Mailman 3 June 1999 - Mailman-Users

Different archive engine
by Nicholas Brenckle 03 Jun '99

03 Jun '99

Does anyone have the setup for working with a different archive engine? Pipermail works fine for listing but it doesnt offer any searching capabilities. -Nick -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Brenckle Yale University School of Medicine nicholas.brenckle(a)yale.edu ITS Med - PO Box 208089 203-737-2377 New Haven, CT 06520-8089

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Strange intermittent problem: [Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1 (fwd)\] (fwd)\]
by Gary Coulbourne 03 Jun '99

03 Jun '99

Occasionally, I get the following error from one of our high traffic lists. It seems to ignore that one of our lists exists, and bounces the mail. Any ideas? It only happens to about one out of 3000 messages. > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > "|/home/cdnow/mailman/mail/wrapper post sysadmin" > (expanded from: sysadmin) > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/home/cdnow/mailman/scripts/post", line 45, in ? > mlist = MailList.MailList(sys.argv[1]) > File "/home/cdnow/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 55, in __init__ > raise Errors.MMUnknownListError, 'list not found: %s' % name > MMUnknownListError: list not found: sysadmin > 554 "|/home/cdnow/mailman/mail/wrapper post sysadmin"... unknown mailer error 1 Cheers, Gary

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Install question
by Riaan＠eTravel 03 Jun '99

03 Jun '99

Hi all Sorry about this newbie question, but now that I have downloaded and installed the GNU software, what do I do with the mailman_tar.gz file? WINZIP is asking me for the correct extension of the file I want to unzip. If I try .exe, it does not work...... I am trying to install on NT server 4. Appreciate the help, Riaan ------------------------- Riaan van Schoor IT Manager eTravel (PTY) Ltd Johannesburg, South Africa (011) 880 8800 --------------------------

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Re: Duplicate Messages Sent
by Nate Duehr 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

Brian, I had complaints about something similar this month during the monthly mailing of the "password reminder" messages. A few users contacted me saying that they'd received more than one reminder, and since the reminders are rather annoying anyway, they were doubly annoyed. I'm not a "Python-head", so I really don't have much of a clue as to what investigation would need to be done to hunt this one down. I'm running an older version of Mailman which so far has not caused me any other problems at all on a Debian system. At least that I know about, anyway...! -- Nathan N. Duehr, nate(a)natetech.com > From: Brian Ryner <bryner(a)uiuc.edu> > > I've never had this happen before but it happened this morning. A > message was sent to the mailing list, and many people on the list got > the message twice (but not everyone). I'm suspecting something gone > wrong in the dividing up of the mail into batches. The system is > running Slackware 3.2, Mailman 1.0rc1, Python 1.51. Has anyone ever seen > anything like this?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] (no subject)
by Me 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

Assuming that I installed everything correctly, the file permissions should be handled by mailman itself w/o any problems, right? Anyway, I manually did this (chmod *.txt.gz in $prefix/archives/public/<list> ) ... works ok .. till somebody posts the next message .. where Mailman chmod 600 the file :( What am I doing wrong here? I am using Redhat 6.0, users' umask is 022 and I didn't install as root. Thanks Feisal Umar afu(a)altek.com.my PS: my installation of mailman can be viewed at http://listserv.mysmac.com/ --- Trevor Johnson <trevor(a)jpj.net> wrote: > > "You don't have permission to access > > /pipermail/sme/1999-May.txt.gz on this > server." > > Check the permissions on the file, and on the > directories in its path. > Make sure they're accessible to whatever user > your httpd runs as. > __ > Trevor Johnson > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] need help w/RH 6.0, sendmail 8.9.3 and mailman rc1
by Harald Meland 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

[Jerry Adlersfluegel] > I have moved my installation to a different machine, and have > installed mailman 1.0rc1. I have created a list and can send mail to > myself via the list, but not to anyone else. I keep seeing a > "relaying denied" in the maillog. Are there any interesting entries in logs/smtp-failures? > I am able to relay from the localhost, and from other machines on my > 192.168 network. You can see what server/interface Mailman connects to with this command: python -c 'from Mailman import mm_cfg;print mm_cfg.SMTPHOST' Are you able to send mail from e.g. "LISTNAME-admin(a)your.rh6_0.box" to one of the addresses Mailman won't send to if you do a "telnet SMTPHOST smtp" and give it SMTP commands? If not, then yes, this is an MTA problem. -- Harald

