Mailman 3 January 2020 - Mailman-Users

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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 191, Issue 3
by Allan Hansen Jan. 6, 2020

Jan. 6, 2020

Thanks again, Mark! My responses below. > On 1/4/20 5:47 PM, Allan Hansen wrote: >> >> a. The server was set up with the wrong domain name (our fault), so I had to add the ‘correct’ one. I had seen the command ‘Add Domain’ in >> the UI and thought that would do it, but Brian kindly sent me a list of additional instructions, which we then implemented. That made it possible to create a list in the new domain, subscribe people and post messages. However, messages are not archived. What extra step is needed to enable archiving? > > > What are the setytings in Postorius -> Settings -> Archiving? Archive policy: Private archives Archive archivers: hyperkitty, prototype > > >> b. When go to the server using the new domain (both before and after logging in), I see not just the lists I created in the new domain, but the lists created in the old domain. These lists of lists are domain specific and should not be listed together. That’s just IMHO, but not serious, as I will soon get rid of anything in the old domain. So feel free to ignore this one if this is intended, which I could see might be the case. > > > Set > > FILTER_VHOST = True > > in settings_local.py > Yes, Brian told me to do the same. This is the what I wrote back: hansen@rccrmail:/opt/mailman/mm$ sudo vi settings.py Edited the setting to: # Only display mailing-lists from the same virtual host as the webserver FILTER_VHOST = True Then Brian told me to restart qcluster: hansen@rccrmail:/opt/mailman/mm$ sudo systemctl restart qcluster I then logged in, but the same lists are showing. It either takes the system a long time to reset or it has ignored the setting. Just tried it again, and the lists are all showing. Do I need to manually recompile the file? > >> c. I then moved on to the templates and added a template for the message text to send to new subscribers. That resulted in the following error message when I went in as moderator to approve of a new subscription: >> >> Something went wrong >> Mailman REST API not available. Please start Mailman core. > > > Postorius is unable to access core's REST API. Is Mailman running? Well, I was able to post to the lists, so I assume it is. Listing at processes, I see a bunch of postgres, python3, nginx, django-adminp but nothing explicitly with a ‘mailman’ string. > If so, what's in /opt/mailman/mm/var/logs/mailmansuite.log or whatever it's > called - defined as `filename` in the `file` handler in the LOGGING > definition in settings(_local).py. hansen@rccrmail:/opt/mailman/mm/logs$ tail -f mailmansuite.log return Site.objects.get_current(request) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/sites/models.py", line 60, in get_current return self._get_site_by_request(request) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/sites/models.py", line 45, in _get_site_by_request SITE_CACHE[domain] = self.get(domain__iexact=domain) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/manager.py", line 82, in manager_method return getattr(self.get_queryset(), name)(*args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 408, in get self.model._meta.object_name django.contrib.sites.models.Site.DoesNotExist: Site matching query does not exist. [ABH] At this point I click to accept a subsription request: ERROR 2020-01-06 07:32:41,439 699 postorius.middleware Mailman REST API not available Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 672, in urlopen chunked=chunked, File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 421, in _make_request six.raise_from(e, None) File "<string>", line 3, in raise_from File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 416, in _make_request httplib_response = conn.getresponse() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1321, in getresponse response.begin() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 296, in begin version, status, reason = self._read_status() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 265, in _read_status raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without" http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response So yes, the REST API is not there. How can I get it going? Before we added the new domain, I was able to accept subscription requests to the previous domain’s lists. No more. Yours, Allan > > > -- > 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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