Mailman 3 October 2002 - Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Mailman password and administrative reminders
by Dan Mick 14 Aug '03

14 Aug '03

? This very message came to me with the following header: Errors-To: mailman-developers-admin(a)python.org All my bounces come to the list admin address, set in the admin webpage, in the second field of General Options. Do you have that set to something, and bounces still come to root? > 2. Bounces are sent to the poor postmaster instead of a -admin address. > I'm not entirely certain, but I think an Errors-To: header or something > like that in all Mailman messages might allow one to distribute that load > somewhat.

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Slightly lame logging: web subscription request
by Greg Ward 27 Nov '02

27 Nov '02

It appears that MM 2.1b4's logging of web subscription requests is a bit lame -- it doesn't actually log the email address involved, just the real name. Is this deliberate? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer gward(a)mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org

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SOLVED: Postfix+Mailman alias-free and in separate namespace
by Dax Kelson 23 Nov '02

23 Nov '02

I've created the script postfix-to-mailman.py. Python seemed natural, as mailman is written in python, and invoking postfix-to-mailman.py script on delivery to mailman just warms up the disk cache with all the python code and speeds invocation of mailman. Postfix configuration samples (thanks Wietse) can be found inside the script itself. The script is heavily based on the qmail-to-postfix script by Bruce Perens. You can get the script at: http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html Dax Kelson Guru Labs

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SpamAssassin handler for Mailman 2.1
by Jon Parise 19 Nov '02

19 Nov '02

I've taken James Henstridge's SpamAssassin handler[1] and updated it for Mailman 2.1. It's been running on the lists.horde.org mailing lists since last night with no ill effects. I'm going to keep it running for a few more days before I'm confident in its performance, but I'll be submitting it (or adding it to the open patch request) soon. [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=534577&group_id=10… -- Jon Parise (jon(a)csh.rit.edu) :: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/

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More extend.py questions
by Martin Whinnery 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Folks, Please indulge a python virgin. Barry has advised someone to 'overload the Load & Save function' in extend.py . Would someone help me with a little sample? It doesn't need to do anything useful, just replace the original function. Martin Whinnery Assistant Network Manager South Birmingham College

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re: Much cpu/memory load
by Andrew D. Clark 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

I've had the same problem. ArchRunner seems to have serious performance problems if you've got heavy list activity and are archiving to both pipermail and mbox. I "fixed" it by setting ARCHIVE_TO_MBOX=1. This will only archive to mbox, so your pipermail archives won't be updated. You should be able to generate pipermail archives by hand later with bin/arch list_name. It isn't an ideal solution, but at least your message will move out of the archive queue. -- Andrew Clark Campus Network Programmer Office of Information Technology University of California, Santa Barbara andrew.clark(a)ucsb.edu (805) 893-5311 > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:48:08 +0100 > From: "Danny Terweij" <danny(a)terweij.nl> > To: <mailman-developers(a)python.org> > Subject: [Mailman-Developers] Much cpu/memory load > Message-ID: <01ab01c280ec$8739bb20$1e00a8c0(a)onsnet.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Precedence: list > Message: 1 > > Hi, > > Because my /qfiles/archive/*.* files are not processed by the > qrunner/ArchRunner my linux box gets overloaded. > I have now 55mb unproccessed archive files at the qfiles dir. > The pipermail archives are not updated. > > When i do a mailmanctl stop then the Archrunner is still active. I did a > kill -9 PID and it stops. > Then i must remove all the lock files found where lockfiles are. > > Then the cpu load is back to normal. > > 24290 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/python2 ./mailmanctl start > 24291 ? D 34:56 qrunner > /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s > 24292 ? S 0:16 qrunner > /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=BounceRunner:0:1 -s > 24293 ? S 0:03 qrunner > /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=CommandRunner:0:1 -s > 24294 ? S 0:31 qrunner > /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=IncomingRunner:0:1 -s > 24295 ? S 0:03 qrunner > /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=NewsRunner:0:1 -s > 24296 ? S 0:29 qrunner > /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s > 24297 ? S 0:07 qrunner > /usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner --runner=VirginRunner:0:1 -s > > I think that realy somthing is wrong with the ArchRunner. Looks like it is > in a loop or is doing nothing. > The /qfiles/archive/ dir is growing and growing, i must stop mailman very > often now otherwise de box gets overloaded. > > The load was this morning on a average of 10 and all my memory was used > (20mb left on swap). > No error and messages at the logs dir :( > > Please take a look Barry :) it is the latest cvs. > You may also take al look on my box if you want and have time... > > Danny Terweij

