Mailman-Users October 2020

mailman-users@python.org

13 participants
22 discussions

by nikos

Hello list. I'm receiving a lot of fake Subscription Requests and spend time to discard them. 1. how can I "lock" lists not to receive requests except administrator's mass subscription? 2. how can I mass discard those request from console? Thank you in advance, Nikos.

3 weeks, 1 day

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

4 months, 1 week

Non-member regexps

by Daniel Krause

Good Day We are using mailman 3, and would like to whitelist a domain for acceptance of messages as non-members. It seems possible from my online searches, I have also tried with an online python regex tester(https://www.regextester.com/94044), but I have not managed to be successful. Below are 2 examples I have tried ^.+(a)noldor\.co\.za$ ^[a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@(?:(?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.)?[a-zA-Z]+\.)?noldor\.co\.za$ ^.+(a)gmail.com$ ^.*gmail\.com$ Regards -- *Daniel Krause* *Head of IT* *Office: **+27 87 238 4238* <0872384238> *Mobile : **+971 55 418 4733* <0971554184733> *Email: **daniel(a)noldor.co.za* <daniel(a)noldor.co.za> *Web: **www.noldor.co.za* <http://www.noldor.co.za/>

4 months, 1 week

Migrating Mailman Lists from One Server to Another

by Onyeibo Oku

Greeting, Is there a recommended a stable or reliable approach for migrating Mailman lists from one server to another? I have tried two methods already and, in both cases, the resulting lists were buggy. The source lists are not live (i.e. old server/host is no longer accessible). However, we copied all files/folders from the previous /var/lib/mailman/ to a folder in our new server. I guess the scenario rules out Method-#1 described on https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.70%20How%20do%20I%20change%20the%20name%20of%20… I also tried the steps illustrated on https://debian-administration.org/article/567/Migrating_mailman_lists. That gave me lots of errors pertaining to permissions despite running 'check_perms -f' (makes me wonder what the recommended permissions/ownership for files in /var/lib/mailman/ would be). In the end, the lists were visible via the web interface but I couldn't log into administration from there (I got an error page ... something about Mailman being buggy). Some other pages wouldn't open too. I got similar results after following https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers@python.org/msg03127.html Method #2 at https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.70%20How%20do%20I%20change%20the%20name%20of%20… sounds appealing. I tried the script but python2 was looking for a path module. Is that script still supported? In any case, I'd appreciate any help I can get to bring our lists back online. Regards Onyeibo

7 months, 1 week

Can not find the "msgid" for a specific mail for mailman administrator.

by Masaharu Kawada

Dear mailman-users list, I have a question on how to modify the content of mail sent out to mailman administrator. Looking into /usr/lib/mailman/messages/ja/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po, the following two lines can be found. 1. msgid "%(realname)s moderator request check result" 2. msgid "" "Notice: %(discarded)d old request(s) automatically expired.\n" The first line looks to be the mail title and the second line looks to be the content of the mail titled with the "%(realname)s moderator request check result" as the first line. However, I can not find the "msgid" in the second line in anywhere like /etc/mailman/templates/en/* where I think the "msgid(s)" used for mail content are supposed to be filed under /etc/mailman/templates/en/ directory such as /etc/mailman/templates/en/checkdbs.txt. To modify the "msgid" in the second line from "Notice: %(discarded)d old request(s) automatically expired.\n" to something other than that, I need to find out where the "msgid" is. Could anyone in the list give me a help on this? Thanks, Masaharu

7 months, 4 weeks

Group Mismatch Error

by Dennis Putnam

I am getting this error: <cufsalumni(a)localhost.localdomain> (expanded from <cufsalumni@localhost>): Command died with status 2: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post cufsalumni". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "nobody", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. When I upgraded to this version of Mailman (2.1.34) I specified the configure options per the article (https://wiki.list.org/x/17892071) for RHEL. The group for '/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman' is indeed 'nobody'. What is this error trying to tell me. It is not clear what wrapper it is talking about since the group on the indicated script is correct.

8 months

Re: Settings for "monthly password reminders", etc.

by H Ian Zhang

Thank you for the explanations, Mark. We'll be able to live with the settings as they are, no problem. :) Regards: Ian Zhang

8 months

Settings for "monthly password reminders", etc.

by H Ian Zhang

Hello Mark, we are testing a new mailing list (our provider currently makes Mailman 2.1.33 available). On the "General Options" page for the list, there is the setting "Send monthly password reminders?" We set this to "No" when we configured the list (before we had any subscribers). Now we have a few test subscribers. When they log in to their respective subscription pages, they will find the setting "Get password reminder email for this list?" And in all observed cases this is set to "Yes". Similarly, on the "Digest Options" page there is the setting "When receiving digests, which format is default?" And regardless of whether this is set to "Plain" or "Mime", subscribers logging in to their respective subscription pages will see there the same parameter invariably set to "Mime". In terms of logic, this is an unsatisfactory situation: either, if the general settings overrule individual setting, then subscribers are being misled, because they think they have choices when they actually don't, or, if the individual settings have precedence, then list managers are being misled, because they are given the impression that they are controlling certain paramaters when they actually don't. What are we overlooking here? Thank you in advance for your assistance! Regards: Ian Zhang --

8 months

Settings for "monthly password reminders"

by H Ian Zhang

8 months

Re: 7bit vs. 8bit settings / http vs https

by H Ian Zhang

Thank you for the specifics on both questions, Mark! I'll follow up accordingly. > If you as list admin set the list's preferred language to French, > the charset will be iso-8859-1. The list will only carry messages in English and French, so this looks like a good option. If you don't see follow-up questions here it means we fixed the problems. :) Regards: Ian Zhang

8 months