Mailman 3 March 2014 - Mailman-Users

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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handler to auto detach attachment and link it to a website?
by Sylvain Viart 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

Hi, I've a project to setup a mailman for newsletter. I've found many interesting links about it. I will post them as a reminder at the end of this message, as it can help someone else. My question is: Is there any handler that I can setup in the pipeline to: * detach an attachment * post it to a webservice (or run a script uploading it to an online storage) * modify the content of the mail, linking it to the online stored attachment ? Or a good base to program it. The goal to achieve, is to permit restricted sender to write mail with attachment but do not replicate it to all member of the list. Also for non technical writer, uploading the attachment and linking may be too painful. Regards, Sylvain. Reference links, some may be pretty old. newsletter : How do I create a newsletter/announcement/one-way list? http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030685 personalisation VERP exemple de mail, simple piste : https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2003-February/026008.html 4.48. How can I change the HTML (or .txt) templates used by my mailing lists? http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030605 4.33. How do I put a subscribe form for my list on a web page? <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030596> 3.40. I want to completely customize the look and feel of Mailman – how do I do that? <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030560> What is the largest list Mailman can run? <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030518> [Mailman-Users] Keeping the Publich_HTML subscription page from popping up. <http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/msg24296.html> [Mailman-Users] Editing confirm page <http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/msg32261.html> Mailman processes incoming messages through a pipeline of handlers which each do parts of the message processing <http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7602227>

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building a new mailman server
by Bruce Harrison 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

We are currently running an old mailman instance and am planning to bring up the newest version of mailman and migrate to it. Current system uses sendmail. Since I now have a chance to change things, what is the best mail server to run on my mailman box? It will be talking to an exchange 2010 frontend server (current mailman system is doing that now). I can install sendmail or go with postfix or ??? This is running on a debian box. Bruce Harrison UT Martin

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HTML to Text-Only
by Peter Fiala - WCASA 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

One of the listservs I manage sends text-only messages though I have that option unchecked under content filtering. This happens to this list and not any others, though the option is the same for all lists I manage. Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? This conversion happens after MIME attachments have been stripped. (Edit convert_html_to_plaintext)<http://lists.wcasa-blog.org/admin.cgi/regional_ta_sc-wcasa-blog.org/?VARHEL…> No Yes Wondering if anyone has any solutions. Thanks. Peter Sent from my iPad

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