Mailman 3 February 2020 - Mailman-Users

Mailman 2.1.30rc1 released
by Mark Sapiro 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

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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mailman 2.1.18 for RHEL 5
by Dennis Putnam 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Since migrating to mailman 3 on the latest RHEL is going to take some time, I need an interim solution to DMARC mitigation. I understand version 2.1.18 will do what I need, at least until I can finish the migration. However, I have been unable to find a repository or rpm for that version for RHEL 5. Can someone help me out with that?

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Server Configuration 2.1.12
by Dennis Putnam 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

I have mailman 2.1.12 installed on RHEL 7 (that is the latest version available in the RHEL 7 repository). When I try to access the mailman web pages (apache 2.4) I get the error: [Mon Feb 17 03:43:04.099892 2020] [authz_core:error] [pid 30156] [client 162.230.29.192:49655] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo Here is my mailman.conf file: # # httpd configuration settings for use with mailman. # ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ <Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> Alias /pipermail/ /usr/lib/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory /usr/lib/mailman/archives/public> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> # Uncomment the following line, replacing www.example.com with your server's # name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page (recommended). RedirectMatch ^/$ http://galene.csd.net/mailman/listinfo/rushtalk Since it looks correct to me, perhaps some new eyes can see what I am missing. TIA.

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UTF-8 From and Reply-to addresses not getting properly processed.
by Lindsay Haisley 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

We're running Mailman 2.1.18-1 and have a list which is having a porn spam problem. The list is set to discard posts from non-members, and the list moderator has set various filters to try to filter on words which contain "f***", as many do, however the Subject, From and Reply- to addresses are all UTF-8 strings, and are apparently confusing Mailman's decision-making functions, and these posts are ending up in the administrative requests list. Here's a sample set of headers: Return-Path: <Abia(a)multi.net.pk> Delivered-To: cyberpluckers(a)autoharp.org Received: from 202-142-178-114.multi.net.pk ([::ffff:202.142.178.114]) by linode.fmp.com with ESMTP; Sat, 15 Feb 2020 09:11:38 -0600 id 000000000025B215.000000005E480A2B.00002589 Received: from unknown (103.65.14.20) by mail.naihautsui.co.kr with SMTP; Sat, 15 Feb 2020 15:02:48 -0800 Received: from asx121.turbo-inline.com ([41.36.184.152]) by qrx.quickslick.com with LOCAL; Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:51:47 -0800 Received: from unknown (HELO snmp.otwaloow.com) (Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:48:41 -0800) by rly04.hottestmile.com with QMQP; Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:48:41 -0800 Received: from unknown (137.251.39.90) by mail.naihautsui.co.kr with ASMTP; Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:48:03 -0800 Received: from mail.gimmicc.net [12.159.103.230] by smtp.endend.nl with ESMTP; Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:40:00 -0800 Message-ID: <455601d5e40d$cd381490$538b0ca1@Abia> Reply-To: =?utf-8?B?IkFiaWEiIDxBYmlhQG11bHRpLm5ldC5waz4=?= From: =?utf-8?B?IkFiaWEiIDxBYmlhQG11bHRpLm5ldC5waz4=?= To: cyberpluckers(a)autoharp.org, cyberpluckers-owner(a)autoharp.org Subject: =?utf-8?B?SSBJbnN0YUZ1Y2sgUmVxdWVzdCBpcyBQZW5kaW5n?= Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:40:00 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_linode-9609-1581779501-0001-2" X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.01 MM is properly decoding the Subject in the message detail headers, but not the From address. Is there any way to get these get Mailman to properly handle these? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The arc of history is long, but FMP Computer Services | it bends toward Justice" 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com | - Barack Obama

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genalises - no aliases for one od the ists
by Jutta Wrage 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Hello! We are using Mailman 2.1.26 Now I discovered a problem: genaliases creates 2 files and in one of them there is one mailing lists missing. aliases has 11 lists virtual-mailman has 10 lists Is it possible to debug this somehow? Exim does not accept mail for the missing list: 550 Unrouteable address /usr/bin/python points to Python 2.7.17 I could add the missing lines in virtual-mailman manually, but once genaliases is run again the additional entries will be up and away again. Any suggestions? Jutta

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Server Migration
by Dennis Putnam 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

I've been reading up on migrating to a new server but I'm not sure I am reading the right instructions. It seems that copying the lists to the new server is one thing but it appears that the end result means the users will have to use a new list server. That is, if users were emailing listname(a)oldserver.domain.com they will now have to email listname(a)newserver.domain.com. That is not what I want. After migrating to the new server I want users to still email listname(a)oldserver.domain.com. I expect to simply rename the new server to the old hostname and change its IP address. Can someone point me to some documentation that does that type migration? TIA.

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Upgrading Mailman from Centos package...
by Bruce Johnson 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Probably a dumb question, but, this should also be the process to update MM from a RHEL/CentOS package to a later version from source? https://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.80%20How%20do%20I%20upgrade%20from%20Mailman%20… I've checked this: https://wiki.list.org/DOC/RHEL%20file%20changes%20after%20version%202.1.5-20 -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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Attachment issue in Outlook
by Kapil Dev Sharma 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Hi Team, We are using mailman 2.1.29. When sending the mail using Mailman, The email body content is sent as an attachment (ATT00001.txt). We face this type of issues only in outlook. Could you please suggest us the solution for the same. If you already address this issue in any upgraded version then share the version name with us. Thanks, Kapil Dev Sharma Thanks, Kapil Dev Sharma Tech Lead, OnSumaye [image: image.png] https://www.onsumaye.com/

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how to disable main mailman-request and mailman list without stopping mailman functionality
by Jelle de Jong 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

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 01 Feb '20

01 Feb '20

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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