May 2021 - Mailman-users - lists.mailman3.org

Core, Hyperkitty and Postorius releases
by Abhilash Raj 15 May '21

15 May '21

Hey Everyone, I am pleased to announce new stable releases for Mailman Core, Postorius, Hyperkitty. These include both new features and bug fixes. Complete change log for each components: Mailman Core 3.3.3: https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/NEWS.… Postorius 1.3.4 https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/postorius/en/latest/news.html Hyperkitty 1.3.4 : https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/hyperkitty/en/latest/news.html Minimum supported Python version is 3.6. You can install them using: $ pip install --upgrade postorius hyperkitty mailman We have also recently been working on making the installation instructions[1] to be more detailed and added a new FAQ[2] section for administrators where I hope to capture common questions from mailman-users list. Feedback or Merge Requests to improve these docs are welcome. You can either send an email or open an issue on Gitlab (easier to track) here[3]. [1]: https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html [2]: https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/faq.html [3]: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman-suite-doc/issues Thanks to everyone who helped out with with this release and contributed if any way! :) thanks, Abhilash Raj On behalf of Mailman Core Team

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Hyperkitty download mbox
by Andrew Hodgson 14 May '21

14 May '21

Hi, Hyperkitty 1.3.4. I am trying to download a complete list mbox by going to all threads view and using the download option. I have tried a couple of tools (Gunzip and Winrar) and both are giving me an unexpected end of file when trying to decompress the gz file. Here is the list URL I am using: https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/hyperkitty/list/plextalk@lists.hodgsonfamil… Any suggestions? Thanks. Andrew.

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Sad news - Brian Carpenter
by smorytko＠gmail.com 13 May '21

13 May '21

https://www.tributearchive.com/obituaries/21066847/Brian-Keith-Carpenter/wa… I mentioned some "unfortunate circumstances" in a recent post. An inquiry from Mark Sapiro prompted me to do a search and I sadly found this. Brian's company managed our list and on 4/22 we became aware that he was hospitalized with Covid. Rest in peace Brian. Steve Morytko

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Problems with New MM3 Installation
by Jeff 12 May '21

12 May '21

After using Mailman 2 (and possibly 1 though I don’t remember) for almost 20 years, I have just upgraded to Mailman 3. I followed the instructions here: https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html#virtualenv-inst… Things generally work, but I have run into a couple of small problems: 1) The uwsgi-error.log is filling with errors that seem to culminate in "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘settings’”. My settings.py is located in “/etc/mailman3” and seems to be found by other components of MM3. This error must be coming from the cron jobs. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this problem? 2) While old messages were imported without issue, new emails are not being archives. I see them in: mailman3/mm/var/archives/prototype/[listname]@[domain]/new But they are not being delivered. I have added this to my mailman.cfg: [archiver.hyperkitty] class: mailman_hyperkitty.Archiver enable: yes configuration: /usr/local/mailman3/mailman-hyperkitty.cfg And created the "/usr/local/mailman3/mailman-hyperkitty.cfg” as such: base_url: http://localhost/archives/ api_key: [key that matches “MAILMAN_ARCHIVER_KEY” in my settings.py] Some documentation says that the url should be "http://localhost/hyperkitty/“, but url generates a page not found error on my setup while the archives are available at the “archives” url. I would greatly appreciate any assistance with these two issues. Thanks much, Jeff

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List Digest - Subject line
by smorytko＠gmail.com 12 May '21

12 May '21

Is there a way to optionally cause the Subject line to display with the text body and as a summary at the top of the digest? I ask because on our mailing list (and probably many others too) subscribers include important content in the subject line and do NOT repeat it in the body of the text. So when the digest formatting places the Subject lines at the top to create "Today's Topics" as it does for all digest subscribers, the subject line and text body are widely separated making comprehension of the message much more difficult and separating important content unless it's repeated. This also happens on our list which uses Affinity/Empathy rather than Hyperkitty. In general, while a Today's Topics summary is useful, I think it would be preferable to always include the subject line with the body (one add'l line per digest message). Again I'm wondering if this is a web front-end function, a MM3 core function, or perhaps both? I ask because if it's not a MM3 core function I'll need to ask our developer for an Empathy modification. Below is an example from an Empathy-base list that shows how difficult it is to fully comprehend messages when the subject line is separated from the text body. The same issue would seem to be present in a Hyperkitty based list: Today's Topics: 1. Wilson’s Warbler (Albert Laguna) 2. RB Nuthatch, Kent (John Johnson) 3. Happy Mothers Day Summer Tanager (Visit Today Only) (Aidan Kiley) 4. Wimisink Sora, Marsh Wren (Angela Dimmitt) 5. Stn 43 South Windsor (Paul Desjardins) 6. White-crowned Sparrows at Hammonasset (Paul Smith) 7. Re: White-crowned Sparrows at Hammonasset (Paul Smith) 730am Beaver Pond Park in New Haven. Wilson’s Warbler sporting its distinctive black cap. Very birdy with yellow warbler, blue headed vireo, ruby crowned kinglet warbling vireo joining the fun, among others. Sent from my iPhone Red-breasted Nuthatch at our feeder this morning. First time ever in our yard in 35 years! John Johnson Kent FOR TODAY ONLY: Our special friend is still here today! I would like to open it up allow more people to see him because I really hate how “clique like” the birding community is here. Anyone interested can come stop by but would need to email me letting me know they’re interested in coming first. I will check my email and then I will send my address with instructions and where they are allowed to go. Thanks! Jill (jmahar(a)udel.edu) Jill Mahar Easton 5/9 - Sora back, calling; marsh wren, near end of boardwalk - Sherman/Wimisink marsh, Rte.39 at 55. Angela Dimmitt New Milford Paul Desjardins paul.desjardins2(a)gmail.com Phone: (860) 623-3696 This morning at the end of the Vibert Road section White Crowned Sparrow and north of Vibert Road f o y 2 Indigo Buntings. Paul Desjardins Windsor Locks 2 White-crowned Sparrows at Middle Beach. At the circular road by the picnic tables. Sent from my iPhone Oops, sent too soon Paul Smith New Haven Sent from my iPhone

