Mailman-Users July 2016

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34 discussions

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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mailman not respecting /etc/postfix/transport ???
by Steve Wehr 11 Sep '16

11 Sep '16

I have about 100 mailing lists all using the domain name tunedinweb.com. All the commands to subscribe, etc, come to something(a)tunedinweb.com which come to my server and are processed by mailman. But I also have real email boxes @tunedinweb.com. Those are hosted off my server. So in order to make both mailman and my email work I have postfix configured with tunedinweb.com listed in the mydomains file, but have setup a transport file to tell postfix to redirect any email for something(a)tunedinweb.com to the server where that email is hosted. With lines in transport that look like this: steve(a)tunedinweb.com smtp:mx.emailsrvr.com stevew(a)tunedinweb.com smtp:mx.emailsrvr.com This is all working fine. The issue is that my email address steve(a)tunedinweb.com is also a member of several mailing lists. When mailman tries to send to steve(a)tunedinweb.com I see this error message in the postfix log /var/log/maillog: Jun 6 17:02:08 166941-web1 postfix/smtpd[25836]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from localhost[127.0.0.1]: 550 5.1.1 <steve(a)tunedinweb.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table; from=<tunedin-temp-bounces+steve=tunedinweb.com(a)tunedinweb.com> to=<steve(a)tunedinweb.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<166941-web1.tunedinweb.com> So it seems that mailman is not respecting the /etc/postfix transport file settings. I want mailman to send mail for those addresses specified in the transport file to the server where that email is hosted. I must be missing something. Can someone explain what is going wrong. Thanks again for your help. _____________________ Steve Wehr Tunedin Web Design <http://www.tunedinweb.com/> 845-246-9643

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Is there a way to maintain a global Terms of Use / Acceptable Use Policy ?
by Caesar Samsi 31 Jul '16

31 Jul '16

Hi There, I see General List Information which is specific to the list, but wanting a global page to use for when there are a large number of lists. Thanks you, Caesar.

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delay between delivery to mailman post command and sending out to list
by Nicolas 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi, I’m running Mailman version 2.1.14 on an Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS build, with Postfix MTA. I recently noticed up to one hour delays between Postfix delivering messages to command "/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post [listname]", and Mailman effectively sending out the message to list members (as evidenced in Postfix log file, email headers, and Mailman logs). The delays are consistent in that each posted message, to any list and with any number of subscriptions (between 1 and 250), is delayed by at least 20 minutes. The Mailman "post" log file /var/log/mailman/post does not indicate the message being posted, until the message is finally being sent out up to one hour after the post. However, the list’s archives, as well as the list’s digest.mbox file, DO contain the posted message immediately after posting, confirming that Mailman did instantly receive the message from Postfix. Similarly, email notifications to admin (new list, memberships, …) suffer from the same delays. There are no errors found in the qrunner, mischief, or smtp log files that give pointers as to why this happens. The system is not under any load to speak of, and Postfix is running fine otherwise, delivering mail to local users and remote recipients instantly. The mail queue is virtually empty. Would running separate, verbose instances of qrunner possibly give me any insight, and how should I go about this? Any input is appreciated. Regards, Nicolas

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Sending mails to all list administrators
by Martin Stein 28 Jul '16

28 Jul '16

Hi, I'm looking for an easy way, as site administrator, to send a message to all list administrators. Is there any possibility to set up a autogenerated list with all list administrators of the site or another smooth solution? Regards, Martin -- Martin Stein Attac Deutschland Webteam Attac Deutschland Münchener Str. 48 60329 Frankfurt am Main Mail: martin.stein(a)attac.de

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Is mailman vulnerable to the httpoxy bug?
by Perry E. Metzger 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

https://httpoxy.org/ seems to impact any python program (among many others) that runs under cgi. Does it cause trouble for mailman? What is a reasonable mitigation? Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry(a)piermont.com

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Yahoo policy on list messages
by Christian F Buser 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

I have received several bounce notices for subscribers of my list with the following contents: Action: failed Final-Recipient:rfc822;ekxxxxxka@yahoo.com Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; mta7.am0.yahoodns.net Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 5.7.9 Message not accepted for policy reasons. Seehttps://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN7253.html Action: failed Final-Recipient:rfc822;mail@xxxxx-xxxx.info Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; mxcluster1.one.com Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.7.1 The messages violates the DMARC policy of yahoo.com (eb9fcd83-501a-11e6-b513-b82a72d854f0) Action: failed Final-Recipient:rfc822;mxxxxxw@yahoo.de Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; mx-eu.mail.am0.yahoodns.net Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 5.7.9 Message not accepted for policy reasons. Seehttps://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN7253.html I asked my provider for help about this, and he wrote back: "from what I can see from the text files you sent me, it's a matter of the mailing list configuration. The sender ( From: ) needs to be set as the mailing list address and not as the original sender (eg, ekxxxxxka(a)yahoo.com) Read here: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN7253.html - but all mailing lists I know usually have the original sender's name in the From-field... So what am I doing wrong here? My list runs on the cPanel 56.0.28 version of Mailman 2.1.20 Thank you, Christian -- Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Hilfe für Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org

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