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RHEL 7 + Mailman 3 : Need help and guidance
by vgandhi＠fdu.edu July 15, 2019

July 15, 2019

Hi, We would like to use the latest Mailman 3 in our environment. We are planning to set up RHEL 7 virtual machine. I am trying to figure out best method (if possible - step-by-step guide) for installing and configuring Mailman3 on RHEL 7 . Can someone please provide me some guidance or point me in direction. Thank you.

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Unable to get mailman3-full on Debian
by Frank Yappa July 15, 2019

July 15, 2019

When trying apt-get install on Debian, I get E: Unable to locate package mailman3-full. What am I doing wrong? I have run apt-get update.

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unable to un-subscribe
by Steven Jones July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019

Please fix / unsubscribe me, thanks regards Steven

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How to see post headers
by Andrew Bernard July 13, 2019

July 13, 2019

Once a post has gone into Hyperkitty, how can I see the full mail headers? Andrew

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Looking for large sites that have migrated to mailman3
by ssw＠washington.edu July 10, 2019

July 10, 2019

Hi. We're looking for information on large sites that have migrated to mailman3. Preferably academic institutions. As we start to look at a migration project we're hoping to hear any 'lessons learned' from those who have gone before us. (Sorry if this information is already posted somewhere, I wasn't able to find it) Thanks, Steve Mats Mats Software Engineer Academic & Collaborative Applications - UW-IT University of Washington Seattle, Washington

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List nonmembers
by Andrew Bernard July 9, 2019

July 9, 2019

Under Users for a list, there is a category for List nonmembers. What does this term mean? [It's rather curious philosophically when you think about it, because I would have thought that the category [all humans - list members] fits that category term.] But seriously, I don't understand it. I have several email addresses there and I don't know what do with them, if anything. Andrew

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delete examples.com site
by enrique.terrazas＠utsa.edu July 9, 2019

July 9, 2019

Hello, I've been working on setting up Mailman3 on a RHEL 7.5 vm using the guides and documentation found here: http://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/index.html https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html http://docs.mailman3.org/projects/postorius/en/latest/index.html http://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailmanclient/en/latest/README.html https://hyperkitty.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman-hyperkitty nginx is serving the Django applications via uwsgi. I was able to get mailman, postorius + hyperkitty, running and test sending out email verifications. In an attempt to set the default domain to something other than example.com I deleted the site: example.com, I did have another site. Unfortunately, this seems to have broken the Django applications. At the moment I am preparing to delete the virtual environment and set things up again. Unless there is something that can be done in the current virtual environment to "reset" things back to start. I was also running into an issue where the verification emails were successfully sent out. The url to verify the email looks like this: http://my.domain.com:8000/accounts/confirm-email/xxxxxxxxxxxx/ Replacing my.domain.com with the domain I added. How can I get the outgoing verification emails to not reference port 8000? If I take that same link and remove the port, I get the desired page. Port 8000 is blocked at our sites permitter firewall, I don't necessarily want to open it. I'd rather the URL just obfuscate the port and send it to https... Thank you in advance for your attention and assistance. Best regards, Enrique J. Terrazas

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HTML post only showing as attachment
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

I have a post come in that is in HTML and has an image attached. It is distributed fine to email subscribers. Hyperkitty shows a blank message, with the in an html attachment, and the image as a jpg attachment. Why doesn't the text show in Hyperkitty? So far, all other messages display correctly. Andrew

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Rich Text support in Hyperkitty
by Abhilash Raj July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

Hi All, I have been recently working on adding rich text support through markdown in Hyperkitty so that emails can be made easier to read. The core design idea in my mind when working on this was building something that doesn't bother writers of plain text emails too much, but allows people to write emails in markdown. The supported syntax is limited Markdown, for example: Hyperkitty's Markdown Syntax ============================ - List items are supported - Even nested ones - Headers with `#` aren't supported, mostly due to their widespread use as comments in code shared on mailing lists. - You can **emphasize** text and _itcalize_ them too - Block code and `inline code` works. - URLs work like they usually do. - Images _do work_, but are disabled by default because of their potential for tracking users. They need to be enabled by administrators through a configuration flag. ``` def sample(): return "yay" ``` While text intentionally written for Markdown rending looks pretty good, plain text sometimes isn't as good. I have applied my branch[1] on both the Mailman installations for these two lists (mail.python.org & lists.mailman3.org) Any feedback or bug reports on weird looking stuff is welcome here or directly [on my PR][1] [1]: https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/merge_requests/160 -- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)

