Questions tagged [mailman]
Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager, is a program to manage mailing lists. It is released under the GNU General Public License.
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"Warning: hostname localhost does not resolve to address ::1: No address associated with hostname" inside an openVZ/Debian container
I'm getting the mesage regulary inside mail.log from postfix. In special, but not only, at mails send received mailman.
warning: hostname localhost does not resolve to address ::1: No
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Setting up a mail server using postfix, dovecot, mailman and ldap
I don't really have much experience with mail servers so forgive me if some of my terminology is off.
First of all, here's what I'm trying to do:
get user information using ldap (postfix?)
separate ...
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Site list for mailman missing, despite it being created and configured
I am migrating a mailman installation from an Ubuntu 8.0.4 server to an Ubuntu 12.04 server.
I have succesfully installed mailman on the target server and copied the data, archives and lists ...
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Mailman: If a non-list member sends a mail, how to add his address as Cc?
I have a simple mailman setup which is configured to replace the Reply-To field with the mailing list address.
This is to allow a simple 'Reply' to go to the list, as this is the main use case.
Now ...
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How to properly disable a mailman mailing list
I have been asked to disable a single mailing list on mailman. I do not want to destroy the list - we may want to revive it later. Also, we want to keep the archives accessible for the list members.
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SNT0-MC1-F20 Mailman issue
We are having issues with our maling list, we are using MailMan, a piece of log that i thought it might help in tracking the issue,
Multiple lines like the following:
(lost connection with mx1....
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mailman is forcing moderation of messages posted by members even with mod bit not set
My mailman server is holding all posted messages from users even though I've confirmed that they do not have the mod bit set.
I've confirmed that the from email matches the subscribed member (the ...
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Nginx fastcgi split path info with mailman
i'm using mailman with nginx to get its web interface this my nginx config :
location /cgi-bin/mailman {
root /usr/lib/;
fastcgi_split_path_info (/cgi-bin/mailman[^/]*)/(.*)$;
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how to backup and restore mailman?
How can I backup and restore mailman list ?
Our server was hacked, We plan to reload OS. We are having mailman list in server.
I'm new to mailman, It's urgent to backup and restore mailman list.
I'...
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Mailman ignore mm_cfg.py
I installed mailman on a debian server with apache on it. I followed instructions to configure the URL of the admin pannel of mailman. So I made the modifications I had to do in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py....
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Postfix and Mailman
I've just configured postfix using virtual domains (using dovecote) and therefore needed to alter the mailman-configuration. I decided to use lists.* to allow postfix to distiguish between mails that ...
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Using Mailman, how to unshunt message back into hold queue for moderation?
How can I get Mailman to reprocess messages in a queue directory? Or alternately, how can I transfer all the messages from a queue directory into the moderation hold queue for the relevant list(s)?
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What could cause Mailman to drop messages after moderator approval?
I run a medium-sized Mailman system that recently developed a problem where any messages that pass through moderation disappear instead of being delivered to the mailing list. This is affecting every ...
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Constant 403 errors when trying to access mailman listinfo and admin in nginx [closed]
I've set up nginx and mailman (among everything else) via this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-12.04-lts-nginx-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3-p4
I was able to successfully create ...
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What are the steps to integrate a new mailman list?
I am using Mailman version 2.1.12 running on a Linux CentOS 6.3 final system, and there are already many successfully operational mailman lists in operation. sendmail is the transport.
I have created ...
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Managing mailman configuration with augeas
I want to create an augeas lens to modify mailman lists. The lists are stored in a binary file which can be exported to a plaintext file using config_list -o /tmp/config my_list and reimported by ...
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How to make postfix or mailman send outgoing emails on behalf of [email protected] instead of [email protected]?
I have successfully installed and configured postfix and mailman and everything works correctly. The server FQDN is lists.example.com. My problem is that I would like mails sent to subscribers to ...
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Postfix rejects email addresses as unknown if injected via SMTP, but accepts them if injected via /usr/sbin/sendmail
I'm using Postfix together with Mailman to handle mailing lists on one of my servers. There is a delivery method defined in Postfix to handle incoming mail for mailing lists, "mailman". This delivery ...
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Mailman automatic approval for new message from a specific domain
kindly all can you show how to configure mailman to approve all message from specific domain without a request to confirmation even if this domain sender is not subscribed ?
i tried this but not ...
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Mailman 2.1.12 - disable user passwords and listserv commands
Using Mailman version: 2.1.12
I'm looking for a way to do several things with Mailman:
Disable user passwords completely. I know how to disable the reminders, but I'd like for them not to be set ...
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postfix, dovecot 2, mailman, dovecot-lda on same domain, config does not work anymore
this configuration used to work but after updating to Dovecot 2 (Ubuntu 12.04) mails to mailman get not delivered anymore:
Instead of delivering to mailman, I get a bounce for non-existing user ...
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Maillist with foreign SQL table as address source
I'm looking for a way to allow members of a society to contact all members by sending mails to one group address.
At the moment this is done by using mailman but this is rather unconfortable because ...
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Stuck with unsatisfactory performance using PHPList & Amazon SES
I have a PHPList 2.11.7 development version, installed and running on AWS EC2, I made a micro instance, and uploaded an image that contains CentOS 5.8 32-bit version since supposedly PHPList isn't ...
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Mailman bounce messages going to list
A number of users on a list had an issue with mail; Mailman messages were being rejected with a 550 error due to a problem with their server.
