October 2023 - Mailman-users - lists.mailman3.org

Setting up on ubuntu server 22.04
by Kyriakos Terzopoulos 15 Oct '23

15 Oct '23

Hi guys, I have an Ubuntu 22.04 server running on a Hetzner machine, with HestiaCP (Exim4) on it. I cannot for the life of me start the service of mailman3 core. Following the installation tutorial I have tried with the venv approach and I am having the following issues: 1) It is not clear to me whether the mailman configuration should be outside venv (and outside the mailman shell). 2) For the above reason I have created a config file: /etc/mailman3/mailman.cfg and the mailman3 service outside venv. When starting the service I get the following: ImportError: cannot import name 'path' from 'importlib_resources' (/opt/mailman/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/importlib_resources/__init__.py) I've set up the database, the mailman user and the virtual environment. I know I am missing something here (e.g. Python version? other dependencies?). In general would it be better or/and easier to set this up on a new machine in my Hetzner cloud e.g. on Debian which seems to have packages of mailman available? Thanks in advance for all your help. Kyriakos

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Memory usage cgroup and free -m
by golden_rock＠hotmail.com 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

Hi, Currently the mailman3 cgroup slice uses up to 875MB: Control Group Tasks %CPU Memory Input/s Output/s system.slice/mailman3.service 16 0.1 875.3M - - Is 875MB a normal expected amount, or more than expected? To confirm that this is truly used and not "cached", I use the new Available column from the "free -m" output, which is the pre-computed available memory for a new process, added in recent years. The output of free -m under the Available column when mailman3 is running is : 161 MB When I stop the mailman service, the output of free -m Available column goes up to: 1071 MB Showing that the 875MB previously were not available for release for new processes. If I start mailman service again, the output of free -m Available column goes back to : 325MB and will be reducing gradually over time. I looked around on posts, documentation and others, but didn't find guides related to reducing RAM usage, is that a possibility or is this memory usage expected?

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Archive search failing on one list
by Mark 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

Hi, I have several lists all happily running with private archives. They all use the one domain name. A new list was added recently and although mail delivery and archiving are fine, this new list's search function is failing. For example, on searching for the word "Derbyshire" (which is mentioned in one of the archived messages) the results page displays: "Sorry no email could be found for this query." The logs show: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ /var/log/mailman3/web/mailman-web.log +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [pid: 1156|app: 0|req: 55/55] 2001:8004:5310:2405:ce66:5ff:41fc:60db () {76 vars in 1537 bytes} [Sat Sep 23 23:57:43 2023] GET /mailman3/hyperkitty/search?mlist=LISTNAME-1%40DOMAIN.COM&q=Derbyshire => generated 13752 bytes in 3188 msecs (HTTP/1.1 200) 5 headers in 164 bytes (1 switches on core 0) 23:57:51 [Q] INFO Process-1:1 processing [rebuild_mailinglist_cache_for_month] 23:57:51 [Q] INFO Process-1:2 processing [rebuild_mailinglist_cache_recent] 23:57:51 [Q] ERROR Failed [rebuild_mailinglist_cache_for_month] - MailingList matching query does not exist. : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django_q/cluster.py", line 421, in worker res = f(*task["args"], **task["kwargs"]) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/hyperkitty/tasks.py", line 79, in _rebuild_mailinglist_cache_for_month mlist = MailingList.objects.get(name=mlist_name) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/manager.py", line 82, in manager_method return getattr(self.get_queryset(), name)(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 406, in get raise self.model.DoesNotExist( hyperkitty.models.mailinglist.MailingList.DoesNotExist: MailingList matching query does not exist. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On all the other lists, which all have successful search results, the logs shows examples like so (searching for "Farnborough") ... ************************************* [pid: 1156|app: 0|req: 486/486] 2001:8004:5310:2405:ce66:5ff:41fc:60db () {76 vars in 1531 bytes} [Sun Sep 24 00:38:24 2023] GET /mailman3/hyperkitty/search?mlist=LISTNAME-2%40DOMAIN.COM&q=Farnborough => generated 141638 bytes in 11039 msecs (HTTP/1.1 200) 6 headers in 333 bytes (1 switches on core 0) ************************************* ... which seems to be pretty much the same but with out the "MailingList.DoesNotExist" error. Any clues on where I should be looking to fix this would be gratefully received. Thanks, Mar

