Mailman 3 October 2015 - Mailman-Users

Additional questions about ban_list
by Chris Nulk Oct. 16, 2015

Oct. 16, 2015

Hello all, I have been loosely following the discussion regarding regex in the ban_list attribute. I now find myself being asked to create a list which will most likely use the ban_list attribute. So, I have a few questions. 1. The ban_list attribute is to help prevent unwanted people from subscribing to a list, however, I want to restrict who can subscribe to the list and ban anyone else. I have the regex for who I want to allow to subscribe but there isn't an allow_list attribute. Is there an easy way of allowing a regex to control who is able to subscribe? Or, is there a way to easily invert the regex logic and use it in ban_list? As an example (not the real regex), say I want to only allow @gmail.com to subscribe to the list but no one else. 2. An additional requirement is to restrict a subgroup of the addresses from subscribing. In short, I want to allow all @gmail.com addresses to subscribe except for a known subgroup. Now the known subgroup is in a Mailman list. So, can I use a Mailman list in the ban_list attribute similar to using a list in *_these_members attributes? Or, would I have to modify the code to allow using a Mailman list in the ban_list attribute? Thank you for your consideration, Chris

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Mailman 3 : add footer to messages
by Camille Ollié Oct. 14, 2015

Oct. 14, 2015

Hi, i've not found in mailman 3 where to add footer to messages. Can anyone tell me where it must be done ? :) Regards. -- Camille Ollié www.forum-pc.net / www.scoot-boost.com LinkedIn : http://lnkd.in/_K65k5

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Re: [Mailman-Users] MM 3 : permit users to manage subscription
by Camille Ollié Oct. 14, 2015

Oct. 14, 2015

Le 23/09/2015 15:46, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit : > Camille Ollié writes: > > > > How are the users trying "access accounts"? Through the web? What is > > > in the webserver log when they try to access an account? > > > > no one accessed for now. > > I don't understand, before you said they "couldn't access", now you > say they "didn't access." You need to be a lot more precise about > what your problem is, or nobody's going to be able to help you. > > Please continue the conversation on the mailing list. I myself will > have no time to participate for several days. > > > Hi, they don't have any access. I added them with the mass subscription option in the mailing list manager. -- Camille Ollié www.forum-pc.net / www.scoot-boost.com LinkedIn : http://lnkd.in/_K65k5

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Fwd: BCC and bounces
by Borja Riesgo Juan Oct. 14, 2015

Oct. 14, 2015

Hello, related to https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2015-September/079767.html how can i display "undisclosed recpiets"? I remmeber that in first testing i´ve got this. Best regards, Borja Riesgo borjariesgo(a)gmail.com

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Formatting problems with AOL subscribers
by Steven D'Aprano Oct. 14, 2015

Oct. 14, 2015

Hi, I run an announcement-only mailing list with mailman, and some of my subscribers are having problems with the formatting of the text. Specifically AOL users. What I'm sending is plain text with hard end-of-lines, and blank lines between paragraphs (rather like this email itself). The emails look as intended in my mail clients (Thunderbird and mutt), and in the web archive: http://www.pearwood.info/pipermail/wossname/2015/000028.html but AOL users say that they get a single block of text with no paragraphs. I'm not sure if that means that it just lacks the blank lines between paragraphs, or if it means that the entire post is converted to a single paragraph. Has anyone else come across this? Do you know what is going on and is there anything I can do to fix it? Thanks, -- Steve

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Troubleshooting help needed
by John Swartzentruber Oct. 12, 2015

Oct. 12, 2015

Hi, I've been off this list for a few years, but suddenly today I've run into a problem and I'm stumped. I suspect it might be a postfix problem, not a mailman problem, but I'm not really sure and I'm hoping someone here can give me some pointers. Until this morning I've had mailman working fine for me (for many years and over one year with my current server, which is running CentOS 6). Basically one small list that is active daily and a few other lists that are mostly inactive. I wanted to disable two of the inactive lists without removing them or their archives. To do this, I edited my /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman file and added "# " in front of all of the entries for those lists. I did the same in the /etc/mailman/aliases file. Prior to these edits I had googled and found some messages from Mark that seemed to indicate that this was an appropriate approach. I rebuilt the /etc/mailman/virtual-mailman.db file using "postmap virtual-mailman" command. I think I failed to rebuild the aliases.db file at this point. I reloaded postfix (postfix reload). I assumed everything was fine and went about my day. Around noon I received an email from a list user indicating that the list was down. When he posted, he got this error: <heap(a)xxxx.com>: unknown user: "heap" Since that time, I've tried about everything to get the lists working again. I uncommented the lines. I've deleted and rebuilt the aliases.db and mailman-virtual.db files. I always reload postfix after any changes. I even rebooted the server. No luck. As a workaround, I tried to create an alias to a list of email addresses (i.e., bypassing mailman). This alias also is reported as not existing. I'm stumped. None of my other files have changed recently (based on file dates). I don't see any errors in my /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages logs. Or in any of the /var/log/mailman logs. My assumption is that some configuration file has an error in it that is keeping all virtual addresses or aliases from working, but I can't see where the error is and I don't get any errors that tell me about it. One other odd thing that I saw was the at some point after I deleted the aliases.db file, it wasn't getting rebuilt when I ran "newaliases". I ended up rebuilding it using makemap directly. As I said, I would greatly appreciate any pointers. Is there a log file that I'm missing? Any good way to get diagnostic output or trace things? John

