Mailman 3 August 1999 - Mailman-Users

Adding to the archive
by James Aylett 20 Aug '99

20 Aug '99

I know this has come up on the list before, because I found it in the archives. Basically, I'm moving from one MLM to mailman, and want to transfer the archives across for all the lists. I know that given an mbox of messages, I should be able to to: $prefix/bin/arch LIST_NAME path_to_mbox to add to the archive. Unfortuantely I don't have them in mbox format, and my slightly primitive efforts at getting them into an appropriate shape aren't working - it churns for a while, but doesn't add anything to the archive at all. Basically, I need to know what it's actually looking for to identify each message in the file; once I know that I can fairly easily stitch up a file in the right format. (My only alternative would be to do something hideous with sendmail -odqr -t -bm, but that's likely to fall over in a big mess unless I do it really slowly ...) Cheers, James -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ James Aylett www.zap.uk.eu.org james(a)tartarus.org www.footlights.org

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Virtual Hosts -- can mailman handle them better?
by Harald Meland 19 Aug '99

19 Aug '99

[Tomas Fasth] > Tauren, Harald, > > I also have experienced problems with virtual hosting in > Mailman. That is, if you try to make it work within a single > installation. My solution was to install one instance of Mailman för > each virtual domain, each with it's own account (userid). Just a quick note: That would work OK for now, but wouldn't benefit as well as it could from the installation-global user database that's planned for next generation Mailman... Thanks for the tip anyway, -- Harald

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Subject lines/Lynx
by Bek Oberin 19 Aug '99

19 Aug '99

Finally figured out the problem: A lynx "feature" means it strips trailing whitespace from any text field. It ain't configurable either. Thumbs down to lynx. bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : gossamer(a)tertius.net.au http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. : -- Shakti Gawain

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Submit button message.
by Han, SangBeom 19 Aug '99

19 Aug '99

I edited the MailMan code so that it print the message by our language. It works fine except submit button. Some submit button is printed correctly, but the others doesn't. SubmitButton function is a problem. What do I for it?? -- OOOOOOOpen Mind! OOOOOOO OO OO sbhan(a)os.korea.ac.kr, handdol(a)nownuri.net OO OO Operating System Lab. in Korea University OO OO (lab) 02-3290-3573 (private) 017-282-8968 OOOOOOO OOOOOOOpen World! # Everything is illusion. # From Kring, the Fantasy World.

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Possible FAQ Addendum
by B. Friday 19 Aug '99

19 Aug '99

Hello all, I know there is constantly a problem with --with-mail-gid errors and questions on the list. After being one of those with problems (and possibly just getting struck by a bolt of wisdom) I've uncovered what I believe to be a addition to the Mailman FAQ regarding "Unknown Mailer Error 2" Basically I know I've solved my problem and thought I would share ^_^; For your consideration! Problem: Unknown Mailer Error 2 --------- Error Messages: ---------------- Aug 18 15:36:31 inet Mailman mail-wrapper: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 1, GOT gid 250. (Reconfigure to take 250?) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 "|/opt/mailman/mail/wrapper post tech_ml"... unknown mailer error 2 Situation: ----------- In addition to what has been previously mentioned in the FAQ this problem can also occur under the following situation. When a alias is placed in the sendmail aliases file (for example): tech: tech,Mailing_List ^ ^ \______ | |______ \ | \ \ Sendmail Alias Actual User Dept_Mailinglist As a system admin, I'd like the mail sent to this departments mailbox which is a actual account on my system to also be distributed to that departments Mailing list. (This is a technical service department so this works great for our technicians while they are out on a job as they can see a new job without having to come back to the office). Analysis of the Problem: In theory any mail directed to "tech" on my system should be sent not only to the user "tech" but also the Tech Departments Mailing list. When this procedure is used on "tech" and the second address is not a mailing list but rather another account (or even another alias) no problem occur. But in practice, I've found the following occurs: (this is what I assume I don't have concrete proof) Sendmail receives the message for tech Sendmail notes the exsistance of a alias for tech Sendmail recognizes that the mail is for a user Instead of using its default gid for delievery, the gid of the user is used Sendmail hands the message to mailman as the gid of the user NOT the gid compiled in with the "--with-mail-gid" option. Mailman balks at receiving the message from a gid its not familiar with and prints a error message to console (and /var/adm/messages for me) A message is sent to the sender of the orginal message with "Unknown Mailer Error 2". Solutions Tried: This occurs with all the permissions correctly placed on the mailman directory and its contents. This occurs even though the aliased user is listed as a valid mailing list alias on the "Privacy Options" page. This occurs regardless if the --with-mail-gid is set to the correct system number or not. Solution: The following entry in the sendmail aliases file does work. alias: user,mailing_list ^ ^ \______ | |______ \ | \ \ Sendmail Alias Actual User Dept_Mailinglist Account names that are aliased to themselves then the mailing list will not work but will exhibit the unknown mailer error 2. To avoid this always create a virtual user and alias that to the account and the mailing list. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments? Suggestions? Did I just mention something everyone knew? (I hope not ^_^;) Brian Friday System Administrator La Sierra University (909) 785-2554 x2

