Mailman 3 May 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 26 Feb '24

26 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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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9
by Fletcher Cocquyt 04 Jun '12

04 Jun '12

We receive this error: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.9 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. When attempting to login to the admin interface and the logs say: May 24 17:32:05 2012 admin(20758): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(20758): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.9 -----] admin(20758): [----- Traceback ------] admin(20758): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main admin(20758): main() admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 251, in main admin(20758): mlist.Save() admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 565, in Save admin(20758): self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir() admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 241, in CheckHTMLArchiveDir admin(20758): makelink(privdir, pubdir) admin(20758): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 49, in makelink admin(20758): os.symlink(old, new) admin(20758): OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied admin(20758): [----- Python Information -----] admin(20758): sys.version = 2.4.3 (#1, Sep 3 2009, 15:37:37) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)] admin(20758): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(20758): sys.prefix = /usr admin(20758): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(20758): sys.path = /usr admin(20758): sys.platform = linux2 admin(20758): [----- Environment Variables -----] and the permissions are ls -ld /var/lib/mailman/archives/private drwxrws--x 471 mailman mailman 36864 May 24 17:27 /var/lib/mailman/archives /private Help! thanks

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Personalization issue
by wilby 01 Jun '12

01 Jun '12

Help please I'm a MM 2.1.12 user who uses the MM that runs on a server located at my ISP offices. I have no access to the server but am able to use MM as a "send only" email message delivery system. I manually add new subscribers and also manually unsubscribe them. Lately I've had a problem deleting someone in my mailing list because they forgot the address they asked me to use and I can't figure out what address to delete. I finally solved this the hard way. I then decided that "personalization = on", with "delivered_to" in the footer would solve the problem for me. Every message I sent to them would clearly state the address used to the receiving person. In trying this plan I find that it works well sometimes and other times the footer info is either placed in an attachment file, or simply missing completely. Trying to solve this I find that if I place any underline character, or a dash character in my message, the footer goes to attachment or wherever. There is probably much more to this. 1. There must be a way to get the footer to always show in the message, is there? 2. Maybe there is an easier way to get the "delivered_to" info to appear somewhere in my messages. 3. Maybe there is an entirely better way to do what I need, Help! Looking further, I see that if the email from the MM server I use is "text" then the "delivered to" dies appear in the footer. If the message is delivered in what looks like "rich text" then the footers are hidden, attachments, or missing. wilby -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Personalization-issue-tp33941589p33941589.html Sent from the Mailman - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Pending messages
by Tomislav Luetić 31 May '12

31 May '12

No matter what I do with my pending messages, they don't go away. All the options are there, available, but after submitting my choices everything reverts back. There are some FAQ entries related to this; but they all include having to re-enter passwd at some point. I have no problem with that and cookies are a-ok. thx in advance

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Can't moderate requests
by Jose Legido 31 May '12

31 May '12

Hi. (excuse me for my english) I can't moderate requests in mailman. I have requests Held Messages, I select discard and submit all data, but the message continue in Held Messages. I take a look in the logs but don't find nothing. any help? Thanks.

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Helping users with 'Confimation'
by Drew Tenenholz 30 May '12

30 May '12

All -- After migrating our existing users, I have a question about new subscribers to my announce-only list (Mailman 2.1.9) who must confirm to actually join. I'm seeing a number of replies to the confirm message in the moderation queue. There's no discernibly new content in the message, it looks just like the confirm message except that it probably didn't confirm the subscriber. What options are available for me to help these users confirm their intention to join the list? -- Drew Tenenholz

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