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Re: Mailman3 don't work if aliases are enabled

by Mark Sapiro

On 10/9/20 3:37 PM, Massimo Zappalà wrote: > > If I try to uncomment the last two rows in main.cf > virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_emails.cf, mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_alias_maps.cf > virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_mailbox_maps.cf > The aliases and email messeges works fine but the mailman3's mailinglist don't work. > > How can I solve this? I'm not certain about this. The Postfix log entries for the failed delivery to Mailman may help, but I think you deed to configure an alias domain or domains for your list domain(s). The alias domain is not a real domain and is not in DNS. it is any unused domain name and will be known only to Postfix. I typically use x.example.com where example.com is the real list domain. You can set the alias domain for the real domain in the domains view in Postorius. Then you need to add `hash:/var/lib/mailman3/data/postfix_vmap` to your main.cf virtual_alias_maps setting and run Mailman's `mailman aliases` command to generate the proper /var/lib/mailman3/data/postfix_* files. See <https://docs.mailman3.org/projects/mailman/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/mta.h…>. You may also need to set relay_domains = hash:/var/lib/mailman3/data/postfix_domains -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

5 years, 5 months

Re: mail stuck in "out" queue

by Mark Sapiro

On 12/17/24 13:38, pdw(a)mythic-beasts.com wrote: > > I've now found the SHUNT entries and the exceptions seem related to restarting mailman (see below) so that much makes sense. > > unshunting does indeed restore them, but unfortunately they're now back in the looping state. This behavior always seems related to decorate being unable to get templates for for the message header/footer. Does this list define templates for list.member.regular.header or list.member.regular.footer in Postorius? To rule out a template retrieval issue as the cause, you could try this patch to skip decorating the message. ``` --- a/src/mailman/handlers/decorate.py +++ b/src/mailman/handlers/decorate.py @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ alog = logging.getLogger('mailman.archiver') def process(mlist, msg, msgdata): """Decorate the message with headers and footers.""" + return # Digests and Mailman-craft messages should not get additional headers. if msgdata.get('isdigest') or msgdata.get('nodecorate'): return ``` If you apply that patch and the messages get delivered, albeit without the footer, the issue is definitely in retrieval of templates. You say you have removed the var/templates/list/LIST_ID/* templates, but is there still a var/templates/list/ and a var/templates/list/LIST_ID/ directory and are they searchable by the Mailman user? -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

1 year, 2 months

Re: Can't add emails to accept_these_nonmembers

by Stephen J. Turnbull

Ibiam Chihurumnaya via Mailman-users writes: > I had done the members part in the past, but the issue with it was > I wanted certain members to not receive messages from the list, but > only send to the list. As Mark explained, you can set those members to 'Default Processing' in the moderation option, and to 'No Mail' in the mail options. In that case they or list owners could reset them to receive mail. The alternative is to add the addresses one by one as non-members and set their moderation. In that case they cannot receive mail, although they may be able to subscribe themselves depending on list settings, or an administrator could subscribe them. In both cases the nonmember would remain unless removed by an administrator. In both cases, although you can add members with mass subscription, there are no "mass" operations to update the subscription option or to create non-members in Postorius, you need to do it one by one. You can automate that by using a loop over a list of addresses in Mailman shell, or if you expect to do it more than once, you could create a withlist script to use with the -r option. -- GNU Mailman consultant (installation, migration, customization) Sirius Open Source https://www.siriusopensource.com/ Software systems consulting in Europe, North America, and Japan

2 weeks, 1 day

Re: [Mailman-Developers] How to know the URLs for CURL while getting or modifying the data of mailman 3