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Re: content filtering in version 3.1
by Simon Handfield 12 May '21

12 May '21

Hi everyone, I'm sorry to resurrect this thread from so long ago but it appeared to provide exactly the answer I was looking for, trying to manage pass_types in 3.1.1 on Ubuntu 18.04. GNU Mailman 3.1.1 (Between The Wheels) Unfortunately when I run: ./bin/mailman shell -l [list address] I receive: usage: mailman [-h] [-v] [-C CONFIG] {help,aliases,conf,create,digests,import21,info,inject,lists,members,qfile,remove,reopen,restart,shell,start,status,stop,unshunt,version,withlist} ... mailman: error: unrecognized arguments: -l Can anyone advise how I can use the -l switch to manage this setting for a list? Thanks, Simon. _ [State Library of NSW]<https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/> Simon Handfield Desktop and Infrastructure Leader simon.handfield(a)sl.nsw.gov.au<mailto:simon.handfield@sl.nsw.gov.au> +61 2 9273 1535 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia www.sl.nsw.gov.au<https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/> This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of their organisation.

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[Docs] Document on how to deploy mailman suit into HA mode
by TommyLike Hu 10 May '21

10 May '21

Hey mailman teams. We deployed mailman suite service for our community, and everything looks good to us now, but we are asking whether there are any documents on how to deploy the mailman suite service into HA mode, any document or conversation will be helpful, thanks! link: how we deploy mailman suite service in kubernetes: https://github.com/opensourceways/infra-common/tree/master/common-applicati… TommyLike openEuler infrastructure 2021/5/10

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400 Bad Request when administrator tries to selectively override member options
by ieso＠johnwillson.com 08 May '21

08 May '21

This is probably Design Intent, but I'd just like to confirm. When an administrator submits partial 'member options', it comes back with the details of a 400 - Bad Request, indicating essentially that all of the member options must be set. Screenshot: https://ibb.co/pzM5Z4m It would be a bit smoother to check that all values are selected before sending the request, and inform the administrator that they cannot selectively override member settings for their list. But most importantly, I would like to confirm that nothing is corrupt/broken in our implementation. Thanks in advance for any guidance.

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[Mailman-Users] Web interface for users (not admins)?
by Stephen J. Turnbull 08 May '21

08 May '21

Hi Skip! First, a bit of admin. Mailman 2 is still in active use, so we've split out a separate list for Mailman 3: mailman-users(a)mailman3.org. Subscribe at https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.mailman3.org/ You can use several common social media to authenticate yourself. You'll have to do the usual one-time key dance to verify your email address (sorry!) You will get good feedback from the users there (better than the OP list). ** Reply-To set, please use "reply to author" to follow up. ** Skip Montanaro writes: > So, I got to thinking... Are there any free web user (not admin) > interfaces which integrate with MM3? Yes. The HyperKitty archiver, which is part of the Mailman 3 suite[1], provides an interface for submitting posts as well as reading them, and has a few social media features (liking posts). > Something which when combined with MM3 could conceivably be an > alternative to Google Groups, (the now defunct) Yahoo! Groups, or > Groups.o? That's for your users to say. ;-) If you visit https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/ you can try it for yourself. To post, you'll need to sign up (you can do that with a Google account, and I think both GitHub and GitLab are accepted as well. > I poked around the archives a bit and browsed list.org for a few > minutes, but turned up nothing. Or rather, all I found related to > web interfaces was the admin interface. HyperKitty issues mostly have to do with importing archives. The webservice being effectively synchronous and centralized doesn't have a lot of problems as compared to email, and many feature suggestions go directly to the tracker for HyperKitty. I'm not surprised you don't find much about HyperKitty as Web UI in the list archives.

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mailman3 exim4 and debian 1 problem fconnection lost
by roberto Burceni 06 May '21

06 May '21

[Mailman-Users] mailman3 and exim4 problem in debian bullseye Good evening, I'm configuring mailman3 with exim4 on a debian 11. I followed the official documentation on mailman for exim. It seems to be all rights, but I have a problem: when I send a message to a new lists in exim logs I see that exim uses correctly mailman router and transport. Unfortunately in smtp.log in mailman3 log folder I have the following error: May 04 16:51:01 2021 (2337) ('127.0.0.1', 34746) sender: servizioinformatico(a)uicbs.it May 04 16:51:01 2021 (2337) ('127.0.0.1', 34746) Data: b'RCPT TO: <listtest-unsubscribe(a)uicbs.it>' May 04 16:51:01 2021 (2337) ('127.0.0.1', 34746) recip: listtest-unsubscribe(a)uicbs.it May 04 16:51:01 2021 (2337) ('127.0.0.1', 34746) Data: b'DATA' May 04 16:51:02 2021 (2337) ('127.0.0.1', 34746) Data: b'QUIT' May 04 16:51:02 2021 (2337) ('127.0.0.1', 34746) connection lost May 04 16:51:02 2021 (2337) Connection lost during _handle_client() This causes that messages are not sent from mailman to users. Have you an idea of the problem? Can it be a memory problem that causes that mailman responses are too slow and exim closes the comunication before the end? I have no other errors in other log files Thank you in advance -- Roberto Burceni Linux System Admin & PHP developer Esperto accessibilità siti web E-mail: roberto(a)robertoburceni.it Phone: +393358208080 P.iva: 04025840986mbre per il mat

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