Mailman-Users June 2014

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4.3.0 mail transport unavailable
by Conrad G T Yoder 16 Jun '14

16 Jun '14

I have recently (last couple weeks?) started getting "4.3.0 mail transport unavailable” bounces from roadrunner/TW addresses (the rate-limiting issue is not currently rearing its head), and that is causing Mailman (2.1.17) subscriptions to be disabled. Example error message in the “Bounce action notification” email: Reporting-MTA: dns; zapata.dreamhost.com X-Postfix-Queue-ID: B6D6B8DB0B72 X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; neohiopal-bounces(a)lists.neohiopal.org Arrival-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 05:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Final-Recipient: rfc822; foo(a)roadrunner.com Original-Recipient: rfc822;foo(a)roadrunner.com Action: failed Status: 4.3.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; mail transport unavailable From googling it appears this is may be a Postfix problem? Any one else seeing this with roadrunner/time warner? -Conrad -- SILENCE Don’t tweet our secrets

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dmarc_moderation_action not working in 2.1.18
by Peter Knowles 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

Hi, I've upgraded our Mailman installation to 2.1.18-1 recently and noticed that the "dmarc_moderation_action" is not working. We've setup a test list, and set the list to "Munge From" for "dmarc_moderation_action". Upon sending a test message in from either one of our Yahoo or AOL accounts the "From" field is being maintained as " username(a)yahoo.com" or "username(a)aol.com" respectively. The "vette" log is indicating that DMARC is being detected, and other logs also report DMARC's existence, however the "Munge From" action is NOT being taken. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. *** I searched the archives prior to posting this message, and the topics related to "dmarc_moderation_action" did not seem to cover exactly or resolve my issue. If you require more info, please let me know. *** Best Regards, Peter Knowles TPN Solutions Email: pknowles(a)tpnsolutions.com Phone: 604-229-0715 Skype: tpnsupport Website: http://www.tpnsolutions.com

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Digests not sending?
by Craig Gaevert 14 Jun '14

14 Jun '14

I run a few mailing lists through the hosts at Sonic.net. They recently upgraded equipment and software from 2.1.11 to 2.1.18-1. After following the threads on the DMARC issue, I was certainly pleased to have this resolved. Now however, in spite of what I am fairly sure are the correct settings, since nothing else changed, digests are not triggering on a daily basis. AFAICT, the setting Digest_Send_Periodic is set to ‘Yes’ but nothing happens. As I don’t have access to the logs, it is difficult for me to figure out what’s going on. I do have a support ticket in with Sonic but thought perhaps posting here might lead to a pointer as to what the issue might be and I can refer same to them. Thanks much. Craig Gaevert Listmom srcc-c-owner(a)lists.sonic.net cgarch(a)sonic.net

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Mailman init script doesn't work and webpage doesn't show list of lists
by Jimmy 13 Jun '14

13 Jun '14

I am upgrading a list server from an old Fedora system to a RHEL 6.5 server and migration of mailman isn't going well. Mailman (on both systems) is installed with the RH provided RPM (mailman-2.1.12-18.el6.x86_64) The first issue on the new server is that the mailman init script does not function, fails with this message "Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman". I can manually run `bin/mailmanctl start` and the service seems to start. Once the service is started I can get to the admin page and list overview page but the page indicates that there are no publicly advertised lists, even though all of the lists indicate "advertised = 1" in the dumpdb. Here are some steps I've taken: moved data/archive and mailman configs and Apache configs from old server to new updated URL's ./withlist -l -r fix_url list_name --urlhost=host2.domain.com Checked all settings in Default.py and mm_cfg.py updated /etc/aliases /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms /usr/lib/mailman/bin/check_perms -f /usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists (displays the lists I migrated from the old server) /usr/lib/mailman/bin/dumpdb /var/lib/mailman/lists/list_name/config.pck >~/list_name /usr/lib/mailman/bin/config_list -o list_name-conf (compared to old server and everything looks in order) If I create a newlist from the command line it is able to create the list and sends me an email, but I am unable to create lists from the web interface. Any ideas?

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Formatting the Welcome Message
by Odhiambo Washington 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

Can the welcome message be formatted in html? I have put html tags to make certain parts of the welcome message bold <b></b> but the tags are displaying in raw format instead of bolding:) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."