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CVS glitch.
by Chuq Von Rospach 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Hmm. Barry, in current CVS, mailmanctl and qrunner both call LogStdErr with a parameter of tee_to_stdout. but in the library they include, that parameter is tee_to_real_stderr. Something's a bit out of sync in CVS so does cron/gate-news everything else seems okay, just those three files. -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech chuqui(a)plaidworks.com -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ The Cliff's Notes Cliff's Notes on Hamlet: And they all died happily ever after

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Help programming MemberAdaptor...
by Martin Whinnery 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

Hello guru folks. Er, I've been trying to make Mailman populate lists from our LDAP directory. I've never used python before, and so I'm probably doing stuff ass fust. Here's what I've been doing: I've copied OldStyleMemberships.py to LDAPMemberships.py In MailList.pl I've changed the import line to: from Mailman.LDAPMemberships import OldStyleMemberships And I'm hacking getRegularMemberKeys to add stuff to self.__mlist before getRegularMemberKeys returns. A few questions: Is this how I ought to be going? If not, how ought I to approach this? What I'd really like to do is have lists EITHER populate in the normal file way OR populated from LDAP. I was thinking I might use an address like 'ldap@cn=groupname,ou=groups,dc=example,dc=com' as the initial and only subscriber address, and use this to flag LDAP status. But I'm sure that's really crap. What ought I to do? Will somebody cleverer than me do the work so I don't have to? HELP!!! Martin Whinnery Assistant Network Manager South Birmingham College

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[ mailman-Bugs-631774 ] i18n unicode string interpolation
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Bugs item #631774, was opened at 2002-10-31 22:46 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=631774&group_i… Category: None Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Simone Piunno (pioppo) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: i18n unicode string interpolation Initial Comment: Hi, below you can find a report from one of the italian translators (thanks Enea Zaffanella). I believe somewhere between 2.1b3 and b4 a string has been converted into unicode and now string interpolation is not working anymore as expected. Here u'' appears in html output (generated by admin.py): ====================================== <table BORDER="2"> <tr> <td><center><strong>Indirizzo/nome</strong></center></td> <td><center><strong>La tua decisione</strong></center></td> <td><center><strong>Motivo del rifiuto</strong></center></td> </tr> <tr> ********************************************************************** <td>u'zaffanella(a)example.it<br><em>Enea Zaffanella</em>'</td> ********************************************************************** <td> <table CELLSPACING="5"> <tr> <td><input name="14" type="RADIO" value="0" CHECKED >Rimando la decisione</td> <td><input name="14" type="RADIO" value="4" >Approvo</td> <td><input name="14" type="RADIO" value="2" >Rigetta</td> <td><input name="14" type="RADIO" value="3" >Scarta</td> </tr> </table> ================================ And here (adminsubscribeack.txt) interpolation doesn't happen: ================================ %(member)s è stato iscritto con successo a %(listname)s. ================================ They are 2 different cases: one is _(string) and the other is Utils.Maketext(a template, dictionary of strings), so this suggests even more that i18n.py has been screwed up by unicode. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=631774&group_i…

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Can't Approve/Reject/Discard from Admin Web Interface
by Rick Ennis 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi... I have a quick question. I just started playing with 2.1 yesterday (snagged 2.1b4+ from cvs) and have been searching the mailing lists all morning. What I can't seem to figure out is... should the approve/reject/discard interface on the admin screen be working (in this beta)? I click one of the radio buttons followed by "submit all data" but it just reloads the same page. Logging out and back in shows no change in the db state. None of my files in the mailman/logs directory have been updated, nor my /var/log/messages file. Is this not implemented yet or did I just do something brain-dead during the installation? I should mention that I can successfully send mail to lists, get notifications for moderator approval, and passed the bin/check_perms script. So I'm a little stuck. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Rick Ennis

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