Mailman 3 October 2014 - Mailman-Users

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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Mailman 2.1.18-1 not respecting add_virtualhost
by Chris Miller 04 Jul '15

04 Jul '15

Hello, we recently updated our (vhost patched) Mailman installation from 2.1.14 to 2.1.18-1 (https://launchpad.net/~msapiro) in order to workaround Yahoo's recent change to their SPF policy that this version addresses. Virtual mailing list hosting worked fine up until this upgrade. Here is an example of our mm_cfg.py : VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'list.ourdomain.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'list.ourdomain.com' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = On add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) add_virtualhost('list.customerdomain.com', 'customerdomain.com') If we change the default values above and run the below command, the available mailing lists move from the old default to the new. bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url -- All add_virtualhost configuration lines are ignored. Since withlist is able to read the changes in our mm_cfg.py, this does not strike me as an issue with our configure options which were limited : ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/mailman --with-var-prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-cgi-gid=apache I am unaware of a method we can use to further debug this, such as a command that would effectively dump out Mailman's configuration options, thus validating if it is even reading the add_virtualhost configuration lines. -- Regards, Chris Chris Miller President - Rocket Scientist ScratchSpace Inc. (831) 621-7928 http://www.scratchspace.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there tool convert archived files/directories into a mbox file?
by Mark Sapiro 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

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 -- 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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We're sorry, we hit a bug!
by Roel Wagenaar 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

L.S. 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. The above message shows up on the web pages, unfortunately the last log written to is qrunner, error is empty, so no info on what it is about. The last thing changed is the adres of the main pages. It looks like the mail-system is not affected, any idea what is going on? Would like to show some logging, but it simply is not there. -- Roel Wagenaar, Linux-User #469851 with the Linux Counter; http://linuxcounter.net/ Antw.: Omdat het de volgorde verstoord waarin mensen tekst lezen. Vraag: Waarom is top-posting een slechte gewoonte? Antw.: Top-posting. Vraag: Wat is het meest ergerlijke in e-mail? Why be difficult, when with a bit of effort, you can be impossible?

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config.pck files
by Christopher Adams 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hello all, A list that is hosted here reported that the membership list and other settings had reverted to previous content. I took a look at the files and see this: -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 14526 Oct 30 08:00 config.pck -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 48950 Sep 29 13:15 config.pck.corrupt -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 14526 Oct 30 08:00 config.pck.last -rw-rw---- 1 apache mailman 49499 Sep 29 16:38 config.pck.safety It looks like the config.pck file was corrupt. Just for clarification, what are the other config.pck* files ? Since teh config.pck.safety looks like it is much larger in size, and I ran ./dumpdb to read it and it appears to be more current data, I am thinking that I can use it to overwrite the config.pck, which apparently was used because the file was corrupt. Can someone explain how these files work when the file becomes corrupt? Can I just copy the config.pck.safety to config.pck ? Many thanks -- Christopher Adams adamsca(a)gmail.com

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Images on iPhone's not loading
by James Nightly 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Our school newsletter often has a few images accompanying news articles. These images load fine on android phones and in regular computer browsers. Images do now show on the same message and email account when viewed on iPhone's. On iPhone all I see is an outline of an image with file name and none of the images load/show. Articles/text loads fine. filter_content is set to No iPhone settings > Email > Load email images is enabled We are on v. Mailman 1:2.1.18-1, Debian 3.16.3-2

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MM3/Delivery Problem
by Guillaume Libersat 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

Hi, We're running a mailman 3.0.0b at ulists.org and so far it was working quite well. Since a few days, email delivery seems to be broken, but only for the posts, not bounces. When someone subscribes, he gets the welcome message. When someone posts, nothing is delivered. Same when posting from hyperkitty. Here's what happens when en email is sent to a list: On the MM3 side: Oct 30 15:34:36 2014 (1387) <20141030143436.1389.15086(a)mailman.ulists.org> smtp to test(a)ulists.org for 1 recips, completed in 0.0919508934021 seconds Oct 30 15:34:36 2014 (1387) <20141030143436.1389.15086(a)mailman.ulists.org> post to test(a)ulists.org from test-request(a)ulists.org, 1177 bytes and on the smtp side: Oct 30 15:34:36 mailman postfix/qmgr[7675]: CEF7719628BC: from=<glibersat(a)unisson.co>, size=718, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 30 15:34:36 mailman postfix/lmtp[2526]: CEF7719628BC: to=<test(a)ulists.org>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:8024, delay=0.14, delays=0.0 6/0.04/0/0.04, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Ok) Oct 30 15:34:36 mailman postfix/qmgr[7675]: CEF7719628BC: removed Any idea of what I should check? Thanks a lot ! Guillaume

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Membership search changes?
by Jim Popovitch 01 Nov '14

01 Nov '14

Hello, Did something change recently with Membership searches in mm-2.1.18-1? It seems that the search text no longer searches the complete subscriber list, rather only the selected (i.e. A, B, C, D, etc) grouping. I searched the bug reports and didn't see any thing related. Thx, -Jim P.

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Changing ports doesn't seem to work
by Brian Rudy 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

Hello all, Due to changing ISP's I was forced to change my web port to something other than 80. On port 80, everything was working well. I moved all of my web interfaces to port 8000. I thought I followed the instructions correctly and did: bin/withlist -l -r fix_url <listname> It seems to work fine using http://host.example.com:8000/mailman/admin/<listname> but any link I click on doesn't add in the port number (:8000) so by default, it's trying port 80. Is there any way around that? If I manually copy the link and paste it in the url of the browser and manually add in the :8000 the link works fine. The problem then is when I try to submit something... It doesn't take. I would appreciate any assistance. Thank you, Brian

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