Mailman 3 April 2014 - Mailman-Users

Emails from yahoo members, are getting rejected by yahoo, "Service Unavailable".
by Mark London April 18, 2014

April 18, 2014

Hi - Starting this week, I've discovered that emails sent from yahoo members on my mailing lists, are not getting delivered to other yahoo addresses on my mailing list, including the person who sent the message. My SMTP logs show that the message is getting rejected (see below). I'm positive that the reason this is happening, is because I have my mailing list configured to preserve the original email address, in the From: line, while putting the mailing list address in the Reply-To: If … [View More]

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DMARC and From header munging
by Lindsay Haisley April 18, 2014

April 18, 2014

It occurred to me that one possible variation on From: header munging which wouldn't break any applications depending on this being an actual, working address for a post's author, while still passing DMARC authentication, would be for Mailman to change the From: address to a VERP-like address with the author's address encapsulated within an address @ the list server. Any mail received by the list server for this address would have its address parsed by Mailman and be redirected to the original … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman
by Laura Creighton April 17, 2014

April 17, 2014

In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:41:15 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >The issue is msg_footer is assumed to be in the character set of the >list's language, us-ascii by default for English. I don't think Mailman >does the right thing in this case. >From my perspective, the problem is that by having these things defined in mm_cfg.py, all mailman administrators are stuck with whatever decisions their mailman host made for whatever language they chose as the default language for … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman
by Laura Creighton April 17, 2014

April 17, 2014

In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:54:19 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >In a message of Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:41:15 -0700, Mark Sapiro writes: >>The issue is msg_footer is assumed to be in the character set of the >>list's language, us-ascii by default for English. I don't think Mailman >>does the right thing in this case. > >>From my perspective, the problem is that by having these things >defined in mm_cfg.py, all mailman administrators are stuck with >… [View More]

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Upgrade 2.1.14 to 2.1.17 on Ubuntu Question
by Richard Shetron April 17, 2014

April 17, 2014

I've searched the list and found enough related posts that this looks like it should be simple just reinstall, hopefully with the original PREFIX settings and probably diff the old and new mm_cfg.py files just to catch all the changes/new features/etc. I have visual problems so my eyes often go fuzzy if I do too much computer work at one time. However I find there may be a complication from a problem made from the initial install of 2.1.14. The initial install was done as user mailman, group … [View More]

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Trying to understand charset encoding in mailman
by Laura Creighton April 17, 2014

April 17, 2014

I am trying to understand how charset encoding works, and I get the distinct idea that I must be missing one small, vital piece of information. Background: The problem arose as follows: Somebody changed the footer of the EuroPython Mailing list which is hosted at python.org to be: EuroPython 2014 \x96 Berlin, 21th\x9627th July Note the two \x96 s. The intent was almost certainly to have this string interpreted by the windows-1252 charset, where \x96 means a en dash. But the Europython … [View More]

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DMARC
by jason fb April 17, 2014

April 17, 2014

Isn't this DMARC issue a bellwether for the end of email lists as we know them? It seems to me that the means of production (the internet backbone, the mail servers, etc) are now owned by Big Media (Comcast, Walt Disney, CBS, Viacom, Time Warner) and it is in their interest to make sure they can sell as much advertising as possible to the cattle. People who operate Mailman servers (you guys) are just the little guys who are helping people facilitate non-advertisable communication between the … [View More]

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Seeking suggestion for better services for mailing list
by Amit Bhatt April 17, 2014

April 17, 2014

We are using the services from ultrahost.us There is no response from Ultrahost team in spite of our several tickets loged. Is anyone confronting the similar issue with them? I think now we may again have to change the service provider where we can get unlimited traffic with mailman as per the requirement. Do we have any hosting provider in India or Asia region? IN US we do face gap in communication when it comes to get the solution. Thanks, Amit Bhatt These days our list is out of function … [View More]

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Accessing sub-letter search lists
by Conrad G T Yoder April 16, 2014

April 16, 2014

[Using Mailman 2.1.14 on a hosted service] I have a large list (7600 addresses), and when I search for a list of users of a popular domain (e.g. yahoo.com), I of course get a large result set back - sometimes more than 50 beginning with a particular letter. On those addresses with more than 50 starting with a common letter, they are of course split up, but when I click on another of the sub-letter lists, the “Find” string disappears in the search results and I’m back to a subset of the whole … [View More]

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Reconfiguring Mailman with different with-cgi-gid
by Jon 1234 April 16, 2014

April 16, 2014

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 -… [View More]

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