Mailman-Users September 2020

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Using cronjob to remove and add members to a mailing list
by Jerry Barnabee 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

I want to be able to run a cronjob on my server that uses a php script to add new users and/or remove users from a mailing list. Not having any luck finding any simple examples. My thought is that the php script would get email addresses from a database (which I can do) and then feed them to a mailman command line to either add or remove a user. The cronjob is entered via Cpanel. Have several cronjobs that modify databases but have never tried something that would actually execute a unix command. Thanks, Pineyscripter

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Problem with outlook.com
by nikos 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

Hello list. For some reason none of hotmail or outlook users don't receive any of our newsletter. Finally all of them auto unsubscribe. The following is an error received form protection.outlook.com: Remote Server returned '550 5.6.0 CAT.InvalidContent.Exception: ExchangeDataException, Decoding of header Subject failed+ADs- raw value: +AFs-Ps+AF0- +AD0-?iso8859-7?b?wer98fnz5yDF8OX05enh6t7yIOXq5N7r+-fPn8iDz9Oft?+AD0-; cannot handle content of message That happened since September 10th this year. Before, all received without problem. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance. Nikos.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Automate Moderator Functions
by Andre de Azevedo Cunha 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Hi, i`m trying to reject messages bigger then MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE. I configured my Hold.py was described bellow: replaced hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, _ MessageTooBig(bodylen,_mlist.max_message_size)) with rej = MessageTooBig(bodylen, mlist.max_message_size) _ raise Errors.RejectMessage, rej.reason_notice_ The message was rejected, but the sender dont receive any notify about that. The mailman vette log too. How can i solve this? Thanks, André Dennis Putnam wrote: > >I am getting back to this and I have a question about maintenance. What >is the correct way to modify this so that it will not get destroyed by >updates? There are two ways to proceed. You can modify Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py itself, but before overwriting it, make a "diff -u" between the base Hold.py and your modified version to use as a patch to apply after any upgrade. A better way is to leave Hold.py unchanged and make your own edited version as say Mailman/Handlers/MyHold.py. Then you can replace the base Hold.py Module with your MyHold.py by putting GLOBAL_PIPELINE[GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('Hold')] = 'MyHold' in mm_cfg.py. Note that if you are going to do this, and you want also to move MimeDel before Hold, you must either put the above line after the lines GLOBAL_PIPELINE.remove('MimeDel') GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('Hold'), 'MimeDel') in mm_cfg.py or put it before, but then also change GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('Hold'), 'MimeDel') to GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('MyHold'), 'MimeDel') I recommend the former as in # # Put MimeDel ahead of Hold so "too big" is based on content filtered # message. # GLOBAL_PIPELINE.remove('MimeDel') GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('Hold'), 'MimeDel') # # Replace Hold with local version # GLOBAL_PIPELINE[GLOBAL_PIPELINE.index('Hold')] = 'MyHold' Since mm_cfg.py survives upgrades, this should survive. >Also does this same procedure apply to other automatic rejections such >as implicit destination? >On 9/24/2012 8:43 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> To automatically reject or discard messages that exceed the list's size >> limit, find the section of the Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py that ends with >> the lines >> >> >> if bodylen/1024.0 > mlist.max_message_size: >> hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, >> MessageTooBig(bodylen, >> mlist.max_message_size)) >> # no return >> >> (there is one wrapped line in the above) and replace >> >> hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, >> MessageTooBig(bodylen, >> mlist.max_message_size)) >> >> with >> >> rej = MessageTooBig(bodylen, mlist.max_message_size)) >> raise Errors.RejectMessage, rej.reason_notice >> >> to reject the message or with >> >> raise Errors.DiscardMessage >> >> to discard the message. Note that this will not honor the list's >> forward_auto_discards setting. to do that you would need to put >> >> from Mailman.Handlers.Moderate import do_discard >> >> with the other imports near the beginning of the >> Mailman.Handlers.hold.py module and then replace the lines with >> >> do_discard(mlist, msg) Yes, similar changes would apply to other holds in Hold.py. -- Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net [1]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -- Links: ------ [1] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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Newbie User
by David Elliott 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Hi, I am a newbie to Mailman and cpanel and I need some help, please. I have set up a mailing list for my tennis club (about 300 on list) and it seems to work ok BUT each recipient only sees the mailing list name rather than his own email name in the 'to' box. One of the recipients recently did a 'reply to all' and consequently sent his reply to the whole mailing list. I'm sure there must be a way to prevent this but I can't find it! David Elliott

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Subscription Requests
by nikos 02 Jun '21

02 Jun '21

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.