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Mandatory First and Last Name
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

Is there a way to make the profile require users to fill out their name? Andrew

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Odd hold message
by Andrew Bernard July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019

I received a very simple post today that was held with the following reason: The message is being held because: Message contains administrivia At your convenience, visit your dashboard to approve or deny the request. What is this all about? What does Mailman consider to be administrivia, of all things, and why is this a reason to hold a message? The only thing in the message I can see is that it mentioned '100 members'. Is Mailman becoming sentient and developing an attitude? Seriously, I'd like to know more about this. Andrew

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Images and rich content in hyperkitty
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 7, 2019

July 7, 2019

I see discussion about this topic here in July. My immediate interest is that I had hoped to move from an antique plain-text only list to modern list software that will support content such as inline images (partly to staunch the flow of subscribers to facebook, simply to be able to post pictures.) Does hyperkitty support this, and where can one read about that? Andrew

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Post confirmation
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 7, 2019

July 7, 2019

Some mailing lists have an intermediary step where when the user posts, an email is received frm the server asking them to confirm posting, or discard it. Some of my users feel this gives them the chance to not post something they may have composed in error, or regret, or changed their mind about something. Is it possible to configure this behaviour (I think from Listserv) in Mailman? Andrew

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Hyperkitty message threading
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 7, 2019

July 7, 2019

I am seeing some anomalies with message threading. without going into detail about the symptoms, first le me ask how does Hyperkitty thread messages? Is it based on the message-id in the header, guaranteed unique, or on the subject header? I appear to have a situation where people reply to a message, and then probably thinking to start a new thread, change the subject field., and them post. The message goes to the original thread. I cant stop people doing this as it seems the vast majority of people all over just hit reply for most things anyway as they are generally too lazy to start a new mail (drives me nuts). With this situation, where the subject has apparently been changed, Hyperkitty adds a not to the top of the post "New subject ...' which is what makes me think the message id is involved. Some of my subscribers say they do this all the time on the old Listserv mailing list and a new thread is started. Any help would be appreciated. It's difficult fro me to manually ressign the incorrectly threaded replies as there is no parent message to attach them to. Andrew

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Show number of subscribers
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 4, 2019

July 4, 2019

Would there be a way to show the number of subscribers to a list in the web UI? The number of participants per message is great, but this would be good too. My users seem very interested in this number. I guess they want to know how big the audience is that is reading their posts. Andrew

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opt in/out for hidden lists
by mailman3＠malevil.cc July 4, 2019

July 4, 2019

Is it possible to change the default value for list visibility? Sometime when my list admins create a new list they forget to check that they should be hidden, I think that should be the default value anyway because its a potentially security issue when a list is unwanted visible...

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Documentation for users for Mailman 3
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com July 4, 2019

July 4, 2019

There exists this: https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%202.1%20Members%20Manual I cant find a version for Mailman 3. Does it exist? If not, i will volunteer to write/update it. Let me know. Andrew

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Waht are all these messages
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 30, 2019

June 30, 2019

My log is flooded with messages like this, with apparent IP address in them: [pid: 1014|app: 0|req: 228/228] 148.251.78.18 () {38 vars in 865 bytes} [Sun Jun 30 13:26:10 2019] GET /accounts/login/?next=/archives/list/jackrail(a)jackrail.org/thread/E5WNO25XQV74CIV4QS7MQ32EZ5EWKLQ7/ => generated 7658 bytes in 9 msecs (HTTP/1.1 200) 6 headers in 331 bytes (1 switches on core 1) What are these? The flow is continuous, many different IP addresses? Andrew

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Reset digest number and volume
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 29, 2019

June 29, 2019

How to do this? After lots of testing on my pre-release beta testing list, I want the first production digest to be reset toVolume 1, Number 1. Andrew