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impossible to administrate *.com emails
by testeur 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

Hi, I don't understand why this problem ! In the web interface, i can't administrate email finishing with ".com" (ex : gmail.com, hotmail.com, etc) I obtain : "Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource." did i miss something in the web configuration ? Regards, PG testeur

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Alias for a list name
by Lars Bjørndal 08 Oct '23

08 Oct '23

I've migrated a list from mm 21 to mm 3 sucessfully. The mm 21 runs on domains managed by Postfix as virtual alias domains. That way it was possible to alias a shorter name for a list to the list name. To run mm 3 through Postfix, I use local_recipient_maps and transport_maps. What I want to achieve, is alias medlem(a)list.saf-org.no to saf-medlem(a)list.saf-org.no I tried to put medlem(a)list.saf-org.no: saf-medlem(a)list.saf-org.no and get the following error when running newaliases: postalias: warning: /etc/aliases, line 231: name must be local Is it possible to do this aliasing in a simple way? Thanks, Lars

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OIDC (was: username)
by Jörg Schulz 07 Oct '23

07 Oct '23

The most recent version of Django-allauth has some nice changes, it's now straightforward to include oidc. Just include SOCIALACCOUNT_EMAIL_AUTHENTICATION=True ## This allows existing users to login MAILMAN_WEB_SOCIAL_AUTH = [ "allauth.socialaccount.providers.openid_connect"] in settings.py and use the Django admin to configure the socialauth.... While it is _possible_ to add things like ---- SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = { "openid_connect": { "APPS": [ { "provider_id": "mm3", "name": "TheNameThat shows up in the button", "client_id": "configuredID", "secret": "yourOIDCproviderGivesItToYou", "settings": { "server_url": "https://keycloak.wherever.com/realms/yourRealm/.well-known/openid-configura…", "token_auth_method": "client_secret_basic", }, } ] } } ---- I think it's preferable to do that within the Django Admin Gui. Does anybody dare to include this info in the documentation, or are we afraid the next django_allauth breaks things again (this time: Keycloak has been replaced by openid_connect)? -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [MM3-users] Re: username Datum: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:34:35 +0000 Von: info(a)joergschulz.de An: Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen.fw(a)u.tsukuba.ac.jp> Hi, probably you are looking for https://django-allauth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html and https://github.com/lokeish/django-all-auth-and-keycloak-integration but https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth/commit/ab704687f438c06fd23e72bce… will be helpful once implemented. Am 12. September 2023 um 05:54 schrieb "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen.fw(a)u.tsukuba.ac.jp <mailto:turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp?to=%22Stephen%20J.%20Turnbull%22%20%3Cturnbull.stephen.fw%40u.tsukuba.ac.jp%3E>>: bryan.kartzman(a)yu.edu writes: > Just to let you know, there is a maintained SAML2 plugin available > on github (https://github.com/grafana/django-saml2-auth) that I was > able to install and get to work with AZURE SSO. There are multiple ways to solve this problem. My employer wanted a host-wide solution so they chose Shibboleth. Some day I'll go out and collect the ones I can find and document them (in summary form: source site, recency of stable version, recency of maintenance, etc). Steve

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username
by bryan.kartzman＠yu.edu 06 Oct '23

06 Oct '23

Where is the username that a user uses to login on the postorius web page stored? I checked the postgres table public.user and while the display name is there, the username is not. I can't find it anywhere in the database.

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Mailman issues after re-boot
by Paul Rubin 06 Oct '23

