Mailman-Users February 2012

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62 participants
49 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 17 Feb '21

17 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 10 Sep '20

10 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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slow "out" queue
by Anil Jangity 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

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?

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iPhone App for moderating mails
by Manuel Weiel 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello, I don't know if this is appropriate, but I want to share it if someone finds it useful: I have written an app for moderating mails from your mailman lists. You can add multiple lists and get an overview of all the pending moderation requests. The app shows details about every mail like size, preview of the mail and moderation reason and you can approve/reject/discard the mail(s). iMailModerate is available on the AppStore for 0,99$. http://cl.ly/DyCl Best regards, Manuel Weiel

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A list is rejected by email server after migration
by Frank Bell 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

After an upgrade last night all our lists can send email except one. It is rejected by the smtp server it says that address does not exist. The mailman page for the list exists, the mbox file exists Any thoughts on what went wrong and how to fix it? (just happens to be the iss-directors list) -- Thank you, Frank Bell Application Systems Admin ISS 785-670-2334 1 Cor 15:10 "By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . .."

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Files that contain the hostname?
by Rosenbaum, Larry M. 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Are there any Mailman files that contain the hostname other than list-specific files and mm_cfg.py? Thanks, Larry M. Rosenbaum Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Subscribing or accepting badly formatted email address
by John Elliot 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

I have a log distribution mailing list that receives email from various processes. One of the processes identifies itself as root@charity. I'm having a problem with SpamAssassin deciding that some of the mail from root@charity is spam, but I want mailman to accept mail from root@charity. I tried subscribing root@charity to the list so that it would get its 'member bonus' in the spam filtering system which would pretty much guarantee that it wouldn't get classed as spam but mailman won't let me subscribe the email address root@charity because it says it's a badly formed email address. Similarly I tried adding root@charity to accept_the_nonmembers in the sender filters section but again my settings wouldn't be accepted because mailman complained of a badly formed email address. I'm not sure that I can reconfigure the email address that the email gets sent from (and I know for sure I don't want to have to) so I'm wondering if someone could give me a tip about how I might get mailman to accept email from this badly formed sender address?

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Group mismatch error (mail wrapper script)
by Rosenbaum, Larry M. 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

I'm migrating Mailman to a new server and getting the following error when I send mail to a list: #5.3.0 x-unix; Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as one of the following groups: [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody, daemon], but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "users". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups: [mail, postfix, mailman, nobody, daemon], or re-run configure providing the command line option: '--with-mail-gid=users'.> Where do I need to look for the error? Running Mailman 2.1.14 on RHEL6 with Postfix. Larry M. Rosenbaum Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Prepending previous message text to current message
by Atkins, Brian CTR 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

I am having an issue with one of my more active lists whereby the previous message text is being prepended to the latest message. The odd thing is that the message, as it appears in the list archives is as it should be, though the message sent to the subscribers appears as thus: "This is the previous message sent." "This is the latest message." "List footer." The only anomaly I found with the list was a member with a malformed email address, "#user(a)domain.com". I have since removed the user yet messages continue to appear as I have described. On a related side note: is there a way to easily switch the nomail option for all list subscribers? This would greatly assist me in testing the issue without inundating the subscribers with test messages. Normally I would create a new list for testing, but since this is the only list that appears to have the issue, I need to test against this one. TIA. Brian

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Link to web archive in footer
by John Elliot 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi there. I'm trying to configure my mailman msg_footer so that it includes a link to the pipermail message stored in the web archive. So that if I'm looking at a message in my inbox I can easily find a link to refer to that message. I've read the documentation concerning msg_footer but it only lists real_name, list_name, host_name, web_page_url, description, info and cgiext as available variables -- though I have learned there are in fact more than this available I do not know what they are or if they will help me. If there's no such variables available for the construction of a link to the list's web archive then I'd be interested in having a go at patching mailman so that such variables were in fact available in the environment, but I know next to nothing about programming in python so that might be a bit of a challenge for me (or not even possible for some technical reason, such as the email being sent before it is placed in the web archive and given and ID). Thanks in advance for any help on this. John.

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