Mailman 3 November 1998 - Mailman-Users

mailman name
by David Rocher Nov. 25, 1998

Nov. 25, 1998

There is a product MailMan for Endymion Corporation they clains `have been in use all over the world since 1996.' http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ In case of name conflict... David.

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Problem w/ subscribing on Debian 2.0 system
by kemp＠ocean2.msrc.sunysb.edu Nov. 25, 1998

Nov. 25, 1998

I am running Debian 2.0, using smail release 3_2_0_101. I have set up a mailing list LOTOC and can run admin functions just fine. When I attempt to subscribe to the list in order to test it, I get the initial mailing requesting confirmation before my subscription is entered. I return that email to confirm, and receive the following error sent to postmaster: |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: --------------------- | "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd lotoc" ... failed: transport pipe: child returned status EX_1 (1) |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------ (etc etc) I have seen something like this addressed once before in the archives but for a different system configuration. The solution there was to alter the EXIM director and transport files. Can anyone explain how I would do this for a Debian/smail based system? Thanks! Paul Kemp

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Re: [Mailman-Users] List adress problems
by Harald Meland Nov. 19, 1998

Nov. 19, 1998

[Dirk Allard] > Hi, > > sending a mail to my newly created mailing list I get the following > error message from my mailer-demon: > > |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| > "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd empiria-rpg" ... failed: transport > pipe: > +child returned status EX_1 (1) > |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------| > > Anybody knows what this means? I means that the pipe exited with a non-zero status, in this case 1. I suspect that your MTA isn't running the wrapper under the correct user -- here is my Exim setup, note the "user = mailman" in the transport: ###################################################################### # TRANPORTS CONFIGURATION # ###################################################################### mailman_list_pipe: driver = pipe allow_commands = /local/Mailman/mail/wrapper user = mailman return_output ###################################################################### # DIRECTORS CONFIGURATION # ###################################################################### local_lists: driver = aliasfile search_type = lsearch file = /local/Mailman/data/MTA_aliases pipe_transport = mailman_list_pipe -- Harald

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List adress problems
by Dirk Allard Nov. 18, 1998

Nov. 18, 1998

Hi, sending a mail to my newly created mailing list I get the following error message from my mailer-demon: |------------------------- Failed addresses follow: ---------------------| "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd empiria-rpg" ... failed: transport pipe: +child returned status EX_1 (1) |------------------------- Message text follows: ------------------------| Anybody knows what this means? Dirk -- Dirk Allard BUGH Wuppertal - Polymere Materialien email dirk(a)materials.uni-wuppertal.de Tel +49-202-4393873 Fax +49-202-4393880

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Administrating without Admin password
by Szabo, Balazs Nov. 18, 1998

Nov. 18, 1998

Hello! I am the mailman owner on a site, and I want to change a list parameter. How can I do that, if I don't know the listowner's password? dLux -- Hal 9000 - "Put down those Windows disks Dave.... Dave? DAVE!!"

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Slow python process
by Szabo, Balazs Nov. 18, 1998

Nov. 18, 1998

Hi! When I get an email to a very popular list, the python is working with this letter a lot. One python process is tooks about 50-60 seconds with a letter. The list has about 300 members, and they write usually 150-200 letters per day. Some times when I see the "top", I see 6-7 python process running with the "post" script. Why it takes so much for posting one letter? I don't think that sending 150 letters takes about 50 seconds. I think it could be the archiver. Is it possible? If it is, how can change the behaviour of the archiver? I only want to make the archiver working eg. once a day. dLux -- == Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX ==

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Cron and list not found
by Nathan Stratton Nov. 18, 1998

Nov. 18, 1998

I am getting a mail sent to me at night from cron with a error that it can't find the list. I know the list is there, if I go to lists.robotics.net/admin and /listinfo I can see the list and users have been using it for the last week. So why is cron giving me this error? Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 45, in ? list = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 55, in __init__ raise Errors.MMUnknownListError, 'list not found: %s' % name MMUnknownListError: list not found: cleclist Exception exceptions.AttributeError: '_log_files' in <method MailList.__del__ of MailList instance at 99590> ignored -- Check out the new CLEC mailing list at http://www.robotics.net/clec ><> Nathan Stratton Telecom & ISP Consulting www.robotics.net nathan(a)robotics.net

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traceback while sending digests
by Greg Stein Nov. 18, 1998

Nov. 18, 1998

I sent this once before and didn't hear anything. I just got my third copy of this. Looking at the mailman-developers archive, it appears that others are getting it to. Can we get some kind of word on what the problem is? thx -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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list member email address format issues
by John Lewis Nov. 16, 1998

Nov. 16, 1998

Greetings, I am running mailman 1.0b6 on a redhat 5.2 intel box. I added several members to a mailing list using the following format: John Doe <john.doe(a)anon.com> Which appears to work in regard to sending out mail etc, However, it upsets the html parsing of the membership configuration page in the administration settings. The brackets around the email address wreak havoc with the checkboxes for the user options. Perhaps this needs to be stated in the instructions for adding new users... just add their email addresses, not names etc. Which gets me to: Is there a way I can edit the current subscribers to remove the above syntax and replace it with just their email addresses without having to unsubscribe them then resubscribe? Is there a text file of subscribers that I can edit? Thanks. -John Lewis

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Configuring Apache
by Matt Paladino Nov. 16, 1998

Nov. 16, 1998

Hi Users- I've installed Mailman without any problems, but I can't seem to figure out how I should setup Apache. My document root for mailman is /www/htdocs/mailman. I've tried the following: <Directory /www/htdocs/mailman> ScriptAlias /mailman/ /www/htdocs/mailman/cgi-bin/ </Directory> and <Directory /www/htdocs/mailman> Options ExecCGI </Directory> They don't seem to work. Can anyone give me some pointers? Thanks in advance. Matt -- | || ||| || r a z o r f i s h , los angeles matt paladino [ senior developer ] >> 310.581.3616 x 160

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