Mailman 3 November 2012 - Mailman-Users

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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MM-2.1.15: Small bug regarding the "request forgery check"
by Ralf Hildebrandt 12 May '14

12 May '14

Today I check the subscribers list ("Membership Management... Section") on one of our lists and called up the legend using "Click here to include the legend for this table." After clicking on that link, the page did indeed display the legend, but the page now starts with: Error: The form lifetime has expired. (request forgery check) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de Campus Benjamin Franklin http://www.charite.de Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin Geschäftsbereich IT, Abt. Netzwerk fon: +49-30-450.570.155

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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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Automated Subscription Bots Inundating List Owners With Subscription Requests
by Petersen, Kirsten J - NET 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

Gary, et al: The Mailman lists at Oregon State University have been receiving excessive request for subscriptions since mid-October as well. Our list administrators were suspicious because often the names on the requests did not match the email addresses. Also, many lists that had been defunct for years were receiving requests, too. I spent some time trying to figure out what the lists that were being hit had in common. Not all of the lists receiving requests were advertised on the listinfo page. Today I realized that all of the lists involved in this attack have their subscribe_policy set to just "require approval" rather "confirm" or "confirm and approve". So I think the theory that spammers were just trying to get on the lists to harvest member addresses is probably correct. My folks are beating down my door for a solution, too, and I can't think of a good one. We host lists for the international community, so any measure I take that makes it harder for external people to subscribe will negatively impact intended use. I am going to advise my list admins to enable confirmation, which should discourage these attempts. It also occurred to me that I could write a script to monitor the vette log and purge requests that look suspicious - mainly based on the same email address attempting to subscribe to multiple unrelated lists at the same time. If anyone else has any bright ideas about this problem, I would love to hear it. -Kirsten Petersen Network Services, Oregon State University http://oregonstate.edu/is/services/network-services net(a)oregonstate.edu<mailto:net@oregonstate.edu> (7-HELP, option 2) itconsult(a)oregonstate.edu<mailto:itconsult@oregonstate.edu> (7-4710)

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Mailman needs 20 seconds to complete per email
by Karsten Becker 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

