Mailman-Users June 2014

mailman-users@python.org

56 participants
51 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

11 months, 2 weeks

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

1 year, 4 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, 11 months

Installing v3.0.0b4 on Debian 7

by ML mail

Hi, I am trying to install version 3.0.0b4 of Mailman on Debian 7 and for that purpose I took the original tar.gz file and ran: sudo python setup.py install There was an issue with the version of zope.interface which I resolved by running the following command: sudo pip install -U zope.interface Now Mailman got correctly installed but when doesn't seem to run. This is the output when I run the mailman command on its own: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/mailman", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('mailman==3.0.0b4', 'console_scripts', 'mailman')() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-5.3-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 356, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-5.3-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2439, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-5.3-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2155, in load ['__name__']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mailman-3.0.0b4-py2.7.egg/mailman/bin/mailman.py", line 34, in <module> from mailman.core.initialize import initialize File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mailman-3.0.0b4-py2.7.egg/mailman/core/initialize.py", line 43, in <module> from zope.component import getUtility File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zope.component-4.2.1-py2.7.egg/zope/component/__init__.py", line 19, in <module> from zope.interface import named Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong? Did I maybe forgot to do something or am I missing anything? Thanks for the hints Regards ML

7 years, 7 months

custom message for banned address

by Jim McKinney

Hi, We're currently running Mailman 2.1.12 I have been asked if we can customized message for addresses that are banned on certain lists, similar to the ability to customize postheld.txt for specific lists. We have a group of lists that we would like to limit membership to our domain but would like to have a little more explanation than the default message provides. For the general case the default is fine, but for a subset some customizing would great. I did some looking around in the source tree and this doesn't seem that this is possible, but I don't claim to be a Python expert, so it seems worth checking. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions. thanx -jmck

7 years, 7 months

Problems making list anonymous

by Douglas McCarroll

Never mind. This was my mistake. Those headers are added by my webhost when it receives the email from the list. Yes, I feel a little silly for so completely misunderstanding what was going on... :)

7 years, 7 months

Problems making list anonymous

by Douglas McCarroll

Hi All, I'd like to insure that sender's email addresses don't appear in any headers. I've set both anonymous_list and first_strip_reply_to to true. Despite this, I'm seeing the following when I view headers: X-Original-To: myaddress(a)mydomain.com Received: from zapata.dreamhost.com (zapata.dreamhost.com [66.33.216.56]) by homiemail-mx17.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6524115BD16 for <myaddress(a)mydomain.com>; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 05:05:57 -0700 (PDT) How can I prevent this? Thanks, Douglas

7 years, 7 months

Mailman not showing sender's name for DMARC domain policy=reject

by Gordon Dickens

Hello, I am runningseveral mailing lists with mailman version 2.1.18-1. Oneof my mailing lists does not ever show the sender's name in the From: headerfor DMARC domain policy=reject while the rest of my lists do show the sender's name in the From: header. I have compared the individual list settings and cannot find anything different. The list settings for the list that isn't showing the sender's name are as follows_: _General Options: from_is_list = No anonymous_list = No first_strip_reply_to = No reply_goes_to_list = "This list" Privacy options > Sender filters: dmarc_moderation_action = Munge From dmarc_quarantine_moderation_action = Yes My understanding is that one of the following should be displayed for a DMARC domainpolicy=reject: The author's display name fromtheir From: header or; If none and from a list member, the members real name from the membership list or; If none, at least the local part of the emailaddress. Does anybody have any idea what setting that I need to change to fix this? Thanks, Gordon

7 years, 7 months

Q: email moderation

by Jane Cua

Hi, Mailman version: 2.1.12-18 host: RH6 64-bit I have set up to hold non-member sender to a mailing list in mailman, I can see the message being help. But the moderator does not get an email notice right away, I would take a day before the moderator receives the moderation request. Where should I set it so that the moderation email is sent right away as soon as mailman receives the email from a non-member? -- Cheers! Jane

7 years, 7 months

Mailman ui only running on localhost 127.0.0.1

by Lauren Baird

Hi Everyone, I'm new to Python, Mailman and Virtual Environments so please excuse any silly questions... I have an existing python app running on my webserver at: subdomain.mydomain.com I have additionally installed mailman and the ui which is available on port 8000 via lynx on the command line at: lynx 127.0.0.1:8000 I had to install this in a virtual environment as the python version was different to the original app/what was available in yum. What I can't do is now get mailman's ui to show up on anything but the localhost. How do I direct either subdomain.mydomain.com:8000 or subdomain2.mydomain.com to the mailman interface? I can't quite seem to work out why its only listening on localhost: > netstat -anp | grep 80 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3780/python tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8001 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2608/python tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 3849/httpd Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Lauren

7 years, 7 months