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Re: Post-installation documentation?

by David Newman

On 11/25/21 10:28 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 11/24/21 10:17 PM, David Newman wrote: >> On 11/24/21 2:36 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >>> >>> To import archives run the Django admin command with arguments >>> >>> hyperkitty_import -l alist(a)example.com >>> /path/to/mailman2.1/archives/private/alist.mbox/alist.mbox >> >> Good up to here, but ... hyperkitty_import not found. >> >> This wasn't covered in the venv docs: > > It is covered at > https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/migration.html#upgrade-strategy > > Your issue is probably that the Django admin command you ran is not > accessing your `settings.py`. You may need to do > ``` > export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings > export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/directory/containing/settings.py > ``` > before running the Django admin command. These can also be given as > --settings and --pythonpath options to the Django admin command. Thanks for this. After setting these variables and restarting mailman3 and mailmanweb, the mailman user still cannot find a hyperkitty_import command (neither can root, btw). Again, I installed MM3 and Django/Postorius/Hyperkitty using the venv and web docs previously referenced. On the plus side, all lists now appear in the admin web page. However, lists created from the admin page do not appear in a site list page, even though all lists are in the same site/domain. Finally, how to make these exports permanent? I did not see this covered in the migration doc above. This is on a Debian system where the mailman user's shell is bash. Is this simply a matter of adding environment variables in the mailman user's .bashrc file? Thanks dn

4 years, 2 months

Re: How to best disable message decoration for all lists defined for a domain

by Mark Sapiro

On 3/18/19 2:19 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > Hello list. > > I have read [1] and [2], but I am not quite sure what the recommended > method is to completely disable message headers/footers and subject > modifications for *all* lists tied to a specific domain. Being new to > Mailman 3, I was actually surprised that there are no configuration > switches in the Web UI's settings for mailing lists that allow me to get > rid of unwanted message decorations. It's still a work in progress. You can do it via list settings except for one issue [1]. See that issue and also the post referenced in it's description [2]. To not modify the Subject for a list, on the list's Settings -> List Identity tab, set 'Subject prefix' empty. To not add headers and or footers, you need empty templates for them. These could be created via the list's Templates form except until [1] is fixed, you can't make empty templates. You can use the method in [2] to create empty var/templates/domains/DOMAIN.NAME/LC/list:member:generic:footer.txt and var/templates/domains/DOMAIN.NAME/LC/list:member:generic:header.txt files for the domain and language. Then as long as no list specific templates are created for lists in that domain, no headers or footers will be added. [1] <https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/issues/331> [2] <https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/message…> -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

6 years, 10 months

How to approve moderated messages via email?

by Stephen J. Turnbull

Brian Carpenter writes: > What is the protocol to approve moderated messages via email? I > hope I asking the question correctly. Is this capability important to you or your clients? If so, what is the context? I ask because, as you know, email is rather insecure by default. Making it highly secure would require a lot of effort and sophistication for the moderator, eg, PGP signatures, but there might be intermediate levels that would be appropriate for many lists. For example, the Mailman 2 mechanism. I forget exactly what Mailman 2 does, but if the post to be approved were identified by a one-time key, then a spammer would have to have both the moderation password and the key (presumably by intercepting the moderation email) to approve their own spam. That's still a plausible scenario in principle[1] so I don't much like it (and I bet that's why Barry didn't implement it), but it would be straightforward to implement. Footnotes: [1] Ie, a moderator falls for a phish; then Ms. Cantor[2] probably got everything she needs to spoof approvals. It's questionable whether a spammer would go to the trouble of identifying a moderator, phishing them, reading their mail, and using the email approval to spam for profit, of course. But I can easily imagine it if somebody hates you. On the other hand, if they have your Gmail password, and you use your Gmail account to authenticate to Postorius, they can do it by web, so disallowing email approvals is no help. Security is hard .... Maybe we should implement 2FA for privileged roles. [2] Original "Green Card Lawyer".

