Mailman 3 May 2015 - Mailman-Users

Newer mailman version for cos 6.6
by Fabian Santiago May 6, 2015

May 6, 2015

Does anyone out there know where to find an rpm for a newer if not the most current version of mailman that'll run in cos 6.6? I'm looking for something newer than what's in the official repo. Sincerely, Fabian Santiago Sent from my iPhone

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upgrading mailman
by Mark May 5, 2015

May 5, 2015

Hi my linode needs upgrading and i have been told if i upgrade it will break my mailman does any one know if this right mark.

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removing your lists from the main lists
by Mark May 5, 2015

May 5, 2015

Hi new user i run a mailman lists for a blind group and wondered is there a way of not having the lists listed on the main mailman pageonly this group is for members only and are getting people out side the group trying to post messages to our groups Many thanks Mark.

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Possible problems using a site-wide list auto-responder?
by Bill.Costa＠unh.edu May 5, 2015

May 5, 2015

I couldn't seem to find any docs, FAQs or postings on this topic. The auto-responder feature built into Mailman looks like it would be perfect for the site-wide list as a way of letting users know when somebody will be looking at their questions (normal business hours) and to point them to self-help documentation. But since the site-wide list is used for various automated tasks, are there any downsides or cautions in using this feature? I was thinking of turning it on both for the posting address as well as the -owner address. ...BC -- =====================================[ Bill.Costa(a)unh.edu ]== Bill Costa 1 Leavitt Lane UNH IT -- 1st Floor University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 USA Voice: +1-603-862-3056 No good deed... Goes unpunished. ===========================[ http://pubpages.unh.edu/~wfc ]==

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Mystery of the site-wide mailing list...
by Bill.Costa＠unh.edu May 5, 2015

May 5, 2015

I'm migrating our site from ListProc to Mailman and am in the process of wrapping my head around the Mailman way of doing things. For almost 20 years we have had the established email address list.admin(a)unh.edu as *the* way to contact your friendly local neighborhood mailing list site administrator. ListProc, as part of the list configuration, made it easy to specify this already established address as the single contact point for the site admin for all automatically generated emails. With Mailman I am seeing the convention of using the site-wide mailing list's owner address for contacting the site admin, both in messages for list owners... > From: mailman-owner(a)lists.unh.edu > To: joe list owner > Subject: Your new mailing list: my.list > > The mailing list `my.list' has just been created for you. The > following is some basic information about your mailing list. : : > Please address all questions to mailman-owner(a)lists.unh.edu. ...and in messages sent to subscribers.... > From: mailman-owner(a)lists.unh.edu > To: mary list subscriber > Subject: lists.unh.edu mailing list memberships reminder > > This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your lists.unh.edu > mailing list memberships. : : > If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to > mailman-owner(a)lists.unh.edu. Thanks! But if you go to the top-level listinfo web page, you see the suggestion: > If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact > mailman(a)lists.unh.edu. This address in particular does the user no good since, if configured as suggested, the site-wide mailing list does not accept non-subscriber postings. > From: mailman-owner(a)lists.unh.edu > To: fred random user > Subject: How do I... > > Your message has been rejected, probably because you are not > subscribed to the mailing list and the list's policy is to > prohibit non-members from posting to it. If you think that > your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing > list owner at mailman-owner(a)lists.unh.edu. I searched the archives for more information about the role of the site-wide mailing list, and found this thread that is related to my issue. It is unanswered as far as I can tell. https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/msg25082.html So here is what I want to do. Any place that mailman would direct the user to the site administrator, I would like it to use our long established address for that function, and not mailman-owner, and certainly not the mailman list posting address if that is not what it is suppose to be used for. At this point the only thing I can find that is relevant is changing the name of the site-wide list, but then I would still get the auto-generated email address of "list.admin-owner(a)lists.unh.edu" which is not desirable, and I would have to open up postings to the world to the site-wise list which does not seem to be the recommended practice. Any help or suggestions would be welcomed. ...BC -- =====================================[ Bill.Costa(a)unh.edu ]== Bill Costa 1 Leavitt Lane UNH IT -- 1st Floor University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 USA Voice: +1-603-862-3056 No good deed... Goes unpunished. ===========================[ http://pubpages.unh.edu/~wfc ]==

