Mailman 3 May 2018 - Mailman-Users

Roster security
by Rubén Fernández Asensio 21 May '18

21 May '18

Hi all! My question may be dumb, but I need some confirmation. I set up a list so that the roster is visible to subscribers. I just noticed that, when any subscriber logs into the roster, s/he can access any other user's option page and try to unsubscribe that user or send a password reminder. I know no user can be unsubscribed without replying to the confirmation message, but I was very surprised that any subscriber would be allowed to do that to any other. I thought making the roster visible to subscribers would only expose their emails (and names, if they provided one). Is this by design, or is this a bug in my Mailman installation? Is there any way of making the roster visible to subscribers without giving access to personal option pages through it? Rubén

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Internationalizing administrative aliases
by Rubeno Fernández 20 May '18

20 May '18

Hello all, I'd like to know whether it's possible to internationalize addresses for list control, like mylist-owner, mylist-subscribe, mylist-unsubscribe... I tried editing the file /usr/lib/mailman/data/aliases and then running /usr/ lib/mailman/bin/genaliases, but it doesn't work, even after restarting the server the default addresses are still the only ones valid. I should add that the new addresses had only ASCII characters. Is it possible at all? Rubén

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Help with mailman instance in broken state
by Kevin Bowen 15 May '18

15 May '18

My mailman instance (2.1.9) has gotten into a funky broken state where one of my lists has become inoperable, with a message which should be awaiting moderation, but the moderator never got notified. The list's config appears to be corrupt - attempting to load the admin web interface results in a timeouts (the archive and basic listinfo pages still work, and the admin interface for all other lists work). When I look in /var/lib/mailman/lists/<listname>, I can see that mailman is continually rewriting config.pck every few seconds. I attempted to fix the issue by restoring the contents of /var/lib/mailman/lists/<listname> from the previous day's backup, and that got the config into a working state such that it was possible to load the web admin interface for the list, but as soon as I started back up the mailman service, it got right back into the same broken state. Next I tried deleting the list with rmlist, then recreating it and importing its config and membership with config_list and sync_members, but again, as soon as I restart the mailman service, it gets right back into the same broken state. Any ideas how to fix this? Kevin Bowen UCSD ITS UBPS kevin(a)ucsd.edu

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Mailman not dispatching Status mail to user list
by ajay babu 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hi Team, I have an application which uses mailman for receiving Validation & Notification mails to my mailing list. But unfortunately am facing intermittent issues with receiving the Notification mails to my mailing list, but am getting Validation mails to my mailing list without any issues. Any idea what might be the issue? appreciate your help here. Thanks in Advance. ~Regards AJ

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Email Address getting Deleted
by ajay babu 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hi Team, Need your kind help. When ever i add an email-id to mailing list, the email-id is getting deleted on its own in mailman and the below logs were captured in bounce & subscribe log files: May 11 00:59:27 2018 (11937) it-support: new abc(a)xxx.com <sunil.em(a)tivo.com>, admin mass sub May 11 20:00:51 2018 (27739) it-support: *deleted *abc(a)xxx.com*; disabled address* May 11 20:00:51 2018 (27739) it-support: abc(a)xxx.com <sunil.em(a)tivo.com> auto-unsubscribed [reason: BYBOUNCE] May 11 20:00:51 2018 (27739) it-support: abc(a)xxx.com <sunil.em(a)tivo.com> bounce score: 1.0 May 11 20:00:51 2018 (27739) it-support: *abc(a)xxx.com <sunil.em(a)tivo.com> disabling due to bounce score 1.0 >= 1.0* May 11 20:00:51 2018 (27739) it-support: *abc(a)xxx.com <sunil.em(a)tivo.com> deleted after exhausting notices* Could you help me to understand what might be the reason for this issue? if you're not the right point of contact, can you share me the correct details to whom i can contact in this regards? Thanks in Advance. ~Regards AJ

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new user
by Phillip Waters 13 May '18

13 May '18

I have three separate domains all hosted by the same company. I created a private mailing list for one of my domains as a test to try and see if it was something I could use. Turn out it is something I want to use. I deleted that list and tried to start over. However, On the main page for Cpanel it shows the list is still there: Mailing Lists <https://nemunas.tchmachines.com:2083/cpsess9309149334/frontend/paper_lanter…> 1 / ∞ When in fact it isn't. I want to re-create that list with the same name, however, when I tried to create the list again I get the following error: Failed to create the mailing list “d4(a)XXXXXX.xn--org-9o0a: The requested mailing list address, “d4(a)XXXXXX.xn--org-9o0a, conflicts with the forwarder “d4(a)XXXXXX.org <mailto:dist4@gaafg.org> <mailto:dist4@gaafg.org> <mailto:dist4@gaafg.org>”. To create a mailing list named “d4(a)XXXXXX.xn--org-9o0a, you must first delete the forwarder that conflicts with that name. <mailto:dist4@gaafg.org> My problem is I can't find where it is being forwarded. Can someone help me figure out where my problem lies? No forwards are listed anywhere that I can see. Thanks in advance, Phillip

