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mailman3 admin from mailman2 & File location questions
by bob B 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

Question1 We use help users with list settings, so we would log into mailman2 with the master password. So what is the best way to duplicate this for mailman3. I assume I can just use the admin account and share that password with my other admins. But I see the domain owners, but is that working? I added someone as a domain owner, and they do not see private email lists and it looks like that can not edit any list settings? There was a post that this had not yet been implemented? Any other options? Question2 Where are all the emails/archives stored? are they in /opt/mailman/...., or are they in the database? For mailman2 we had mailman located on a large volume to handle archives, just trying to see if that is the same for mailman3 or if all the data is now in the database (which will be external for our installation)?

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Current status and issue deleting Archives in Mailman3
by bob B 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

So just want to make sure I have the latest information after searching this list and googling or have I missed something? It appears there is no way in mailman3 to delete archives. There has been discussion on implementing this, but it has not been developed? is that correct? I saw references to: >>> from hyperkitty.models import MailingList >>> ml = MailingList.objects.get(name="test2(a)freeculture.org") >>> ml.delete() But how do I run this? I believe it is run in mailman-core (I am in a docker environment but that should not matter). I can get into the mailman shell, but that command does not work I did the following: bash-5.0# mailman shell Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell Use commit() to commit changes. Use abort() to discard changes since the last commit. Exit with ctrl+D does an implicit commit() but exit() does not. >>> from hyperkitty.models import MailingList Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'hyperkitty' >>> What am I missing? ************** Question 2 What about pruning archives? I use to run a script for mailman2 to prune archives of messages older than X days for a list, Is that possible in mailman3

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Mailman notify generating emails for request that aren't visible.
by Simon Coggins 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Hi, We’re running mailman 3.3.4 (about to upgrade to 3.3.5 this week). I enabled mailman notify cron a few weeks ago to email out any pending requests for admins. I’ve now got multiple lists that keep emailing out the same outstanding holds but they can’t visible in the GUI. The requests are all duplicates as well. This is a redacted example email: -----Original Message----- From: mailman-alerts(a)example.com<mailto:mailman-alerts@example.com> Sent: Monday, 1 November 2021 8:10 AM To: somelist-owner(a)lists.example.com<mailto:somelist-owner@lists.example.com> Subject: The somelist(a)lists.example.com<mailto:somelist@lists.example.com> list has 4 moderation requests waiting. The somelist(a)lists.example.com<mailto:somelist@lists.example.com> list has 4 moderation requests waiting. Held Unsubscriptions: User: john.smith(a)maildomain.com<mailto:john.smith@maildomain.com> User: john.smith(a)maildomain.com<mailto:john.smith@maildomain.com> User: john.smith(a)maildomain.com<mailto:john.smith@maildomain.com> User: john.smith(a)maildomain.com<mailto:john.smith@maildomain.com> Please attend to this at your earliest convenience. I have multiple lists sending the same email (with the same user repeated 4 times). Where should I be looking in the internals of mailman to try and work out why this user has hidden unsubscription holds? -Simon --- [https://www.cqu.edu.au/] Mr Simon Coggins Principal Systems Engineer | Digital Services Directorate CQUniversity Australia, Level 6.14, 160 Ann Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000 P +61 7 3295 1182 | X 51182 | M +61 408 115 861 | E s.coggins(a)cqu.edu.au<mailto:s.coggins@cqu.edu.au> [https://www.cqu.edu.au/social-media] I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and learn, and pay respect to the First Nations Peoples and their Elders, past, present and future. This communication may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this in error, please return to sender and delete. CRICOS: 00219C | RTO Code 40939

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Question about Digest mode
by Terry Earley 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

We upgraded to MM3 from MM2 this past Summer. A number of our users are asking if they cannot still get digests delivered once per day instead of being delivered when the accumulated posts reach a specified size. Is there a way to set digests to go out once per day? Terry Earley FitEyes.com

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HyperKitty archiver <h1>Server Error (500</h1>
by Daniel Erlendson 01 Nov '21

