Mailman 3 June 2015 - Mailman-Users

Attachments not getting through at random...
by Nick Stevens June 22, 2015

June 22, 2015

Hi All, I'm new to the list - I did search the archives, but cannot find anything covering my specific case. My problem is with attachments to my list. For some users, attachments never get through. I'm sure it is not the file, in a couple of cases I asked the senders to CC my personal, email address. I was able to confirm the image was within limits, and also tried attaching it in a message from myself, which worked in every test. So I am somewhat confused as to what the problem might be, if it is not the attachment... My sample size is fairly small, but I'm suspicious that Apple users are getting this problem preferentially. What might it be? Perhaps the encoding used? Any and all help very gratefully received! Nick -- *My page on the International Space Art Network: http://spaceart1.ning.com/profile/NickStevens <http://spaceart1.ning.com/profile/NickStevens>.* My secure email: starbase1(a)protonmail.ch

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Re: [Mailman-Users] accept_these_nonmembers and case sensitivity
by Ephraim Silverberg June 21, 2015

June 21, 2015

> First of all, the *_these_nonmember checks are not case sensitive. > > Then, I don't see a way that Mailman could notify the poster and admin > that a post is held and then deliver the same post to the same list > without further action. > > What is in Mailman's vette log from this time frame? You are correct, the Vette logs show that the moderator did approve the post -- assumingly, by the web interface, as no log of such appears in the mail logs: Jun 17 10:22:11 2015 (1447) Cyber post from dxxxxxx(a)zzzzzz.huji.ac.il held, message-id=<8580F77FFEF0F2448E3A51C4AE83807D011951BABC(a)Pegasus2.hustaff.huji.local>: Post by non-member to a members-only list Jun 17 10:24:56 2015 (88042) held message approved, message-id: <8580F77FFEF0F2448E3A51C4AE83807D011951BABC(a)Pegasus2.hustaff.huji.local> Using the list's archives, I tracked down the problem -- the information the user relayed to me was incorrect. Apparently, the user sent to the list with the following 'From:' line: From: dxxxxxx at zzzzzz.huji.ac.il (Dyyyy Swww) Sorry for bothering the list needlessly. _____________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Phone/Fax number: +972-2-5494521

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Looking to do a test mirgration
by Laura Creighton June 21, 2015

June 21, 2015

>Is there a way to disable all automatic notifications? > >Thanks >Chris If you go to the administrative interface of your list and click on General Options you will find a bunch of things to turn off. If you are using the Auto-Responder you may have to turn things off there, too. Laura

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Looking to do a test mirgration
by Cawley, Chris June 20, 2015

June 20, 2015

Greetings, We are looking to setup a test site in the lab. I was able to copy production over for some testing and everything comes up with a few issues. Is there a way to disable all automatic notifications? Thanks Chris

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accept_these_nonmembers and case sensitivity
by Ephraim Silverberg June 18, 2015

June 18, 2015

In Mailman 2.1.17, a user is listed under Privacy options->Sender filters->accept_these_nonmembers as: someone@somedomain This individual sent a message to the list as: Someone@somedomain I.e. with the first letter of the username capitilised. Since Mailman's policy is LCE, I would expect the message to be sent to the list members seemlessly, but this is not what happened. >From the Exim logs, Mailman sent the sender and moderator a "Post by non-member to a members-only list" message, but also simultaneously sent the message to the list members WITHOUT the moderator having approved the message, giving the sender the impression that the message hadn't been sent out. _____________________________________ Ephraim Silverberg, CSE System Group, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Phone/Fax number: +972-2-5494521

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Wrap Message and Munge From aren't happening
by Gretchen R Beck June 17, 2015

June 17, 2015

Hi Folks, I have a new test mailman server running 2.1.18.1. It's got some customizations in it from our old 2.1.9 server. Everything seems to work except the DMARC policy -- specifically, if I send mail to a list from my yahoo address, it bounces if the DMARC moderation action for the list is set to Accept (expected), Wrap Message, or Munge From (unexpected) are set. I turned off the Outgoing queue runner and examined the captured messages, and frankly, the headers/message body all looks the same, not matter which option is set. Any suggestions, helpful hints, or things to poke at? Thanks much! Gretchen Beck Carnegie Mellon

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: member receiving confirmation of messages?
by Laura Creighton June 17, 2015

June 17, 2015

Sure. Go to the Membership Management tab. Then select the member you want. Turn the legend on for the table you get at the bottom, so you will see that 'ack' is the thing you want to change. Laura

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Fwd: member receiving confirmation of messages?
by Adam Morris June 17, 2015

June 17, 2015

Hi all, I know in a members options for a mailman list they can tick a box to be notified when a message they send gets to the list. Is there a way for me as administrator to change that for individual members? -- Adam Morris email: adam(a)damorris.com

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permission for archives
by Lucio Chiappetti June 17, 2015

June 17, 2015

I am running a few mailing lists with private archive on my machine. I see that /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ contains two directories per list one named "listname" and the other one "listname.mbox". Owned by wwwrun.mailman, permissions drwxrwsr-x The listname directory contains one index.html owned by wwwrun.mailman while all other directories and text files are owned by mailman.mailman. The listname.mbox directory contains a single file with the same name. Now I noticed that at present such file is owned by me (lucio.staff) with permissions -rw-rw-r-- And I see in the log files some error messages like Jun 16 07:02:26 2015 (3112) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/fitsconv.mbox/fitsconv.mbox' I suspect this may be due to the fact a while ago I created some soft links from my own ~/.mail directory e.g. fitsconv.mbox -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/fitsconv.mbox/fitsconv.mbox (the links are owned by me and have lrwxrwxrwx) The idea was that I could, as administrator, access the entire sequence of messages of a list from my mail client (alpine), instead than with the web interface. Of course I'd just need read access, not write. 1) which are the correct permissions ? 2) apparently since the wrong permission were setup, archiving stopped to work. Is there a way to rebuild the archives from messages stored in personal folders (I am not sure I have all of them though !) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do not like Firefox >=29 ? Get Pale Moon ! http://www.palemoon.org

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Who sees "real names"?
by Peter Shute June 14, 2015

June 14, 2015

I've had a request to join our list under a false name. If I enter their real name in the Member Name field so I can tell who they are, who else can ever see that? The member controls the display name used in list messages, don't they? Peter Shute Sent from my iPad

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