For some reason, these bounce messages were then ...
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Postfix Submission port issue
I have setup postfix+mailman on my debian server and i have an issue with postfix submission port.
My ISP blocks SMTP on port 25 to prevent *spams and i must to use submission
port (587).
I have ...
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Migrating GNU Mailman server to new hardware
We have a GNU Mailman server running on some old hardware that is due to be retired soon. I have been trying to figure out where the list/archive data stored so I can just rsync it over to the new ...
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mailman not relaying email to external address
I have a setup of mailman with postfix on an ubuntu server 12.04.
My problem is that mailing list emails are not forwarded to email addresses external to my institution. However
the initial welcome ...
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postfix error: open database /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases.db: No such file
In trying to follow the Ubuntu guide for postfix and mailman, I do not understand these directions:
This build of mailman runs as list. It must have permission to read /etc/aliases and read and write ...
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postfix with mailman [closed]
What should happen is that [email protected] should be delivered to that users inbox on localhost, user@localhost. Thunderbird works fine at reading user@localhost.
I'm just using a small ...
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mailman web UI on localhost with apache2
I'm interested only in running mailman on localhost and would like access to the web interface, as per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mailman, but am getting 404, after following Michaels ...
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Mailman sending messages as wrong domain
I've got mailman and exim on my server for our mailing lists. When you send a message to it ( [email protected] ), the message sender is [email protected]. This server is locally known ...
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How to restrict mailman list subscriptions to certain domains?
Is there any way to restrict a mailman mailing list to only allowing subscriptions from one specific domain?
I know how to ban specific email addresses or domains from subscribing, but is there a way ...
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prevent apt dependency from being satisfied (permanently)
I want to install mailman (just to use it's mail archiving feature) but Ubuntu wants to pull down a load of extra dependencies.
sudo apt-get install mailman
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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Can I configure mailman so that it won't break S/MIME digital signatures?
We're currently using Mailman as a mailing list manager. Mailman modifies the content of mail messages. The problem is that some of our users are sending digitally signed messages and the modification ...
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Automatically reject any mailman mailing list posts that contain Russian?
I'm running a small mailman-based mailing list on a Linux server, and the only spam posts we seem to get are in russian. They are automatically moderated of course, since they're not subscribed to the ...
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Setting up ClamAV with Exim and Mailman on Debian Squeeze
I manage a Debian Squeeze server that uses Exim as the MTA and runs several mailing lists using Mailman. I'd like to set up ClamAV to block viruses that may get posted to a list. I'm having trouble ...
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Mailman and exim: cannot send messages
I have a Debian installation with Mailman using exim as MTA.
I can create mailing lists and receive emails from mailinglist server. But when i try to send an email to the ML address it is refused ...
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Disable replies in mailman
is there a way in mailman to disable replies to newsletters ? I mean that any replies detected by mailman is discarded automatically.
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Mailman "from" spoofing
It seems mailman, by default, spoofs its outgoing message with the "from" address of the person who posted the message. The envelope mail-from is not spoofed, but rather the P2 FROM. Is this ...
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Mailman for lists with an external mail server for mailboxes
I learned how to setup Mailman with Postfix for a domain like "@lists.domain.com
But for regular mailboxes for this domain, I'd like to use the free email hosting solution of the hosting company (...
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Can I get mailman's newlist script to run without needing sudo?
I'm writing a PHP application and I want to be able to add new lists to mailman running on my ubuntu server. For one reason or another, mailman's newlist script requires root privileges. Is there any ...
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Preventing a single list subscriber from unsubscribing from a mailman list
I run a technical mailman list with a lot of subscribers on it. One company, whose presence on the list is highly desirable, has many of its readers subscribed by an internal "exploder" list; that is,...
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How can I migrate mailman lists from one domain to another?
I have some internal mailman mailing lists on my intranet. The company domain name has changed.
Can I automate the process of resigning '[email protected]' and assigning '[email protected]' from/...
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Can Mailman log the IP address of each message sent?
It is possible to configure Mailman to log the IP address of the sender of each message?
It appears the correct configuration directive (from Defaults.py) is SMTP_LOG_SUCCESS. It logs to /var/log/...
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Mailman cannot relay e-mails to non-local domains
My e-mail server runs Debian with postfix, dovecot, amavis, mailman, with postfixadmin in a virtual domain setup. All works fine, except for mailman which is not able to relay e-mails to non-local ...
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Mailman - possible reasons for email duplicates
If the options in the mailman admin interface are set to "try to avoid duplicates" and every members is also set to "no duplicates", what are possible reasons if one of the subscribers receives each ...
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Changing list member's moderation flag on Mailman with command line
Is there a way to change the moderation flag of a member of a list from the command line, with Mailman?
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How do I let specified non-subscribers post to a GNU Mailman mailing list?
How do I let a few specified non-subscriber email addresses post to an otherwise closed GNU Mailman mailing list?
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Disable Mailman Reminders
We run a mailserver on OSX server, and a few mailing lists. The password/subscription reminds USED to come out at 8AM (local), but in the past months it's moved to 5AM, a nuisance to all involved.
It ...
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mailman recover list from file
can i recover users of a list from broken harddisk. i can see /var/lib/mailman/lists folder and files inside it. there are folders for each list and pck files inside them.
also lots of db files are ...
