Mailman 3 September 2012 - Mailman-Users

How Post to Moderated List w/o Approval?
by Toni Mueller 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi, I would like to "post" to an announce-only list, but not need to ack every post via the mailman web GUI. Also, the owner of the list isn't subscribed to it. So far, I have switched on emergency moderation, in addition to every other moderation switch, to prevent users from posting to the list, but when trying to post, eg. by using "inject" on the Mailman server, the message still ends up in moderation (acknowleding the messages is likely too complex for the owner to handle). Any idea about how to have the owner send a message (sender address should be list-owner(a)doma.in) without needing approval, or also handling approval automatically? TIA! Kind regards, --Toni++

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Which file contains "Contact the Mailman site administrator"?
by Ma, Yuan 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi, In the bounced message, there are lines "Questions? Contact the Mailman site administrator at mailman(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:mailman@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>." Please see the example below. ---------------------example of bounced message which has the line "mailman(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:mailman@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>".------ From: <mailman(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:mailman@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>> Date: September 24, 2012 3:20:23 PM EDT To: <ati-owner(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:ati-owner@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>> Subject: Bounce action notification This is a Mailman mailing list bounce action notice: List: ATI Member: holderman.11(a)osu.edu<mailto:holderman.11@osu.edu> Action: Subscription disabled. Reason: Excessive or fatal bounces. The triggering bounce notice is attached below. Questions? Contact the Mailman site administrator at mailman(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:mailman@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>. From: <postmaster(a)osu.edu<mailto:postmaster@osu.edu>> Date: September 24, 2012 3:18:05 PM EDT To: <ati-bounces(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:ati-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>> Subject: Undeliverable: [Ati] Renewable Energy Orientation Series Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups: holderman.11(a)osu.edu<mailto:holderman.11@osu.edu> Your message wasn't delivered due to a permission or security issue. It may have been rejected by a moderator, the address may only accept e-mail from certain senders, or another restriction may be preventing delivery. holderman.11(a)osu.edu<mailto:holderman.11@osu.edu> Your message wasn't delivered due to a permission or security issue. It may have been rejected by a moderator, the address may only accept e-mail from certain senders, or another restriction may be preventing delivery. Diagnostic information for administrators: Generating server: osu.edu<http://osu.edu> holderman.11(a)osu.edu<mailto:holderman.11@osu.edu> #550 5.7.1 The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. (NLA13) ##rfc822;holderman.11(a)osu.edu holderman.11(a)osu.edu<mailto:holderman.11@osu.edu> #550 5.7.1 The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. (NLA13) ##rfc822;edwards.850(a)osu.edu Original message headers: ... ... ----------------------------------end of example----------------------------------------- I am trying to change from "Contact the Mailman site administrator at mailman(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:mailman@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>" to "Contact the Mailman site administrator at smith.78910(a)osu.edu<mailto:smith.78910@osu.edu>" May I know in which file these lines " Questions? Contact the Mailman site administrator at mailman(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:mailman@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>" are located? I used grep to search but did not find the file which contains the line "Contact the Mailman site administrator at mailman(a)lists.service.ohio-state.edu<mailto:mailman@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>" Thank you very much in advance. Yuan Ohio State University

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Reject reason not given in rejection message
by Dennis Putnam 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

I am getting complaints from list members that their messages are being rejected without a reason. When I look at the message from the admin page, the reason show us there but when I reject the message the member apparently does not get that. Do I have something configured wrong?

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Hangs when trying to start mailman as root
by Lummoxx 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Regardless of method, "service mailman start", "./mailmanctl -s start", when I try to start mailman as root, it hangs. I modified the mailman user from the default of /sbin/nologin, to /bin/bash, so I could log in as mailman. When I'm logged in as mailman, it starts successfully. I did quite a bit of troubleshooting, but didn't make any progress until I inserted some debug lines into mailmanctl to figure out at what point it was hanging. This is the results: openge entered check_privs openge gid is: 41 openge uid is: 41 openge myuid is: 0 openge check_privs - entered myuid == 0 ...hangs on the line groups = [x[2] for x in grp.getgrall() if mm_cfg.MAILMAN_USER in x[3]] To see all my debug lines, and a lot more information I compiled while testing, please see this pastebin link: http://pastebin.com/axfg4Dx2 Any assistance greatly appreciated. Thanks, Chris

