Mailman 3 November 2022 - Mailman-Users

Upgrade instructions
by G. Armour Van Horn June 7, 2025

June 7, 2025

I have a couple of Mailman lists on a server happily running 2.1.9 but I am also a moderator on a very active list that's running on 2.1.12. I do not host this list, just volunteer because I have some experience with Mailman. That list has started to get some significant bounces due to the DMARC issue that isn't addressed in this older version. The host intends to upgrade so that we can address that but they report that they haven't been able to make archives searchable in their experimentation with 2.1.16. I don't know if that search function is part of the more recent versions of Pipermail or if they've installed something else. I'm nervous about attempting to upgrade, given the paucity of documentation for that, particularly the fact that it tells me to use the same configuration options I used for the current install and I haven't a clue what those might have been. If I could find some more robust upgrade docs I'd like to try the upgrade in case I could contribute anything to the problem with the large list. Today I had to clear the bounce flags on 47 members. Not all that hard, but tedious. Van -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations on a theme delivered every morning. Enlightenment! Daily, for free! http://www.qotd.org/subscribe.html For photography, web design, hosting, and maintenance, visit Van's home page: http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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Editing Mailman's text files
by Pete Bell May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

Hi. I'm a new member of this group but have been running an email list with Mailman for a long time. I am now setting a list up again and want to give a "look and feel" to the list which has more branding of my user group as a whole, and less of a Mailman-feel. I seem to remember that besides editing the public HTML pages, it is possible to edit the text files which Mailman automatically sends out for certain needs (such as 'approve.txt', 'adminsubscribeack.txt', 'invite.txt', and so on). A. Is this still the case? B. If so, where can I find them? (in case they've changed from the ones I have from long ago). C. Where do they need putting, so that Mailman can use them again? It's important that I should tell you that Mailman on my webhosts servers is a "server-wide" installation, and I don't get to edit anything which other clients to their servers need. This would be only for my own use, and as such I need to know where these files go in my own webspace, and how to get Mailman to use them instead of the default ones. I should also say that I have done this before, so unless the facility to do this has been ditched in recent years, I *should* still be able to do it ! Does Mailman perhaps look for these files somewhere in my webspace (which I have to give a specific name), and if it doesn't find them it goes on to find its default versions of these files? Thanks in advance for your help. Pete Bell, UK

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Running two list with same email prefix
by Andrea Cappelli Feb. 27, 2024

Feb. 27, 2024

Hi all, I'm running a mail server with Debian Lenny, MTA is Postfix and i will use postfix-to-mailma.py script to run list I would set up Mailman for running mailing list with same email prefix on different domains, obvious with different list names For example we have ml.domain1.com and ml.domain2.net, i would like to have LISTADDRESS LISTNAME tech(a)ml.domain1.com tech-ml.domain1.com tech(a)ml.domain.2.net tech-ml.domain2.net In this way i can have the same address on differente domains and Mailman (my version is 2.1.11) can distinguish between lists because the list name is different. The list name will be also used to access web interface, so we have http://ml.domain1.com/mailman/admin/tech-ml.domain1.com http://ml.domain2.net/mailman/admin/tech-ml.domain2.net Is possible to accomplish this task? Any idea?

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Hide list address?
by Ricardo Kleemann Nov. 17, 2023

Nov. 17, 2023

Hi, Is there any way to configure Mailman such that, for an announcement-only type list, when a message is sent to the list, the To: shows the member's address, rather than the list address? Some list software allows the ability to hide the list address itself, so that address is not advertised. I couldn't find any configuration specific to that.

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Hevy resource footprint forces backdrop to mailman 2.1
by Martin Lorenz Aug. 5, 2023

Aug. 5, 2023

Greetings, after many years of smoothly running a mailman2 instance I had to migrate my virtual server to a new provider. There I found, that mailman2 was no longer supported and tried to migrate to mailman3 .. with much pain and no success. Mailman3 keeps crashing my v-server and swallows almost every mail sent to any of the migrated lists. So I wanted to switch back to mailman 2.1.39 by installing from the source package and found that this also fails due to missing python2 support. How to solve this? Thank you very much

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Unwanted digest to moderator
by John Talbut Dec. 18, 2022

Dec. 18, 2022

I am an administrator and moderator for a Mailman 2.1.18 list. Some months ago I started getting frequent digests addressed to the <list>-requests@<--> address. Why might this be happening and how can I stop it? John

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Dream Host GNU Mailman Nuked
by Michael Reeder -- Hygeia MS Nov. 30, 2022

