Mailman 3 July 1999 - Mailman-Users

Anyone on Antibiotic treatment for Mycoplasma in their white cells.
by sonia lawson July 14, 1999

July 14, 1999

Hi!, I have had C.F.S. for 17 years severely. Last year test proved I have Mycoplasma bacteria/virus in my white cells. I have been on Rulide for 6 months and am no better, but infact some symptons are worse. I am having a 2 week break at present from Rulide and need to go on a different antibiotic as from next week. My problem is I do not know which antibiotic to try next. The type of Mycoplasma I have is Ureaplasma so it must be one that will be suited to attack it. Is anyone out there on this treatment and could they tell me how they are going. I have increased sweating day and night and increased joint and muscle pain. I have been on morphine for the pain for the past 4 years. I am under different specialist but do not have an appointment till next month and they have either been away or too busy to return calls to give me the needed advise. My G.P. is still learning. Hoping to hear soon, Sonia.

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majordomo archive migration
by Andrew Sydelko July 13, 1999

July 13, 1999

we currently have a list in majordomo. I need to migrate from it to mailman. I have one question. Can I put the old archives into mailman so they are accessible? --andy.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] sender/envelope addresses esp with mailed commands
by Nigel Metheringham July 13, 1999

July 13, 1999

My original report on this was confused by the fact that behaviour changed with the 1.0rc2 -> 1.0rc3 upgrade, but my other fiddling concealed this.... Currently, if you are using an MTA which does not add Sender: header fields gratuitously - and strangely enough the exim mailing list users tend to use exim which is in this catagory - then the code handling deriving the sender address louses up totally. It is not dropping back to the From: or envelope sender fields, and so 80% of my users are currently having their postings moderated. There is still also the problem that unqualified senders are accepted - they should be ignored. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)VData.co.uk ] [ Phone: +44 1423 850000 Fax +44 1423 858866 ]

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TrySMTPDelivery: socket.error / host not found (deferred)
by zhaoway July 13, 1999

July 13, 1999

I followed INSTALL to install mailman-1.0rc3, all went well but when I was trying to subscribe to test-list, I got following, In my logs/smtp-failures: Jul 14 00:42:01 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: To zhaoway(a)xteamlinux.com.cn: Jul 14 00:42:01 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: socket.error / host not found (deferred) Jul 14 00:42:01 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: Maybe your MTA daemon needs restarting? pls help! I've checked mailman-users archive, didn't get any clue on solving this. P.S. I've been successful on intalling 1.0rc2 on my local test machines, I don't see there were much difference on my side during these 2 install. Any clarification will be greatfully appreciated! --zhaoway

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install problem with check_perms
by Andrew Sydelko July 13, 1999

July 13, 1999

using mailman-1.0rc3, after a (./configure; make install) I run check_perms. But it gives me this error. I'm not able to figure out exactly what it means. [root@csociety mailman]# bin/check_perms Traceback (innermost last): File "bin/check_perms", line 164, in ? checkadminpw() File "bin/check_perms", line 128, in checkadminpw mode = statmode(adminpw) File "bin/check_perms", line 39, in statmode return os.stat(path)[ST_MODE] os.error: (2, 'No such file or directory') Please provide some help. --andy.

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Authentication/cookies question
by Matthew Darwin July 13, 1999

July 13, 1999

Is there any particular reason why there is no option (that I can find) to configure the web interface to use basic authentication instead of cookies? I am just setting up a mailman site, and I know that I will have some admnistrators connecting from a web browser that supports basic authentication, but not cookies. Background: The local FreeNet uses a very old version of lynx that does not support cookies, and I want to allow those FreeNet users to use mailman.... However, when using lynx they are constantly prompted for the admin password, which makes the whole thing fairly unusable.

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Still getting the same cron errors in rc3
by Deirdre Saoirse July 13, 1999

July 13, 1999

I upgraded early this afternoon, but it's not happy yet. :( -- _Deirdre * http://www.linuxcabal.org * http://www.deirdre.net "I have a simple rule in life: If I don't understand something, it must be bad." & "If you want more than 4 gig of memory, get a *real* CPU." -- Linus Torvalds, speaking at BALUG (www.balug.org) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:42:00 -0700 From: Cron Daemon <root(a)adelie.baypiggies.org> To: mailman(a)adelie.baypiggies.org Subject: Cron <mailman@adelie> /usr/local/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/run_queue Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 46, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/run_queue", line 39, in main lockfile.lock() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/flock.py", line 119, in lock os.link(self.lockfile, self.tmpfname) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

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Getting Started
by Jeff Schneiter July 13, 1999

July 13, 1999

Hello and happy Friday, Come Monday I will commence my first attempt at creating a system using Mailman. It shall be a Sparc20 with Solaris 2.7 and lots of memory and 2 internal SCSI disks with swap on both disks. We have another Sparc20 that will be handling the archiving (including converting the flat ascii email to html, searchable, links, etc...) We currently have 1500 lists by way of Majordomo on a Sparc2, SunOS 4.1.4 - yikes is right. The new system I was going to build would just be a newer version of Majordomo on a Sparc20 with OpenBSD, but have since decided to look into other options...thus here i am. I was hoping that someones could point out any sticky situations that i might get into, coming from a majordomo background, or to say that the install docs are wonderful and i will have no problem - i've installed quite a few GNU things in the past and really dig ./configure The hard part is usually getting your user base to change to something new :) jeff jeff(a)adobe.com

