Mailman 3 August 2021 - Mailman-Users

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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Munge without CC or Reply-To
by Diez 22 Feb '22

22 Feb '22

Hello. I'm new at this list. I'm trying to setup a list (I'm not the site admin), and I'd like to use Munge From setting, but I'd like not have Reply-To field or CC field, but I suspect is not possible. I was testing with anonymous_list, but the problem is that only a certain member should send some kind of calls, but with anonymous_list anyone could send it. I'm setting up with 2.1.23 version. Regards and thanks in advanced and sorry for my bad english

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Mailman + postfix automatically adding aliases
by Bruce Johnson 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

I'm setting up a new CentOS8 mailman server to take over from our ancient existing one, and have run into some issues trying to get it working. I installed mailman from source, following the directions here: https://wiki.list.org/DOC/How%20do%20I%20upgrade%20a%20RHEL/CentOS%20Mailma…. I'm at: https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/postfix-integration.ht… Run the bin/genaliases script to initialize your aliases file. % cd /usr/local/mailman % bin/genaliases But when I do this I get the following. Am I supposed to create these data/aliases files manually? Where are they supposed to go? There is no data/ directory in /usr/lib/mailman and /var/lib/mailman has a data directory but nothing inside named aliases [root@dhbmailman2 mailman]# bin/genaliases To finish creating your mailing list, you must edit your /etc/aliases (or equivalent) file by adding the following lines, and possibly running the `newaliases' program: ## newserver_test mailing list newserver_test: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post newserver_test" newserver_test-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin newserver_test" newserver_test-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces newserver_test" newserver_test-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm newserver_test" newserver_test-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join newserver_test" newserver_test-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave newserver_test" newserver_test-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner newserver_test" newserver_test-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request newserver_test" newserver_test-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe newserver_test" newserver_test-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe newserver_test" ## mailman mailing list mailman: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman" mailman-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin mailman" mailman-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces mailman" mailman-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm mailman" mailman-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join mailman" mailman-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave mailman" mailman-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner mailman" mailman-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request mailman" mailman-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe mailman" mailman-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe mailman" -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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messages from members not distributed to moderated list
by Scott Crawford 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Hello, I’m hoping someone can help with this issue. Using Mailman version 2.1.33, that is the default list software under cPanel. Managing multiple lists and have this same issue for a long time now. Emergency moderation of all list traffic is On, but list members should be able to send to the list after their message is approved by a moderators. However, only messages that are actually sent from a moderator to the list are actually distributed to the list. Messages send by list members show up in the pending requests moderation queue, but when approved by the moderator they just disappear and are not sent out to the list. This bug appears to be reproducible consistently across multiple installations of Mailman.

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Web requests with garbage at the end of the list name
by David Gibbs 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Folks: Is anyone else seeing requests to their mailman install that look something like this: Aug 18 15:10:16 2021 (31166) Hostile listname: listname=midrange-l__;!!NVq9dfhzMyHqTw!wLl-dt8zxsuQuoyojs-UYmT_d65WZroClHaYGfHduJ561eT0B7baTQV1ogZzQKRRsw$: remote=52.34.76.65 Basically, the list name is correct, but the added "__;!NV..." makes it invalid. The pattern is rather consistent ... "__;!NV" followed by a bunch of garbage. Thanks! David -- I'm riding in the American Diabetes Association's Tour de Cure to raise money for diabetes research, education, advocacy, and awareness. You can make a tax-deductible donation to my ride by visiting https://mideml.diabetessucks.net. You can see where my donations come from by visiting my interactive donation map ... https://mideml.diabetessucks.net/map (it's a geeky thing).

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User receiving mail, but not subscribed
by Jim Dory 17 Aug '21

17 Aug '21

I suspect this stems from something inside this local corporation, but I'll ask the question: I have a person contacting me to remove her work email from our subscription of our local email list, but her email is not subscribed. Usually when this happens, I have them forward a list message to me and I can discover which email it is being sent to. Usually the messages sent are from "name of subscriber via"listname(a)domain.com. (She gets the digest which I don't so not sure that is different). But when she forwards me one of these digest messages, it is from: "Listname <listname-bounces(a)domain.com> on behalf of Listname-request(a)domain.com <listname-request(a)domain.com>" And instead of the usual listname(a)domain.com unsubscribe,archives,info link at the bottom of the message, it has what is probably an internal security link by the IT system of https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url? <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fnomekennelclub.com%2fmai…>... (with the actual link following - and redirects to our info page). This may not help, but include it to show they have some kind of system within the corporation. I've asked her to run it by the IT department of her corporation, but thought I would ask here in case there is something I need to do instead. I thought that the "on behalf of listname-request(a)domain.com" was pretty unusual, or something I don't usually see anyway. thanks, Jim

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the mailman group was deleted on our 2.120 running on ubuntu 18.04. no mail being distributed now
by avraham＠jct.ac.il 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

it seems that 1 of our sysadmins inadvertently deleted the group 'mailman'. since then, no mail is being distributed. we re-created the group, but that has not fixed the problem. in order to restore normal operation, perhaps something must be done to this group besides simply creating it. any suggestions appreciated. tnx ams

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