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Monthly job failure
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 26, 2019

June 26, 2019

I see this error oin startup: 3:22:11 [Q] INFO Process-1:1 processing [rebuild_mailinglist_cache_for_month] 13:22:11 [Q] ERROR Failed [rebuild_mailinglist_cache_for_month] - MailingList matching query does not exist. : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django_q-1.0.1-py3.7.egg/django_q/cluster.py", line 377, in worker res = f(*task['args'], **task['kwargs']) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/HyperKitty-1.2.3-py3.7.egg/hyperkitty/tasks.py", line 79, in _rebuild_mailinglist_cache_for_month mlist = MailingList.objects.get(name=mlist_name) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.1.9-py3.7.egg/django/db/models/manager.py", line 82, in manager_method return getattr(self.get_queryset(), name)(*args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.1.9-py3.7.egg/django/db/models/query.py", line 399, in get self.model._meta.object_name hyperkitty.models.mailinglist.MailingList.DoesNotExist: MailingList matching query does not exist. Latest build versions of everything. Any pointers? Andrew

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SECRET_KEY is not defined. Aborting.
by Steven Jones June 26, 2019

June 26, 2019

8><--- root@debian-mailman-001:/opt/mailman/docker-mailman# docker run maxking/mailman-web:0.2 SECRET_KEY is not defined. Aborting. root@debian-mailman-001:/opt/mailman/docker-mailman# 8><--- I keep getting this, I have attempted to set a SECRET_KEY in /opt/mailman/web/settings_local.py and, docker-compose.yaml No joy, can you tell me how I set this variable? or where I get it from? is it pre-generated somewhere? your documentation just does not explain this that I can find, despite even a lot of time googling. PS I have assumed the hyprekitty key is something I set myself, just like a manual password sort of thing, again there is no explanation I can find that explains how to do this properly either. Can this documentation be improved please. To get anywhere at all I finally found this, https://xiaoxing.us/2018/01/01/deploy-mailman-3-on-aws-using-docker/ So I have core running OK I think, ====== root@debian-mailman-001:/opt/mailman/docker-mailman# docker ps CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES 99f434ef3664 maxking/mailman-core:0.2 "docker-entrypoint.s…" 2 hours ago Up About an hour 8001/tcp, 8024/tcp mailman-core 4c0e165d3a90 postgres:9.6-alpine "docker-entrypoint.s…" 2 hours ago Up About an hour 5432/tcp dockermailman_database_1 root@debian-mailman-001:/opt/mailman/docker-mailman# ====== regards Steven

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Confirmation for subscriptions
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 24, 2019

June 24, 2019

Suddenly stopped working. For all the lists I have created, suddenly the confirm setting is ignored for subscriptions and users are subscribed right away. This only happened after I added another domain - surely that can't be the cause? Where to look to troubleshoot this? Andrew

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Unable to download attachments from HyperKitty
by Derek Lambert June 24, 2019

June 24, 2019

I’m having an issue downloading attachments from HyperKitty. The download begins as expected, but never progresses. Eventually it times out. I imagine the browser is expecting data matching the content-length header, but never receives it. Inspecting the contents of the download file reveals (address varies): <memory at 0x7f148fcb9588> I’ve been able to work around the issue with the following patch: --- env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/hyperkitty/models/email.py.orig 2018-12-06 21:38:39.544448735 +0000 +++ env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/hyperkitty/models/email.py 2018-12-06 23:01:39.923239421 +0000 @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ def get_content(self): folder = self._get_folder() if folder is None: - return self.content + return self.content.tobytes() filepath = os.path.join(folder, str(self.counter)) if not os.path.exists(filepath): logger.error("Could not find local attachment %s for email %s", I haven't been able to replicate the issue with the HyperKitty tests, presumably the issue is somewhere in the Django <-> uwsgi <-> nginx stack. My configs are based on mailman-suite and maxking/docker-mailman. I've tried stripping out all the performance tweaks from my uwsgi and nginx configs, but no change. Versions: HyperKitty 1.2.1 Postorius 1.2.3 Django 2.1.7 nginx 1.14.1 uwsgi 2.0.18 Python 3.7.2 Has anyone come across this before? Derek Lambert

