Mailman 3 August 2021 - Mailman-Users

messages from members not distributed to moderated list
by Scott Crawford Aug. 29, 2021

Aug. 29, 2021

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 Aug. 29, 2021

Aug. 29, 2021

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 Aug. 17, 2021

Aug. 17, 2021

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 Aug. 12, 2021

Aug. 12, 2021

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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Mailman instance suddenly stopped working
by Kevin Bowen Aug. 11, 2021

Aug. 11, 2021

Hello, My ancient mailman installation, 2.1.9 (yes, I know, I'm in the process of decommissioning it) suddenly stopped working overnight. When I send a test message to a test list, I see it being received by sendmail in /var/log/maillog: Aug 11 09:19:53 mailman sendmail[29533]: 17BGJi9w029255: to="|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post kbowentest-l", ctladdr=<kbowentest-l(a)mailman.redacted.comu> (8/0), delay=00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=124726, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent But then it never shows up in the mailman logs and never gets posted: [root@mailman mailman]# grep kbowentest-l /var/log/mailman/* [root@mailman mailman]# I've restarted mailman and sendmail, and don't see any obvious problems. No configurations have changed recently aside from deleting some lists. I haven't worked on this in quite some time, can anyone point me to some emergency troubleshooting ideas? Kevin Bowen kevin.t.bowen(a)gmail.com <kevin(a)ucsd.edu>

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