Nov. 30, 2022

Dream Host had -- something -- happen over the holiday weekend. As of right now, Tuesday 11/29 at 11:51am EST, I believe that all GNU Mailman lists are still offline. I'm posting here in case any Dream Host list admins are not aware yet that your lists are likely not working. The last message my list received was 8:08AM on Sunday (and traffic was unusually slow for two days before that). My list is usually at its busiest on Sundays (semi-retired psychotherapists there as much for socialization as professionally). Lists are not functioning and admin control panels not reachable. They also had other webserver and email problems Sunday and Monday that seem to be sorting out. Yesterday they were saying they had a solution in mind. At this moment their status webpage merely says "*[Identified]*Our Technical Operations team has identified an issue impacting Discussion Lists and is currently working on a resolution. We'll update this post with new information as it becomes available." See: https://www.dreamhoststatus.com -- Michael -- *Michael Reeder, LCPC * *Hygeia Counseling Services : Baltimore / Mt. Washington Village location* *410-871-TALK / michael(at)hygeiacounseling.com* *http://www.hygeiacounseling.com - main website. *

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mailman not sending email to all the members of mailing list
by Ninad Nov. 25, 2022

Nov. 25, 2022

Dear All, Myself Ninad and we are using mailman 2.1.29 from long time. From last few days, I have observed a strange behavior in mailman. mailman not sending email to all the members of mailing list and the mail is getting posted to random members of the list. Even "nomail" option is also not set for the members. I observed this issue with random mailing lists. Below are the some logs form the smtp log. I dont know how can I debug this issue. I kindly request all to guide me in this regard. Nov 22 17:20:41 2022 (1322) <CAHaOG1_9-6wm_qVa36DaQHwDLK79626A3u5iEsH9Szb1OcWNeA(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to list1 for 11 recips, completed in 1.202 seconds Nov 22 17:20:41 2022 (1322) <CAMK00qS6gkTCG0AH6smG7Byjk1L6mnYKXPa3mmnFMzmK-g+8Kw(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to list1 for 4 recips, completed in 0.028 seconds Nov 22 18:27:20 2022 (1322) <CAHaOG1-nkhTa6KUOLQY+_n0ftOxvbE6s1kW+pdQbBY=7Pn_O0A(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to list1 for 10 recips, completed in 0.283 seconds Nov 04 11:09:42 2022 (1343) <CAE9Q1iWa-wfLoBmFCedO5cKc0RiZ1Cyo3tVcbs=8r=NG+imhnw(a)mail.gmail.com> smtp to list1 for 11 recips, completed in 5.258 seconds Nov 23 17:49:54 2022 (1322) <88544ba3992180de5188352919b97383(a)iitb.ac.in> smtp to list22 for 62 recips, completed in 0.064 seconds Nov 23 20:14:49 2022 (1322) <5565d2bfa86e838052cca3abea8082f0(a)iitb.ac.in> smtp to list22 for 63 recips, completed in 0.397 seconds Nov 14 08:00:03 2022 (1343) <mailman.4.1668393001.25693.list22(a)iitb.ac.in> smtp to list22 for 1 recips, completed in 0.012 seconds Nov 14 08:00:05 2022 (1343) <mailman.4.1668393001.25693.list22(a)iitb.ac.in> smtp to list22 for 2 recips, completed in 0.010 seconds Nov 14 09:41:49 2022 (1343) <86ef86895b0f73e7ad7022618706a08b(a)iitb.ac.in> smtp to list22 for 62 recips, completed in 0.033 seconds Nov 14 12:49:04 2022 (1343) <850359ef924e3a0baccf7d61e6fc4954(a)iitb.ac.in> smtp to list22 for 63 recips, completed in 0.025 seconds Nov 14 15:28:20 2022 (1343) <4245de3a59b019b8f21e7266c30b732d(a)iitb.ac.in> smtp to list22 for 62 recips, completed in 0.175 seconds Nov 14 15:35:20 2022 (1343) <a0eb7778e079696c99020ce6c03f94f1(a)iitb.ac.in> smtp to list22 for 63 recips, completed in 0.027 seconds Nov 14 16:33:39 2022 (1343) <7073bbae72718616732bd391fa1aa25d(a)iitb.ac.in> smtp to list22 for 63 recips, completed in 0.294 seconds Regards, Ninad.

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Override recipient filters for specific sender
by karlgsiewert＠gmail.com Nov. 16, 2022

Nov. 16, 2022

One of our list members sends announcements from their organization to the list on a regular basis. This is not a problem for us. However, because of the way they are structured, they get held for approval with either the "Message has implicit destination" or "Too many recipients to the message" errors. I then have to go in and accept them. I would like to save time by allowing this specific member to bypass the recipient filters. Is there a way to do this?

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Administrator Membership List
by Dennis Putnam Nov. 10, 2022

Nov. 10, 2022

Is there a way to get the entire membership list on a page like before? I don't have a large number of subscribers and going through them alphabetically is a royal pain.

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