Mailman 3 July 2022 - Mailman-Users

Editing Mailman's text files
by Pete Bell 08 May '24

08 May '24

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 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

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 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

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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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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HTTPD
by Software Info 05 Aug '22

05 Aug '22

HI All, I have been trying to get the mailman web interface working with OpenBSD’s httpd. I found and used the information at https://www.quernus.co.uk/2015/09/28/running-mailman-on-openbsd/ <https://www.quernus.co.uk/2015/09/28/running-mailman-on-openbsd/> Strangely, I am still getting error 500. Internal Server Error. Has anyone gotten this pair working together? Any help would be appreciated.

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Flooded with signup requests
by Max 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Hi, I'm admin for multiple lists and I am getting flooded with fake signup requests. I have already set signup to "confirm and allow". I've also added a lot of domais to the ban list (see below), still I get tons of gmail and yahoo signups which I can't blanket ban since some legitimate users use these mail providers. What else can I do? It also seems that the same address is trying to sign up multiple times and this results in multiple mails to the admins/moderators. How can I at least stop the bots from repeated signups with the same email? ^.*(a)zenithhomes.com.au$ ^.*(a)aol.com$ ^.*(a)qq.com ^.*(a)yandex.ru$ ^.*(a)mail.ru$ ^.*(a)narod.ru$ ^.*(a)customs.gov.ua$ ^.*(a)womclub.com$ ^.*(a)cox.net$ ^.*(a)naiau.kiev.ua$ ^.*(a)dostavkadobra.com.ua$ ^.*(a)mfa.gov.ua$ ^.*(a)i.ua$ ^.*(a)vng.com.vn$ ^.*(a)contactplatinum.com$ ^.*(a)ukr.net$ ^.*(a)aga.org$ ^.*(a)sbcglobal.net$ ^.*(a)msn.com$ ^.*(a)163.com$ ^.*(a)verizon.net$ ^.*(a)comcast.net$ ^.*(a)earthlink.net$ ^.*(a)tmomail.net$ ^.*(a)dvdevgroup.com$ ^.*(a)hqsec.com$ ^.*(a)centurylink.net$ ^.*(a)gmai.com$ ^.*(a)nijel.ca$ ^.*(a)globals-globals.com$ ^.*(a)omnicell.com$

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Managing Lists Remotely
by Daniel Krause 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

We're looking at options to manage our mailman3 lists programmatically from a saas platform we offer. The rest api seems like the way to go, but almost everything I read about it says do not expose this publicly. Does anyone have an alternative option to be able to do this? We use a managed mailman installation, so we do not have carte blanche on the server Regards *Daniel Krause* *Head of IT* *Office: **+27 87 238 4238* <0872384238> *Mobile : **+971 55 418 4733* <0971554184733> *Email: **daniel(a)noldor.co.za* <daniel(a)noldor.co.za> *Web: **www.noldor.co.za* <http://www.noldor.co.za/>

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Malicious Third-Party Unsubscription Requests
by Karl Semich 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

Hi, I'm experiencing mailbombing via spoofed unsubscription and subscription requests from mailman lists. Mostly unsubscription requests from a mailman 2.1 list. I have a mental disability and the mailbombing is confusing and taxing to me. Is there any configuration option I can ask the list administrator to enable, to require my password to be provided before the confirmations are sent to me? If this configuration option does not exist yet, could anybody advise what sourcefiles would need modification so as to contribute it as a feature addition? Thanks a bunch, Karl Semich

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Setting from_is_list on a per-recipient (or domain) basis
by Mark Hills 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Using 2.1.39, would it be a lot of work (and where could I begin) to set from_is_list based on the recipient subscriber; either individually or per-domain? At this point I'm faced with changing the setting globally because of a single troublesome recipient. My intuition is that the mixture of recipients would not post a problem for replies, but let me know if I missed anything. This is a closed system where the majority of mails are received by the same few domains, but there are some outliers. Fine-grained control would allow me a "minimal intervention" approach in contrast to a sweeping change to behaviour for all users. Thanks -- Mark

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Moving mailing lists and archives from one server to another
by Kimmo L. 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Hello! My plan is to install fresh Mailman3 host, which means that i need to migrate/transfer my mailman mailing lists + hyperkitty archives to new host. Unfortunately i didnt find any guide about how do it correctly. I tried myself to export and import mailmanweb/mailman databases and recreate indexes. Now i can see and search hyperkitty archives, but if try to open one of the mailing list, i get error - HTTP Error 500: {"title": "500 Internal Server Error"} And im pretty sure, that I'm gonna have to transport some more stuff over, which I have no idea. If its not a big trouble, can someone kindly share, what exactly should i need to export/import and what would be the right steps/commands/moves. Br, Kimmo

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