[Mailman-Users] zero-length config.pck file

2019-10-19 Thread David Newman
mailman-2.1.29_6, FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p10 After an unscheduled power cut by our hosting provider, one of the mailing lists hosted on this server came back up with a config.pck file containing 0 bytes. The file's timestamp corresponded to the time of the power loss. As a result, bin commands

Re: [Mailman-Users] admindb pages redirect to localhost

2019-01-04 Thread David Newman
On 1/4/19 5:10 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 1/4/19 4:40 PM, David Newman wrote: >> >> Actually, the localhost issue began _after_ I ran "bin/withlist -l -a -r >> fix_url" from the /usr/local/mailman directory and restarted the Mailman >> service. > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] admindb pages redirect to localhost

2019-01-04 Thread David Newman
On 1/4/19 4:40 PM, David Newman wrote: > > > On 1/4/19 12:19 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> On 1/3/19 2:18 PM, David Newman wrote: >>> FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p1, mailman-2.1.29_5, postfix-3.3.2_1,1, >>> nginx-1.14.2_3,2 >>> >>> Greetings. Could use

Re: [Mailman-Users] admindb pages redirect to localhost

2019-01-04 Thread David Newman
On 1/4/19 12:19 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 1/3/19 2:18 PM, David Newman wrote: >> FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p1, mailman-2.1.29_5, postfix-3.3.2_1,1, >> nginx-1.14.2_3,2 >> >> Greetings. Could use help understanding two issues after migrating from >> Apache to ngin

[Mailman-Users] admindb pages redirect to localhost

2019-01-04 Thread David Newman
FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p1, mailman-2.1.29_5, postfix-3.3.2_1,1, nginx-1.14.2_3,2 Greetings. Could use help understanding two issues after migrating from Apache to nginx: 1. All Mailman web pages load as expect except links from the admindb page (for pending moderator request), which redirect to

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cloning a Mailman server to a virtual machine.

2016-08-17 Thread David Newman
On 8/16/16 1:19 PM, The Mailing List Server Admin wrote: > Dear Mailman Cognoscenti, > > We have Mailman (and ListProc) running on a physical machine which > needs to be decommissioned. Cloning the system to a virtual machine > (VM) shouldn't be a problem, but I am unsure about the tasks needed

[Mailman-Users] including all domains in virtual-mailman

2016-08-17 Thread David Newman
Greetings. How to get the data/virtual-mailman file to include all virtual domains after running bin/genaliases? This is on a FreeBSD 10.3 system running mailman 2.1.22 from ports. The system has mailing lists defined from 3 domains -- let's call them domain1.tld, domain2.tld, and domain3.tld.

[Mailman-Users] dnspython not found error

2016-05-04 Thread David Newman
Had to reinstall the Mailman port (not pkg) on a FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE system after updating some ports due to security vulnerabilities. Several other packages also required rebuild to point to new shared objects. The Mailman build failed, saying 'dnspython not found' even though that port is

[Mailman-Users] https and virtual domains

2011-02-19 Thread David Newman
How to configure Mailman to handle https redirects to public archives for virtual domains? This is for a server with a canonical name of mail.domain1.tld, and virtual names of lists.domain2.tld, lists.domain3.tld, etc. With the mm.cfg config pasted below, clicking the archives link on a list

Re: [Mailman-Users] https and virtual domains

2011-02-19 Thread David Newman
On 2/19/11 6:57 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: With the mm.cfg config pasted below, clicking the archives link on a list page for lists.domain2.tld redirects to https://mail.domain1.tld/pipermail/listname which fails because the list name is associated with domain2.tld

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-delivery to virtual domain

2010-11-03 Thread David Newman
On 11/2/10 8:13 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: On 10/31/10 10:22 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 10/31/10 4:56 PM, David Newman wrote: On 10/31/10 9:09 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: [...] Here's a log snapshot of a message sent to s...@domain1.tld, a Mailman list with subscribers 'dnew

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-delivery to virtual domain

2010-11-01 Thread David Newman
On 10/31/10 10:22 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: On 10/31/10 4:56 PM, David Newman wrote: On 10/31/10 9:09 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: What exactly does the Postfix log (maillog) say about the delivery to one of these addresses? maillog says status is sent to all list subscribers. The test list

[Mailman-Users] non-delivery to virtual domain

2010-10-31 Thread David Newman
(Apologies for re-raising a topic I asked about here a couple of years ago. The instructions on Sourceforge have changed a bit since then.) New server runs OpenBSD 4.7, postfix 2.65, mailman 2.1.14, and virtual domains. Mail sent to/from virtual domains works fine. Different story with Mailman.