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duplicate messages sent
by Brian Ryner 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

I've never had this happen before but it happened this morning. A message was sent to the mailing list, and many people on the list got the message twice (but not everyone). I'm suspecting something gone wrong in the dividing up of the mail into batches. The system is running Slackware 3.2, Mailman 1.0rc1, Python 1.51. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? I have a complete log of the mailing.... I'm not going to post it because of the number of email addresses involved, but if there's anything I should look for, please let me know. I noticed this: Jun 2 10:33:34 monm sendmail[15959]: KAA15959: from=<list-admin(a)host.com>, size=3445, class=-60, pri=3141445, nrcpts=101, msgid=<199906021510.KAA15936(a)host.com>, proto=ESMTP, relay=bin@localhost [127.0.0.1] Jun 2 10:33:34 monm sendmail[15974]: KAA15974: from=<list-admin(a)host.com>, size=3445, class=-60, pri=3141445, nrcpts=101, msgid=<199906021510.KAA15936(a)host.com>, proto=ESMTP, relay=mailman@localhost [127.0.0.1] Jun 2 10:36:13 host sendmail[15993]: KAA15959: to=<user1@domain1>,<user2@domain1>, .... .... Jun 2 10:41:24 host sendmail[15994]: KAA15974: to=<user1@domain1>,<user2@domain1>, .... This is just an example, there were more smtp id's. I noticed that the first line has relay=bin@localhost; the second has mailman@localhost... is that anything to worry about? I'm not an expert on sendmail, so any advice is appreciated. Thanks. -Brian Ryner bryner(a)uiuc.edu

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Re: [Mailman-Users] URGENT Plz.
by Harald Meland 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

[Mohammad K. Ghanbari] > I installed mailman under a redhat linux 5.1, I can do everything (run its > cgi, add group and ...), but I don;t know what shoudl I do for mail > aliasing. The installation of the actual mail aliases to make the connection between certain email addresses and the running of the Mailman mail scripts is highly dependant on what MTA you are using. >From the INSTALL file: - Add aliases for `mailman' and `owner-mailman' to the system's mail alias database. These aliases should point to whoever is ultimately responsible for the Mailman installation. Here are instructions for those running sendmail: 1. su to root. 2. Assuming your email is fred(a)flintstone.com, add the following lines to the file /etc/aliases: mailman: fred(a)flintstone.com mailman-owner: mailman 3. Some versions of sendmail require you to run the program 'newaliases' explicitly. If you don't run sendmail, consult the documentation of your mail transport program for information on adding these aliases. [...] 5. Getting started - Create a list named `test'. To do so, run the program $prefix/bin/newlist. You will be prompted for the name of the list, as well as the email address of the person running the list. Put your own email address as the list administrator's address. - Running newlist will generate a list of aliases that must be added to the system. If you are running Sendmail, you may add the lines output directly to the file /etc/aliases. You may need to run the command 'newaliases' (all as root). Now the mailing address for your list as well as its administrative addresses will be set up. If you are not running Sendmail, consult your MTA's documentation for information on adding aliases. -- Harald

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Re: [Mailman-Users] oddness - please help
by Corbett J. Klempay 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

> Yesterday was the 1st...did cron.monthly run something that changed permission, > etc? No...and I checked that the permissions are right. I did, however, just find out that the machine crashed for an as-of-yet-unknown reason early this morning. We're not sure what it could be (the other guy thinks maybe the new 2.2 DoS in some fashion). CJK

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umm, strange... (fwd)
by Corbett J. Klempay 02 Jun '99

02 Jun '99

Tripwire reported the below as the only changes...odd? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:10:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Lipcon <slipcon(a)chimera.acm.jhu.edu> To: Corbett J. Klempay <cklempay(a)chimera.acm.jhu.edu> Subject: umm, strange... this is the only thing out of the ordinary in the intrusion detection output: changed: -rwxr-xr-x root 425684 Apr 18 10:05:40 1999 /usr/bin/python1.5 changed: -rwxr-xr-x root 425684 Apr 18 10:05:40 1999 /usr/bin/python Any idea what could have caused that? Can you go grab the rpm from somewhere safe and reinstall it, just to be sure? Scott

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