Mailman 3 May 2012 - Mailman-Users

scalability + ldap
by Anil Jangity May 30, 2012

May 30, 2012

How does mailman scale to large lists? What about 200,000 members or more? I know a large part of this has to do with the performance of the email infrastructure. Are there plans to make use of LDAP for storing Lists information (lists+members+lists configuration)? Right now, we have corporate Groups in LDAP, and members in that group (e.g. uniqueMember). When a email is sent to a Group, we have some scripts that will do LDAP lookups and then expand to those specific email addresses and then re-distribute emails to these individuals. These are internal Groups. I was debating the plusses and minuses of using a real mailing list (mailman) for this purpose. Thanks, Anil

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User Passwords - Mass Subscribe/Mass Change
by Drew Tenenholz May 30, 2012

May 30, 2012

All -- Sorry if this has been answered before, I don't have the time to go through the archives at the moment. Mailman 2.1.9/Red Hat Linux When migrating tens of thousands of users form an ancient Majordomo system to a new Mailman system, can I set the users' passwords when I upload their addresses from a text file? Can I change the automatically created passwords? We have a pretty slick PHP-driven site to manage subscriptions to about 10-15 lists, and I always set the user's password for them, so they don't have to deal with it. They like it, and I like it. This works fine for individual subscription requests, as the email command I send on their behalf includes a unitary password. Can I achieve the same result as I mass subscribe them? -- Drew Tenenholz

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Web Admin Security Question
by Dennis Putnam May 26, 2012

May 26, 2012

After migrating my OS from Mandriva to CentOS I noticed that SSL mailman web access is no longer used. Is this something that is no longer necessary or do I still have more configuring to do? Do I really need SSL or is the management of web admin out of the box sufficient? Thanks.

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Uninstall mailman manually
by Frank Walter May 25, 2012

May 25, 2012

Hello I made some mistake I think. I installed mailman on Ubuntu 12.04 by Aptitude and copied an older version over it because I wanted to keep mailing lists from another server. After this mailman didn't start anymore but in aptitude I couldn't uninstall it neither. Now I hope that I can uninstall it by deleting the two mailman folders and the config in /etc/mailman - is this the right way? I am at a point that I prefer to create new the only needed mailing list (about 30 addresses only and the archive is not important) rather than spending hours with error seeking without result. If only I get it fresh installed... Help appreciated :) Frank

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Is there a way for an owner to see how many points the subscribers have accumulated?
by Ma, Yuan May 24, 2012

May 24, 2012

Hi, Is there a way for an owner to see how many points the subscribers have accumulated? Thank you very much in advance. Yuan

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The sender needs to receive email sent to mailing list...
by Guilherme Cunha May 24, 2012

May 24, 2012

Hi The sender needs to receive email sent to mailing list... How can I do this? Guilherme Cunha

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(no subject)
by Guilherme Cunha May 23, 2012

May 23, 2012

Hi The sender needs to receive email sent to mailing list... How can I do this? Guilherme Cunha <http://www.bravahost.com.br>

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mailing list subscription issue
by dhanushka ranasinghe May 22, 2012

May 22, 2012

Hi guys.... to suscribe to the mailing list i send the mail to list-request(a)lkx.com Then i get the mail with confirmation string , then i just reply to received mail with confirmation string in the subject line.. As a replay i get the mail like this [1] , But other mailing list in the same mailman gives the "Welcome to mailing list message" any idea what i suppose to do to fix the problem. [1] ---------------------------- The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your original message. - Results: Confirmation succeeded - Unprocessed: On 5/22/12, list-request(a)lkx.com<h/1oyhbgn9reewd/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=commits-request(a)wso2.org> <list-request(a)lkx.com<h/1oyhbgn9reewd/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=commits-request(a)wso2.org>> wrote: > Mailing list subscription confirmation notice for mailing list Commits > > We have received a request from user(a)lkx.com<h/1oyhbgn9reewd/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=dhanushkar(a)wso2.com> for subscription > of your email address, "user(a)lkx.com<h/1oyhbgn9reewd/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=dhanushkar(a)wso2.com>", to the list(a)lkx.com <h/1oyhbgn9reewd/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=commits(a)wso2.org> > mailing list. To confirm that you want to be added to this mailing > list, simply reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header > intact. > > Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a > message to list-request(a)lkx.com<h/1oyhbgn9reewd/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=commits-request(a)wso2.org> : > > confirm 96d4463b2042555066a1d6632b6848adad7b9278 > > Note that simply sending a `reply' to this message should work from > most mail readers, since that usually leaves the Subject: line in the > right form (additional "Re:" text in the Subject: is okay). > > If you do not wish to be subscribed to this list, please simply > disregard this message. If you think you are being maliciously > subscribed to the list, or have any other questions, send them to > list-owner(a)lkx.com<h/1oyhbgn9reewd/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=commits-owner(a)wso2.org> . > Thank You

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Logging failed Admin logins [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
by Dale, Mark May 22, 2012

May 22, 2012

Hi All, I'm looking for a way to prevent the Mailman Admin login from getting bruted. I was thinking that I can set fail2ban to watch the logfiles and trigger an event after a certain number of failed logins from the same IP address, within a specified time period. I've had a look through the Mailman log files and can't see that Mailman writes anywhere for failed login attempts (to the Admin page). It seems that the best that can be done at the moment is to guess it from the POST entries in the Apache logs. Even there, a failed login just reloads the page and generates an Apache '200' (Okay) entry for the request. All I can think of at the moment is to hack the Mailman code so a failed login attempt sends the user to a new page rather than just reload the page. We could then tell fail2ban to watch the Apache access logs for records of those requests and trigger events off those. But that seems a bit untidy, and very 'unMailman' like. Does anyone have a suggestion for logging the time and IP address of failed login attempts? Best, Mark Dale ______________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT: This message, and any attachments to it, contains information that is confidential and may also be the subject of legal professional or other privilege. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you must not review, copy, disseminate or disclose its contents to any other party or take action in reliance of any material contained within it. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return email informing them of the mistake and delete all copies of the message from your computer system. ______________________________________________________________________

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removing options from list admin page
by Tomislav Luetić May 22, 2012

May 22, 2012

hi. I've got a 2.1.14 Mailman that I'm setting up for a computer-unsavvy group of people, and would like to remove a good deal of options available in the list admin page, setting a default value. From what I understand, this and similair pages are automatically generated by modules in /Mailman/Cgi, but so far I haven't found where this is generated. I don't mind getting dirty in python, but I would like some understanding of it before I jump in. thx for advice, tl

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