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Unwanted indent on first line of post in hyperkiity
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 23, 2019

June 23, 2019

I don't want hyperkiitty adding an unasked for indent on the first line of all posts. How can one turn that off? Andrew

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Mail not going out
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 22, 2019

June 22, 2019

What process handles the sending of the mail out to subscribers? My new installation suddenly stopped sending. Apologies for so many newbie questions. Andrew

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How to download attachments from hyperkitty
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 22, 2019

June 22, 2019

Not working - download just waits forever after a few bytes in the browser. Could it be that you have to set hyperkitty to store attachments in the filesystem, and configure uwsgi to serve them as static files? Is that what the hyperkitty setting HYPERKITYY_ATTACHMENT_FOLDER is for? If this is so, can anybody show the fragment of uwsgi configuration required? Andrew

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change preferred language of list
by mailman3＠malevil.cc June 22, 2019

June 22, 2019

hey, I am not very experienced with the mailman shell and configuration. I configured mailman using the mailman.cnf and I know that I can use "mailman conf" to get all the parameters. But now I would like to change the preferred language of a list. Because despite I set [mailman] default_language: de even new lists will still have "en" as preferred language. I checked this just by reading the $language variable in a list template. How can I change the list parameters and how can I make mailman to use the german language files? I found the files, so I know they exist, but still need to make mailman use them...

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join via webform
by mailman3＠malevil.cc June 21, 2019

June 21, 2019

Is there a simple possibility to join a mailinglist besider writing a mail to list-join(a)example.com? I know you can register and then join a list, but thats only possible for public lists and I would like to have such a very simple webform for a specific list where you just enter your email address and then get the confirmation mail. I guess there was something like this with mailman2

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Please help - Held message is crashing mailman.
by Alex King June 21, 2019

June 21, 2019

Hi, I've used mailman a lot in the past, and decided to install mailman3 in a recent install. I'm unimpressed so far, it seems buggy. Running on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS from packages, mailman3 3.1.1-9, mailman3-web 0+20170523-14, python-django-postorius 1.1.2-3. After a few messages, I now can't go to the "Held Messages" in postorius, I get a 500 error. I tried to interact on the command line, but could not work out how. Reading https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/install.html and https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/commands/docs/shell.ht…, I tried: # mailman shell Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell >>> command = cli('mailman.commands.cli_withlist.shell') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.6/code.py", line 91, in runcode exec(code, self.locals) File "<console>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'cli' is not defined I did a lot of reading of the manual and googled, but I have no idea where the cli object is supposed to come from.....? The documentation is confusing. Anyway, after some trial and error, i found: # mailman shell Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell >>> list_manager = getUtility(IListManager) >>> m=list_manager.get("committee(a)[redacted].org") >>> from mailman.interfaces.requests import IListRequests >>> requests = IListRequests(m) >>> [x for x in requests.held_requests][0].id 8 >>> requests.get_request(8) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.6/code.py", line 91, in runcode exec(code, self.locals) File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/database/transaction.py", line 85, in wrapper return function(args[0], config.db.store, *args[1:], **kws) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/model/requests.py", line 120, in get_request result.data_hash, expunge=False) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/database/transaction.py", line 85, in wrapper return function(args[0], config.db.store, *args[1:], **kws) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/model/pending.py", line 138, in confirm value = json.loads(keyvalue.value) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/__init__.py", line 354, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 339, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/json/decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx) json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 1 (char 0) It seems something was written out to disk that can't be read in for some reason (assuming a json object on disk?) How do I debug this further? How do I find the json being decoded? Any help would be appreciated. (I found mailman2 just worked, I was happy with that.) (My colleague posted a bug about this I believe but I don't have the link to that.) Thanks, Alex

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mass invitation
by mailman3＠malevil.cc June 20, 2019

June 20, 2019

in postorius there is just the option to make a mass subscription, in mailman2 there was also the possibility to just invite users, so they need to click a link when they really want to join the list. Is this also available in mailman3/postorius?