by Shashikanth Komandoor

Stephen, Thank you for your response. I am sorry for getting confused between two lists mailman-users and mailman-developers. Developers may be busy and my question may be basic but still there is a space for more politeness at your end to advice me. Apart from that, you have given a lot much of useful information which is really and honestly helpful for me to the maximum extent. Now I shall take the help of members of mailman-users only. @mailman-users@mailman3.org <mailman-users(a)mailman3.org>, Team, I have installed Mailman Version 3.3 and running in production. Our development team developed another application which requires the access of the REST API and do changes over the MM3 DB automatically without manual intervention. That application would be connecting to REST API over http or https protocol To achieve this I have enabled the REST API to run at all the IP addresses of my MM3 Server by editing the mailman/src/mailman/config/schema.cfg file. I was able to run few commands like creation of domains, lists, list configuration changes for testing using the CURL (GET, POST, PATCH, DELTE) and got succeeded. But for every operation I need to write a different URL for CURL command to work. Out of many operations I require, addition of members to a list and removal of members from a list are most important tasks. So, I request herewith, from the URL https://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/rest/docs/rest.html, I could see many URLs but they are executed at python prompt (>>>) only. I require URLs usable at the CURL command. Is there any way I could generate the URLs or any where documented regarding the URLs usable with CURL for the addition and removal of subscribers ? On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:04 PM Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen.fw(a)u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > Shashi, > > This whole thread is off-topic for the developers list. This list is > for development of Mailman, not for teaching people to use it. Read > the whole recommended documentation before you ask busy developers to > tutor you in very basic things. There's a mailman-users(a)mailman3.org > list for users to help each other. All of the Mailman developers who > might be willing to answer your questions are there as well, but there > are also many experienced users, some of whom have experimented with > the REST API who will also help. Please reply there for further > help. (Reply-To is set.) > > That said, there are plenty of URLs in the API documentation. Here's > a hint: search for "dump_json". That function takes an URL. You may > want https: instead of http: in your URLs, and you may need to change > the port from 9001, depending on the configuration of your REST > server. Try it with simple GET requests for information first, such > as for domains or lists. You can also do these requests with an > ordinary web browser, though I don't know what it will do with the > JSON-formatted reply. > > If you don't have domains and lists configured, I suppose the > informational requests will come back as empty JSON objects. It > should be safe to make them. You can either use Postorius to > bootstrap a few example domains, lists, and users, or (the hard way) > figure out how to POST appropriate requests. I don't recommend trying > to update the backend DBMS by hand; the schema is quite complicated. > I don't know how to use curl to update Mailman's databases. That > requires a POST request which I have never done with curl. The POST > request needs to be valid JSON. > > The more I think about this, the less I think your idea of using curl > is worthwhile, because formatting JSON requests by hand is going to be > a real annoyance and a great way to mess up your database with > spurious information. You're really going to want programmatic > support for this. But that's already all available in Python in the > Mailman system. > > It's up to you, but I feel a responsibility to warn you that using > curl is not going to be simpler than learning enough Python to do > these things. > > Regards, > -- Thanks & Regards, Shashi Kanth.K 9052671936

5 years, 10 months

Re: hello， Discussion on how to subscribe to the mailing list

by Stephen J. Turnbull

Mark Sapiro writes: > On 1/16/23 18:55, 朱超 wrote: > > Hi, When I subscribe the email list in Subscription Policy is > > confirm, Some problems happen in here： > > 1.Some mail mua reject send the confirm the message, because the > > length of recipient is too long. for exmaple: > > requirements-confirm+9605556e0b35a5da280c1de0d34a3e6f770f8ea5@domain, > > and the mail mua reject to modify about this. > > The default English template says in part: > > Before you can start using GNU Mailman at this site, you must first > confirm that this is your email address. You can do this by replying to > this message. > > Or you should include the following line -- and only the following > line -- in a message to $request_email: > > confirm $token > > I.e. It gives an alternative method if `reply` doesn't work. You can > provide a custom version of this template with different wording if you > think you can improve it. The problem is the reply address, though. Changing the template to suggest only the "confirm $token" in body method doesn't help people who hit R expecting that should work, especially since many "user fiendly" (misspelling intentional) MUAs don't display the address. Avoiding that requires code changes, I guess? > > 2.It is inconvenient for users to use. Many people will > > mistakenly think that after clicking the subscribe button, it > > will be successful, and they will not process the email. > step, you can set Subscription Policy to Open, but then anyone can > maliciously subscribe third parties to the list. *Please* do not do this if your server is exposed to the Internet. There are bots that search for such servers, and sell lists of them to people who want to DOS mailboxes. You may find yourself banned across the Internet. The only real alternative to confirmation is approval by moderators. I believe Mailman 3 offers that alternative as Mailman 2 did, can't check at the moment. > > Regarding the discussion on the subscription method of the > > mailing list, should we consider optimizing the subscription > > method of the mailing list, for example: > > 1. use the method of sending a verification code to subscribe by > > email，When you receive the verification code sent by the > > mailing list and fill it in again, you can subscribe > > successfully。 > > How is this different from the present method. Just wording. I think they are thinking of the "invite" option that was provided in Mailman 2 mass subscribe (again, I think Mailman 3 retains it but I never ever used it so I don't recall for sure). But it doesn't make sense for a user-initiated interaction. > If you want, you can make > a custom template and include something like: > > Alternatively, you can confirm by going to the URL > > https://www.example.com/mailman3/lists/$list_id/confirm/?token=$token If I understand the OP's PoV correctly, I think I would change the list information page to say "Send a personal invitation to join the list to [email address here]. If you aren't a subscriber, you can invite yourself." And change the word "confirm" in the confirmation template to "subscribe". > We don't include that in the default template because Mailman core > doesn't know if you even have a web UI or how to access it if you > do. We should fix that, at least if the web interface is Postorius (wishlist, assigned to me): https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/1055 @mark https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/901 Maybe we can close this? I'm not sure why it was left open since there's no action proposed for Mailman improvement. > > 2. use the email to send a connection to confirm the > > subscription，People click the link to be redirected to a > > confirmation page to subscribe to the email。 > > See above. Indeed, AFAICS almost everything the OP is suggesting amounts to an identical procedure as far as the Mailman server is concerned, it's just described to the subscriber differently. The one exception is the suggestion to eliminate the confirmation step, and while that is supported, it's quite likely to cause problems for third parties and eventually for the Mailman site unless you have an alternative ground source of truth such as an employee database. Steve

