Mailman 3 August 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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Mailman 2.1.18-1 not respecting add_virtualhost
by Chris Miller 03 Jul '15

03 Jul '15

Hello, we recently updated our (vhost patched) Mailman installation from 2.1.14 to 2.1.18-1 (https://launchpad.net/~msapiro) in order to workaround Yahoo's recent change to their SPF policy that this version addresses. Virtual mailing list hosting worked fine up until this upgrade. Here is an example of our mm_cfg.py : VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'list.ourdomain.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'list.ourdomain.com' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = On add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) add_virtualhost('list.customerdomain.com', 'customerdomain.com') If we change the default values above and run the below command, the available mailing lists move from the old default to the new. bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url -- All add_virtualhost configuration lines are ignored. Since withlist is able to read the changes in our mm_cfg.py, this does not strike me as an issue with our configure options which were limited : ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/mailman --with-var-prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-cgi-gid=apache I am unaware of a method we can use to further debug this, such as a command that would effectively dump out Mailman's configuration options, thus validating if it is even reading the add_virtualhost configuration lines. -- Regards, Chris Chris Miller President - Rocket Scientist ScratchSpace Inc. (831) 621-7928 http://www.scratchspace.com

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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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We're sorry, we hit a bug!
by Roel Wagenaar 10 Jan '15

10 Jan '15

L.S. Bug in Mailman version 2.1.15 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. The above message shows up on the web pages, unfortunately the last log written to is qrunner, error is empty, so no info on what it is about. The last thing changed is the adres of the main pages. It looks like the mail-system is not affected, any idea what is going on? Would like to show some logging, but it simply is not there. -- Roel Wagenaar, Linux-User #469851 with the Linux Counter; http://linuxcounter.net/ Antw.: Omdat het de volgorde verstoord waarin mensen tekst lezen. Vraag: Waarom is top-posting een slechte gewoonte? Antw.: Top-posting. Vraag: Wat is het meest ergerlijke in e-mail? Why be difficult, when with a bit of effort, you can be impossible?

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Number of threads
by Chad Cordero 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

I am using MailMan version 2.1.12 and I am being asked for the total number of messages without replies (threads) for a list. I can see the “Messages: “ count in the archives, but this is the total number of messages, not threads. Is there a way to get the number of threads? --- Chad Cordero Enterprise Applications Support 5500 University Pkwy San Bernardino, CA 92407 Tel: 909-537-7281 Email: ccordero(a)csusb.edu

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Erratic mail delivery times
by Peter Shute 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

As a moderator of our list, I know when messages are approved, and I'm seeing very erratic delivery times to my own address, which is on an Exchange server. They used to come through within a minute or so, now they can take 20 minutes or an hour. I subscribed my gmail address for comparison, and am finding that the same list messages come through to it as quickly as ever. >From those observations I would conclude that the Exchange server is having problems receiving external mail, but I've found that test messages sent from my gmail account to my Exchange address come through within seconds. Can I assume this has nothing to do with mailman? Peter Shute Sent from my iPad

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Moderation by email instead of web interface ?
by BONNET, Frank 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

Hello Anyone could send me some info on how to configure a particuliar list to be moderated through email and NOT with the web interface with the Approve mechanism Thank you

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Moderated list, letting some users be unmoderated, and with emails addressed to multiple recipients.
by Steve 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

Hi, I'm a moderator on a GNU Mailman list running version 2.1.13. <http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html> The list moderated, all posts come to me for approval. I have a few very trustworthy and regular posters that I have set as unmoderated to save myself some work. The problem is that they send their emails to multiple lists/recipients and when they do I am still forced to approve their posts. Is there an option in the GUI front end I can set on these users to let their posts straight through regardless? Thanks Steve

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.psv files in /var/spool/mailman/in 2.1.9
by Will Yardley 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

I found some .psv files in /var/spool/mailman/in/ (RHEL 5 Mailman package; 2.1.9). That seems to be too early for the stuff mentioned here (and I don't see those options in Defaults.py) https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-June/066395.html Is it safe to remove old .psv files in this directory directly via find / cron? w

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