Mailman 3 March 2013 - 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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MM-2.1.15: Small bug regarding the "request forgery check"
by Ralf Hildebrandt 13 May '14

13 May '14

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 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

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 16 May '13

16 May '13

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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Admin approval messages not being sent
by Christopher Adams 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hello, Confirmation messages sent to users are being sent successfully. Messages intended as approval for subscriptions and sent to the list administrators are not being sent. They appear as 'held subscription' in the mail logs. The list has the *admin_immed_notify* set to 'yes'. The cron /cron/checkdbs runs every morning at 8 am. I have read of possible Handler exceptions in Mailman, but the error logs don't show anything. What else could I look for to diagnose this problem? Thank you. -- Christopher Adams adamsca(a)gmail.com

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accept not accepeted
by jdd 04 Apr '13

04 Apr '13

Hello, I have a list of mail adresses in accept_these_nonmembers filter but mail coming from these people do not reach the list, but are sent to moderation what do I have to do? thanks jdd NB: version 2.1.14 -- http://www.dodin.org http://jddtube.dodin.org/20120616-52-highway_v1115

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Mountain Lion server trouble
by Allan Herman 02 Apr '13

02 Apr '13

I tried the instructions on http://www.livetime.com/mountain-lion-mailman-mailing-list/ to install mailman on 10.8 server, but have hit a snag. The build seemed to go perfectly, but the change to the httpd_server_app.conf file breaks apache. Previously, the OS X wiki service was working properly, but after the change, the system log shows apache failing to launch and a failed spawn every 10 seconds. When I comment out the change to httpd_server_app.conf, everything is back to normal. Help? The change to httpd_server_app.conf is: Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-mailman.conf The content of /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-mailman.conf is: # Config file for linking the mailman mailing list manager to MacOSX Server Web Server. # ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/" Alias /pipermail/ "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/" Alias /icons/ "/usr/local/mailman/icons/" <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/"> Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Indexes AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Allan

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SPAM On Mailman
by Fred Atkinson 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

I have several lists that are receiving SPAM messages from multiple sources. The lists do not forward them since I have it set not to. But often I have to go through the process of manually deleting them from the queue and I get messages telling me how many messages are pending approval. I ban the email addresses and set them to be auto discarded. But the SPAMmers rarely use the same address twice. Is there any way to set Mailman to just delete these messages rather than hold them for approval? Regards, Fred Sent from my iPad

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