3 years, 1 month

Re: Question about whitlisting a domain for specific mailing list

by Zaheer Abbas

Thanks, Mark & Odhiambo for providing options for the solution. I will try the 'postorius header filters' hacky way as it's more suitable to my requirement, however, if it didn't work as expected, then filtration through exim filter is also an acceptable option. Thanks again for the quick response. On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 8:58 PM Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> wrote: > On 3/30/23 11:07, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > So the MTA option that doesn't involve any regex is better than no? > > Partly it's a matter of taste and possibly a matter of necessity. I.e. a > list admin can do this with header filters and may not have access to > the MTA config. > > Also, it's not clear to me that doing this in Postfix is less > complicated than understanding a regex. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan > > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-users mailing list -- mailman-users(a)mailman3.org > To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-leave(a)mailman3.org > https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.mailman3.org/ > Archived at: > https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/message… > > This message sent to zaheer.psg(a)gmail.com >

2 years, 11 months

Re: Can't subscribe on new site/domain

by Flo

On 10/9/25 17:06, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Odhiambo Washington via Mailman-users writes: > > > You can remedy that by wiping away the packages and installing MM3 > > by following the guide below: > > > > https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html > > @Flo: It is possible to do this safely and preserve your existing > sites and lists. If we can't help you with your existing > installation, we can guide you through this process. The basic idea > is that because almost all the interesting data is in your database or > /etc/mailman3, you can just plug in the new Mailman system, point > things at the right places (probably the file system layout will > change so you'll need to change some things in mailman.cfg, > settings.py, and some related systems like logrotate and systemd). > Usually I avoid installing software directly as there is more maintenance effort than having installed it from OS-packages. In this case I see that I have permanently troubles with this software (OS-packages) so your suggestion is worth to consider. Is there a possibility to export all members including real names. It doesn't work with Postorius, yet, is there another possibility? If I have my user data exported, I could delete everything and start from scratch. Maybe this is the most reasonable ... Flo

