Mailman-Users July 2020

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23 participants
19 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

4 months

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

9 months, 1 week

dnspython error

by csa＠web-analysts.net

I'm updating Mailman from 2.1.19 to 2.1.34 from source. When I run configure ./configure --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-username=list --with-groupname=list --with-cgi-gid=www-data --with-mail-gid=list I get an error that dnspython is not installed checking dnspython... configure: error: when I then try and install dnspycthon using pip, I get Requirement already satisfied: dnspython in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages Help (please)! Thank you in advance.

10 months, 3 weeks

"Error: Unknown virtual host" trying to create new list from web UI

by Sean McBride

Hi all, I'm running mailman 2.1.x. I haven't had need to create a new list in years, but now I need to. Trying to do so from the web UI here: <https://mail.rogue-research.com/mailman/create> results in: "Error: Unknown virtual host: mail.rogue-research.com". After searching for this, I now have a partial understanding of the problem. In my Defaults.py I see: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'foo.rogue-research.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'foo.rogue-research.com' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' foo is the real hostname of the machine. I guess that's how it ended up there? After reading the comments in that file and FAQ 4.29, I *think* the correct solution is to append the following 5 lines to my mm_cfg.py: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'rogue-research.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mail.rogue-research.com' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/' VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) Is that correct? Many thanks, Sean

10 months, 3 weeks

Very strange issue With Mailman + Exchange(?)

by Bruce Johnson

I am not sure how to figure this out. Lengthy explanation: Internally in our Exchange server, that address is a distribution group whose only member is the actual <list-name>@lists.pharmacy.arizona.edu, because the Mailman server is not our mail server. (we have a mildly complicated setup: hybrid OnPrem and O365 exchange + Barracuda spam appliance in front of all of it, which is our actual SMTP server. Outgoing email from the list server bypasses Exchange and is sent directly to the Barracuda SMTP server. For two users and ONLY these two users, somewhere between them and mailman and back, the Mailman list is being expanded to put all the members of the list on the CC line. It then gets held for approval with a ’too many addresses’ message. I have watched them send an email to the affected list; the list address is NOT in their local address cache, and they are NOT entering any other addresses in the email other than the list address. The only address that appears on the email in their Sent folder is the list address. Other users in our organization can send to these same lists without this happening. In fact one of the affected users can send to *other* lists on our server with no problems. These are two different lists. I don’t know that this is specifically a Mailman problem (because it’s only happening with specific users) but I cannot see how list members are getting stuffed on the CC line otherwise; because Exchange only knows the list address, not the members; only Mailman does. TLDR: Somehow the all the list addresses are getting stuck onto the list message which then holds it for approval for ’too many addresses’. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

10 months, 3 weeks

Alternate URL hostname in web UI

by Kevin Bowen

Hello, I'm trying to set up the mailman (2.1.9) web UI behind a load balancer in order to offload the TLS to it (because this is an ancient machine which doesn't support modern TLS versions, and newer browsers are complaining about it). I need all the links in the web UI to use the new hostname that's in front of the loadbalancer, instead of the actual hostname behind the loadbalancer. Am I understanding correctly that DEFAULT_URL_HOST in mm_cfg.py would be the way to accomplish that? And would that affect only the URLs used in the web UI, it wouldn't change anything about the actual mail handling under the hood? Kevin Bowen kevin.t.bowen(a)gmail.com <kevin(a)ucsd.edu>

10 months, 3 weeks

Disable mailman 3 emergency moderation flag after migration from mailman 2

by Johanna Amann

Hi, I have a kind of interesting problem. We migrated a mailman 2 list that had emergency moderation enabled to mailman 3 (version 3.3.1). This was imported into mailman 3 - so emergency moderation is still enabled. The web interface, however, does not expose the emergency moderation flag. Is there some way to disable it via the command line? Thanks a lot, Johanna