Re: [Mailman-Users] non-delivery to virtual domain

2010-10-31 Thread David Newman
On 10/31/10 9:09 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: (Apologies for re-raising a topic I asked about here a couple of years ago. The instructions on Sourceforge have changed a bit since then.) New server runs OpenBSD 4.7, postfix 2.65, mailman 2.1.14, and virtual domains. Mail sent

[Mailman-Users] one-click subscription

2010-03-01 Thread David Newman
For a read-only announcement list, I'm looking for a way to set up one-click subscription where a user enters an email in a form on a web page and gets subscribed right away, with no confirmation needed. Thanks in advance for clues on setting this up with MM, Apache and postfix. Apologies in

Re: [Mailman-Users] one-click subscription

2010-03-01 Thread David Newman
On 3/1/10 10:34 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: For a read-only announcement list, I'm looking for a way to set up one-click subscription where a user enters an email in a form on a web page and gets subscribed right away, with no confirmation needed. This is not a good idea

Re: [Mailman-Users] Really obscuring sender addresses

2010-01-27 Thread David Newman
On 1/26/10 5:07 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: I am looking to obscure any reference to the sender's address from list postings. Per the guidelines, this includes (all done via the Web UI): anonymous_list: Yes first_strip_reply_to: Yes reply_goes_to_list: Explicit address

[Mailman-Users] Really obscuring sender addresses

2010-01-26 Thread David Newman
I've set up a read-only announcement mailing list following these guidelines: http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030685 I am looking to obscure any reference to the sender's address from list postings. Per the guidelines, this includes (all done via the Web UI): anonymous_list:

Re: [Mailman-Users] host.domain.tld vs. domain.tld

2010-01-16 Thread David Newman
On 1/16/10 7:55 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: On 1/15/10 7:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: My guess is that on the old server, domain.tld was in Postfix's mydestination so that addr...@domain.tld was a local address and only referred to alias_maps and not virtual_alias_maps, whereas

Re: [Mailman-Users] host.domain.tld vs. domain.tld

2010-01-16 Thread David Newman
On 1/16/10 11:11 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: For clarification, which form do I want in mydestination? localh...@local_domain (as you wrote) or localhost.$mydomain (as formerly in main.cf) I think you mean the latter, but just checking. What I actually suggest

[Mailman-Users] host.domain.tld vs. domain.tld

2010-01-15 Thread David Newman
Mailman 2.1.13, postfix 2.5.6, MySQL 5.0.77, OpenBSD 4.5 After migrating to new hardware, Mailman lists are working OK using the form listname@mail.domain.tld, but mail sent to listname@domain.tld bounces with an User unknown in virtual mailbox table error. This is a problem since some users

Re: [Mailman-Users] host.domain.tld vs. domain.tld

2010-01-15 Thread David Newman
On 1/15/10 7:33 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: After migrating to new hardware, Mailman lists are working OK using the form listname@mail.domain.tld, but mail sent to listname@domain.tld bounces with an User unknown in virtual mailbox table error. This is a problem since some

[Mailman-Users] password required for public archives?

