Mailman 3 October 2015 - Mailman-Users

Limiting number of failed login attempts
by Aditya Jain 05 Oct '15

05 Oct '15

Hi All, Greetings for the day! I am currently using mailman package from debian repository. I use mailman for a number of private mailing lists. The archives of these mailing lists is also private. Most of the members of these mailing lists do not change their default mailman passwords, which in my installation means 8 characters of a-z. Is there a way in which I can limit the number of failed login attempts to the archive to prevent a brute force attempt? Thanks & Regards Aditya Jain

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Multiple "Re:" in subject
by Camille Ollié 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

Le 17/09/2015 01:57, Mark Sapiro a écrit : > > In that case, please report this issue in as much detail as possible at > <https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/issues>. Reporting the subject > headers of an entire thread showing the growing string of Re: will be > helpful. > > Nothing I do to fix this in MM 2.1 will affect MM 3. > i've posted on gitlab but nothing more :( -- Camille Ollié www.forum-pc.net / www.scoot-boost.com LinkedIn : http://lnkd.in/_K65k5

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Message may contain ... administrivia?
by Steve Matzura 03 Oct '15

03 Oct '15

Well now I've seen everything. Why would Mailman send a return message to a subscriber to a mailing list that says their message couldn't be posted to the mailing list because "message may contain administrivia"?

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monthly reminders not being sent
by Jeffrey Westgate 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Greetings all; I'm a relative noob to the list server realm, having inherited 60-odd lists running on a few different servers 4months ago from a coworker who passed on. The following week our list server crashed hard - disk issue on old hardware. I've rebuilt and recovered all the active lists, collapsed three (or was it four...?) separate servers/aliases into one, purged a few old and unused lists, and even added some new ones since - we're hovering at just about 50 lists. I've build the new box as a VMWare VM running Scientific Linux 7 x86_64, with Mailman v2.1.20. Users are happy, things seem to be stable and humming along nicely... except for one thing I have not been able to get sorted - monthly password reminders are not being sent. The 'send me' is set to Yes on the list page. If I go the the list page and tell it to send me a reminder, it does. I've checked the docs and wiki. I'm fairly sure this is a (probably) simple config issue, but my lack of experience with Mailman is hindering me. Someone point me in the right direction, please? -- Jeff Westgate State of Arkansas DIS UNIX System Administration

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Bulk aproval?
by Danijel Domazet 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Hi mailman list, I have about 500 requests to join the list waiting to be approved. 1. Is there a way of automatically aproving any request, something like an "open" free list to join for everyone? 2. How do I bulk approve those 500? Currently it seems I will have to click 500 times on the "Approve" checkbox, which is a pain. Thanks for help, Danijel

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Problems on mailman3 installation via mailman-bundler
by Take 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

I've been struggling for couple of days to get mailman3 up and running on my Debian Jessie -host. So far I'm in the situation that everything should (more or less) work, I can create lists and receive confirmation emails etc. However, every post I send to the testing-list I created end up in shunting, from log file I get this: Sep 29 00:59:34 2015 (21017) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/core/runner.py", line 165, in _one_iteration self._process_one_file(msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/core/runner.py", line 258, in _process_one_file keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/runners/incoming.py", line 63, in _dispose process(mlist, msg, msgdata, start_chain) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/core/chains.py", line 86, in process link.function(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/chains/hold.py", line 182, in _process autorespond_to_sender(mlist, msg.sender, language)): File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/chains/hold.py", line 83, in autorespond_to_sender address = user_manager.create_address(sender) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/database/transaction.py", line 92, in wrapper return function(args[0], config.db.store, *args[1:], **kws) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/model/usermanager.py", line 110, in create_address address = Address(email, display_name) File "<string>", line 4, in __init__ File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/state.py", line 306, in _initialize_instance manager.dispatch.init_failure(self, args, kwargs) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/langhelpers.py", line 60, in __exit__ compat.reraise(exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/compat.py", line 182, in reraise raise value File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/state.py", line 303, in _initialize_instance return manager.original_init(*mixed[1:], **kwargs) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/model/address.py", line 59, in __init__ getUtility(IEmailValidator).validate(email) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/email/validate.py", line 64, in validate raise InvalidEmailAddressError(email) mailman.interfaces.address.InvalidEmailAddressError So, apparently something is wrong with member addresses? Since I'm dealing with fresh installation there's only two of my own addresses, both valid (checked via bin/mailman members mylist(a)example.com) Additionally, for some reason my debug.log is empty. I couldn't find any reference from documentation nor from sample configuration files on how to switch debugging on, is there documentation about mailman.cfg and options I can (or should) have there? -- Take

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