Mailman 3 December 2022 - Mailman-Users

Hevy resource footprint forces backdrop to mailman 2.1
by Martin Lorenz 05 Aug '23

05 Aug '23

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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Constant Mailman error messages
by PCZero Support 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

I have a hosting client using MailMan with about 10,000 subscribers. He sends mail only about once or twice a year and it is an announcement only list, no discussion, he is the only one who posts. Recently he posted and now I am getting constantly flooded with the following message. I have killed the mailman running processes and rebooted the server. The error message continue. What is causing this error and how do I stop it? >Delivered-To: support(a)pczero.net >Envelope-to: root(a)morpheus.rvaservers.com >To: root(a)morpheus.rvaservers.com >Subject: lfd on morpheus.rvaservers.com: Excessive resource usage: >mailman (11571 (Parent PID:11569)) >From: <root(a)morpheus.rvaservers.com> >Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:35:47 -0500 > >Time: Thu Dec 22 08:35:47 2022 -0500 >Account: mailman >Resource: Process Time >Exceeded: 1857 > 1800 (seconds) >Executable: /usr/bin/python2.7 >Command Line: /usr/bin/python2 >/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=BounceRunner:0:1 -s >PID: 11571 (Parent PID:11569) >Killed: No

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Changing "From:" in header..
by Robert Wertheimer 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

I'm managing 2 mail lists using MM 2.1.38 in cpanel. I set up a list last year and another list in the last couple months. As far as I can tell, both lists have the same options set in general. However, the new list has a very nice "From:" header format showing the full name of the person who posted, "Via", and the name of the list. The older list always just says the name of the list in the "From:" header. Can't seem to find a way to change this behavior to match the first list. I've looked through the help files and Wiki and have come up empty. Thanks for your time. Robert Wertheimer

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Unwanted digest to moderator
by John Talbut 18 Dec '22

18 Dec '22

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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post confirmations
by Bernie Cosell 17 Dec '22

17 Dec '22

This with mailman 2.1.39. And this in response to Gmail's utterly foolish and obnoxious "feature" of throwing away an incoming email that appears to be "from yourself" I regularly get inquiries about "how come my submission didn't get posted". Is it possible to generate some sort of "your message has been posted" confirmation reply? /Bernie\ Bernie Cosell bernie(a)fantasyfarm.com -- Too many people; too few sheep --

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Custom Scripts
by Pontus Zoladz 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hi, I have developed a custom python script to generate a captcha, to reduce the amount of illegitimate users signing up to our mailing lists. i would like to have the users to complete the captcha before they are able to subscribe. Where and how should this script be called from ?

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Overriding/modifying the login page
by Christian Wahl 13 Dec '22

13 Dec '22

Hi, I followed the guidelines on https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html and everything is fine, but I would like to create a custom login page. So, that would be on /accounts/login/ from the allauth app. Should I create a separate app and override the path? Should I modify the urls.py -- and where would that be located? Kind regards Christian

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Line breaks in monthly reminder emails
by Russell Clemings 03 Dec '22

03 Dec '22

I don't think I've seen this discussed before although it's hard to search for, so maybe it has been and I just can't find it. My monthly reminder texts (cronpass.txt) are heavily customized. The only line breaks in the cronpass.txt file are at the ends of paragraphs, etc. When the reminders go out, they wrap around 70 characters on the desktop, which is fine. It looks as if Mailman has inserted a hard line break there. On my phone (Gmail app), they wrap at 70 characters horizontally, but on a narrower vertical screen, it's pretty ugly, because of the hard line break at 70 characters: ------ This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your discussion list subscriptions at the XXXXXXXXXX (xxx.xxxxxx.xxx) website. You can visit https://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/xxxxxxxxx to change your subscription settings for any list. You will need to login to the website first using the "Sign in" link at the top right of any page. Be sure that you login as the user whose email address matches your list subscription. ------ The only solution I can think of is to insert hard breaks in cronpass.txt around the 50-character mark but I'm hoping there's a better way. (I know, upgrade to Mailman 3. It's slowly working its way up the to-do list.) This is Mailman 2.1.38 on cPanel. -- =============================================== Russell Clemings <russell(a)clemings.com> ===============================================

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