Mailman-Users February 2015

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42 participants
57 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

5 months, 1 week

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

10 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

6 years

Announcing the new wiki.list.org

by Barry Warsaw

I am very happy to announce our new wiki! If you go to wiki.list.org you will see our shiny new Moin-based wiki. We are retiring the old Confluence-based wiki at the end of February. Until then, you can access it at old-wiki.list.org. Our very huge thanks go to Paul Boddie who did the amazing conversion work, almost single-handedly reverse engineering the Confluence dump through several iterations. Of course, our thanks also go to John Viega, owner of the list.org domain and Mailman's inventor for helping us get the DNS flipped over. Thanks too to everyone who gave feedback on the new wiki, contributed to the old wiki, and continue to help edit this important resource for the Mailman community. Our thanks also go to the Python Software Foundation and the PSF infrastructure team for providing us with the virtual machine hosting our new wiki. If you had write access to the old wiki and want it again for the new wiki, you will have to re-submit a request to mailman-cabal(a)python.org. Please be sure to register with wiki.list.org and provide us with your user name. With this conversion, I am happy to say that GNU Mailman is finally fully hosted on free software. While we appreciate the years of service donated to us by Atlassian and Contegix, it's important that we set an example by utilizing an entirely free software stack for our development and outreach. The wiki was our last remaining non-free bits. Let the gardening begin! Cheers, -Barry (On behalf of the GNU Mailman steering committee) P.S. We are working on the SSL certificate for the new wiki. Stay tuned.

6 years, 4 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, 4 months

Fwd: Privacy options...

by EyeLand

Hello, I want to block subscribe for users from yahoo, what regexps I need to write there http://i10.pixs.ru/storage/8/9/9/SnimokJPG_5554142_16252899.jpg ? Thank you.

6 years, 5 months

Go to list archives

by EyeLand

Hello, on ”Go to list archives” I received error ”Forbidden You don't have permission to access /pipermail/test/ on this server.”, can you consult? Thank you. screenshots http://i10.pixs.ru:/storage/6/2/0/1JPG_3162169_16245620.jpg http://i10.pixs.ru:/storage/6/2/3/2JPG_6224280_16245623.jpg

6 years, 5 months

Mailman CGI error

by Kumar Pradeep (Ops)

Hi Mailman-users, It would be really appreciated if any one of you can help me to overcome with problem My Mailman is running with version 2.1.12. I am getting "Mailman CGI error!!!" while clicking on search button which points to "http://mymailman.com/mailman/mmsearch/testlist" [cid:image001.png@01D04D29.4D018ED0] 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 "apache", but the system's web server executed the CGI script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the web server to run the script as group "apache", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=mailman'. I checked the gid of apache and mailman is the member of apache. [root@host]# su apache bash-4.1$ id uid=48(apache) gid=48(apache) groups=48(apache) bash-4.1$ python Python 2.6.9 (unknown, Sep 13 2014, 00:25:11) [GCC 4.8.2 20140120 (Red Hat 4.8.2-16)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import grp, os, sys >>> os.getgid() 48 >>> grp.getgrgid(os.getgid()) grp.struct_group(gr_name='apache', gr_passwd='x', gr_gid=48, gr_mem=['mailman']) >>> There are the files in /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ ls -ll /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ total 312 -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 admin -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 admindb -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 confirm -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 create -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 edithtml -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 htdig -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 listinfo -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 mmsearch -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 options -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 private -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 rmlist -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 roster -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 23096 Jan 8 02:30 subscribe

6 years, 5 months

Re: [Mailman-Users] Creating a new list - "Bug in Mailman version 2.1.15"

by Kevin Nowaczyk

Postconf Output alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no config_directory = /etc/postfix inet_interfaces = all mailbox_size_limit = 0 mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1 mydestination = domain2.com, bunsen.domain1.com, localhost.domain1.com, localhost, lists.domain3.com myhostname = bunsen.domain1.com mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 myorigin = /etc/mailname readme_directory = no recipient_delimiter = + relay_domains = lists.domain3.com relay_recipient_maps = hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman relayhost = smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache smtpd_use_tls = yes transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport virtual_alias_domains = list.domain3.com virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual, hash:/var/www/domain3.com/domain3-virtual, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual-mailman virtual_mailbox_base = /var/spool/mail virtual_mailbox_domains = domain3.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >From /var/log/mail.info Feb 25 16:48:47 bunsen postfix/smtpd[3845]: connect from mail-wg0-f54.google.com[74.125.82.54] Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/smtpd[3845]: 65F271C37A: client=mail-wg0-f54.google.com[74.125.82.54] Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/cleanup[3849]: 65F271C37A: message-id=<CANFWNP5dtWNRZhcA6sEM2JPaE5+J2HzGjDC9w+WE3Z5kz+SdgQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/qmgr[19544]: 65F271C37A: from=<ME(a)gmail.com>, size=6385, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/virtual[3850]: 65F271C37A: to=<MailingList(a)domain3.com>, relay=virtual, delay=0.22, delays=0.2/0.02/0/0.01, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (unknown user: "MailingList(a)domain3.com") Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/cleanup[3849]: 977381C382: message-id=<20150225164848.977381C382(a)bunsen.domain3.com> Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/qmgr[19544]: 977381C382: from=<>, size=8296, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/bounce[3851]: 65F271C37A: sender non-delivery notification: 977381C382 Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/qmgr[19544]: 65F271C37A: removed Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/smtpd[3845]: disconnect from mail-wg0-f54.google.com[74.125.82.54] Feb 25 16:48:48 bunsen postfix/smtp[3852]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400d:c07::1a]:25: Network is unreachable Feb 25 16:48:50 bunsen postfix/smtp[3852]: 977381C382: to=<ME(a)gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[173.194.204.26]:25, delay=2, delays=0/0.02/0.26/1.7, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1424882930 u39si15292123qge.27 - gsmtp) Feb 25 16:48:50 bunsen postfix/qmgr[19544]: 977381C382: removed

6 years, 5 months

max_message_size, how do I change behavior (reject, instead of hold for moderation) and/or notification message (when exceeded)

by Tanstaafl

Hi all, Ok, I did this a very long time ago, and can't for the life of me remember where/how I did this... I have some lists that have a max_size set, and when someone sends an email that exceeds this size, it gets held for moderation, and the sender gets a notification of this, but it is a custom one that I wrote myself. Now, I'd like to change this behavior - I want to REJECT these messages - but can't for the life of me figure out how to do this, or at the very least , change the notification text to inform them that their message will be discarded, as opposed to 'eventually dealt with'... Any pointers to tfm would be appreciated...

6 years, 5 months