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Mass subscribe gives HTTP Error 500 when using custom template

by Jeffrey D

Hi, I have some issues with the Mass Subscribe option on Mailman 3.2.1. When using a custom "The notice sent to a member when they are subscribed to the mailing list." template, Postorius will throw an exception after pushing the "Subscribe Users" button on Mass Subscribe. In the web interface you will see a red notification bar with the text: "HTTP Error 500: b'A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator.'". And in the Mailman.log you will see the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.7/wsgiref/handlers.py", line 137, in run self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/database/transaction.py", line 50, in wrapper rtn = function(*args, **kws) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/rest/wsgiapp.py", line 216, in __call__ return super().__call__(environ, start_response) File "falcon/api.py", line 215, in falcon.api.API.__call__ File "falcon/api.py", line 189, in falcon.api.API.__call__ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/rest/members.py", line 266, in on_post pre_approved=pre_approved) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/app/subscriptions.py", line 520, in register list(workflow) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/app/workflow.py", line 69, in __next__ return step() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/app/subscriptions.py", line 326, in _step_do_subscription self.member = self.mlist.subscribe(self.subscriber) 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/mailinglist.py", line 494, in subscribe notify(SubscriptionEvent(self, member)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/zope/event/__init__.py", line 31, in notify subscriber(event) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/app/membership.py", line 169, in handle_SubscriptionEvent send_welcome_message(mlist, member, member.preferred_language) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/app/notifications.py", line 52, in send_welcome_message 'list:user:notice:welcome', mlist, language=language.code)) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/model/template.py", line 188, in get name, lookup_context, **substitutions) 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/template.py", line 109, in get contents = protocols.get(actual_uri, **auth) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/utilities/protocols.py", line 38, in get response = requests.get(url, timeout=REQUEST_TIMEOUT, **kws) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 75, in get return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 60, in request return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 533, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 646, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 516, in send raise ConnectionError(e, request=request) requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=8000): Max retries exceeded with url: /postorius/api/templates/list/<MAILINGLIST>/list:user:notice:welcome (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f0b5ce8d8d0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused')) Postorius/Mailman is running on port 8001, only Postorius still connecting on port 8000. Anyone seen something similar? Thanks in advance! Jeffrey

6 years, 9 months

Re: mailman changeaddress -h weirdness

by Washington Odhiambo

On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 3:04 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <steve(a)turnbull.jp> wrote: > Washington Odhiambo via Mailman-users writes: > > > A member requested to be subscribed to a list through the normal > > process (confirm and approve). I approved. Shortly after, I > > received an email they sent to one of the moderators requesting > > that their subscribed address be changed from the OLD to the NEW(ly > > subscribed) one. So I deleted the new address via Postorius. > > In the list (subscription) view, I presume? > Yes. [Long story omitted] > > In Mailman (core, and mirrored in Postorius), each textual address is > backed by a unique Address object. It has a number of attributes, > including the address as a string, a display name, and a User owner. > The changeaddress command operates on an Address object, and simply > substitutes one string for another in the address attribute. The > relation is one-one, so if both addresses are in the database, each is > owned by a different object. That's why you get the "address exists, > can't change" error. I don't know if there is an admin accessible way > to completely delete an Address once it has been created (other than > "mailman shell", which is, of course, cheating!) > > I believe that all you did was to remove the subscription. That's > just a relation in the database. But the Address object for > kevin@[REDACTED] remains. > > > I went into Django Admin US and searched for - and found the > > address still in there. I deleted it again. > > That's a different database table. I'm not sure why the address was > in there, I guess because it's the usual identification for a user > when authenticating. You may have made it impossible for > kevin@[REDACTED] to log in to Postorius. > They barely do anyway. > Oh, and maybe we should have that changeaddress option in Postorius > > as well? > > I don't think so. The changeaddress command is very dangerous because > it operates directly on the database, changing something that we think > of as user identification. Not to mention, I suspect it's broken (it > SHOULD change the address Django uses for authentication, too, but I > don't see how it can, since we don't even know if Django is in use). > The only valid use I can think of is if the address string is a typo > (but it's still broken!) In that case we do want the old string to be > removed from the database without disturbing the User-Address and > MailingList-Address relations. > > If you want an atomic "subscribe new and unsubscribe old, perhaps > globally" operation in Postorius, feel free to request it. But it's > likely to be complicated, and most of its use cases are covered by > having users subscribe their "primary address" rather than an explicit > address. Adding and verifying a new address, then switching the > primary to that would even be atomic (in the sense that a race between > subscribing new and unsubscribing old won't cause the user to lose > mail or get duplicates). > I ended up removing the old address (from Postorius) and subscribing the new one from there, and strangely, it accepted it. It shouldn't have accepted it if it existed as the CLI insisted. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 In an Internet failure case, the #1 suspect is a constant: DNS. "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) [How to ask smart questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]