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Putting back bounce unsubscribes?
by Matthew Saltzman Oct. 9, 2015

Oct. 9, 2015

We recently moved our Mailman server to a new location. During setup, we had some issues with mail that caused a large number of illegitimate bounces. Recently, these have resulted in Mailman auto-unsubscribing many users that are actually legitimate and don't normally bounce. Is there an efficient way to identify and resubscribe these? Is there a way to clear the bounce records from multiple lists so that we don't lose more users? Thanks in advance. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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Subscription Form Spam -- It continues . . .
by brian＠emwd.com Oct. 8, 2015

Oct. 8, 2015

Hello list, I have seen another type of subscription form spam pop-up on our servers. It is particularly affecting one client that has 80 mailman lists and they wish to keep their lists publicly advertised. We keep seeing dozens of subscription spam coming in from gmail addresses PER MINUTE with the following format: kihuotter+59233527(a)gmail.com We have implemented the form secret function that was introduced in Mailman 2.16 but it is having no effect on these particular subscription requests. I remember seeing a solution from Mark Sapiro addressing this exact issue but I can't seem to find it again. Help me Obi-Wan Sapiro. You are my only hope! (other suggestions would also be appreciated!) Thanks, Brian Carpenter

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mailman cgi error after server restart
by Kai Liu Oct. 8, 2015

Oct. 8, 2015

Hi guys, My server is Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4. I installed mailman 2.1.3 and postfix. It has worked for 4 years. Yesterday I restarted the server, but found I can not go to thehttp://MyDomain/mailman/create <http://mydomain/mailman/create> page. It shows the following 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 "daemon", but the system's web server executed the CGI script as group "apache". Try tweaking the web server to run the script as group "daemon", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=apache'. 1) it says I could re-run configure, but I have run this about 4 years and have many mail list. If I re-run configure, will I lose some data? 2) How to run the postfix as group "daemon"? This question is also available at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32982074/mailman-cgi-error-after-server-… -- Kai Liu Ph.D. student Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science George Mason University

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mailman v2.1.20 init script for cos7 / wrong pid location
by fsantiago＠garbage-juice.com Oct. 6, 2015

Oct. 6, 2015

Hello, I've installed / compiled mailman 2.1.20 from source on centos 7. works fine when manually operated via: bin/mailmanctl start / stop when i copy the mailman script from /scripts to /etc/rc.d/init.d and perform 'chkconfig --add mailman', and then try to start it via: systemctl start mailman it does actually start (I can see the processes) but on the CLI, it reports start failed. When I ask for the status, it tells me: Starting SYSV: Mailman is the GNU Mailing List Manager, a program that manages electronic mail discussion groups. For more on GNU Mailman see http://www.list.org... Oct 06 11:03:12 mail.garbage-juice.com systemd[1]: PID file /usr/lib/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid not readable (yet?) after start. Oct 06 11:08:12 mail.garbage-juice.com systemd[1]: mailman.service operation timed out. Terminating. Oct 06 11:08:12 mail.garbage-juice.com systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: Mailman is the GNU Mailing List Manager, a program that manages electronic mail discussion groups. For more on GNU Mailman see http://www.list.org. Oct 06 11:08:12 mail.garbage-juice.com systemd[1]: Unit mailman.service entered failed state. Now, the readout states the pid file as /usr/lib/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid, which doesn't exist. When started manually via mailmanctl, the pid file that is created is: /var/lib/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid When started via systemctl, despite the reported error, the pid file actually exists under /var/lib... So systemd is looking in the wrong spot for the pid apparently. Where can I make a change to tell systemd where to look? Thanks everyone. - Fabe S.

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