Mailman 3 March 2012 - Mailman-Users

Problem creating mailing lists via web interface in 2.1.11
by Steve Matzura 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

It works just fine if I log in as root and use newlist, but if I try to create a new list via the web admin interface, two things happen. First, I get an error, whose text I do not have in front of me (I know, I know, first rule of error reporting, report the exact error, but you probably won't need it when I finish my explanation), and second, the aliases file is not updated, so if a subscriber tries to send a message to the list, they receive an auto-reply telling them "user unknown in virtual mailbox table". My question is, why doesn't the web interface create new list feature update the aliases file? Is this a bug or a feature, or is there something I should put into mm_cfg.py to enable this, similar to owners-may-delete-their-own-lists? Thanks in advance.

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Regarding New mailman 3.0 & Postorius...
by Amit Bhatt 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Hello, I have a few questions: What is the differentce between Postorius and Mailman, which one is better? How can we upgrade the Mailman version 2.14 to new 3.0? Regards, Amit Bhatt

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Re: [Mailman-Users] [Mailman-Developers] RELEASED: GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 1 and Postorius 1.0 alpha 1
by Barry Warsaw 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

On Mar 26, 2012, at 04:11 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote: >Great news Barry, but just one thing, I checked now on list.org and the GNU >Mailman website and there is no mention of this release.. is that on purpose? Not really. The server moved recently and my keys hadn't been installed. Looks like they still aren't, so let me ping the admins. -Barry

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Subscribing by Email Command AND Including Name
by Bob Bowers 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Am I missing something? Is it possible to send a subscription request to a mail list WITH the name of the subscriber? This is possible in “Mass Subscription” but I do not see a place to include a name in a command string by email. I would like to have my list open for subscription, however I want the names of subscribers in the list.

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Login problem
by Amit Bhatt 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

I am not been able to login to my admin interface of mailing list: The error I am getting is: Authantication faile. "You must have cookies enabled in your browser" But I am wonderred how I am receiving this message for last couple of days while cookies are already enabled. Regards, Amit Bhatt

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I18n help needed for Mailman 2.1.15 release.
by Mark Sapiro 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Now that Mailman 3 is in beta, I would like to spend more time working on it. To that end, I am planning to release Mailman 2.1.15 soon. This release fixes quite a few bugs and adds some needed new features. See the NEWS file at <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/view/head:/NEWS> for details. This release contains several new message strings and a template modification, none of which have been translated. So, if you are a language champion or just an interested user or anything between, I need your help. There is a new feature to request a password reminder from the private archive login page. This necessitated an addition to templates/<language>/private.html. I have added the new information to all the templates, but it is in English. If you can help translate this into your language, get the private.html template from your language directory at <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/files/head:/templat…>, and send me a translated template. Also, all the message catalogs have been merged from the new mailman.pot and there are fuzzy translations and untranslated strings as a result. If you can help with fixing these, get the current LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po file from your language directory at <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/files/head:/message…> and send me an updated version. If you can help with this, please do it before the end of April. If you want to help but aren't sure what to do, let me know and I'll try to help you. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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RELEASED: GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 1 and Postorius 1.0 alpha 1
by Barry Warsaw 24 Mar '12

24 Mar '12

Hello Mailman enthusiasts! Use the key, unlock the door See what your fate might have in store... Building on the excitement and amazing progress at our sprints at Pycon 2012, I am very happy to announce the availability of GNU Mailman 3.0 beta 1, code named "The Twilight Zone". After nearly four years of design, discussion, and development, we can now see a clear path to a final release. I thank everyone who has helped us get here, by participating on the mailman-developers mailing list, the bug tracker, in private conversations, and code contributions, both to Mailman itself and all the great projects it builds on. Special thanks go to our recent sprinters, Andrea Crotti, Florian Fuchs, Toshio Kuratomi, Daniel Mizyrycki, Terri Oda, Mark Sapiro, and Stephen Turnbull. While you do want to be careful using 3.0b1 in production, I hope that you will get a copy of the code and run it through its paces. Several people are known to be running real mailing lists using the code base. At this point, the feature set is frozen, as is the database schema. We'll use the schema migration machinery to do any schema changes from here to the final release. I'm also ecstatic to announce the first alpha release of Postorius, our new official name for the Django-based Mailman 3 web user interface. The name was suggested by core developer Florian Fuchs in honor of a bass hero of both of ours, Jaco Pastorius. Postorius 1.0 alpha 1 is code named "Space Farm". Postorius is in large part based on the great work of Anna Senarclens de Grancy and Benedict Stein who worked on a new Mailman web ui during their Google Summer of Code projects in 2010 and 2011. This alpha version connects to Mailman 3.0's REST API to add and edit lists and domains, as well as to moderate messages. It uses Django's auth app and Mozilla's BrowserID for authentication (a list of the current features is contained in the NEWS file of the package). Apart from the current state there are many more ideas left for the upcoming releases. There is a great team working on the web ui as well as on a new archiver, so stay tuned, and come join us! You can download GNU Mailman 3.0b1 from Launchpad or the Python Cheeseshop: https://launchpad.net/mailman http://pypi.python.org/pypi/mailman Postorius 1.0a1 is available from Launchpad and Cheeseshop as well: https://launchpad.net/postorius http://pypi.python.org/pypi/postorius The GNU Mailman documentation is available online at: http://packages.python.org/mailman/ You can submit bug reports to GNU Mailman and Postorius at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman https://bugs.launchpad.net/postorius GNU Mailman and Postorius are released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. Enjoy! -Barry (On behalf of the entire GNU Mailman development team)

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removing a mailman list.
by Michael Capelle 24 Mar '12

24 Mar '12

Hello. We are using mailman version 2.1.11. where is the rmlist file? or, can someone give me instructions on how to remove a list?

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mailing llist restoration
by Amit Bhatt 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Dear associates, I have shifted my current web account to a new server. i had taken a full backup of the data. When the service provider moved our account to new server, what I have seen that the name of the mailing list is shown but when I am trying to enter in the list or trying to access my admin panel, it is showing like no mailman mailing list publically advertised on sayeverything@sayeverything does it mean that we have lost our mailing list and it's entire data? Can we retrieve at least some data like members or subscribers name so we can put them in the new record? How can we restore our old mailing list. Any help in the above matter would be highly appreciated. Regards, Amit Bhatt

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problem with non-member filter
by Max Spring 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Using Mailman version 2.1.14-1, I'm trying to get notifications from Youtube and Facebook automatically accepted. In Privacy Options -> Sender filters -> accept_these_nonmembers, I configured noreply(a)youtube.com ^notification.*facebookmail\.com$ ^update.*facebookmail\.com$ But I'm still getting authorization requests for emails from these sources. (generic_nonmember_action is "Hold", but it actually should not matter.) I can't find any other configuration which would be relevant here. What could be the reason? I'm obviously missing something. Thanks! -Max

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