Mailman 3 February 2014 - Mailman-Users

Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann 16 Nov '23

16 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 16 Feb '21

16 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 09 Sep '20

09 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there tool convert archived files/directories into a mbox file?
by Mark Sapiro 02 Mar '15

02 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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Making a Mailman legacy archive searchable?
by David Roth 23 May '14

23 May '14

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

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MM-2.1.15: Small bug regarding the "request forgery check"
by Ralf Hildebrandt 12 May '14

12 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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accessing relay mailman server from its own network
by Anne Wainwright 04 May '14

04 May '14

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

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Reconfiguring Mailman with different with-cgi-gid
by Jon 1234 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

Dear all I used the following when setting up Mailman 2.14: ./configure --prefix=ZZZ/mailman --with-mail-gid=daemon --with-cgi-gid=www --with-username=ZZZ --with-groupname=users --with-python=ZZZ/bin/python To upgrade PHP from 5.2 to 5.3 the website hosts have to enable suexec (I don't quite understand this but bear with me!) which breaks Mailman, I think because it runs as a different user to before. Can I reconfigure Mailman using this? ./configure --prefix=ZZZ/mailman --with-mail-gid=daemon --with-cgi-gid=users --with-username=ZZZ --with-groupname=users --with-python=ZZZ/bin/python This is the with-cgi-gid setting that the hosting people suggest, but I would be grateful for confirmation from someone on this expert list. What else would I need to do? Thanks very much in anticipation. Jon

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Why does iOS's Safari log out the moderator web page?
by Peter Shute 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

I use the moderator web page with Firefox, and it stays logged in for as long as I keep the browser open. But with Safari on iPhone and iPad, I often have to log in again when I return to it. Same for every other browser I've tried under iOS. Can anyone tell me why? Peter Shute

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mailman list questions about password and bounces-back for invalid emails
by s7r 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have 2 simple questions about mailman mail lists: 1). I can see there is an option to receive monthly reminder of password, and the password is sent in plain text. Is the password in plain text visible to the mail list owner / administrator? Or mailman stores a secure hash of the password like sha-256 or ripemd-160? If the password is stored in hash format, how come I can receive it monthly in plain text? 2). If an email address works for some time but becomes suddenly invalid (e.g. server down, domain cancelled, etc.) and when messages are being sent to that address they bounce back with permanent failure, will mailman remove these email addresses automatically? If yes, after how many attempts of sending? What if the email address server is just down for a day or something. Thank you! - -- s7r(a)sky-ip.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTD4uhAAoJEIN/pSyBJlsRsKQH/ROdvGA5V8lL723yC+sP4ZZB w/DEalwQ0Em7JFnfgjG+Pzic5g+65+3vXEmG5SNXGk3IFjuo5Nlpd5N5Jdiw+62A kEr4YRTRl8jb1JxDidmiksV/Czu31kTsJmKB3YcXHCu6e3jQrXVCTJF0CD3b+yoR zWfv8RUtpY9XhEkmSk0pBJXXd2nFyLEuipkYL09VB6TGQWPMam+BWkoW+YFM6tCQ 8h8kzhvzZRSTVf7VIZ8GFYwK2T/rBZb43aXSWKSh7YKqvDxoa8RxdzGA83UK/oXQ zVpY/CiJU+hX344F1m6A5knTFcepJY8aRgXpvhOKkAuCs5Fy8m4FujIA9xIsJTM= =s8Lp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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