Mailman 3 February 2024 - Mailman-Users

spamming
by Jim Dory 09 Aug '24

09 Aug '24

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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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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Non-delivery of approved messages
by Francis Jayakanth 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Hi, I administer and moderate a library and information science professional list. The list is running on Mailman 2.1.26. There are nearly 5k list subscribers, of which almost 4k are 'digest' registrants. The majority of the registrations are with personal email IDs. During the last couple of weeks, approved messages are not being delivered to the list members. When I check the Email & collaboration alerts in the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal, I see the following message: Suspicious email sending patterns detected, User was restricted from sending emails. Additionally, a pop-up on the screen reads: "Unblock entities which have been blocked for sending too many messages marked as spam/bulk." The first approved message gets delivered after unblocking the relevant email ID and approving another message after 24 hours. For the subsequent one, the emails bounced back, and the MS admin portal reported the same error messages mentioned above. Can someone please help me fix this issue? Thank you for your attention and time, Francis

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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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Text encoding of digests
by Christian Buser 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Hi all I have a list with Mailman 2.1.39 running on cPanel (so, no direct access to the server settings). When the daily digest is sent, it comes with these headers: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit even if messages are sent with charactest "outside" the 7bit us-ascii table. Therefore, all these characters are replaced by a question mark (?), making the text difficult to read. Contrary to the digests, individual messages come perfectly with encoding "utf-8": Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 I did not find the possibility to change the header in the "digest options" of the mailing list. Thank you for your ideas Christian -- Christian Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland) Hilfe für Strassenkinder in Ghana: https://www.chance-for-children.org

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Mails are sent in tranches of 100
by Andreas Grupp 18 Feb '24

18 Feb '24

Hi, I have the following problem on a new Mailman3-installation: An e-mail to a list of 600+ members is sent in tranches of 100 e-mails per sending process. There is a correspondingly large pause between the individual sending processes. This means that sending takes quite a long time. Where can I change this behavior? I would like all mails to be sent immediately. Greetings, Andreas

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Attach footer only once?
by Tim Houseman 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Is it possible for footers to only be attached once? I am hosting a legal mailing list and their footer is quite long. We recently updated to Mailman 3 and the list has become more active as a result but in that activity the users have noticed that the footer just continually stacks up at the bottom of subsequent emails. Is there any way to avoid this scenario? My google-fu has failed me and the only conversation relevant to this topic I've found here was related specifically to digests.

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cPanel now promising Mailman 3 this year
by Russell Clemings 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

https://features.cpanel.net/topic/upgrade-to-mailman-3-0 -- =============================================== Russell Clemings <rclemings(a)gmail.com> ===============================================

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Sorry about duplicate information
by H Ian Zhang 10 Feb '24

10 Feb '24

Apologies for posting duplicate information. I just received "Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 240, Issue 5" and see that my reply to Tim Houseman's message was unnecessary (duplicated information). Solution? As a digest reader, I need to wait with a reply until the next digest has come in... ;) Ian >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Attach footer only once? (Carl Zwanzig) > 2. Re: Attach footer only once? (Mark Sapiro) > 3. Re: Attach footer only once? (Dmitri Maziuk) > 4. Re: Attach footer only once? (Barry S. Finkel) > 5. Attach footer only once? (H Ian Zhang) --

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Security features of Mailman
by sanjay jangam 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Can you elaborate on the security features of Mailman and how it ensures a safe environment for email discussions? Regards, Sanjay Jangam www.sanjayjangam.com

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