GNU Mailman 3 changes

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3.3.10

(xxxx-xx-xx)

Bugs fixed

  • The mailman members command will now fall back to the member’s user record display_name if the address record has none. (Closes #1107)

  • The user_name_or_email substitution in regular header/footer templates now works (Closes #1108)

  • The output from the mailman lists command no longer has trailing blanks and the command with the -d option doesn’t fail with very long list ids. (Closes #1117 and #1118)

  • The text of the AlreadySubscribedError is now translatable. (Closes #1121)

New Features

  • One can now add entries like @list@example.com to the accept_these_nonmembers attribute of a list to accept nonmember posts from members of another list. (Closes #794)

Other

  • The Mailman master process that starts the runners will now pass a number of environment variables to the runner processes that alter the behavior of the Python interpreter. See section ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES in python(1).

Packaging

  • Migrate to using the new standard pyproject.toml for Python packaging instead of setup.py. This also moves from setuptools to pdm to be used as the build backend.

3.3.9

(2023-10-20)

Configuration

  • BREAKING CHANGE: logging.http section has now been split into two parts, logging.http is for the Mailman internal code and logging.gunicorn is for Gunicorn specifically since they have different logging formats. This should fix suprious errors with KeyError: t that was often confusing for users. (Fixes #1049)

  • Python 3.9 is now the minimum supported version of Python.

Bugs fixed

  • config.mta.remove_dkim_headers now applies to messages to -owner. (Closes #1053)

  • The master process now robustly detects when runner processes terminate and restarts them (Closes #898).

  • Setting Postfix transport_file_type: regex without setting something for postmap_command: no longer throws an exception. (Closes #1058)

  • When bounce processing disables delivery for a user, the user’s score is reset so it will be zero if delivery is enabled. (Closes #1061)

  • The mailman shell command now works and displays the banner with use_ipython: yes. (Closes #1062)

  • Bogus Message-ID headers that have been observed in the wild are now fixed. (Closes #1065)

  • Raising StopIteration in a workflow process no longer creates a mailman.error log entry. (Closes #1059)

  • The task runner now evicts old, processed bounce events. (Closes #1067)

  • We now require authheaders>=0.15.2. (Closes #1064)

  • Digests no longer contain a bogus Archived-At header. (Closes #1069)

  • Content filtering will no longer add its report to a non-mixed multipart message but will wrap the message and add the report to the wrapper. (Closes #1071)

  • The administrivia rule will now decode encoded message bodies. (Closes #1072)

  • Email address validation now accepts quoted local parts and @ in local part. (Closes #1077)

  • The default for max_recipients has been reduced to 10 to avoid possible lost mail when a large number of invalid recipients causes the MTA to disconnect. (Closes #1083)

  • Messages preserved or forwarded by content filtering are now the original message rather than the content filtered one. (Closes #1089)

  • List welcome and goodbye messages to users with English preferred_language now have their Subject: RFC 2047 encoded as needed. (Closes #1098)

  • Bounce processing notifications due to a DSN for multiple users now have the DSN attached to each notice. (Closes #1101)

New Features

  • There is a new dmarc_addresses list attribute which is a list of email addresses and patterns matching email addresses. If a post is From: an address matching one of these, dmarc mitigations will be applied regardless of the From: domain’s dmarc policy. (Closes #1084)

Other

  • Typo corrected under “Building the documentation” section of contribute.rst. (Fixes #1075)

3.3.8

(2023-01-04)

Bugs fixed

  • The deprecated SQLAlchemy query.values() method is replaced by query.with_entities(). This fixes an issue with MariaDB that truncated the generated postfix_lmtp file. (Closes #1044)

  • An uncaught passlib.exc.UnknownHashError in utilities/passwords.py is now caught and handled appropriately. (Closes #1046)

  • Rejection notices for a message with an RFC 2047 encoded Subject: now display the decoded subject. (Closes #672)

  • Don’t RFC 2047 encode display names in UserNotifications. Allow sending utf-8 encoded notifications. (Closes #673)

  • Don’t replace non-ascii in subjects in notifications. (Closes #673)

Command line

  • The mailman members command no longer RFC 2047 encodes non-ascii display names. (Closes #1048)

Performance

  • Improve the performance of Held message handling by reducing the total number of database calls required. (Fixes #1026 and #1045)

Python Support

  • Add support for Python 3.10. (Closes #936)

  • Add support for Python 3.11 (See !1076)

3.3.7

(2022-11-10)

BREAKING CHANGE: When using PostgreSQL database with Mailman, starting with Mailman Core 3.3.7 (due to bump in SQLAlchemy 1.4+), the urls in [database] section will require postgresql as the scheme. Previously, postgres was also accepted. This is an example config:

[database]
class: mailman.database.postgresql.PostgreSQLDatabase
url: postgresql://myuser:mypassword@mypghost/mailman

Dependencies

  • Add support for SQLAlchemy 1.4+ (Closes #964)

Python Support

  • Drop support for Python 3.6 since SQLAlchemy 2.0 will drop support for it and it is EOL by now. (See !1035)

Bugs fixed

  • The fix for #994 in 3.3.6 blocked too many subscription attempts. This is now corrected and another test added.

3.3.6

(2022-10-26)

Bugs fixed

  • The mailman members command reports incompatible options that would otherwise throw exceptions.

  • Require authheaders >=0.14.0 and adjust tests accordingly. (Closes #954)

  • Handling a held message will not remove it from the message store if there are other requests for it. (Closes #955)

  • ARC signing now signs after the message has been personalized and decorated. (Closes #896)

  • The prior fix for expanding replacements in the list:user:notice:goodbye template was incomplete. This is fixed. (Closes #922)

  • Decoration of an html message containing non-ascii resulted in a message that couldn’t by flattened as_bytes and whose as_string representation contained non-ascii. This is fixed. (Closes #965 and #967)

  • The REST API will now accept JSON encoded data with boolean values for boolean attributes. (Closes #970)

  • Fix a bug where loading a plugin which raises an exception in pre_hook can cause Mailman to crash trying to disable that plugin. (Closes #724)

  • Fix a bug where the PIDWatcher() iterates over internal dict while it can be updated during that time. (Closes #724)

  • The mailman import21 now always imports owners/moderators with DeliveryStatus.enabled. (Closes #977)

  • A specific nonmember moderation action will be checked for and applied before testing the legacy *_these_nonmembers settings. (Closes #978)

  • Invalid regexps in *_these_nonmembers are properly logged and can’t be set via REST. (Closes #974)

  • Override the as_bytes() method in the mailman.email.message.Message class to workaround https://bugs.python.org/issue41307. (Closes #979 and #980)

  • The nonmember moderation rule now checks all senders, not just the first. (Closes #986)

  • The i18n gettext replacements now all use curly brace notation to avoid issues whith translations that might follow them immediately with a period. The various mailman.po files have been updated accordingly. (Closes #987)

  • The mailman import21 command no longer creates unnecessary entries in the template table. (Closes #988)

  • DMARC munge from mitigation will now find a nonmember poster’s display name. (Closes #989)

  • Subscription workflow will now find an existing User when subscription is for an Address and vice versa. (Closes #994)

  • The subject of Welcome and Goodbye messages is now translated. (Closes #993)

  • Emails to a list’s -join, -leave or -confirm address that result in some errors will now produce a response. (Closes #991)

  • RFC2047 encoded Subject: and From: headers reported in email command replies are now decoded. (Closes #999)

  • The mailman import21 command now converts more template replacements and reports to stderr any remaining unconverted replacements. (See #870)

  • The postfix generated virtual mappings now have correct spacing with alias_domains. (Closes #1001 and #1013)

  • Updated outgoing runner’s fake DSN to use list addresses rather than mailman@example.com in From: and To:. (Closes #1018)

  • Subject prefixing on lists with non-ascii preferred language no longer drops parts of folded subject headers. (Closes #1021)

  • The verp_confirmations setting has now been implemented with default of yes. (Closes #1023)

  • The anonymous_list_keep_headers setting now only applies to X-* headers and will not cause non X-* headers to be removed. (Closes #1031)

  • The mailman.mta.connection.sendmail() method now accepts a string, bytes or a Message object and BaseDelivery now passes a Message object. (See #1022)

  • The mailman.app.inject.inject_text() function now creates the Message object from bytes. (Closes #1024)

  • The mailman import21 command now adds ^listname@ to the list’s acceptable_aliases for compatiblity with Mailman 2.1’s behavior. (Closes #1032)

  • An AttributeError thrown in the task runner, possibly due to a race condition, is now avoided. (Closes #1028)

  • Email confirmation of a subscription request for a member is no longer shunted. (Closes #1035)

REST

  • Expose bounce related parameters for Member objects.

Command line

  • The mailman members command now has a --count-only option. (Closes #1030)

New Features

  • The LMTP service now only accept RCPT TO commands if the given recipient address is acceptable (See !1043).

3.3.5

(2021-09-28)

Bugs fixed

  • Bounce runner now properly commits database transactions. (Closes #850)

  • Pending subscriptions now have a lifetime equal to the configured pending_request_life rather than 3650 days. (Closes #729)

  • Held messages which are handled are now removed from the message store and the pending db. (Closes #257)

  • Admin notices sent when a list member’s delivery is disabled by bounce or when a member’s bounce score is incremented, now contain a copy of the triggering DSN. (Closes #737)

  • Handling a held message now also removes the poster’s pending held message from the pending db. (Closes #257)

  • Deleting a pending request now also deletes any associated workflow. (See #853)

  • A new runner which is not a queue runner and which doesn’t override its run or _one_itiration methods can now be implemented. (Closes #866)

  • The FileNotFound exception thrown in CacheManager on attempt to delete an entry for a missing file is now caught. (Closes #867)

  • Pending probe bounce tokens now have a lifetime of 10 days. (Closes #869)

  • Improve the performance of /users API when paginating by doing the pagination in database layer. (Closes #876)

  • Attempts to get a message from the message store with a missing file are now handled. (Closes #877)

  • The task runner no longer prematurely deletes saved DSNs. (Closes #878)

  • Bounce probe messages now contain the DSN as advertised. (Closes #880)

  • The avoid_duplicates handler properly handles headers that are returned as email.header.Header instances rather than strings. (Closeds #881)

  • The mta.deliver module properly handles headers that are returned as email.header.Header instances rather than strings. (Closeds #882)

  • Places where to_list in the message metadata were increctly referenced as tolist have been corrected. (Closes #883)

  • It is now possible to confirm held messages by email as the admin notice says. (Closes #169)

  • Some exceptions in ARC signing of some posts from HyperKitty and some from prod.outlook.com are now handled without shunting the message. (Closes #885)

  • Command runner now will decode the message body before processing it. (Closes #859)

  • The mailinglist table info, autoresponse_owner_text, autoresponse_postings_text and autoresponse_request_text columns are changed to Text. (Closes #840, #886 and #925)

  • The mailing list administrators roster get_member() method now returns the owner if the target is both an owner and moderator. (Closes #888)

  • Command runner now handles RFC 2047 encoded command with non-ascii prefix. (Closes #858)

  • Improve performance of the bounce runner by decreasing the number of database queries executed.