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Importing mbox files into hyperkitty since date
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 20, 2019

June 20, 2019

What is the syntax for the data in the --since argument to hyperkitty_import> --since SINCE SINCE is not very informative. :-) Guessing, using '1/1/1970' does not seem to achieve anything, and gives no error.

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Hyperkitty Archives - Sidebar years/months
by Enrique Terrazas June 20, 2019

June 20, 2019

Hello, I’m going through importing archives from mm2 to mm3. One of the lists I’ve imported has messages going back to 11/2013. I was able to successfully import the lists settings using: mailman import21 lists(a)domain.com<mailto:lists@domain.com> /path/to/list/config.pck This successfully imported lists owners, moderators, subscribers, & settings. I then imported the messages with the following command: python /path/to/manage.py hyperkitty_import -l list(a)domain.com<mailto:list@domain.com> /path/to/list.mbox —since 10/01/2013 I used that date because it is older than the first message sent to the list: 11/13/2013 And followed that up with the update index command: python /path/to/manage.py update_index_one_list list(a)domain.com<mailto:list@domain.com> This successfully imported all the messages from 11/13/2013 through 09/30/2018. Here is where I’m facing two issues: * Messages from October 2018 were not imported * The sidebar only shows the year 2018. Fdasfds If I modify the URL to go to https://my.domain.org/hyperkitty/list/list@domain.com/2013/11 the archived emails show up fine. October 2018 shows two test messages I’ve sent but not any of the messages from October 2018 that should have been imported. Is there something additional that needs to be done to show the previous years and months in the sidebar? Thanks, Enrique

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Flushing/syncing hyperkitty with mailman
by Eric Abrahamsen June 20, 2019

June 20, 2019

I've got mailman running on Ubuntu 14.04, with systemd service files to govern the mailman and hyperkitty qcluster processes. I notice in the systemctl status call for the qcluster command that there are a bunch of errors like: [Q] ERROR Failed [rebuild_thread_cache_votes] - Thread matching query does not exist. [Q] INFO Process-1:1 processing [rebuild_email_cache_votes] [Q] ERROR Failed [rebuild_email_cache_votes] - Email matching query does not exist. [Q] INFO Process-1:2 processing [rebuild_thread_cache_votes] [Q] ERROR Failed [rebuild_thread_cache_votes] - Thread matching query does not exist. [Q] INFO Process-1:3 processing [rebuild_email_cache_votes] [Q] ERROR Failed [rebuild_email_cache_votes] - Email matching query does not exist. [Q] INFO Process-1:4 processing [rebuild_thread_cache_votes] [Q] ERROR Failed [rebuild_thread_cache_votes] - Thread matching query does not exist. Is there something more I should be doing to sync hyperkitty's database with mailman? I've got the crontab file in place, and that appears to be running without error. Anything else? Thanks, Eric

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Django error - External IP
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 20, 2019

June 20, 2019

I am seeing this error frequently: Subject: [Django] ERROR (EXTERNAL IP): Internal Server Error: /archives/list/jackrail(a)list.jackrail.org/message/new Internal Server Error: /archives/list/jackrail(a)list.jackrail.org/message/new Error at /archives/list/jackrail(a)list.jackrail.org/message/new error 14 from memcached_get(:2:User:11:subscriptions) Request Method: GET Request URL: https://list.jackrail.org/archives/list/jackrail@list.jackrail.org/message/… ... followed by many many pages of settings information, none of which is informative to me. What does this signify? I am trying to bring my list to a go live state, but this does not bode well. I can send the full diagnostic (long) if need be. Andrew

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problems in setting up mailman3 containers.
by Steven Jones June 20, 2019