01 Nov '21

Hello all, I'm getting the following in the logs in our MM server: Nov 01 14:00:17 2021 (26843) HyperKitty failure on http://localhost/mailman3/hyperkitty/api/mailman/archive: <h1>Server Error (500)</h1> (500) Nov 01 14:00:17 2021 (26843) Exception in the HyperKitty archiver: <h1>Server Error (500)</h1> Nov 01 14:00:17 2021 (26843) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman_hyperkitty/__init__.py", line 154, in _archive_message url = self._send_message(mlist, msg) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman_hyperkitty/__init__.py", line 210, in _send_message raise ValueError(result.text) ValueError: <h1>Server Error (500)</h1> which is mirrored in the mailman-web.log with this 21:57:07 [Q] INFO Enqueued 1962530 21:57:08 [Q] INFO Process-1:36 processing [sender_mailman_id] 21:57:08 [Q] INFO Processed [sender_mailman_id] ERROR 2021-11-01 21:57:07,969 17847 django.request Internal Server Error: /mailman3/hyperkitty/api/mailman/archive Traceback (most recent call last): plus a bunch of python errors and this: ValueError: A string literal cannot contain NUL (0x00) characters. ERROR 2021-11-01 21:57:07,969 17847 django.request Internal Server Error: /mailman3/hyperkitty/api/mailman/archive Traceback (most recent call last): We are on v3.1 on Ubuntu 18.04. I do have a project beginning to move to Ubuntu 20.04 eventually. For now, I'm struggling to find the resolution to this error. I've looked at the site here, did a rebuild on the whoosh index, I've found and tested the suggestions to add a localhost non-https in apache for HyperKitty, I've edited HyperKitty to be https rather than HTTP, none of these settings / changes seem to resolve the issue. Oddly for all intents and purposes, the server appears to run fine, the archive might be a bit slow but it doesn't seem to have issues other than the constant errors coming into the admin emails. Happy to post any configs or detail anything, appreciate any replies. Respectfully,

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mm3 floods syslog
by Wolfgang Bock 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

Dear friends, I got another problem: mailman floods my syslog. I deleted a domain/webdomain (further mentioned as deleted.org) in postorius, django web. No entries are now in /var/lib/mailman3/data/postfix_domains or postfix_lmtp or /var/lib/mailman3/lists. Here an extract of my syslog (anonymized): Oct 31 10:49:02 myserver mailman3[1284]: Oct 31 10:49:02 2021 (1284) Certificate did not match expected hostname: localhost. Certificate: {'subject': ((('commonName', 'deleteted.org'),),), 'issuer': ((('countryName', 'US'),), (('or ganizationName', "Let's Encrypt"),), (('commonName', 'R3'),)), 'version': 3, 'serialNumber': '0326A733CA7B16D13C830EE707EA614E25F9', 'notBefore': 'Oct 30 20:21:08 2021 GMT', 'notAfter': 'Jan 28 20:21:07 2022 GMT', 'subjectAltName': (('DN S', 'deleteted.org'), ('DNS', 'lists.deleteted.org'), ('DNS', 'mail.deleteted.org'), ('DNS', 'ns.deleteted.org'), ('DNS', 'www.deleteted.org')), 'OCSP': ('http://r3.o.lencr.org',), 'caIssuers': ('http:/ /r3.i.lencr.org/',)} This appears nonstop. I now stopped the cronjob fort he moment: "[ -f /usr/bin/django-admin ] && flock -n /var/run/mailman3-web/cron.minutely /usr/share/mailman3-web/manage.py runjobs minutely" and others Does mailman or django store any information about domains in another place/file. If yes, how this can be deleted?? Thanks for your reply in advance. Regards Wolfgang

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mailman3 postorius cannot retrieve template at ... (<no authorization>)
by Wolfgang Bock 31 Oct '21

