Mailman 3 May 2016 - Mailman-Users

Editing Mailman's text files
by Pete Bell 08 May '24

08 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 17 Nov '23

17 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 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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changing domains on Mailman implementation
by Keith Seyffarth 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Is there an efficient way to change the domain name that mailman is affiliated with? I have two mailing lists that were created for an organization before that organization had their own domain. At the time the organization was sure they did not want their own domain and would not be getting a domain. Since then, they have chosen to get a domain and set up a web site. I would like to move their mailing lists onto their domain. It looks like the process for this is: 1) get the list of subscribers 2) delete the mailing list from the one domain (losing the archives) 3) create the mailing list on the new domain 4) subscribe the list of subscribers This process doesn't seem too difficult, but I would prefer to keep the archives, if possible. Both domains are on the same server, running CentOS7 and PLESK 12.5, if that makes a difference. Thanks, Keith

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Getting Yahoo to accept Mailman list messages
by Christian F Buser 28 May '16

28 May '16

Hi all I got an error message below from Yahoo: > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > xxxxxxxxx(a)yahoo.com > host mta7.am0.yahoodns.net [63.250.192.46] > SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: > 554 5.7.9 Message not accepted for policy reasons. See > https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN7253.html > xxxxxxxxxxxxx(a)yahoo.com > host mta7.am0.yahoodns.net [63.250.192.46] > SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: > 554 5.7.9 Message not accepted for policy reasons. See > https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN7253.html I asked the provider and here is his answer (which does not help me too much since I have not sufficient knowledge about these techniques): > Hi Christian, > > The messages were rejected because they weren't properly > authenticated. By default, all outgoing messages from xxxx.ch are DKIM > and SPF authenticated. Not sure about the mailing list messages, > though. Perhaps the Mailman needs authentication on its own. This is a cPanel (56.0.21) installation of Mailman 2.1.20. I have looked into the list settings but did not find anything about DKIM or SPF, and I also did not really understand the explanations in <https://wiki.list.org/DEV/DKIM>. And also, I did not find any settings for DKIM or SPF in the list administration pages. Any ideas are most welcome! Thank you, Christian -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org

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Remove someone from list of lists but not from child lists?
by Ryan Stasel 28 May '16

28 May '16

All, Just a quick question that I’m sure the answer is “not possible”. I have several lists that are subsets of users (faculty, staff, etc). Then we have a list of lists called “everyone”. But that “everyone” list gets abused by members sending out crap that people really don’t care to see. So, I’ve had some requests to remove people from “everyone” but obviously keep them in their respective “child list”. Is this possible? The everyone list is set up with the child lists being members, then also setting regular_include_lists so that people that are part of multiple child lists don’t get duplicates. btw, running mailman 2.1.14. Thanks! -Ryan Stasel

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per-list email at munging?
by Karl Berry 26 May '16

26 May '16

I just set up some mailman lists for commit archives. I'd like to avoid the "@" -> " at " munging for them (at least in the bodies, though also in the headers is fine/expected), while retaining that minimal munging for the other lists on the server. Looking at HyperArch.py (and Defaults.py), it seems ARCHIVER_OBSCURES_EMAILADDRS is server-wide. Any viable way to make it per-list? I couldn't find anything in web searches or at http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~msapiro/scripts/ but always easy to miss stuff. It's not so much that I myself think the " at " munging is so wonderfully effective at antispam, but I feel sure that if I turn it off now, my users will complain vociferously and constantly. Such is life. Thanks, Karl P.S. It seems the original author (Richard Barrett) offered to make it per-list back in 2003 but no one asked for it :). https://sourceforge.net/p/mailman/patches/273/

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