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messages in Pipermail archive thread view are mostly out of order with no pattern
by Rusty Newton 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Mailman version 2.1.11 Pipermail 0.09 (Mailman edition) Description: A week or so ago, mailing list members started reporting an issue with the archives thread view for archives at lists.digium.com The thread view for just about any month or year I click on is all out of whack. The threads are not in any particular order. We've never had a threading issue with the archives up to this point that I know of (over several years of use). No changes were made anytime near the problem first occurring besides minor membership management - deleting a user, moderation of messages, etc. I poked around the bug tracker, MailMan mailing list archives, and other places. I can't find any issues similar to this one (sudden changes in threading for all archives) Has anyone seen this before? Example of the issue: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2012-September/thread.html -- Rusty Newton Digium, Inc | Open Source Community Support Manager Check us out at: www.digium.com www.asterisk.org

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List of members in msg_footer
by Eric Smith 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Is it possible to expand the list members in the msg_footer? (Obviously this only intended for lists with a few members) -- Eric Smith

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Anonymous Posting
by Dennis Putnam 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

I'm a little confused by the option to hide the sender of a message. I THINK if I leave this as yes, then users will wind up sending replies to the sender rather than the list (that is the way this list works much to my chagrin but I understand the reasons) unless they remember to change the To: field every time. If that is true how do I set it up so that the From: is the poster and the Reply-To: is the list? TIA.

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GPG S/MIME Support
by Dennis Putnam 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

I've been searching for GPG support for mailman. While this seems to have been a project some time ago I can find nothing recent on it. The last thing I could find from a few years ago was that it is not yet ready for prime time. Has that project been abandoned or can someone update me on the status? TIA.

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Web Page owner email address
by Dennis Putnam 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

I guess by default the list owner email address is displayed on web pages. What I want is for listname-owner(a)whatever.com to be displayed and that email forwarded to the list owner so the owner's address is not publicly displayed. I thought that was what I was setting up but obviously not. How do I configure mailman to do that? TIA.

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Message posting and re-enabling membership
by Futchko, Rose 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Good Afternoon, I am having two challenges with Mailman and could use some guidance. These two items are around message posting and re-enabling membership. 1. I have a user that is not receiving the POST successful message. The user submits a post and it is held to be released. The message is released by the moderator and it goes out to all members successfully. They received an email saying that either the message would be distributed after approval by the monitor or that they would receive an email saying why it was not. However, the poster did not receive a confirmation that the message was successfully released or denied. 2. Regarding excessive bounces. I have a member of a list who was disabled due to excessive bounces. They received the following email (with items changed to protect identity): Subject: confirm 0c56cb666666dad6c66666cb1f1dc1a11a0e666b1 Your membership in the mailing list name-of-list has been disabled due to excessive bounces. The last bounce received from you was dated 02-Sep-2012. You will not get any more messages from this list until you re-enable your membership. You will receive 2 more reminders like this before your membership in the list is deleted. To re-enable your membership, you can simply respond to this message (leaving the Subject: line intact), or visit the confirmation page at http://list.informs.org/mailman/confirm/optimization-society/0c56cb66666 6dad6c66666cb1f1dc1a11a0e666b1 You can also visit your membership page at http://list.informs.org/mailman/options/name-of-list/email_address On your membership page, you can change various delivery options such as your email address and whether you get digests or not. As a reminder, your membership password is password If you have any questions or problems, you can contact the list owner at name-of-list-owner(a)list.informs.org A. When they click on the above link they are getting the error: http://list.informs.org/mailman/confirm/name-of-list/0c56cb666666dad6c66 666cb1f1dc1a11a0e666b1 Bad confirmation string Invalid confirmation string: 0c56cb666666dad6c66666cb1f1dc1a11a0e666b1. Note that confirmation strings expire approximately 3 days after the initial subscription request. If your confirmation has expired, please try to re-submit your subscription. Otherwise, re-enter your confirmation string. B. In addition, if they try to respond to re-enable via email they get the following message: From: Mail Delivery System [mailto:MAILER-DAEMON@email_address] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 12:37 PM To: email_address Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender This is the mail system at host server_name. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The mail system <name-of-list-request(a)list.informs.org>: host cluster4.us.messagelabs.com[216.82.241.211] said: 550-Invalid recipient <name-of-list-request(a)list.informs.org> (#5.1.1) (in reply to RCPT TO command) Thank you!

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