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Please consider donating to the GNU Mailman project
by Barry Warsaw May 5, 2015

May 5, 2015

I should have included this in our release announcement. I'd like to remind everyone that GNU Mailman has a directed donation fund set up at the Free Software Foundation. Please consider donating! http://wiki.list.org/x/4816967 This year, we used a portion of our fund to sponsor Abhilash coming to PyCon 2015. Abhilash has been a core developer since his participation in GSoC, and has proven himself to be indispensable across a wide range of the project. We were beyond happy to be able to meet him in person and work with him over the course of the sprints, and we reached the 3.0 release in large part because of his participation at the sprints. Your donations can help with future sprints, user testing, hosting, and more. We're a small team of volunteers and every dollar can help. A portion of your donation also goes to the Free Software Foundation, so you can help two great organizations with one donation. Cheers, -Barry

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mailloop exim lmtp
by Thomas Stein May 4, 2015

May 4, 2015

Hola. After having mailman3 installation behind me a first test post seems to lead to a kind of mailloop. mailman smtp.log says: May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.69262(a)misc.domain> smtp to goodnews(a)misc.domain for 1 recips, completed in 0.014857053756713867 seconds May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.69262(a)misc.domain> post to goodnews(a)misc.domain from goodnews-owner(a)misc.domain, 19631 bytes, 1 failures May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.69262(a)misc.domain> delivery to goodnews-owner(a)misc.domain failed with code 444, [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.31080(a)misc.domain> low level smtp error: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.31080(a)misc.domain> smtp to goodnews(a)misc.domain for 1 recips, completed in 0.022059917449951172 seconds May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.31080(a)misc.domain> post to goodnews(a)misc.domain from goodnews-owner(a)misc.domain, 31458 bytes, 1 failures May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.31080(a)misc.domain> delivery to goodnews-owner(a)misc.domain failed with code 444, [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.49233(a)misc.domain> low level smtp error: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.49233(a)misc.domain> smtp to goodnews(a)misc.domain for 1 recips, completed in 0.014764547348022461 seconds May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.49233(a)misc.domain> post to goodnews(a)misc.domain from goodnews-owner(a)misc.domain, 19614 bytes, 1 failures May 03 10:17:37 2015 (24469) <20150503080846.24473.49233(a)misc.domain> delivery to goodnews-owner(a)misc.domain failed with code 444, [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol May 03 10:17:38 2015 (24469) <20150503080847.24473.74610(a)misc.domain> low level smtp error: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol May 03 10:17:38 2015 (24469) <20150503080847.24473.74610(a)misc.domain> smtp to goodnews(a)misc.domain for 1 recips, completed in 0.01850271224975586 seconds May 03 10:17:38 2015 (24469) <20150503080847.24473.74610(a)misc.domain> post to goodnews(a)misc.domain from goodnews-owner(a)misc.domain, 21954 bytes, 1 failures May 03 10:17:38 2015 (24469) <20150503080847.24473.74610(a)misc.domain> delivery to goodnews-owner(a)misc.domain failed with code 444, [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol Exim gives no error. Just a loop between goodnews-bounces and goodnews. What did i wrong this time? :-) thanks and ciao t.

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error when trying to register via hyperkitty
by Thomas Stein May 4, 2015

