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

Help addressing some issues with mailman 3 docker images
by Clark Boylan 01 Oct '22

01 Oct '22

Hello, Some of us at opendev.org are looking to migrate to mailman 3 for our list servers. We've got about 98% of things sorted out using maxking's docker images (thank you for publishing those along with excellent documentation). There are however a small number of things that we've run into that we'd like to address before we take this to production. * Mailman 3 relies on lynx to convert html email to txt email. Lynx isn't currently installed in the docker images, but I've pushed a PR to add it to the images. https://github.com/maxking/docker-mailman/pull/552 * There are some user and group inconsistencies between the images. Not a deal breaker, but would be good to understand if these are intentional or if they can be changed without massively impacting people. https://github.com/maxking/docker-mailman/issues/550 * Issues with ALLOWED_HOSTS settings making assumptions about the environment and its inputs. We've worked around these by bind mounting in our own settings.py with these problems addressed, but it would be good to address them in case anyone else has run into this too. Details in these github issues: https://github.com/maxking/docker-mailman/issues/548 https://github.com/maxking/docker-mailman/issues/549 Ideally we'd avoid forking the images downstream and modifying them ourselves, but it seems the docker image repo is not getting a ton of attention recently. Totally understand that this may not be the biggest priority. We're happy to help address these by writing fixes and sending pull requests, but guidance would be appreciated before we head too far down that road. Once again thank you for the great documentation and images. They have already gotten us most of the way to production and the issues we've found are relatively minor. Clark

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serving /static-content within /mailman3-web-Folder - change in recent mm release
by Stefan Bauer 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Hi Folks, during our migration to latest MM we noticed, that nowadays, the static content is not served from within mailmans base directory, but from outside. old MM3: domain.tld/mailman3/static/django-mailman3/js/main.js new MM3: domain.tld/static/django-mailman3/js/main.js Is there a chance to change it to the old behavior? We are running an additional nginx-proxy in front of mailman-server and dont want to forward /static, but only /mailman3. Thank you.

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2 postfix instances and 1 mailman instance possible?
by charlie derr 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

Greetings, We will be (temporarily) splitting our single postfix instance and running two separate instances on our email server. Can we configure mailman to listen to one of them and send to the other? If so, please do direct us towards how we would go about configuring mailman to do this. versions: mailman: 2.1.15-30.el7_9.2 postfix: 2.10.1-9.el7 (both via rh/centos repo(s)) thanks so very much for any assistance/direction you're able to provide, ~c -- Charlie Derr Director of Instructional Technology Bard College at Simon's Rock https://simons-rock.edu Encryption key: http://hope.simons-rock.edu/~cderr/ 413-528-7344 Pronouns: he/him/his

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Re: Start thread with list-address instead of own
by Stefan Bauer 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

Sorry found it. I was just too stupid. It is the anonymous list flag. sorry for the noise. Stefan

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Start thread with list-address instead of own
by Stefan Bauer 29 Sep '22

29 Sep '22

HI folks, latest mm3, when starting a new thread via mm3-webinterface -> Archives -> select List -> Start a new thread. It creates the thread with _my own_ personal address. How can i set the "sender" address as the list-address? IIRC with an older mm version, it had a different behavior. Any help is greatly appreciated. thank you. Stefan

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what process creates webui tables (mailmanweb db)?
by tflatley＠gmail.com 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

hello again, running a venv installation i think the tables in 2 databases (mailman/mailmanweb) were initially created by running mailman-web migrate - this wrapper is not available in a package install - so i think i need to run something like this after editing my settings.py file python3 manage.py migrate Operations to perform: Apply all migrations: account, admin, auth, contenttypes, django_mailman3, django_q, hyperkitty, postorius, sessions, sites, socialaccount Running migrations: No migrations to apply. Your models have changes that are not yet reflected in a migration, and so won't be applied. Run 'manage.py makemigrations' to make new migrations, and then re-run 'manage.py migrate' to apply them. i do see tables in the mailman db but mailmanweb is empty - is there a different flag i need to run to seed the mailmanweb db? Thanks

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Footer from templates not working - DB issue?
by chris＠mehl.one 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Hi, I am running Mailman3 on Debian 11 with Apache and MariaDB. Single installation. When I edit a footer from the WebUI templates, it doesn't show in the messages. Could it be an issue with the related DB? If so - what do I need to change? Many thanks in advance for any leads! Chris

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collectstatic msg
by tflatley＠gmail.com 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Hello, in a venv install , after the database migration is complete i run the followign collectstatic compress compilemessages for a package install, i run the following ython3 manage.py collectstatic You have requested to collect static files at the destination location as specified in your settings: /var/lib/mailman3/web/static This will overwrite existing files! Are you sure you want to do this? Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: no CommandError: Collecting static files cancelled. on venv i did not get this msg - venv output 406 static files copied to /opt/mailman/web/static is it safe to overwrite these files? also before i run this do i need the mailman services down? thaniks

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mailman-full question
by flatley 25 Sep '22

25 Sep '22

Hello, i have successfully installed mailman3 with postgres using the venv method - testing the install of mailman-full package i have some questions - to configure the db in venv i would use mailman-web migrate - this works fine - but mailman-full install does not seem to include mailman-web or mailman3-web - the mailman info cmd works fine - do i need to also install mailman-web? i had thought the mailman-full included all components thanks

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invalid parameter response of the rest-api
by Jacob Sievert 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Hello, Since a few days we get an error response from our automated membership script. We use the following code to control the membership for some lists: ``` def mailinglist_manage(list_address, members): """ make sure all 'members' are present on the list and no remove everyone else list_address : mail address of mailing list to manage addresses : mail address that are supposed to be on the list """ print("[*] update subscriptions for {}".format(list_address)) ml = mmc.get_list(list_address) # make sure we dont spam users ml.settings['send_welcome_message'] = False ml.settings.save() addresses = set(members.keys()) ml_members = ml.members ml_addresses = set((x.address.__str__() for x in ml_members)) for addr in ml_addresses - addresses: print("unsubscribe {} from {}".format(addr, list_address)) ml.unsubscribe(addr) for addr in addresses - ml_addresses: print("subscribe {} to {}".format(addr, list_address)) ml.subscribe(addr, members[addr], pre_verified=True, pre_confirmed=True, pre_approved=True) ``` Since Tuesday without any update performed by us we get the following error from the script when it's running: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "./mail_user_control.py", line 423, in <module> mailinglist_manage("XXX(a)EXAMPLE.COM", members) File "./mail_user_control.py", line 412, in mailinglist_manage pre_verified=True, pre_confirmed=True, pre_approved=True) File "/root/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailmanclient/restobjects/mailinglist.py", line 339, in subscribe response, content = self._connection.call('members', data) File "/root/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailmanclient/restbase/connection.py", line 112, in call error_msg, response, None) urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Invalid Parameter "subscriber": . ``` If you have an idea why that code now returns this. I would be thankful. regards Jacob Sievert

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