January 2022 - Mailman-users - lists.mailman3.org

Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Member posting to a list but address not in membership list.
by Mark Sapiro 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

On 1/12/22 7:42 PM, Adam Morris wrote: > Hi Mark, > I've looked in all these places and the address isn't anywhere. (please keep the thread on the list) Then the address that's posting isn't what you think it is or something in your installation is broken. As I said, it could be that Reply-To: or Sender: is the list member, but depending on list settings, these things get overwritten in mail from the list, so you can't really know. If something is broken, you need to discuss this with your hosting provider who, unfortunately, may be no help. Many, not all, cPanel hosts offer mailman because it comes with cPanel, but actually know nothing about Mailman. See https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%20and%20CPanel > On 13-January-2022 11:31, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> On 1/11/22 7:51 PM, Adam Morris wrote: >>> I have someone who is posting to a list I run. >>> I subscribed them originally but their address doesn't show up in the >>> list of members so I can't change moderation status etc. >>> Where else could I look to find their address? >> >> >> The first check on a post is if any of the address in From:, Reply-To: >> or Sender: headers or the envelope sender is a list member, i.e. in >> the web admin Membership List. If so, that member's moderation is >> applied. If not, the next check is if the From:the *_these_nonmembers >> lists under Privacy options... -> Sender filters and finally Privacy >> options... -> Sender filters -> generic_nonmember_action. >> >> If a post to the list is being accepted without being held for >> moderation, either some address in From:, Reply-To: or Sender: headers >> or the envelope sender is in the Membership List with `mod` unchecked, >> or the From: or possibly Sender: address is in accept_these_nonmembers >> or generic_nonmember_action is Accept. >> > > -- > > Adam Morris > Mobile: 0414 431105 > Email, iMessage & FaceTime > adam(a)damorris.com > -- 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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Issues with international characters (replaced by ?) when mail is send as text/html
by Michal Soltys 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Hi, I have noticed that any mail send with text/html, e.g. with following headers: Content-Language: en-US-large Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit is slightly transformed by mailman3 - the body is put into its own part, but all the international letters are replaced by question marks. Having searched the list I tried: 1) adding following to mailman.cfg: [language.master] description: English (USA) charset: utf-8 enabled: yes [language.en] description: English (USA) utf8 charset: utf-8 enabled: yes 2) changing preferred language of a mailing list to something else via shell, e.g.: m.preferred_language = 'pl' 3) changed default_language to 'pl' in mailman.cfg 4) Ensured all relevant glibc locales are generated (not sure if that matters though in this case) None of this seems to have any positive result - all mails, whether under 'pl' or 'en' setting still get all non-ascii chars replaced with question marks (in html case, probably(?) in any case where it becomes multipart). Any ideas what to do so html mails are passed without filtering out their characters ? Do I have to recreate all mailing lists under new [language.en/master] settings ?

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Mailman3 is wrongly display name a list member
by Allan Hansen 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

All, I got an issue with one subscriber (multiple lists). When I subscribe 'A' <a(a)foo.com>, Mailman3 changes it to 'B' <a(a)foo.com>. I went into Django and added the name 'B' to the subscriber's account (the name was empty). I then unsubscribed <a(a)foo.com> from the lists and resubscribed 'A' <a(a)foo.com>. The subscription again lists as 'B' <a(a)foo.com>. This brings up a previous discussion of display names on this list, but I have not been able to find any solution to the need to change Mailman3's display names for a subscriber. It is beyond weird that unsubscribing, setting the account display name and resubscribing the member fishes back up the old and wrong display name. What can I do to help this member? Yours, Allan

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Questions regarding message acceptance
by Pawel Grzywaczewski 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Hello, I have few questions regarding usage of Mailman3: 1) We have list1 and list2 with members. Can we specify that all members of list1 can post messages to list2? We could potentially write a script that would synchronize members of another list to “Accept these non-members” of another list, but with thousands of lists it will be difficult to maintain lists in synchro. So perhaps there is a concept of adding another list to “Accept these non-members” and mailman real-time evaluate membership of another list upon message arrival? 2) In explanation of “Accept these non-members” it’s written: “While non-regexp addresses can be entered here, it is preferred to add the address as a nonmember and set the nonmember's Moderation to Default Processing”. I noticed that if someone posts to a list then he is added automatically to non-members. Which means that next time he will be able to post. My understanding is that it’s better to use the feature “Accept these non-members”. Am I correct? Thank you, Paweł

