Mailman 3 March 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 27 Feb '24

27 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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inn gateway
by jdd 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Hello :-) I'm a happy mailman user :-). I have only a small problem I don't know how to fix. I use a mailman<->inn gateway. The two software are on the same server. when somebody write on the newsgroup, the post is sent to the list as well. If somebody try to answer _from the list_, the "to" field of the answer have _two_ values, one for the mailing list, the other for the newsgroup. This second one is unusefull and thunderbird do not like it and one have to remoive it by hand to send the answer. below the headers of a mail read on the mailing list and send from the newsgroup. is there something I can do to remove the "Newsgroups: linux-31" in excess? thanks jdd original post (answer headers below): Return-Path: linux-31-bounces(a)culte.org Received: from zimbra65-e11.priv.proxad.net (LHLO zimbra65-e11.priv.proxad.net) (172.20.243.215) by zimbra65-e11.priv.proxad.net with LMTP; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:55:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from savage-reborn.culte.org (mx21-g26.priv.proxad.net [172.20.243.91]) by zimbra65-e11.priv.proxad.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10CE460D473 for <jdanield(a)free.fr>; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:55:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from savage-reborn.culte.org ([82.234.76.241]) by mx1-g20.free.fr (MXproxy) for jdanield(a)free.fr; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:55:09 +0200 (CEST) X-ProXaD-SC: state=HAM score=15 Received: from savage-reborn.culte.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by savage-reborn.culte.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F3140029; Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:55:04 +0200 (CEST) Path: savage-reborn.culte.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.news(a)plouf.fr.eu.org> Newsgroups: linux-31 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:53:35 +0200 Organization: Plouf ! Lines: 16 Message-ID: <jl6nng$je3$1(a)savage-reborn.culte.org> References: <jl55f8$3e8$1(a)savage-reborn.culte.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plouf.fr.eu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: savage-reborn.culte.org 1333191216 19907 213.41.173.35 (31 Mar 2012 10:53:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news(a)culte.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:53:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <jl55f8$3e8$1(a)savage-reborn.culte.org> Xref: savage-reborn.culte.org linux-31:53 To: linux-31(a)culte.org Subject: Re: [Linux-31] champs from??? X-BeenThere: linux-31(a)culte.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: La liste de discussion du CULTe <linux-31.culte.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://culte.org/mailman/options/linux-31>, <mailto:linux-31-request@culte.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://culte.org/pipermail/linux-31> List-Post: <mailto:linux-31@culte.org> List-Help: <mailto:linux-31-request@culte.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://culte.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-31>, <mailto:linux-31-request@culte.org?subject=subscribe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Errors-To: linux-31-bounces(a)culte.org Sender: linux-31-bounces(a)culte.org answer headers: FCC: imap://jdanield@imap.free.fr/Sent X-Identity-Key: id17 Message-ID: <4F76FF1F.9020909(a)free.fr> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:57:03 +0200 From: jdd <jdanield(a)free.fr> X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; DSN=0; uuencode=0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: linux-31 X-Mozilla-News-Host: To: linux-31(a)culte.org Subject: Re: [Linux-31] champs from??? References: <jl55f8$3e8$1(a)savage-reborn.culte.org> <jl6nng$je3$1(a)savage-reborn.culte.org> In-Reply-To: <jl6nng$je3$1(a)savage-reborn.culte.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -- Jean-Daniel Dodin

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Content filtering mail body
by dhanushka ranasinghe 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Hi guys is it possible to filter and reject any mails that have certain words in them Thank You Dhanushka

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Regular expression for Spam Filter wanted
by Sascha Rissel 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Hello all, I am running mailman on Debian/Plesk with a Spam-Filter which prefixes headers of spam mails with "***SPAM***". I tried to filter these mails in mailman using spam filter rule "^Subject:\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*", but that doesn't work. Could you please help me? Thanks, Sascha.

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An ordinary message for the list
by Thomas Gramstad 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Sorry for the meaningless subject, but when I try to post this message with a meaningful subject, such as Subject: How to stop automatic sp?m deletion confirmations? , python.org's sp?m fillter(*) is triggered. Apparently it is not easy to discuss sp?m filltering... (*) Yes, I know the correct spelling of that word. Anyway, my question is: My sp?m fillters trigger "sp?m deletion confirmations" like the one below. I don't want them, I want silent sp?m deletion. How do I turn the confirmations off?? I've looked just about everywhere and I can't find it. Surely it must be possible to stop this? Thomas Gramstad ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:57:41 +0200 From: cc-no-referansegruppe-bounces(a)mailman.kunnskapsallmenning.no To: cc-no-referansegruppe-owner(a)mailman.kunnskapsallmenning.no Subject: Automatisk melding: din epost ble avvist Den vedlagte meldingen er automatisk forkastet.

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Batch Add/Remove Users via Mail
by Leo Hackstein 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hello Mailman-Users! I am tasked to write a script that adds multiple users to a mailing list. The List of users is generated from a different database. Unfortunately, the script will not be running on the same machine as the mailing list is hosted, so as I understand it, I cant use the scripts in "/usr/lib/mailman/bin" (or wherever mailman resides on that machine). Now I thoght I will just send mailman a mail with lines "subscribe $password address=$address" but it seems like $password is in this case the password for the user of $address. So in theory I could write "subscribe address=$address", but I have no idea what exactly will happen then. I myself am not administrator on the mailing list, so I can't experiment. Are the users automatically subscribed to the mailing list, if the mail with the subscribe-statements is sent from a list administrator? How does the administrator authenticate, then? Are all users that get subscribed in that way getting a confirmation mail where they have to approve their subscription? That would be OK, I think. Does the list administrator have to manually approve the subscriptions again, if they are sent with a mail? Are there better ideas? Using the Web Interface is not an option (the web interface is used at the moment, but as we need the script anyway to generate the user list, it would be very convenient if the script could also add the new users automatically). If you know of a script (ideally written in perl) that uses some kind of http agent to access the web interface to add/remove users, that would be cool, too. - Leo Hackstein

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