Mailman 3 December 1998 - Mailman-Users

HELP! Errors in cron.
by Amanda Shuler 18 Dec '98

18 Dec '98

I think these errors are related to why my mailman won't send or receive files. Does anyone out there know what this means? I got the following mailed to me from cron, after it tried to do an update job thingy. Obviously, I must have some permissions wrong somewhere. But which files do I need to change the permissions to? ---------------- /etc/cron.daily/mailman: Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 73, in ? main() File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 28, in main list = maillist.MailList(name) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 64, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 546, in Load self.Lock() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 887, in Lock self._lock_file = posixfile.open( File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 216, in open return _posixfile_().open(name, mode, bufsize) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 81, in open return self.fileopen(__builtin__.open(name, mode, bufsize)) IOError: (13, 'Permission denied') Exception exceptions.AttributeError: '_file_' in <method _posixfile_.__del__ of _posixfile_ instance at 80e09b8> ignored Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 37, in ? main() File "/var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 30, in main list = maillist.MailList(name) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 64, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 546, in Load self.Lock() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/maillist.py", line 887, in Lock self._lock_file = posixfile.open( File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 216, in open return _posixfile_().open(name, mode, bufsize) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py", line 81, in open return self.fileopen(__builtin__.open(name, mode, bufsize)) IOError: (13, 'Permission denied') Exception exceptions.AttributeError: '_file_' in <method _posixfile_.__del__ of _posixfile_ instance at 80c0b00> ignored run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/mailman exited with return code 1 ------------------- I'm just terrible at reading this stuff. Can anyone else make sense of this? Here is "ls -l /usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py": -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7331 Nov 2 13:32 /usr/lib/python1.5/posixfile.py So what's wrong? :( ----------------------------------------------------- Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any shuleram(a)acm.msu.edu | blasphemous rumours, but... -----------------------------------------------------

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Sendmail and Mailman
by Amanda Shuler 18 Dec '98

18 Dec '98

I have managed to get Mailman installed on my Debian 2.0 system and I've even set up and list and got the web interface going and everything. It all looks good, except for when I go to send a mail to the list. The name of the list is "computerclub2". I am using Sendmail 8.9 Mailman 1.0b4-2 When one of my subscribed users sends a message to "computerclub2@hostname" I get the following erros in my syslog. Dec 16 19:58:41 snafu sendmail[18501]: TAA18501: from=<shuleram(a)acm.cse.msu.edu>, size=729, class=0, pri=30729, nrcpts=1, msgid=<Pine.GSO.4.05.9812161956260.215 01-100000(a)sparty.cse.msu.edu>, proto=ESMTP, relay=sparty.cse.msu.edu [35.9.26.10] Dec 16 19:58:41 snafu sendmail[18502]: TAA18502: clone TAA18501, owner=computerclub2-admin Dec 16 19:58:42 snafu sendmail[18502]: TAA18502:to=|"/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrap per post computerclub2", delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=unknown mailer error 1 Dec 16 19:58:42 snafu sendmail[18502]: TAA18502: TAB18502: DSN: unknown mailer error 1 Dec 16 19:58:42 snafu sendmail[18502]: TAB18502: to=|"/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner computerclub2", delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=unknown mailer error 1 Dec 16 19:58:42 snafu sendmail[18502]: TAB18502: TAC18502: return to sender: unknown mailer error 1 Dec 16 19:58:42 snafu icmplogd: destination unreachable from localhost [127.0.0.1] Dec 16 19:58:42 snafu sendmail[18502]: TAC18502: to=root, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent Then, I get a message sent to root saying there was an "Unknown mailer error 1" and showing the message. However, the message never gets bounced back to the sender, but it never makes it to the list either. What am I doing wrong? ----------------------------------------------------- Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any shuleram(a)acm.msu.edu | blasphemous rumours, but... -----------------------------------------------------

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Problem with mail-GID
by Marcus C. Gottwald 15 Dec '98

15 Dec '98

G'day! I have downloaded the sources of mailman 1.0b6, configured and "make install"ed it, but I can't get sendmail 8.9.1a to forward mail to the wrapper program. "configure" thinks it should use GID 12, which is the group "mail". This sounds and looks all right. However, when I try to send mail, it fails with an "unknown mailer error 1" and the entry in /var/log/mail says Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 2. (Reconfigure to take 2?) Group 2 is "daemon", and sendmail has got something to do with it, according to sendmail.cf. So I thought setting "--with-mail-gid=2" should at least produce a different error message. But no matter what I set the mail-gid to, the error message remains the same after recompiling and re-installing mailman. Even if I set it to something completely different like 13, the message doesn't change. I went through the archives of the list, but was unable to find a hint, so I hope someone can point out to me where I did something wrong. Thanks in advance! Marcus

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options not sticking
by Amos Latteier 11 Dec '98

11 Dec '98

Hi: I'm running mailman 1.0b6 on linux. Some users have complained that mailman doesn't correctly set their options, when they try to change them by sending email. For example: On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 zope-request(a)zope.org wrote: > **** Subject line ignored: Re: Mailman results for Zope > > >>>> set digest off tomato > Succeeded. > > >>>> options > ack: off > digest: on > hide: off > nomail: off > norcv: off > plain: on Any ideas? -Amos P.S. I'm new to mailman so excuse me if this is a stupid question.

