Mailman 3 October 2023 - 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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spamming
by Jim Dory 17 Dec '23

17 Dec '23

I've got a new problem with my mailing list. I run a local announcements/trade list that should be of no interest to non-locals. I started seeing warnings from Yahoo about users marking messages as spam.. (I'm subscribed to Yahoo's Antispam Feedback. I never got other feedback loops from others - like Microsoft - to work). The messages that were being marked as spam by users were the confirmation emails sent by mailman to confirm a signup. To avoid having Yahoo shut down the list as spam (for its subscribers), I set the subscription to be approved by admin, so I could review who was trying to sign up. More and more now I'm seeing what appears to be spammers trying to subscribe, but I can't be sure. I'm seeing emails like: hirofeet0916(a)yahoo.co.jp (doesn't seem local) blvckpvlm(a)gmail.com (not many use user names such as that) fsafwcasgsadf2(a)gwqc.com (obviously not real - couldn't find domain with minimal searching) Plus some that could be local but how would I know. I could take off the "approval by admin" for subscription and just deal with anyone that is a problem afterward, but I do worry that they may be harvesting emails from subscribers, which are available in the reply-to headers. Don't know if there's anything I can do. Anyone else dealing with this? thanks. Jim

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Excessive or fatal bounces issue
by Florin Pasăre 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

Hello, I've been having some issues lately. We are using Mailman 2.1.15. I've looked over the FAQ but the only thing that I could find is to contact the ISPs and ask to be whitelisted - am I understanding this correctly? Here is a brief description of the issue: Our server hosts 5 listserv, the biggest one counts over 530 subscribed members from 55 different countries. We had received sporadic bounces triggered by emails sent to these lists since the install of the server in 2016, but in the last months the number of bounces we get has increased. We receive these bounce notifications informing us that the given *subscription has been disabled* due to *excessive or fatal bounces *(up to around 30 bounce notifications triggered by a single email sent to one of the listservs). Every time we get such notifications, we untick the bounce under “nomail [reason]" in the admin management site for each of the email addresses that haven been disabled by the system. Furthermore, it has happened several times in the past few months that a number of email addresses have been automatically removed from the listservs (at the same time, from different countries). We have not found an explanation for why this happens or a solution, so the only thing we are able to do is to manually add them back to the listservs. We have also asked these colleagues for which we have received bounces to check whether there is anything blocking the listservs’ emails from their side (note that many of them work in ministries or agencies with strong security features), and to add the server IP to the white list, but the problem persists. Thank you for your time, Florin Pasăre,

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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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Someone tried to unsubscribe me
by Michael Welch 25 Oct '23

25 Oct '23

Received an unsubscribe confirmation notice that did not originate with me. Curious as to how this could have happened. This Mailman 2.1.39 list is hosted by DreamHost, so I don't have access to its internal workings. Does this mean a breach in security? >Mailing list removal confirmation notice for mailing list RE-wrenches > >We have received a request for the removal of your email address, >"xxxxxxxxxx(a)xxxxxxxx.com" from the >xxxxxxx(a)xxxxxxxx.org mailing list. To confirm that you >want to be removed from this mailing list, simply reply to this >message, keeping the Subject: header intact. Or visit this web page:

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from new address
by Teijo Burman 15 Oct '23

15 Oct '23

Thanks Christian and Steve for your replies. I suppose that I have successfully changed my email address for this list. Best regards, Teijo

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how to change email address
by Teijo 15 Oct '23

15 Oct '23

Hello, I am unsure how to change my email address where messages of this list are emailed. Best regards, Teijo

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