06 Oct '23

*<< I sent this to the mailman3 issues on gitlab and Mark replied but asked me to move to this list, so I copied everything and inserted responses. I hope this makes sense and someone can help me.>>* After a lengthy power failure I had to reboot a machine that has been running for several years. the WEB-UI does not seem to be able to see mailman-core. I have looked for log entries that might explain what the issue is and I am stumped to even find logs that will update when I get an error on the browser. Mailman is definitely running, postgres is running and mailman web is running. if I go to the lists page I see lists, if I try to access a specific list I get Server error: An error occurred while processing your request. I looked in /var/logs/mailman /opt/mailman/web/mailmanweb All I can find is: django.urls.exceptions.NoReverseMatch: Reverse for 'list_unsubscription_requests' not found. 'list_unsubscription_requests' is not a valid view function or pattern name.16688 ERROR 2023-09-12 13:56:58,430 1760 django.request Internal Server Error: /mailman3/lists/goodstein.goodstein.org/ File "/opt/mailman/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/haystack/admin.py", line 8, in <module> from django.utils.translation import ungettextImportError: cannot import name 'ungettext' from 'django.utils.translation' (/opt/mailman/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py) Also I have to run mailman from "mailman start" because the systemctl returns this: ● mailman3.service - GNU Mailing List Manager Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/mailman3.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2023-09-12 10:06:31 EDT; 13s ago Process: 31159 ExecStart=/opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 806msSep 12 10:06:31 mail mailman[31159]: Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:Sep 12 10:06:31 mail mailman[31159]: Traceback (most recent call last):Sep 12 10:06:31 mail mailman[31159]: File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/logging/__init__.py", line 2126, in shutdownSep 12 10:06:31 mail mailman[31159]: h.flush()Sep 12 10:06:31 mail mailman[31159]: File "/opt/mailman/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/mailman/core/logging.py", line 67, in flushSep 12 10:06:31 mail mailman[31159]: if self._stream:Sep 12 10:06:31 mail mailman[31159]: AttributeError: 'ReopenableFileHandler' object has no attribute '_stream'Sep 12 10:06:31 mail systemd[1]: mailman3.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURESep 12 10:06:31 mail systemd[1]: mailman3.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.Sep 12 10:06:31 mail systemd[1]: Failed to start GNU Mailing List Manager. Please tell me where to start looking or adjusting. Reply from Mark Sapiro,* Edited to include responses:* Mark Sapiro <https://gitlab.com/msapiro>@msapiro <https://gitlab.com/msapiro>· 1 day ago <https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman-web/-/issues/23#note_1557601916> Owner Add reaction More actions The mailman-users(a)mailman3.org list is probably a more appropriate place for issues like this. django.urls.exceptions.NoReverseMatch: Reverse for 'list_unsubscription_requests' not found. 'list_unsubscription_requests' is not a valid view function or pattern name. 16688 ERROR 2023-09-12 13:56:58,430 1760 django.request Internal Server Error: /mailman3/lists/ goodstein.goodstein.org/ /opt/mailman/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/postorius/urls.py should contain re_path( r'^unsubscription_requests$', list_views.list_unsubscription_requests, name='list_unsubscription_requests', ), Y *Yes this exists* and /opt/mailman/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/postorius/views/list.py should define list_unsubscription_requests. *Yes there is a method by this name defined* File "/opt/mailman/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/haystack/admin.py", line 8, in from django.utils.translation import ungettext ImportError: cannot import name 'ungettext' from 'django.utils.translation' (/opt/mailman/venv/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/django/utils/translation/ *init*.py) See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/internals/deprecation/#deprecation-re… - ungettext() is removed from django>=4.0 Sep 12 10:06:31 mail mailman[31159]: AttributeError: 'ReopenableFileHandler' object has no attribute '_stream' I don't understand this one offhand, but what is the content of /etc/systemd/system/mailman3.service, in particular the settings for User, Group and ExecStart? *The service looks right:* 1 [Unit] 2 Description=GNU Mailing List Manager 3 After=syslog.target network.target postgresql.service 4 5 [Service] 6 Type=forking 7 PIDFile=/opt/mailman/mm/var/master.pid 8 User=mailman 9 Group=mailman 10 ExecStart=/opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman start 11 ExecReload=/opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman restart 12 ExecStop=/opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman stop 13 14 [Install] 15 WantedBy=multi-user.target *It seems I may have two versions of the mailman script:* mail:/opt/mailman # which mailman /usr/bin/mailman mail:/opt/mailman # ls -al /usr/bin/mailman -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 382 May 10 2021 /usr/bin/mailman mail:/opt/mailman # ls -al /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman -rwxr-xr-x 1 mailman mailman 231 Sep 12 10:02 /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman Somehow, your installation is corrupted. I don't know how *I need to know what to remove, how to correctly update, etc., That said the two scripts appear to be very similar:* mail:/opt/mailman # head /usr/bin/mailman #!/usr/bin/python3 # EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT: 'mailman==3.3.4','console_scripts','mailman' __requires__ = 'mailman==3.3.4' import re import sys from pkg_resources import load_entry_point if __name__ == '__main__': sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw?|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0]) sys.exit( mail:/opt/mailman # head /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman #!/opt/mailman/venv/bin/python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import re import sys from mailman.bin.mailman import main if __name__ == '__main__': sys.argv[0] = re.sub(r'(-script\.pyw|\.exe)?$', '', sys.argv[0]) sys.exit(main()) mail:/opt/mailman # *Given the two years since the last reboot I also tried following * https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/upgrade-guide.html *to make sure I was running the latest* pip install -U mailman postorius django-mailman3 hyperkitty mailman-web