2009-09-12 Thread David Newman
I'm sure this is a standard problem, but I haven't found the answer in any of the FAQs or by searching the mailing list archives. A customer asked that we change archives of an existing list from private to public. That's done, but Mailman still requests a password, even from a new browser with

[Mailman-Users] phantom subscription requests

2009-05-18 Thread David Newman
Mailman 2.1.12 on OpenBSD 4.5 Don't know if this is a coincidence, but ever since rebuilding a Mailman server that crashed last week and restoring the lists from archives, the site admin address has received a few dozen bogus subscription requests to lists on that server. This is odd, in that

[Mailman-Users] shunting after decoding Unicode is not supported

2009-05-17 Thread David Newman
Mailman 2.1.12 Had a server crash. Built a new server, compiled MM 2.1.12 from source and restored the lists, data, and archives from a backup. Messages are going to the list but most aren't getting archived, with errors like the one pasted below. This has come up before:

Re: [Mailman-Users] shunting after decoding Unicode is not supported

2009-05-17 Thread David Newman
On 5/13/09 10:06 PM, David Newman wrote: Mailman 2.1.12 Had a server crash. Built a new server, compiled MM 2.1.12 from source and restored the lists, data, and archives from a backup. Messages are going to the list but most aren't getting archived, with errors like the one pasted below

Re: [Mailman-Users] shunting after decoding Unicode is notsupported

2009-05-17 Thread David Newman
On 5/17/09 5:49 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: On 5/13/09 10:06 PM, David Newman wrote: Mailman 2.1.12 Had a server crash. Built a new server, compiled MM 2.1.12 from source and restored the lists, data, and archives from a backup. Messages are going to the list but most

Re: [Mailman-Users] some messages missing from archive

2009-03-29 Thread David Newman
On 3/27/09 9:07 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: On 3/26/09 2:49 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: You can also see if this post in in archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox which will tell you that Mailman tried to archive it. Note that two different messages should never have

[Mailman-Users] some messages missing from archive

2009-03-26 Thread David Newman
Mailman 2.1.10 on OpenBSD 4.4 with Postfix 2.5.3 Checked the FAQ and searched Google but didn't see anything that directly addressed this: Most messages make it into the archives but a few do not. I've pasted below a sample of a message that didn't make it to the archive. I suspect that it might

Re: [Mailman-Users] some messages missing from archive

2009-03-26 Thread David Newman
On 3/26/09 8:05 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: Most messages make it into the archives but a few do not. I've pasted below a sample of a message that didn't make it to the archive. I suspect that it might be related to Postfix's message handling but am not sure what's missing from

Re: [Mailman-Users] some messages missing from archive

2009-03-26 Thread David Newman
On 3/26/09 2:49 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: There are only a few reasons why a particular post would not be archived, assuming archiving is working in general. Archiving is working in general. 1) There could be something in this particular post that throws an exception in ArchRunner. This is

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding a list to a virtual domain

2009-03-23 Thread David Newman
On 3/22/09 4:30 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: This evening I tried creating a new list but posts from a subscriber to the new list bounce with the message User unknown in virtual mailbox table. AFAICT Mailman is set up to work with Postfix virtual domains as described

Re: [Mailman-Users] adding a list to a virtual domain

2009-03-23 Thread David Newman
On 3/23/09 7:44 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: David Newman wrote: I didn't have these two lines: VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) but adding them and restarting apache and mailman, deleting and recreating the list didn't resolve the original error

[Mailman-Users] adding a list to a virtual domain

2009-03-22 Thread David Newman
Greetings. I have a mailserver running OpenBSD 4.4, Postfix 2.5.3 and Mailman 2.1.0. The machine hosts multiple virtual domains and Mailman already hosts several mailing lists in one of these domains. This evening I tried creating a new list but posts from a subscriber to the new list bounce with

Re: [Mailman-Users] Disable monthly membership reminder

2008-06-02 Thread David Newman
On 6/2/08 4:34 AM, Bill Honneus (honneus) wrote: Hi, Anyone know how I can disable the monthly membership reminder email that gets sent out to all members of a mailing list? It's send_reminders on the general options page, under notifications. dn Thanks, Bill

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-30 Thread David Newman
On 5/30/08 4:35 AM, Larry Stone wrote: On 5/29/08 11:37 PM, Jim Popovitch at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:18 AM, David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. I must be missing something, as the system is still associating each Message-ID with all 250 list subscribers

