Mailman 3 November 2002 - Mailman-Developers

Error???
by Mike Burton 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Hi folks, Running Mailman 2.1b4 with Postfix on SuSE 8.0 here. Things were working fine for over a week and then I started getting "unpickling stack underflow" errors. Updated to the latest CVS files and the problem persists. Any clues would sure be greatly appreciated. Here's what I see after the update (approximately the same error as before the update. I didn't note it before, sorry): Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 47, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 101, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 587, in Load dict, e = self.__load(file) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 560, in __load dict = loadfunc(fp) UnpicklingError: unpickling stack underflow Thanks in advance, Mike

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[ mailman-Bugs-633618 ] checkdbs fails with error
by noreply＠sourceforge.net 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Bugs item #633618, was opened at 2002-11-04 19:59 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=633618&group_i… Category: command line scripts Group: 2.1 beta Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Mark Dadgar (mdadgar) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: checkdbs fails with error Initial Comment: Installed 2.1b4. Running checkdbs results in an error: [root@mail mailman]# /usr/bin/python2 -S /usr/share/mailman/ cron/checkdbs Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 26, in ? from email.Charset import Charset ImportError: No module named email.Charset This means that the admin does not get daily reminders of pending admin requests, either. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=633618&group_i…

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An open source software for browsing and searching mails ordownloading attachments
by Sergio Perani 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

I do not know if this is the right mailing list for this type of message, but I think it could be interesting for you. I would to present a preview of an open source software we are developing, which allows to: - browse mailing lists contents - download attachment - full-text search The preview, called Gabriel, can be downloaded at http://www.opheliadev.org/dist/Gabriel0.1.1.jar (11meg) In the near future we will add more functionalities: - specialized search engine (for instance look for the author of a word document in a attachment) - tight integration in the development environments Gabriel is a subproject of the larger Ophelia project, which studies how to improve the integration between tools into a distributed development environment. More information can be found at http://www.opheliadev.org, even if the site contents will be refreshed in the next weeks. I will appreciate if you could send some comments or add a link on your FAQ page. Thanks, Sergio Perani sergio(a)behemot.it

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2.1b4+ evaluation order glitch.
by Chuq Von Rospach 05 Nov '02

05 Nov '02

Barry -- looks like 2.1b4 is evaluating messages slightly out of order. If I get a large piece of spam (my message limit is 30K, the spam is, say, 60k), it gets held as too large, before the evaluation can take place that should reject it as being from a non-subscriber. Seems to me these evaluations ought to be reversed... -- Chuq Von Rospach, Architech chuqui(a)plaidworks.com -- http://www.plaidworks.com/chuqui/blog/ He doesn't have ulcers, but he's a carrier.

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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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Privacy problems with UserNotification
by Jost Krieger 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

We are converting a few lists to Mailman 2.1b3 and used add_members with the "-c" flag. It turns out add_members uses UserNotification to send out the "big changes" message and UserNotification puts all the recipients into the To: header. As this was for an "adminstrator only" roster, not a good idea. I have no idea where else this could happen. If nowhere else, a loop in add_members might be enough. Jost -- | Jost.Krieger+sig(a)ruhr-uni-bochum.de Please help stamp out spam! | | Postmaster, JAPH, resident answer machine am RZ der RUB | | Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate | | William of Ockham (1285-1347/49) |

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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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Consistent Capitalization
by Joshua Eichen 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

The first letter of the second word for the Configuration Categories should be lowercase and is in most cases. Attached is a patch to change the few Categories where the first letter of the second word was uppercase. This will break the translation of the phrases until the tokens are changed. Joshua Eichen -- Bury my heart at Betrand Russellstraat. keyserver: seattle.keyserver.net fingerprint: 363E D1F4 8EC0 DDE3 5DC1 056F E8ED 5163 EE1B 2333

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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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