Mailman-Users January 2021

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22 participants
17 discussions

by steve lund

Hello, I am the mailing list administrator for a charity cycling team. The list currently has about 150 members. The list and our website is hosted by a local ISP who is running Mailman 2.1.34. We seem to be having all too frequent occurrences of multiple bounces that seem to be related only to the domain of the address recipient. Previously we have had issues with AOL.com and Mindspring.com email domains. The main result of these are disabled subscriptions due to excessive bounces. The latest in this continuing saga occurred on Monday morning when I received notification that 12! list members with Yahoo.com email domain addresses had been unsubscribed from the list! I am assuming that this is the sum total of ALL yahoo addresses in our list. The interesting thing about this occurrence other than losing the name associated with the email address (since the members were unsubscribed not just disabled) is that I NEVER received ANY bounce notifications other than the unsubscribe notification. I find this quite odd and unsettling considering that the list shows that it IS configured to send earlier bounce notifications and I have received them in the past... just not leading up to this latest incident. The typical error message is: jonxx_dajxxn(a)yahoo.com <jones_dajuan(a)yahoo.com> has been removed from MSing-ride. (disabled address) So I guess that my question is whether or not these types of problems are now endemic to all email lists or if....Our ISP is technically "challenged" and 1. Doesn't know how to properly configure Mailman to send out the requested notifications. 2. Continues to get blacklisted for sending SPAM even though they don't. Thanks for any insight. Steve

2 months

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

2 months, 2 weeks

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/>

2 months, 3 weeks

Disable unsubscribe notification

by Moritz Fromm

Hi Everyone, I have created mailing list (mailman3 + postorius) to use as our members newsletter. We enter and remove the Members manually and only use it as a tool for us, therefore we do not want the default welcome message (which we have disabled), but I can't find a way o disable the notification once the member is removed from the list. The "list:user:notice:goodbye" Template only seemed to affect the message content but not the header. I would appreciate any tips and ideas, thanks a lot in advance! Best Moritz P.s. Hello World!

3 months

List called "mailman" and automatically discard subscription requests for a list

by Bader, Robert (Bob)

I have a list on my mailman server 2.1 called “mailman”, with no users. Is this a default list that gets created, can I delete it what is it for, it may have been created by an old admin who was testing? Also, I started getting a lot of subscription requests to this list, I think it is a bot, but not sure what it is trying to do. Anyway this got me thinking. Is there a way to setup a list to automatically discard subscription requests and NOT send a rejection notice? I could ban all domains from that list, but it is my understanding a rejection notice gets sent. We have some lists where the admin is the person who populates the list.

3 months, 1 week

Export members

by David Doonan

Is there a way to export the members of a list? Mailman version 2.1.33 Thanks, David

3 months, 1 week

Conceal yourself from subscriber list

by David Doonan

Is it possible to remove the option "Conceal yourself from subscriber list”? David

3 months, 1 week

DMARC mitigation failing on one list

by Philip Paeps

We have DMARC "munge from" configured on all mailing lists on lists.freebsd.org. This week, I learned that one of our lists is not actually munging though. I've done a `config_list -o` and compared the output to a list that does munge correctly and I'm not seeing anything that would explain the problem. When a poster from a DMARC-crippled domain tries to post to this list, I see a line in vette that the DMARC policy has been found. There are no messages in the error log. Any idea what could explain this? And how I could go about fixing it? Many thanks. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises

3 months, 1 week

file attatched to every email

by rick.fry＠rfit.net

I cant get rid of a file that appears to include the header message. Not sure which setting to change any help much appreciated

3 months, 1 week

Help with archive

by sundar

Hello Mark, I am trying to remove the archives older than 2 years by using the following python script. But, it works for 365 days only. any other possibilities to use this script for 2 years. https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/prune_arch -- Regards, Sundar

3 months, 2 weeks