2 months

Re: Moderation request email from a non existing user

by Mark Sapiro

On 5/31/22 02:15, David Lopez via Mailman-users wrote: > Every day mailman (MM 3.3.3 (Tom Sawyer)) sends me an email with a held unsubcription request from X user. This user is not subcribed to that list anymore but every day an email is sending to the list owner. On the web interface there's nothing pending for approval or similar. Is there anyway to avoid receiving this anoyning email every day? Thanks in advance. Postorius >=1.3.5 has an `Unsubscription Requests` choice in the `Subscription requests` pull down. This choice will list the request with and allow you to delete it. For earlier Postorius this needs to be done via the REST API or via mailman shell. For example: ``` $ bin/mailman shell -l list(a)example.com Welcome to the GNU Mailman shell Use commit() to commit changes. Use abort() to discard changes since the last commit. Exit with ctrl+D does an implicit commit() but exit() does not. The variable 'm' is the list(a)example.com mailing list >>> pendingsdb = getUtility(IPendings) >>> for token, data in pendingsdb.find(m, pend_type='unsubscription'): ... if data['token_owner'] == 'moderator': ... pendingsdb.confirm(token) ... data about the request will be displayed here >>> commit() >>> ``` -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

4 years, 5 months

Re: Pck files stuck in out queue

by Mark Sapiro

On 2/7/25 10:08, Lieuallen, Thomas Otis via Mailman-users wrote: > > I have a remaining issue that baffles me. With my test list, I created a template for ‘list:member:regular:header’. It just has text in it, keeping it simple. I create it and see the entries in the database tables and they are correct. However, when I send a test email, my template text is not inserted, but instead another simple text: “testing hello”. I do the same with list:member:regular:footer, and it works just fine. It is just the header that is working incorrectly. When I remove that postorius header template for the list, that ‘testing hello’ goes away. So, it’s only appearing when I have a postorius template setup for that list. What do you get from the following database queries? SELECT * FROM template WHERE name = 'list:member:regular:header'; SELECT * FROM postorius_emailtemplate WHERE name = 'list:member:regular:header'; Depending on your installation, these tables may be in separate databases, i.e., template table in mailman db and postorius_emailtemplate in mailmanweb db. And what do you get if you go to the uri in the result(s) from the first query? The context in the first results and maybe the second results should also be a clue. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

