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
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
On 05/10/2013 06:35 AM, Xie, Wei wrote:
>
> Here we have one customer to request migrating all old archived files of
> mailing list ‘kinejapan’ under directory
> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kinejapan prior to 2009 (as attached
> file) to Yale university. Yale university IT guys needs us to create a
> mbox file for these old archived file to be easy for them to run
> command ‘archdo migration.
>
>
>
> I check there is no file kinejapan.mbox under directory
> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kinejapan.mbox to match these old
> archived files as attached. This mailing list was maintained by our
> pre-mailman admin, who passed away 2011, so I do not know why the mbox
> file was missing.
If ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX is set to 0 in mm_cfg.py, Mailman will not
create/update LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox files.
> Do you know whether there is a tool/method to convert these old archived
> files/directories as attached into a mbox file?
Lots of information is lost if there is no .mbox file.
You can do as well as anything with
cat /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kinejapan/*.txt > kinejapan.mbox
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San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Is there anything open-source to make a Mailman legacy archive searchable?
What would be useful is a way for visitors to a website to be able to
search the Mailman archives using a keyword and have it display those mail
messages. I'm also thinking of having a tag cloud made up of the most
commonly used words from the given Mailman archive. So when one of those
tag cloud words is clicked on it lists as an index those messages. Any
suggestions? Thanks!
David Roth
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)
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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
Hello,
My mailing lists run on a relay server installed as per FAQ 4.88
Accessing the web interface across the internet works fine but accessing
while on the host network is not so fine.
Instead of the DSL (dyndns) address I use the server name or IP address
and all goes fine unless I query the mailing list addresses. Then i am
returned to login again and so on ad infinitum. Same if I try to list
them.
I note that when I mouse-over the menu options the browser bottom line
shows the server name (or IP) address that I have used. When I
mouse-over the 0-9A-Z membership listing then the DSL forwarding address
shows.
FAQ 4.29 would indicate that I could change the DEFAULT_URL_HOST setting
for existing lists using fix_url.py - in this case perhaps to the IP
address?
I suppose that would foul up admin access from across the internet but
as that is only me we could live with that.
Before fools rush in where angels fear to tread - is this the way to go?
Maybe there is a route to have the best of both worlds (easy access from
the internet and the local network)
many thanks in advance
anotheranne
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>
</font>
</TD>
<TD WIDTH="12%"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> </font></TD></TR>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="55%"><font face="Verdana"
size="2">Your name & City/Company (required):</font></td>
<td width="33%"><font face="Verdana"
size="2"><mm-fullname-box></font></td>
<TD WIDTH="12%"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> </font></TD></TR>
<TR>
<td bgcolor="#dddddd" width="55%"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Subject
(required):</font></td>
<td width="33%"><font face="Verdana"
size="2"><mm-fullname-box></font></td>
<TD WIDTH="12%"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> </font></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
Hi Mark and everyone,
I'm going to call this a bug, for lack of a better term.
I use Mailman version 2.1.11. It's hosted at my ISP and I have zero control over upgrading. Sometimes they do some custom builds but I doubt that's an issue here. I've had the same set of issues with previous versions.
I'm having some issues with:
Privacy options: List of non-member addresses whose postings will be automatically discarded.
But it's about the list of expressions and not this specific box.
First of all, as a wish list, I would love love love if you made some changes to this feature. I know many folks do not filter for spam but I find it very useful. I can add email addresses to the spam list (you don't call it a spam list, but I do) from the moderation panel, which is awesome. The trouble is with editing.
1) Yea! You fixed this one already! The edit box shows 10 lines of addresses at a time. Now you've added a pull-down expand corner to the box, thank you!
2) To add a domain name to the list, you have to use a regular expression in this form:
^[^@]+@(.*\.)?domain\.com$ (or use net, info, etc).
In other words, the only way to actually know that is to be a programmer or to ask on this list and save it for years, as I did.
Couldn't we just list the domains, in a separate box if required? After all, we just list the email addresses and obviously the software knows how to handle them. If we had a box for domains, couldn't the software be programmed to handle them?
3) To add a username (or partial) to the list, you have to use a regular expression in this form:
^username
That is way easier than domain names but still not something most of us just know. And it only works if it's the beginning of the email address.
Could there be an easier way? I don't want to run the risk of list owners overdoing this, but some spam usernames are super obvious. Like freecredit or onlinepoker.
4) It would be fantastic if we could add an entire domain name to the list of filters from the moderation panel. Right now it is a multi-step process to do this (and difficult in part because my spam list is so very long). Again, it would have to be done in a way where a listowner didn't overdo it (like discarding everything from yahoo.com or aol.com because some spammers use those addresses). But it is pretty frustrating to have a moderation page with, say, 6 spams in a row from the same domain name (something obvious) but each one uses a different username, and you know hundreds more are coming.
Okay, that's the wish list. Now on to the bug.
The moderation panel click feature will add ANY email address to the filter lists upon request. There is no check to see if it is a legit email address or not. But if it adds a bad address, it breaks the filter. The filter does still work, but it may not work for all the good addresses. I'm not sure if it works up to the bad address and then stops.
I have had this happen many times and there is no warning at all. The only way you know is if you try to edit the filter box list. Then when you save changes, it erases all of your changes and gives you an error message. The error message I got today said there was a bad email address and then it listed ALL of the addresses (and expressions) in my list. Very not useful.
I have too many to scan, though I did start from the bottom (the newer ones) and paged up a bit with no luck. The only way to debug this is to cut and paste the entire list to a text file then paste back a few addresses at a time and save the changes to see if it works. It took me about 20 mins. I discovered three bad addresses, not anywhere near each other either, though my guess is they're variations on the same spammer.
nets.service@denmark
nets.kort@service
nets@service-kort
In the past, I've had addresses rejected for having certain symbols in the usernames. This is the first time I've seen missing domain name places. I do try to look for bad addresses when I add them to the discard list from the moderation panel, but I get a lot of spam and sometimes I miss them (not to mention that they're not always obvious like these are).
I would like to see the bad email error message come up when you ADD the email address. If it's done directly on the Privacy page then leave it exactly as it is now. But please add a check to the moderation page so you can't add a bad email address without at least being warned about it (better if it's rejected).
Also, when giving the error message, please say which address(es) is bad.
That's it for now. I may not have been posting here for a long time but I'm still a happy Mailman user.
Thanks!
Cyndi
I am writing some custom mailman pages top fit the theme of my site. I am stumped on setting up a custom confirm.html page. Please advise how I do this.
I just subscribed to the virtualgl-users list at SF, and I subscribed with
a plushacked email address, jra+vgl@
Got the confirmation email ok, of course, but when I tried to send something,
it bounced "because I'm not subscribed to the list". I've never had that
happen before, but it's possible that I've never tried to sub a plushack
address to a Mailman list.
Does Mailman in fact not understand plushacked addresses as subscription
addresses, and that it should canonicalize them when a) checking for
duplicate subscriptions and b) accepting messages for restricted lists?
Cheers,
-- jra
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