Mailman-Users September 2014

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34 participants
45 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, 3 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

5 months, 3 weeks

Mailman 2.1.18-1 not respecting add_virtualhost

by Chris Miller

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

5 years, 8 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

We're sorry, we hit a bug!

by Roel Wagenaar

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?

6 years, 1 month

Mailman List Unsubscribe notification

by Srinivas B.

Hello On one of our lists, I have noticed a bunch of unsubscribe-notifications. Is there a way to turn-off this automated unsubscribe of members? -Srinivas

6 years, 5 months

perplexing mailman issue.

by Michael Capelle

hello, when i sent a subscription request in plane text, i got nothing back, however, when i sent it in HTML, i got a responce, is this a mailman issue?

6 years, 5 months

mailman logs, mail flow into/out of mailman

by Bruce Harrison

Have had to do some tracking of mailman activity for management. I'm familiar with the mailman logs, web server access_log, and linux sendmail logs. Is there any place where the flow of mail into and out of mailman, along with when log entries are made, documented anywhere? Especially a moderated message. Qrunner activity, that kind of thing. I've poked around the FAQ and other things online, but didn't find much. I did find some mailman 3 info though (I'm 2.1.7) Bruce Harrison UT Martin

6 years, 5 months

iOS app for moderation open sourced

by christian studer

Hello, I'm maintaining and moderating a couple of Mailman lists and when I was looking for an easy moderation tool, I've stumpled upon 'Mailman Moderator' for iOS [1]. Unfortunately the app isn't quite stable [2] and the original programmer isn't working on it anymore. After exchanging a couple of mails, he agreed to open source it here (MIT licensed): https://github.com/JanMisker/MailmanModerator-iOS Maybe somebody else will pick it up and polish it a little. With kind regards, christian [1]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mailman-moderator/id349100180?ls=1&mt=8 [2]: It often crashes after moderation, no loading indicator, setup is finicky (If you're not putting the base url exactly to admindb/mailinglistname, it fails), the icon could be nicer. -- http://hymnos.existenz.ch (In Wirklichkeit gar nicht anwesend.)

6 years, 5 months

Mailman equivalent of Yahoo "Special Announcements"?

by Steven D'Aprano

Hi, I'm about to migrate a Yahoo Groups mailing list to mailman. Yahoo Groups offers four delivery modes: - individual emails - daily digests - no mail - special announcements only and I have list members set to all four of them. The first three I can easily deal with, but I'm not sure how to handle those set to the last. As far as I can tell, the only difference between a Special Announcement and a regular post in Yahoo Groups is that a moderator can tick a checkbox when writing a Special Announcement on Yahoo's web UI. I've scanned the FAQs and can't see anything obvious about this, nor can I see anything in the mailman web UI. I could just decide not to support this special announcements feature, but if I wanted to support it, what would be a good approach? The only thing I can think of would be to create a second list, mylist-announce, and subscribe everyone to that as well as mylist. But that makes user management tricky, requires new members to subscribe to both, unsubscribe from both, etc. Have I missed something obvious? If not, is there another, simpler, work-around? Thank you, -- Steve

6 years, 5 months