Mailman 3 October 2012 - Mailman-Users

Editing Mailman's text files
by Pete Bell 07 May '24

07 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 26 Feb '24

26 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 16 Nov '23

16 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 16 Feb '21

16 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 09 Sep '20

09 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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Simplified mailman installation setup for corporate internal list server
by Sriram Karra 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

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

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Download pipermail archives, convert to mbox file (script)
by John Magolske 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

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

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Problem with Administrative requests for Mailing List
by Tim Chesnutt 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

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

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mailan and postfix config problems
by soportek 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

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.

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I did not submit a request to unsubscribe from mailman-users
by Kalbfleisch, Gary 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

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

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