliases after fixing POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS? > That was it. I forgot to run genaliases again. It is all working fine now. > > If it were required, you'd need to run genaliases after running fix_url. > > Also, is there some reason other than oversight that you didn't reply > on list? > Just oversight. Thank you for your help and patience.

8 years, 11 months

I did not submit a request to unsubscribe from mailman-users

by Kalbfleisch, Gary

I received three unsubscribe confirmations over night. I did not initiate these. The source IP's resolve to India and Sri Lanka. Is it just me or is this happening to other subscribers? -- Gary Kalbfleisch -- Director of Technology Support Services -- Shoreline Community College -- (206) 546-5813 -- (206) 546-6943 Fax

8 years, 11 months

mailan and postfix config problems

by soportek

I am migrating mailman lists from somedomain.org to lists.somedomain.org I can create new lists for lists.somedomain.org and receive mail from the list but sending mail to lists.somedomain.org results in " Recipient address rejected: User unknown;" I know this is postfix related but I am follwing the postfix config INSTALL instructions from /var/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py and I have edited... /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/master.cf /etc/postfix/transport /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py ..as per those instructions. I have also read these guides which provide more or less identical instructions. http://wiki.debian.org/Postfix#Mailman_with_Postfix http://library.linode.com/email/mailman/debian-6-squeeze The relevant section of my /etc/postfix/main.cf looks like this alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps, proxy:unix:passwd.byname relay_domains = $mydestination, lists.somedomain.org relay_recipient_maps = hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1 Something I find odd is that with the above config is that when I create a new list nothing is being written to the file: /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman I understood that should happen automatically.

8 years, 11 months

list of subcriber diggest

by Jesus Rivas

Hi, there are any way to get list of subscriber digests? regards Sistemas ---------------------- Evangelización Activa Comunicación Digital al Servicio del Evangelio www.evangelizacion.org.mx 8347-5438 y 8123-1293

8 years, 11 months

Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests

by Kalbfleisch, Gary

For the past couple days my Mailman server has been hammered with automated subscription requests. I've always seen a few here and there but nothing like this. Thousands of them, exploiting the web interface and replying to confirmation email messages. Many of our lists were open subscription and so some got through. Not a lot though. What's most annoying is that list owners are being inundated with confirmation request messages, and you cannot delete them all at once on the "Tend to pending moderator requests" screen. You have to select "Discard" for each of them individually. I don't know if this has been changed yet. I am running 2.1.9 because that is the latest version available from Redhat as a package. I had to block access to the web interface from off site at our router to stop the deluge of messages. I have seen this starting to occur at some other Mailman sites as well. Anyone else seeing this or have any ideas about how best to handle this? I have it under control for now but it is changing the way we use our lists. -- Gary Kalbfleisch -- Director of Technology Support Services -- Shoreline Community College -- (206) 546-5813 -- (206) 546-6943 Fax

8 years, 11 months