  • The master watcher will now restart a process that exits. (See #887)

  • When using MySQL, most database columns that expect user input will now accept emojis and other 4-byte unicode characters by using the utf8mb4 character set instead of 3-byte. (Closes #891)

  • LMTP runner now sets unixfrom in incoming messages. (Closes #904)

  • The Message senders() method now RFC2047-decodes and unfolds headers. (Closes #903)

  • The Message senders() method now gets all the addresses from the configured headers. (Closes #905)

  • Require flufl.bounce >=3.0.2, which improves parsing of bounce messages. (Closes #892)

  • DMARC policy discovery ignores domains with multiple DMARC records per RFC 7849. (Closes #907)

  • Held messages missing from the message store can now be accepted and/or forwarded. (closes #914)

  • Dispose SQLAlchemy connections after a new worker process is forked. (Closes #854)

  • Exceptions in bounce processing member removal don’t roll back successful removals. (Closes #909)

  • Only remove or send warnings to list members when processing bounces. (Closes #910)

  • Replacements are now expanded in the list:user:notice:goodbye template. (Closes #922)

  • The nntp runner no longer folds long headers in newsgroup posts. (Closes #919)

  • RFC 2047 encoded subject headers will now be recoded in the character set of the list’s preferred_language during subject prefixing if possible. (Closes #923)

  • DMARC mitigation wrap message now ensures existing cc and reply-to headers are included in the wrapper. (Closes #926)

  • The tagger handler now stringifies any Header instances. (Closes #928)

  • Invitation and (un)subscription confirmation subjects are now translated to the list’s preferred language. (Closes #930)

  • The mailman syncmembers command now catches and reports a SubscriptionPendingError. (Closes #929)

  • Trailing spaces are no longer removed from header and footer templates. (Closes #932)

  • The email join command now handles RFC2047 encoded display names with embedded commas. (Closes #933)

  • The gatenews command now parses messages with email.message_from_bytes without specifying policy. (Closes #934)

  • Improve error message from REST API for invalid email address (Fixes #872)

  • Nonmember posts gated from usenet bypass nonmember moderation. (Closes #937)

  • VERPed vacation responses and similar are no longer scored as bounces. (Closes #939)

  • If a message is held by a HeaderMatchRule, the header name is now included in the reason for hold. (Closes #785)

Command line

  • The notify subcommand is now more tolerant of certain database anomalies. (Closes #861)

  • The notify subcommand now handles unicode errors in decoding RFC 2047 encoded subject headers. (Closes #915)

  • The mailman command will refuse to run as root unless the new --run-as-root option is specified. (Closes #776 and #920)

REST

  • Fixed an exception on retreiving held messages if the held request exists, but the message is missing. (Closes #856)

  • Add a new /users/find endpoint to allow searching for users by matching display_name and user’s email address. (Closes #874)

New Features

  • There is a new bounce_notify_admin_on_bounce_increment list setting and a corresponding list:admin:notice:increment template for the notice. This setting, if True, will cause a notice to be sent to the list admins when a member’s bounce score is incremented, but doesn’t disable delivery.

  • There is a new moderator_request_life setting in the [mailman] section of mailman.cfg that controls the lifetime of pending moderator requests as opposed to pending user confirmations. Default is 180 days.

  • There is a new task runner to do periodic tasks. The current implementation evicts expired pendings and cache entries and removes orphaned workflows and orphaned message store messages. It does these tasks at intervals defined by the new run_tasks_every setting in the [mailman] section of mailman.cfg. Default is 1 hour. (Closes #467 and #853)

  • There is a new list:admin:notice:pending template for the notice from the mailman notify command. (Closes #890)

  • The nntp runner will now run the gatenews subcommand at intervals defined by a new gatenews_every setting in the [nntp] section of mailman.cfg. Default is 5 every minutes.

Security

  • Check the REST API password in a way that is resistant to timing attacks. (CVE-2021-34337, Closes #911)

3.3.4

(2021-03-21)

Bugs

  • Require aiosmtpd >= 1.4.1 to allow address local parts longer than 64 bytes in the lmtp runner. (Closes #836)

  • The email join command now honors the digest=<no|mime|plain> option. (Closes #19)

  • Folded Message-ID headers no longer cause folded smtp.log messages. (Closes #844)

  • Removal of headers from posts to anonymous lists that can reveal the poster or the poster’s domain has been improved. (Closes #848)

Command line

  • The notify subcommand will now decode an RFC 2047 encoded Subject: for the report of held messages. (Closes #831)

  • The deprecated options --add, --del and --sync are now disabled on the mailman members command.

REST

  • Improve the speed of Members lookup via REST API. (Related to #700)

  • Allow specifying delivery_mode and delivery_status when creating a new Member. (Closes #828)

  • Allow filtering members in /members/find API using delivery_status, delivery_mode and moderation_action. (See #827)

New Features

  • There is a new setting filter_report in the [mailman] section of mailman.cfg. If this is set to yes, a report of changes by content filtering will be added to the outgoing message. (Closes #833)

  • There is a new setting check_max_size_on_filtered_message in the [mailman] section of mailman.cfg. If this is set to yes and the list does content filtering, the max_message_size hold will be based on the size of the content filtered message. (Closes #377)

  • There is a new setting anonymous_list_keep_headers in the [mailman] section of mailman.cfg. This is part of improved removal of headers from posts to anonymous lists. This setting is a space separated list of regexp patterns. After anonomyzing removes the headers which are known to reveal the poster or poster’s domain, it then removes all headers whose names do not match (case-insensitively) one of these patterns. The default setting keeps non X- headers, those X- headers added by Mailman and any X-Spam- headers.

Other

  • Add better error message for preferred email edit when not verified. (Closes #706)

  • Reduce the number of database calls in UserManager. (Closes #700)

3.3.3

(2021-02-02)

Bugs

  • Handle some UnicodeEncodeErrors in creating digests. (Closes #560)

  • Increased the size of the data column in the workflowstate table. (Closes #793)

  • Implemented a scrubber for plain text digests. (Closes #473)

  • The mailman gatenews command now adds original_size as a message attribute. (Extends fix for #762)

  • Handle FileNotFoundError when creating digest.mmdf file without a parent directory present. (Closes #699)

  • Fixed an issue where content filtering can throw UnicodeEncodeError when converting HTML to plain text. (Closes #798)

  • A bounce for a non-existent list is now handled. (Closes #799)

  • RFC 2047 From: headers in emailed join commands are now decoded. (Closes #802)

  • The mailman addmembers command now catches and reports a SubscriptionPendingError. (Closes #805)

  • RFC 2369 List-Owner header is now added when these headers are included. (Closes #809)

  • Header filters will now properly match RFC 2047 encoded headers. (Closes #815)

  • Mailman’s vette log discard messages now include the reasons. (Closes #816)

  • Increase the default REST API (gunicorn) timeout to 360 seconds from 30 as several API endpoinds can be very slow. (Closes #770)

  • Header filter rules are now properly processed after deletions and/or reordering. (Closes #818)

  • Folded To: list-confirm+token@... headers are now parsed correctly. (Closes: #819)

Command line

  • A new findmember mailman subcommand has been added to find to which lists and with which roles an address matching a given pattern belongs.

  • A new changeaddress mailman subcommand has been added to enable site admins to change a user’s address.

New Features

  • There is a new setting hold_digest in the [mailman] section of mailman.cfg. If this is set to yes, posts with a digest like Subject: header or which quote the digest masthead will be held for moderation.

REST

  • List configuration option send_goodbye_message is now exposed through the REST API. (See !737)

  • Allow updating an Addresses’ display_name attribute. (Closes #786)

  • Allow specifying a reason when rejecting a subscription request. (Closes #767)

  • REST API now exposes unsubscription requests that can be handled by Moderator. (Closes #768)

3.3.2

(2020-11-6)

Bugs

  • When importing 2.1 lists, ignore CR characters added by browsers in headers and footers. (Closes #701)

  • RFC 2369 headers are now added to notification messages. (Closes #710)

  • Bounce probes are now encoded in the correct charset. (Closes #712)

  • We now unfold address containing headers before parsing in avoid_duplicates. (Closes #725)

  • The dmarc rule no longer misses if DNS returns a name containing upper case. (Closes #726)

  • Fixed mailman.email.message.Message.as_string to not return unicode surrogates. (Closes #732)

  • Bounce probes can now be sent to a member subscribed as a User. (Closes #739)

  • A member subscribed as a User can now be unsubscribed. (Closes #734)

  • When a handler rejects or discards a message, it won’t be delivered or archived anyway. (Closes #752)

  • Messages forwarded when content filtering removes the entire message and filter_action is forward now go to owners as well as moderators. (Closes #753)

  • Handle TOCTOU conditions when there are two simultaneous subscription requests for the same email address. (Closes #748)

  • Removed unnecessary call to Lock().disown() from bin/master.py. (Closes #754)

  • Fixed an invalid logging call in bin/master.py. (Closes #756)

  • VERPed list welcome messages now have a correct envelope sender. (Closes #757)

  • Messages in digests now contain a Message: N header. (Closes #764)

  • The LMTP runner will now add a Message-ID: header if missing. (Closes #448 and #490)

  • The mailman gatenews command now adds original_size to the msgdata. (Closes #762)

Command line

  • New addmembers, delmembers and syncmembers mailman subcommands have been added. These provide more options and controls than the corresponding mailman members modes which are now deprecated. (Closes #686)

  • The mailman conf command without a -s/--section argument will now show sections defined only in mailman.cfg in addition to those from schema.cfg. (Closes #736)

  • Added a charset option to the import21 subcommand. (Closes #769)

  • The import21 subcommand will now truncate long SAUnicode values if the database is MySQL. (Closes #772)

  • The import21 subcommand no longer adds the entire legacy *_these_nonmembers list and then removes the non-regexps. It now just adds the regexps. (Closes #773)

REST

  • Add a new endpoint /lists/<listid>/requests/count which returns total number of pending requests. (Closes #713)

  • Subscription requests API now allows filtering requests with token_owner parameter. (Closes #714)

  • Add subscription_mode to Member resource so API clients can differentiate between subscription via address and via primary address of an user. (Closes #707)

  • Add /list/<listid>/held/count to get a count of total held messages. (Closes #713)

  • Add fields as an optional parameter in all the Member’s APIs to customize which fields are included in the resource. (Closes #716)

  • Expose emergency field of MailingList via REST API. (Closes #719)

Localization

  • Italian translations of the templates have been added.

  • The default charset for many languages is changed to utf-8. (Closes #747)

Others

  • Add a new archive_rendering_mode attribute to MailingList to configure what kind of rendering should Archivers use to render Emails. (Closes #720)

  • An address= option has been added to the email join command to allow requesting subscription of other than the sender of the email. (Closes #721)

  • Added the ability to invite members to a list. (Closes #510 and #730)

  • Made (un)subscription confirmation email subjects user friendly and translatable. (Closes #541)

  • Implemented a new email who command to obtain list membership.