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Howto: Mass import of nonmembers in several lists?
by Paul Paulchen 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Hi MM3 community, got a, perhaps easy question. Following situation, got 8 lists and up to 20 nonmember users missing to the list. The massimport with postorius is only for members, as far as I can use it (Postorius Version 1.3.4). So without adding all nonmembers with postorius step by step 8x20 times, there is an easier way to do it. I thought so, because the import21 command did this as well when we migrated to mailman3. I read about the command "mailman addmembers" https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/commands/d… I am guessing, that I need to create a file like in the example of the addmembers, adding all my nonmember users with their email addy. But how can I add/ tell the command in this massimport that the new members are nonmembers in the existing lists?! Hope I explained my case properly. I appreciate your responds! Thanks in advance. - Paul

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Newbie hyperkitty question
by Stephen Daniel 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Mailman users -- I am setting up a new mailman3 installation, and this is my first experience with the suite. All of the software is up and running, but I cannot tell if hyperkitty is actually running. When I look at my test mailing list, two archive options are available, hyperkitty and "prototype", and both are enabled. I can see that my email is being archived, but I think "prototype" is what is doing the archiving. I see that a test message will end up in /opt/mailman/mm/var/archives/prototype/<LISTNAME>@<LISTDOMAIN.org>/new/164.... and nowhere else. This suggests that "prototype" is archiving, but hyperkitty is not. So, this opens up a raft of questions on hyperkitty: - How do I tell if hyperkitty is actually running? - Does hyperkitty have a web-UI for admins or users? How would I access it? - I can not find any documentation on hyperkitty, other than installation instructions and change logs. Does documentation exist? - How do I set policies on how long archives are kept? - Assuming I want to back up my archives, what do I need to back up? Thanks for your help! -- Stephen Daniel

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Only held_messages for 1 (of 3) list has "Mailman REST API not available" message.
by Duane Raymond 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Hi everyone, Today my stable mailman3 server started having web access problems. It specifically applies to only one of three lists on the mailman server (one of the others use the same domain name) and only to the held_messages page as admin. It displays the "Mailman REST API not available..." message despite the other two lists displaying it fine. I've rebooted the server and mailman core, but the problem remains (which is what I've seen suggested on this forum for the same error message so far). I've been running a stable mailman3 server for the last 9 months and only updating the security patches for the the underling OS (Debian 10 with postgresql and nginx), I've encountered a problem that just seemed to appear today (wish no recent changes on the server). Any suggestions or diagnosis to resolve it? Duane

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modify subscription page by mailinglist?
by Lars Schimmer 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Hi Is it (easy) possible to modify the subscription page individual per mailinglist? If so, since which version? And how? Is there a guide? Thank you. MfG, Lars Schimmer -- ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer(a)cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723

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Still unable to get mailman3 working on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
by Michael Heseltine 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Hi all, after many more attempts, I've still failed to find any set of instructions that can install mailman3 on an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server of mine. I've recently switched to a new server without any previous installation (apart from an apache web server) so that I can follow the instructions provided in https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Howto_Install_Mailman3_On_Debian10 to the letter, if possible. But still, I run into an error I do not understand. I have followed the instructions until this point: > # pip install importlib_resources==1.1.0 > Once the above packages are installed run “mailman info” in your virtual environment. That will install Mailman core into your /opt/mailman/mm/var directory. (I had to add "apt install libmemcached-dev" to the instruction for "pip install psycopg2-binary" to succeed.) Then, I run "mailman info", but get an error message: > File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sqlalchemy/engine/default.py", line 508, in connect > return self.dbapi.connect(*cargs, **cparams) > File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 122, in connect > conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync) > sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: password authentication failed > for user "mailman" > connection to server at "localhost" (::1), port 5432 failed: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "mailman" This suggests that the connection to postgresql fails, but if I test this using # psql --user mailman and type in the password listed in settings_local.py, I can login fine. I've also changed the port number in that configuration from '' to '2222', but the connection is still made to port 5432, which suggests to me that my call to mailman info uses another set of connection parameters provided elsewhere. Where can this be found? How will I be able to run "mailman info" w/o error and continue the installation as detailed in https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Howto_Install_Mailman3_On_Debian10 ? Any help is appreciated. Happy new year, Michael.

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Bulk changes to delivery mode and moderation action
by David Newman 08 Jan '22

08 Jan '22

I fat-fingered a command in the Postorius UI and accidentally unsubcribed all members of a list. Oops. Have added them back using Mass operations/Mass subscribe but this raised three questions: 1. In Users/Members, moderation action for the newly resubscribed users shows as "None". Is there a method, either in the UI or the command line, to change this to "Default processing" for all users? 2. Although Delivery Mode shows as "Regular" for all users in Users/Members list, clicking on a member's name shows all options such as delivery status, delivery mode, etc., as undefined. Similar question: How to set subscriber options for all members in one go? 3. As a subscriber to this list, I received email notification that I'd been unsubscribed. Where is the control for enabling/disabling subscription notifications? Settings/Member Policy/Un-subscription Policy is set to Confirm, but I don't think that's relevant here since I unsubscribed users as the Django superuser. Thanks. dn, chastened

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