Mailman 3 October 2015 - Mailman-Users

Editing Mailman's text files
by Pete Bell 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hi. I'm a new member of this group but have been running an email list with Mailman for a long time. I am now setting a list up again and want to give a "look and feel" to the list which has more branding of my user group as a whole, and less of a Mailman-feel. I seem to remember that besides editing the public HTML pages, it is possible to edit the text files which Mailman automatically sends out for certain needs (such as 'approve.txt', 'adminsubscribeack.txt', 'invite.txt', and so on). A. Is this still the case? B. If so, where can I find them? (in case they've changed from the ones I have from long ago). C. Where do they need putting, so that Mailman can use them again? It's important that I should tell you that Mailman on my webhosts servers is a "server-wide" installation, and I don't get to edit anything which other clients to their servers need. This would be only for my own use, and as such I need to know where these files go in my own webspace, and how to get Mailman to use them instead of the default ones. I should also say that I have done this before, so unless the facility to do this has been ditched in recent years, I *should* still be able to do it ! Does Mailman perhaps look for these files somewhere in my webspace (which I have to give a specific name), and if it doesn't find them it goes on to find its default versions of these files? Thanks in advance for your help. Pete Bell, UK

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Running two list with same email prefix
by Andrea Cappelli 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi all, I'm running a mail server with Debian Lenny, MTA is Postfix and i will use postfix-to-mailma.py script to run list I would set up Mailman for running mailing list with same email prefix on different domains, obvious with different list names For example we have ml.domain1.com and ml.domain2.net, i would like to have LISTADDRESS LISTNAME tech(a)ml.domain1.com tech-ml.domain1.com tech(a)ml.domain.2.net tech-ml.domain2.net In this way i can have the same address on differente domains and Mailman (my version is 2.1.11) can distinguish between lists because the list name is different. The list name will be also used to access web interface, so we have http://ml.domain1.com/mailman/admin/tech-ml.domain1.com http://ml.domain2.net/mailman/admin/tech-ml.domain2.net Is possible to accomplish this task? Any idea?

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Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Hi, Is there any way to configure Mailman such that, for an announcement-only type list, when a message is sent to the list, the To: shows the member's address, rather than the list address? Some list software allows the ability to hide the list address itself, so that address is not advertised. I couldn't find any configuration specific to that.

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Using cronjob to remove and add members to a mailing list
by Jerry Barnabee 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

I want to be able to run a cronjob on my server that uses a php script to add new users and/or remove users from a mailing list. Not having any luck finding any simple examples. My thought is that the php script would get email addresses from a database (which I can do) and then feed them to a mailman command line to either add or remove a user. The cronjob is entered via Cpanel. Have several cronjobs that modify databases but have never tried something that would actually execute a unix command. Thanks, Pineyscripter

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Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 17 Feb '21

17 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 10 Sep '20

10 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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changing domains on Mailman implementation
by Keith Seyffarth 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Is there an efficient way to change the domain name that mailman is affiliated with? I have two mailing lists that were created for an organization before that organization had their own domain. At the time the organization was sure they did not want their own domain and would not be getting a domain. Since then, they have chosen to get a domain and set up a web site. I would like to move their mailing lists onto their domain. It looks like the process for this is: 1) get the list of subscribers 2) delete the mailing list from the one domain (losing the archives) 3) create the mailing list on the new domain 4) subscribe the list of subscribers This process doesn't seem too difficult, but I would prefer to keep the archives, if possible. Both domains are on the same server, running CentOS7 and PLESK 12.5, if that makes a difference. Thanks, Keith

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DMARC hack
by Allan Hansen 10 Apr '16

