Mailman 3 February 2013 - 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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MM-2.1.15: Small bug regarding the "request forgery check"
by Ralf Hildebrandt May 12, 2014

May 12, 2014

Today I check the subscribers list ("Membership Management... Section") on one of our lists and called up the legend using "Click here to include the legend for this table." After clicking on that link, the page did indeed display the legend, but the page now starts with: Error: The form lifetime has expired. (request forgery check) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de Campus Benjamin Franklin http://www.charite.de Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin Geschäftsbereich IT, Abt. Netzwerk fon: +49-30-450.570.155

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creating hidden field to stop bot spam subscription request
by The League CA Cities Aug. 2, 2013

Aug. 2, 2013

Hello some of my list are being spammed with bot subscription request. I am looking for a way to add a hidden field to the subscription page of each list that a bot would see but a human user will not. I would like to have Mailman automatically drop any subscription request that has the hidden field fill out. below is the subscription area for the list and I have added the subject field. the subject field is what i would like to hide and have drop the request. Subscribe-Box> </TD> <TD WIDTH="12%"> </TD></TR> <tr> <td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="55%">Your name & City/Company (required):</td> <td width="33%"><mm-fullname-box></td> <TD WIDTH="12%"> </TD></TR> <TR> <td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="55%">Subject (required):</td> <td width="33%"><mm-fullname-box></td> <TD WIDTH="12%"> </TD></TR> <TR> I am new to HTML and this is as far as i can get at the moment. If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. I am running Mailman on a Linux server. Thank you Doug

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Re: [Mailman-Users] white listing
by Mark Sapiro May 16, 2013

May 16, 2013

On 2/21/2013 2:35 AM, Máire Jones wrote: > > Yes, these are two different questions. In the first I was wondering if > it is possible to allow any address from @domain post to each and every > mailman list on our mailman server. \\ Assuming you don't want to just add a regexp to accept_these_nonmembers to all lists which is easy to do, at least for existing lists, with the script at <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/non_members>, you would need to do this with a custom handler which would set approved=True in the message's metadata if the sender was from the white listed domain. The problem with this approach is that the custom handler would have to be in the pipeline prior to Moderate to avoid list membership tests, and this would also then bypass all the miscellaneous holds such as too many recipients, implicit destination, too big, administrivia, etc. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/l4A9> for info on custom handlers. -- 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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Cannot complete actions on held msgs
by Breeze Howard Feb. 28, 2013

Feb. 28, 2013

We recently upgraded Mailman from 2.1.13 on Solaris 10 to 2.1.15 on RHEL6. We are seeing an issue now where when posts are held for moderator approval, they show up in the pending requests webpage, but you can't take any action on them. Defer/Reject/Allow/Discard... no matter what you choose, the page just refreshes without anything actually happening. The kicker is that this only occurs on lists that were created in the new environment, the lists that we transferred over from 2.1.13 work just fine. When I delete the heldmsg-<LISTNAME>-##.pck manually, the held message disappears from the "held for approval" page. However, new held messages exhibit the same problems. Other messages sent to the listserv that don't ever get held, are delivered to the members just fine. We've compared config.pck files between an old and new lists and the only difference we have seen is that all of the 0's are now "False" and the 1's are now "True". There have not been any HTML changes to the files in question. We have run check_perms and it has come back with NO errors. Mailman Version: 2.1.15 Python Version: 2.6.6 RHEL Version: 6.2 Kernel Version: 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64 Apache Version: 2.2.15 Thank you in advance for your assistance, Breeze -- Breeze P. Howard bhoward(a)fsu.edu (850)645-8008 Email and Linux Administrators its-unixadmins(a)fsu.edu (850)644-2591 Information Technology Services The Florida State University

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Need to see sender of post to my list
by Gregory Beyer Feb. 27, 2013

Feb. 27, 2013

Hello, I've been using Mailman for years and have a situation that I can't find in docs & FAQs. I have the reply to address set to "list" and I have senders email addresses hidden to protect privacy and prevent spam abuse. Occasionally, I - as the administrator - need to see the actual poster of a message sent by a member. They sent an inappropriate message, or perhaps their email is spam virus infected and they are unknowingly spamming. When I go to archives, all I can find in the emails is the obfuscated information about a message, but not the actual senders email address. If they don't sig the email, I have no way to know who they are. How can I find out, while maintaining privacy so that addresses are not exposed to the list at large? Here is a sample message header from my archives >From jam at australianbakery.com Fri Feb 22 13:54:16 2013 From: jam at australianbakery.com (Aussie Bakery Jam) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:54:16 -0500 Subject: [Aussie BG Jam] Musicians needed Message-ID: <mailman.7.1361566462.28962.jam_australianbakery.com(a)host414.hostmonster.com> Thanks very much, and if I've overlooked the answer already posted, sorry. regards, Greg -- Protect your privacy <http://donttrack.us/> & break out of the bubble <http://dontbubble.us/> - Search with DuckDuckGo <https://duckduckgo.com/>

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