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-30 Thread David Newman
On 5/30/08 8:40 AM, Larry Stone wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2008, David Newman wrote: When you then get the AOL TOS e-mail, you can figure out who the list recipient was as while AOL redacts the AOL recipient, they don't touch the Return-Path. I wish this were true, but it appears AOL gets

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-30 Thread David Newman
On 5/30/08 3:28 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Yeah, somebody actually said that, but they really meant the Return-Path. Changing Message-ID on regular posts would violate RFC 2822. Message-ID ids the content, not the medium, and is an author header: intermediate senders

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Newman
On 5/28/08 8:43 PM, Larry Stone wrote: On 5/28/08 9:26 PM, David Newman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another is to enable VERP for your outgoing messages, this allows you to track the message ID to the individual user. That sounds very promising, thanks. Trying it now... I have all my lists

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Newman
On 5/29/08 11:40 AM, Brad Knowles wrote: David Newman wrote: OK, I've enabled VERP but I'm no closer to isolating who's complaining in AOL-land. Possibly this is some VERP config error on my part. I added the following to mm_cfg.py and rebooted: VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Newman
On 5/29/08 12:09 PM, David Andrews wrote: Did you go back to the list configuration and turn on personalization? Er, no, I haven't. Where do I set that in the Web UI? thanks dn DA: It is under Nondigest Options. Sorry for being dense, but where? These are the only choices I see under

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-29 Thread David Newman
On 5/29/08 1:46 PM, Larry Stone wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008, David Newman wrote: Possibly this is some VERP config error on my part. I added the following to mm_cfg.py and rebooted: VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = Yes VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = Yes VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = Yes VERP_CONFIRMATIONS

[Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-28 Thread David Newman
One or more AOL subscribers is reporting posts to one of our mailing lists as spam. Every time there's a post to this list, both we and our upstream provider get a feedback report from AOL. This report provides the message-ID for the offending email, but not the recipient's address. AOL

Re: [Mailman-Users] slightly OT: on not becoming a spam source

2008-05-28 Thread David Newman
On 5/28/08 7:09 PM, Dave Dewey wrote: Quoting David Newman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): One or more AOL subscribers is reporting posts to one of our mailing lists as spam. Every time there's a post to this list, both we and our upstream provider get a feedback report from AOL. This report provides

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman 2.1.10 has been released

2008-04-21 Thread David Newman
Mark Sapiro wrote: I am happy to announce the release of Mailman 2.1.10. Congratulations! I presume the usual upgrade instructions apply? http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq04.014.htp dn -- Mailman-Users mailing list

Re: [Mailman-Users] chroot, OpenBSD, Apache, and Mailman

2008-04-19 Thread David Newman
Mark Sapiro wrote: I suspect a permissions problem. Mailman would not serve up pages when all files were owned by group mailman, so I did 'chgrp -R www /var/www/mailman'. But after trying to create a list, the aliases file is mode 660, owned by root:www. This is probably a mistake.

[Mailman-Users] chroot, OpenBSD, Apache, and Mailman

2008-04-18 Thread David Newman
Greetings. Apologies if this has been answered before but I didn't find a direct answer in the archives or FAQ. Is there a howto for installing Mailman from source inside the Apache chroot on OpenBSD? I'm struggling with this, using Mailman 2.1.19, Postfix 2.4.3, and OpenBSD 4.2. There's a list

Re: [Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix

2007-01-30 Thread David Newman
On Monday, January 29, 2007, at 04:18PM, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, postfix delivers message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but nothing happens after that. Presumably, that's because Postfix is delivering the mail to a local mailbox 'pctest' instead of piping it to Mailman's mail

[Mailman-Users] virtual domain setup with postfix

2007-01-29 Thread David Newman
MM 2.1.9, Postfix 2.3.5, cyrus-imap 2.3.7, all on FreeBSD 6.1 installed from ports Postfix already handles mail for multiple virtual domains defined in a MySQL database. I believe virtual domain setup is OK, as individual users have been sending and receiving mail for some time. Having