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Add old email address
by Quanah Gibson-Mount 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

We've recently migrated our project's email lists from mailman2 to mailman3. Given the project has been around for a few decades, many people have used different email addresesses over the years, some of which they no longer have access to. However, it would be useful to still be able to associate those emails with a given account. Is there a way that I can do this as an administrator of the mailman3 system? Thanks, Quanah -- Quanah Gibson-Mount Product Architect Symas Corporation Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: <http://www.symas.com>

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Using REST api to subscribe member
by Brian Carpenter 11 Mar '20

11 Mar '20

I have a development server that only has Mailman core installed on it. I used a virtual environment to do the installation but I did not install Postorius or Hyperkitty as I am currently working on developing a custom u.i. for Mailman 3. My programmer said the following: "I have a problem with mailman on development server ... I was trying to add member to a list using REST api, but to no avail. After I tried all possible and impossible things, I finally looked at the logs. Error I found in log file is: IsADirectoryError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/opt/mailman/mm/venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/mailman/templates' I guess mailman was looking for a template for welcome mail, and failed for some reason. I also guess this has something to do with locale or language settings I tried googling, but couldn't find anything" The log that gave the error was /opt/mailman/mm/logs/mailman.log My programmer tried it on another server that has both Postorius and Hyperkitty working and the api call worked, i.e. added the member to the list and sent out a welcome email. So what else do I need to install to be able to use the api to add members to a list using a non-postorius interface? Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks, Brian

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How to configure a mailing list?
by Patrick Ben Koetter 10 Mar '20

10 Mar '20

Greetings, I do have mailman 3 installed via virtualenv and it is up an running. Now I'd like to create a mailing list, but I can't find any instructions how I should do this. Is there a resource online I missed? If not, can anyone on this list tell me how to do it preferrably using a command line tool? TIA p@rick -- [*] sys4 AG https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG,80333 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer, Wolfgang Stief Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein

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Scrub non digest
by Eduardo Costa 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Hi, on mailman2 used to scrub attachments in non digest, each member received the attachment link, how can I do it on mailman3? Best Regards, -- ...................................... Eduardo Costa Centro de Comunicações - Instituto Politécnico de Bragança raposo at ipb.pt http://www.ipb.pt/~raposo/ ......................................

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Was Mailman3.org down this morning?
by Brian Carpenter 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

I was unable to get to the lists or mailman3.org documentation at all this morning. Brian

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Help on removing moderators
by sean_sullivan＠rhoworld.com 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Hello Mailman-users. I was hoping someone more experienced than myself would be able to help me with an issue I am currently experiencing. I have created a function to add moderators which works great, but I have also been trying to remove moderators as another function, but I am running into some issues. When I use the mailman shell based upon the documentation, it works great: https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailmanclient/en/latest/src/mailmanclien… everything works as expected. However, if I try and bring that in as a function that can be used with mailman withlist, I am consistently getting errors, and being that I am not very experienced in python, it has me scratching my head to say the least. from mailmanclient import Client from mailman.interfaces.member import MemberRole, AlreadySubscribedError from mailman.testing.helpers import subscribe addresses = ['test1(a)example.com', 'test2(a)example.com', 'test3(a)example.com'] client = Client('http://localhost:8001/3.1', 'restadmin', 'restpass') def set_owners(mlist): for email_addr in addresses: try: member = subscribe(mlist, '', email=email_addr, role=MemberRole.owner ) print (member) except AlreadySubscribedError as err: print (err) def remove(mlist): my_list = client.get_list(mlist) # print(my_list.fqdn_listname) # for email_addr in addresses: # my_list.remove_owner(email_addr) The errors I am getting are: ./bin/mailman withlist -r set_owners.remove -l it-test-b(a)lists.rhoworld.com Traceback (most recent call last): File "./bin/mailman", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__ return self.main(*args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main rv = self.invoke(ctx) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailman/bin/mailman.py", line 68, in invoke return super().invoke(ctx) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx)) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke return callback(*args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/click/decorators.py", line 17, in new_func return f(get_current_context(), *args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailman/commands/cli_withlist.py", line 293, in shell r = call_name(dotted_name, m, *run_args) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailman/utilities/modules.py", line 70, in call_name return named_callable(*args, **kws) File "/opt/mailman3/bin/set_owners.py", line 24, in remove my_list = client.get_list(mlist) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailmanclient/client.py", line 347, in get_list 'lists/{0}'.format(fqdn_listname)) File "/opt/mailman3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailmanclient/restbase/connection.py", line 112, in call error_msg, response, None) urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: 404 Not Found So, I am wondering, is it possible to do something like this or am I completely misunderstanding the documentation, and why do I get a 404 here, when in the shell everything works as expected. I know I must be missing something, but cannot for the life of me figure out what that is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sean

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Remove PDF attachents
by Eduardo Costa 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Hello, How do I configure the list to remove attachments of type pdf and others. Best Regards. -- ...................................... Eduardo Costa Centro de Comunicações - Instituto Politécnico de Bragança raposo at ipb.pt http://www.ipb.pt/~raposo/ ......................................