  • Add support for dnspython>=2.0. (Closes #743)

  • Added information about pass_types, filter_extensions and pass_extensions to the content filtering doc. (Closes #775)

3.3.1

(2020-04-19)

Bugs

  • Allow action for header matches to be None in REST interface. (Closes #671)

  • It is now possible to add the list posting address with nonmember role, e.g. to give it a moderaction of discard. (Closes #633)

  • The issue of posting a message without a To: header to a fully personalized list throwing a KeyError has been fixed. (Closes #639)

  • Confirmation or moderator approval of a subscription from an address banned subsequent to subscribing will no longer succeed. (Closes #642)

  • Fixed an issue caused by the fix for #642 where email confirmation of a banned subscription address would cause a shunted message. (Closes #643)

  • Fixed a bug where the postfix_vmap file would merge two columns for long domain names. (Closes #651)

  • Fix failing test cases due to changed API in a new version of dkimpy. (Closes #655)

  • Mailman now auto-geneartes alias maps when it starts for the first time. (Closes #469)

  • Sending a bounce probe now resets bounce_score. (Closes #660)

  • Bounce probes which bounce are now properly recognized. (Closes #661)

  • Residual bounces are logged but are not processed further. (Closes #662)

  • Disabling delivery by bounce properly initializes some bounce info so warnings can be sent and the member eventually removed. (Closes #663)

  • Bouncing member is not removed until bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval after the last warning was sent. (Closes #664)

  • Fixed recipient address in delivery disabled by bounce notice to the user. (Closes #665)

  • Residial bounces are now marked as processed. (Closes #669)

  • Find members API now searches for the Member’s display name too. (Closes #667)

  • Content filtering convert_html_to_plaintext no longer creates messages that can’t be flattened as_bytes. (Closes #677)

  • Removed an incorrect failing assertion when confirming a confirm_then_moderate unsubscription. (Closes #553)

  • Fix a bug due to incompatible API of a new version of importlib_resources library which causes Templates loading to fail. (Closes #691)

  • Fix a bug due to incompatible API of a new version of zope.intefaces. (See !606)

  • Import21 no longer tries to import banned addresses. (Closes #688)

Command line

  • A new mailman members --sync command has been added to help you synchronize subscribed mailing list members against a text list of subscription addresses. (see !545)

REST

  • Expose max_days_to_hold, accept_these_nonmembers, reject_these_nonmembers, discard_these_nonmembers, hold_these_nonmembers, personalize, and unsubscription_policy attributes of a MailingList through API. (See !570)

  • Add a new send_welcome_message flag when subscribing users to override MailingList’s default setting. (Closes #362)

  • Expose content filtering settings for MailingList. (Closes #694)

  • Add advertised attribute to MailingList object so Postorius doesn’t have to make multiple calls for Index Page. (See !608)

  • Expose filter_action attribute of MailingList through API. (See !609)

  • Unsubscribing a user by calling DELETE on a Member resources now honors Lists’s unsubscription_policy and also sends out notifications to user and admins if list is configured to do so. (Closes #759)

Features

  • Add support for processing of email bounce events. Thanks to Aaryan Bhagat for working on this as a part of his GSoC project and Thanks to Google for sponsoring the project as a part of GSoC.(See !584)

3.3.0 – “Tom Sawyer”

(2019-09-04)

Bugs

  • A list member with receive_list_copy set to False who is addressed in CC will now be removed from CC even if this results in no CC. (Closes #575)

  • X-Mailman-Approved-At header now has correct timezone. (Closes #584)

  • A spurious invalid FilterAction: discard. Treating as discard log message is eliminated. (Closes #592)

  • A post from a nonmember matching the legacy accept_these_nonmembers is now subject to subsequent rules rather than accepted immediately. (Closes #587)

  • Email attempts to subscribe a user who is banned or has a subscription already pending are now handled properly. (Closes #577 and #583)

  • It is no longer possible to add the list’s posting address with any role to a list. (Closes #599)

  • Fixed the nntp runner which was calling the nntplib.NNTP.post() method with a string object instead of bytes. (Closes #613)

  • A post with a Reply-To: the list address will no longer be shunted. (Closes #614)

  • Encoded (base64 or quoted-printable) HTML message bodies are now decoded for html_to_plaintext. (Closes #616)

  • Non-VERPed temporary failure DSNs are no longer reported as unrecognized bounces. (Closes #622)

  • Fix mailman import21 command to work in Python 3.7.4 and Python 3.8b4 (Closes #625)

Command line

  • The mailman import21 command now leaves only regexps in the legacy *_these_nonmembers list attributes. (Closes #588)

  • The mailman import21 command now imports nonmember accept actions as Action.defer rather than Action.accept. (Closes #579)

  • The mailman import21 command now correctly imports *_these_nonmembers actions for nonmembers following a member in the list. (Closes #580)

  • The progress meter while mailman import21 is importing rosters has been shortened so it no longer wraps and scrolls. (Closes #589)

  • The mailman import21 command no longer sends an email to existing owners for each imported member. (Closes #605)

  • A mailman notify command has been implemented to be run by cron to send periodic notices of held requests to list owners and moderators. (Closes #258)

  • The mailman import21 command now imports private_roster. (Closes #607)

  • A mailman gatenews command has been implemented to be run by cron to gate messages from usenet to those lists which have the gateway configured.

  • The mailman members --add command no longer prints a stack trace if an invalid email address is given. (See !544)

  • A new mailman members --remove command has been added to help you mass-unsubscribe subscribers from a mailing list.

REST

  • Expose a user’s preferred address using REST API. (Closes #240)

  • Expose header_matches/find API to find a list of HeaderMatches belonging to a MailingList. (See !497)

  • Allow adding a comment when rejecting held messages. (Closes #594)

  • Fix a 500 error when creating a user with invalid email address. (Closes #263)

Localization

  • Add French translations for mail templates. (See !522)

Other

  • Add a new attribute tag to HeaderMatch to find and manage a set of rules. (See !497)

  • Expired cached entries will be deleted efficiently. (Closes #462)

  • REST Runner now uses Gunicorn to run WSGI server instead of the standard library wsgiref for better performance.

  • Add support for SMPTS/STARTTLS for connections to MTA. (See !508)

  • The last remnants of the mailing list attribute nntp_host have been removed. (Closes #611)

  • Email confirmation requests now include an Auto-Submitted header to prevent robotic replies per RFC 3834. (Closes #23)

  • The mail->news gateway no longer munges Message-ID headers unless the original Message-ID is rejected by the nntp_host. (Closes #24)

3.2.2

(2019-03-23)

REST

  • Failed validation to new Mailing List creation and Domain creation no longer returns 500 errors.

  • Expose preferred_language for MailingList through REST API.

  • Self-link of banned emails will be url-encoded when the email is actually a regex, mainly to prevent misplaced ? in the link.

  • REST API now accepts inputs in JSON format. (See !451)

  • REST API errors are now always formatted as JSON. (See !451)

  • Failed request validations now return more verbose errors, like Enum types return all acceptable values. (See !451)

  • REST API accepts request with content type None (See !479)

Command line

  • The mailman import21 command now displays import progress. (Closes #561)

  • An issue with mailman subcommand --help hanging has been worked around. (Closes #520)

3.2.1

(2019-02-22)

Command line

  • The mailman import21 command properly converts all acceptable_aliases to regexps. (Closes #496)

  • The mailman import21 command correctly converts autorespond_* settings. (Closes #505)

  • The various mailman commands now issue a help hint in case of error. Tests have been updated to recognize this. (Closes #519)

Bugs

  • Open non-regular log files (e.g. fifos) in write mode instead of append mode. (See !407)

  • Autoresponses to posts and -owner and -request messages now work. (Closes #504)

  • Message parts are now properly decoded when trying to remove an Approved: header. (Closes #518)

  • Outgoing SMTP connections are now closed following message delivery regardless of the max_sessions_per_connection setting. (Closes #529)

  • Messages with Subject: Re: only are now processed correctly. (Closes #545)

LOCALIZATION

  • Added German translations for mail templates. Thanks to the “Institut für Gebrauchsgrafik” for providing them. (Closes #534)

REST

  • Allow setting max_num_recipients for a mailing list. (Closes #508)

  • Add a per-list visibility option for Members. (Closes #108)

Other

  • Email commands are now case insensitive. (Closes #353)

  • Implicit commands sent to -join, -leave and -confirm addresses no longer generate a Results email. (Closes #516)

  • An explicit_header_only option has been added to Reply-To: munging to avoid putting the list address in Cc:. (Closes #531)

  • The default list welcome message has been cleaned up a bit. (Closes #530)

  • A substitution variable user_name_or_email has been added to list:member:regular:header and list:member:regular:footer templates when personalized deliveries are enabled. (Closes #533)

  • The template search algorithm was fixed to look for in-tree templates for each language in the search list. (Closes #535)

  • Set default subscription policy to “confirm then moderate” for private mailing list style. (Closes #536)

3.2.0 – “La Villa Strangiato”

(2018-07-10)

Bugs

  • A missing html_to_plain_text_command is now properly detected and logged. (Closes #345)

  • Syntactically invalid sender addresses are now ignored. (Closes #229)

  • An AttributeError: ‘str’ object has no attribute ‘decode’ exception in subject prefixing is fixed. (Closes #359)

  • Messages with no syntactically valid senders are now automatically discarded. (Closes #369)

  • Various message holds and rejects that gave ‘N/A’ as a reason now give an appropriate reason. (Closes #368)

  • Bounce messages are now composed for proper translations.

  • Messages with badly encoded Subject headers no longer crash the message moderation REST API. (Closes #383)

  • Generated regexp tables for Postfix now account for possible +extra additions to the -bounces and -confirm addresses. (Closes #401)

  • Address confirmation notices are now properly encoded in the character set of the list’s preferred_language. (Closes #395 and #413)

  • Thanks to Jim Popovitch, certain failures in DNS lookups of DMARC policy will now result in mitigations being applied. (Closes #415)

  • Messages without a sender can no longer bypass the nonmember-moderation rule. (Closes #414)

  • Invalid regexps in header_matches rules are properly logged and can’t be set via REST. (Closes #418)

  • A list whose name is one of the admin, bounces, confirm, etc. subaddresses can now be posted to. (Closes #433)

  • The admin subaddress, a synonym for bounces and deprecated since Mailman 2.1, has been removed. (Closes #435)

  • Better support for changing the list_name property. (Closes #428)

  • Raw Message text is now coerced to pure ascii before sending, and https://bugs.python.org/issue27321 is now defended against by overriding Message.as_string() to cover more cases than before. (Closes #406)

  • The override of Message.as_string() has been extended to catch another observed exception. (Closes #441)

  • The email.message.UserNotification() constructor will now not fail if given a text argument containing a character not in the charset of the lang argument. (Closes #437)

  • A new SQLAlchemy column type SAUnicodeXL has been implemented to support large columns in MySQL and is used for the value column of the pendedkeyvalue table. (Closes #385)

  • Messages with Subject headers encoded in an unknown character set no longer throw LookupError in subject prefixing. (Closes #445)

  • A list’s last_post_at is now properly updated. (Closes #453)

  • Fixed an AttributeError in mailman/handlers/decorate.py when member.subscriber is an IUser instance rather than an IAddress instance. (Closes #449)

  • Message decoration has been removed from the posting pipeline and added to bulk delivery to avoid duplicate decoration of personalized and VERPed messages. (Closes #450)

  • The mailman inject command now reads standard input as documented if there is no -f or --filename option. (Closes #459)

  • Mailman doesn’t chmod existing configuration directories on startup (Closes #439)

  • Calling set on a template evicts the local cache if the template was cached before. (Closes #463)

  • The override of Message.as_string() has been extended to catch yet another observed exception. (Closes #470)

  • Fixed a typo in the help for mailman digests --periodic. (Closes #472)

  • Character encoding errors in adding headers and footers to multipart messages are detected and replaced. (Closes #409)

  • The help for mailman qfile has been fixed to reference mailman qfile rather than the non-existent bin/dumpdb. (Closes #475)

  • The dmarc rule has been fixed to not throw a TypeError when msg.get(‘from’) returns a header instance. (Closes #477)

  • mailman command without any sub-command now invokes mailman help by default. (Closes #479)

  • The alias_domain attribute can become a null string. mta/postfix.py has been fixed to generate proper mappings in this case. (Closes #485)

  • Fix a bug where duplicate address records can be created when a user adds an existing address with a different case. (Closes #476)

  • Several additional templates can now be set in the var/templates hierarchy. (Closes #486)

Command line

  • Adopt the click package for command line parsing. This makes the command line more consistent and pluggable. Also, many CLIs that accepted a “fqdn list name” (i.e. the posting address of a mailing list), now also accept a List-ID. Every attempt has been made to keep the CLI backward compatible, but there may be subtle differences. (Closes #346)

  • If no listname is given, running mailman withlist -r must name a function taking no arguments. This can be used to introspect Mailman outside of the context of a mailing list.

  • Fix mailman withlist command parsing. (Closes #319)

  • Add a new option --periodic to mailman digests command. It sends out digests for only those Mailing Lists that have digest_send_periodic option set to True. (Closes #384)

  • The mailman import21 command now imports DMARC mitigations.

  • The mailman import21 command no longer creates templates with non-standard names, (Closes #482)

Configuration

  • The [mailman]pre_hook and [mailman]post_hook variables are deprecated. They can still be specified but they will not be run.

