Mailman 3 April 2021 - Mailman-Users

Re: Upgrading mailman from 2 to 3 and private archives
by Bader, Robert (Bob) April 10, 2021

April 10, 2021

Thanks, I am not sure how many messages they linked but I suspect it is a lot. They have lists they use for their groups, and will link to the messages on their internal website. But if that is the only option then that is what they will need to do if they want to keep the links.

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Upgrading mailman from 2 to 3 and private archives
by Bader, Robert (Bob) April 8, 2021

April 8, 2021

So looking to migrate to mailman3 from mailman2, so for archives I see the notes below stated on the website. So just making sure I understand correctly. Private and Public archives will migrate over, however links to the messages will change. If they are public archives you can make them available read only so your links work. If they are Private archives, basically your links to archived messages will no longer work. Do I understand that correctly? I have a user that has multiple lists with private archives, and has links to messages on his website for his users….. So basically his weblinks will no longer work, and nothing can really be done about it are is there a solution? **************** Archives info on mailman upgrade info from 2 to 3 from the website · URLs to archived messages will break, unless you take extra steps to keep them around. Upgrade mechanism makes sure to import all your archived messages in the new system, but, all the URLs to the new messages are going to be different. If you need your URLs for Mailman 2 archives to work, you can keep the HTML files generated for the archives around and your web server configuration for the archives intact (possibly with a notice to viewers that it is now a read-only archive, see this list<https://mail.python.org/pipermail/security-sig/> for example). · The above mechanism won’t work for private archives since the archives are gated with password and without a Mailman 2 list, there is no password. You can however import them to Mailman 3.

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Re: Mailman 2.1 - notifications not being properly sent to list owner
by David Nicol April 7, 2021

April 7, 2021

Mark Thank-you. A small edit, and now its working David

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Mailman 2.1 - notifications not being properly sent to list owner
by David Nicol April 7, 2021

April 7, 2021

I recently rebuilt my server (Ubuntu 20.04) and rebuilt mailman 2 - upgrading to the latest version 2.1.34. The mail server is postfix I run three mailing lists, including "TESTmail". The same issue below affects all three lists which are set up in the same way. On the General Page, I have filled in an administrator and a owner. The list options are set so that emails from non-members are held and the moderator should be notified. * The poster of the email receives a notification that the email is being held * The moderator does not receive any messages * But looking at the postfix logs, it appears to me that mailman does try to send a message to the moderator Apr 5 22:12:05 ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx postfix/smtp[9473]: 6D0973EB91: to=< testmail-owner(a)lists.xxx.org.uk>, But, the email message is being sent to the generic owner, rather than the specific names filled into either the moderator or administrator boxes on the general tab. Also, I note that the footer of the mailing list has: TESTmail list run by testmail-owner at lists.XXX.org.uk rather than the specific owner. Which suggests the same issue. Any clues as to what is not quite correct in the mailman setup?

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AT&T RBL again
by Jayson Smith April 3, 2021

April 3, 2021

Hi, I know there was a thread on this a few weeks ago, but I deleted those messages. My server has found itself, for no apparent reason, on AT&T's RBL. I've already written to abuse_rbl(a)abuse-att.net as suggested in the error message. I assume the upshot of the earlier thread was that all I can do is wait, possibly write again, and hope the AT&T RBL removal gods smile down upon me, is that right? Thanks, Jayson

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"host not found" or "account .. does not exist" when host or account does exist
by Jon Baron April 1, 2021

April 1, 2021

I run a mailing list with 4000 subscribers (jdm-society(a)sjdm.org). Every time it sends mail to the list I get about 10 failure messages (completely failure, not temporary failure that keeps mail in the queue) saying that the host is not found or the email address doesn't exist. I can often find the host with the (linux) "host" command, and the email address checker often shows that the address is valid. The same email address that failed usually succeeds on the next post. I would like to keep these messages in the queue if possible, or maybe allow more time for finding the host, or something, before giving up on the first try. I cannot find a configuration option. Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron Editor: Judgment and Decision Making (http://journal.sjdm.org) Associate webmaster: sjdm.org

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