Mailman 3 January 2020 - Mailman-Users

Mailman 2.1.30rc1 released
by Mark Sapiro Feb. 19, 2020

Feb. 19, 2020

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

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how to disable main mailman-request and mailman list without stopping mailman functionality
by Jelle de Jong Feb. 3, 2020

Feb. 3, 2020

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

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acceptable_aliases does not seem to work (or more likely I don't understand) V2.1.23
by stinga Feb. 2, 2020

Feb. 2, 2020

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. \\\ ---------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing the send email address from 2.1
by Evan Hansen Jan. 31, 2020

Jan. 31, 2020

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 >

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send_reminders frequency
by dmaziuk Jan. 31, 2020

Jan. 31, 2020

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

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Changing the send email address from 2.1
by Evan Hansen Jan. 31, 2020

Jan. 31, 2020

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…

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User can’t perform functions
by George R. Kasica Jan. 25, 2020

Jan. 25, 2020

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

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auto approving Message has implicit destination
by tom.corcoran＠moonbade.com Jan. 20, 2020

Jan. 20, 2020

Previously you helped me with auto discarding on my mailing list for myself and my wife: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg72213.html In the same mailing list I am regularly having to constantly approve emails from the same address with message: Reason: Message has implicit destination. Is there a setting I can make on the mailing list admin that means the email comes straight through without the need to do this approval? Cheers, Tom.

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Apache subscription Referer rules
by Jim Popovitch Jan. 16, 2020

Jan. 16, 2020

(I think I asked this a few months back, but I couldn't locate any emails on it) What is the Apache rule syntax for rejecting subscription linking that doesn't come from the same domain/site? tia, -Jim P.

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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.23
by Erwin Schmitz Jan. 7, 2020

Jan. 7, 2020

LS, I'm using mailman mailinglists, only private lists are configured. Mailman Administrator Authentication page (.../cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mailman) After entering password and clicking on "Let me in" this message appears : ------------------------------------ Bug in Mailman version 2.1.23 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. ---------------------------- The log (error) contains : admin(9779): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.23 -----] admin(9779): [----- Traceback ------] admin(9779): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(9779): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 117, in run_main admin(9779): main() admin(9779): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 239, in main admin(9779): show_results(mlist, doc, category, subcat, cgidata) admin(9779): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 465, in show_results admin(9779): otherlinks.AddItem(Link(mlist.GetBaseArchiveURL(), admin(9779): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 143, in GetBaseArchiveURL admin(9779): hostname = re.match('[^:]*://([^/]*)/.*', url).group(1)\ admin(9779): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' Via listinfo (left below screen shows : List Description Mailman [no description available] (Why should this be a list?) click on Mailman (lnks to .../cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mailman) admin(9744): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.23 -----] admin(9744): [----- Traceback ------] admin(9744): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(9744): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 117, in run_main admin(9744): main() admin(9744): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 77, in main admin(9744): list_listinfo(mlist, language) admin(9744): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 181, in list_listinfo admin(9744): replacements = mlist.GetStandardReplacements(lang) admin(9744): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py", line 400, in GetStandardReplacements admin(9744): '<mm-archive>' : self.FormatArchiveAnchor(), admin(9744): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py", line 336, in FormatArchiveAnchor admin(9744): return '<a href="%s">' % self.GetBaseArchiveURL() admin(9744): File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 143, in GetBaseArchiveURL admin(9744): hostname = re.match('[^:]*://([^/]*)/.*', url).group(1)\ admin(9744): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group' admin(9744): [----- Python Information -----] Questions: Why is the link "Mailman" shown on the screen, only public lists should be shown Why is this shown as "Mailman", which is not a 'normal' mailinglist. How to solve this.

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