Mailman 3 June 2014 - Mailman-Users

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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Running two list with same email prefix
by Andrea Cappelli Feb. 27, 2024

Feb. 27, 2024

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 Nov. 17, 2023

Nov. 17, 2023

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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Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal Feb. 17, 2021

Feb. 17, 2021

I want all mails sent to the list to come from the list's email address... But, in this case, if the user forgets to sign their name at the bottom of their mail body, effectively the mail to the list is anonymous...! Is there a way to add the user name (or email address) to the top of each mail so that the mails have the name of the sender, while the mail itself comes from the list address? I have looked high and low for an answer, but noone seems to have the solution. Thank you! Mal

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Mailman CGI Error-Group mismatch error
by Wang, Mary Y Sept. 10, 2020

Sept. 10, 2020

Hi, I received the following error this morning. So I rerun configure again with the following command: ./configure --with-cgi-id=apache --prefix=/var/mailman. I'm still getting the same error. Is there any place that I can look for so that I can debug this problem better? Perhaps, looking at the config history file or something. Any other places that I can check the cause of this error? "Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper script to be executed as group "nobody", but the system's web server executed the CGI script as group "apache". Try tweaking the web server to run the script as group "nobody", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=apache'." Thanks Mary

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Is there tool convert archived files/directories into a mbox file?
by Mark Sapiro March 2, 2015

March 2, 2015

On 05/10/2013 06:35 AM, Xie, Wei wrote: > > Here we have one customer to request migrating all old archived files of > mailing list ‘kinejapan’ under directory > /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kinejapan prior to 2009 (as attached > file) to Yale university. Yale university IT guys needs us to create a > mbox file for these old archived file to be easy for them to run > command ‘archdo migration. > > > > I check there is no file kinejapan.mbox under directory > /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kinejapan.mbox to match these old > archived files as attached. This mailing list was maintained by our > pre-mailman admin, who passed away 2011, so I do not know why the mbox > file was missing. If ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX is set to 0 in mm_cfg.py, Mailman will not create/update LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox files. > Do you know whether there is a tool/method to convert these old archived > files/directories as attached into a mbox file? Lots of information is lost if there is no .mbox file. You can do as well as anything with cat /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/kinejapan/*.txt > kinejapan.mbox -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Installing v3.0.0b4 on Debian 7
by ML mail July 1, 2014

July 1, 2014

Hi, I am trying to install version 3.0.0b4 of Mailman on Debian 7 and for that purpose I took the original tar.gz file and ran: sudo python setup.py install There was an issue with the version of zope.interface which I resolved by running the following command: sudo pip install -U zope.interface Now Mailman got correctly installed but when doesn't seem to run. This is the output when I run the mailman command on its own: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/mailman", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('mailman==3.0.0b4', 'console_scripts', 'mailman')() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-5.3-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 356, in load_entry_point return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-5.3-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2439, in load_entry_point return ep.load() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/setuptools-5.3-py2.7.egg/pkg_resources.py", line 2155, in load ['__name__']) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mailman-3.0.0b4-py2.7.egg/mailman/bin/mailman.py", line 34, in <module> from mailman.core.initialize import initialize File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mailman-3.0.0b4-py2.7.egg/mailman/core/initialize.py", line 43, in <module> from zope.component import getUtility File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zope.component-4.2.1-py2.7.egg/zope/component/__init__.py", line 19, in <module> from zope.interface import named Does anyone have an idea what is going wrong? Did I maybe forgot to do something or am I missing anything? Thanks for the hints Regards ML

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custom message for banned address
by Jim McKinney June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

Hi, We're currently running Mailman 2.1.12 I have been asked if we can customized message for addresses that are banned on certain lists, similar to the ability to customize postheld.txt for specific lists. We have a group of lists that we would like to limit membership to our domain but would like to have a little more explanation than the default message provides. For the general case the default is fine, but for a subset some customizing would great. I did some looking around in the source tree and this doesn't seem that this is possible, but I don't claim to be a Python expert, so it seems worth checking. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions. thanx -jmck

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Problems making list anonymous
by Douglas McCarroll June 28, 2014

June 28, 2014

Never mind. This was my mistake. Those headers are added by my webhost when it receives the email from the list. Yes, I feel a little silly for so completely misunderstanding what was going on... :)

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Problems making list anonymous
by Douglas McCarroll June 28, 2014

June 28, 2014

Hi All, I'd like to insure that sender's email addresses don't appear in any headers. I've set both anonymous_list and first_strip_reply_to to true. Despite this, I'm seeing the following when I view headers: X-Original-To: myaddress(a)mydomain.com Received: from zapata.dreamhost.com (zapata.dreamhost.com [66.33.216.56]) by homiemail-mx17.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6524115BD16 for <myaddress(a)mydomain.com>; Sat, 28 Jun 2014 05:05:57 -0700 (PDT) How can I prevent this? Thanks, Douglas

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