Mailman 3 January 2013 - Mailman-Users

Automating procmail processing for new lists
by Eric Smith Jan. 10, 2013

Jan. 10, 2013

The below suggestions to procmail before posting to the list requires manual configuration each time you set up a new list. Is there a simple automatic way to achieve this? Eric Smith ---------------------------------------------------- Quoting: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg55981.html Taylor, Marc wrote: > >I have an Ubuntu server running Mailman 2.1.9, Postfix 2.5.1 and >procmail 3.22. I have gotten mailman and postfix to work correctly >using the postfix-to-mailman.py file. > >How does one integrate procmail into this mixture with the >postfix-to-mailman.py file? Is it possible to do this or does one have >to configure postfix and mailman differently in order to have procmail >do some filtering? I understand that postfix_to_mailman.py is packaged with the Debian/Ubuntu Mailman package, but it is 3rd party software, not supported (officially at least) by the GNU Mailman project. That said, one possibility might be to modify the mailman transport in /etc/postfix/master.cf to invoke procmail instead of postfix_to_mailman.py and then have procmail invoke postfix_to_mailman.py for the mail it wants to deliver. Another possibility is to modify postfix_to_mailman.py to invoje procmail instead of Mailman's mail wrapper and then have procmail invoke Mailman's wrapper to post the mail. -- Mark Sapiro <m...(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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sendmail error 67 when sending mail to a list on our mail host
by Art Werschulz Jan. 8, 2013

Jan. 8, 2013

Hi all. Background information: ----------------------- We're running Fedora 17 Linux on a network of Intel machines. The mail spool /var/spool/mail is on our mailhost dsm.dsm.fordham.edu; said mail spool is NFS-mounted (via autofs, the RPM being autofs-5.0.6-23.fc17.x86_64) by all the other Linux boxes in our network. Our MTA is sendmail (provided by the sendmail-8.14.5-14.fc17.x86_64 RPM). On the mailhost dsm.dsm.fordham.edu, the file /etc/mail/local-host-names contains the lines dsm.dsm.fordham.edu dsm.fordham.edu (among others). Moreover, we have sobolev@dsm:~$ nslookup -query=mx dsm.fordham.edu Server: 150.108.4.11 Address: 150.108.4.11#53 dsm.fordham.edu mail exchanger = 10 dsm.dsm.fordham.edu. Thus mail going to bovik(a)dsm.fordham.edu will really go to bovik(a)dsm.dsm.fordham.edu. Mailman (provided by the mailman-2.1.14-13.fc17.x86_64 RPM) runs on the mail host dsm.dsm.fordham.edu. "test" is a mailman list, which I use for testing purposes. I am a member of the test list. The problem: ------------ The following problem just started happening today. If I am logged in on dsm.dsm.fordham.edu, I can send mail to (say) test or to test(a)dsm.fordham.edu. If I am logged in on any other host on the network, I can send mail to test(a)dsm.dsm.fordham.edu. HOWEVER, if I send mail to test(a)dsm.fordham.edu, mail bounces. If I use the command-line "mail" client (with the verbose option), I get 550 5.1.1 <test(a)dsm.fordham.edu>... User unknown If I use emacs VM, I get Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Sending...failed with exit value 67") signal(error ("Sending...failed with exit value 67")) error("Sending...failed with exit value %d" 67) sendmail-send-it() mail-send() vm-mail-send() vm-mail-send-and-exit(nil) call-interactively(vm-mail-send-and-exit nil nil) If any of you have any insight about this problem, please let me know. Many thanks. -- Art Werschulz (8-{)} "Metaphors be with you." -- bumper sticker GCS/M (GAT): d? -p+ c++ l++ u+ P++ e--- m* s n+ h f g+ w+ t+ r- Net: agw(a)dsm.fordham.edu http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~agw Phone: Fordham U. (212) 636-6325, Columbia U. (646) 775-6035

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Good use of the site list?
by DongInn Kim Jan. 8, 2013

Jan. 8, 2013

Hi, Is there a way to make a good use of the site list? It seems that it is just a representative list for all the other actual lists in a system. Nobody can use the list to notify the site admin. Of course it is possible to send an email to <site_list_name>-owner(a)example.com to notify the site admin but it would nice to use it to notify the site admin instead of using <site_list_name>-owner@. Especially, the site list is advertised on the front page of the main list website like "If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact <site_list_name>@example.com." but any sender gets the reject email from this email. So, I like to use it as an representative mailing list to the users who have subscribed a mailing list or more in my system so that they can send an email to the site admin without having to subscribe it. Is it possible? Regards, -- - DongInn

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Good use of the site list?
by Mark Sapiro Jan. 6, 2013

Jan. 6, 2013

On 1/5/2013 7:14 AM, DongInn Kim wrote: > > Couldn't it be the prey of spammers then? > What I meant is to allow only all the valid users who have subscribed for at least one mailing list to write an email to the site list but not all generic nonmember. Then put @LISTNAME in the site list's accept_these_nonmembers for each LISTNAME in the installation other than the site list. Consider #!/bin/bash cd /path/to/mailman f=`mktemp` bin/list_lists --bare | awk 'BEGIN{print "accept_these_nonmembers = ["} !/^SITE_LIST$/{print "@"$1","} END{print "]"}' > $f bin/config_list -i $f SITE_LIST rm $f where SITE_LIST is the name of the site list (probably mailman). -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Duplicate Messages
by David Andrews Jan. 6, 2013