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Missing Base64 encoding from control message reply
by lists-mailman3＠janaberger.de 06 Oct '23

06 Oct '23

Dear all, I have a setup with GNU Mailman 3.3.8 where a user tried to subscribe. When replying to the "confirm" message, the user received a completely garbled response, like so: N�z˥��ʋ�zf��&��j��u�[zZ0:��v��,j�z֢��k�e�0 4Dҹ��r�^b��r�ߊ��*'��yם��{ax�L�X��0:��v��,j�z֢��k�d�m�-��zz�rn��l]y+��-E�( �^N��'��M��tۯ��Mz��^i��׮��}�o�\ӷ��6sN�zf��ݮ��r��z˥��b�{h��݉��f�r�ne== (The line above contains numerous unprintable characters, etc.) The user then forwarded the .eml file to me, which clearly shows the contents of the mail as plain text while being announced as base64 (Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64): START OF EML Return-Path: <LISTNAME-bounces(a)lists.DOMAIN.COM> Received: from DOMAIN.COM ([144.76.173.241]) by mx-ha.USERDOMAIN.NET (mx06 [IP]) with ESMTPS (Nemesis) id 1M27WV-1qhRFk39Sr-00AQcR for <USER(a)USERDOMAIN.NET>; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:10:37 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by DOMAIN.COM (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4058B3BD5EEF for <USER(a)USERDOMAIN.NET>; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:10:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from DOMAIN.COM ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (DOMAIN.COM [127.0.0.1]) (amavis, port 10024) with ESMTP id x0ngnlRnGraH for <USER(a)USERDOMAIN.NET>; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:10:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [IP] (unknown [IP]) by DOMAIN.COM (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC8603BD5EEE for <USER(a)USERDOMAIN.NET>; Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:10:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: =?utf-8?q?The_results_of_your_email_commands?= From: LISTNAME-bounces(a)lists.DOMAIN.COM To: USER(a)USERDOMAIN.NET Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-ID: <169531623416.29.5762261018677554285@mailman-core> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:10:34 +0000 Precedence: bulk X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.8 List-Id: <LISTNAME.lists.DOMAIN.COM> List-Help: <mailto:LISTNAME-request@lists.DOMAIN.COM?subject=help> List-Owner: <mailto:LISTNAME-owner@lists.DOMAIN.COM> List-Subscribe: <mailto:LISTNAME-join@lists.DOMAIN.COM> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:LISTNAME-leave@lists.DOMAIN.COM> Envelope-To: <USER(a)USERDOMAIN.NET> X-Spam-Flag: NO The results of your email command are provided below. - Original message details: From: USER <USER(a)USERDOMAIN.NET> Subject: Re: Your confirmation is needed to join the LISTNAME(a)lists.DOMAIN.COM mailing list. Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:10:26 +0200 Message-ID: <3c1eaaf8-1677-432f-b9dc-07f18902c06c(a)email.android.com> - Results: Confirmation token did not match - Done. END OF EML Is this possibly a bug in Mailman? Any ideas on what else could be causing this?

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Hyperkitty href url to css cache files is not correct
by Alexander Maier 05 Oct '23

05 Oct '23

Hello guys i just created my first mailing list on uberspace. Everything works fine at the moment but I have a problem with the stylesheets of hyperkitty. I recognized that hyperkitty creates for each new access to its website a css CACHE file which is stored at '/static/CACHE/css/'. The url in the HTML file sets the href to /static/CACHE/css/ but the files are only accessible with '/hyperkitty/static/CACHE/css/'. I tried out some probably solutions but nothing works... Could you guys help me?

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