Hi there, I'm running an Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) with the repository mailman in version > ii mailman 1:2.1.13-1ubuntu0.2 Powerful, web-based mailing list manager Everything is running fine, so emails arriving at postfix get transfered nearby immediate towards mailman and vice-versa. I'm running Mailman in a multi-domain-MySQL-based setup, as we have to run a lot of different domains in our company. But as said above, this all works. The problem is, that if Mailman gets an email from Postfix, it sits down and does "something" for roundabout 20 seconds. Then it sends out the emails towards Postfix, and Postfix delivers. For normal mailing list operation this is not a problem as it sends out one bulk email out to Postfix - but when I do a mass subscription of for example 100 people, Mailman will start to send out the personalized welcome emails one after another - and will also need 20 seconds per email. So it takes 100x 20 seconds = 2000 seconds = 33 minutes till everybody gets his/her welcome email. Is this usual behaviour of Mailman to do "something" that long? The server is a powerful one with plenty of GHz and RAM. What the hell could this "something" be? :-) Following you will find my configuration file and the smtp log of mailman: /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py: > from Defaults import * > MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman' > DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' > PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private' > IMAGE_LOGOS = '/mailman/images/mailman/' > SHORTCUT_ICON = 'favicon.ico' > DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.mycompany.eu' > DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.mycompany.eu' > add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) > DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en' > USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER = 0 # Still used? > DEFAULT_SEND_REMINDERS = 0 > MTA='Postfix' > SMTPHOST = 'localhost' > SMTPPORT = 10030 > POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['lists.mycompany.eu', 'lists.myothercompany.org', 'lists.mythirdcompany.eu'] > add_virtualhost('lists.myothercompany.org', 'lists.myothercompany.org') > add_virtualhost('lists.mythirdcompany.eu', 'lists.mythirdcompany.eu') > DEB_LISTMASTER = 'postmaster(a)mycompany.eu' > DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_PRIVATE = 1 > MEMBER_PASSWORD_LENGTH = 15 > ADMIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH = 20 > DEFAULT_LIST_ADVERTISED = No > DEFAULT_MAX_NUM_RECIPIENTS = 10 > DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE = 250 # KB > DEFAULT_MAX_DAYS_TO_HOLD = 7 > DEFAULT_GENERIC_NONMEMBER_ACTION = 2 > DEFAULT_SUBSCRIBE_POLICY = 3 /var/log/mailman/smtp > Nov 27 08:00:22 2012 (10393) <mailman.0.1353999601.22399.carbonmarkets(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to carbonmarkets for 1 recips, completed in 21.021 seconds > Nov 27 08:00:43 2012 (10393) <mailman.1.1353999601.22399.agriculture(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to agriculture for 1 recips, completed in 21.013 seconds > Nov 27 08:01:04 2012 (10393) <mailman.2.1353999601.22399.wimix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to wimix for 1 recips, completed in 21.007 seconds > Nov 27 08:01:25 2012 (10393) <mailman.3.1353999601.22399.out-of-pfalzburger(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to out-of-pfalzburger for 1 recips, completed in 21.006 seconds > Nov 27 08:01:46 2012 (10393) <mailman.4.1353999601.22399.confix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to confix for 1 recips, completed in 21.018 seconds > Nov 27 08:02:07 2012 (10393) <mailman.5.1353999601.22399.energy(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to energy for 1 recips, completed in 21.006 seconds > Nov 27 08:02:28 2012 (10393) <mailman.6.1353999601.22399.china(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to china for 1 recips, completed in 21.008 seconds > Nov 27 08:02:49 2012 (10393) <mailman.0.1353999601.22399.carbonmarkets(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to carbonmarkets for 2 recips, completed in 21.007 seconds > Nov 27 08:03:10 2012 (10393) <mailman.1.1353999601.22399.agriculture(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to agriculture for 3 recips, completed in 21.005 seconds > Nov 27 08:03:31 2012 (10393) <mailman.2.1353999601.22399.wimix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to wimix for 2 recips, completed in 21.007 seconds > Nov 27 08:04:13 2012 (10393) <mailman.4.1353999601.22399.confix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to confix for 2 recips, completed in 21.011 seconds > Nov 27 08:04:34 2012 (10393) <mailman.5.1353999601.22399.energy(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to energy for 2 recips, completed in 21.007 seconds > Nov 27 08:04:55 2012 (10393) <mailman.6.1353999601.22399.china(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to china for 2 recips, completed in 21.006 seconds > Nov 27 09:01:20 2012 (10393) <50B47339.6040405(a)mycompany.eu> smtp to energy for 61 recips, completed in 21.124 seconds > Nov 27 09:18:43 2012 (10393) <50B4774C.1030707(a)mycompany.eu> smtp to berlinix for 101 recips, completed in 21.126 seconds > Nov 27 09:51:29 2012 (10393) <mailman.0.1354006267.31674.china(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to china for 1 recips, completed in 21.022 seconds > Nov 27 10:27:04 2012 (10393) <mailman.0.1354008402.6430.carbonmarkets(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to carbonmarkets for 1 recips, completed in 21.029 seconds > Nov 27 10:27:25 2012 (10393) <mailman.1.1354008402.6430.carbonmarkets(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to carbonmarkets for 1 recips, completed in 21.004 seconds > Nov 27 10:33:09 2012 (10393) <mailman.0.1354008767.9391.energy(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to energy for 1 recips, completed in 21.022 seconds > Nov 27 11:45:19 2012 (10393) <mailman.0.1354013097.25318.confix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to confix for 1 recips, completed in 21.023 seconds > Nov 27 11:49:32 2012 (10393) <mailman.14.1354013350.10391.confix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to confix for 1 recips, completed in 21.018 seconds > Nov 27 11:49:54 2012 (10393) <mailman.16.1354013350.10391.confix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to confix for 1 recips, completed in 21.815 seconds > Nov 27 11:50:18 2012 (10393) <mailman.16.1354013350.10391.confix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to confix for 2 recips, completed in 21.391 seconds > Nov 27 12:20:17 2012 (10393) <mailman.0.1354015196.1021.confix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to confix for 1 recips, completed in 21.015 seconds > Nov 27 12:21:05 2012 (10393) <mailman.0.1354015243.1152.wimix(a)lists.mycompany.eu> smtp to wimix for 1 recips, completed in 21.001 seconds > Nov 27 12:40:52 2012 (10393) <50B4A6AD.40705(a)mycompany.eu> smtp to ecologix for 123 recips, completed in 21.235 seconds Regards Karsten