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Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

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

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Non-member regexps
by Daniel Krause 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

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/>

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Re: Problem with outlook.com [Solved]
by nikos 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

> >>> Remote Server returned '550 5.6.0 CAT.InvalidContent.Exception: >>> ExchangeDataException, Decoding of header Subject failed+ADs- raw >>> value: >>> +AFs-Ps+AF0- >>> +AD0-?iso8859-7?b?wer98fnz5yDF8OX05enh6t7yIOXq5N7r+-fPn8iDz9Oft?+AD0-; >>> cannot handle content of message >> It looks like the Subject: header of the message is in Greek and is >> RFC2047 encoded in the iso-8859-7 character set. >> >> For some reason, Hotmail doesn't accept this. >> >> >>> That happened since September 10th this year. Before, all received >>> without problem. >> This is a Hotmail (Microsoft) issue. I don't know if communicating with >> them would help or not. >> >> You could change Mailman's encoding for Greek from iso-8859-7 to utf-8, >> but this is an involved process. You have to recode Mailman's >> messages/el/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po and templates/el/* and any custom >> templates from iso-8859-7 to utf-8, run msgfmt to recompile >> messages/el/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo and also recode any Greek strings in >> the list configurations. There is a script at >> <https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/recode_list> (mirrored at >> <http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/recode_list>) that can help with >> this last step. >> >> I also don't know that changing the encoding from iso-8859-7 to utf-8 >> will help with this Hotmail issue or not, but it might be worth a try. > OK, I'll try it. > Thank you for your answer. > Nikos. Hello list. Finally, sending UTF8 emails to our lists work. Hotmail etc, receive posts. Than you for your help. Nikos.

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Virtualhosts in mailman 3 / postorius
by Johannes Rohr 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Dear all, I am now playing around with Mailman 3, considering to migrate eventually. Reading the documentation, I haven't understood whether there is still a possibility to configure virtual hosts within mailman. My goal is to ensure that visitors of https://lists.domain1.org only see the lists @lists.domain1.org and not the others, just as the setting VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = 1 in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py does. I would assume that one can have a similar behaviour in mailman3, can't one? Thanks a lot in advance! Johannes

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Re: Problem with outlook.com
by nikos 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

>> Remote Server returned '550 5.6.0 CAT.InvalidContent.Exception: >> ExchangeDataException, Decoding of header Subject failed+ADs- raw value: >> +AFs-Ps+AF0- >> +AD0-?iso8859-7?b?wer98fnz5yDF8OX05enh6t7yIOXq5N7r+-fPn8iDz9Oft?+AD0-; >> cannot handle content of message > It looks like the Subject: header of the message is in Greek and is > RFC2047 encoded in the iso-8859-7 character set. > > For some reason, Hotmail doesn't accept this. > > >> That happened since September 10th this year. Before, all received >> without problem. > This is a Hotmail (Microsoft) issue. I don't know if communicating with > them would help or not. > > You could change Mailman's encoding for Greek from iso-8859-7 to utf-8, > but this is an involved process. You have to recode Mailman's > messages/el/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po and templates/el/* and any custom > templates from iso-8859-7 to utf-8, run msgfmt to recompile > messages/el/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo and also recode any Greek strings in > the list configurations. There is a script at > <https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/recode_list> (mirrored at > <http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/recode_list>) that can help with > this last step. > > I also don't know that changing the encoding from iso-8859-7 to utf-8 > will help with this Hotmail issue or not, but it might be worth a try. OK, I'll try it. Thank you for your answer. Nikos.

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