Mailman 3 February 2014 - Mailman-Users

Mailman and postfix virtual user trouble
by Stefano Cislaghi 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Hello, I'm configuring mailman and postfix with virtual domain support. The problem is that everytime I send an email to mylist(a)lists.anotherdom.net I got a reply error from postfix as <*mylist(a)mydomain.io <mylist(a)mydomain.io>>* (expanded from < mylist(a)lists.anotherdom.net>): User unknown in virtual alias table I do not understand why the list is traduced to mydomain.io that is not configured anywhere. My mm_cfg.py is: MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/cgi-bin/mailman/' IMAGE_LOGOS = '/images/mailman/' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'myhost.mydomain.io' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'myhost.mydomain.io' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en' DEFAULT_SEND_REMINDERS = 0 MTA='Postfix' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = ['lists.anotherdom.net'] Here my main.cf configuration: http://pastebin.com/zNf9Lyn7 I see that virtual-mailman just translate: mylist(a)lists.anotherdom.net mylist And probably here postfix try to treat it as local address. However in /var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman is present mylist: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mylist" Any idea? thanks Ste

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Mail 2.1.12: We're sorry, we hit a bug!
by Srinivas B. 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Hi Environment: Mailman 2.1.12 on Amazon Linux 2012 with Python 2.6.9 and Virtualmin 4.0.5 GPL All our lists are under Emergency moderation. When a moderator goes to process held-messages and select "Preserve messages for the site administrator", then we see the following error: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.12 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. And then we see the following in /var/log/mailman/error file: Feb 18 21:42:26 2014 admin(10273): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(10273): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.12 -----] admin(10273): [----- Traceback ------] admin(10273): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(10273): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main admin(10273): main() admin(10273): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 165, in main admin(10273): process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata) admin(10273): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 716, in process_form admin(10273): forward, forwardaddr) admin(10273): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 167, in HandleRequest admin(10273): forward, addr) admin(10273): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 244, in __handlepost admin(10273): msg = cPickle.load(fp) admin(10273): ValueError: could not convert string to float Not selecting the checkbox titled: Preserve messages for site-administrator, is processing the emails just fine and there are no issues. Any insights on how to fix this error? PS: Trying to search for the text "We're sorry, we hit a bug!" on http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/, results in a ModPython/Lucene exception... Looks like "single-quote" is throwing off the search interface... -Srinivas

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Question about Mailman hosting service.
by Joe 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hello, everyone. In my attempt to find a Mailman hosting service I have received a message from one IT specialist advising me to avoid hosting services that utilize a cPanel. According to this specialist this is a bad arrangement and one that doesn't provide me full control of my lists. Since I am not an IT specialist I don't know what a cPanel is or how this can be a problem. Can any of you enlighten me ? What is a cPanel, why can this be a problem and how would it not allow me full control of my lists ? In addition, what problems should I expect to encounter in hosting my lists with an outside Mailman hosting service ? Thank you in advance, Joe.

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Mailman web interface with apache 2.4
by Stefano Cislaghi 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

Hi, I've just installed Ubuntu 13.10 with apache 2.4. Here, mailman is working but I'm getting stuck with the webinterface. He're providing anytime 403 forbidden, logging: AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin Digging into changelog of apache 2.4 I discoved that entries: Order Allow, Deny Allow from all are no more current and must be replaced by 'Require all granted'. Doing so didn't solve the issue, but error log changed as: AH01797: client denied by server configuration: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admin Here my current mailman.conf in apache2 sites: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/ Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/ <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI AddHandler cgi-script .cgi Require all granted </Directory> <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/> Options FollowSymlinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> <Directory /usr/share/images/mailman/> AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> Does anyone already hit this issue and solved? Seems to be something relalted to security options into apache 2.4 and cgi execution. thanks Ste

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LDAP for list owners/editors/managers
by Peter Flynn 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

I am investigating moving off LISTSERV to MailMan, as the LDAP-enabled version of LISTSERV is beyond out budget. Does MailMan support LDAP auth for the identities of list owners, editors, and managers (excuse my ignorance of MailMan terminology) but NOT for list members (subscribers). In other words, most of our lists are open to anyone to join, so members must not be restricted to in-house people; but lists can only be owned and run by an employee of the organisation (someone who appears in our identity management system). ///Peter -- Peter Flynn | Electronic Publishing Unit | IT Services | University College Cork | Phone +353 21 490 2609 | Email pflynn(a)ucc.ie | Web www.ucc.ie

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Line length and wrapping
by George Kasica 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

Does mailman enforce and sort of maximum line length in a message and if so at what point will it wrap - this is with content filtering off. Lastly is there a way to set this value or what are the maximum and minimums? Seeing what looks like wrapping at 73 characters which is an odd number to me and causing some issues for one of my list admins so I'm trying to come up with info and answers. Thanks, George --- George R. Kasica Sent from my iPhone5

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mailman with DKIM
by Natu 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

I am having some problems with yahoo and google throttling and blocking my mailserver. My understanding is that these guys are friendlier to mailservers that include DKIM signatures. I am running mailman-2.1.9-6 which removes the DKIM signatures. I am aware of the problem created when mailman adds headers/footers to the message. Is this behaviour any different in more recent versions? Are there any workable solutions out there to get mailman to be able to pass the message through with the original senders DKIM signature, without breaking the signature? Thank You, Natu

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Disabling privacy alert notifications
by daniel 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Hello, all. We are having problems with list administrators whose clients receive privacy alert notifications upon being re-subscribed to a mailing list. The notifications are problematic, because the administrator regularly adds people to the mailing list who have, for example, signed a petition, and such people get these messages, often many times. For example: http://pastebin.com/P2pB66JS. How could we go about disabling such notifications for the customer? Thanks in advance, Daniel > Subject: Mailman privacy alert > Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 10:31:47 +0000 > From: <list>-bounces@lists.<hosting-provider> > To: <customer>@<host> > > > An attempt was made to subscribe your address to the mailing list > <list-address>. You are already subscribed to this > mailing list. > > Note that the list membership is not public, so it is possible that a bad > person was trying to probe the list for its membership. This would be a > privacy violation if we let them do this, but we didn't. > > If you submitted the subscription request and forgot that you were already > subscribed to the list, then you can ignore this message. If you > suspect that > an attempt is being made to covertly discover whether you are a member > of this > list, and you are worried about your privacy, then feel free to send a > message > to the list administrator at <list>-owner@lists.<hosting-provider>.

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moderation problem
by MP Netsai 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Dear All, I have a baffling problem, and I hope you can send point me in the right direction. I have a server which runs some package which sends mail to a list that I manage. My problem is that every time I have to have it moderated even after I have placed the full address in the filters to "accept_these_nonmembers". I have even tried the wildcard "^.*$" and I have even set "generic_nonmember_action" to "Accept". What could I be missing or doing wrong? Thanks, Nets.

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Where are mailman Digests stored and for how long?
by George Kasica 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Just curious - coming from a majordomo world where you could determine where digests would go and then keep old ones "on file" as it were. Does mailman offer anything similar? Where do the digests it creates get stored, in what form and for how long? Thanks, George

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