Mailman 3 May 2024 - Mailman-Users

Sharing PHP or Scripts to a list
by patricia traore Nov. 8, 2024

Nov. 8, 2024

Hi All, I hope that I'm asking in the right place. We have just created a developers discussion public list in our organization with over 47 subscribers. My question is, in case someone shares some php codes in his message, will that code affect the corresponding html page of that message, while browsing the archive of messages publicly from a web browser? Or will pipermail instead display the shared codes as plain text? Thanks, Patricia Traore Project Lead, Maniflex Ltd | maniflexa.com

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spamming
by Jim Dory Aug. 9, 2024

Aug. 9, 2024

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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from_is_list munging not working
by Russell Clemings May 19, 2024

May 19, 2024

I just moved my Mailman lists to new hardware (or rather my ISP did) and I've spent several hours now fixing the resulting problems. Here's one I can figure out though -- I've got "from_is_list" set to "Munge From" and it's not munging. Specifically, I sent a message to the list from a yahoo.com account and the "From" was: Russell Clemings <rclemxxxings(a)yahoo.com> via <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=en> list.domain instead of Russell Clemings via (listname) <listname(a)list.domain> I don't see anything in the logs and the config.pck looks pretty much identical to the old version. I've dumped the new config.pck into the attached file. Did I miss something stupid (again)? Otherwise, any suggestions? -- =============================================== Russell Clemings <rclemings(a)gmail.com> ===============================================

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recovering mailing list members and .cfg files
by incoming-pythonlists＠rjl.com May 13, 2024

May 13, 2024

I have a backup of an older mailman 2 system that is no longer bootable. In order to recover the mailing lists I am looking to get something like the output to list_members -f and the .cfg files if possible. I have access to systems with python 2.7.18 and python 2.6.6 installed. I tried running list_members and got the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./list_members", line 73, in <module> import paths File "/oldroot/usr/lib/mailman/bin/paths.py", line 56, in <module> import japanese ImportError: No module named japanese I tried searching for a japanese module but the output I get is in Japanese, so I can't read it. I'm not sure if resolving this module would allow the list_members script to run. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to proceed with this. Thank You, Nataraj

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New mailman instance
by Ivan Tejeiro Izquierdo May 8, 2024

May 8, 2024

Hello: I have an instance of mailman 2 on a red hat server that has been running without problems for a long time. Now I need to set up a test environment. I have cloned that server and I have modified the mmcfg.py removing the name of the old lists and I have put the name of the new list, as well as in postfix. The problem that arises is that when creating a new list, the alias.db, alias and virtual-mailman.db files are autogenerated but NOT the virtual-mailman file. Any ideas?. Thank you so much for your help.

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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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Retaining Sender's Email ID
by Francis Jayakanth May 2, 2024

May 2, 2024

Hi, Please let me know how to implement the following requirement. I'm using Mailman 2.1.26 with Postfix MTA and smtp.office365.com for email relay. The issue is that the sender's email ID is rewritten with an email ID used for office365 authentication in the approved messages. My question is, is it possible to retain the sender's email ID in the approved messages? If yes, what changes are needed in Postfix or MM config. Right now, the approved messages have noreply(a)abc.abc as the sender, which is the email ID used for office365 authentication. Thanks for your attention. - Francis

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all gmail subscribers removed - 'disabled address'
by Joly MacFie May 1, 2024

May 1, 2024

I have a small mailman one-click install running on a VPS on Dreamhost. I have struggled to make it DKIM / SPF / DMARC compliant, and I thought I was winning, but, just now, every single gmail subscriber was removed (disabled address) I have it set 'munge from' Looking at the DMARC report from google. The VPS passes, but there are a bunch of other fails. I have re-added all those removed subscribers, and, obviously, will open a ticket at DH, and thrash my DNS records. Any tips? -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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