Mailman 3 November 2015 - Mailman-Users

List Owner Password Reminder
by Christopher A Puchalski Nov. 6, 2015

Nov. 6, 2015

Is there a "self service" password reminder for list owners? I am in the process of trying to deploy mailman within my company to replace a old majordomo instance. Majordomo access/authentication was managed by local LDAP credentials so users had no real excuse not to know their passwords. This was setup long ago and predates my joining the company by 15+ years. In the case of mailman it looks like passwords for list owners are tied to the software. We have many lists (1000+) so was hoping I could avoid getting into the business of password resets if possible. My goal would be to add a "I forgot my password" button to the admin login page that would kind of force that monthly password reminder right then. I know list members have several options but from what I have seen owners do not. Is that even possible? Chris P

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Delete archive?
by am Nov. 6, 2015

Nov. 6, 2015

Is there a way to wipe out an archive and restart it from scratch? Mailman v2.1.20 C-L

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Prefix in Subject line anomaly??
by Mark Sapiro Nov. 5, 2015

Nov. 5, 2015

On 11/05/2015 01:53 PM, am wrote: > Yes, I am looking at the Welcome to the list message. I see: Only list posts have the subject_prefix added. Welcome and other administrative messages do not. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Another anomaly? Header is not showing
by am Nov. 5, 2015

Nov. 5, 2015

In the mailing list setup (v.2.1.20) there is a section in non-digest to add Header info: msg_header Option I used it in the hopes that I can put something at the top of EVERY message. But nothing appears in the messages - neither header nor does the footer show up. Help, please... C-L

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Prefix in Subject line anomaly??
by am Nov. 5, 2015

Nov. 5, 2015

Prefix for Subject Line not showing in email subject line, but it DOES show in the archive. The prefix is [CaucusPlanners] Mailman version 2.1.20... help please... C-L

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Re: [Mailman-Users] 64 bit encoding
by Mark Sapiro Nov. 5, 2015

Nov. 5, 2015

On 11/05/2015 08:41 AM, Ruben Safir wrote: > > Which file am I patching? Is this a normal setup? I pulled it from > opensuse. > > > ruben@www:~> locate Mailman/Message.py > /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py > /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.pyc The above two are probably what you want. /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py is the source to patch. After you apply the patch and restart Mailman, Python will automatically detect that the .py is newer and recompile it into the .pyc. > /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/Mailman/Message.py > /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/Mailman/Message.pyc This is very strange. I've never seen anything like it. My best guess is that for some reason, the openSUSE package installs a separate Mailman/ directory for use by the web server. If that is the case, this one doesn't need to be patched because the patch doesn't affect anything in the web UI. To be sure, I'd need to see the apache configuration, the MTA configuration and the contents of the directories. I did quickly look at <https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Leap:42.1/mailman/mai…>, <https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/server:mail/mailman/mailman-ap…>, etc. and they all refer to /usr/lib/mailman so I have no idea what /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/ is about. The bottom line is the Message.py you need to patch is the one that's imported by the qrunners, IncomingRunner and OutgoingRunner in particular. Is there even a /usr/local/apache/conf/mailman/Mailman/Queue/ directory at all? If the two Message.py files are the same, it wouldn't hurt to patch both. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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[Mailman-Developers] Mailman and Box
by Stephen J. Turnbull Nov. 5, 2015

Nov. 5, 2015

Moving to mailman-users, be a better place to post a request for experience. Please respect cross-posting restrictions. If you're just reporting experience, reply-to is set to Mailman-Users which is appropriate (at least, IIRC the Mailman Users/Developers lists don't mess with preexisting Reply-To). If you have patched Mailman to make it work better in this kind of application, you *may* wish to move the conversation back to Mailman Developers to propose inclusin in a future version of Mailman. (If you just want to say "hey I have a patch", I would leave that on -Users, FWIW YMMV.) Bill.Costa(a)unh.edu writes: > We will be retiring our Blackboard system (an e-learning portal) > which offered users 'organizations'; basically a combination of > group sharing of documents and collaboration via email. > > I can't begin to duplicate all of the functionality of this part > of Blackboard, but I figured if I could link our school's Box > cloud storage with our new Mailman v2 installation, that would go > a long ways to provide a similar service. > > The idea is that for every Mailman list created, a new Box shared > folder would also be created and associated with that list. The > list owner and subscriber information would live in Mailman. A > nightly reconciliation job would maintain the > list-owner/folder-owner roster and subscriber list between the > two systems. Subscribers to the list would be granted, as a > whole, either reader or contributor access to the Box folder > (whatever the owner chooses). The list-owner would be able to do > things like put the associated Box folder's URL into the list's > message footer. > > Box provides a RESTful API, so I think I just might be able to > pull this off. > > My question is, is there anybody else already doing this or > something similar?

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attachments being sent with messages.
by Adam Morris Nov. 2, 2015

Nov. 2, 2015

Hi all, most messages sent to lists seem to have some sort of attachment. If I go to non digest options and turn on the feature to scrub attachments if messages are sent using html there is no body to the message. Is there a way to not have attachments in messages but still have html messages have their body sent to lists? -- Adam Morris email: adam(a)damorris.com

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restrict subscription, unsubscription and send mails in mailman list
by Amaury Viera Hernández Nov. 1, 2015

Nov. 1, 2015

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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list discription in header?
by Adam Morris Nov. 1, 2015

Nov. 1, 2015

Hi all, I'm by no mean an expert on mailman just using it through my hosting provider. I've created a list and the below shows up in the header, wondering how to stop this so it just says the list address? List-Id: "This is a list for the discussion of accessible technology for Blind and Vision impaired people." <atug.damorris.com> -- Adam Morris email: adam(a)damorris.com

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