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Possibly OT: GDPR and list servers
by Andrew Hodgson 09 May '18

09 May '18

Hi, Has anyone in the EU come across the GDPR guidelines in the context of Mailman? We are a charity and run Mailman as part of that with some high traffic email lists. I am getting a lot of conflicting information regarding whether we can even continue to do this in the current climate, most of it coming from half baked documents or different people's opinion, so I wanted to put it out there to see if there is anything that the community may have that we can use or help with in a co-ordinated way. Thanks. Andrew.

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Private archive file not found
by David Doonan 08 May '18

08 May '18

I manage a couple of dozen mailman lists, all of which are functioning correctly except for one. When I go to the list archives, the following error message is displayed: > Private archive file not found Tried changing the settings Archive Yes to No to Yes. Tried changing the settings from Private to Public to Private. Error message still appears. Exploring the server via SFTP, this troublesome list only has one folder, with a sub-folder called attachments. The rest of the lists are set up correctly, with two folders, one with the name of the list and the second with the name of the list and .mbox as a suffix. The troublesome list is not new; it was created a decade or more ago. Can’t believe that no has complained about the lack of archives. Is there a solution other than to re-install? david

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Still having trouble with an email filter vis-a-vis Chinese crap.
by Kenneth G. Gordon 05 May '18

05 May '18

In my mailman Privacy options/Spam filters/Regexps my expression: ^Subject: =\?utf-8\?B\? does NOT appear to work to discard all posts with that expression in the subject line. That traffic always contains this: Subject =?utf-8?B? before all the following garbage. Sometimes that expression beginning with = is contained multiple times in the traffic I want to discard. As you can see above, I have escaped all the ? characters. Is there something further I need to do to make this work as it should? Obviously, I am still doing something wrong, but I can't see it. I thought the escape character was the \, but maybe it is a / . ? What? I am, presently, not all that happy, although I have cut down the Chinese garbage by about 90% since I implemented other filters. There remains the 10% which is still very annoying. Ken Gordon --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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mailman is receiving, but not forwarding emails.
by Kevin Nowaczyk 05 May '18

05 May '18

I performed a massive debian update last week, which included a postfix update. Mailman may have updated too (it is currently 2.1.26). All other mail services on my server appear to still work (Drupal password resets, Roundcube webmail send/receive, virtual mailbox forwarding), but mailman is no longer sending out messages. The mailman archives are showing any messages that are sent to the list, but users are not receiving a copy. The mailman log files are suspiciously empty. The vet file does show where I tried to message a list I am not a member to, but nothing about the numerous times posting to a list that I am a member to, which is in the archive. here is a typical log message: May 5 11:55:12 bunsen postfix/smtpd[3101]: 3876038119: client=mail-qt0-f177.google.com[209.85.216.177] May 5 11:55:12 bunsen postfix/cleanup[28458]: 3876038119: message-id=<CA+tzkyyHK7apJ6PQ-a-mESt4kWEJ7KcYgd-NyOgG_vLvsJwHfQ(a)mail.gmail.com> May 5 11:55:12 bunsen opendkim[557]: 3876038119: mail-qt0-f177.google.com [209.85.216.177] not internal May 5 11:55:12 bunsen opendkim[557]: 3876038119: not authenticated May 5 11:55:12 bunsen opendkim[557]: 3876038119: DKIM verification successful May 5 11:55:12 bunsen opendkim[557]: 3876038119: s=google d=google-hosted-domain SSL May 5 11:55:12 bunsen postfix/qmgr[4308]: 3876038119: from=<my_username(a)google-hosted-domain.com>, size=2305, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 5 11:55:12 bunsen postfix/local[27003]: 3876038119: to=<listname(a)my_primary_domain.com>, orig_to=<listname(a)lists.my_second_domain.com>, relay=local, delay=0.3, delays=0.16/0/0/0.14, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post listname) May 5 11:55:12 bunsen postfix/qmgr[4308]: 3876038119: removed Thanks for any help,Kevin Nowaczyk

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