[Mailman-Users] Web refreshes but does not apply changes
Hello, I'm setting up Mailman and have a bit of a difficulty. I've sent a 'subscribe' email to a list, and received back that it's awaiting admin approval. I login to the web page, go to the Pending Requests section and see the subscribe request. I then click the accept radio button and the Submit All Data. But all that happens is that I get a security warning window about encrypted communication and the web page refreshes and resets itself. I can't find anything in the httpd log files, the mailman log files, or the system log files that explain why this happens. This happens no matter which action button I choose, accept, decline, etc. I've installed packages rather than compiled from scratch so here are my relevant version stats: postfix-2.1.5-4.2.RHEL4 httpd-2.0.52-22.ent mailman-2.1.5.1-34.rhel4.3 Also this appears there is a similar problem when I go to list management and attempt to add addresses via the mass subscriptions. In this case, I fill in the information and choose submit changes, and then it just blanks out the entries and presents the page again. FWIW: I have added a change to the httpd.conf file to rewrite all http: requests to https: requests. Any ideas? -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Web refreshes but does not apply changes
> > You have to have cookies enabled in your browser. If you do not, it won't > work. > > Dragon I do have cookies enabled, and just to doublecheck I turned off the privacy settings and set it to allow all cookies but the results were the same. I have also since tried a second browser program but the results are the same. I've now tried Netscape 7.2 and Firefox 1.0.2. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Web refreshes but does not apply changes
FWIW here's the actual popup warning message that I get from Netscape upon trying to submite my changes: --- Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by a third party. Are you sure you want to continue sending this information? --- I doubt that that's very helpful, but thought I'd add it anyway. It's a little confusing to me since I don't know how/why it thinks it's going to send stuff over an unencrypted channel since all connections are supposed to be routed to the https port. But I'm wondering if that rewriting of the destination could be the problem. I'm going to temporarily comment out the rewrite and see what happens. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Web refreshes but does not apply changes
> I doubt that that's very helpful, but thought I'd add it anyway. It's > a little confusing to me since I don't know how/why it thinks it's > going to send stuff over an unencrypted channel since all connections > are supposed to be routed to the https port. But I'm wondering if > that rewriting of the destination could be the problem. I'm going to > temporarily comment out the rewrite and see what happens. Well that's what it is. I disabled the SSL rewrite rule in the httpd.conf file, and tried again and it worked. So the Mailman program doesn't like something about the URL's getting rewritten I'm guessing. However, I don't want to run this program "in the clear" - or any programs really for this server - so what do I need to do to fix this issue? Any ideas? -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Web refreshes but does not apply changes
> I disabled the SSL rewrite rule in the httpd.conf file, and tried > again and it worked. So the Mailman program doesn't like something > about the URL's getting rewritten I'm guessing. However, I don't want > to run this program "in the clear" - or any programs really for this > server - so what do I need to do to fix this issue? Any ideas? > Okay for the sake of posterity here's the fix that I've found: Modify mm_cfg.py: DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/' [NOTE the 's' in 'https'] Then run: $prefix/bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url [This is to fix the URL's in any lists you've created.] I then reenabled my rewrite condition in httpd.conf. Then restarted Apache. As the saying goes I should have RTFM before posting, sorry about that. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] Help with abusive user...
Are you sure that he's receiving the list emails directly? Is it possible that he has a confederate or sympathizer on the list who is forwarding him the original list emails that he is then forging replies to? I would double-check to make sure that even list members cannot see the addresses of other list members, because he may have gotten the email addresses that way. Your original idea of a 'red herring' message with a per-address uniquie identifier is theoretically sound, but it would have to be a message such that it would entice your abusive user to respond to it in order to find your 'leak'. The other responses have the best approach I think. If you don't have Terms of Service already that people had to agree to, then you need to retroactively come up with some, inform your users and require that they respond in the affirmative to the new rules or they're removed from the list. Then if the abuse continues, you definitely need to bite the bullet and move this towards legal action. I think this is especially true depending on what activities of the person lead you to categorize it as cyberstalking. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
[Mailman-Users] Altering 'From' address for a list
I've been directed by management to change/munge the 'From' address of a mailing list that is used for announcements to a non-list address. This is in addition to providing the specific 'Reply-to' address via configuration which has already been done. In other words instead of seeing an email with a header like so: Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:00:46 -0400 From: Administrators Reply-To: helpd...@mail.pos.net To: : , : Subject: [admin] Test email to something like this: Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:00:46 -0400 From: helpd...@mail.pos.net Reply-To: helpd...@mail.pos.net To: : , : Subject: [admin] Test email I'm using Mailman version 2.1.12 with Postfix (version 2.6.6-6.el6_5 provided by RHEL/CentOS package) as the MTA. I have tried setting up /etc/postfix/generic file to munge the address, but no setting that I make has made any difference, things continue to show a 'From:' address as ad...@mail.pos.net and inside the headers I see that the 'Sender:' line looks like this: Sender: admin-boun...@mail.pos.net I've tried the following entries in the /etc/postfix/generic file: ad...@mail.pos.net helpd...@mail.pos.net admin-boun...@mail.pos.net helpd...@mail.pos.net admin-ow...@mail.pos.net helpd...@mail.pos.net ad...@localhost.pos.net helpd...@mail.pos.net admin-boun...@localhost.pos.net helpd...@mail.pos.net admin-ow...@localhost.pos.net helpd...@mail.pos.net admin helpd...@mail.pos.net I *have* added 'smtp_generic_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/generic' to the /etc/postfix/main.cf file and I *have* done 'postmap hash:/etc/postfix/generic' after adding/changing entries and I *have* done /etc/init.d/postfix restart after making the changes. However, the 'From:' and 'Sender:' remain the same when I receive an email from the list, no matter what entries are added to to the generic table. This is all being done so that even if someone chooses to ignore the 'Reply-to' address if they reply to a posted message, it will go to this help desk email address and not to the group. Thanks in advance for your help. Tony -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
[Mailman-Users] Migrating Mailman lists from one server to another
We are in the process of upgrading our mailing server with a new machine. This system is also running an updated version of the operating system (RHEL-8 vs RHEL-6.) We have numerous Mailman mailing lists, along with their associated configurations, and archives. Fortunately, the archives are located on a networked file system, so we don't have to move those files. However, I would like to be able to just "copy and paste", if you will, the entire configuration from one server to the other so that we don't have to reconfigure anything. Is this possible? If so, are there any detailed instructions for it posted anywhere? Thanks! -- Tony Stocker -- Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