Jan. 6, 2013

My Mailman system sends out duplicate (two copies) of some administrative-type messages. There are two password reminder messages sent out each month, two copies of the once-a-day message that announces pending messages in a list, and two messages each morning at 8:00 a.m. from the list mailman. There isn't such a list where the links work, can be edited etc. Presume it is the template for other lists, or some such thing. What causes these behaviors and how do I fix them? Thanks in advance. Dave

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Message from a non-subscriber (Dropbox) on a member-only list
by Stephen J. Turnbull Jan. 4, 2013

Jan. 4, 2013

dc writes: > How can a non-subscribed address (From: Dropbox > <no-reply(a)dropboxmail.com>) post to a closed mailing list? That would not authorize the post. However, From is not the only datum checked. > Why wasn't this invitation rejected? Because the sender's address appeared in one of the other data used to identify a member post. > (The person who had the invitation sent is a subscriber, but her > address doesn't appear in any of the headers.) It doesn't appear in any of the fields visible to you. However, not all MUAs display the "Sender" field (although Microsoft MUAs display real confusion when one is present), and few display the "Reply-To" field. Finally, it may be in the "envelope sender". To change which data are used to determine the header, customize the USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER and/or SENDER_HEADER options in mm_cfg.py. (Documentation and defaults are in Defaults.py, but you should not edit that file.)

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Mailman 2.1.12
by Frank Murphy Jan. 2, 2013

Jan. 2, 2013

Mailman 2.1.12 New to Mailman, and indeed python. looking through the Admin Interface. I'm trying to work out where to place following: Subject must contain: "from" (the word) Mail Body must contain: "Reporter: @ (word Reporter: + @ symbol) Even http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/3+List+administrator+tasks hasn't shed light for me. My grey logic processor is borked. -- Regards, Frank

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need help with mailman mail is coming into my spam box
by Philip R. Canterbury Jan. 2, 2013

Jan. 2, 2013

mail is coming into my spam box I don't know if this is problem for all the people on my list, but is their something i can change? Philip Canterbury De Funiak Springs, FL http://www.pcsbypc.com http://www.prchosting.com http://www.canterburygenealogy.com http://www.compusoftoftampabay.com Ham Callsign: KG4RQR

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Bug (probably not) /usr/sbin/postalias /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted)
by Thufir Jan. 2, 2013

Jan. 2, 2013

I'm doubting that this is a bug: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.15 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. Jan 01 19:40:49 2013 mailmanctl(3714): PID unreadable in: /var/run/mailman/mailman.pid Jan 01 19:40:49 2013 mailmanctl(3714): [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/run/mailman/mailman.pid' Jan 01 19:40:49 2013 mailmanctl(3714): Is qrunner even running? Jan 02 00:18:02 2013 (8631) command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Jan 02 00:18:02 2013 admin(8631): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(8631): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.15 -----] admin(8631): [----- Traceback ------] admin(8631): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(8631): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main admin(8631): main() admin(8631): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 56, in main admin(8631): process_request(doc, cgidata) admin(8631): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 239, in process_request admin(8631): sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1) admin(8631): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 241, in create admin(8631): _update_maps() admin(8631): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps admin(8631): raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) admin(8631): RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) admin(8631): [----- Python Information -----] admin(8631): sys.version = 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58) [GCC 4.7.2] admin(8631): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(8631): sys.prefix = /usr admin(8631): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(8631): sys.path = ['/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib', '/var/lib/mailman', '/usr/lib/mailman/scripts', '/var/lib/mailman', '/usr/lib/python2.7/', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages'] admin(8631): sys.platform = linux2 admin(8631): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(8631): HTTP_REFERER: http://dur.bounceme.net/cgi-bin/mailman/create admin(8631): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) admin(8631): SCRIPT_NAME: /cgi-bin/mailman/create admin(8631): SERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at dur.bounceme.net Port 80</address> admin(8631): admin(8631): REQUEST_METHOD: POST admin(8631): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 admin(8631): QUERY_STRING: admin(8631): CONTENT_LENGTH: 151 admin(8631): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 admin(8631): HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive admin(8631): SERVER_NAME: dur.bounceme.net admin(8631): REMOTE_ADDR: 127.0.0.1 admin(8631): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(8631): SERVER_ADDR: 127.0.1.1 admin(8631): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www admin(8631): PYTHONPATH: /var/lib/mailman admin(8631): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/create admin(8631): SERVER_ADMIN: webmaster@localhost admin(8631): HTTP_HOST: dur.bounceme.net admin(8631): REQUEST_URI: /cgi-bin/mailman/create admin(8631): HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 admin(8631): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(8631): REMOTE_PORT: 41626 admin(8631): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-US,en;q=0.5 admin(8631): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded admin(8631): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate Ohhhh, I think that I didn't create the aliases, that's all. Pardon, already copy/pasted, etc, so may as well click send before heading off to bed. Pardon, I installed mailman, got it working, and then going through the process again, should've RTFM again. thanks, Thufir

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Change one config var for all Lists on server
by Sriram Karra Jan. 2, 2013

Jan. 2, 2013

I only wish to increase the max message size for all lists (DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE) What's the simplest way to do this? I guess I could (a) iterate over all lists (b) dump the configuration using the config_list -o command (c) replace the DEFAULT_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE value using sed or something (d) reload the configuration with config_list -i command I would like to believe there is a simpler way to do something as basic as this. What am I missing? -Karra

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