1 year, 9 months

Re: New Mailman Releases

by Abhilash Raj

On 10/26/22 13:48, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Ideally, `pip` shouldn't have allowed you to install aiosmtpd in a > Python venv with 3.10, but that depends on which version of pip you are > using since the newer versions have better support for such management. > > > I followed the HOWTO by the late BC > <https://wiki.list.org/DOC/Howto_Install_Mailman3_On_Debian10> for my > installation. I did not have to choose any specific version of pip. > I just used what was in the system at that time, which was based on the > Python version on the system. So, actually, it isn't the fault of pip or yours. I check aiosmtpd and it doesn't declare an upper bound on the supported python versions since when the last release came out, the max version was 3.9 and it supported that. There hasn't been a release since 3.10 came out. > > > 2. Is it possible to downgrade the Python in a Venv down to 3.9 > without > > breaking the installation? > > You can keep the current installation running and create a 2nd > installation by simply creating a 2nd venv with 3.9. Something like, > `/opt/mailman/mm/venv-3.9/`. You can install things into that venv and > when you are done and ready to switch, you can update all the paths in > various places to use update 'venv-3.9' instead of 'venv'. > > > That procedure seems way too much work for someone not so well versed > with the PATHs used in MM3. > Since I don't remember ever having to install aiosmtpd (not even sure > what it is!) I believe I should not worry. You basically just need to follow the install instructions again, skipping any parts about creating configs, data mta etc. with the new path to venv. > > 'pip3 list | grep smtpd' yielded nothing in my install. Is that > expected? Or aiosmtpd is part of the core? Yes, it is a dependency of Core and you _should_ find it in the venv. Not sure if you have that activated, but it should result in an installed package if you are inside venv. > > In case you encounter any issues, you can always revert back to older > 'venv' in the paths wherever the are needed and bring back the old > install. Venvs are good for multiple installs so you can switch back > and > forth pretty easily. > > > Talking of moving between VENVs, you did not mention about migrating the > lists/list data between then :-) You don't need to migrate lists, as long as you keep the same configs & database, the 2nd install will just pickup the old data. Make sure you aren't downgrading the version of Mailman though when switching between VMs (which typically won't happen if you just use "pip install", unless you specify version constraints like mailman==3.3.0 for old versions). > > > > > And finally, is there documentation/procedure to upgrade a VENV > install > > in this case? > > You don't want to upgrade venv is what i've heard, you should always > create a new one if you are bumping python versions. > > > Noted. And only Python versions, right? Like 3.10 to 3.11? Yes, only Python versions! Packages inside can be upgraded. > (3) Upgrade package > Finally, upgrade your packages: > > Here, I am a little confused. The official MM3 documentation says the below: > *(venv) $ pip install -U mailman postorius django-mailman3 hyperkitty > mailman-web* > > However, thee howto by BC, there was no installation for django-mailman3 > and mailman-web. So I am unable to map 1:1 what needs to be done > to upgrade to these 5 components of > 1. Mailman Core 3.3.6 [1] > 2. Postorius 1.3.7 [2] > 3. Hyperkitty 1.3.6 [3] > 4. Mailmanclient 3.3.4 [4] > 5. Django-mailman3 1.3.8 [5] > > What should I add to the command line below so that everything is updated? > > (venv) mailman@lists:~$ pip install -U mailman postorius hyperkitty > mailman-hyperkitty This will work! Yeah, basically upgrade only the packages you installed previously. The official documentation asks you to explicitly specify all Mailman packages (even the downstream libraries like django-mailman3 and mailmanclient, which will already be upgraded when you install new version of Postorius or Hyperkitty) and mailman-web. You probably don't need "mailman-web". I'd recommend just specifying all the released packages, except mailman-web since you aren't using that. > Sorry to bother you so much. No worries :-) -- thanks, Abhilash Raj (maxking)