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Error with duplicate Newsgroup headers
by Viren R. Shah 11 Dec '98

11 Dec '98

[please cc: me on any replies] I'm currently running 1.0b6 with several lists gatewaying msgs to local newsgroups and vice versa. I just got an error message when a emailed reply was made to a posted reply to a list message (got that?). Here's the error: Dec 03 13:42:27 1998 post: Traceback (innermost last): post: File "/mail/mailman/scripts/post", line 67, in ? post: current_list.Post(msg) post: File "/mail/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1014, in Post post: self.SendMailToNewsGroup(msg) post: File "/mail/mailman/Mailman/GatewayManager.py", line 143, in SendMailToNewsGroup post: con.post(msg) post: File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/nntplib.py", line 425, in post post: return self.getresp() post: File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/nntplib.py", line 132, in getresp post: raise error_temp, resp post: nntplib.error_temp : 441 Duplicate "Newsgroups" header Here's the newsserver log: Dec 3 13:43:01 newsserver nnrpd[4427]: xxxx.rstcorp.com connect Dec 3 13:43:01 newsserver nnrpd[4427]: xxxx.rstcorp.com connect Dec 3 13:43:01 newsserver nnrpd[4427]: xxxx.rstcorp.com post failed Duplicate "Newsgroups" header Dec 3 13:43:01 newsserver nnrpd[4427]: xxxx.rstcorp.com post failed Duplicate "Newsgroups" header Anyone have a fix for this? Where is the best place to check for duplicate Newsgroups header? If an existing one is found, shouldn't the new group just be appended to the same header line (unless it is the identical group), such as: [if local.bar is the newsgroup associated with the mailing list] Original Header: New Header: =============================================== Newsgroups: local.foo Newsgroups: local.foo, local.bar Newsgroups: local.bar Newsgroups: local.bar [no Newsgroups header] Newsgroups: local.bar Thanks Viren -- Viren R. Shah, {viren @ rstcorp . com} "Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified." -- Miles muses on one of the disadvantages of a double life (Lois McMaster Bujold, Cetaganda)

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mail-news gatewaying
by Viren R. Shah 11 Dec '98

11 Dec '98

[Please cc: me since I'm not subscribed to this list] I installed 1.0b6 on a Solaris 2.5.1 machine (running python 1.5.1), running a mailing list that was getting gateway'ed to a local newsgroup. I was having problems with the getting posts to the associated newsgroup relayed back to the mailing lists. Eventually the problem was tracked down to the PollNewsGroup subroutine in the GatewayManager.py script. When this is opening a pipe to the "post" script using file = os.popen("%s %s nonews" % (os.path.join(mm_cfg.SCRIPTS_DIR, "post"), self._internal_name), "w") it wouldn't work (the pipe, that is), and the "post" script would never get called. The way we currently have it workin is by calling it through the python executable: file = os.popen("%s %s nonews" % ("/usr/local/bin/python /mail/mailman/scripts/post", self._internal_name), "w") Currently the paths to python and post are hardcoded, but they don't have to be. Is this something that is a general problem, or one that is specific to our install? Thanks Viren -- Viren R. Shah, {viren @ rstcorp . com} "Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified." -- Miles muses on one of the disadvantages of a double life (Lois McMaster Bujold, Cetaganda)

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private downloadable archives have Content-Type: text/html
by Harald Meland 05 Dec '98

05 Dec '98

I'm having some problems with the downloadable versions of private archives. For lists where the archives are public, the .../mailman/listinfo/LISTNAME page refers to the archive as .../pipermail/LISTNAME. I have made /pipermail/ and Alias in my httpd-config. My httpd should be configured to treat .txt files as text/plain: $ grep -w txt $APACHEHOME/etc/apache/mime.types text/plain txt However, lists with private archives use .../mailman/private/LISTNAME for their archive link, and I think that either the ScriptAlias I have on /mailman/ or the "private" CGI script breaks the Content-Type: of the ".txt"-extended downloadable archive -- i.e. for public archives the Content-Type: is (properly) text/plain, but for private archives it is text/html. This means that when viewing the downloadable version of a private archive in a web browser, all lines are wrapped and things are not very legible. Is this due to me misconfiguring something, is it a feature, or is it a bug? -- Harald

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forgot list admin password
by Greg Stein 04 Dec '98

04 Dec '98

I forgot my list admin password and can't find it in my mail (for the thread-sig at python.org). Is there a way that I can have Mailman send it to me? (or do I have to bother Ken for the millionth time?) If Mailman can't send it to me, then ocnsider this a request to add the feature. I would suggest an extra button on the admin logon screen that kicks off the email. thx -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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Re: [Mailman-Users] forgot list admin password
by Harald Meland 04 Dec '98

04 Dec '98

[Darren Henderson] > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Ken Manheimer wrote: > > > Mailman can't send it to you, because mailman doesn't "know" the admin > > (or site) passwords - it only has the encrypted versions. This is > > I was under the impression from an earlier discussion that mmsitepas could > be used to at least set the site password at any time? Perhaps there > should be a similar utility for the site admin to generate new passwords > for list admins. I believe the site admin can set the admin password of any list at any time using the www interface, entering the site password in the "old password" box. However, I agree that a command line interface to more aspects of Mailman would be useful to site admins. If you know python, such command line tools should not be very hard to write yourself, though. -- Harald

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