10 Apr '16

Hi, I have waited almost a year for AOL and Yahoo to admit that they messed up and to remove their DMARC policy. My AOL and Yahoo subscribers are pretty upset at me because I won’t let them post. A number now have two subscriptions, one for posting (from GMail) and another for receiving the messages. So against my better judgement, I included this hack in Cleanse.py; 22c22 < from email.Utils import formataddr, parseaddr — >from email.Utils import formataddr 69,74d68 < < # Added to deal with DMARC issuej < name, addrs = parseaddr(msg.get('from')) < addrs += '.invalid' < del msg['from'] < msg['from'] = formataddr((name, addrs)) \ No newline at end of file I found it in the discussion list. I don’t get compile errors, but Cleanse.pyc is not being updated. I have stopped and restarted Mailman and I have also rebooted, but same non-action. I have not tried ‘compileall’ and am not eager to, either (permissions, where to invoke, etc). Any suggestions? The host OS is Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 with Mailman 2.1.14 Yours, Allan

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restrict subscription, unsubscription and send mails in mailman list
by Amaury Viera Hernández 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Hi everyone: I just arrived to this list and I'm needing your help. I have a mailman list and I need 3 things (I couldn't find this in google and in http://wiki.list.org/DOC/Frequently%20Asked%20Questions): 1- I need that the users couldn't subscribe to the list 2- I need that the subscribed users can't unsubscribe 3- I need that just some users can send mails to the list Regards and Thanks in advance, Amaury. Noviembre 13-14: Final Caribeña 2015 del Concurso de Programación ACM-ICPC https://icpc.baylor.edu/regionals/finder/cf-2015

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Mailman and qmail problem
by Abdallah Dhaou 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

I have a problem configuring mailman 2.1.18 with qmail on Debian . Short version : The package is installed, users could subscribe to the list, unsubscribe ... everything work fine, but it always fail to send an email to all members. Long version : The package is installed, users could subscribe to the list, unsubscribe ... everything work fine. Once I access to the email of the list's administartor and try to send an email to all members, it always fail. This is what I have in the log //////////////////////// start copy //////////////////////////////////// @40000000563118d016611294 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 @40000000563118fa225c516c new msg 394714 @40000000563118fa225c610c info msg 394714: bytes 1519 from <souma(a)domain41.com> qp 30138 uid 901 @40000000563118fa229d1774 starting delivery 1: msg 394714 to local log(a)ipb-srv41.domain41.com @40000000563118fa229d1f44 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40000000563118fa229d232c starting delivery 2: msg 394714 to local list-listsouma(a)lists.ipb-srv41.domain41.com @40000000563118fa229d2714 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 @40000000563118fa255f583c delivery 2: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ @40000000563118fa255f67dc status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40000000563118fa29c93654 delivery 1: success: October_28,_2015,_6:50_pm_-_30142_-_DIR:/tmp/emails/mail1446058224.65219600/_Fim/did_0+0+1/ @40000000563118fa29c949dc status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 @40000000563118fa2b23730c bounce msg 394714 qp 30153 @40000000563118fa2b237ec4 end msg 394714 @40000000563118fa2b2ac9f4 new msg 394975 @40000000563118fa2b2acddc info msg 394975: bytes 2092 from <> qp 30153 uid 906 @40000000563118fa2b5e64e4 starting delivery 3: msg 394975 to local log(a)ipb-srv41.domain41.com @40000000563118fa2b5e6cb4 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @40000000563118fa2b5e6cb4 starting delivery 4: msg 394975 to local souma(a)domain41.com @40000000563118fa2b5e709c status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 //////////////////////// End copy //////////////////////////////////// While I create a list from the command line --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ipb-srv41:/var/qmail# newlist list1 Enter the email of the person running the list: administrator(a)domain41.com Initial list1 password: To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your /etc/aliases (or equivalent) file by adding the following lines, and possibly running the `newaliases' program: ## list1 mailing list list1: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post list1" list1-admin: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin list1" list1-bounces: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces list1" list1-confirm: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm list1" list1-join: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join list1" list1-leave: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave list1" list1-owner: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner list1" list1-request: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request list1" list1-subscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe list1" list1-unsubscribe: "|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe list1" Hit enter to notify list1 owner... ipb-srv41:/var/qmail# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My questions are the following: 1- where those alias are stored ? 2- is there an addional config to do with qmail ? 3- why the user receive email to subscribe/unsubscribe , but the admin couldn't sedn email to the list ?

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