5 years

Re: Whitelist non subscriber

by Mark Ziranski

Hi, thanks for your reply. Can I set the moderation_action on this member? I cannot figure out the API command. All posts of other members should be moderated. POST: http://localhost:8001/3.1/members role=nonmember list_id=something.localhost subscriber=someone@localhost moderation_action=accept Reply: Unexpected parameters: moderation_action Thanks. Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 um 22:05 Uhr Von: "Mark Sapiro" <mark(a)msapiro.net> An: mailman-users(a)mailman3.org Betreff: [MM3-users] Re: Whitelist non subscriber On 08/10/2017 07:12 AM, Mark Ziranski wrote: > > I want to whitelist an email address on all lists to bypass moderation. > The email address is not a subscriber. On google I > found accept_these_nonmembers but I do not know how to use it. > Please show me some examples how to whitelist someone(a)example.org. Since this is a Mailman 3 list, I assume you are asking about MM 3. Mailman 3 defines the list attribute accept_these_nonmembers, but it is not currently implemented to actually have any effect, nor is it exposed in Postorius. At the present, I think you would have to create a user record with the address and add that user to all lists with role nonmember and moderation_action 'defer' to apply subsequent tests or 'accept' to unconditionally accept posts from that address. (In MM 2.1, accept_these_nonmembers is a list of addresses and regexps matching addresses whose posts are to be accepted, subject to subsequent tests, and is exposed in the web admin UI) -- 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 [1]https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.mailman3.org / References 1. https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.mailman3.org/

8 years, 6 months

Re: Topics - Tags

by Stephen J. Turnbull

Mark writes: > >> In Mailman 2 there is an Admin web UI for "Topics". Is there > >> such a web UI that can be enabled in Mailman 3 so that the list > >> owners can create topics (tags) in their lists? Do you specifically want topics, that is, a way for users to select subsets of the list posts based on themes set by the administrator? There is (was?) an alternative specification implemented by the Systers, which they call "dynamic sublists". The dynamic sublist feature is controlled by the users (thus "dynamic"), using specially formatted email messages to tag threads as "sublists" and to subscribe to them or suppress them. This was implemented internally by the Systers so it has not been contributed back to the Mailman project, and it was integrated with other Systers-specific features, so it wasn't just a matter of a git merge, If that sounds as good as Mailman-2-style topics to you, I can add/emphasize it on our GSoC task list. (It was on our GSoC task list for several years (maybe still is, I need to check that since contributor applications are now open.) The Systers users are developers themselves, so using email commands isn't much of a burden. I don't think it would be impossible to add sublist control features to Postorius, but it's nontrivial, and might require a second project to implemnt after the initial port. I may add the Mailman-2-style topic feature as well, although in my opinion the dynamic sublist feature is a better match for Mailman's core audience (lists that support open source development organizations). Steve

1 year, 10 months

Re: Turn off social logins?

by tlhackque

I am one who uses Mailman to support a closed community. Social logins are NOT a good thing there. Besides encouraging spam signups (social media accounts are easy to get - just ask the spammers), they tie your site to the privacy and other policies of the providers. This includes that when they authenticate, they also track users and sites. Monetizing the data. Many people find this objectionable. And not auditable. When I tried to use MM3, turning off social logins was one of the first things I tried to configure. It wasn't easy. First I commented out too much, then too little. The resulting errors were opaque. I hope things have improved - at present I keep an eye on MM3, but it's not usable for me at this time. So I may be somewhat behind the times. The admin interface could use an authentication control panel - per site, and per-list. Click to enable/disable the social (password, 2-factor, and other plugin) providers. On the whole, MM3 is far to painful to set up - editing hierarchies of config files assumes a technical person runs the list. Frequently, people who want lists aren't. [X} login with Google [x] login with passwords [x] login with GitHub is comprehensible - the implications may not be, but better to explain policies than how to edit a config file written in a foreign language. There's a big difference between "installing" (that can assume some technical knowledge) and "configuring" (that should not). The former has to do with where you put files, how updates and time-driven events are enabled. The latter is how one expresses one's site policies/preferences. Package managers and MaxKing's containers are "good enough" for installing. "configuring" by config files and extensive wiki searches is not. The persistent echos of issues I raised and appear on the list from others are in the same vein. Cut and paste is not scalable for bulk subscribing thousands of users. Neither is API performance. Or "resent confirmation codes". or... I recognize that replacing a mature technology is hard. MM3 has a lot of potential. It's just not there, for me, yet. On 12-Feb-19 11:11, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Note: I've changed the order of sentences from Torge's post to fit my > responses. > > Torge Riedel writes: > > > I do agree, same here on my side. Lot's of my users are very > > "sensitive" to social media and don't want see them here. > > This is the first I've heard of this. Obviously it's fairly > widespread; *please* speak up if anyone have similar issues that we > haven't addressed. AFAIK all of the currently active Mailman > developers believe that social auth is a GoodThang[tm], so we're > unlikely to DTRT as you see it without your help. > > > I need to migrate from mailman2 to mailman3 and was wondering why > > social accounts are enabled by default > > By default Mailman 3 is social media: you have a profile, you can be > searched in the indicies of the archives, and so on. The large auth > providers provide more secure authentication, and a lot of convenience > for users who have such accounts already. They also take some > administrative burden off the list and site managers when people lose > their passwords and forget what their subscription address is, and > similar scenarios. Clearly, these are not universally-valued > features, but I think that they justify the current defaults. > > > and are difficult to disable. > > They're easy enough to disable (easy to recognize and just add a hash > character in front), since you have to edit settings_local.py to > install anyway. If you're using a packaged version and the package > configuration utility doesn't handle it, there's nothing we can do > about it. The distro will have to deal with that. > > It should be better documented, I imagine (haven't checked yet). > > > I propose something like an additional setting listing the enabled > > social accounts. > > Do you mean in the Postorius administration interface? If so, do you > want it by-site, by-domain, or by-list? ("You" is everybody who wants > to disable social auth, not just Torge!) > > If you mean in settings_local.py, I suggested something similar > earlier. It's not obvious it would be easy to do (sometimes these > things are order-dependent, though that's bad practice). > > > And if the admin is setting this to an empty value in the > > settings_local.py everything is disabled > > Because the settings are a Python module, this is the way > settings_local.py works anyway. That's why Mark suggested editing > INSTALLED_APPS. > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- This communication may not represent my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed.

