Mailman 3 November 2018 - Mailman-Users

Debugging mass invitations using web page interface...
by The Mailing List Server Admin Sept. 5, 2019

Sept. 5, 2019

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

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User doesn't get added to mailinglist
by Pascal Christen March 2, 2019

March 2, 2019

Hi We have a problem since we updated from Mailman 2.1.27 -> 2.1.29 (FreeBSD). If we try to add an User on the Webgui "members/add" the Gui says successfully added and in the logs we see this: > logs/subscribe:Sep 20 10:04:59 2018 (20772) ugh_panteghini.ch: new > shouldfail(a)pascalchristen.ch, admin mass sub The user even get his confirmation mail with the password and link to his account. But if he tries to log in it says he's not authorized: > logs/mischief:Sep 20 10:09:48 2018 (33059) Login failure with private > rosters: shouldfail(a)pascalchristen.ch from X.X.X.X > logs/security:Sep 20 10:09:48 2018 (33059) Authorization failed > (private): user=shouldfail(a)pascalchristen.ch: list=ugh_panteghini.ch: > remote=X.X.X.X And if I check it with the command line tool the user isn't added: > ./list_members ugh_panteghini.ch > ... > shouldbeok(a)pascalchristen.ch Sometimes we're able to add an user when we set the "Send notifications about new registrations to the list owner?" to No. But it's like 50/50 if it works then or not. Do you guys have any idea whats wrong? Greetings Pascal

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Re: [Mailman-Users] members not receiving their own messages.
by Mike Flannigan Dec. 14, 2018

Dec. 14, 2018

For gmail, this is the fix: http://www.woodworth-ancestors.com/fix-gmail-problem-rootsweb/index.htm Users must do this. Mike On 8/21/2018 11:00 AM, mailman-users-request(a)python.org wrote: > > Hi all, > Members of lists I run that are all from a particular ISP aren't > seeing messages they post to my lists. > Someone sent me the below link. > If this can be implemented by me on my lists how can I do it? > > https://www.lsoft.com/news/techtipLSV-issue2-2017.asp. > > TIA.

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Some site blocking our emails from mailman 2.1.29 ?
by Matthew Goebel Dec. 1, 2018

Dec. 1, 2018

Hello, We've recently had one or two sites block email coming from one of our lists. They seem to indicate it is because of sending address having bounces in it? ie... listname-bounces(a)list.emich.edu This seems odd, and I'm trying to figure out if anyone else has ever seen this? Not much I can do about this with mailman if true? Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Goebel : goebel(a)emunix.emich.edu : Unix Jockey @ EMU : Hail Eris Neo-Student, Net Lurker, Donut consumer, and procrastinating medher... "Always with the negative waves, Moriarty" - Oddball "Comfort the troubled, and trouble the comfortable." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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UTF-8 and digests...
by Grant Taylor Nov. 30, 2018

Nov. 30, 2018

Is it expected that Mailman will preserve UTF-8 (punctuation symbols) in non-MIME digests? I'm having errors reported to me from (non-MIME) digest subscribers to lists mailing lists. Is this a known limitation of non-MIME digests? Or is it possibly a symptom of a problem? -- Grant. . . . unix || die

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can you set 'notmetoo' by default for all new subs?
by Fabian A. Santiago Nov. 30, 2018

Nov. 30, 2018

hi, as my subject states, can you set 'notmetoo' by default for all new subs? -- Thanks, Fabian S. OpenPGP: 0x643082042DC83E6D94B86C405E3DAA18A1C22D8F

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mm-handler support
by Jim Ziobro Nov. 29, 2018

Nov. 29, 2018

I used mm-handler to setup mailman here. It is a wonderful piece of work! Go Dave Champion (2006)! There is a couple of simple things that need to be done: - add the conversion to lowercase (solved over a decade ago!) - handle POSTMASTER (RFC822) I am a newbie to mailman but an old sendmail hand. I'd be happy to make those changes. Anyone else got comments about mm-handler? Ciao, //Z\\ Jim Ziobro

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OT - Smart .forward replacement?
by Jayson Smith Nov. 29, 2018

Nov. 29, 2018

Hi, I've been using .forward to forward Email from some user mailboxes to other addresses. Normally this works just fine, but a few weeks ago a situation happened which demonstrates how it can be an epic fail. I had a Mailman/DNS problem after upgrading a lot of packages. A message came in, Mailman couldn't properly look up the DMARC policy of the sending ISP, didn't munge the From: and sent the message on its way, and of course the message was from AOL, just about everybody rejected it, I woke up to fifty-five bounce reports…and all those bounce reports were also forwarded to an Email account on an Internet by telephone service, where deleting them was extremely slow. What I'm looking for is possibly something that checks mailboxes from time to time, and forwards all incoming messages that meet certain parameters, taking care of DMARC difficulties along the way so the forwarded messages will be accepted by the remote servers. E.G. my mom uses that net by phone service, and would like to see Email which comes to her regular Email address, but doesn't want to spend time deleting Amazon order confirmations, Mailman moderation notices, and other routine, automated, or irrelevant messages. Does such a thing exist? Thanks for any help, Jayson

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What file to Delete
by David Andrews Nov. 25, 2018

Nov. 25, 2018

I have a couple lists that had large numbers of subscribe attempts that are now being held for confirmation -- tens of thousands of them. Since there is no choice in the UI to delete them all at once -- what file do I delete to get rid of them? I am running 2.1.27 cPanel, although I don't think that matters. I do have access to the command line. Dave

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Mailman 3 on Docker
by Odhiambo Washington Nov. 23, 2018

Nov. 23, 2018

Hi, I am wondering if the instructions given in https://wiki.list.org/DEV/Mailman%203.0/Mailman%203.0%20Suite%20Dockerfile are still valid. I am running Docker on Windows, and following these instructions, but it fails with: docker build -t mailman3 . ..... ..... ..... ln: failed to create symbolic link '/usr/bin/node': File exists The command '/bin/sh -c apt-get install -y nodejs npm && npm install -g less && ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node' returned a non-zero code: 1 -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft."

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