May 4, 2015

Hello. When i try to signup via hyperkitty i get: KeyError at /archives/accounts/register/ 'email' Request Method: POST Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/archives/accounts/register/?next=/archives/ Django Version: 1.7.8 Exception Type: KeyError Exception Value: 'email' Exception Location: /var/www/mailman/eggs/HyperKitty-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/hyperkitty/views/forms.py in clean_username, line 57 Python Executable: /var/www/mailman/venv/bin/python2.7 Python Version: 2.7.9 Python Path: ['/var/www/mailman/eggs/Django-1.7.8-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/postorius-1.0.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/HyperKitty-1.0.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/Whoosh-2.7.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/mock-1.0.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/beautifulsoup4-4.3.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/djangorecipe-1.11-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/zc.recipe.egg-2.0.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/numpy-1.9.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/lockfile-0.10.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_extensions-1.5.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_haystack-2.3.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/enum34-1.0.4-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/networkx-1.9.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/python_dateutil-1.5-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/mailmanclient-1.0.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_browserid-1.0.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_compressor-1.5-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_paintstore-0.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/pytz-2015.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/robot_detection-0.3-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/cssmin-0.2.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/rjsmin-1.0.10-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_crispy_forms-1.4.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/djangorestframework-3.1.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/python_social_auth-0.2.7-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_gravatar2-1.3.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/six-1.9.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/decorator-3.4.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/httplib2-0.9.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/requests-2.6.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_appconf-1.0.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/PyJWT-1.1.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/requests_oauthlib-0.4.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/oauthlib-0.7.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/python_openid-2.2.5-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman', '/var/www/mailman/bin', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python27.zip', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7/lib-old', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2'] I used no special characters for username and email. Any ideas? ciao t.

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python error when try to save a setting
by Thomas Stein May 4, 2015

May 4, 2015

Hello. When i try to save a setting --schnipp-- Settings / Message Acceptance Default action to take when a member posts to the list ---> Accept --schnapp-- via pistorius i get: UnboundLocalError at /mailman3/lists/hoppla.domain/settings/message_acceptance local variable 'HTTPError' referenced before assignment Request Method: POST Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/mailman3/lists/hoppla.misc.meine-oma.de/settings/mess… Django Version: 1.7.8 Exception Type: UnboundLocalError Exception Value: local variable 'HTTPError' referenced before assignment Exception Location: /var/www/mailman/eggs/postorius-1.0.1-py2.7.egg/postorius/views/list.py in list_settings, line 787 Python Executable: /var/www/mailman/venv/bin/python2.7 Python Version: 2.7.9 Python Path: ['/var/www/mailman/eggs/Django-1.7.8-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/postorius-1.0.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/HyperKitty-1.0.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/Whoosh-2.7.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/mock-1.0.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/beautifulsoup4-4.3.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/djangorecipe-1.11-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/zc.recipe.egg-2.0.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/numpy-1.9.2-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/lockfile-0.10.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_extensions-1.5.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_haystack-2.3.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/enum34-1.0.4-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/networkx-1.9.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/python_dateutil-1.5-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/mailmanclient-1.0.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_browserid-1.0.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_compressor-1.5-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_paintstore-0.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/pytz-2015.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/robot_detection-0.3-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/cssmin-0.2.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/rjsmin-1.0.10-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_crispy_forms-1.4.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/djangorestframework-3.1.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/python_social_auth-0.2.7-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_gravatar2-1.3.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/six-1.9.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/decorator-3.4.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/httplib2-0.9.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/requests-2.6.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/django_appconf-1.0.1-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/PyJWT-1.1.0-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/requests_oauthlib-0.4.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/oauthlib-0.7.2-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman/eggs/python_openid-2.2.5-py2.7.egg', '/var/www/mailman', '/var/www/mailman/bin', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python27.zip', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7/lib-old', '/var/www/mailman/venv/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib64/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-linux2'] How can i repair this? Thanks and cheers t.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Syslog in Mailman
by Laura Creighton May 4, 2015

May 4, 2015

In a message of Mon, 04 May 2015 11:05:23 +0200, Laura Creighton writes: >In a message of Sun, 03 May 2015 21:54:54 -0000, Eric Lamer writes: >>Hi, >> >> I have Mailman installed on my Debian and I don't get any message in my syslog server from Mailman. I have exim4 on the same server and I get syslog from it. >> >> I have generated some stuff in mailman, like creating a list etc and I see the message in /var/log/mailman/ bounce,error,smtp etc. so I know the message are getting in the log files. Just no syslog. >> >> Any idea? > >I've seen this. My fix was to reinstall the debian package rsyslog. >But there are multiple reasons why this could be happening, and this is >only one of them. > >Laura Aha, I misread the earlier mail. I thought the problem was that nothing was getting written to debians syslog, which isn't a mailman problem, but, ah one I know about. Amazing how your mind grabs the solution you are familiar with even when the problem doesn't fit. At any rate, sorry about that. Treat as an OUT_OF_CAFFINE error or something. <blush> Laura

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