Mailman-Users April 2012

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49 participants
41 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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what constitutes spam?
by Anne Wainwright 19 May '12

19 May '12

Hi, I recently sent an invite to an unknown third party. The invite came from my mailman list, we gave full particulars of who and where we are. We specifically advise that they are not at this stage subscribed to anything and will have to follow the detailed instructions (ie confirm) if they want to join the list. The third party is in the same trade as us, and deals with the same specialities, a third party customer had given me their address in good faith. This week my ISP contacts me with an upstream request from the national backbone provider to in effect desist from sending spam. Looking at the email returned, it was to an @yahoo address, spamcop seems to have detected spam on the basis of it being a mailman message, I am not certain that it was not initiated by the recipient but the official complaint originated from yahoo it seems (who should surely know better). Subject: [196.26.208.190] Yahoo Abuse Report - FW:confirm 3a35c56b531368da533112d96a9cb24c17cf6961 As I said in my reply, this is hardly spam, I did not send it out to half a million addresses purchased on a cd. This makes a mockery of genuine spam prevention efforts when one email from a genuine address can be allowed to cause this. It I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill, but what can I do about this. Is this a common occurence? Are invites from mailman now considered fair game for spam detection software and humans alike? bestest Anne

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Dumb Me Tried to Update Mandriva (Again)
by Dennis Putnam 10 May '12

10 May '12

As usual my attempt to update Mandriva has destroyed Mailman. This time the update failed and rather than move forward, I reverted back to the working version (2010.2). However, I must have missed something because I am getting the following error when I try to access Mailman web: Apr 28 16:07:42 2012 admin(17726): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ pr 28 16:07:42 2012 admin(17726): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(17726): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.13 -----] admin(17726): [----- Traceback ------] admin(17726): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(17726): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 97, in run_main admin(17726): pkg = __import__('Mailman.Cgi', globals(), locals(), [scriptname]) admin(17726): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 35, in <module> admin(17726): from Mailman import MailList admin(17726): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 64, in <module> admin(17726): from Mailman import Gui admin(17726): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Gui/__init__.py", line 25, in <module> admin(17726): from Privacy import Privacy admin(17726): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Gui/Privacy.py", line 28, in <module> admin(17726): from Mailman import GPGUtils admin(17726): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/GPGUtils.py", line 32, in <module> admin(17726): import GnuPGInterface admin(17726): ImportError: No module named GnuPGInterface admin(17726): sys.version = 2.7.2 (default, Dec 19 2011, 09:56:13) [GCC 4.6.1 20110627 (Mandriva)] admin(17726): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(17726): sys.prefix = /usr admin(17726): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(17726): sys.path = /usr admin(17726): sys.platform = linux2 admin(17726): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(17726): SSL_VERSION_INTERFACE: mod_ssl/2.2.22 admin(17726): SSL_CIPHER_EXPORT: false admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_S_DN_Email: xxxxxxx(a)xxxxxxxx.net admin(17726): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.2.22 (Mandriva Linux/PREFORK-0.1mdv2010.2) admin(17726): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/admin admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_A_KEY: rsaEncryption admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_S_DN_ST: Georgia admin(17726): SERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache/2.2.22 (Mandriva Linux/PREFORK-0.1mdv2010.2) Server at xxxxx.xxxxxxxx.com Port 443</address> admin(17726): admin(17726): REQUEST_METHOD: GET admin(17726): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_S_DN: /C=US/ST=xxxxxxxx/L=xxxxxxxxx/O=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/CN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.com/emailAddress=xxxxxxx(a)xxxxxxxx.net admin(17726): SSL_CIPHER: DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_V_START: Mar 18 13:32:36 2011 GMT admin(17726): SSL_SESSION_ID: 66E6AC1408845A20EC6F56C140D2BED471A632BD7C03FC89503B0B611F1B2A18 admin(17726): SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY: NONE admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_I_DN_ST: xxxxxxxxxxx admin(17726): HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive admin(17726): SERVER_NAME: xxxxx.xxxxxxxx.com admin(17726): REMOTE_ADDR: 74.176.153.13 admin(17726): SSL_CIPHER_ALGKEYSIZE: 256 admin(17726): SSL_SECURE_RENEG: true admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_I_DN: /C=US/ST=xxxxxxxx/L=xxxxxxxxx/O=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/CN=localhost/emailAddress=xxxxxxx(a)xxxxxxxx.net admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_I_DN_C: US admin(17726): SSL_COMPRESS_METHOD: NULL admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_I_DN_L: Loganville admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_I_DN_O: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_M_SERIAL: 01 admin(17726): SERVER_ADDR: 192.168.0.3 admin(17726): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/html admin(17726): SERVER_PORT: 443 admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_I_DN_Email: xxxxxxx(a)xxxxxxxx.net admin(17726): SSL_VERSION_LIBRARY: OpenSSL/1.0.0a admin(17726): PYTHONPATH: /usr/lib/mailman admin(17726): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admin.cgi admin(17726): SERVER_ADMIN: mailman-owner(a)xxxxxxxxxxx.net admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_S_DN_O: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_A_SIG: sha1WithRSAEncryption admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_S_DN_L: Loganville admin(17726): SCRIPT_URI: https://xxxxx.xxxxxxxx.com/mailman/admin admin(17726): SCRIPT_URL: /mailman/admin admin(17726): HTTPS: on admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_M_VERSION: 1 admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_S_DN_C: US admin(17726): QUERY_STRING: admin(17726): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/admin admin(17726): HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 admin(17726): PERL5LIB: /usr/share/awstats/lib:/usr/share/awstats/plugins admin(17726): SSL_CIPHER_USEKEYSIZE: 256 admin(17726): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 admin(17726): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_I_DN_CN: localhost admin(17726): REMOTE_PORT: 4811 admin(17726): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us,en;q=0.5 admin(17726): HTTP_DNT: 1 admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_V_END: Mar 17 13:32:36 2012 GMT admin(17726): SSL_PROTOCOL: SSLv3 admin(17726): HTTP_HOST: xxxxx.xxxxxxxx.com admin(17726): SSL_SERVER_S_DN_CN: xxxxx.xxxxxxxx.com admin(17726): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate admin(17726): UNIQUE_ID: T5xOCn8AAAEAAE-BQyUAAAAN I don't have a clue what needs to be restored as I didn't even know this was using GPG.