  • The [paths.*]ext_dir variable has been removed.

  • A new logger has been added called logging.plugins.

  • The [styles]paths variable has been removed; you can now specify additional styles using the new plugin architecture.

  • Mailman now also searches at /etc/mailman3/mailman.cfg for the configuration file.

Database

  • The fix for #313 which ported an upstream SQLAlchemy fix to Mailman has been refactored now that SQLAlchemy 1.2 has been released.

Interfaces

  • Broaden the semantics for IListManager.get(). This API now accepts both List-ID``s and fully qualified list names, since that's the most common use case.  There's now a separate ``.get_by_fqdn() which only accepts the latter and mirrors the already existing .get_by_list_id().

  • A new template list:user:notice:rejected has been added for customizing the bounce message rejection notice.

  • The acceptable_alias and require_explicit_destination attributes have been added to the IMailingList definition. (Closes #483)

Other

  • Add a new plugin architecture, which allows third parties to add initialization hooks, REST endpoints, and additional components. Given by Jan Jancar.

  • Drop support for Python 3.4. (Closes #373)

  • Bump minimum requirements for aiosmtpd (>= 1.1) and flufl.lock (>= 3.1).

  • Add ‘.pc’ (patch directory) to list of ignored patterns when building the documentation with Sphinx.

  • Domain objects now have an alias_domain attribute which is normally None, but which can be set to an alternate domain. This will enable the Postfix MTA to generate virtual_alias_maps which will map list addresses in the domain to addresses in the alternate domain, and will modify the other generated mappings to use the alias_domain. The lmtp runner will also accept the alias_domain as an alias for the email_host.

  • ICacheManager now allows evicting a single file from cache.

REST

  • Allow a mailing list’s acceptable aliases to be cleared by calling DELETE on the list’s config/acceptable_aliases resource. (Closes #394)

  • Allow setting max_message_size for a mailing list. (Closes #417)

  • Added new attribute in lists/styles resource styles that contains the list of all the styles in Core along with their description. style_names attribute is now deprecated and will be removed in future versions.

  • Add display_name for member in order to expose member.display_name. (Closes #398)

  • Expose MailingList.respond_to_post_request through REST API. (Closes #420)

  • Add a new API lists/find which returns all the lists related to a subscriber. It optionally allows filtering based on a role. (See !388)

  • IAcceptableAliasSet resource now interprets an empty string (‘’) as an empty list ([]). This can be used to clear the list of acceptable aliases of a MailingList in a PATCH or PUT request, without having to use a DELETE request.

  • Expose MailingList.require_explicit_destination through REST API. (Closes #484)

3.1.0 – “Between The Wheels”

(2017-05-25)

Bugs

  • When the mailing list’s admin_notify_mchanges is True, the list owners now get the subscription notification. (Closes: #1)

  • Fix the traceback that occurred when trying to convert a text/html subpart to plaintext via the mimedel handler. Now, a configuration variable [mailman]html_to_plain_text_command in the mailman.cfg file defines the command to use. It defaults to lynx. (Closes: #109)

  • Confirmation messages should not be Precedence: bulk. (Closes #75)

  • Fix constraint violations on mailing list deletes affecting PostgreSQL. Given by Abhilash Raj. (Closes #115)

  • mailman command with no subcommand now prints the help text. Given by Abhilash Raj. (Closes #137)

  • The MHonArc archiver must set stdin=PIPE when calling the subprocess. Given by Walter Doekes.

  • For now, treat DeliveryMode.summary_digests the same as .mime_digests. (Closes #141). Also, don’t enqueue a particular digest if there are no recipients for that digest.

  • For Python versions earlier than 3.5, use a compatibility layer for a backported smtpd module which can accept non-UTF-8 data. (Closes #140)

  • Bulk emails are now decorated with headers and footers. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #145)

  • Core no longer depends on the standalone mock module. (Closes: #146)

  • The logging of moderation reasons has been fixed. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Collapse multiple Re: in Subject headers. Given by Mark Sapiro. (Closes: #147)

  • Added Trove classifiers to setup.py. (Closes: #152)

  • Fix the processing of subscription confirmation messages when the mailing list is set to confirm-then-moderate. (Closes #114)

  • Fix UnicodeEncodeError in the hold chain when sending the authorization email to the mailing list moderators. (Closes: #144)

  • Fix traceback in approved handler when the moderator password is None. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Fix IntegrityErrors raised under PostreSQL when deleting users and addresses. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Allow mailing lists to have localhost names with a suffix matching the subcommand extensions. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #168)

  • Don’t traceback if a nonexistent message-id is deleted from the message store. Given by Aurélien Bompard, tweaked by Barry Warsaw. (Closes: #167)

  • Fix a bug in SubscriptionService.find_members() when searching for a subscribed address that is not linked to a user. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Fix a REST server crash when trying to subscribe a user without a preferred address. (Closes #185)

  • Fix membership query when multiple users are subscribed to a mailing list. Reported by Darrell Kresge. (Closes: #190)

  • Prevent moderation of messages held for a different list. (Closes: #161)

  • When approving a subscription request via the REST API, for a user who is already a member, return an HTTP 409 Conflict code instead of the previous server traceback (and resulting HTTP 500 code). (Closes: #193)

  • In decoration URIs (e.g. IMailingList.header_uri and .footer_uri) you should now use the mailing list’s List-ID instead of the fqdn-listname. The latter is deprecated. (Closes #196)

  • Trying to subscribe an address as a list owner (or moderator or nonmember) which is already subscribed with that role produces a server error. Originally given by Anirudh Dahiya. (Closes #198)

  • Cross-posting messages held on both lists no longer fails. (Closes #176)

  • Don’t let unknown charsets crash the “approved” rule. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #203)

  • Don’t let crashes in IArchiver plugins break handlers or runners. (Closes #208)

  • Fix “None” as display name in welcome message. Given by Aditya Divekar. (Closes #194)

  • Fix mailman shell processing of $PYTHONSTARTUP. (Closes #224)

  • Fix query bug for SubscriptionService.find_members() leading to the incorrect number of members being returned. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #227)

  • Fix header match rule suffix inflation. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #226)

  • MIME digests now put the individual message/rfc822 messages inside a multipart/digest subpart. (Closes #234)

  • Nonmember subscriptions are removed when one of the addresses controlled by a user is subscribed as a member. Given by Aditya Divekar. (Closes #237)

  • Email address validation is now more compliant with RFC 5321. (Closes #266)

  • A mailing list’s description must not contain newlines. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #273)

  • Allow MailingList.info to be set using the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Extend header filters to also check sub-part headers. (Closes #280)

  • Allow REST API to PUT and PATCH domain attributes. Allows Postorius domain edit to work. (Closes: #290)

  • Prevent posting from banned addresses. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #283)

  • Remove the digest mbox files after the digests are sent. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #259)

  • Transmit the moderation reason and expose it in the REST API as the reason attribute. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Don’t return a 500 error from the REST API when trying to handle a held message with defective content. Given by Abhilash Raj. (Closes: #256)

  • Delete subscription requests when a mailing list is deleted. Given by Abhilash Raj. (Closes: #214)

  • Messages were shunted when non-ASCII characters appeared in a mailing list’s description. Given by Mark Sapiro. (Closes: #215)

  • Fix confirmation of unsubscription requests. (Closes: #294)

  • Fix mailman stop not stopping some runners due to PEP 475 interaction. (Closes: #255)

  • Update documentation links for config.cfg settings. (Closes: #306)

  • Disallow problematic characters in listnames. (Closes: #311)

  • Forward port several content filtering fixes from the 2.1 branch. (Closes: #330, #331, #332 and #334)

Configuration

  • Mailing lists can now have their own header matching rules, although site-defined rules still take precedence. Importing a Mailman 2.1 list with header matching rules defined will create them in Mailman 3, albeit with a few unsupported corner cases. Definition of new header matching rules is not yet exposed through the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • The default languages from Mailman 2.1 have been ported over. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • There is now a configuration setting to limit the characters that can be used in list names.

Command line

  • mailman create <listname@dom.ain> will now create missing domains by default. The -d/--domain option is kept for backward compatibility, but now there is a -D/--no-domain option to prevent missing domains from being create, forcing an error in those cases. Given by Gurkirpal Singh. (Closes #39)

  • mailman subcommands now properly commit any outstanding transactions. (Closes #223)

  • mailman digests has grown --verbose and -dry-run options.

  • mailman shell now supports readline history if you set the [shell]history_file variable in mailman.cfg. Also, many useful names are pre-populated in the namespace of the shell. (Closes: #228)

Database

  • MySQL is now an officially supported database. Given by Abhilash Raj.

  • Fix a problem with tracebacks when a PostgreSQL database is power cycled while Mailman is still running. This ports an upstream SQLAlchemy fix to Mailman in lieu of a future SQLAlchemy 1.2 release. (Closes: #313)

Interfaces

  • Implement reasons for why a message is being held for moderator approval. Given by Aurélien Bompard, tweaked by Barry Warsaw.

  • The default postauth.txt and postheld.txt templates now no longer include the inaccurate admindb and confirmation urls.

  • Messages now include a Message-ID-Hash as the replacement for X-Message-ID-Hash although the latter is still included for backward compatibility. Also be sure that all places which add the header use the same algorithm. (Closes #118)

  • IMessageStore.delete_message() no longer raises a LookupError when you attempt to delete a nonexistent message from the message store.

  • ISubscriptionService.find_members() accepts asterisks as wildcards in the subscriber argument string. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • ISubscriptionService now supports mass unsubscribes. Given by Harshit Bansal.

Message handling

  • New DMARC mitigations have been added. Given by Mark Sapiro. (Closes #247)

  • New placeholders have been added for message headers and footers. You can use a placeholder of the format $<archiver-name>_url to insert the permalink to the message in the named archiver, for any archiver enabled for the mailing list. Given by Abhilash Raj.

  • The default posting chain has been modified so that the header-match chain and nonmember-moderation rule are processed before “hold” rules are processed. This allows for better anti-spam defenses and rejecting non-member posts instead of always holding them for moderator review. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #163)

  • Bounces can now contain rejection messages. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • The moderation_action for members and nonmember can now be None which signals falling back to the appropriate list default action, e.g. default_member_action and default_nonmember_action. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #189)

  • Ensure that postings from alternative emails aren’t held for moderator approval. For example, if a user is subscribed with one email but posts with a second email that they control, the message should be processed as a posting from a member. Given by Aditya Divekar. (Closes #222)

  • The default message footer has been improved to include a way to unsubscribe via the -leave address. Given by Francesco Ariis.

REST

  • REST API version 3.1 introduced. Mostly backward compatible with version 3.0 except that UUIDs are represented as hex strings instead of 128-bit integers, since the latter are not compatible with all versions of JavaScript. (Closes #121)

  • REST clients must minimally support HTTP/1.1. (Closes #288)

  • Experimental Gunicorn support. See contrib/gunicorn.py docstring for details. With assistance from Eric Searcy. (Closes #287)

  • The new template system is introduced for API 3.1. See src/mailman/rest/docs/templates.rst for details. (Closes #249)

  • When creating a user via REST using an address that already exists, but isn’t linked, the address is linked to the new user. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • The REST API incorrectly parsed is_server_owner values when given explicitly in the POST that creates a user. (Closes #136)

  • A new top-level resource <api>/owners can be used to get the list of server owners as IUser s. (Closes #135)

  • By POSTing to a user resource with an existing unlinked address, you can link the address to the user. Given by Abhilash Raj.

  • Fix pagination values start and total_size in the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #154)

  • JSON representations for held message now include a self_link.

