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Disable all mail capabilities
by Hope Less 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

I have a decades old list that was abandoned on my server. I upgraded it to mailman3 but it never came back to life. It is causing me some grief. I want to keep the archives up but totally disable any mail capabilities. I have turned off mail for the domain but I still get 'crap' that tries to relay. I've manually tried to remove stuff from the transport tables in Postfix but I still get mail. I'm not sure where the problem lies. If I can't stop this I'll have to remove the list entirely which includes the archives. I really wish to leave the archives up. Any idea on how I can remove the mail capabilities and leave the rest? Thank You.

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Aborted connection message in log in every 5 minutes
by zoltan＠circle-interactive.co.uk 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Hi Everyone, we have mailman 3.3.8 venv test installation which in general works fine however our mysql error log is filled up with messages below because they are so frequent. 2023-02-24 0:31:30 199567 [Warning] Aborted connection 199567 to db: 'mailman' user: 'mailman' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) 2023-02-24 0:36:30 201063 [Warning] Aborted connection 201063 to db: 'mailman' user: 'mailman' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) 2023-02-24 0:41:31 202559 [Warning] Aborted connection 202559 to db: 'mailman' user: 'mailman' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) 2023-02-24 0:46:31 204056 [Warning] Aborted connection 204056 to db: 'mailman' user: 'mailman' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) As suggested here https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/thread/… I tried to correlate with error logs and /opt/mailman/web/logs/mailmanweb.log shows some hyperkitty.lib.utils Failed to update the fulltext index: (2002, "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)" /opt/mailman/web/logs/uwsgi-error.log Message: OperationalError(2013, "Lost connection to MySQL server at 'handshake: reading initial communication packet', sy stem error: 104") but they have not such frequency so unsure if they are related. Thanks for the suggestions

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after upgrade: OperationalError: no such column: hyperkitty_mailinglist.archive_rendering_mode
by Hans Mayer 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Dear All, recently I did a system os upgrade debian 11.8 -> 12.4 / bullseye -> bookworm This did also upgrade Mailman3 version 3.3.3 -> 3.3.8 as a used the packages which came with Debian OS. Initially after the upgrade I had some troubles with the MM3 services to start, but I fixed this. Now almost everything is running. Only the Archives are not working. The browser shows a server error, when I look at the mailman-web.log I see ERROR 2024-01-31 15:14:14,403 2699563 django.request Internal Server Error: /mailman3/hyperkitty/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 84, in _execute return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 423, in execute return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params) sqlite3.OperationalError: no such column: hyperkitty_mailinglist.archive_rendering_mode When I check the schema I find such a column in table "mailinglist" I assume there is only one solution, to uninstall and delete everything and start from scratch. Or is there a way the check all tables with a script and do an table update for missing columns ? Or a partial installation of hyperkitty, as I don't care about the archives. I am using sqlite3 as DB backend. Kind regards Hans --

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transport map (postfix_lmtp) does not update - new lists not working
by Nils 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

End of last year, I've re-installed mailman3 using the virtualenv installation method on ubuntu 20.04. Since then, the transport map (/opt/mailman/mm/var/data/postfix_lmtp) has not been updated even though, new mailing lists were created. The old mailing lists, that existed before the re-installation work perfectly fine but those created after are not accessible. Because the entries for those new lists are missing in the transport map, postfix replies with a "mail for ... loops back to myself" error. I'm quite sure, that I did all the steps in the documentation (except that I use a slightly different apache2 vhost configuration). I double checked on the cronjobs. crontab -u mailman -e @daily /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman digests --periodic @daily /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman notify * * * * * /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman-web runjobs minutely 0,15,30,45 * * * * /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman-web runjobs quarter_hourly @hourly /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman-web runjobs hourly @daily /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman-web runjobs daily @weekly /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman-web runjobs weekly @monthly /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman-web runjobs monthly @yearly /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman-web runjobs yearly Any idea, what I could have missed??? Kind regards, Nils

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Fresh installation mailman3-suite via "pipx" - any experiences yet?
by Wikinaut 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

I recently found the "pipx" wrapper very useful and wanted to ask you if this could be facilitate the fresh installation of the mailman3-suite. Has anyone in the list already experiences installing mailman and mailmanweg through "pipx"? Here are my general tipps for using pipx # https://pipx.pypa.io/stable/installation/#on-linux sudo apt install pipx python3-venv To install a package systemwide for all users, I recommend the tip from https://github.com/pypa/pipx/issues/754#issuecomment-951162846 . sudo PIPX_HOME=/opt/pipx PIPX_BIN_DIR=/usr/local/bin pipx install <package>

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Single Click Unsubscribe
by J D 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

I know this has been discussed in the past: https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/thread/… However, Google has recently announced that they will be enforcing one-click unsubscribe for bulk senders: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/03/gmail-to-enforce-harsher-rules-in-2024-to… Thoughts?

