Mailman 3 October 2018 - Mailman-Users

setting reply address
by Mark T 21 Oct '18

21 Oct '18

Hi can anyone help please I have a announce only list What I am trying to do is have it set so when you reply to the list it will Go to a selected email address I have set this but when I reply it goes to the selected email address also the announce list as well Mark. Tune in to the number one station on the web TAFN radio http://tafn.org.uk/listen Or for our catch up service on demand http://www.tafn.org.uk/on-demand or for our upcoming weekly schedule http://www.tafn.org.uk/radio part of the accessible friends network www.tafn.org.uk Registered UK Charity: #1108043. Sent from Windows 10 Mail.

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Auto-populating lists from postfix virtual_aliases
by 3×5 19 Oct '18

19 Oct '18

Hello, I have a client with an existing mail server that uses postfix. He wants to be able to occasionally mass-mail all the users in the virtual_aliases table. However, they need to be able to opt-out of these emails, like any other mailing list. He also wants to be able to send to lists based on virtual domain. There are several domains in the virtual_domains table of the mail server, and he wants to be able to filter by one, and mail to everyone in virtual_aliases who hasn't opted out and whose domain matches the filter. I know that it's possible to integrate Mailman with postfix, but I don't know if mailman can pull together lists in this way. Is it possible, or is mailman the wrong tool for this job? Thanks for reading!

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MIGRATING MAILMAN LISTS
by Roy Pangani 19 Oct '18

19 Oct '18

I am new to this Mailman. I have just installed in mailman in docker containers. And I want to migrate lists from another server which doesn’t use docker. Any ideas on how to do this best way? Regards, Roy

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Prioritizing mails?
by Ralf Hildebrandt 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

We're runnging a mailman server with a lot of lists. Today somebody sent quite a large mail (attachment) to a newly created list with 14.000 recipients. This caused all other mail via Mailman to be more or less stalled. Is there a way of assigning priorities to lists, like giving all lists "normal" priority and large lists "low" priority? OTOH sending small mails to large lists is ok, so maybe the product of "size_of_mail" and "number_of_list_recipients" could be used to adjust the priority accordingly.... -- Ralf Hildebrandt Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin ralf.hildebrandt(a)charite.de Campus Benjamin Franklin https://www.charite.de Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin Geschäftsbereich IT, Abt. Netzwerk fon: +49-30-450.570.155

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new Mailman Ubuntu builds (PPA)
by Jim Popovitch 17 Oct '18

17 Oct '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello, With some help from Mark and Barry, I was able to setup build "recipes" (Ubuntu Launchpad configurations) that will now automatically build and publish the latest greatest Mailman 2.x source that Mark releases. That's right, it's all auto-magical. When Mark pushes an update to Mailman, Lauchpad detects it and builds and releases packages (.debs) in the new Mailman PPA. The 5 build variants are: mailman https://code.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1 mailman-htdig https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/htdig mailman-htdig-mhonarc https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/htdig_mhonarc mailman-mhonarc https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/mhonarc mailman-vhost https://code.launchpad.net/~msapiro/mailman/vhost The currently released distributions are: Ubuntu/Precise LTS (12.04) Ubuntu/Trusty LTS (14.04) Ubuntu/Xenial LTS (16.04) Ubuntu/Bionic LTS (18.04) Ubuntu/Cosmic (18.10) ...across these processor architectures: AMD x86-64 (amd64) ARM ARMv8 (arm64) ARM ARMv7 Soft Float (armel) ARM ARMv7 Hard Float (armhf) Intel x86 (i386) PowerPC (powerpc) PowerPC64 Little-Endian (ppc64el) IBM System z (s390x) That's right, fire up your System Z and create a near infinite number of lists. :-) For more information on the new Mailman PPA, please see this link: https://launchpad.net/~mailman-administrivia/+archive/ubuntu/ppa - -Jim P. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEPxwe8uYBnqxkbORSJxVetMRaJwUFAlvGq/8ACgkQJxVetMRa JwVftg//ZTS/HbrWxQ7YsWi4ztvBJjjzfUCxZFZHRyx2JXGA2WKL22outBY+dL8W ALZrW80FJeyDe15aQ0hOfu/4u0wszayrOvyBMBYenXpsMarPqJ4ExT22dq+d/YFA 7qOP27RfjeCAXbgoJ9uiHpLgAgw7j1Ux3i1OqoW5knRZkQffYr6bNpxrqipsc7Su cgb+r9mfkVX2ok948rW6OIJU7pxZVkw+L/86KmZ6GgGLG4+1poeL5XofrLZRYwJG UssY+wU45dZMz3a6iqpH2j6sKF8H+odkdYKla22P9TTAFpjPMVzOTcPBYFtvhmq0 rUgKM4PotYDrsLkKOtHXOtUzyctOZrqroLe73n8qdwCZm5Heb4c9ASBxHlZ/rSlk bZl/siAo+N3LdMOAiEV5hCX44FSb1HLRNXaOhRkQjY0hTp+Vs42mU5dX8fw94sYX uzCOcGCpSWiZfmKQSMVFZ49Qh5Bs53IOqxiAk5FbXv8slPhmPi1mdPrWwj6ziucW eOkisMNxHEvbQyyXuOlSW6OnnaljMlSnVPKBdfNk/k1qjZz6UqK1JwGUJk9zWK+y 3Y4hpAEMevrjg9LgnyJ5RL7Jhhb1+ClZ8sH/7kXkmuYHCGyBDQEqmkAMik4uupPI OwcncxsjJqNC+A9Num3TKBjm3mXyUUZSWNS4ntjrDhSop9bYfUM= =tYV6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Recursion problem with "disabled" cron job.
by Lindsay Haisley 16 Oct '18