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Mailman web Stopped working after upgrade
by David Krantz 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Hi. I have a VERY strange behaviour. I upgraded mailman3 and mailman web this weekend. It works fine (apart from ARC which don't work correctly in my setup but that is ok). But tonight the web user interface stopped working and I have not been logged in since it worked last time so something very strange is going on. I get the dreadful error message about psycopg2._psycopg is missing although it is installed both in ubuntu and in pip in the venv I run mailman. Mailman core still works fine, it is just Django being flaky. I think that this might be due to some kind of python misfeature where compiled code behaves slightly differently to interpreted code, that might explain the delay in it working initially before breaking. I have no idea of how to solve this. I have tried to uninstall and reinstlall psycopg2 in different versions without any luck. Any ideas? Logs below. I get the following in the web server error log (removing the web things that frankly are not interesting): mod_wsgi (pid=4488): Target WSGI script 'MAILMANROOT/bin/mailman-web20200229.wsgi' cannot be loaded as Python module. mod_wsgi (pid=4488): Exception occurred processing WSGI script 'MAILMANROOT/bin/mailman-web20200229.wsgi'. Traceback (most recent call last): File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/db/backends/postgresql/base.py", line 20, in <module> import psycopg2 as Database File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 50, in <module> from psycopg2._psycopg import BINARY, NUMBER, STRING, DATETIME, ROWID ImportError: No module named 'psycopg2._psycopg' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "MAILMANROOT/bin/mailman-web20200229.wsgi", line 47, in <module> application = get_wsgi_application() File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/core/wsgi.py", line 12, in get_wsgi_application django.setup(set_prefix=False) File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/__init__.py", line 24, in setup apps.populate(settings.INSTALLED_APPS) File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/apps/registry.py", line 114, in populate app_config.import_models() File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/apps/config.py", line 211, in import_models self.models_module = import_module(models_module_name) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 969, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 958, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 665, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/postorius-1.3.2-py3.7.egg/postorius/models.py", line 27, in <module> from django.contrib.auth.models import User File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/contrib/auth/models.py", line 2, in <module> from django.contrib.auth.base_user import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/contrib/auth/base_user.py", line 47, in <module> class AbstractBaseUser(models.Model): File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/db/models/base.py", line 117, in __new__ new_class.add_to_class('_meta', Options(meta, app_label)) File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/db/models/base.py", line 321, in add_to_class value.contribute_to_class(cls, name) File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/db/models/options.py", line 204, in contribute_to_class self.db_table = truncate_name(self.db_table, connection.ops.max_name_length()) File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/db/__init__.py", line 28, in __getattr__ return getattr(connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS], item) File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/db/utils.py", line 201, in __getitem__ backend = load_backend(db['ENGINE']) File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/db/utils.py", line 110, in load_backend return import_module('%s.base' % backend_name) File "/usr/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "MAILMANROOT/venv-3.7_2020/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.10-py3.7.egg/django/db/backends/postgresql/base.py", line 24, in <module> raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading psycopg2 module: %s" % e) django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading psycopg2 module: No module named 'psycopg2._psycopg' Regards // David

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Running customized version of Mailman 3
by Alan Kelm 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Since 2005, our organization has been running a customized version of Mailman 2 with extensions that meet our particular needs. The main novelty is support for /fixed subscription lists/, in which the list members are predetermined (corresponding to a "committee"). Fixed list subscribers are not offered the opportunity to unsubscribe, nor can others add themselves to the list. A further enhancement is /hybrid lists/ which, for example, have both a fixed and opt-in part. (This is implemented as a fixed list residing within an opt-in one in a way which is transparent to users). Our customizations consist of code adjustments (patches) to 23 files. We are considering moving to Mailman 3 and would like to do this in a way which makes it possible to periodically upgrade our installation to the newest Mailman version, without clobbering our customizations. Thus, I do not think that installing via "pip" is the right approach for us. While I'm relatively new to git and GitLab, they seem to be ideally suited to this situation. If I understand the developer documentation correctly, I start out by creating a "fork" and can later "fetch" changes from the master branch and "rebase" to bring them into our branch. I would welcome comments on what we are doing. I also wonder whether others might be interested in support for "fixed lists", if they are done in a way which can be "contributed" back into Mailman. I extend our "thank you" to the developers of Mailman who have provided the robust system which has served us well for 15 years and provides the possibility to extend this into the future. -Alan -- Alan Kelm Manager, Electronic Services Canadian Mathematical Society Tel: +1 (613) 733-2662 ext. 799 Please consider the environment. [cms web link] <https://cms.math.ca/> Alan Kelm Chef, services électroniques Société mathématique du Canada Tél : +1 (613) 733-2662 poste 799 Considérez svp l'environnement.

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Question about members
by Dieter Leupold 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Hi together, short question: is it possible to display the time stamp when members have completed their subscriptions? Thanks a lot for your information! -- Dieter

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