  • When [devmode]enabled is set, the JSON output is sorted. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • A member’s moderation action can be changed via the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Fixed a number of corner cases for the return codes when PUTing or PATCHing list configuration variables. (Closes: #182)

  • Expose digest_send_periodic, digest_volume_frequency, and digests_enabled (renamed from digestable) to the REST API. (Closes: #159)

  • Expose the “bump digest” and “send digest” functionality though the REST API via the <api>/lists/<list-id>/digest end-point. GETting this resource returns the next_digest_number and volume as the same values accessible through the list’s configuraiton resource. POSTing to the resource with either send=True, bump=True, or both invokes the given action.

  • Global and list-centric bans can now be managed through the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • <api>/members/find accepts GET query parameters in addition to POST arguments. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Header match rules for individual mailing lists are now exposed in the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (Closes: #192)

  • Expose goodbye_message_uri in the REST API. Given by Harshit Bansal.

  • New subscription requests are rejected if there is already one pending. With thanks to Anirudh Dahiya. (Closes #199)

  • Expose the system pipelines and chains via <api>/system/pipelines and <api>/system/chains respectively. Given by Simon Hanna. (Closes #66)

  • Support mass unsubscription of members via DELETE on the <api>/lists/<list-id>/roster/member resource. Given by Harshit Bansal. (Closes #171)

  • It is now possible to merge users when creating them via REST. When you POST to <api>/users/<address>/addresses and the address given in the email parameter already exists, instead of getting a 400 error, if you set absorb_existing=True in the POST data, the existing user will be merged into the newly created on. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Port to Falcon 1.0 (Closes #20)

  • A member’s moderation_action can be reset, allowing fallback to the list’s default_member_action by setting the attribute to the empty string in the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • A list’s moderator_password can be set via the REST API. Given by Andrew Breksa. (Closes #207)

  • The ban manager now returns a pageable, sorted sequence. Given by Amit and Aurélien Bompard. (Closes #284)

  • Query parameters now allow you to filter mailing lists by the advertised boolean parameter. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Only the system-enabled archivers are returned in the REST API. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Backward incompatibility: mild Held message resources now have an original_subject key which is the raw value of the Subject: header (i.e. without any RFC 2047 decoding). The subject key is RFC 2047 decoded. Given by Simon Hanna. (Closes #219)

Other

  • Add official support for Python 3.5 and 3.6. (Closes #295)

  • A handful of unused legacy exceptions have been removed. The redundant MailmanException has been removed; use MailmanError everywhere.

  • Drop the use of the lazr.smtptest library, which is based on the asynchat/asyncore-based smtpd.py stdlib module. Instead, use the asyncio-based aiosmtpd package.

  • Improvements in importing Mailman 2.1 lists, given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • The prototype archiver is not web accessible so it does not have a list_url or permalink. Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Large performance improvement in SubscriptionService.find_members(). Given by Aurélien Bompard.

  • Rework the digest machinery, and add a new digests subcommand, which can be used from the command line or cron to immediately send out any partially collected digests, or bump the digest and volume numbers.

  • The mailing list “data directory” has been renamed. Instead of using the fqdn listname, the subdirectory inside [paths]list_data_dir now uses the List-ID.

  • The mailman members command can now be used to display members based on subscription roles. Also, the positional “list” argument can now accept list names or list-ids.

  • Unsubscriptions can now be confirmed and/or moderated. (Closes #213)

3.0.0 – “Show Don’t Tell”

(2015-04-28)

Architecture

  • Domains now have a list of owners, which are IUser objects, instead of the single contact_address they used to have. IUser objects now also have a is_server_owner flag (defaulting to False) to indicate whether they have superuser privileges. Give by Abhliash Raj, with fixes and refinements by Barry Warsaw. (LP: #1423756)

  • Mailing list subscription policy work flow has been completely rewritten. It now properly supports email verification and subscription confirmation by the user, and approval by the moderator using unique tokens. IMailingList objects now have a subscription_policy attribute. (LP: #1095552)

  • Port the REST machinery to Falcon 0.3. (LP: #1446881)

Bugs

  • Fix calculation of default configuration file to use when the $var_dir is created by mailman start. (LP: #1411435)

  • When creating a user with an email address, do not create the user record if the email address already exists. Given by Andrew Stuart. (LP: #1418280)

  • When deleting a user via REST, make sure all linked addresses are deleted. Found by Andrew Stuart. (LP: #1419519)

  • When trying to subscribe an address to a mailing list through the REST API where a case-differing version of the address is already subscribed, return a 409 error instead of a 500 error. Found by Ankush Sharma. (LP: #1425359)

  • mailman lists --domain was not properly handling its arguments. Given by Manish Gill. (LP: #1166911)

  • When deleting a user object, make sure their preferences are also deleted. Given by Abhishek. (LP: #1418276)

  • Be sure a mailing list’s acceptable aliases are deleted when the mailing list itself is deleted. (LP: #1432239)

  • The built-in example IArchiver implementations now explicitly return None. (LP: #1203359)

  • The test suite now runs successfully again with PostgreSQL. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1435941)

Configuration

  • When specifying a file system path in the [paths.*] section, $cfg_file can be used to expand into the path of the -C option if given. In the default [paths.dev] section, $var_dir is now specified relative to $cfg_file so that it won’t accidentally be relative to the current working directory, if -C is given.

  • $cwd is now an additional substitution variable for the mailman.cfg file’s [paths.*] sections. A new [paths.here] section is added, which puts the var_dir in $cwd. It is made the default layout.

Documentation

  • Improve the documentation describing how to run Alembic to add new schema migrations. Given by Abhilash Raj.

REST

  • Backward incompatible change: The JSON representation for pending mailing list subscription hold now no longer includes the password key. Also, the address key has been renamed email for consistent terminology and other usage.

  • You can now view the contents of, inject messages into, and delete messages from the various queue directories via the <api>/queues resource.

  • You can now DELETE an address. If the address is linked to a user, the user is not delete, it is just unlinked.

  • A new API is provided to support non-production testing infrastructures, allowing a client to cull all orphaned UIDs via DELETE on <api>/reserved/uids/orphans. Note that no guarantees of API stability will ever be made for resources under reserved. (LP: #1420083)

  • Domains can now optionally be created with owners; domain owners can be added after the fact; domain owners can be deleted. Also, users now have an is_server_owner flag as part of their representation, which defaults to False, and can be PUT and PATCH’d. Given by Abhilash Raj, with fixes and refinements by Barry Warsaw. (LP: #1423756)

3.0 beta 5 – “Carve Away The Stone”

(2014-12-29)

Bugs

  • Fixed Unicode errors in the digest runner and when sending messages to the site owner as a fallback. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1130957).

  • Fixed Unicode errors when a message being added to the digest has non-ascii characters in its payload, but no Content-Type header defining a charset. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1170347)

  • Fixed messages without a text/plain part crashing the Approved rule. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1158721)

  • Fixed getting non-ASCII filenames from RFC 2231 i18n’d messages. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1060951)

  • Fixed AttributeError on MIME digest messages. Given by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1130696)

Commands

  • The mailman conf command no longer takes the -t/–sort option; the output is always sorted.

Configuration

  • The [database]migrations_path setting is removed.

Database

  • The ORM layer, previously implemented with Storm, has been replaced by SQLAlchemy, thanks to the fantastic work by Abhilash Raj and Aurélien Bompard. Alembic is now used for all database schema migrations.

  • The new logger mailman.database logs any errors at the database layer.

Development

  • Python 3.4 is now the minimum requirement.

  • You no longer have to create a virtual environment separately when running the test suite. Just use tox.

  • You no longer have to edit src/mailman/testing/testing.cfg to run the test suite against PostgreSQL. See src/mailman/docs/START.rst for details.

Interfaces

  • The RFC 2369 headers added to outgoing messages are now added in sorted order.

  • Several changes to the internal API:

    • IListManager.mailing_lists is guaranteed to be sorted in List-ID order.

    • IDomains.mailing_lists is guaranteed to be sorted in List-ID order.

    • Iteration over domains via the IDomainManager is guaranteed to be sorted by IDomain.mail_host order.

    • ITemporaryDatabase interface and all implementations are removed.

REST

  • The Falcon Framework has replaced restish as the REST layer. This is an internal change only.

  • The JSON representation http_etag key uses an algorithm that is insensitive to Python’s dictionary sort order.

  • The address resource now has an additional ‘/user’ sub-resource which can be used to GET the address’s linked user if there is one. This sub-resource also supports POST to link an unlinked address (with an optional ‘auto_create’ flag), and PUT to link the address to a different user. It also supports DELETE to unlink the address. (LP: #1312884) Given by Aurélien Bompard based on work by Nicolas Karageuzian.

  • The /3.0/system path is deprecated; use /3.0/system/versions to get the system version information.

  • You can access the system configuration via the resource path /3.0/system/configuration/<section>. This returns a dictionary with the keys being the section’s variables and the values being their value from mailman.cfg as verbatim strings. You can get a list of all section names via /3.0/system/configuration which returns a dictionary containing the http_etag and the section names as a sorted list under the sections key. The system configuration resource is read-only.

  • Member resource JSON now include the member_id as a separate key.

3.0 beta 4 – “Time and Motion”

(2014-04-22)

Development

  • Mailman 3 no longer uses zc.buildout and tests are now run by the nose2 test runner. See src/mailman/docs/START.rst for details on how to build Mailman and run the test suite. Also, use -P to select a test pattern and -E to enable stderr debugging in runners.

  • Use the enum34 package instead of flufl.enum.

  • Use setuptools instead of distribute, since the latter is defunct.

REST

  • Add reply_to_address and first_strip_reply_to as writable attributes of a mailing list’s configuration. (LP: #1157881)

  • Support pagination of some large collections (lists, users, members). [Florian Fuchs] (LP: #1156529)

  • Expose hide_address to the .../preferences REST API. [Sneha Priscilla.] (LP: #1203519)

  • Mailing lists can now individually enable or disable any archiver available site-wide. [Joanna Skrzeszewska] (LP: #1158040)

  • Addresses can be added to existing users, including display names, via the REST API. [Florian Fuchs]

  • Fixed a crash in the REST server when searching for nonmembers via /find which we’ve never seen before, because those members only have an address record, not a user record. This requires a small change in the API where the JSON response’s address key now contains the URL to the address resource, the new email key contains the email address as a string, and the user key is optional.

Commands

  • mailman conf now has a -t/–sort flag which sorts the output by section and then key. [Karl-Aksel Puulmann and David Soto] (LP: 1162492)

  • Greatly improve the fidelity of the Mailman 2.1 list importer functionality (i.e. mailman import21). [Aurélien Bompard].

Configuration

  • Add support for the Exim 4 MTA. [Stephen Turnbull]

  • When creating the initial file system layout in var, e.g. via bin/mailman info, add an var/etc/mailman.cfg file if one does not already exist. Also, when initializing the system, look for that file as the configuration file, just after ./mailman.cfg and before ~/.mailman.cfg. (LP: #1157861)

Database

  • The bounceevent table now uses list-ids to cross-reference the mailing list, to match other tables. Similarly for the IBounceEvent interface.

  • Added a listarchiver table to support list-specific archivers.