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The mailman has "log" of moderated messages?
by madsonra＠dcc.ufba.br 01 May '12

01 May '12

Dear, excuse me I'm not very good with English. I wonder if the mailman stores "log" about moderation. Exactly I want to find out which moderator approved some messages that were sent to the list.

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Mailman stuck : mailmanctl dead with messages in /qfiles/in
by Jérôme 01 May '12

01 May '12

Hi. Mailman somtimes gets stuck on my installation. By stuck, I mean I get no mail and no subscription notification. Until I relaunch it. I generally does not happen for a few months, but it is the second time this month. Troubleshooting --------------- http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/4.78+Troubleshooting-+No+mail+going+out+to… 2/ Cron/mailmanctl ps auxww| grep mailmanctl |grep -v grep -> Nothing. 7/ Locks /var/lib/mailman/locks -> /var/lock/mailman ll /var/lock/mailman total 0 8/ Logs /var/log/mailman/error : Apr 30 03:16:21 2012 mailmanctl(11685): No child with pid: 17093 Apr 30 03:16:21 2012 mailmanctl(11685): [Errno 3] No such process Apr 30 03:16:21 2012 mailmanctl(11685): Stale pid file removed. 9/ Qfiles All queues are empty, except for "virgin" and "in". /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/in: total 168 -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 7080 Apr 29 08:12 1335679972.4044311+fe0d8677ff8b10bdf54bbe785264c433c40927a2.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 19014 Apr 29 09:41 1335685311.8046031+26be5e0c4630e8401808bdf46c701a1975950cec.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 13435 Apr 29 10:20 1335687645.366998+ceda98fd4ccfb8a3cc6e8bb9d41e943e0ef8ec3f.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 14010 Apr 29 12:17 1335694670.941314+ab4263a19afa990cc933e18ccf1ab3a86ef02b84.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 26875 Apr 29 14:00 1335700832.115989+38cf9b0c8d1015392d44ec8047287b9c2da44260.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 25951 Apr 29 14:02 1335700966.2184939+cf9d490300e3064c49a587a5efc0d2678e8c0b0a.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 33409 Apr 29 21:13 1335726794.7660511+a3e33986aa07f3c56214159c2644714ebecbb1ff.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 1660 Apr 29 23:25 1335734733.107975+629b7c7b1e0fab72b5b60556c4a9590971461f3d.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 1420 Apr 30 11:43 1335778989.361089+5a2c8db1b2e83fb4c56900018fd315fce62c9aa0.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 2341 Apr 30 15:20 1335792010.1874161+1e1d6b7aff6b91871fc0253416f32f040bb3b8b3.pck -rw-rw---- 1 nobody list 3225 Apr 30 20:25 1335810323.462666+60026e952d7f0bfe526ae95fe4cb2562051c93c0.pck Debug info ---------- Last time it got stuck, I did the modification suggested here : http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/4.73+How+do+I+debug+smtp-failure+problems+… modified /var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py to add self.__conn.set_debuglevel(1) Configuration ------------- Not sure this is useful, but /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py contains MTA='LocalPostfix' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['domain1.tld', 'domain2.tld'] I would like to figure out what is happening, therefore I don't relaunch, in case there would be some more information I could get. Any advice ? Thanks. -- Jérôme

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options to change URL structure?
by David 01 May '12

01 May '12

URL architecture is a concern to me because the URL should be a permanent address and it should not be overly complex or "ugly". In a standard Mailman implementation, we see URLs similar to this: http://server.example.com/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ourlist/ In a cpanel installation we see URLs similar to this: http://server.example.com/mailman/options/ourlist_server.example.com/ I'm on a cpanel implementation. We are the only domain on the VPS. It is not a shared server. Is it possible to achieve a URL structure like this (with simple list name and no cgi-bin segment)? http://ourlist.example.com/mailman/options/ourlist/

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confused by group mismatch
by Chad Rebuck 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

I've had a list running fine for months, but after I restored my complete disk from backup I am getting this message when posting to the list: <a2-16v-list(a)mail.a2-16v.com>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post a2-16v-list". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "80", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "80", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. I've checked the faq here - http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Understanding+group+mismatch+errors+-+how+… I've also searched around and I'm not really understanding why the group "80" isn't translated to mailman? Ideas? mailman exists in /etc/group mailman:x:80: mailman exist in /etc/passwd mailman:x:80:80:GNU Mailing List Manager:/usr/lib/mailman:/sbin/nologin I don't understand what the problem is. I didn't want to just re configure mailman without first asking what else to check. After all this was working for many months prior to the hard drive restore. Thank you.

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subscribe
by Chad Rebuck 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

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can't approve held messages
by dhanushka ranasinghe 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

Hi...guys i have set of mails held for moderator approval , even though i Click approve and submit the mail, mail is still in the modarator list and its not send , is there any reason for that .. Thank You Dhanushka

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