Mailman 3 March 2017 - Mailman-Users

Limit messages per user?
by Carl Zwanzig 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Hi, Just asking for completeness-- AFAIK there is no mechanism in either mailman 2 or 3 to limit the number of messages per day originating from a given member. True? A list I'm on (but don't manage), had something like 700(!) in 30 minutes from a buggy auto-responder. That was shut down, but the damage was done. Now people are screaming about how poorly the list is managed, etc, etc. Will even spam-assassin cover this? Thanks, z!

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Email services in and out
by Andrew Hodgson 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Hi, I have a couple of issues with our Mailman setup not really with Mailman but the inbound and outbound mail delivery, and wondered if anyone could recommend a service which would help me. I am getting more and more spam through the system, a lot of it is rejected with SpamAssassin, but stuff sometimes gets through from a forged subscriber's email address. There is also backscatter from the various subscribe addresses etc. I would like to try and cut this down if possible, looking at inbound antispam services that work with Mailman domains. I could also do with getting an outbound email service which has good delivery rates to the big ISPs. This is working well for me right now, but there are occasional issues where one provider stops receiving the messages altogether, and it can take time to deal with this. In short, does anyone have recommendations for AV/AS email solutions that work inbound and outbound that play nice with Mailman? Thanks. Andrew.

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Unsubscribe line missing
by Bill Healy 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hi everyone, We are very new users of Mailman. Version 2.1.23 Our mailing list is made up of schools. Responsibilities within schools change frequently so list members need to unsubscribe when someone takes their job. Some members are reporting that the one click unsubscribe notice at the end of emails is not there and that they have to write individually to the list moderator to have their email removed. On the other hand, it is obvious that some members are successfully using the one click unsubscribe. Is there an explanation for this? Can anything be done about it? Thanks in advance for any advice. Bill Healy CEO Kilbaha Multimedia Publishing (Est. 1978) Melbourne Australia

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%(confirmurl)s reference HTTPS?
by Greg Sims 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

I am using %(confirmurl)s in verify.txt and unsub.txt. In our current setup, these substitution symbols generate urls with that use http:// protocol. Is it possible for these variables to generate https:// protocol instead? Thanks, Greg

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Archives are returning HTTP 403 (Forbidden)
by Dennis Carr 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Of late, I've just received word that my archives are returning HTTP 403 - forbidden. So nobody can see them. Checking the file system, it doesn't appear to be a Linux issue necessarily - permissions are set so anybody can read the directory. In general, /var is set 755, /var/lib/mailman and /var/lib/mailman/archives are set "sticky" for group and is root.list, and the archives themselves are set 664 (and associated dirs are set 775 sticky), all list.list. I'm a bit lost, and can use some direction here. Help me out? Thanks, -Dennis Carr

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Checking if I Can Post
by Don Keating 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Jus' Checkin' >don< 803-312-4246 Phone 800-513-2321 Fax

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Server Migration Issue -- Only Some Members Receive Email?
by Greg Sims 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

I recently migrated from RHEL 6 to CentOS 7. The migration seemed to be straight-forward by: - creating three mailman lists - for each of the list directories - copy files from the old to new server - list options and membership seems good I have an issue and have run out of ideas. [root@ray06 log]# cat /var/log/maillog.processed /var/log/maillog | grep 'Mar 9' | grep status=sent | wc 6176 109377 1554218 The above looks at our maillogs for email that was sent on Mar 9. The answer is 6,176 emails sent. We have over 20,000 subscribers total on our three mailman lists. It appears that only some of the subscribers are receiving email. I also looked at this from the perspective of one ISP -- gmail.com. [root@ray06 email]# cat /var/log/maillog.processed /var/log/maillog | grep 'Mar 9' | grep status=sent | grep gmail.com | wc 976 18544 254501 [root@ray06 email]# sudo /usr/lib/mailman/bin/list_members english-devotion | grep gmail.com | wc 4945 4945 110190 The maillogs show 976 gmail.com emails sent while one of our lists has 4,945 gmail.com members. Again it appears that only some members are receiving email. I looked at /var/log/mailman/* and things seem normal. I'm not sure how to proceed from here.

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removing individual email headers from digest
by Jim Dory 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

I got a request from a user that seemed to make sense: removing unnecessary email headers at the top of each message in a digest. So I googled it, but before implementing it wanted to make sure it was correct and wouldn't cause other issues by presenting it here for comment. The fields of each collected message that seem appropriate for removal would be the "To:" line, since that is in the digest header, the Message-ID: line since that means nothing to the end user, and the Content-Type as that probably means nothing to the end user. That would leave intact the Date, From, and Subject lines. So here's the solution I found by googling (would it work or is better way?), and commenting out lines to keep: main config is loaded is Defaults.py above it mm_cfg.py config loaded edit sudo nano /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py with adding in the end: # removing frustrating headers, 2016 06 04 by OG2K # PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS.remove('Message') PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS.remove('Date') PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS.remove('From') PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS.remove('To') PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS.remove('Cc') PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS.remove('Subject') PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS.remove('Message-ID') PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS.remove('Keywords') PLAIN_DIGEST_KEEP_HEADERS.remove('Content-Type')

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disappearing subscriber
by Christina Endemann 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Dear all, one of our subscribers was "somehow" taken off the mailing list. a) He was certainly on the list until a while ago (by chance I had a list of subscriptions from two/three weeks ago) b) I did not unsubscribe him (to my knowledge), and also I don't have an unsubscribe message c) After subscribing that person again, he appeared in the members list again, but the strange thing is that his name field is filled in, which I certainly did not fill this time. So it looks a bit as if that person had been deactivated / reactivated. Can someone shed some light on this? We have to ensure that people reliably get the messages. Thanks! Christina And, btw, the moderator notification issue is solved thanks to your help. It was in fact only the non-existing e-mail address.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] disappearing subscriber - sorry, solved!
by Christina Endemann 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Sorry, Looking into this again, I found that they changed their e-mail addresses from .net org to .com. I did not notice that before. As simple as that. Sorry for bothering you. Cheers, Christina From: Christina Endemann Sent: Mittwoch, 8. März 2017 10:59 To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: disappearing subscriber Dear all, one of our subscribers was "somehow" taken off the mailing list. a) He was certainly on the list until a while ago (by chance I had a list of subscriptions from two/three weeks ago) b) I did not unsubscribe him (to my knowledge), and also I don't have an unsubscribe message c) After subscribing that person again, he appeared in the members list again, but the strange thing is that his name field is filled in, which I certainly did not fill this time. So it looks a bit as if that person had been deactivated / reactivated. Can someone shed some light on this? We have to ensure that people reliably get the messages. Thanks! Christina And, btw, the moderator notification issue is solved thanks to your help. It was in fact only the non-existing e-mail address.

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