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Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager, is a program to manage mailing lists. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

Mailman, the GNU Mailing List Manager

Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

Further details are available on the Mailman home page.

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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.18-1

In their zeal to counter spam, both AOL.com and Yahoo.com - and possibly some other big players - changed their email reception policies which effectively cut off their customer's ability to receive emails from mailing lists which are configured in…
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Mailman sends list emails from mylist-bounce address

I've configured mailman with postfix in 2 different ways and in both of them, when I send an email to the list (ex: mylist@lists.example.com), all the subscribers receive the email from "mylist-bounces@mylists.example.com". I don't know why the…
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mailman refused relaying after update

After I updated my mailman installation the server is now refusing to send the messages... and I can not figure out why. (I receive the messages since my mail account is on the same server, but they are not sent to other members of the list.) syslog…
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Mailman Webinterface Administrative Requests not working

I've set up Mailman 2.1.16 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Postfix and Apache. Sending Mails through a relayhost works fine and I can use the Webinterface of Mailman. But the Webinterface does nothing regarding to administratives requests (Subscription…
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Can I let mailman handle bounces and also capture them to a mailbox for viewing?

We're trying to debug mass bounces from ISPs such as Yahoo! and Comcast for one of mailing lists powered by mailman. Unfortunately, I've never found a setting that allows mailman to handle the bounces, but also CC postmaster (or some other email…
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Mailman + postfix(maildrop)

I am trying to setup mailman, Have got it running but when a user sends a mail to a mailing list. It doesn't deliver because since its passing this message to maildrop and which in turn trying to look for the Maildir directory of the mailing…
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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 message in the moderation list says its from a…
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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 replacing -o by -i. The goal is to build an augeas…
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How to make postfix or mailman send outgoing emails on behalf of announce@example.com instead of announce@lists.example.com?

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 appear as if they came from announce@example.com…
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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 method is used for two domains, on which only…
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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 via e-mail or other sources. My concern is that a…
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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 /var/lib/mailman/data/aliases. Do this with these…
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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 (gandi). They also offer the SMTP service. Given…
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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 way that I can get newlist to not require sudo?…
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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 in mailman folder. how can i see lists of users…
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