5 months

Re: Mailman, etc. upgrade woes and persistent bugs

by Abhilash Raj

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021, at 8:52 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Abhilash Raj writes: > > > The is definitely a bug, caused due to the fact that "Delivery Status" field > > only has two options, "Enabled" and "Disabled". Internally, this field can > > have 4 values, "enabled", "by_user" (maps to "Disabled" in Postorius), > > "by_admin" (means disabled by admin) and "by_bounces" (means > > disabled due to bounces). So, when the value of the field is among > > the last two options, it appears as "unset" with no options selected, > > which unfortunately is also how it looks by default since all options > > are "unset" from start. > > > > The "fix" for this issue would be simply adding a new choice to the > > delivery_status field with a caveat that it is only a Readonly option to > > I don't see why most users would care (there will always be somebody > who cares "just because", of course). For those who don't care, I > expect it will be confusing. I think it's better just to treat all of > the disabled settings as just "disabled" in the UI for members. I don't have any strong opinions on treating all disabled options as just disabled for the user. Would List admins be interested in knowing more details about that or should it be the same for them? I feel they might be interested in such details. Brian mentioned that Affinity actually details explicit value of the delivery_status, so maybe it is useful for them? > > > We could also go a step further and show it on the List's info page > > when their delivery is disabled due to excessive bounce and allow > > the them to re-enable it themselves without admin intervention. > > This is probably a good idea, but in a situation where we know the > problem is excessive bouncing we should caution them that there is > almost certainly a probably with delivery *to their specific address* > and that Mailman and the admins *can do nothing about that*, so if > that isn't fixed they'll just get disabled again. I suppose it would > be good to add that frequently these are due to occasional problems > like disk full that "management" at their site normally takes care of, > so there's little if any harm to just reenabling. Yeah, a link to an FAQ entry in documentation perhaps? I am thinking that most addresses disabled due to bounces would really either be spam subscriptions or abandoned/invalid email addresses that once were working. There would be few with problems with delivery which would want to re-enable as soon as they can, but definitely letting them know that there is an issue with delivery is a good idea. > > > to the list's info page, but I guess that is the first place you'd go to > > debug when you get an email that your delivery was disabled? > > Surely we can help them go directly there? I guess yes, but that brings up the whole discussion about how does Core know about the URLs. Custom templates can help get there easily, but that will not solve the problem, only put the onus on list/server admins to set that on a per-installation basis. Although, we can add "Goto your list subscriptions to re-enable" your subscription. Maybe even a new email command that allows re-enabling subscription without logging into P? > > > https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/issues/470 > > > > I don't know if there are any downsides to letting users re-enable > > their delivery on their own. > > I don't see any myself. Maybe if the list is planning a surprise > party for them? ;-) Oh just Ban them in that case ;-) > There is a specific downside, which is that if you only allow them to > reenable if they disabled it themselves, you have to show them the > other cases. I was initially thinking that maybe we can disable changing the delivery status if it was disabled by an admin ("by_admin" value), but AFAIK, there is really no way to even set that right now and no real use case for that has come up, so I am going to punt on that idea until someone really asks for it with a valid use case ;-) -- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)

5 years, 1 month

Re: How to store additional information about lists?

by Andreas Barth

* Stephen J. Turnbull (turnbull.stephen.fw(a)u.tsukuba.ac.jp) [210530 09:19]: > Mark Sapiro writes: > > On 5/29/21 7:31 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > > > Membership adapter is a Mailman 2 feature that allowed use of an > > > external membership database (such as a corporate LDAP system). I > > > thought it was ported to Mailman 3 but maybe not. > > > Actually, it's not quite that simple. Mailman 2.1 defines a > > MemberAdaptor class, [...]. > > The Mailman 3 analog of this is the IMember interface defined in > > mailman/interfaces/member.py and implemented in mailman/model/member.py > > OK, but for Andi it is "simple" in the sense that he doesn't have an > existing MemberAdapter, so the plan is "Implement the IMember interface". Not sure if this is the right approach, or if it wouldn't be more appropriate to "just" replace the dependency on allauth in postorius, and do all the magic in the frontend only (because that's where people actually subscribe). Whoever subscribes by mail needs some admin action, or some cron job, or is unsupported - for my case the main interface is the web interface, not the email commands. That of course would imply that e.g. cleaning up mailing lists happens by a cron job with rest, but why not? Andi

4 years, 9 months

Re: Is there an option to "disable" a list temporarily? (feature request?!)

by Mark Sapiro

On February 2, 2026 3:26:40 AM PST, Christian Schneider <christian.schneider(a)tu-dortmund.de> wrote: >Hello dear Mailman Team, > >I scanned through the web interface of my mailman instance... >and I did not find an option to disable a list temporarily ("sending" and "access to web interface")... >This might come in handy when a list is abused for sending spams >or when a list owner wants his/her list to be removed... >Instead of removing the list instantly I would disable it for three months first... >(You never know with users... ;-) ) >Preferably I would backup the list (settings and members) and the archives, >but as seen in the discussion there is actually no backup mechanism for lists... > >Is there an option to disable a list (except from resetting passwords and remove/disable mail aliases)? > >If not I'd like to hand this in as a feature request... xD There is an emergency moderation setting. It isn't really what you're asking for, but it might be helpful for spam attacks. As far as backup and restore of lists is concerned, there are issues at <https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/1182> and <https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/issues/13>. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> Sent from my Not_an_iThing with standards compliant, open source software.

1 month, 1 week

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