Mailman 3 August 2014 - Mailman-Users

Controlling Mailman 2.1.x remotely
by S. Patrick Eaton 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

Hello, Mailman experts. I've been doing some development work for a Tokyo-based NPO that offers participation in a number of Mailman lists as one of the benefits of membership in the organization. Because membership in the organization is a requirement for participating in the Mailman discussions, the organization has not been providing members with direct access to the Mailman administrative features for subscribing and unsubscribing, but instead has been providing a homegrown administrative interface that uses PHP and curl to simulate user interactions via POST. When a recent update to Mailman introduced CSRF tokens, however, this approach broke down and the organization has been struggling to figure out how to manage the lists ever since. We know that Mailman 3 provides an API, which is exactly what we need, but because the site and Mailman lists are both on shared hosting, we are currently only able to use Mailman 2.1.x. Can anyone recommend a good approach to managing subscriptions in an automated way using either PHP or Python until such time as we can get our host to upgrade to Mailman 3? Any suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated. With many thanks in advance, Sako Eaton

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Held Messages - Accept via email ?
by Anne M. Hammond 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

mailman 2.1.12 Can Held Messages be Accept-ed via an email message, by including the list password in the body of the message? For example, as list Moderator, I receive the Held Message summary: -------------------- The test(a)corp.com mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for your consideration at: http://internal.corp.com/mailman/admindb/test Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. This notice of pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily. From: kenny.thomas(a)onlinesalesdata.com on Wed Aug 6 13:21:46 2014 Subject: Attention Required Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list -------------------- Is there a way to send email to test-request(a)corp.com to Accpt the message? Thanks in advance, Anne Hammond

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Noisy cron scripts
by Drew Ferguson 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Hi I upgraded my server the other day and as a result moved from Mailman 2.1.14 to 2.1.15. My lists seem to be working fine but I am pestered by cron sending me almost hourly reports with very unhelpful information like this Subject: Cron <mailman@asgard> /usr/bin/python -S /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 08:00:01 +0200 (CEST) Fname: /var/lib/mailman/lists/fergies-on-tour/config.pck The issuing script tends to vary: checkdbs, senddigests, disabled, etc - "disabled" is especially keen to talk to me though Is there something wrong with my setup? Any way I can get the cron scripts to be a bit more helpful? Thanks -- Drew

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Password reminders
by Peter Brooks 02 Aug '14

02 Aug '14

The installation of mailman that I'm using has the monthly sending of password reminders as the default setting. This led to some discussion with members of one of my mailman lists. It seems very odd that mailman sends clear-text passwords through e-mail. The use of one-way hashing passwords has been known a long time - Unix version 6 that came out in 1975 already had crypt that was used for one-way encryption of passwords. Does anybody know why mailman stores passwords in clear text? I imagine that, back in the '90s, when majordomo was written, it seemed an OK thing to do because nobody thought that all their email was being read - now that everybody knows that e-mail is entirely unsafe, it seems odd that mailman still does this. Are there any plans to tighten the security up?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Any way to globally search and/or remove a user
by George Kasica 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Thanks! Exactly what I needed. You just saved me HOURS of work. George -----Original Message----- From: Mailman Admin [mailto:mailman-admin@uni-konstanz.de] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 6:28 AM To: George Kasica Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Any way to globally search and/or remove a user Hello George Kasica Am 2014-08-01 09:45, schrieb George Kasica: > Curious here about the following: > > Is there any way or utility for Mailman that will allow me to search > ALL the mailing lists on the server for a given user email and then > remove that email address? > > I don't care about sending out a nice > email to them - these are SPAM passing emails that have gotten added > and I just want them gone...it's not a huge number maybe 2 dozen, but > when you spread that over say 8 lists and 2 servers the workload adds > up to do it manually. In a perfect solution I could feed it a list of > addresses in a flat file and let it go, if I have to build one line at > a time that's not so bad either, but pointing and clicking it ugly and > time consuming. Conversely there probably is a bounce setting that I > could be using to let it drop them after say 1or 2 bounces, but that > kills off anyone with even a transient mail server issue so I'd rather > go the manual route above. > On the command line you can use bin/remove_members for that. You can feed it with a file with one email address per line. For more infos see bin/remove_members -h Kind regards, Christian Mack

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Any way to globally search and/or remove a user
by George Kasica 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Curious here about the following: Is there any way or utility for Mailman that will allow me to search ALL the mailing lists on the server for a given user email and then remove that email address? I don't care about sending out a nice email to them - these are SPAM passing emails that have gotten added and I just want them gone...it's not a huge number maybe 2 dozen, but when you spread that over say 8 lists and 2 servers the workload adds up to do it manually. In a perfect solution I could feed it a list of addresses in a flat file and let it go, if I have to build one line at a time that's not so bad either, but pointing and clicking it ugly and time consuming. Conversely there probably is a bounce setting that I could be using to let it drop them after say 1or 2 bounces, but that kills off anyone with even a transient mail server issue so I'd rather go the manual route above. Thanks, George --- ===[George R. Kasica]=== +1 414 732 8503 gkasica(a)netwrx1.com +1 206 374 6482 FAX http://www.netwrx1.com/ Jackson, WI USA ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-'

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