7 years

Re: Internal Server Error, Need 2 values to unpack in for loop; got 1

by Elias Rudberg

After some more digging into this I found a way to reproduce it using a much simpler URL, like the following (but with the real name instead of example.org) https://example.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/?items=x The error comes when Django is trying to process the template django-mailman3/django_mailman3/templates/django_mailman3/paginator/pagination.html which contains two for-loops of the following kind: {% for key, value in request.GET.items %} [... doing something with key and value here ...] {% endfor %} It seems like Django then gets confused by the different "items" variables involved, I think the value from the "?items=x" part of the request URL gets used instead of the "request.GET.items" (both are called "items" but they contain different things. I don't know if the for-loops in that template could be done differently to avoid this. There is something similar at https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/views/templates/technical… where the corresponding for-loop looks like this instead: {% for k, v in request_GET_items %} [...] {% endfor %} So there they write "request_GET_items" instead of "request.GET.items" for some reason. I don't know if doing it like that is possible in case of the mailman template, just mentioning it because it looks like it could be another way to achieve the same thing. I wrote a question about this in the Django forum also, here: https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/getting-error-need-2-values-to-unpack-in-… Hoping for an answer there to help figure out if this should be seen as a bug in Django or not. / Elias

1 year, 6 months

Re: Migrating mailman3 to latest ubuntu lts

by Mark Sapiro

On 12/18/23 6:24 AM, Helio Loureiro wrote: > Hi, > > Indeed it was the configuration. It was placed into > /etc/mailman3/mailman-web.py. After a I changed to > /etc/mailman3/settings.py a few things advanced a little bit more. > > I had to figure out how to fix mysqlclient installation since there isn't a > mention about it and the simple "pip install mysqclient" was breaking with > pkg-config issues. But it did work at the end. > > Now I can see further messages on mailman3-web than before. > > (venv) mailman@new-server ~ (v3.3.9)> mailman-web migrate > System check identified some issues: > > WARNINGS: > account.EmailAddress: (models.W036) MariaDB does not support unique > constraints with conditions. > HINT: A constraint won't be created. Silence this warning if you don't care > about it. > account.EmailAddress: (models.W043) MariaDB does not support indexes on > expressions. > HINT: An index won't be created. Silence this warning if you don't care > about it. > Operations to perform: > Apply all migrations: account, admin, auth, contenttypes, > django_mailman3, django_q, hyperkitty, postorius, sessions, sites, > socialaccount > Running migrations: > Applying account.0004_alter_emailaddress_drop_unique_email...Traceback > (most recent call last): I'm not sure why there would be an issue with this migration, but there is a possible compatibility issue depending on how you installed things. django-mailman3<=1.3.11 is not compatible with django-allauth>=0.58. In your venv, try ``` pip install django-allauth\<0.58 ``` -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

