Mailman 3 August 2012 - Mailman-Users

Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann 17 Nov '23

17 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 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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Problems with Moderation
by David Dodell 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

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 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

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 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

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 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

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 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

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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empty gateway archive
by Thufir 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

I think, or assume, that mailman is running its cron, but nothing seems to be coming through from the NNTP gateway when there have been new posts. In general, how do I troubleshoot the gateway? the script is there in: /var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news but are the results logged anywhere, perhaps? thanks, Thufir

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Mailman Migration to new server
by Peter Merritt 29 Aug '12

29 Aug '12

My mailman migration is going ok except its failing at update, version 2.1.5 to version 2.1.14 debian woody to Ubuntu precise Output of update command Updating mailing list: scholars Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 771, in <module> errors = main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 661, in main errors = errors + dolist(listname) File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 192, in dolist mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __init__ self.Load() File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 676, in Load self.CheckVersion(dict) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 715, in CheckVersion if self.data_version >= mm_cfg.DATA_FILE_VERSION: File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 146, in __getattr__ raise AttributeError, name AttributeError: data_version Any ideas, while I research, Thanks in Advance. Peter partsmaps(a)weirdwater.org <- Do not Use

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