Mailman 3 July 2012 - Mailman-Users

Editing Mailman's text files
by Pete Bell May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

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 Feb. 27, 2024

Feb. 27, 2024

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 Nov. 17, 2023

Nov. 17, 2023

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 Feb. 17, 2021

Feb. 17, 2021

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 Sept. 10, 2020

Sept. 10, 2020

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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Changing form codes
by Brian Canty July 31, 2012

July 31, 2012

Hello Everyone - I sent this message a couple of weeks ago and did not hear from anyone so I am trying again. Does anyone know if there is a way to change the way the preformatted forms from mailman look. I would like to change the editing-options form but cannot figure out how to do that. The Mailman code is <MM-Editing-Options> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Brian Brian Canty Manager, Computer Information Services American Psychoanalytic Associaiton (212) 752-0450 x17 www.apsa.org

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A simple unsubscribe
by Brian Canty July 30, 2012

July 30, 2012

Hello - I was wondering if anyone has a way to provide subscribers a simple and easy way to unsubscribe from a mailing list. I do not provide passwords, so I was wondering if there is a simple enter your email address box that I can include on a link in my footers? Thanks in advance. Brian Canty Manager, Computer Information Services American Psychoanalytic Associaiton (212) 752-0450 x17 www.apsa.org

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postsuper
by Khalil Abbas July 30, 2012

July 30, 2012

Hello, it’s been quite a while since I posted here, I kinda miss u guyz:) I’m running a list of 3 Mil. subscribers for a local news agency as follows: the whole list is hosted on a 32GBs Ram server, 10 domains, 30 lists, 100,000 subscribers each list.. the mail is distributed thru a relay of 120 servers identified as MX records in the main server’s domains’ DNS zones.. the question is, I noticed that mail delivery is slow, and it gets faster when I use: “postsuper –r ALL” .. do u think it’s a good idea if I added it as a cronjob that runs every minute? or better split the list into several servers?? Thanks..

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Re: [Mailman-Users] configuration of mailman with postfix - SOLVED
by Eric Smith July 29, 2012

July 29, 2012

The issue was that as of 12.04 ubuntu upgraded to ipv6 support. My mailman install required relaying of mails by postfix but because the system was now ipv6 enabled, this was not possible until add following to mynetworks [::1]/128 Thanks to Mark Sapiro on the mailman list for persisting and finding the answer. Maybe this will save someone else the time that it cost me. Is the cause of this type of issue my ignorance alone? Why (else) do these things happen? -- Best regards, Eric Smith Scott Kitterman wrote on Wed-25-Jul 12 9:07PM > On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 08:55:52 PM Eric Smith wrote: > > Thanks Robert (Scott) > > > > I have upgraded, checked and followed the Ubuntu docs. > > transport in master.cf corrected (I had a typo that gave the > > error with the user expansion), now it is like this; > > > > [root@pepper ~] $ grep -A1 mailman /etc/postfix/master.cf > > mailman unix - n n - - pipe > > flags=FR user=list argv=/usr/lib/mailman/bin/postfix-to-mailman.py > > ${nexthop} ${user} > > > > $ mutt fresher(a)fresher2.nl -stest</dev/null;sleep 2;\ > > sudo sh -c "find /var/log/ -mmin -1; grep fresher /var/log/mail.log|tail > > -1" /var/log/syslog > > /var/log/mail.log > > /var/log/auth.log > > Jul 25 20:45:53 localhost postfix/local[10429]: 70E4329020F: \ > > to=<|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post fresher(a)fruitcom.com>, \ > > orig_to=<fresher(a)fresher2.nl>, relay=local, delay=0.17, \ > > delays=0.11/0/0/0.06, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (unknown user: \ > > "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post fresher") > > > > FWIW: > > [eric@pepper ~] $ echo $HOSTNAME > > pepper.fruitcom.com > > > > (Tooth enamel wearing a bit thin) > > > > Any ideas where I could look? > > I've never used mailman, so I don't know for sure about this, but I note > you're using "user=list" in the flags for the mailman service, but I see > "/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post fresher" in the logs. Is fresher a valid > address in your domain? > > Scott K

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txt.gz character encoding
by Gary Kopp July 28, 2012

July 28, 2012

I am trying to download Pipermail archives from http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/users/. They are offered in txt.gz files. I now understand that even though it is not immediately obvious, I can download the uncompressed .txt versions by modifying the URL, and the resulting files are fine. But if I download one of the txt.gz files and unzip it to create a .txt file the results are undecipherable. It looks like a different character encoding was used. The beginning of the unzipped file has the host server's path in clear text at the top (information that is not in the .txt file downloaded directly, BTW), but the rest is gibberish. Is there something special about the process that Pipermail uses to produce the .gz files, or is this something xwiki.org might have changed? --Gary

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