31 Oct '21

Hello, the question is: postgres - mailman3web-postorius_emailtemplate table vs mailman3 - templates table I installed a brand new mailman3 with mailman Core 3.3.3, Api 3.1, Core Python 3.9.2 postgres12 nginx on debian bullseye. I created a template via postorius -> lists -> (testliste01) -> templates -> new template -> [list:member:regular:footer] and [list:member:digest:footer] They are shown in the postgres database mailman3 table templates: id name context uri username password 14 list:member:digest:footer testliste01.mydomain.de http://localhost/postorius/api/templates/list/testliste01.mydomain.de/list:m ember:digest:footer 15 list:member:regular:footer testliste01.mydomain.de http://localhost/postorius/api/templates/list/testliste01.mydomain.de/list:m ember:regular:footer First there where no templates in the /var/lib/mailman3/templates folder, which was empty after installation. Later I created in /var/lib/mailman3/templates theses folders and the files /list/testliste01.mydomain.de/list:member:digest:footer + list:member:regular:footer owned by list:list 644 A testmail went through but instead of the default footer no footer was shown. In the sys.log I found the following error message: Oct 29 11:28:04 myserver mailman3[33015]: Message: 'Cannot retrieve template at http://localhost/postorius/api/templates/list/testliste01.mydomain.de/list:m ember:regular:footer (<no authorization>)' How can I solve this problem? What kind of authorisation is meant? list? restadmin? I read in https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/config-core.html#configure-templates ... list specific templates invar/templates/lists/LIST-ID/LC/ ... I guess the LC means Language Code. But in the database table templates no LC subdirectory is mentioned (in my case must be de). And I read (dont know where) .... The templates created in Postorius are created in the postorius_emailtemplate table in Mailman's database and referenced via URLs like 'https://example.com/mailman3/api/templates/list/<list-id>/<template-name>'. I.e., they are not stored in the file system. ... That's true. I found in postgres database mailman3web in the table mailman3web postorius_emailtemplate my id name data language created_at modified_at context identifier 15 list:member:digest:footer postorius footer digest 1x linefeed 2021-10-29 11:17:40.664689+02 2021-10-29 11:26:48.692628+02 list testliste01.mydomain.de 16 list:member:regular:footer postorius footer non-digest 1x linefeed 2021-10-29 11:18:29.166241+02 2021-10-29 11:27:24.519024+02 list testliste01.mydomain.de But my question is how to integrate this into the mailman3-system. The language isn't set either. Thanks in advance! Regards Wolfgang