4 years

Re: How to set up mailman 3

by David Krantz

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry(a)list.org> wrote: > Yes, I'm sorry you went down a dead end with mailman-bundler. I'm trying to > purge the world of it so others won't get led astray. I've clobbered the > README in the GitLab repo and we may at some point just archive and delete the > whole project, but I'm not quite ready to do that yet. I did get things working with the bundler at last. Quite tricky and I have deactivated archival. But I suspect that I should retrace a bit of that work and upgrade to the latest versions. I miss a few functions from mailman2, especially setting a limit for message size to discourage sending larger files to the list. I also notice that there are no modbits per user that I can reach from the web as admin. > Where did you find out about the bundler? I'd like to make sure we steer > people to the current best recommendations: The documentation can be found on several places. The one that is best formatted is this one. I used a worse formatted version of the same text but right now I cannot find the link. https://mailman-bundler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ I notice that you changed the text on the githlab project. Better. Now I have no idea of how upgrading the different components. I might start from scratch although it probably should be possible to upgrade the parts. The best option is probably to switch to mailman2, but that has disadvantages when handling lists for multiple domains if I am correctly informed and I already have a few domains... I also found that sending mails manually (telnet to port 25) with no headers other than "Subject:" causes the "Held messages" tab to crash with a 500-error. Log below my signature. cheers // David ERROR 2017-03-25 22:54:41,762 base 17632 140529157728000 Internal Server Error: /mailman3/lists/MYLIST.COM.COM/held_messages Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/mailman/mailman-bundler/eggs/Django-1.8.17-py2.7.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 132, in get_response response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "/opt/mailman/mailman-bundler/eggs/Django-1.8.17-py2.7.egg/django/views/generic/base.py", line 71, in view return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman/mailman-bundler/eggs/postorius-1.0.3-py2.7.egg/postorius/views/generic.py", line 67, in dispatch return super(MailingListView, self).dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman/mailman-bundler/eggs/Django-1.8.17-py2.7.egg/django/views/generic/base.py", line 89, in dispatch return handler(request, *args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman/mailman-bundler/eggs/Django-1.8.17-py2.7.egg/django/utils/decorators.py", line 34, in _wrapper return bound_func(*args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman/mailman-bundler/eggs/postorius-1.0.3-py2.7.egg/postorius/auth/decorators.py", line 81, in wrapper return fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/opt/mailman/mailman-bundler/eggs/Django-1.8.17-py2.7.egg/django/utils/decorators.py", line 30, in bound_func return func.__get__(self, type(self))(*args2, **kwargs2) File "/opt/mailman/mailman-bundler/eggs/postorius-1.0.3-py2.7.egg/postorius/views/list.py", line 387, in get held_messages = utils.paginate(request, self.mailing_list.held, 20) File "/opt/mailman/mailman-bundler/eggs/mailmanclient-1.0.1-py2.7.egg/mailmanclient/_client.py", line 443, in held moderation_reasons=entry['moderation_reasons'], KeyError: u'moderation_reasons'

9 years, 7 months

Re: Unable to update templates

by Mark

On 5/28/25 01:14, Mark wrote: >> >> Then I created a template using Postorius and updated the uri in >> mailman.templates to: >> >> file:///opt/mailman/mm/var/templates/lists/testlist.example.com/en/list:use… >> - and that works. >> >> It's looking promising. Now I just need to modify my script that >> periodically copies the data from the >> "mailmanweb.postorius_emailtemplate" table to a file and updates the >> uri. On 2025-05-28 19:17, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Which says get the template from the file system at that location and > don't ask for it from Postorius at all. This would be the default > action if there were no entry for this template in the > mailman.template table at all. I.e. you now have a template in > Postorius, but it is not used. I have jumped the gun on thinking that the template as a file was working. It's not. It's the same story: the initial file template is good, but it's for sure getting cached somewhere, and an updated file is ignored. The same as when the template was being drawn from the database. Restarting mailman3 and mailmanweb didn't help, neither did rebooting the server. Looking at Gunicorn status, I see a failing connection to 127.0.0.1 which is the error message I was getting when adding a new subscriber - with the custom Welcome template in the database (which is why I moved it to file). 127.0.0.1 and locahost are in the ALLOWED_HOSTS and CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS of the settings.py file I'm at a loss with this caching problem. Any other clues happily received. $ gunicorn --version gunicorn (version 21.2.0) $ gunicorn status [2025-05-29 02:29:41 +0000] [17838] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 21.2.0 [2025-05-29 02:29:41 +0000] [17838] [ERROR] Connection in use: ('127.0.0.1', 8000) [2025-05-29 02:29:41 +0000] [17838] [ERROR] Retrying in 1 second. [2025-05-29 02:29:42 +0000] [17838] [ERROR] Connection in use: ('127.0.0.1', 8000) # ps -ef | grep gunicorn root 1522331 1521736 0 22:57 pts/1 00:00:00 grep gunicorn mailman 1608073 1 0 May20 ? 00:01:24 /opt/mailman/venv/bin/python3 /opt/mailman/venv/bin/gunicorn -c /etc/mailman3/gunicorn.conf mailman_web.wsgi:application mailman 1608075 1608073 1 May20 ? 02:24:20 /opt/mailman/venv/bin/python3 /opt/mailman/venv/bin/gunicorn -c /etc/mailman3/gunicorn.conf mailman_web.wsgi:application

1 year, 5 months

Re: Social signup?