June 20, 2019

Hi, Trying to setup the 2 mailman3 containers, they fail to start, config and failure messages are, ======== [root@rhel8-svr-001 mailman]# pwd /opt/mailman [root@rhel8-svr-001 mailman]# !269 more core/mailman-extra.cfg # mailman-extra.cfg [mta] incoming: mailman.mta.postfix.LMTP outgoing: mailman.mta.deliver.deliver lmtp_host: 172.19.199.2 lmtp_port: 8024 smtp_host: 172.19.199.1 smtp_port: 25 configuration: /etc/postfix-mailman.cfg [mailman] site_owner: steven(a)xx.co.nz SECRET_KEY: testing123 [root@rhel8-svr-001 mailman]# !271 more web/settings_local.py SECRET_KEY: testing123 [root@rhel8-svr-001 mailman]# !272 podman run mailman-core DATABASE_URL is not defined. Using sqlite database... No MTA environment variable found, defaulting to Exim HYPERKITTY_API_KEY not defined, please set this environment variable... exiting... [root@rhel8-svr-001 mailman]# !273 podman run mailman-web SECRET_KEY is not defined. Aborting. [root@rhel8-svr-001 mailman]# ========= Could really do with some examples of these files as well... regards Steven

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join via webform
by mailman3＠malevil.cc June 19, 2019

June 19, 2019

Is there a simple possibility to join a mailinglist besider writing a mail to list-join(a)example.com? I know you can register and then join a list, but thats only possible for public lists and I would like to have such a very simple webform for a specific list where you just enter your email address and then get the confirmation mail. I guess there was something like this with mailman2

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howto reallow a banned email ?
by Nicolas Pettiaux June 19, 2019

June 19, 2019

Hello, By mistake a user has been banned to post to mailman list. How can I allow him not only to post but also to become a member of a list ? I have not found any info on the web, or I have been unable to search correctly. Much thanks, Nicolas -- Nicolas Pettiaux - PhD - nicolas(a){educode,pettiaux}.be - Président de Educode asbl Informer, former et susciter la réflexion des acteurs du monde de l'enseignement face aux évolutions d'un monde numérique - http://2019.educode.be & http://2018.educode.be

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Do not show archives to public
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 19, 2019

June 19, 2019

Is there a way to have list archives only visible to list subscribers? Presently, they are world visible - unless I have configured my site incorrectly.

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Domain owner functionality?
by Derek Lambert June 14, 2019

June 14, 2019

I noticed there's a "domain_owners" table in the mailman core database. If I add a user and domain id to this table will it grant the user owner permissions for all lists in a domain? Will they be able to create lists? Thanks! Derek

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Invalid FilterAction: discard. Treating as discard
by Henrik Rasmussen June 12, 2019

June 12, 2019

Having set the Filter content to Yes - regardless of other setting in the "Alter Messages" tab, make a HTML message come out empty. I can replicate this on my test list. I have tried debugging by changing each setting one-by-one and sending the user's mail, but no change makes the mail come out with a content. However setting "Filter content" to "no" makes the mail come out okay. With "Filter content" set to "Yes", sending another HTML mail is okay, so something in the user's mail may not be right, but I wonder why setting "Filter content" to no "solves" the problem. Afte all this setting is switching all other settings on and off, so I can't just ask the user to turn it off. May 06 11:53:32 2019 (33) ACCEPT: <250E794B36C1E646AF3D81E1F15348C79DA8CA83(a)P2KITMBX06WC03.unicph.domain> May 06 11:53:32 2019 (37) [LISTNAME](a)lists.example.com invalid FilterAction: discard. Treating as discard May 06 11:53:32 2019 (37) <250E794B36C1E646AF3D81E1F15348C79DA8CA83(a)P2KITMBX06WC03.unicph.domain> discarded by "default-posting-pipeline" pipeline handler "mime-delete": After content filtering, the message was empty May 06 17:27:35 2019 (33) ACCEPT: <250E794B36C1E646AF3D81E1F15348C79DA8CAEC(a)P2KITMBX06WC03.unicph.domain> May 06 17:27:35 2019 (37) [LISTNAME](a)lists.example.com invalid FilterAction: discard. Treating as discard May 06 17:27:35 2019 (37) <250E794B36C1E646AF3D81E1F15348C79DA8CAEC(a)P2KITMBX06WC03.unicph.domain> discarded by "default-posting-pipeline" pipeline handler "mime-delete": After content filtering, the message was empty /Henrik Rasmussen

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Postorius performance with over 1000 pending users
by Nick W June 11, 2019

