Mailman 3 March 2017 - Mailman-Users

Mailman 2 and 3
by Christian F Buser April 1, 2017

April 1, 2017

Hi all Every now and then, "Mailman 3" is mentioned on this list. As I understand it, MM 3 is completely different from the current MM 2 we all are using, and as Mark Sapiro wrote earlier today, questions regarding MM3 belong somewhere else. And I think I'll be using MM 2 as long as MM 2 is offered by our provider (via the cPanel installation). However: What is the state of Mailman 2 at the moment? I think it is still supported and developed. But will this change in the near or in the distant future? No, I am not afraid of learning something new - I am just wondering :) 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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list-admin on gmail ?
by Håkon Alstadheim March 31, 2017

March 31, 2017

I have a list administrator who is on gmail. Forwarding held spam-messages to him does not work, since google rejects mail that has spam attached. Is it possible to send notification of pending actions *without* attaching the held message? --- Håkon

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welcome message text ignoring break lines
by Zalezny Niezalezny March 31, 2017

March 31, 2017

Hi, why welcome message text ingoring break lines ? instead of writting test test3 test4 its writting everything so test test3 test4 How to manage that ? Cheers Zalezny

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how to remove [MASSMAIL] tag from the subject ?
by Zalezny Niezalezny March 31, 2017

March 31, 2017

hi i have removed prefix subject in the webpanel, but mailman still marking outgping e-mails. for some list its working for some not. what could be the reason ? how to fix it ? cheers zalezny

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Mailman brokenly base64-encoding all messages
by Jon Ribbens March 30, 2017

March 30, 2017

I'm using Mailman 2.1.22 packaged by Ubuntu 16.10. It appears that on one (but I think not all) of my mailing lists, Mailman is base64-encoding every single message. Yes, including ones that 100% definitely contain only ASCII characters. Does anyone know why Mailman would be doing this? You might say that base64-encoding all messages shouldn't be a problem, and you'd be partly right. However there is also another problem: Mailman is getting the line break encoding wrong in its base64-encoded messages - by which I mean the encoded representation of line breaks inside the base64 data. As per RFC 2045 s6.8: "line breaks must be converted into CRLF sequences prior to base64 encoding" but Mailman is outputting just LF. The latter problem definitely appears to be a bug in Mailman, or perhaps the Python 'email' package. The former seems likely to be a configuration issue, but it's not obvious to me where.

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Any way to disable bounce subscription disabling for just certain users?
by Jayson Smith March 30, 2017

March 30, 2017

Hi, I have a weird situation I'm sure others have had, and I'm wondering if there's any way in Mailman 2 to deal with it. I have three subscribers to one of my lists who are on ISP's who do spam filtering at the SMTP level, rejecting with a 554 any message they don't like. And as so often happens, their definition of spam and our definition of spam can sometimes be totally different. I'm assuming here that the particular subscribers probably have no way to turn off this spam filtering. I have my bounce score threshold set to 2.9 so whenever someone bounces three days within a week, they get disabled. What ends up happening is that I have to go in and re-enable their subscriptions. Normally I could just do a reset_bounce on that list, but I also have someone whose mailbox is full, and I want to keep them disabled, hoping they'll clean it up, get a mail is bouncing message, and come back. I've tried contacting these subscribers, asking if they have another Email address they could use, but have had no response. Is there any way to disable the automatic disabling of just specific member addresses? If I could find a way to do it, would setting their bounce score to something like negative 1,000,000,000 do the trick, or would Mailman just consider that the same as 0 and set it to 1 the next day? Thanks for any thoughts. Jayson

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Mailman 3 The Definitive Mailman Suite - Download error
by Henrik Rasmussen March 30, 2017

March 30, 2017

Is this list the correct place for Mailman 3 questions? I was in the progress of installing the Mailman3-bundler as it got obsolete. As a consequence the old Mailman-bundler documentation was changed to refer to http://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/devsetup.html "The Definitive Mailman Suite Development Setup Guide". I am now starting over. Both in the Mailman Suite Setup Guide section "Set up and run Mailman Core" http://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/devsetup.html#set-up-and-run-mailman-core , and the Mailman Core doc at http://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/release-3.0/src/mailman/docs/WebUIin5.html… the code is supposed to be downloaded using the command "git clone git@gitlab.com:mailman/mailman.git", but I get a Permission Denied (venv-3.5) [mailman@lstapp01pl ~]$ git clone git@gitlab.com:mailman/mailman.git Cloning into 'mailman'... The authenticity of host 'gitlab.com (<no hostip for proxy command>)' can't be established. RSA key fingerprint is b6:03:0e:39:97:9e:d0:e7:24:ce:a3:77:3e:01:42:09. No matching host key fingerprint found in DNS. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: Permanently added 'gitlab.com' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. How should I download the Mailman core? Henrik Rasmussen

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Web interface stopped working after ubuntu update
by Nick Wyman March 30, 2017

March 30, 2017

Hello, I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server running apache2.4 and mailman. This server has been running a few lists with no problems for over a year. After updating some Ubuntu packages for security maintenance (unfortunately I don't know all that changed, but apache2 and mailman were unaltered), the web interface, e.g. mailman/listinfo now displays: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Operation not permitted The apache2 config files are unchanged: I have checked that the vhost for this domain is running with uid and gid www-data. Verified that I can run mailman/listinfo from the shell as www-data and receive a proper HTML response. I enabled apache2 LogLevel trace3 and see that the request is getting through to mailman/listinfo, but no other info is logged. No meaningful info is logged to syslog or mailman/logs. It seems that something is failing inside the listinfo executable causing it to return error to the driver leading to the above response. Is it possible to get more logging info from this process? Perhaps a Python update has caused a script malfunction? Thanks in advance for your help.

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Why is a Mail stuck in qfiles/bad
by Markus Bobe March 27, 2017

March 27, 2017

Hi! I have a mailinglist running for several years now, but today a mail keeps getting stuck in qfiles/bad/ and I can't find a reason (or one I don't understand). The error log says: Mar 24 11:11:18 2017 (18258) .bak file max count, preserving file: 1490350277.837968+0696655d510e3bad34fee55513eec06ed9b3413c and when I do a dumpdb -p: [----- start pickle file -----] <----- start object 1 -----> [MAIL CONTENT] <----- start object 2 -----> { '_bak_count': 3, '_parsemsg': True, 'listname': 'newsletter1', 'received_time': 1490350277.837968, 'tolist': 1, 'version': 3} [----- end pickle file -----] Can someone tell me the meaning of ".bak file max count"? I had no success reading the FAQ or searching the mailinglist archive. Mailman Version is: 2.1.15 Thanks in advance, Markus

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convert attachment to download link
by Zalezny Niezalezny March 26, 2017

March 26, 2017

Hi, is it possible to convert Mailman attachments to clickable URLs, where user will be able to download attachment using http for example ? Is there any feature for it ? With kind regards Zalezny

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