Bugs

  • Non-queue runners should not create var/queue subdirectories. [Sandesh Kumar Agrawal] (LP: #1095422)

  • Creation of lists with upper case names should be coerced to lower case. (LP: #1117176)

  • Fix REST server crash on mailman reopen due to no interception of signals. (LP: #1184376)

  • Add subject_prefix to the IMailingList interface, and clarify the docstring for display_name. (LP: #1181498)

  • Fix importation from MM2.1 to MM3 of the archive policy. [Aurélien Bompard] (LP: #1227658)

  • Fix non-member moderation rule to prefer a member sender if both members and non-members are in the message’s sender list. [Aurélien Bompard] (LP: #1291452)

  • Fix IntegrityError (against PostgreSQL) when deleting a list with content filters. [Aurélien Bompard] (LP: #1117174)

  • Fix test isolation bug in languages.rst. [Piotr Kasprzyk] (LP: #1308769)

3.0 beta 3 – “Here Again”

(2012-12-31)

Compatibility

  • Python 2.7 is now required. Python 2.6 is no longer officially supported. The code base is now also python2.7 -3 clean, although there are still some warnings in 3rd party dependencies. (LP: #1073506)

REST

  • API change: The JSON representation for held messages no longer includes the data key. The values in this dictionary are flatted into the top-level JSON representation. The key key is remove since it’s redundant. Use message_id for held messages, and address for held subscriptions/unsubscriptions. The following _mod_* keys are inserted without the _mod_ prefix:

    • _mod_subject -> subject

    • _mod_hold_date -> hold_date

    • _mod_reason -> reason

    • _mod_sender -> sender

    • _mod_message_id -> message_id

  • List styles are supported through the REST API. Get the list of available styles (by name) via …/lists/styles. Create a list in a specific style by using POST data style_name=<style>. (LP: #975692)

  • Allow the getting/setting of IMailingList.subject_prefix via the REST API (given by Terri Oda). (LP: #1062893)

  • Expose a REST API for membership change (subscriptions and unsubscriptions) moderation. (LP: #1090753)

  • Add list_id to JSON representation for a mailing list (given by Jimmy Bergman).

  • The canonical resource for a mailing list (and thus its self_link) is now the URL with the list-id. To reference a mailing list, the list-id url is preferred, but for backward compatibility, the posting address is still accepted.

  • You can now PUT and PATCH on user resources to change the user’s display name or password. For passwords, you pass in the clear text password and Mailman will hash it before storing.

  • You can now verify and unverify an email address through the REST API. POST to …/addresses/<email>/verify and …/addresses/<email>/unverify respectively. The POST data is ignored. It is not an error to verify or unverify an address more than once, but verifying an already verified address does not change its .verified_on date. (LP: #1054730)

  • Deleting a user through the REST API also deletes all the user’s linked addresses and memberships. (LP: #1074374)

  • A user’s password can be verified by POSTing to …/user/<id>/login. The data must contain a single parameter cleartext_password and if this matches, a 204 (No Content) will be returned, otherwise a 403 (Forbidden) is returned. (LP: #1065447)

Configuration

  • [passlib]path configuration variable renamed to [passlib]configuration.

  • Postfix-specific configurations in the [mta] section are moved to a separate file, named by the [mta]configuration variable.

  • In the new postfix.cfg file, postfix_map_cmd is renamed to postmap_command.

  • The default list style is renamed to legacy-default and a new legacy-announce style is added. This is similar to the legacy-default except set up for announce-only lists.

Database

  • The ban table now uses list-ids to cross-reference the mailing list, since these cannot change even if the mailing list is moved or renamed.

  • The following columns were unused and have been removed:

    • mailinglist.new_member_options

    • mailinglist.send_reminders

    • mailinglist.subscribe_policy

    • mailinglist.unsubscribe_policy

    • mailinglist.subscribe_auto_approval

    • mailinglist.private_roster

    • mailinglist.admin_member_chunksize

Interfaces

  • The IBanManager is no longer a global utility. Instead, you adapt an IMailingList to an IBanManager to manage the bans for a specific mailing list. To manage the global bans, adapt None.

Commands

  • bin/mailman aliases loses the –output, –format, and –simple arguments, and adds a –directory argument. This is necessary to support the Postfix relay_domains support.

  • bin/mailman start was passing the wrong relative path to its runner subprocesses when -C was given. (LP: #982551)

  • bin/runner command has been simplified and its command line options reduced. Now, only one -r/–runner option may be provided and the round-robin feature has been removed.

Other

  • Added support for Postfix relay_domains setting for better virtual domain support. [Jimmy Bergman].

  • Two new events are triggered on membership changes: SubscriptionEvent when a new member joins a mailing list, and an UnsubscriptionEvent when a member leaves a mailing list. (LP: #1047286)

  • Improve the –help text for the start, stop, restart, and reopen subcommands. (LP: #1035033)

Bugs

  • Fixed send_goodbye_message(). (LP: #1091321)

  • Fixed REST server crash on reopen command. Identification and test provided by Aurélien Bompard. (LP: #1184376)

3.0 beta 2 – “Freeze”

(2012-09-05)

Architecture

  • The link between members and the mailing lists they are subscribed to, is now via the RFC 2369 list_id instead of the fqdn listname (i.e. posting address). This is because while the posting address can change if the mailing list is moved to a new server, the list id is fixed. (LP: #1024509)

    • IListManager.get_by_list_id() added.

    • IListManager.list_ids added.

    • IMailingList.list_id added.

    • Several internal APIs that accepted fqdn list names now require list ids, e.g. ISubscriptionService.join() and .find_members().

    • IMember.list_id attribute added; .mailing_list is now an alias that retrieves and returns the IMailingList.

  • passlib is now used for all password hashing instead of flufl.password. The default hash is sha512_crypt. (LP: #1015758)

  • Internally, all datetimes are kept in the UTC timezone, however because of LP: #280708, they are stored in the database in naive format.

  • received_time is now added to the message metadata by the LMTP runner instead of by Switchboard.enqueue(). This latter no longer depends on received_time in the metadata.

  • The ArchiveRunner no longer acquires a lock before it calls the individual archiver implementations, since not all of them need a lock. If they do, the implementations must acquire said lock themselves.

  • The news runner and queue has been renamed to the more accurate nntp. The runner has also been ported to Mailman 3 (LP: #967409). Beta testers can safely remove $var_dir/queue/news.

  • A mailing list’s moderator password is no longer stored in the clear; it is hashed with the currently selected scheme.

  • An AddressVerificationEvent is triggered when an IAddress is verified or unverified. (LP: #975698)

  • A PasswordChangeEvent is triggered when an IUser’s password changes. (LP: #975700)

  • When a queue runner gets an exception in its _dispose() method, a RunnerCrashEvent is triggered, which contains references to the queue runner, mailing list, message, metadata, and exception. Interested parties can subscribe to that zope.event for notification.

  • Events renamed and moved: * mailman.chains.accept.AcceptNotification * mailman.chains.base.ChainNotification * mailman.chains.discard.DiscardNotification * mailman.chains.hold.HoldNotification * mailman.chains.owner.OwnerNotification * mailman.chains.reject.RejectNotification changed to (respectively): * mailman.interfaces.chains.AcceptEvent * mailman.interfaces.chains.ChainEvent * mailman.interfaces.chains.DiscardEvent * mailman.interfaces.chains.HoldEvent * mailman.interfaces.chains.AcceptOwnerEvent * mailman.interfaces.chains.RejectEvent

  • A ConfigurationUpdatedEvent is triggered when the system-wide global configuration stack is pushed or popped.

  • The policy for archiving has now been collapsed into a single enum, called ArchivePolicy. This describes the three states of never archive, archive privately, and archive_publicly. (LP: #967238)

Database

  • Schema migrations (LP: #971013)

    • mailinglist.include_list_post_header -> allow_list_posts

    • mailinglist.news_prefix_subject_too -> nntp_prefix_subject_too

    • mailinglist.news_moderation -> newsgroup_moderation

    • mailinglist.archive and mailinglist.archive_private have been collapsed into archive_policy.

    • mailinglist.nntp_host has been removed.

    • mailinglist.generic_nonmember_action has been removed (LP: #975696)

  • Schema migrations (LP: #1024509) - member.mailing_list -> list_id

  • The PostgreSQL port of the schema accidentally added a moderation_callback column to the mailinglist table. Since this is unused in Mailman, it was simply commented out of the base schema for PostgreSQL.

REST

  • Expose archive_policy in the REST API. Contributed by Alexander Sulfrian. (LP: #1039129)

Configuration

  • New configuration variables clobber_date and clobber_skew supported in every [archiver.<name>] section. These are used to determine under what circumstances a message destined for a specific archiver should have its Date: header clobbered. (LP: #963612)

  • With the switch to passlib, [passwords]password_scheme has been removed. Instead use [passwords]path to specify where to find the passlib.cfg file. See the comments in schema.cfg for details.

  • Configuration schema variable changes: * [nntp]username -> [nntp]user * [nntp]port (added)

  • Header check specifications in the mailman.cfg file have changed quite bit. The previous [spam.header.foo] sections have been removed. Instead, there’s a new [antispam] section that contains a header_checks variable. This variable takes multiple lines of Header: regexp values, one per line. There is also a new jump_chain variable which names the chain to jump to should any of the header checks (including the list-specific, and programmatically added ones) match.

Documentation

  • Some additional documentation on related components such as Postorius and hyperkitty have been added, given by Stephen J Turnbull.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed the RFC 1153 digest footer to be compliant. (LP: #887610)

  • Fixed a UnicodeError with non-ascii message bodies in the approved rule, given by Mark Sapiro. (LP: #949924)

  • Fixed a typo when returning the configuration file’s header match checks. (LP: #953497)

  • List-Post should be NO when posting is not allowed. (LP: #987563)

  • Non-unicode values in msgdata broke pending requests. (LP: #1031391)

  • Show devmode in bin/mailman info output. (LP: #1035028)

  • Fix residual references to the old IMailingList archive variables. (LP: #1031393)

3.0 beta 1 – “The Twilight Zone”

(2012-03-23)

Architecture

  • Schema migrations have been implemented.

  • Implement the style manager as a utility instead of an attribute hanging off the mailman.config.config object.

  • PostgreSQL support contributed by Stephen A. Goss. (LP: #860159)

  • Separate out the RFC 2369 header adding handler.

  • Dynamically calculate the List-Id header instead of storing it in the database. This means it cannot be changed.

  • Major redesign of the template search system, fixing LP: #788309. $var_dir is now used when search for all template overrides, site, domain, or mailing list. The in-tree English templates are used only as a last fallback.

  • Support downloading templates by URI, including mailman:// URIs. This is used in welcome and goodbye messages, as well as regular and digest headers and footers, and supports both language and mailing list specifications. E.g. mailman:///test@example.com/it/welcome.txt

  • $user_password is no longer supported as a placeholder in headers and footers.

  • Mailing lists get multiple chains and pipelines. For example, normal postings go through the posting_chain while messages to owners to through owners_chain. The default built-in chain is renamed to default-posting-chain while the built-in pipeline is renamed default-posting-pipeline.

  • The experimental maildir runner is removed. Use LMTP.

  • The LMTP server now requires that the incoming message have a Message-ID, otherwise it rejects the message with a 550 error. Also, the LMTP server adds the X-Message-ID-Hash header automatically. The inject cli command will also add the X-Message-ID-Hash header, but it will craft a Message-ID header first if one is missing from the injected text. Also, inject will always set the correct value for the original_size attribute on the message object, instead of trusting a possibly incorrect value if it’s already set. The individual IArchiver implementations no longer set the X-Message-ID-Hash header.

  • The Prototype archiver now stores its files in maildir format inside of $var_dir/archives/prototype, given by Toshio Kuratomi.

  • Improved “8 mile high” document distilled by Stephen J Turnbull from the Pycon 2012 Mailman 3 sprint. Also improvements to the Sphinx build given by Andrea Crotti (LP: #954718).

  • Pipermail has been eradicated.

  • Configuration variable [mailman]filtered_messages_are_preservable controls whether messages which have their top-level Content-Type filtered out can be preserved in the bad queue by list owners.

  • Configuration section [scrubber] removed, as is the scrubber handler. This handler was essentially incompatible with Mailman 3 since it required coordination with Pipermail to store attachments on disk.

