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
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
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
Hi,
This is a weird one. I think of myself as knowing my way around Mailman
pretty well for a user/admin/installer/upgrader. I'm upgrading to a
Debian 9 system from CentOS 6.5. Debian's Apache configs took a bit of
getting used to, but I actually like them better. It uses Apache 2.4.2.
I wanted to install Mailman from source, since the latest version is
2.1.26, Debian has 2.1.23, and IIRC that's too old to have some screen
reader optimizations I want. So I built, installed, all working well. I
copied over the Mailman config from my CentOS system to use in Apache,
making some changes so it'd work under 2.4.2. Here it is:
--------------------
#
# httpd configuration settings for use with mailman.
#
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
<Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/>
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Require all granted
</Directory>
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
AddDefaultCharset Off
</Directory>
# Uncomment the following line, to redirect queries to /mailman to the
# listinfo page (recommended).
# RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ /mailman/listinfo
--------------------
The problem is that the CGI isn't working. If I go to
http://temphostname/mailman/listinfo/mailman for example, Apache says
/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/mailman doesn't exist. If I just go to
/mailman/listinfo I get an Elf binary thrown at me, rather than the page
saying there are no advertised lists. If I do the same thing from the
server using the Lynx web browser, I get the same binary thrown at me,
with a page title, "Mailman CGI error!" It sounds to me like Apache
2.4.2 isn't seeing that /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin is, in fact, CGI
scripts, and is trying to treat them like regular files. Has something
else changed between Apache versions?
Thanks,
Jayson
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
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
I am reading through the REST API documentation and cannot find a way to
obtain a list of all the email addresses to a specific list. Can someone
point me to the proper page? TIA.
I have a couple of lists using mailman 2.1.20. I recently updated the
web server software (apache 2) to redirect everything to HTTPS. I did
something to break the approval process of messages, but can't find out
where I've made the mistake. I've read, I think, all the available
documentation for using HTTPS with mailman. I've looked at all the log
files for both apache and mailman, error, accesses, smtp, etc and can't
find any hint about what I've done wrong as nothing is showing up in
any of the logfiles. When I use the admindb page for a list and click
on the accept radio and then click on the Submit All Data button, nothing
happens.
I've run check_perms as root and supplied the -f to fix any issues to no
effect.
If I view the page source all the form actions include https://...
So long story short, how can I find where the error is that is causing the
messages to continue to be unapproved and languish as held messages?
Thanks,
ted
--
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www.frohling.org ted-at-frohling-dot-org
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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