Mailman-Users May 2014

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76 participants
69 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?

by Mal

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

2 weeks, 6 days

Mailman CGI Error-Group mismatch error

by Wang, Mary Y

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

6 months

Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there tool convert archived files/directories into a mbox file?

by Mark Sapiro

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

6 years

dmarc_moderation_action isn't working

by Joel Uckelman

Last week I upgraded to Mailman 2.1.18 in order to get the DMARC workarounds new in that version. I set dmarc_moderation_action for my list to "Munge From" and waited to see what would happen. Despite that I seem to still be having DMARC bounces, as this morning I got 22 "Bounce action notifications" for list subscribers from Mailman. I'm running the just-released RPM for 2.1.18 on Fedora 20. I have the python-dns package installed, which I read was required for DMARC checks. When I grep my logs for 'DMARC', all I see are the bounce messages in my Postfix log---so if the DMARC checks that should be made when a post from a yahoo.com account comes to the list are failing, they're failing in a way which isn't showing up. There is one unusual thing about my list---namely that it sits at one end of a bridge to a phpbb forum. That is, all of the posts from the forum are posted to the list with their Sender set to a special address which is subscribed to the list, and all post from the list are received by that special address and posted to the forum from there. This means that a lot of the addresses in From headers of messages going out over the list are not actually subscribers to the list. Could this be tripping up the dmarc_moderation_action? -- J.

6 years, 9 months

Logo in posts

by Odhiambo Washington

I have read the FAQs so I don't believe I missed one, but it could be possible. Is there a way, with full personalization, that I can include a logo in posts on a list? A remote possibility... I am using 2.1.18 -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."

6 years, 9 months

Administrate mailman list programmatically

by Jean Bon

Hi, I want to manage the users of a mailman list by program, using .net or java language. I can't find any ressource to do this. Do you know where I can find some information about this Best regards Ange

6 years, 9 months

multiple mailing list passwords

by Lucio Chiappetti

I am one of the list administrator/moderator for several mailing lists, most of which aren't based on my machine (a few are in another continent), so I am not the site admin for them. In particular three of these are on the same machine, therefore my firefox is able to remember the password for one mailing list only (if I reply YES to the request to change the stored password, it remembers the one of the last mailing list visited). Is anybody aware of any firefox add-on which allows to remember multiple password for one hostname (e.g. based on the full url of the list admin page) ? (Preferably one which does NOT store password outside of the local machine) Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html

6 years, 9 months

Sigh

by Mark J Bradakis

Currently just over 8,000 queued messages awaiting delivery. But I don't think it is a mailman issue: root@autox:~# ping -c 3 gmail.com PING gmail.com (74.125.225.182) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f22.1e100.net (74.125.225.182): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=20.2 ms 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f22.1e100.net (74.125.225.182): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=22.1 ms 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f22.1e100.net (74.125.225.182): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=20.2 ms --- gmail.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 20.252/20.891/22.154/0.900 ms root@autox:~# root@autox:~# telnet gmail.com 25 Trying 74.125.225.214... Trying 74.125.225.213... Trying 2607:f8b0:400f:800::1016... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is unreachable root@autox:~# root@autox:~# ping -c 3 gmail.com PING gmail.com (74.125.225.181) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f21.1e100.net (74.125.225.181): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=30.9 ms 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f21.1e100.net (74.125.225.181): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=21.2 ms 64 bytes from den03s05-in-f21.1e100.net (74.125.225.181): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=20.3 ms --- gmail.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 20.386/24.178/30.933/4.789 ms root@autox:~#

6 years, 9 months

Inserting List address into CC: of received posts

by Barry Gates

Am I missing something? I run a cancer support group. Is there some way to append the list address appended to "CC" of incoming messages? I would like my members to simply "Reply to all" and share response with the others in the group. Respectfully Barry Gates O=

6 years, 9 months

Yahoo Groups' From munging and X-Original-From

by Mark Rousell

What do you think of Yahoo Groups' From munging style and their X-Original-From header? Here is an example: X-Original-From: Mark Rousell <markr(a)signal100.com> From: "Mark Rousell markr(a)signal100.com [some-mail-list]" <some-mail-list(a)yahoogroups.com> I feel this is one of the better combinations of munging and new headers. All the information is there (and is very clear) and the X-Original-From header could (in due course) be recognised by mail clients and mailing list archive software. I realise that this falls foul of http://www.dmarc.org/supplemental/mailman-project-mlm-dmarc-reqs.html and yet it does seem to offer many benefits, especially the X-Original-From header and the promise it holds for automated recognition. It is also possible to add X-Original-From to the .INVALID/.REMOVEME munging that some prefer too: X-Original-From: Mark Rousell <markr(a)p-reject-domain.com> From: "Mark Rousell [via some-mail-list]" <markr(a)p-reject-domain.com.REMOVEME> Any thoughts? -- Mark Rousell PGP public key: http://www.signal100.com/markr/pgp Key ID: C9C5C162

6 years, 9 months