Mailman 3 September 2015 - Mailman-Users

Editing Mailman's text files
by Pete Bell 07 May '24

07 May '24

Hi. I'm a new member of this group but have been running an email list with Mailman for a long time. I am now setting a list up again and want to give a "look and feel" to the list which has more branding of my user group as a whole, and less of a Mailman-feel. I seem to remember that besides editing the public HTML pages, it is possible to edit the text files which Mailman automatically sends out for certain needs (such as 'approve.txt', 'adminsubscribeack.txt', 'invite.txt', and so on). A. Is this still the case? B. If so, where can I find them? (in case they've changed from the ones I have from long ago). C. Where do they need putting, so that Mailman can use them again? It's important that I should tell you that Mailman on my webhosts servers is a "server-wide" installation, and I don't get to edit anything which other clients to their servers need. This would be only for my own use, and as such I need to know where these files go in my own webspace, and how to get Mailman to use them instead of the default ones. I should also say that I have done this before, so unless the facility to do this has been ditched in recent years, I *should* still be able to do it ! Does Mailman perhaps look for these files somewhere in my webspace (which I have to give a specific name), and if it doesn't find them it goes on to find its default versions of these files? Thanks in advance for your help. Pete Bell, UK

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Running two list with same email prefix
by Andrea Cappelli 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Hi all, I'm running a mail server with Debian Lenny, MTA is Postfix and i will use postfix-to-mailma.py script to run list I would set up Mailman for running mailing list with same email prefix on different domains, obvious with different list names For example we have ml.domain1.com and ml.domain2.net, i would like to have LISTADDRESS LISTNAME tech(a)ml.domain1.com tech-ml.domain1.com tech(a)ml.domain.2.net tech-ml.domain2.net In this way i can have the same address on differente domains and Mailman (my version is 2.1.11) can distinguish between lists because the list name is different. The list name will be also used to access web interface, so we have http://ml.domain1.com/mailman/admin/tech-ml.domain1.com http://ml.domain2.net/mailman/admin/tech-ml.domain2.net Is possible to accomplish this task? Any idea?

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Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann 16 Nov '23

16 Nov '23

Hi, Is there any way to configure Mailman such that, for an announcement-only type list, when a message is sent to the list, the To: shows the member's address, rather than the list address? Some list software allows the ability to hide the list address itself, so that address is not advertised. I couldn't find any configuration specific to that.

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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 16 Feb '21

16 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 09 Sep '20

09 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 28 Oct '15

28 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] MM 3 : permit users to manage subscription
by Camille Ollié 14 Oct '15

14 Oct '15

Le 23/09/2015 15:46, Stephen J. Turnbull a écrit : > Camille Ollié writes: > > > > How are the users trying "access accounts"? Through the web? What is > > > in the webserver log when they try to access an account? > > > > no one accessed for now. > > I don't understand, before you said they "couldn't access", now you > say they "didn't access." You need to be a lot more precise about > what your problem is, or nobody's going to be able to help you. > > Please continue the conversation on the mailing list. I myself will > have no time to participate for several days. > > > Hi, they don't have any access. I added them with the mass subscription option in the mailing list manager. -- Camille Ollié www.forum-pc.net / www.scoot-boost.com LinkedIn : http://lnkd.in/_K65k5

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Problems on mailman3 installation via mailman-bundler
by Take 01 Oct '15

01 Oct '15

I've been struggling for couple of days to get mailman3 up and running on my Debian Jessie -host. So far I'm in the situation that everything should (more or less) work, I can create lists and receive confirmation emails etc. However, every post I send to the testing-list I created end up in shunting, from log file I get this: Sep 29 00:59:34 2015 (21017) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/core/runner.py", line 165, in _one_iteration self._process_one_file(msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/core/runner.py", line 258, in _process_one_file keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/runners/incoming.py", line 63, in _dispose process(mlist, msg, msgdata, start_chain) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/core/chains.py", line 86, in process link.function(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/chains/hold.py", line 182, in _process autorespond_to_sender(mlist, msg.sender, language)): File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/chains/hold.py", line 83, in autorespond_to_sender address = user_manager.create_address(sender) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/database/transaction.py", line 92, in wrapper return function(args[0], config.db.store, *args[1:], **kws) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/model/usermanager.py", line 110, in create_address address = Address(email, display_name) File "<string>", line 4, in __init__ File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/state.py", line 306, in _initialize_instance manager.dispatch.init_failure(self, args, kwargs) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/langhelpers.py", line 60, in __exit__ compat.reraise(exc_type, exc_value, exc_tb) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/util/compat.py", line 182, in reraise raise value File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/state.py", line 303, in _initialize_instance return manager.original_init(*mixed[1:], **kwargs) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/model/address.py", line 59, in __init__ getUtility(IEmailValidator).validate(email) File "/home/mailman/mailman-bundler/venv-3.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/mailman/email/validate.py", line 64, in validate raise InvalidEmailAddressError(email) mailman.interfaces.address.InvalidEmailAddressError So, apparently something is wrong with member addresses? Since I'm dealing with fresh installation there's only two of my own addresses, both valid (checked via bin/mailman members mylist(a)example.com) Additionally, for some reason my debug.log is empty. I couldn't find any reference from documentation nor from sample configuration files on how to switch debugging on, is there documentation about mailman.cfg and options I can (or should) have there? -- Take

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