Mailman 3 May 1999 - Mailman-Users

unknow user
by Jason 21 May '99

21 May '99

every time i email to my subscribe address that mailman gives me, it comes back unknown user. what am i missing here??? jason jkusnier(a)voyager.net

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Re: Usenet gating and archiving
by Stephan Spencer 21 May '99

21 May '99

We're using Mailman to gateway a Usenet newsgroup and email list. I'm curious, is that "severe breakage" in the archives that Barry Warsaw mentioned in his Apr 2 post fixed yet? What Usenet newsgroups out there are being successfully moderated using Mailman? misc.industry.printing is the only one that I know of. Also on the topic of moderating, it would be really useful if we could set up one or more "stationery" replies, which the moderator would choose from if rejecting a post (i.e. through a pulldown), rather than having to type in the responses to rejections over and over again. It would be ideal if the moderator could select a stationery from a pulldown, then once the appropriate stationery has been selected, the textarea would display that stationery response, which the moderator could tweak if s/he wanted to. If the moderator selected the "no stationery" option from the pulldown, then s/he could type in whatever they wanted into the textarea or leave it blank. If I knew Python, I'd help you guys build this functionality... As an interim solution, I've gone in to the code that displays the "If you reject this post, explain" textarea and modified it to include a "Thank you but we're sorry..." message along with a link to the group charter inside the textarea. In fact, it might be a good idea to have a variable where such a message can be defined, but which could be defined differently for each list that is being moderated. Such a solution would not be the "ideal" stationery solution, but it would still be a timesaver. Just a thought... Cheers, Stephan

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stalled connection: archive locks?
by Ricardo Kustner 21 May '99

21 May '99

Hi, well i've traced my problem back to the fact that the lock files in the archive directory are not being removed. they appear as: 1999-May-subject.lock.<host-name>.<#####> where <#####> is a number... does anybody have the same problems? i think this might be what causes the process-overload on our server, when an impatient moderator doesnt wait for the stalled page to completely finnish and approve several posts at once, all of them waiting for lock files to be released...? Ricardo.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] /mailman/listinfo/
by J C Lawrence 21 May '99

21 May '99

On Tue, 18 May 1999 23:56:29 -0400 (EDT) Andy Harrison <andy(a)nachoz.com> wrote: > When I point my browser to my website with just a > /mailman/listinfo/, it should bring up a list of the public lists, > however it states that there are no public lists. I went to each > of my lists and verified that it was indeed marked public and the > ownership and perms of the files seem to be right what they should > be. Check that the domain listed at the bottom of the general options page is the same as the domain you are querying. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) Linux/IA64 - Work: claw(a)varesearch.com ... Beware of cromagnons wearing chewing gum and palm pilots ...

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found a bug? "ValueError: bad marshal data"
by Ricardo - Miss Janet. Fanclub 21 May '99

21 May '99

Hi, like i mentioned earlier, when i approve a post with admindb, the webbrowser stalls for several seconds before closing the connection... well i just found out that it generates an error in my apache logs (See below) is this a bug? or does this mean one of the databases is corrupted? if so, how can i fix it? i'm using mailman rc1 on Linux 2.0.36, i upgraded python to 1.5.2 yesterday, but the same problems were before that. ps: don't you all agree mailman needs more publicity? i think it's one of the best mailinglist solutions... but one of the powers behind GNU like software is when many people help to develop it; and i'm sure there are a lot of developers out there who can and want to help... i gotta start learning python soon! :) did rc1 get posted on freshmeat and stuff? Thanks... Ricardo. [Fri May 21 06:34:29 1999] [error] [client 212.206.29.123] File does not exist: /usr/local/www/miss-janet.com/www/images/mailman.gif Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 209, in ArchiveMail h.processUnixMailbox(f, HyperArch.Article) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 381, in processUnixMailbox self.add_article(a) # Add the article File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 846, in add_article parentID=self.database.getOldestArticle(self.archive, File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 285, in getOldestArticle self.__openIndices(archive) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 228, in __openIndices t=DumbBTree(os.path.join(arcdir, archive+'-'+i)) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 56, in __init__ self.dict = marshal.load(open(path)) ValueError: bad marshal data Ricardo. -- International Janet Jackson fanclub called MISS JANET. For more information write to: Miss Janet. P.O.Box 10016, 1001 EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fax/phone: +31-(0)20-7764493 Email: fanclub(a)miss-janet.com Or check out our website: http://miss-janet.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Exception from gate_news
by Ben Gertzfield 20 May '99

20 May '99

>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry Adlersfluegel <jerrya(a)jerrya.fastrans.net> writes: Ben> This is from Mailman 1.0rc1. I seem to get them a few times a Ben> day. What's the problem here? Jerry> I get them too. I am gating a newsgroup to a dozen or so Jerry> people through my modem on my Linux system. They are Jerry> successfully receiving the messages. Exactly the same situation here. The gatewaying works.. -- Brought to you by the letters W and K and the number 19. "More testicles means more iron." Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- http://www.debian.org/ I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet/Open Projects IRC as Che_Fox.

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Exception from gate_news
by Ben Gertzfield 20 May '99

20 May '99

This is from Mailman 1.0rc1. I seem to get them a few times a day. What's the problem here? -- Brought to you by the letters T and R and the number 15. "He's got a nice body.. he's wearing velvet pants." Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- http://www.debian.org/ I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet/Open Projects IRC as Che_Fox. ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 18:45:03 -0700 Message-Id: <199905210145.SAA02314(a)enkidu.cse.ucsc.edu> From: root(a)enkidu.cse.ucsc.edu (Cron Daemon) To: list(a)enkidu.cse.ucsc.edu Subject: Cron <list@enkidu> /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news Exception exceptions.IOError: (2, 'No such file or directory') in <method FileLock.__del__ of FileLock instance at 80cab98> ignored ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Implicit destination?
by John-David Childs 20 May '99

20 May '99

Anyone know why a message is held for authorization because of "Implicit destination"? The address is a member of the list (postings restricted to members-only). ================================================================= Your authorization is required for a mailing list posting request approval: List: BLAH Reason held: Implicit destination From: SUBSCRIBED MEMBER ADDRESS Subject: [Fwd: (Fwd) (Fwd) Fwd: [Fwd: Fwd: Ancient Wisdom]] At your convenience, visit: to approve or deny the request. -----End of forwarded message----- -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions Systems Administration http://www.nterprise.net & Network Engineering 8707 E. Florida Ave #814 Denver, CO 80231 The Killer Ducks are coming!!!

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User asks: `I wish to remain on your list. What must I do?'
by ijackson＠chiark.greenend.org.uk 20 May '99

20 May '99

This user (name deleted to protect the stupid) on one of the lists on my system seems to have misinterpreted the meaning of the reminder mail. Perhaps something should be added to the default text to say that to remain subscribed they should do nothing.

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Read-Only lists
by Adonis El Fakih 20 May '99

20 May '99

Hello to all, Can some one help me find out how to set up a read-only mailing list? ______________________________________________________________ Ayna, E-mail that speaks your language - http://login.ayna.com

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