June 11, 2019

I've got a couple things I need help with: The Symptom and The Problem. The Symptom: Postorius has gotten quite slow to load, taking more than 30s to load the Subscription Requests tab. Having zero pending subscription requests (I'm on v1.2.5), I started investigating unconfirmed subscriptions. I followed the commands from here[1] and got this: mailman shell -l your.list.id util = getUtility(IPendings) print(len(list(util.find(mlist=m,pend_type='subscription')))) 1816 Wow, 1816 pending subscription requests. I can say for certain that my list is not popular so these requests must have been submitted by bots. Let's get there in The Problem. How can I "purge" this list? I'm willing to assume that none of these requests are valid and would reject all unconfirmed user requests. The Problem: How might this activity be happening? Running cat /opt/mailman/core/var/logs/mailman.log | grep POST returns a lot of 202 and 409 responses for `POST /3.1/members`. Could it be that these requests are being submitted through Postorius? I'd assume there would be some sort of honeypot input to prevent abuse. I'll continue investigating and follow up with any insight I can on the cause of The Problem. Thanks, Nick [1]: https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/message…>

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WSGI: gunicorn and uwsgi
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 9, 2019

June 9, 2019

Using the Ubuntu 19 packages for all the mailman suite, uwsgi is the Python WSGI server included. I have now switched over to a full build from current source from gitlab, following Mark Sapiro's excellent instructions. It would appear that the current code has the use of gunicorn built in. Is gunicorn the preferred way now to run the mailman Django apps? Is it worth spending time converting everything to use uwsgi, or should I go with the flow and use gunicorn? What are the advantages of gunicorn over uwsgi?

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Help with installing Postorius and Hyperkitty on Ubuntu 19
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 9, 2019

June 9, 2019

I'm new to Mailman. I have a Ubuntu 19 production server. I attempted to get Mailman 3 and the web components going with the system packages, but I encountered a few showstopper errors (such as indexing not working at all) which I know have been fixed in the codebase. To that end I erased my installation, and installed mailman from the gitlab source. That all works much more nicely now and I feel I have a lot more control of the layout of all the files (the various Ubuntu packages smear the parts all over the place, confusingly). Now I want to get Postorius and Hyperkitty going again, independently of Ubuntu packages. I would like to run Postorius and Hyperkitty under one Django project. So I downloaded the git source for mailman_web. I do not know if this is the right way to install. I am partially familiar with Django, but to come to the point, I have no idea once having obtained the source from git how to setup and install the project, where it lives in the filesystem, and so on. Are there any pointers to help in this area? The very nice readthedocs format files for Postorius and Hyperkitty are very silent on basic matters like this, which is not of much help! The git README files also define a new level of brevity. I need some initial hand holding here. If any help is forthcoming, such as links to more full documentation for newbies to Mailman, I would be most grateful.

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Daily Cronjob fails
by Stefan Tatschner June 8, 2019

June 8, 2019

Hey hey, I applied a recent Update from Debian Buster, und this night a received an email about a failing cronjob. The traceback can be reproduced using: # sudo -u www-data flock -n /var/run/mailman3-web/cron.daily /usr/share/mailman3-web/manage.py runjobs daily ERROR OCCURED IN DAILY JOB: sync_mailman (APP: hyperkitty) START TRACEBACK: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) psycopg2.IntegrityError: null value in column "description" violates not-null constraint DETAIL: Failing row contains (2, hb-events(a)hackbrettl.de, hb-events, null, [hb-events] , 1, 2015-10-22 09:54:53.684306+00, hb-events.hackbrettl.de). The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django_extensions/management/commands/runjobs.py", line 36, in runjobs job().execute() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/hyperkitty/jobs/sync_mailman.py", line 35, in execute sync_with_mailman() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/hyperkitty/lib/mailman.py", line 131, in sync_with_mailman mlist.update_from_mailman() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/hyperkitty/models/mailinglist.py", line 192, in update_from_mailman self.save() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 808, in save force_update=force_update, update_fields=update_fields) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 838, in save_base updated = self._save_table(raw, cls, force_insert, force_update, using, update_fields) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 905, in _save_table forced_update) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 955, in _do_update return filtered._update(values) > 0 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 667, in _update return query.get_compiler(self.db).execute_sql(CURSOR) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 1204, in execute_sql cursor = super(SQLUpdateCompiler, self).execute_sql(result_type) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 899, in execute_sql raise original_exception File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/models/sql/compiler.py", line 889, in execute_sql cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 94, in __exit__ six.reraise(dj_exc_type, dj_exc_value, traceback) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/utils/six.py", line 685, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py", line 64, in execute return self.cursor.execute(sql, params) django.db.utils.IntegrityError: null value in column "description" violates not-null constraint DETAIL: Failing row contains (2, hb-events(a)hackbrettl.de, hb-events, null, [hb-events] , 1, 2015-10-22 09:54:53.684306+00, hb-events.hackbrettl.de). END TRACEBACK Appearently there is something wrong with the database. Is there anything what I can do about this? Running the migrations doesn't help: # sudo -u www-data flock -n /var/run/mailman3-web/cron.daily /usr/share/mailman3-web/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. Thanks! Stefan