by Duane Raymond

Thanks Stephen, With support to dip in on how to do this, I would hope it is the start of a series of contributions to the platform :-) My starting point these days is asking chatGPT how to add the functionality. The response looks convincing but often has some glaring errors in it...but at least it helps me narrow down where I start and give me an idea of the steps/complexity of the task. I'll jump over to the developers list when I start this (I'm about to travel for a week to run an annual event in Oxford - so the far removed from programming)...but which chatGPT suggested so far was 1. Extending postorius/signups.html with a loop to get the configured social login providers PLUS adding a csrf_token field to the form 2. Modifying postorius/views.py (which doesn't seem to exist but there is a postorius/views folder) - so perhaps this is views/urls.py So with dev community support and chatGPT support I should be able to muddle through it! Probably as practice I'll convert a recent simple Flask app I built into django to get familiar with Django as a framework before I dip into postorius & hyperkitty Cheers, Duane On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 08:26, Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen.fw(a)u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > Duane Raymond writes: > > > I'll dip into the code in the next weeks and see if I can figure > > out how to add it (using the example of the login page) > > Welcome to the team! :-D > > I doubt you need any Python code; I think you just need to add buttons > in HTML in the page template, and an explanation of where the user > will end up (probably not where they expect ;-). I forget how this > works, but you might even be able to ensure a redirect to where they > expect to go in pure Django templating language. If not, it will > likely need a straightforward one-line change to the view. > > If all that makes sense to you, great! If not, feel free to ask > questions, here, or perhaps more appropriately on > mailman-developers(a)python.org. > > Steve >

3 years, 7 months

message file gone, but exists in database?

by Thor Atle Rustad

I'm investigating some problems, and in the process I want to delete some messages. First, listing all messages: >>> messages = list(message_store.messages) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailman/model/messagestore.py", line 117, in messages yield self._get_message(row) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailman/model/messagestore.py", line 95, in _get_message with open(path, 'rb') as fp: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/mailman/var/messages/5X/7W/5X7WMWNORTGVNB6KVWTHHOI2VF2BEQ7K' Since this message should not exist in database, I try to delete it: >>> message_store.delete_message('5X7WMWNORTGVNB6KVWTHHOI2VF2BEQ7K') >>> commit() >>> messages = list(message_store.messages) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailman/model/messagestore.py", line 117, in messages yield self._get_message(row) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/mailman/model/messagestore.py", line 95, in _get_message with open(path, 'rb') as fp: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/mailman/var/messages/5X/7W/5X7WMWNORTGVNB6KVWTHHOI2VF2BEQ7K' However, it continues to exist in mailman's mind I also cannot delete messages that actually exist. For instance, I find a message in Postorius that I want to delete. I look at the headers and then run >>> message_store.delete_message('6XFISRRFY74NJEE4FTRNWOA2KGKDBZ3T') >>> commit() After that, the message continues to live, both in postorius and as a file: bash-4.3# ls 6XFISRRFY74NJEE4FTRNWOA2KGKDBZ3T What is wrong?

8 years, 2 months

Re: {Spam?} Server name in new account confirmation email

by Mark Sapiro

On 12/3/20 9:26 AM, Meehan, John wrote: > Hi, when someone creates a new account (Sign Up), an email is sent to them to confirm their email address. It has the form below. Does anyone know how I can change the server name in the URL (From server.example.com to something else)? I have an SSL proxy server that I want to direct users through. Thanks. - John This message comes from django_allauth. The domains come from the django_site database table. If you have Postorius >= 1.3.3 The Domains view will show you the SITE_ID for the domain and has an `Edit` link the the Django admin UI entry for that site. Otherwise, you can go to the Django admin `Sites` view and see the DOMAIN NAME and DISPLAY NAME for each defined site, and you can edit the domain name. You may also need to adjust the SITE_ID setting in your Django settings to match the site you want. The trick here is the SITE_IDs aren't displayed in the Django admin UI or in Postorius < 1.3.3, and they may not be sequential or start at 1. If you query the database with `SELECT * FROM django_site;` you'll see entries with columns id, domain and name which will tell you the SITE_ID. -- Mark Sapiro <mark(a)msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

5 years, 11 months

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