16 Oct '18

I'm running Mailman 2.1.18-1 I'm running cron job daily with this command: /usr/bin/python -S /usr/lib64/mailman/cron/disabled I've started getting the following messages indicating a code problem with this script, to wit: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/mailman/cron/disabled", line 227, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib64/mailman/cron/disabled", line 204, in main member) File "/usr/lib64/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 67, in pend_new db = self.__load() File "/usr/lib64/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 97, in __load return cPickle.load(fp) File "/usr/lib64/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 138, in __getattr__ return getattr(self._memberadaptor, name) File "/usr/lib64/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 138, in __getattr__ return getattr(self._memberadaptor, name) etc ..... .... until the recursion limit is exceeded. To the best of my knowledge, this is relatively new. Any ideas about what might be happening here? Was this perhaps addressed in a newer version of MM? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com | -- Hiram W Johnson

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most recent docs?
by Dave Stevens 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

Mark suggested I take up an issue with my distro maintainers which I've done. One part of that is reading the admin guide dated June 2, 2017 and written by Barry Warsaw. There's another such document at https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%202.1%20List%20Administrators%20Manual?hi… and isn't clear to me which is most up to date. Anyone know? Dave -- In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil. My books are not conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no simple answers to simplistic questions. ----- Ursula Le Guin

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duplicate mod request waiting emails
by Bernie Cosell 11 Oct '18

11 Oct '18

Very curious! The second message was sent a few minutes after the first: Subject: 1 NPL-Folk moderator request(s) waiting From: npl-folk-bounces(a)lists.puzzlers.org To: npl-folk-owner(a)lists.puzzlers.org Message-ID: <mailman.0.1538965012.1994.npl-folk-puzzlers.org(a)lists.puzzlers.org> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:16:52 -0700 Subject: 1 NPL-Folk moderator request(s) waiting From: npl-folk-bounces(a)lists.puzzlers.org To: npl-folk-owner(a)lists.puzzlers.org Message-ID: <mailman.0.1538965394.8110.npl-folk-puzzlers.org(a)lists.puzzlers.org> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:23:14 -0700 Completely separate, duplicate "waiting" emails! /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell bernie(a)fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep --

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I'm doing as check_perms suggests with no change - what next?
by Dave Stevens 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

root@web6:/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/stewards# check_perms -f /var/lib/mailman/scripts bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/locks bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/Mailman bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/templates bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/icons bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/mail bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/cron bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/logs bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/bin bad group (has: root, expected list) (fixing) Problems found: 10 Re-run as list (or root) with -f flag to fix I'be repeated this several times and don't see what to do. Ideas? Dave -- "As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance." -- John Dewey

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duplicate pending requests
by Bernie Cosell 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

Every morning I get two identical copies of the "moderator requests waiting". It isn't a big deal but I'm wondering why. I first thought it was sending one copy to the owner and one copy to the moderator [I had me in as both], so I removed me from moderator -- now there's no moderator and only the owner and still I get two copies. Did I misconfigure something? /b\ Bernie Cosell bernie(a)fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep --

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