2 years, 1 month

Re: moving lists to another server

by Odhiambo Washington

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 7:56 AM Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen.fw(a)u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > Odhiambo Washington writes: > > > The idea is to (if possible) not change anything at all. I will be > > serving the list using the original domain. > > Fine. I just didn't want to assume anything. > > > I am hoping that should not be necessary. > > It's not. That's one of the major things that MM3 does that MM2 does > not: handle multiple domains properly. > > > I actually had thought it wouldn't be complex doing this until I > > sat down and said wait - there is a DB involved :) > > > 3. (If the DB engines are different) Dump both databases in text > > > format (ie, scripts of SQL commands). Check to see how they > > > differ. > > > > > > > The DB is MySQL. My running setup uses MariaDB. I am not getting what > you > > mean here by how they differ. > > You didn't say that before. I tend to assume PostgreSQL because > that's what I use. > > I don't know if MySQL and MariaDB have different features that have > different syntax, etc. That's what you're looking for. Any commands > that are *not SQL* used to configure the database engine itself (for > example the utf8mb4 parameter which MySQL has but PostgreSQL does not, > does MariaDB need it?) Also any non-standard SQL stuff (mostly around > varchar/text types I think). > I use the utf8mb4 character set as default, unless something wants a different one. MySQL and MariaDB are almost similar. I have encountered very few significant differences since I switched to MariaDB. > 4. Adapt the foreign database to its new environment with search and > > > replace. > > > > If going with what I have mentioned above, is this step still > > necessary? > > Isn't one installation using 'mailman' and 'mailmanweb' databases, > while the other only 'mailman'? You'll need to deal with that at > least I suppose. > This is true. However, I was hoping that I could merge the two foreign DBs into one. I am yet to test it though. > > > 5. (Optional if your name is "Daredevil") Create a new Mailman suite > > > install using your current configs, preferably in a new VM or set > > > of containers. > > > > I was thinking about this as one way of testing the situation, much > > as it is quite involving. > > Fred Brooks famously put it this way: "Build one to throw away. You > will anyway. The only question is whether you deliver the first > version to the customer." ;-) > I had to Google who he was :-) > Suppose I just do: > > 1. Create the new list on my server using the inherited domain and > > configure it appropriately, > > 2. Configure Django to handle the different domains (there is something > > that I am yet to understand here around SITE_ID when you have multiple > > sites!) > > You just add them in the Django admin page. Problems come in when you > delete the original example.com placeholder domain. I think you > probably need to add SITE_ID=0 to settings.py so the Django figures > out the site from the HTTP header rather than just assuming it's the > same Postorius site for all lists. > In my case, I did not delete the original example.com. I finally get to use SITE_ID=0. I suppose that it should be accompanied by FILTER_VHOST=True > > 3. Extract the users from the list and subscribe them afresh (I can > > shoot an email to let them know the ML had to be moved so they can > > set their preferences again) > > 4. Import the archives of the list > > I should more or less achieve the migration, no? > > I think that should work. > I am going to try this method. It looks safer for me. > > What about setting up on /opt/mailman2 a complete replica of the > > list? That'd be the real "Daredevil" :) > > This will also work, I'm sure. But we'd be embarrassed after going to > the trouble of making Mailman 3 handle multiple domains. Also you'd > need separate instances of Mailman running, with their own > /etc/mailman3-1 and /etc/mailman3-2, and more important you'd double > the RSS and VM requirements by running two instances. > I also will need to have extra macros, routers, and transports for Exim. This method is untenable as it complicates life. -- 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]

2 years, 2 months

Messages disappearing into hole??

by Ruth Ivimey-Cook

Folks, I have been trying to set up a mailing list that is mostly for message distribution, so there is a single sender of messages and multiple receivers, but the receivers are moderated. I wouldn't mind receiver messages being explicitly rejected but that's not an issue for now. I looked around the interface and decided to set up the sender as a non-member, as that appeared to permit them to be "special" and outside of the normal access rules for the list. Before I did that I could send a message from this sender and that would be sent to me as list owner for moderation, so both incoming (from my mailserver) and outgoing (to it) can be completed. However, with a non-member who is auto-accepted the message is passed from my mailserver to mailman and then disappears. I cannot find anything in the logs to indicate what happened next. I have tried setting the default non-member policy to both 'hold' and 'default' with no change in that behaviour. The logs for the mailserver show the message being sent to mailman; mailman's "smtp.log" shows an LMTP message being received ok, and then nothing. Any ideas how to find out what is going on? I can share config if that helps but not sure what would be useful. As a side-issue, at one point I added a regex matching the sender address to the acceptable members list, but find that I cannot now delete it (using postorius): If I delete the field and Save, it returns on page refresh. Regards, Ruth -- Software Manager & Engineer Blog: http://www.ivimey.org/blog LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/ruthivimeycook/

5 years, 5 months

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