Mailman 3 August 2015 - Mailman-Users

Using cronjob to remove and add members to a mailing list
by Jerry Barnabee 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

I want to be able to run a cronjob on my server that uses a php script to add new users and/or remove users from a mailing list. Not having any luck finding any simple examples. My thought is that the php script would get email addresses from a database (which I can do) and then feed them to a mailman command line to either add or remove a user. The cronjob is entered via Cpanel. Have several cronjobs that modify databases but have never tried something that would actually execute a unix command. Thanks, Pineyscripter

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Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

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

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Mailman CGI Error-Group mismatch error
by Wang, Mary Y 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

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

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DMARC hack
by Allan Hansen 10 Apr '16

10 Apr '16

Hi, I have waited almost a year for AOL and Yahoo to admit that they messed up and to remove their DMARC policy. My AOL and Yahoo subscribers are pretty upset at me because I won’t let them post. A number now have two subscriptions, one for posting (from GMail) and another for receiving the messages. So against my better judgement, I included this hack in Cleanse.py; 22c22 < from email.Utils import formataddr, parseaddr — >from email.Utils import formataddr 69,74d68 < < # Added to deal with DMARC issuej < name, addrs = parseaddr(msg.get('from')) < addrs += '.invalid' < del msg['from'] < msg['from'] = formataddr((name, addrs)) \ No newline at end of file I found it in the discussion list. I don’t get compile errors, but Cleanse.pyc is not being updated. I have stopped and restarted Mailman and I have also rebooted, but same non-action. I have not tried ‘compileall’ and am not eager to, either (permissions, where to invoke, etc). Any suggestions? The host OS is Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 with Mailman 2.1.14 Yours, Allan

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duplicates
by Marco Stoecker 29 Oct '15

29 Oct '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have Mailman up and running. I just sent an e-mail to 5 lists and the e-mail came duplicated to the recipients. I checked the header and the only difference is the following: 1. Header: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 2. Header: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 How can a avoid duplicates in future? What is the reason? BR Marco -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVCfIsAAoJEC1y3OsA+e10t2MP/0lS3W8F000CYn4MQ1M7Zfqj lzJskw5ysngsspQOCZ9kjBuHmh/TGHusZB90wkapMdAwlbuAypQKB6T7L6nwhKy4 xRkCxKJ6hZybb8g5pvatPnODbFfJE96kOAD9d6B1r5hv56FTE+/TG/50/kCQC4do 9AxsoBUD0hNcSwwTjazMGwGZ4NqDDVLXsrauCR02jB+VdqiZgGrGVnQUS6KRHKB+ fOc3VDxh/jbizRCkh8NFQfwW039QnLQyo+HM/pnYQyDcmsfyPg80/TMoyZLhR6PN NK3AZi+BykM8l7SfyWjmkltHERxYe3ouupQ0wPbWbOY/RCQ0gUUWb28CGZ3HChV6 eypbvPwnXk45WXvQuyhFsU7/KvWVBcb3MNezEm6Q/h5gQyI9FVmEABzjzsvkXxBg j9WhfiatL3ZN1cpCvb1RPxkP4hZ5YHf1fy9QqgXahLl+nuXSQu7IyKR0vJOXdq00 riB3Su7BWPV/lhaXXV6N9PA2TjjJ69tQ8oOfuB4UTJ19Wme1Zwo6J1pWkjY/xZsL izz9BrJeMZas2WqyBwHy2/mibyBMmG6nOW1F+FfqXSb/G/GZSA/yMg/5hb0GMgEc Fbihuiq2TW/TgkPkF+Bx6o+XtKAMA8yVAxrkOEo6YLbD28aga9uAKlai2ypiFQll 6aCeU5gwScRf5mlvnaay =Fkgv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Error updating mailman Ubuntu 14.04.3
by billy noah 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Tried running an update today and received this message: Setting up mailman (1:2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1) ... Looking for enabled languages (this may take some time) ... done. Removing unmodified files from /etc/mailman/eu done. Directory /etc/mailman/eu not empty, not removed. *... {repeat above message for each language} ...* Removing unmodified files from /etc/mailman/sv done. Directory /etc/mailman/sv not empty, not removed. Removing unmodified files from /etc/mailman/ast done. Directory /etc/mailman/ast not empty, not removed. Installing site language en ............................................ done. Downgrade detected, from version 0x20112f1 to version 0x20110f0 This is probably not safe. Exiting. dpkg: error processing package mailman (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: mailman E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Any ideas what I can do to remedy this?

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importing archived Maildir email lists into Mailman lists archives
by [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Hi everybody! I'm new to most of the fields related with this issue so, please, accept my apologies in advance if the question or the way towards its answer is too obvious! I have a number of Maildir format mailing lists archives and I would like to add them to the archives of the same lists created in a new Mailman installation. I find several messages/scripts doing the job the other way round (mbox/pipermail/mailman to maildir), but nothing about Maildir to Mailman, assumable by a "programming capabilities-less user". Thanks for your time!!! -- Ricardo Rodríguez Research Management and Promotion Technician Technical Secretariat Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) http://www.idisantiago.es

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Pluggable authentication for Mailman web interface?
by Waldbieser, Carl 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Are there any guidelines for adding authentication and /or authorization mechanisms to the Mailman web user interface? Specifically, I was wondering if there is any kind of guidance for authenticating the user via an HTTP header (e.g. HTTP_REMOTE_USER) so that an authenticating reverse proxy could be placed in front of the Mailman web interface. If there is no such built-in mechanism or pluggable mechanism, is there any kind of guidance on how the existing authentication mechanism might be replaced from a technical standpoint? Thanks, Carl Waldbieser ITS Systems Programmer Lafayette College

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UnicodeDecodeError with Mailman 2.1 and Python 2.6
by David Magda 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Hello, We recently upgrade from Debian 5 to 6, and are now having issues with Mailman. Messages are still flowing properly, but the web archives are not being generated since the upgrade. When I run 'bin/arch mylistname' I get the following: [...] figuring article archives 2005-October /usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py:176: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal self.dict = marshal.load(fp) /usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py:74: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal self.sorted.sort() Updating index files for archive [2004-December] [...] Updating HTML for article 214 Pickling archive state into /usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/archives/private/mylistname/pipermail.pck Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/arch", line 201, in <module> main() File "bin/arch", line 189, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 586, in processUnixMailbox self.add_article(a) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 638, in add_article article.parentID = parentID = self.get_parent_info(arch, article) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 658, in get_parent_info if self.database.hasArticle(archive, article.in_reply_to): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 279, in hasArticle self.__openIndices(archive) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 257, in __openIndices t = DumbBTree(os.path.join(arcdir, archive + '-' + i)) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 66, in __init__ self.load() File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 185, in load self.__sort(dirty=1) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.20/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 74, in __sort self.sorted.sort() UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xea in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) We're running 2.1.13, but as you can see, the problem persists even with the latest release. We're using the stock Debian Python (2.6.6), but Mailman for tarballs. Thanks for any info. Regards, David

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Archive page not showing dates properly
by Peter Wetz 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

On the archive page of my mailman list the dates are not showing up properly. It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/IrmWnie.png As you can see, instead of the date a string "%(date)s" is shown. It is also worth noting, that it already worked properly. However, suddenly (at least I cannot state when exactly) it stopped working and since then dates are shown as seen in the screenshot. The archives are generated with Pipermail 0.09 (Mailman edition). How can I fix this problem? Thanks and best, Peter

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