Mailman 3 September 2015 - Mailman-Users

list-owner getting spammed
by Dennis Putnam 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

The list-owner of one of my lists is getting spammed. Is there an easy way to block that? TIA.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Regexp for blocking addresses
by Mark Sapiro 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

On 9/25/15 7:57 AM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > That's still much more aggressive than what I was trying to say. I > actually want to ban precisely all variants of the one address > > joeblow(a)gmail.com > > (and about a dozen other addresses) that include embedded periods > anywhere and the suffix, but not other gmail addresses. grep finds > them with > > \.\?j\.\?o\.\?e\.\?b\.\?l\.\?o\.\?w\.\ ?+.*@gmail \.com > > (I might want \.* instead of \.\?) but adding > > ^\.\?j\.\?o\.\?e\.\?b\.\?l\.\?o\.\?w\.\ ?+.*(a)gmail\.com > > to the ban list doesn't seem to block them. Because in a python RE, \? is a literal '?', not a '0 or 1 of repeat'. For grep you need the \? to give ? its special meaning. a regexp for egrep or grep -E will be closer to what you want for python. You want ^\.?j\.?o\.?e\.?b\.?l\.?o\.?w xxx \+.*(a)gmail\.com where I'm unsure about the ' xxx ' part because I don't understand what '\ ?' is supposed to do? Or instead of the above and to account for multiple '.' maybe ^\.*j\.*o\.*e\.*b\.*l\.*o\.*w\.*\+.*(a)gmail\.com which says zero or more dots followed by j followed by zero or more dots followed by o, etc., followed by w followed by zero or more dots followed by + followed by anything followed by @gmail.com. See <https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax>. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Regexp for blocking addresses
by Matthew Saltzman 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

I am trying to block variants of ceertain gmail addresses but I'm having trouble concocting the right rexexp to accomplish the task. Gmail addresses can contain embedded periods and can be followed by a '+' and an arbitrary suffix. So all the following are the same address: * joebloe(a)gmail.com * joe.blow(a)gmail.com * j.o.e.blow(a)gmail.com * joe.blow+abcd(a)gmail.com And so on. I've tried various regexps, but none have worked so far. 1. Could someone show me the right syntax to catch all embedded dots in the part before the '+'? 2. Is there a way to script removing all my experimentation from the ban lists on multiple mailing lists? Things are looking pretty cluttered by now on the privacy admin pages. Thanks very much in advance. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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Reenabling users disabled due to bounces
by Matthew Saltzman 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

We had an issue with outgoing mail last week that caused a number of users on multiple lists to be disabled due to bounces. I'd like to clear all those flags and reenable those users. Is there an easy way to take care of that en masse? Or at least to locate all those users without paging through membership lists on the Web? TIA. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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1-click unsubscribe and Google gmail
by Hung Phan 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Hello, We notice that our 1-click unsubscribe option %(user_optionsurl)s?password=%(user_password)s&unsub=1&unsubconfirm=1 doesn't get interpreted correctly by gmail. The whole text get displayed as is while other email systems like yahoo translates it into a clickable link. Anyone has a solution or workaround? Thank you!

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How to link two lists?
by George Mager 26 Sep '15

26 Sep '15

I have two mailing lists. One is a complete list for all the members of my community association, and the other is for the board of directors of the community association. I would like to be able to link the two lists so that residents could send emails to the board list without moderation. I know I could embed the residents list in the board list as a full list of emails, but it would be much more efficient to be able to just link to the residents list. Is there a way to do that? Lee Mager lee.mager(a)gmail.com

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Fw: Mailman not delivering e-mails sent from Yahoo
by The Knight 26 Sep '15

26 Sep '15

Hello everyone, We are using Mailman Version 2.1.9 the problem we are facing is when we use a Yahoo e-mail ID to send an e-mail to a mailing list it reaches mailman but when i Accept it as a moderator it's not delivered to subscribers of the list. I tried with Gmail and MSN everything works fine but this only happens when sent from Yahoo. If anyone has had a similar problem please let me know what solution did you apply ? Thank you

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MM 3 : permit users to manage subscription
by Camille Ollié 23 Sep '15

23 Sep '15

Hi, i have created a ML. I have added users. But they can't access to any account... Any idea ? -- Camille Ollié www.forum-pc.net / www.scoot-boost.com LinkedIn : http://lnkd.in/_K65k5

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what's the easiest way to export/import a large list?
by Ricardo Kleemann 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

I have a list with around 50k users and I wanted to move from one server to another. Does copying the the specific list's directory (e.g. under /var/lib/mailman/lists) from one server to another work? Or, alternatively, does config_list output sufficient information of all the settings and characteristics such that I can then input on the other server? thanks Ricardo

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How to get the senders email address in the custom footer?
by Arlen Raasch 21 Sep '15

21 Sep '15

I have recently acquired the responsibility of maintaining a small listserver with about 1000 users. We are using version 2.1.16 of Mailman. The emails that currently are sent out via the listserv server have headers that include the original sender's email address as the "From:" address. Yahoo's and Aol's DMARC policy causes these to bounce as our server is not one they recognize. I have seen many posts regarding this problem, but no actual solutions that told me what I should do. This is not my area of expertise, just something that dropped in my lap. A strategy that makes some sense to me is to take ownership of the emails by identifying the listserv as the From and Reply-To addresses, but including a custom footer in the email that exposes the actual sender's email address. This should avoid Yahoo and Aol rejecting the email due to DMARC, as Yahoo and Aol will not be asked for their opinion as to what should or should not be done with this email. I set the annonomous_list setting to yes under general options, and sent a test email. The email went out fine, but nothing in the default email footer allowed others to know who actually sent the email out. I attempted to change the default non-digest footer to include the sender's address, but did not succeed. It appears that this info is regarding the recipient,not the sender's info. I.E. user xxx(a)mydomain.com sends to yyy(a)listserver.com, zzz(a)hisdomain.com is also a member of the listserv and receives an email, but the footer to the email does not show xxx@mydomain, just info about zzz(a)hisdomain.com. I tried the user_address, user_delivered_to, and user_name variables but none contained info regarding the sender. So, the question is how to get the sender's email address in the footer. Thanks in advance, -Arlen Raasch

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