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Import Archives using Docker Image
by brian＠emwd.com June 7, 2019

June 7, 2019

I want to test out importing a 2.1 archive into a Mailman 3.2 list. I am using maxking's docker images for MM3. How would I go about importing the mbox file? I don't think the following commands would work on a Docker installation of MM3: $ python manage.py hyperkitty_import -l foo-list(a)example.com $var_prefix/archives/private/foo-list.mbox/foo-list.mbox $ python manage.py update_index_one_list foo-list(a)example.com I am not sure how to go about doing this within Docker. Thanks for any assistance, Brian

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Hyperkitty Authorization Required
by andrew.bernard＠gmail.com June 6, 2019

June 6, 2019

Nearly there configuring my first Mailman 3 installation with Postorius and Hyperkiity. This issue eludes me: When trying to start a new thread in the archive, we have: HyperKitty failure on https://list.jackrail.org/hyperkitty/api/mailman/archive: <html><title>Auth required</title><body> <h1>Authorization Required</h1></body></html> (401) I can access this URL just fine" https://list.jackrail.org/hyperkitty/api/ Where do we look to solve this issue?

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Hope for Mailman 3.X in cPanel
by Cold Kayak June 6, 2019

June 6, 2019

Hi, it appears that cPanel is interested in supporting MailMan 3.X! See - https://features.cpanel.net/topic/upgrade-to-mailman-3-0#comment-54870 <https://features.cpanel.net/topic/upgrade-to-mailman-3-0#comment-54870> "We’re hoping to work with the Mailman folks at some point in the future to accomplish this goal." Hopefully this happens sooner than later. regards, Edmond

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Changing default message limit (max_message_size)
by roger＠reasonal.com May 30, 2019

May 30, 2019

Right, me again. I'm so close to having what I need up and running ... but a showstopper is the max message size that triggers a moderate in it. 40kB these days is just way small ... unless you're a 1% using text-only email. So found this on list archive: https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/thread/… $ bin/mailman shell -l list(a)example.com // Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell // The variable 'm' is the list(a)example.com // mailing list m.max_message_size = nn // commit() Unfortunately this does not work in the containerised mailman. So I get the container ID and run: docker exec 3373d426996d /usr/local/bin/mailman shell -i test-list(a)iotcouncil.org.za (in the post by Mark it says "-l" but I get "unrecognized argument" -- I assume it should be -i for "interactive"? Either way, it fires up the mailman shell and then throws me straight out back to the command line: Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell The variable 'm' is the test-list(a)iotcouncil.org.za mailing list >>> [root@listman ~]# So that doesn't help...

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Bug - if you change primary email address, you're "semi-subscribed"
by roger＠reasonal.com May 30, 2019

May 30, 2019

Subscribed to the list, sending mails worked. Changed primary email (my company email system adds branding crap that exceeded the 40k limit). Then mails to list simply vanished. Sent mail via UI, suddenly get a "welcome to list" and held message says "The message comes from a moderated member".

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Re: Bug - if you change primary email address, you're "semi-subscribed"
by Roger Hislop May 30, 2019

May 30, 2019

Testing if emails are being delivered to the list …

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