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newbie: mailmain relaying denied
by JASON NOLAN 19 Aug '99

19 Aug '99

Hello, this is my first post, and I'm a bit stumped, so I hope this is an easy question to answer. I've set up majordomo before, so I'm not totally clueless, but after setting up mailman and going through the motions of starting a list nothing happened. But I found this. This is obviously not a mailman error, but a sendmail config error. But everything looks right on my machine, and I can't figure out what the problem is. [xxx@achieve logs]# less smtp-failures Aug 18 17:47:31 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: To realuser(a)utoronto.ca: Aug 18 17:47:31 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: Mailman.pythonlib.smtplib.SMTPRecipientsRefused / {'realuser(a)utoronto.ca': (550, '<realuser(a)utoronto.ca>... Relaying denied')} (dequeued) Anything I'm missing that is keeping the postman from delivering? Thanks in advance for any thoughts, Jason D. Jason Nolan Lecturer/Assoc. Ed. Coordinator Division of the Environment University of Toronto (416)978-5656/3884f jason.nolan(a)utoronto.ca www.cquest.utoronto.ca/env/env321y www.oise.utoronto.ca/~jnolan

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Commands-by-email
by Javier Henderson 19 Aug '99

19 Aug '99

Last question I post today... Is it possible to perform admin functions via commands sent by email? Specifically, to accept/reject posts on a moderated list? If this is documented anywhere, I missed the reference. Thanks. -jav

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Commands via the web interface
by Javier Henderson 19 Aug '99

19 Aug '99

John Morton writes: > Are cookies enabled on the browser you're using? Touche. Problem solved. Thanks. -jav

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Commands via the web interface
by Javier Henderson 19 Aug '99

19 Aug '99

Any commands I try to execute via the web interface (say, subscribe a member) appears to be ignored. I don't get any error messages, and none are logged anywhere, but nothing gets executed. IE, if I try to subscribe a new member using the web interface, the new member is not added. MailMan 1.0, FreeBSD 2.2.8, Apache 1.3.6. Any ideas? -jav

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Unkown mailer errors
by Javier Henderson 19 Aug '99

19 Aug '99

I installed Mailman 1.0rc3 under FreeBSD 2.2.8. I'm also running sendmail 8.9.3. I created the test list, and received the message telling me about the new list being created just fine. The web pages seem to work OK as well. However, if I try to subscribe to the test list I get: --begin included text The original message was received at Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT) from bogon.kjsl.com [206.55.236.201] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test-mailman" (expanded from: <test-mailman-request(a)mate.kjsl.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test-mailman"... unknown mailer error 2 Reporting-MTA: dns; mate.kjsl.com Received-From-MTA: DNS; bogon.kjsl.com Arrival-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Final-Recipient: RFC822; <test-mailman-request(a)mate.kjsl.com> X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; |/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test-mailman(a)mate.kjsl.com Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <javier(a)bogon.kjsl.com> Received: from bogon.kjsl.com (bogon.kjsl.com [206.55.236.201]) by mate.kjsl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA19095 for <test-mailman-request(a)mate.kjsl.com>; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from javier@localhost) by bogon.kjsl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA18095; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Javier Henderson <javier(a)KJSL.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14266.60034.564149.361762(a)bogon.kjsl.com> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:16:50 -0700 (PDT) To: test-mailman-request(a)mate.kjsl.com X-Mailer: VM 6.63 under Emacs 19.34.1 X-Airplane-of-the-day: Grumman Tiger help --end included text I'm guessing it's a permissions issue somewhere, but: > bin/check_perms Traceback (innermost last): File "bin/check_perms", line 160, in ? checkall() File "bin/check_perms", line 76, in checkall os.path.walk(mm_cfg.PREFIX, checkwalk, STATE) File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixpath.py", line 253, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixpath.py", line 253, in walk walk(name, func, arg) File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/posixpath.py", line 247, in walk func(arg, top, names) File "bin/check_perms", line 52, in checkwalk except OSError, (code, msg): NameError: OSError At any rate, I did do the chmod commands listed in the INSTALL file, and the file permissions are drwxrwsr-x within the ~mailman directory. Thanks. -jav

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