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How to List all the moderators of a mailing list?
by Reinier Carmona Lizana 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

I know that with list_admins i can see al the owners or admin of a mailing list, but now i am trying to get all the moderators from each list. Someone could give me a suggest? I will appreciate. -- Ing. Reinier Carmona Lizana Usuario Linux registrado: #483 500 Usuario Ubuntu registrado #27 296

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Bogus/forged subscription attempts: request for comments and possibly data
by Rich Kulawiec 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

If you (Mailman site operators) have a spare moment, please try running this: ------------cut here-------------- #!/bin/sh cd /var/local/mailman/logs egrep "pending [a-z]+ <[a-z]+(a)[a-z]+\.com>" subscribe \ | egrep -v "@gmail.com" \ | egrep -v "@hotmail.com" \ | egrep -v "@msn.com" \ | egrep -v "@aol.com" \ | egrep -v "@yahoo.com" \ | sed -e "s/(.*pending//" ------------cut here-------------- This is a first-cut, mildly sloppy script that will try to match some patterns of interest that I've noticed in my "subscribe" log and that might be in yours. The egrep clauses are in there to throw away data not of interest; the sed snips off the mailing list name and some other irrelevancies. Here is what the last 10 lines of its output look like on my system: Jun 06 00:14:32 2014 ehkfioxlkrr <yujwjs(a)zwdxgc.com> 62.210.226.131 Jun 06 13:23:16 2014 norchmecn <stydst(a)zdddmk.com> 86.51.26.20 Jun 07 02:06:20 2014 eljult <qbprgi(a)wabtdh.com> 86.51.26.11 Jun 07 13:21:20 2014 dvlevbpj <drksji(a)nlcvek.com> 210.14.138.102 Jun 07 15:41:10 2014 sdbdelkv <mtpdky(a)ghazhc.com> 86.51.26.18 Jun 07 16:17:10 2014 yqrebrgipo <ubnpwl(a)cgtnki.com> 86.51.26.20 Jun 08 06:37:12 2014 cihjwn <soudms(a)bprryw.com> 202.143.148.58 Jun 08 06:55:47 2014 ehxvwgrboo <iouwxm(a)mnaisa.com> 86.51.26.21 Jun 08 23:47:58 2014 qqpluym <jpbcnw(a)qkvfdi.com> 190.14.219.166 Jun 09 16:44:15 2014 mloepuj <figjdt(a)jjxlcu.com> 172.245.142.194 This is forged gibberish, of course. The user real name is always a lowercase alpha string. The email address is also, both LHS and RHS, and the TLD is always .com. (Hence the regexp in the first egrep.) I'm curious. First, is anybody else seeing these? Second, does anyone have a theory as to their purpose? And third, is there any value in combining data to see if patterns emerge? (I have some privacy concerns about that last one, since real email addresses might leak through, so I suspect if we decided to do that, it would be best to remove everything but the timestamp and IP address. I doubt the gibberish has any real explanatory value anyway.) ---rsk

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Yahoo - what chance of change now?
by Peter Shute 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

It's now about 2 months since Yahoo introduced their DMARC reject policy. I'm taking this as a sign that it's unlikely that they'll ever reverse the decision Has anyone heard anything that might indicate otherwise? Or that any mailbox providers other than Yahoo and AOL have started doing it, or have indicated that they ever/never will? Peter Shute

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 124, Issue 8
by EyeLand 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

2014-06-09 13:00 GMT+03:00 <mailman-users-request(a)python.org>: > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 16:40:35 -0400 > From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk(a)gsp.org> > To: mailman-users(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Export all subsribers > Message-ID: <20140608204035.GA29177(a)gsp.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 08:11:54PM +0300, EyeLand wrote: >> Hello, on mailing list I have many emails on "Membership Management... >> - [Membership List]", how I can export all on txt file? Thank you. > > >From the shell: > > ~mailman/bin/list_members name-of-mailing-list > > will put the list on stdout, so you could redirect it to a file > if you wish: > > ~mailman/bin/list_members name-of-mailing-list > roster > > If you have a number of mailing lists and want to dump them all, you > could use something along the lines of: > > #!/bin/csh > > set filelist = `~mailman/bin/list_lists -b` > > foreach i ($filelist) > ~mailman/bin/list_members $i > $i.roster > end > > which will create a series of files whose names consist of the > name of each mailing list suffixed with ".roster". > > ---rsk root@vps1:~# ~mailman/bin/list_members mailman -bash: ~mailman/bin/list_members: No such file or directory OR root@vps1:~# ~mailman/bin/list_members mailman@host -bash: ~mailman/bin/list_members: No such file or directory where I can read right name of my mailing list?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 124, Issue 8
by EyeLand 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

2014-06-09 21:42 GMT+03:00 Gerry Grieve <grieve(a)phas.ubc.ca>: > This complaint is NOT about the list name but about the > program name “~mailman/bin/list_members mailman”, ie the > shell did not find list_memebers with this path. > > Use the “locate” command to find your your mailmain/bin directory. > > ie >>gt; locate list_members > > > ttfn > > -- > Gerry R. Grieve ph: 604-822-4320 > Systems Manager, fax: 604-822-5324 > Physics& Astronomy, UBC > 6224 Agricultural Rd. > Vancouver, BC, Canada > V6T 1Z1 root@vps1:~# locate list_members /usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_members /usr/sbin/list_members /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/list_members /usr/share/man/man8/list_members.8.gz

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