Mailman-Users July 2017

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27 participants
27 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?

by Mal

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

2 weeks, 3 days

Mailman CGI Error-Group mismatch error

by Wang, Mary Y

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

5 months, 3 weeks

Find a smtp server to send out emails

by Leon

Hi, This problem is not caused by mailman, but I still want to give it a shot here. I'm hosting a mailing list on top of mailman. Emails are supposed to be sent out by AWS ses. However, ses requires that sender address must be verified, which leads to a problem that emails sent by subscribers to mailing list cannot be sent to other subcirbers, since their addresses are not verified. And it is impossible to verified every subscriber. Are there smtp service providers allowing unverified email address to send out emails, or do I have other solutions? Thanks. Leon

11 months, 3 weeks

Debugging mass invitations using web page interface...

by The Mailing List Server Admin

Dear Mailman Cognoscenti, I'm helping one of my list owners send out 5K plus invitations to students to subscribe to his mailing list. Our current configuration: Mailman v2.1.20 RHEL v5.11 Semdmail v8.13.8 Apache v2.2.3 Since this was the first time doing this, I suggested breaking the batch input into 3 groups, 50, 500, and the rest. The 50 went fine, as did the 500, but the largest batch gave him a generic web server error: > Internal Server Error > > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was > unable to complete your request. > > Please contact the server administrator, root(a)conundrum.unh.edu and > inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might > have done that may have caused the error. > > More information about this error may be available in the server > error log. I looked at the logs and I couldn't find anything that hinted at what went wrong. So I asked the owner to send me the last back and I'd give it a try. I wrote a script that removed folks already subscribed to his list and split the remaining subscribers up into 6 files with a thousand records each. I just tried uploading the 1st batch of 1K, with the following options: Subscribe these users now... (*) Invite Send welcome message... (*) No Send notifications... (*) No And entered a 7 line paragraph explaining the invitation. I ended up having the same error happen. Looking at the Mailman logs, I can't see any difference before or after my submission. In the HTTPD logs, I see: >> [Fri Aug 26 19:59:23 2016] [warn] [client 132.177.215.132] Timeout >> waiting for output from CGI script >> /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admin, referer: >> https://lists.unh.edu/mailman/admin/campus.connection/members/add >> [Fri Aug 26 19:59:23 2016] [error] [client 132.177.215.132] >> Premature end of script headers: admin, referer: >> https://lists.unh.edu/mailman/admin/campus.connection/members/add So is there an inherent limit to the number of invites that can be submitted via the web form? As a work around, how would I do large invites on behalf of the owner from the command line, including the 'extra text' that is allowed via the web interface? -- Cordially, the UNH Mailing List Server Admins Bill Costa, senior admin (603) 862-3056

1 year, 6 months

changing domains on Mailman implementation

by Keith Seyffarth

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

2 years, 5 months

Message not accepted for policy reasons

by Radwa Hamed

Hello everyone , I have a list with many subscribers with different email addresses , when users send to the list from any domain like yahoo or gmail it is rejected by some servers like yahoo as the domain of sender is yahoo for example while yahoo doesn't allow the ip of our server as permitted sender and emails sent to the list are sent from the server ip but with users address , is there a way to change the sender address to our domain which permits our ip as sender , while keeping the reply to address that of the original sender , so that the sender would be known to others Thanks in advance , -- Ingénieur Radwa Hamed Responsable Technique local du Campus Numérique Francophone (CNF) de l'Agence Universitaire de la francophonie (AUF) à l'Université Senghor Département Formations à Distance (FAD) & Technologies de l'information et de la communication pour l'Education (TICE) 1, Place Ahmed Orabi, EL Mancheya BP 415, 21111 Alexandrie - Egypte Tél : ++ 203 482 99 59

3 years, 6 months

How to check if E-mail from Mailman was opened by the subscriber ?

by Dlugasny

HI, we are using Mailman to send out our company newsletters. Is it possible to get some how any statistics about Mailman E-mails opened by the users ? I simply would like to be informed if user opened an E-mail. WIll it be possible ? Is it possible to get some statistics about bounced E-mails ? Thank You very much for Your support in advance. Greetings Dlugasny Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

3 years, 7 months

nightly_htdig

by Odhiambo Washington

I am facing a weird problem with nightly_htdig. It's been refusing to complete of late. I would find the process still running even in the morning. Using `top`, I see it's the topmost process. I then decide to kill it, and it dumps core, which I believe is okay, but what would cause this behaviour, especially started after I upgraded to 2.1.24 I have rebuilt the archives, but that hasn't changed things. Maybe it's something not related to mailman.... -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft."

3 years, 7 months

Second Name

by David Andrews

One of my users has requested a list -- let's call it list1(a)example.org. He wants a second name for this list -- list2(a)example.org He says he heard Mailman can do this. I have experimented a little, but can't see how. Can Mailman do this -- and if so, what do I do. Dave

3 years, 7 months

Digests not being sent, accumulating instead

by Christopher Adams

Hello, I noticed that a list digest is not being sent. The list is set to send a daily digest regardless if the quota has been reached. I verified that the cron is running: Jul 16 12:00:01 swiki CROND[44968]: (mailman) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests) The digest.mbox has accumulated since 7/16 til the present. I would appreciate any ideas about what might be happening and how to resolve it. Many thanks, Christopher Adams

3 years, 7 months