Mailman 3 August 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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Problems with Moderation
by David Dodell Sept. 16, 2012

Sept. 16, 2012

I am running mailman on OSX Lion. Moderation through the web interface does not work. If I try to do anything from the web interface (see screenshot) ... I can see a split second of it accessing the server, and the screen refreshes and goes back to this default of "defer" Just no actions at all work. Any idea where I should look ... Thank you. David

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Cannot get DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST to work
by Philip Colmer Aug. 31, 2012

Aug. 31, 2012

Hi We're building a new Mailman server to replace an aging system. In order to run it alongside the live system, the new server currently has a different hostname but the intention is that we will eventually CNAME the old name over to the new one so that there will be continuity of service. At the moment, moderator emails from the new system are using the FQDN of the new system. I have edited /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py so that DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST are explicitly set to the FQDN of the *old* server, but moderator emails are not reflecting this change in configuration. The new server is running Red Hat 6.1 and Mailman was installed from the RHEL repo. Thank you for any advice or suggestions. Regards Philip

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Weird characters in private archive
by Birta Levente Aug. 31, 2012

Aug. 31, 2012

Hi all I use mailman 2.1.12 with centos 6.3. I have a list with romanian default language. If the archive is public I have no problems, but if it's private, not shows the specific romanian characters. Someone can help me out with this? Thanks Levi

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configure lists with text file or programatically.
by Eric Smith Aug. 31, 2012

Aug. 31, 2012

I have created a dozen or so lists and I want to change the settings of all of them in a similar way. This file seems to hold the config data; /var/lib/mailman/lists/<listname>/config.pck.last But it is not friendly. Is there a way to programatically or with a text editor apply settings? Thanks for any advice. -- Best regards, Eric Smith Mobile: 00 31 6 455 09313 - Tel Wageningen: +31 317 728888

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Using Mailman for Newsletters
by Peter D Sparkes Aug. 31, 2012

Aug. 31, 2012

Hi I am currently using exim4 on Linux Debian and intend to install Mailman. Mailman Requirements:: * Collect email addresses * Send out newsletters * No subscriber to have access to the list * administrator to be able to add, delete email addresses. * Only administrator to be able to send newsletters/emails to list members. From the documentation I can't see how to configure Mailman to meet these requirements. Help please Peter

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