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

Username being set to givenname for socialaccount login
by cfarley＠iastate.edu 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

I have a new mailman3 install setup with Okta as a social application. This is working well for logins and data comes through as expected, but for some reason the username is being set at to a lowercase version of the given_name. The Extra data on the social users in the admin interface looks good, so I don’t think it’s a problem with the attributes coming from Okta. We have tried a number of variations on the below setting, but that all of them other than the default of “username” end up with the username being empty. ACCOUNT_USER_MODEL_USERNAME_FIELD = “email” Any direction would be welcome. Thank you!

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Django primer for Mailman admins
by Abhilash Raj 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

Hey Everyone, This weekend I wrote some documentation[1] that I thought would be useful for Mailman admins when dealing with Django, since it is a frequent topic on -users list. The intent was to add only required information for admins to work with Mailman installs and provide enough pointers to right places, wherein more information can be found instead of duplicating them in Mailman's docs since it it often goes stale. Since the most common theme of questions are configuration (settings), management commands and deployment (running), I distributed the whole page in those three sections. If you as a system admin had to spend some time figuring out certain things about Django, it would be good to respond on this thread or just open a MR with additions to the page[1]. [1]: https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/django-primer.html I also made a small architecture diagram of the various components in a typical Mailman 3 install[2] since we didn't had any such existing diagram. Suggestions to this are also welcome. [2]: https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/architecture.html -- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)

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Mailman3 subscribe over command line
by tibor.molnar＠waltoninstitute.ie 20 Sep '21

20 Sep '21

I would be looking to be able to subscribe people to multiple lists through command line. Mailman 2.1 did have an add_members script we used but I'm not able to use this module in mailman3. Can anyone suggest a script or approach to this issue? Thank you, Tibor

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very few moderation capabilities for moderators
by Guillermo Hernandez (Oldno7) 19 Sep '21

19 Sep '21

Hi all: I need to provide the list moderators a way to change the moderation flag for users from whichever it is (normally "list default processing") to "hold for moderation" and viceversa (to "list default" or to "accept") I understand that it could be done via console script (That's the way I did on mailman2: I made two commands using "withlist", one to hold, moderar.py, and other one to accept, desmoderar.py. I show you below) But I think I'm not the only one that could use as an improvement a way to do this on postorius/web. Before to trying implementing them on mailman3, I beg you to tell me if they could do that on mailman3. Thanks in advance. ****************** (moderar.py) #! /usr/local/bin/python # # script via withlist para moderar a pelo # """moderar un miembro. Save as bin/moderar.py Run via bin/withlist -r moderar <listname> <member> """ from Mailman import mm_cfg def moderar(mlist, member): if not mlist.Locked(): mlist.Lock() mlist.setMemberOption(member, mm_cfg.Moderate, True) mlist.Save() mlist.Unlock() ****************** (desmoderar.py) #! /usr/local/bin/python # # script via withlist para desmoderar un miembro # """desmoderar un miembro. Save as bin/desmoderar.py Run via bin/withlist -r desmoderar <listname> <member> """ from Mailman import mm_cfg def desmoderar(mlist, member): if not mlist.Locked(): mlist.Lock() mlist.setMemberOption(member, mm_cfg.Moderate, False) mlist.Save() mlist.Unlock() --

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mm3mod: command line moderation tool
by David Bremner 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

Because we're not running postorius, and the moderate-by-mail change is not available in the older version of mailman3 we're running, I needed a tool to moderate lists from the command line. I found mailman-tools, but wasn't able to get them working with python3, so I started from scratch. Maybe someone else will find it useful https://git.tethera.net/mm3mod.git/about/ It's a work in progress, but I am running the version from that repo in production. Like any program using the REST interface, in principle this has complete administrator access to your mailman site, so you need to to trust both this code and the users you let run it. I do run it in "kiosk mode" via ssh command="/home/listmod/.local/bin/mm3mod" ssh-rsa blahblah in .ssh/authorized_keys. This is more of a keeping-honest-people-honest kind of thing.

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Controlling Mailman3 from the Linux commandline
by Allan Hansen 18 Sep '21

18 Sep '21

All, Not versed in Python, I found using the Python gateway to Mailman3 commands rather cumbersome for the few and very simple interactions I have with the shell. So I implemented a set of .bash scripts that I use instead. They all have this from, where the last part is the Mailman shell command (in this case the command for adding members in file $1 to the list $2). #!/bin/bash exec /opt/mailman/mm/venv/bin/mailman -C "/opt/mailman/mm/mailman.cfg" members --addmembers $1 $2 To invoke it: . addMembers.bash <FILE_OF_EMAIL> <listname> I have other scripts for commands such as: List all lists List all members on all lists (with a sort -u) Send an email with a given list's members to a given address Delete members from a list Delete members from all lists Help Count members on a list Note the one that sends the member list to a given email address. It does this: #!/bin/bash exec /opt/mailman/mm/venv/bin/mailman -C "/opt/mailman/mm/mailman.cfg" members $2 |grep -v -e "has no members"|sed -e 's/.*/\L&/'|mailx --subject=$2 $1 This one I use a lot because the system has a bug that does not allow moderators to see the list of members on the list they are supposed to moderate. My lists are set up to allow this, but it does not work. The moderators send me an email with the request, I log on and run this script. I hope this is helpful. Yours, Allan

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Docker mailman3 delete social logins, did something change?
by bob B 17 Sep '21