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Mail Wrapper and GID Errors (Unresolved)
by B. Friday July 12, 1999

July 12, 1999

Okay, Third post is the charm.... (sorry for the previous spam...) System Specs: Enterprise 250 Solaris 7 256 MB Ram Python 1.5.1 Mailman 1.0rc3 Quick Problem Description: A message is sent to an alias "cic(a)lasierra.edu". This alias points the message to the user cic and the mailing list "test". When a message is sent to this alias, it gets caught by our postmaster returning the message with a "unknown mailer error 2" and does not deliver it to either the list or the user cic. (No error messages are logged in any of mailman's log files...) A message sent to the test(a)lasierra.edu list is recieved fine and there are no error messages at all (in mailman logs, console of our system log files). Solutions previously tried and failed: The solution given in the INSTALL guide for mailman only results in our server wanting: GID 250 when it is configured with GID 1 *GID 1 when it is configured with GID 250 GID 1 when it is configured with GID 6 GID 1 when it is configured with GID 110 * This message also occurs when the --with-mail-gid is not used at configure time. The information regarding sendmail and smrsh: We are currently not running smrsh. Long Text of problem: Posts sent to my mailing lists by way of a alias in the /etc/mail/aliases file, return the error Alias as seen in file: cic: cic,test Error message: Jul 12 14:33:07 inet Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 1, GOT gid 250. (Reconfigure to take 250?) in my /var/adm/messages logfile and print on the console. I get a return email with the following information in it: -------------Postmaster Error Message----------------------------------------- Received: from inet.lasierra.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inet.lasierra.edu (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA02536 for <bfriday(a)lasierra.edu>; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost) by inet.lasierra.edu (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with internal id OAB02524; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)LaSierra.edu> Message-Id: <199907122134.OAB02524(a)inet.lasierra.edu> To: test-admin(a)inet.lasierra.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 2 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary="OAB02524.931815291/inet.lasierra.edu" Content-Length: 1648 Parts/Attachments: 1 Shown 9 lines Text 2 Shown 477 bytes Message, "Delivery Status" 3 Shown 591 bytes Message, "test message" 3.1 Shown 9 lines Text ---------------------------------------- The original message was received at Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) from bfriday@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/opt/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" (expanded from: test) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 "|/opt/mailman/mail/wrapper post test"... unknown mailer error 2 [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ] Reporting-MTA: dns; inet.lasierra.edu Arrival-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Final-Recipient: RFC822; <cic(a)lasierra.edu> Action: expanded (to multi-recipient alias) Status: 2.0.0 Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Final-Recipient: RFC822; <cic(a)lasierra.edu> X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; |/opt/mailman/mail/wrapper post test(a)inet.lasierra.edu Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) [ Part 3: "Included Message" ] Return-Path: <bfriday(a)inet.lasierra.edu> Received: from localhost (bfriday@localhost) by inet.lasierra.edu (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA02523 for <cic(a)lasierra.edu>; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:34:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Friday <bfriday(a)inet.lasierra.edu> To: cic(a)lasierra.edu Subject: test message Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9907121434440.2415-100000(a)inet.lasierra.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sincerely, Brian Friday Systems Administrator La Sierra University (909) 785-2554 x2 -------------------------------------------------------- This error does not appear when I send a message

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Returned mail: unknown mailer error 2 (fwd)
by B. Friday July 12, 1999

July 12, 1999

Hello Mailman Users, Got a quick question that's been causing me trouble... I've gott Mailman installed as UID:110 and GID:110 I've set the cgi's to run as nobody and have had a flawless system. I switched a list from one server to another server and now I find I'm running into problems. The switch had some troubles but nothing major and I was able to successfully access archives etc. But now I'm getting the following error. Jul 12 14:09:21 inet Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 1, GOT gid 250. (Reconfigure to take 250?) I've attempted to follow the directions given in the INSTALL file but what keeps on happening is when I reconfigure for 250 it wants 1 and when I configure it for 1 it wants 250. Basically anything I configure it for it wants the exact opposite or defaults to 1. Does anybody have any ideas? (or can you point me to the glaring error I made?) Sincerely, Brian (looking dazed and a little confused) BTW I've included the postmaster message I recieve back from the list... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:09:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)LaSierra.edu> To: test-admin(a)inet.lasierra.edu Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 2 Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:09:54 -0700 (PDT) Resent-From: Brian Friday <bfriday(a)LaSierra.edu> Resent-To: brian(a)LaSierra.edu Resent-Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 2 The original message was received at Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:09:21 -0700 (PDT) from bfriday@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/opt/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" (expanded from: test(a)inet.lasierra.edu) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 "|/opt/mailman/mail/wrapper post test"... unknown mailer error 2

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