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Unable to get mailman3 working on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
by Michael Heseltine 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Hi all, after upgrading an older server to Ubuntu 20.04, I tried to first upgrade my old mailman 2 installation to mailman 3. I've been on it for three weeks now, but unable to get anything working. I have long forgone the idea of upgrading and thus purged everything from mailman2 on my machine, and installed and removed mailman3 several times to no avail. My most recent try (it is currently an empty mailman installation) was done by calling apt install mailman3 mailman3-full mailman3-web and saying "yes" to every question. I'm using Mariadb as the database, and two databases called mailman3 and mailman3web (plus two users with the same names) have been created. I have configured a virtual host for apache (see below) and changed the mailman.cfg and mailman-weg.cfg to match (also see below). I have restarted both mailman3 and mailman3-web several times now, but when I try to access the site, I just get | Something went wrong | Mailman REST API not available. Please start Mailman core. plus an e-mail with subject | [Django] ERROR (EXTERNAL IP): Service Unavailable: /mailman3/postorius/lists/ I'm running | GNU Mailman 3.3.3b1 (Tom Sawyer) | Python 3.8.10 (default, Sep 28 2021, 16:10:42) Can anybody tell me what is going on? Also, the confirmation e-mail I got for registering a user says "example.com" in its subject line, even though I replaced every mention in the config files below with my actual URL. Any help is appreaciated, I can provide logs or other data on request. Cheers, michael /etc/mailman.mailman3.cfg ================== site_owner: postmaster@<site> noreply_address: noreply default_language: en sender_headers: from from_ reply-to sender email_commands_max_lines: 10 pending_request_life: 3d cache_life: 7d pre_hook: post_hook: layout: debian filtered_messages_are_preservable: no html_to_plain_text_command: /usr/bin/lynx -dump $filename listname_chars: [-_.0-9a-z] [shell] prompt: >>> banner: Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell use_ipython: no history_file: [paths.debian] var_dir: /var/lib/mailman3 queue_dir: $var_dir/queue bin_dir: /usr/lib/mailman3/bin list_data_dir: $var_dir/lists log_dir: /var/log/mailman3 lock_dir: $var_dir/locks data_dir: $var_dir/data cache_dir: $var_dir/cache etc_dir: /etc/mailman3 ext_dir: $var_dir/ext messages_dir: $var_dir/messages archive_dir: $var_dir/archives template_dir: $var_dir/templates pid_file: /run/mailman3/master.pid lock_file: $lock_dir/master.lck [database] class: mailman.database.mysql.MySQLDatabase url: mysql+pymysql://mailman3:<password>@localhost/mailman3?charset=utf8&use_unicode=1 debug: no [logging.debian] format: %(asctime)s (%(process)d) %(message)s datefmt: %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y propagate: no level: info path: mailman.log [webservice] hostname: <site> port: 8001 use_https: yes show_tracebacks: yes api_version: 3.1 admin_user: restadmin admin_pass: <pass> [mta] incoming: mailman.mta.exim4.LMTP outgoing: mailman.mta.deliver.deliver smtp_host: localhost smtp_port: 25 smtp_user: smtp_pass: lmtp_host: 127.0.0.1 lmtp_port: 8024 configuration: python:mailman.config.exim4 virtual host in Apache =============== <VirtualHost <site>:443> AssignUserID www-data www-data ServerAdmin webmaster@<site> ServerName <site> SSLEngine on DocumentRoot /webspace/mailman/www ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/mm3_error_log TransferLog /var/log/apache2/mm3_access_log Alias /mailman3/favicon.ico /var/lib/mailman3/web/static/postorius/img/favicon.ico Alias /mailman3/static /var/lib/mailman3/web/static <Directory "/var/lib/mailman3/web/static"> Require all granted </Directory> <IfModule mod_proxy_uwsgi.c> ProxyPass /mailman3/favicon.ico ! ProxyPass /mailman3/static ! ProxyPass /mailman3 unix:/run/mailman3-web/uwsgi.sock|uwsgi://localhost </IfModule> Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/<site>/fullchain.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/<site>/privkey.pem </VirtualHost> /etc/mailman3/mailman-web.cfg ========================= SECRET_KEY = <secret> ADMINS = ( ('Mailman Suite Admin', 'root@localhost'), ) ALLOWED_HOSTS = [ #"localhost", # Archiving API from Mailman, keep it. # "lists.your-domain.org", # Add here all production URLs you may have. '*' ] MAILMAN_REST_API_URL = 'http://localhost:8001' MAILMAN_REST_API_USER = 'restadmin' MAILMAN_REST_API_PASS = '' MAILMAN_ARCHIVER_KEY = <secret> MAILMAN_ARCHIVER_FROM = ('127.0.0.1', '::1') INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'hyperkitty', 'postorius', 'django_mailman3', 'django.contrib.admin', # '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', 'django_mailman3.lib.auth.fedora', ) DATABASES = { 'default': { # Use 'sqlite3', 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'. 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql', 'NAME': 'mailman3web', 'USER': 'mailman3web', 'PASSWORD': <passwd>, 'HOST': 'localhost', 'PORT': '', 'OPTIONS': { # Set sql_mode to 'STRICT_TRANS_TABLES' for MySQL. See # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/ # databases/#setting-sql-mode 'init_command': "SET sql_mode='STRICT_TRANS_TABLES'", }, } } USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST = True LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us' TIME_ZONE = 'UTC' USE_I18N = True USE_L10N = True USE_TZ = True EMAILNAME = '<site>' DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'postorius@{}'.format(EMAILNAME) SERVER_EMAIL = 'root@{}'.format(EMAILNAME) ACCOUNT_DEFAULT_HTTP_PROTOCOL = "https" SOCIALACCOUNT_PROVIDERS = { } COMPRESS_OFFLINE = True POSTORIUS_TEMPLATE_BASE_URL = 'http://localhost/mailman3/'

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Internal server errors after upgrade
by Seth Seeger 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Hello community, I'm running the Docker version of MM3. I've just run: docker-compose stop docker-compose pull docker-compose up -d I am now at versions: mailman-core: 3.3.4 mailman-web: 2.2.20 I am running a 2-core, 4GB RAM VM on Linode. The web interface mostly works. However, sometimes/regularly I get a 500 Internal Server Error. In /opt/mailman/core/var/logs/mailman.log I see the errors, but they are usually different. The common thread seems they are always about some sort of database call. Reloading the page is usually successful. Did anything change with the latest upgrade in terms of database timeouts? Before this upgrade, I was never getting it. (htop does not show anything unusual.) Any leads? Thank you, Seth

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Upgrade commands under Docker
by Seth Seeger 28 Oct '21

28 Oct '21

Another docker upgrade question... according to the upgrade docs https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/upgrade-3.2.html#post-upgrade you are supposed to stop the web service and run a series of commands (compress/collectstatic/etc). How do you stop the service under Docker? If I stop the container, then I cannot access the manage.py command. Thanks, Seth

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