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mailman-web compress - Invalid template socialaccount/login_cancelled.html
by Odhiambo Washington 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Running an install on Debian12 VM. Getting a new error message that I haven't seen previously: (venv) mailman@debian12:~$ mailman-web compress Compressing... Invalid template socialaccount/login_cancelled.html: Invalid block tag on line 7: 'element', expected 'endblock'. Did you forget to register or load this tag? Invalid template account/verified_email_required.html: Invalid block tag on line 7: 'element', expected 'endblock'. Did you forget to register or load this tag? Error parsing template socialaccount/signup.html: socialaccount/base.html done Compressed 2 block(s) from 78 template(s) for 1 context(s). -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]

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share directories between postfix and mailman 3
by Thomas Schachtner 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Hi there, I think I have (finally) set up a working instance of mailman 3 on a host separate from the companion postfix mail server actually sending out the mails. One server (postfix) is directly in the internet and the other one is in an internal network not directly reachable from the internet (but connected using a reverse proxy). The services on the hosts are available to one another (i. e. the postfix server is reachable using 127.0.0.1:25 from mailman and mailman is reachable using 127.0.0.1:8024 from postfix using a permanent ssh tunnel betwenn the two hosts). I think that this solution could work quite reliably... (at least I hope so.) But that's not the full deal. Postfix needs access to some hashed configuration files containing the transport maps and the domains of the mailman installation, and mailman needs the contents of the postfix configuration file. As a quick and dirty solution, I've established a process which periodically copies the /var/lib/mailman3 directory from the mailman box to the postfix box using rsync. But I would like to have a more professional solution, like a directly shared directory between both. I did not yet find any suggestions on how to achieve this. Are there any best practices recommendations? I already tried sharing the directories using sshfs, but that did not work. I connected the remote directory postfix.example.com:/var/lib/mailman3 to my local directory /var/lib/mailman3 using sshfs root@postfix.example.com:/var/lib/mailman3 /var/lib/mailman3 This seemed to work pretty fine, as all files and directories seemed to be available, but when starting mailman 3, the following error message was shown: FileExistsError: A race condition might have happened. /var/lib/mailman3 actually exists and is not a directory. Any idea why this message is shown? So, is it a bad idea to use sshfs? Do I have to install an NFS server? But I am not sure if sharing directories using NFS across the Internet is a good idea... Any suggestions? Best regards Tom

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Re: Process on migrating mailman
by Odhiambo Washington 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 4:22 AM Mark Labeste <marqueejen13(a)gmail.com> wrote: > About 500 list. Not sure how to check size of the archives. > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 4:44 PM Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 8:49 AM Mark Labeste <marqueejen13(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Any suggestion on how to migrate mailing list and archirve with >>> diffirent server and domain. For the mailing list from >>> sample.domain1.example.com to sample.domain2.example.com >>> >>> Old Mailing list >>> Mailman Core Version GNU Mailman 3.3.5 (Tom Sawyer) >>> Mailman Core API Version 3.1 >>> Mailman Core Python Version 3.6.8 (default, Sep 26 2019, 11:57:09) >>> [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-39)] >>> Domain Domain1.example.com >>> >>> New Mailing list >>> Mailman Core Version GNU Mailman 3.3.9 (Tom Sawyer) >>> Mailman Core API Version 3.1 >>> Mailman Core Python Version 3.9.18 (main, Sep 22 2023, 17:58:34) >>> [GCC 8.5.0 20210514 (Red Hat 8.5.0-20)] >>> Domain domain2.example.com >> >> >> >> How many lists? How big are the archives? >> >> Looking at >> https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/thread/…, >> it seems like it's not a trivial exercise. >> >> However, I am wondering about the consequences of: >> 1. dumping the DBs and doing 's/DOMAIN1/DOMAIN2/g' in the dumps, then >> re-importing >> 2. editing settings.py and webserver config to reflect the DOMAIN2 >> 3. reconfiguring your MTA to handle list mails using the DOMAIN2 >> >> I am imagining a virtualenv type of installation. >> > The archives are in the database so nothing to worry about, Now that I think about this again, after dumping and importing the database as shown above, you need to rerun the 'mailman-web migrate` once again to import any DB schema changes between the versions. Actually, just run all the options from https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html#run-database-mi… . -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]

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log rotation for bounce.log
by Quanah Gibson-Mount 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

I noticed that our smtp.log and bounce.log files haven't been rotated in years. I see the reason for smtp.log not being rotated is due to <https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/931>. Does this same issue affect bounce.log or is it safe to rotate similar to mailman.log?

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