Mailman-Users January 2020

mailman-users@python.org

18 participants
17 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

Mailman 2.1.30rc1 released

by Mark Sapiro

I am pleased to announce the release of Mailman 2.1.30rc1. Python 2.6 is the minimum supported, but Python 2.7 is strongly recommended. This is a routine bug fix release with a few new features. See the attached README.txt for details. Mailman 2.1.30 will be the last release of the Mailman 2.1 branch from the GNU Mailman project. It contains some new strings which are untranslated in most of the i18n translations. If you can help update any of the translations, please contribute your changes. Changes can be submitted via a bzr merge proposal on Launchpad or by sending an updated mailman.po file and or templates directly to me. This will be the last chance to get i18n updates into a release. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. Mailman is used for all the python.org and SourceForge.net mailing lists, as well as at hundreds of other sites. For more information, please see our web site at one of: http://www.list.org https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman http://mailman.sourceforge.net/ Mailman 2.1.30rc1 can be downloaded from https://launchpad.net/mailman/2.1/ https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman/ -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

1 year

how to disable main mailman-request and mailman list without stopping mailman functionality

by Jelle de Jong

Hello everybody, I am seeing our mailman(a)lists.company.nl being used to try to spam people and receiving mail delivery failures from mailman-request(a)lists.company.nl attempts. I removed the mailman mailinglist but that ended up disabling mailman and all of the mailinglsit from working. I created the mailman mailinglist again and the spam started again. I looked at the the options but can not find the right ones that might help? PS. I had mailman not advertised by default but some Debian update a while back seem to have made it advertised. I disabled the advertising of the list but the spam keeps coming. Maybe disable advertising by default for the mailman default list? What are the recommended steps? Kind regards, Jelle de Jong

1 year, 1 month

acceptable_aliases does not seem to work (or more likely I don't understand) V2.1.23

by stinga

G'day all, I can't seem to get acceptable_aliases to work... (domain names changed to protect the innocent, but all match up) comm(a)lists.lf.me = List email address info(a)lf.me = Google group (google group has one email address which is comm(a)lists.lf.me info(a)lf.me is a member of the mailman list and is set for nomail User another(a)domain.com sends email to info(a)lf.me List receives email and bounces with: List: comm(a)lists.lf.me From: another(a)domain.com Subject: Testing Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list The above is correct as user another(a)domain.com is not a member of the mailman list In the email header there is To: <info(a)lf.me> I have in acceptable_aliases (tried various things) info(a)lf.me "info(a)lf.me" .*info(a)lf.me.* and require_explicit_destination is yes I believe that should allow email sent to info(a)lf.me to be accepted by the list, maybe I am reading this all wrong? If I am doing this wrong how do I get a google email to send to mailman and be accepted? info(a)lf.me was a real email address and I converted to a group so that all on the list could see it rather than person having to deal with the email. (I could have just forwarded the email in google but I didn;t want to have to deal with the email account that would never be looked at.) -- 'ooroo Stinga...(:)-) --------------------------------------------------- Email: stinga(a)wolf-rock.com o You need only two tools. o ///// A hammer and duct tape. If it /@ `\ /) ~ doesn't move and it should use > (O) X< ~ Fish!! the hammer. If it moves and `\___/' \) ~ shouldn't, use the tape. \\\ ---------------------------------------------------

1 year, 1 month

Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the send email address from 2.1

by Evan Hansen

It will according to the mailman website. all I want is for my mailing list emails to be sent from my email as opposed to a bounce-mail(a)domain.com On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:31 PM Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> wrote: > On 1/31/20 9:32 AM, Evan Hansen wrote: > > problem is my host has root access disabled and I can't get to that file > > without ssh commands and knowing the file location > > That doesn't matter because if I understand correctly, enabling Full > Personalization won't accomplish what you want anyway. Please follow up > on the list with more detail as to exactly what you want. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan >

1 year, 1 month

send_reminders frequency

by dmaziuk

Hi all, apologies if this is a faq and my google-fu's failing to find the answer: can I change send_reminders to e.g. yearly? Thanks, Dima

1 year, 1 month

Changing the send email address from 2.1

by Evan Hansen

So when I went to the FAQ page it told me to select Non-Digest options and go and select full personalization, however that isn't on the Non-digest page nor could I locate it anywhere else within version 2.1.27. All i want to do is modify the address my emails come from https://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20hide%20the%20fact%20that%20I%27m%2…

1 year, 1 month

User can’t perform functions

by George R. Kasica

I have a user listed in both list administrators and moderators - same valid email for both and they’re not able to post to the list. It’s closed only admins and moderators can post. I have no Idea what could be different the setup is pretty straightforward just list the addresses in the respective boxes. Can someone provide some guidance here as right now I’m the only moderator that can do anything and I have other things to get done besides admin other folks lists. Thank you very much. I can add any additional info you may require. --- George R. Kasica

1 year, 1 month