17 Sep '21

I want to remove the social logins from mailman3 in docker. I found this info https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/thread/… but the link to the default shows *************** INSTALLED_APPS = [] DEFAULT_APPS = [ 'hyperkitty', 'postorius', 'django_mailman3', # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin: 'django.contrib.admin', # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation: # 'django.contrib.admindocs', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'rest_framework', 'django_gravatar', 'compressor', 'haystack', 'django_extensions', 'django_q', 'allauth', 'allauth.account', 'allauth.socialaccount', ] ***************** However when I go to the bug https://github.com/maxking/docker-mailman/issues/283 it shows ********* INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'hyperkitty', 'postorius', 'django_mailman3', # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin: 'django.contrib.admin', # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation: # 'django.contrib.admindocs', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'rest_framework', 'django_gravatar', 'paintstore', 'compressor', 'haystack', 'django_extensions', 'django_q', 'allauth', 'allauth.account', 'allauth.socialaccount', 'django_mailman3.lib.auth.fedora', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.openid', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.github', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.gitlab', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.google', ) ******** The two examples are different so what should it be? I tried to add it in both ways and when I do I get bad gateway and he mailman website is broke. I have not setup any domains yet, just setup the admin password,. For example this breaks my website cat /opt/mailman/web/settings_local.py ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1','localhost','REDACTED','REDACTED','REDACTED','REDACTED','REDACTED'] #ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*'] DEBUG = True #DEBUG = False EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' EMAIL_HOST = 'REDACTED' EMAIL_PORT = 25 INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'hyperkitty', 'postorius', 'django_mailman3', # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin: 'django.contrib.admin', # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation: # 'django.contrib.admindocs', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'rest_framework', 'django_gravatar', 'paintstore', 'compressor', 'haystack', 'django_extensions', 'django_q', 'allauth', 'allauth.account', 'allauth.socialaccount', 'django_mailman3.lib.auth.fedora', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.openid', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.github', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.gitlab', 'allauth.socialaccount.providers.google', ) ************************************************************************* And I have even removed anything? What should my /opt/mailman/web/settings_local.py look like?

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How to import mailman2 into mailman3 in Docker, getting error with archives.
by bob B 17 Sep '21

17 Sep '21

I know you can't run mailman commands in the docker images and I have to copy the data to an area where he docker images can access it, but in looking that the commands I got the list settings to import docker exec -it mailman-core mailman import21 [REDACTED](a)REDACTED].REDACTED].org /opt/mailman/migration/config.pck *** this worked But having issues importing the archives? do i run this on mailman-core OR mailman-web? I tried both but it does not like python? docker exec -it mailman-core python manage.py hyperkitty_import -l [REDACTED](a)REDACTED].REDACTED].org /opt/mailman/migration/[REDACTED].mbox OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: container_linux.go:380: starting container process caused: exec: "python": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown

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Installation -- error on mailman-web migrate
by Mark Dale 17 Sep '21

17 Sep '21

Thank you for your reply earlier regarding "creating the mailman.cfg permissions". Now that's clear I proceeded on through the installation instructions at: https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html#virtualenv-inst… ========== Installing Web UI To install the web components, run the following commands with virtualenv activated: root@mx:~# su mailman (venv) mailman@mx:/root$ pip install mailman-web mailman-hyperkitty (venv) mailman@mx:~$ exit exit ========== Initial Configuration Then, create a new configuration file at /etc/mailman3/settings.py root@mx:~# nano /etc/mailman3/settings.py I note that in the sample "settings.py" file, there are lines that have the directory "web" in the file paths ... STATIC_ROOT = '/opt/mailman/web/static' LOGGING['handlers']['file']['filename'] = '/opt/mailman/web/logs/mailmanweb.log' ... but as yet there is no directory "web". root@mx:/opt/mailman# ls -la total 44 drwxr-xr-x 6 mailman mailman 4096 Sep 17 03:52 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 13 01:48 .. -rw------- 1 mailman mailman 308 Sep 17 04:01 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman mailman 220 Aug 4 22:25 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman mailman 3564 Sep 17 03:47 .bashrc drwxr-xr-x 3 mailman mailman 4096 Sep 13 01:52 .cache -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman mailman 0 Aug 15 16:21 .cloud-locale-test.skip drwxr-xr-x 3 mailman mailman 4096 Sep 13 01:55 .local drwxr-xr-x 3 mailman mailman 4096 Sep 17 03:43 mm -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman mailman 807 Aug 4 22:25 .profile -rw-r--r-- 1 mailman mailman 66 Sep 17 03:52 .selected_editor drwxr-xr-x 7 mailman mailman 4096 Sep 13 01:52 venv ========== Run database migrations root@mx:~# su mailman (venv) mailman@mx:/root$ mailman-web migrate Here a ton of errors get printed, but one in particular: Traceback (most recent call last): ... FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/mailman/web/logs/mailmanweb.log' ... ========== Was I meant to create the directories "web/logs/" and the "mailmanweb.log" file at some point, or were they meant to get created during the mailman-web install process? Should the owner/group be "mailman"?

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Running mailman shell commands in a script
by Eggert Ehmke 16 Sep '21

16 Sep '21

Hello, I understand that the mailman shell is basically interactive. I need to run some actions as adding and deleting users in a Linux shell script, or even from another python program. How does that work? In fact, I miss the commands that were in the bin directory of the old mailman2 installation. Wouldn't it be nice to add them again to mailman3? Cheers, Eggert

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