Database

  • Schema changes: - welcome_msg -> welcome_message_uri - goodbye_msg -> goodbye_message_uri - send_welcome_msg -> send_welcome_message - send_goodbye_msg -> send_goodbye_message - msg_header -> header_uri - msg_footer -> footer_uri - digest_header -> digest_header_uri - digest_footer -> digest_footer_uri - start_chain -> posting_chain - pipeline -> posting_pipeline - real_name -> display_name (mailinglist, user, address)

  • Schema additions: - mailinglist.filter_action - mailinglist.owner_chain - mailinglist.owner_pipeline

REST

  • Held messages can now be moderated through the REST API. Mailing list resources now accept a held path component. GETing this returns all held messages for the mailing list. POSTing to a specific request id under this url can dispose of the message using Action enums.

  • Mailing list resources now have a member_count attribute which gives the number of subscribed members. Given by Toshio Kuratomi.

Interfaces

  • Add property IUserManager.members to return all IMembers in the system.

  • Add property IListmanager.name_components which returns 2-tuples for every mailing list as (list_name, mail_host).

  • Remove previously deprecated IListManager.get_mailing_lists().

  • IMailTransportAgentAliases now explicitly accepts duck-typed arguments.

  • IRequests interface is removed. Now just use adaptation from IListRequests directly (which takes an IMailingList object).

  • handle_message() now allows for Action.hold which is synonymous with Action.defer (since the message is already being held).

  • IListRequests.get_request() now takes an optional request_type argument to narrow the search for the given request.

  • New ITemplateLoader utility.

  • ILanguageManager.add() returns the ILanguage object just created.

  • IMailinglist.decorators removed; it was unused

  • IMailingList.real_name -> IMailingList.display_name

  • IUser.real_name -> IUser.display_name

  • IAddress.real_name -> IAddress.display_name

  • Add property IRoster.member_count.

Commands

  • IPython support in bin/mailman shell contributed by Andrea Crotti. (LP: #949926).

  • The mailman.cfg configuration file will now automatically be detected if it exists in an etc directory which is a sibling of argv0.

  • bin/mailman shell is an alias for withlist.

  • The confirm email command now properly handles Re:-like prefixes, even if they contain non-ASCII characters. (LP: #685261)

  • The join email command no longer accepts an address= argument. Its digest= argument now accepts the following values: no (for regular delivery), mime, or plain.

  • Added a help email command.

  • A welcome message is sent when the user confirms their subscription via email.

  • Global -C option now accepts an absolute path to the configuration file. Given by Andrea Crotti. (LP: #953707)

Bug fixes

  • Subscription disabled probe warning notification messages are now sent without a Precedence: header. Given by Mark Sapiro. (LP: #808821)

  • Fixed KeyError in retry runner, contributed by Stephen A. Goss. (LP: #872391)

  • Fixed bogus use of bounce_processing attribute (should have been process_bounces, with thanks to Vincent Fretin. (LP: #876774)

  • Fix test_moderation for timezones east of UTC+0000, given by blacktav. (LP: #890675)

3.0 alpha 8 – “Where’s My Thing?”

(2011-09-23)

Architecture

  • Factor out bounce detection to flufl.bounce.

  • Unrecognized bounces can now also be forwarded to the site owner.

  • mailman.qrunner log is renamed to mailman.runner

  • master-qrunner.lck -> master.lck

  • master-qrunner.pid -> master.pid

  • Four new events are created, and notifications are sent during mailing list lifecycle changes: - ListCreatingEvent - sent before the mailing list is created - ListCreatedEvent - sent after the mailing list is created - ListDeletingEvent - sent before the mailing list is deleted - ListDeletedEvent - sent after the mailing list is deleted

  • Four new events are created, and notifications are sent during domain lifecycle changes: - DomainCreatingEvent - sent before the domain is created - DomainCreatedEvent - sent after the domain is created - DomainDeletingEvent - sent before the domain is deleted - DomainDeletedEvent - sent after the domain is deleted

  • Using the above events, when a domain is deleted, associated mailing lists are deleted. (LP: #837526)

  • IDomain.email_host -> .mail_host (LP: #831660)

  • User and Member ids are now proper UUIDs.

  • Improved the way enums are stored in the database, so that they are more explicitly expressed in the code, and more database efficient.

REST

  • Preferences for addresses, users, and members can be accessed, changed, and deleted through the REST interface. Hierarchical, combined preferences for members, and system preferences can be read through the REST interface. (LP: #821438)

  • The IMailingList attribute host_name has been renamed to mail_host for consistency. This changes the REST API for mailing list resources. (LP: #787599)

  • New REST resource http://…/members/find can be POSTed to in order to find member records. Optional arguments are subscriber (email address to search for), fqdn_listname, and role (i.e. MemberRole). (LP: #799612)

  • You can now query or change a member’s delivery_mode attribute through the REST API (LP: #833132). Given by Stephen A. Goss.

  • New REST resource http://…/<domain>/lists can be GETed in order to find all the mailing lists in a specific domain (LP: #829765). Given by Stephen A. Goss.

  • Fixed /lists/<fqdn_listname>/<role>/<email> (LP: #825570)

  • Remove role plurals from /lists/<fqdn_listname/rosters/<role>

  • Fixed incorrect error code for /members/<bogus> (LP: #821020). Given by Stephen A. Goss.

  • DELETE users via the REST API. (LP: #820660)

  • Moderators and owners can be added via REST (LP: #834130). Given by Stephen A. Goss.

  • Getting the roster or configuration of a nonexistent list did not give a 404 error (LP: #837676). Given by Stephen A. Goss.

  • PATCHing an invalid attribute on a member did not give a 400 error (LP: #833376). Given by Stephen A. Goss.

  • Getting the memberships for a non-existent address did not give a 404 error (LP: #848103). Given by Stephen A. Goss.

Commands

  • bin/qrunner is renamed to bin/runner.

  • bin/mailman aliases gains -f and -s options.

  • bin/mailman create no longer allows a list to be created with bogus owner addresses. (LP: #778687)

  • bin/mailman start –force option is fixed. (LP: #869317)

Documentation

  • Update the COPYING file to contain the GPLv3. (LP: #790994)

  • Major terminology change: ban the terms “queue runners” and “qrunners” since not all runners manage queue directories. Just call them “runners”. Also, the master is now just called “the master runner”.

Testing

  • New configuration variable in [devmode] section, called wait which sets the timeout value used in the test suite for starting up subprocesses.

  • Handle SIGTERM in the REST server so that the test suite always shuts down correctly. (LP: #770328)

Other bugs and changes

  • Moderating a message with Action.accept now sends the message. (LP: #827697)

  • Fix AttributeError triggered by i18n call in autorespond_to_sender() (LP: #827060)

  • Local timezone in X-Mailman-Approved-At caused test failure. (LP: #832404)

  • InvalidEmailAddressError no longer repr()’s its value.

  • Rewrote a test for compatibility between Python 2.6 and 2.7. (LP: #833208)

  • Fixed Postfix alias file generation when more than one mailing list exists. (LP: #874929). Given by Vincent Fretin.

3.0 alpha 7 – “Mission”

(2011-04-29)

Architecture

  • Significant updates to the subscription model. Members can now subscribe with a preferred address, and changes to that will be immediately reflected in mailing list subscriptions. Users who subscribe with an explicit address can easily change to a different address, as long as that address is verified. (LP: #643949)

  • IUsers and IMembers are now assigned a unique, random, immutable id.

  • IUsers now have created_on and .preferred_address properties.

  • IMembers now have a .user attribute for easy access to the subscribed user.

  • When created with add_member(), passwords are always stored encrypted.

  • In all interfaces, “email” refers to the textual email address while “address” refers to the IAddress object.

  • mailman.chains.base.Chain no longer self registers.

  • New member and nonmember moderation rules and chains. This effectively ports moderation rules from Mailman 2 and replaces attributes such as member_moderation_action, default_member_moderation, and generic_nonmember_action. Now, nonmembers exist as subscriptions on a mailing list and members have a moderation_action attribute which describes the disposition for postings from that address.

  • Member.is_moderated was removed because of the above change.

  • default_member_action and default_nonmember_action were added to mailing lists.

  • All sender addresses are registered (unverified) with the user manager by the incoming queue runner. This way, nonmember moderation rules will always have an IAddress that they can subscribe to the list (as MemberRole.nonmember).

  • Support for SMTP AUTH added via smtp_user and smtp_pass configuration variables in the [mta] section. (LP: #490044)

  • IEmailValidator interface for pluggable validation of email addresses.

  • .subscribe() is moved from the IAddress to the IMailingList

  • IAddresses get their registered_on attribute set when the object is created.

Configuration

  • [devmode] section gets a new ‘testing’ variable.

  • Added password_scheme and password_length settings for defining the default password encryption scheme.

  • creator_pw_file and site_pw_file are removed.

Commands

  • ‘bin/mailman start’ does a better job of producing an error when Mailman is already running.

  • ‘bin/mailman status’ added for providing command line status on the master queue runner watcher process.

  • ‘bin/mailman info’ now prints the REST root url and credentials.

  • mmsitepass removed; there is no more site password.

REST

  • Add Basic Auth support for REST API security. (Jimmy Bergman)

  • Include the fqdn_listname and email address in the member JSON representation.

  • Added reply_goes_to_list, send_welcome_msg, welcome_msg, default_member_moderation to the mailing list’s writable attributes in the REST service. (Jimmy Bergman)

  • Expose the new membership model to the REST API. Canonical member resource URLs are now much shorter and live in their own top-level namespace instead of within the mailing list’s namespace.

  • /addresses/<email>/memberships gets all the memberships for a given email address.

  • /users is a new top-level URL under which user information can be accessed. Posting to this creates new users.

  • Users can subscribe to mailing lists through the REST API.

  • Domains can be deleted via the REST API.

  • PUT and PATCH to a list configuration now returns a 204 (No Content).

Build

  • Support Python 2.7. (LP: #667472)

  • Disable site-packages in buildout.cfg because of LP: #659231.

  • Don’t include eggs/ or parts/ in the source tarball. (LP: #656946)

  • flufl.lock is now required instead of locknix.

Bugs fixed

  • Typo in scan_message(). (LP: #645897)

  • Typo in add_member(). (LP: #710182) (Florian Fuchs)

  • Re-enable bounce detectors. (LP: #756943)

  • Clean up many pyflakes problems; ditching pylint.

3.0 alpha 6 – “Cut to the Chase”

(2010-09-20)

Commands

  • The functionality of ‘bin/list_members’ has been moved to ‘bin/mailman members’.

  • ‘bin/mailman info’ -v/–verbose output displays the file system layout paths Mailman is currently configured to use.

Configuration

  • You can now configure the paths Mailman uses for queue files, lock files, data files, etc. via the configuration file. Define a file system ‘layout’ and then select that layout in the [mailman] section. Default layouts include ‘local’ for putting everything in /var/tmp/mailman, ‘dev’ for local development, and ‘fhs’ for Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.3 (LP #490144).

  • Queue file directories now live in $var_dir/queues.

REST

  • lazr.restful has been replaced by restish as the REST publishing technology used by Mailman.

  • New REST API for getting all the members of a roster for a specific mailing list.

  • New REST API for getting and setting a mailing list’s configuration. GET and PUT are supported to retrieve the current configuration, and set all the list’s writable attributes in one request. PATCH is supported to partially update a mailing list’s configuration. Individual options can be set and retrieved by using subpaths.

  • Subscribing an already subscribed member via REST now returns a 409 HTTP error. LP: #552917

  • Fixed a bug when deleting a list via the REST API. LP: #601899

Architecture

  • X-BeenThere header is removed.

  • Mailman no longer touches the Sender or Errors-To headers.

  • Chain actions can now fire Zope events in their _process() implementations.

  • Environment variable $MAILMAN_VAR_DIR can be used to control the var/ directory for Mailman’s runtime files. New environment variable $MAILMAN_UNDER_MASTER_CONTROL is used instead of the qrunner’s –subproc/-s option.

Miscellaneous

  • Allow X-Approved and X-Approve headers, equivalent to Approved and Approve. LP: #557750

  • Various test failure fixes. LP: #543618, LP: #544477

  • List-Post header is retained in MIME digest messages. LP: #526143

  • Importing from a Mailman 2.1.x list is partially supported.