10 months, 3 weeks

No access to list archives

by Odhiambo Washington

Hi, Odd issue between two OSes with the same config: In both cases, the archives are configured for public access. On one server, archives are accessible while on the other, access is denied with the error message: *AH00037: Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/LISTNAME, referer: https://lists.server.name/mailman/listinfo/LISTNAME <https://lists.server.name/mailman/listinfo/LISTNAME>* root@gw:/usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes # ls -al /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/LISTNAME/ total 12 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 26 21:49 . drwxrws--- 58 root mailman 1536 Jul 26 21:49 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mailman 493 Jul 26 21:49 index.html <VirtualHost *:443> ServerAdmin odhiambo(a)gmail.com ServerName lists.server.name RewriteEngine On Redirect Permanent /htdig /icons/htdig RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ /mailman/listinfo/ Alias /pipermail /usr/local/mailman/archives/public <Directory /usr/local/mailman/icons/> AllowOverride all Require all granted </Directory> Alias /icons /usr/local/www/icons <Directory /usr/local/mailman/icons/> AllowOverride all Require all granted </Directory> Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/icons/ <Directory /usr/local/www/icons/> AllowOverride all Require all granted </Directory> <Directory /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/> Options Indexes FollowSymlinks *<= one would think that this is where the issue is, but seems like it's elsewhere???* AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ <Directory /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/> Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/mailman-error.log CustomLog /var/log/mailman-access.log combined </VirtualHost> -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)

10 months, 3 weeks

Upgrading from 2.1.12

by Daniel Krause

Good Day We have a running 2.1.12 installation that was done long ago via an external consultant. It hasn't been changed in years, but I would like to upgrade this to at least the latest 2.x version and potentially 3.x. We would also like to migrate this from the current Centos VM to an Ubuntu EC2 instance Knowing very little about the structure etc of the data etc, what would be the best way to go about this? 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/>

10 months, 4 weeks

Problem running CGI - Mailman Admin UI

by Odhiambo Washington

Hello List Admins, I am somehow at the end of my thinking capacity with this problem, yet I think it's something minor that a third eye can help me with: I have installed mailman-2.1.34 on a brand new box running FreeBSD-12.1. The problem is that the web UI won't open. It instead prompts me to download a file. The contents of the file can be seen from the below link: https://pastebin.com/8bh6g6rv <https://pastebin.com/8bh6g6rv>How I have done the installation: 1. I did the manual options cd mailman-2.1.34 ./configure --with-cgi-gid=80 --with-mail-gid=26 make make install 2. The files in /usr/local/mailman: drwxrwsr-x 24 root mailman 1024 Jul 22 17:42 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root wheel 1024 Jul 19 16:08 .. drwxrwsr-x 11 root mailman 3072 Jul 22 15:52 Mailman drwxrwsr-x 5 mailman mailman 512 Jul 19 17:32 archives drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 1536 Jul 22 15:52 bin drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 22 15:52 cgi-bin drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 23 02:19 cron drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 22 15:52 data drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 22 15:52 icons -rw-r--r-- 1 root mailman 10 Apr 18 2015 last_mailman_version drwxrwsr-x 27 root mailman 1024 Jul 19 17:32 lists drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 23 12:00 locks drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 22 12:44 logs drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 22 15:52 mail drwxrwsrwx 22 root mailman 512 Jul 29 2017 mailman drwxrwsr-x 41 root mailman 512 Dec 7 2018 messages drwxrwsr-x 3 root mailman 512 Jul 19 17:32 pythonlib drwxrwsr-x 12 root mailman 512 Jul 19 17:32 qfiles drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 22 15:52 scripts drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 512 Jul 19 17:32 spam drwxrwsr-x 45 root mailman 1024 Jul 19 17:32 templates drwxrwsr-x 4 root mailman 512 Jul 22 15:52 tests 3. The file perms in the cgi-bin/ -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 admin -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 admindb -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 confirm -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 create -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 edithtml -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 19312 Jul 19 17:32 htdig -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 listinfo -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 19312 Jul 19 17:32 mmsearch -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 options -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 private -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 rmlist -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 roster -rw-r-Sr-- 1 root mailman 37742 Nov 25 2012 sitemap.xml.gz -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32728 Jul 22 15:52 subscribe -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 108566 Oct 23 2009 swish.cgi root@gw:/usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes # id mailman uid=91(mailman) gid=91(mailman) groups=91(mailman),26(mailnull),80(www) root@gw:/usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes # id www uid=80(www) gid=80(www) groups=80(www),72(rt4) VirtualHost configuration: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName lists.mydom.ain ServerAdmin odhiambo(a)gmail.com ErrorLog /var/log/mailman-error.log RewriteEngine On # RedirectPermanent /mailman/ https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/ RewriteRule ^/(mailman|pipermail|icons|htdig)/.+$ - [S=1] RewriteRule ^/(mailman|pipermail|icons|htdig)(/.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2$3$4 [L,R] RedirectPermanent /htdig /icons/htdig RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ /mailman/listinfo/ Alias /pipermail "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public" <Directory /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/> Options Indexes FollowSymlinks AllowOverride all Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Require all granted </Directory> ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ <Directory /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/> Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost> What is it that I am being blind to that makes the web UI not open? Thanking you in advance for being my third eye. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-)

11 months