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Reply-to and subscribing
by dries annaert 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

I've setup the dreamhost implementation of mailman succesfully but I'm facing a problem with the subscriptions. What I want to try is to manage (un-)subscriptions through a drupal website where (if the name of the list is checked) a mail is being sent to the list-join address of the list. However, to avoid being marked as spam by dreamhost, I have to sent the message with the actual subscribing address in the reply-to field. However, I can't find if it's possible (and if so, how?) to look into the reply-to field for (un-)subscriptions. Anyone has an idea if and how this can be done? Best regards, Dries

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Content Filtering
by Roger Richmond 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

I have had a problem with Mailman stripping out MS Word documents, and have partially solved it by adding "application/msword" to the pass mime types section. However, Mailman still strips out documents created in Office 2007 and later, with the .docx extension. Any ideas how I can allow these please? My pass mime types are: multipart text text/html text/plain image application/pdf application/msword My filter filename extensions are : exe bat cmd com pif scr vbs cpl Collapse alternatives and convert html to plain text are both set to yes. Many thanks, Roger Richmond

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sitemap.xml for Mailman
by Tomasz Chmielewski 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hi, I wrote a simple bash script which generates a sitemap.xml file (i.e. to be submitted to Google): http://blog.wpkg.org/2012/11/21/sitemap-xml-for-mailman/ My rationale was: why the heck is my archive lacking so many posts in google, and is generally "behind" all other archives. -- Tomasz Chmielewski

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NNTP Mass catch up
by thufir 19 Nov '12

19 Nov '12

In the Mail<->News gateways Section for my "alpha" list I clicked the box for a mass catchup. The news server is the same machine, so I entered localhost. (I'm running leafnode.) I do see NNTP in the cron script for mailman, so I uncommented that: root@dur:~# root@dur:~# cat /etc/cron.d/mailman | grep gate_news */5 * * * * list [ -x /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news ] && /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news root@dur:~# How do I know the results of the mass catch up? It seems to have worked: root@dur:~# root@dur:~# nl /var/log/mailman/fromusenet 1 Nov 19 09:40:02 2012 (3035) alpha: [2..8718] 2 Nov 19 09:40:02 2012 (3035) alpha caught up to article 8718 3 Nov 19 09:40:02 2012 (3035) alpha watermark: 8718 root@dur:~# only I don't see any such articles actually in the list. Mails to the list (it's only me subscribed) seem to work fine. root@dur:~# root@dur:~# nl /var/log/mailman/post 1 Nov 19 01:30:04 2012 (13366) post to alpha from alpha-request(a)dur.bounceme.net, size=1646, message-id=<mailman.0.1353317401.13682.alpha(a)dur.bounceme.net>, 1 failures 2 Nov 19 02:13:29 2012 (13366) post to alpha from thufir(a)dur.bounceme.net, size=1499, message-id=<1353320001.13556.0@dur>, success 3 Nov 19 02:24:18 2012 (13366) post to alpha from thufir(a)dur.bounceme.net, size=1850, message-id=<1353320657.13556.2@dur>, success 4 Nov 19 09:31:54 2012 (1413) post to alpha from thufir(a)dur.bounceme.net, size=1523, message-id=<1353346312.2541.0@dur>, success root@dur:~# and come through fine. I can read and post to the list, but the archives are empty and the NNTP messages are in limbo. thanks, Thufir

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