3.0 alpha 5 – “Distant Early Warning”

(2010-01-18)

REST

  • Add REST API for subscription services. You can now:

    • list all members in all mailing lists

    • subscribe (and possibly register) an address to a mailing list

    • unsubscribe an address from mailing list

Commands

  • ‘bin/dumpdb’ is now ‘bin/mailman qfile’

  • ‘bin/unshunt’ is now ‘bin/mailman unshunt’

  • Mailman now properly handles the ‘-join’, ‘-leave’, and ‘-confirm’ email commands and sub-addresses. ‘-subscribe’ and ‘-unsubscribe’ are aliases for ‘-join’ and ‘-leave’ respectively.

Configuration

  • devmode settings now live in their own [devmode] section.

  • Mailman now searches for a configuration file using this search order. The first file that exists is used.

    • -C config command line argument

    • $MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE environment variable

    • ./mailman.cfg

    • ~/.mailman.cfg

    • /etc/mailman.cfg

3.0 alpha 4 – “Vital Signs”

(2009-11-28)

Commands

  • ‘bin/inject’ is now ‘bin/mailman inject’, with some changes

  • ‘bin/mailmanctl’ is now ‘bin/mailman start|stop|reopen|restart’

  • ‘bin/mailman version’ is added (output same as ‘bin/mailman –version’)

  • ‘bin/mailman members’ command line arguments have changed. It also now ignores blank lines and lines that start with #. It also no longer quits when it sees an address that’s already subscribed.

  • ‘bin/withlist’ is now ‘bin/mailman withlist’, and its command line arguments have changed.

  • ‘bin/mailman lists’ command line arguments have changed.

  • ‘bin/genaliases’ is now ‘bin/mailman aliases’

Architecture

  • A near complete rewrite of the low-level SMTP delivery machinery. This greatly improves readability, testability, reuse and extensibility. Almost all the old functionality has been retained. The smtp_direct.py handler is gone.

  • Refactor model objects into the mailman.model subpackage.

  • Refactor most of the i18n infrastructure into a separate flufl.i18n package.

  • Switch from setuptools to distribute.

  • Remove the dependency on setuptools_bzr

  • Do not create the .mo files during setup.

Configuration

  • All log files now have a ‘.log’ suffix by default.

  • The substitution placeholders in the verp_format configuration variable have been renamed.

  • Add a devmode configuration variable that changes some basic behavior. Most importantly, it allows you to set a low-level SMTP recipient for all mail for testing purposes. See also devmode_recipient.

3.0 alpha 3 – “Working Man”

(2009-08-21)

Configuration

  • Configuration is now done through lazr.config. Defaults.py is dead. lazr.config files are essentially hierarchical ini files.

  • Domains are now stored in the database instead of in the configuration file.

  • pre- and post- initialization hooks are now available to plugins. Specify additional hooks to run in the configuration file.

  • Add the environment variable $MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE which overrides the -C command line option.

  • Make LMTP more compliant with Postfix docs (Patrick Koetter)

  • Added a NullMTA for mail servers like Exim which just work automatically.

Architecture

  • ‘bin/mailman’ is a new super-command for managing Mailman from the command line. Some older bin scripts have been converted, with more to come.

  • Mailman now has an administrative REST interface which can be used to get information from and manage Mailman remotely.

  • Back port of Mailman 2.1’s limit on .bak file restoration. After 3 restores, the file is moved to the bad queue, with a .psv extension. (Mark Sapiro)

  • Digest creation is moved into a new queue runner so it doesn’t block main message processing.

Other changes

  • bin/make_instance is no longer necessary, and removed

  • The debug log is turned up to info by default to reduce log file spam.

Building and installation

  • All doc tests can now be turned into documentation, via Sphinx. Just run bin/docs after bin/buildout.

3.0 alpha 2 – “Grand Designs”

(03-Jan-2009)

Licensing

  • Mailman 3 is now licensed under the GPLv3.

Bug fixes

  • Changed bin/arch to attempt to open the mbox before wiping the old archive. Launchpad bug #280418.

  • Added digest.mbox and pending.pck to the ‘list’ files checked by check_perms. Launchpad bug #284802.

Architecture

  • Converted to using zope.testing as the test infrastructure. Use bin/test now to run the full test suite. <https://pypi.org/project/zope.testing/3.7.1/>

  • Partially converted to using lazr.config as the new configuration regime. Not everything has been converted yet, so some manual editing of mailman/Defaults.py is required. This will be rectified in future versions. <https://launchpad.net/lazr.config>

  • All web-related stuff is moved to its own directory, effectively moving it out of the way for now.

  • The email command infrastructure has been reworked to play more nicely with the plug-in architecture. Not all commands have yet been converted.

Other changes

  • The LMTP server now properly calculates the message’s original size.

  • For command line scripts, -C names the configuration file to use. For convenient testing, if -C is not given, then the environment variable MAILMAN_CONFIG_FILE is consulted.

  • Support added for a local MHonArc archiver, as well as archiving automatically in the remote Mail-Archive.com service.

  • The permalink proposal for supporting RFC 5064 has been adopted.

  • Mailing lists no longer have a .web_page_url attribute; this is taken from the mailing list’s domain’s base_url attribute.

  • Incoming MTA selection is now taken from the config file instead of plugins. An MTA for Postfix+LMTP is added. bin/genaliases works again.

  • If a message has no Message-ID, the stock archivers will return None for the permalink now instead of raising an assertion.

  • IArchiver no longer has an is_enabled property; this is taken from the configuration file now.

Installation

3.0 alpha 1 – “Leave That Thing Alone”

(08-Apr-2008)

User visible changes

  • So called ‘new style’ subject prefixing is the default now, and the only option. When a list’s subject prefix is added, it’s always done so before any Re: tag, not after. E.g. ‘[My List] Re: The subject’.

  • RFC 2369 headers List-Subscribe and List-Unsubscribe now use the preferred -join and -leave addresses instead of the -request address with a subject value.

Configuration

  • There is no more separate configure; make; make install step. Mailman 3.0 is a setuptools package.

  • Mailman can now be configured via a ‘mailman.cfg’ file which lives in $VAR_PREFIX/etc. This is used to separate the configuration from the source directory. Alternative configuration files can be specified via -C/–config for most command line scripts. mailman.cfg contains Python code. mm_cfg.py is no more. You do not need to import Defaults.py in etc/mailman.cfg. You should still consult Defaults.py for the list of site configuration variables available to you.

    See the etc/mailman.cfg.sample file.

  • PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL and DEFAULT_SUBJECT_PREFIX now takes $-string substitutions instead of %-string substitutions. See documentation in Defaults.py.in for details.

  • Message headers and footers now only accept $-string substitutions; %-strings are no longer supported. The substitution variable ‘_internal_name’ has been removed; use $list_name or $real_name instead. The substitution variable $fqdn_listname has been added. DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER in Defaults.py.in has been updated accordingly.

  • The KNOWN_SPAMMERS global variable is replaced with HEADER_MATCHES. The mailing list’s header_filter_rules variable is replaced with header_matches which has the same semantics as HEADER_MATCHES, but is list-specific.

  • DEFAULT_MAIL_COMMANDS_MAX_LINES -> EMAIL_COMMANDS_MAX_LINES

  • All SMTP_LOG_* templates use $-strings and all consistently write the Message-ID as the first item in the log entry.

  • DELIVERY_MODULE now names a handler, not a module (yes, this is a misnomer, but it will likely change again before the final release).

Architecture

  • Internally, all strings are Unicodes.

  • Implementation of a chain-of-rules based approach for deciding whether a message should initially be accepted, held for approval, rejected/bounced, or discarded. This replaces most of the disposition handlers in the pipeline. The IncomingRunner now only processes message through the rule chains, and once accepted, places the message in a new queue processed by the PipelineRunner.

  • Substantially reworked the entire queue runner process management, including mailmanctl, a new master script, and the qrunners. This should be much more robust and reliable now.

  • The Storm ORM is used for data storage, with the SQLite backend as the default relational database.

  • Zope interfaces are used to describe the major components.

  • Users are now stored in a unified database, and shared across all mailing lists.

  • Mailman’s web interface is now WSGI compliant. WSGI is a Python standard (PEP 333) allowing web applications to be (more) easily integrated with any number of existing Python web application frameworks. For more information see:

    https://wsgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/

    Mailman can still be run as a traditional CGI program of course.

  • Mailman now provides an LMTP server for more efficient integration with supporting mail servers (e.g. Postfix, Sendmail). The Local Mail Transport Protocol is defined in RFC 2033:

    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2033.html

  • Virtual domains are now fully supported in that mailing lists of the same name can exist in more than one domain. This is accomplished by renaming the lists/ and archives/ subdirectories after the list’s posting address. For example, data for list foo in example.com and list foo in example.org will be stored in lists/foo@example.com and lists/foo@example.org.

    For Postfix or manual MTA users, you will need to regenerate your mail aliases. Use bin/genaliases.

    VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW has been removed, effectively Mailman now operates as if it were always enabled. If your site has more than one domain, you must configure all domains by using add_domain() in your etc/mailman.cfg flie (see below – add_virtual() has been removed).

  • If you had customizations based on Site.py, you will need to re-implement them. Site.py has been removed.

  • The site list is no more. You can remove your ‘mailman’ site list unless you want to retain it for other purposes, but it is no longer used (or required) by Mailman. You should set NO_REPLY_ADDRESS to an address that throws away replies, and you should set SITE_OWNER_ADDRESS to an email address that reaches the person ultimately responsible for the Mailman installation. The MAILMAN_SITE_LIST variable has been removed.

  • qrunners no longer restart on SIGINT; SIGUSR1 is used for that now.

Internationalization Big Changes

  • Translators should work only on messages/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.po. Templates files are generated from mailman.po during the build process.

New Features

  • Confirmed member change of address is logged in the ‘subscribe’ log, and if admin_notify_mchanges is true, a notice is sent to the list owner using a new adminaddrchgack.txt template.

  • There is a new list attribute ‘subscribe_auto_approval’ which is a list of email addresses and regular expressions matching email addresses whose subscriptions are exempt from admin approval. RFE 403066.

Command line scripts

  • Most scripts have grown a -C/–config flag to allow you to specify a different configuration file. Without this, the default etc/mailman.cfg file will be used.

  • the -V/–virtual-host-overview switch in list_lists has been removed, while -d/–domain and -f/–full have been added.

  • bin/newlist is renamed bin/create_list and bin/rmlist is renamed bin/remove_list. Both take fully-qualified list names now (i.e. the list’s posting address), but also accept short names, in which case the default domain is used. newlist’s -u/–urlhost and -e/–emailhost switches have been removed. The domain that the list is being added to must already exist.

  • Backport the ability to specify additional footer interpolation variables by the message metadata ‘decoration-data’ key.

Bug fixes and other patches

  • Removal of DomainKey/DKIM signatures is now controlled by Defaults.py mm_cfg.py variable REMOVE_DKIM_HEADERS (default = No).

  • Queue runner processing is improved to log and preserve for analysis in the shunt queue certain bad queue entries that were previously logged but lost. Also, entries are preserved when an attempt to shunt throws an exception (1656289).

  • The processing of Topics regular expressions has changed. Previously the Topics regexp was compiled in verbose mode but not documented as such which caused some confusion. Also, the documentation indicated that topic keywords could be entered one per line, but these entries were not handled properly. Topics regexps are now compiled in non-verbose mode and multi- line entries are ‘ored’. Existing Topics regexps will be converted when the list is updated so they will continue to work.

  • The List-Help, List-Subscribe, and List-Unsubscribe headers were incorrectly suppressed in messages that Mailman sends directly to users.

  • The ‘adminapproved’ metadata key is renamed ‘moderator_approved’.