Mailman 3 October 2000 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] weird problems; a cry for help
by Dan Mick 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

> > logs/error is filling up with: > > Oct 25 18:04:00 2000 (32336) Delivery exception: __int__ > > Oct 25 18:04:00 2000 (32336) Traceback (innermost last): > > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pipeline > > func(mlist, msg, msgdata) > > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 121, in process > > inject_digest(mlist, digestfile, topicsfile) > > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 170, in inject_digest > > msg = digest.asMIME() > > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 242, in asMIME > > return self.Present(mime=1) > > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 279, in Present > > lines.append(self.__mlist.digest_header % self.TemplateRefs()) > > AttributeError: __int__ What is your digest_header set to for this list?

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empty archives
by Krzysztof Wychowalek 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

Hello everybody! It seems that it is quite common problem - I was browsing the archives of this list and every month someone is asking similar question to this one I am going to ask... unfortunatelly I haven't found any good answer yet. But I believe you all know what could be wrong. Perhaps something silly, but it has already droven me crazy. I moved a site with several lists from Majordomo to Mailman. Everything is working fine, users are pleased, the only one problem is a question of archives. Empty archives.... Whenever I go to a page like: http://www.mysite/pipermail/list-name/ (e.g. http://www.most.org.pl/pipermail/eko-news/ - this is real) I have a message "Currently, there are no archives". I made the following section in my Web server configuration file: <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public> Options FollowSymLinks order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> and I made the "pipermail" directory a symbolic link to /var/lib/mailman/archives/public So, when I use the address http://www.mysite/pipermail/list-name/, it reads files from the /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/list-name . There are only two files there - one of them is "index.html" with this message "currently there are no archives", and the second one is pipermail.pck with some strange contents. However, all the meesage sent to a list exist in the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/list-name.mbox/list-name.mbox and if I type such URL in my browser, I have an access to some raw text data of all messages sent to the list so fat. But this is not I what I am looking for :-( I want a real archive, accessible from the info page of every list. What I did wrong? Why this "index.html" in my /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/list- name directory is only a "currently there are no archives" instead of nice page with real archives? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Krzysztof Wychowalek ICQ# 34184303 GSM +48602824334 PGP Key ID 0xEA9D2A3C

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weird problems; a cry for help
by George Dinwiddie 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

I'm a mailman newbie and hardly know where to begin. I've got a couple of lists running at www.alberg30.org in a virtual hosting environment where mailman is shared by all the domains hosted on the machine. Everything was hunky-dory until... Well, first the ISP had some sort of crash. Then they moved from RedHat 6.0 to 7.0. Somewhere along the line (maybe t the same time) they installed a newer version (or versions) of mailman. I know that it was beta 6 but is now 2.0rc1. First, I had problems with the "welcome" message being sent with the "Reply-to" header pointing to the list, instead of the admin address. Then all mail stopped. They got one list working again, but the other, the most important one, is really bollixed. logs/error is filling up with: Oct 25 18:04:00 2000 (32336) Delivery exception: __int__ Oct 25 18:04:00 2000 (32336) Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pipeline func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 121, in process inject_digest(mlist, digestfile, topicsfile) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 170, in inject_digest msg = digest.asMIME() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 242, in asMIME return self.Present(mime=1) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 279, in Present lines.append(self.__mlist.digest_header % self.TemplateRefs()) AttributeError: __int__ logs/digest is filling up with stuff like: Oct 25 18:09:00 2000 (20560) Public-list v 16 - 2035 msgs, 22 recips (4 mime, 18 text, 0 disabled) Oct 25 18:09:00 2000 (20560) Public-list v 16 - 2036 msgs, 22 recips (4 mime, 18 text, 0 disabled) Oct 25 18:09:01 2000 (20560) Public-list v 16 - 2037 msgs, 22 recips (4 mime, 18 text, 0 disabled) Oct 25 18:10:01 2000 (1315) Public-list v 16 - 2038 msgs, 22 recips (4 mime, 18 text, 0 disabled) Oct 25 18:10:01 2000 (1315) Public-list v 16 - 2039 msgs, 22 recips (4 mime, 18 text, 0 disabled) Oct 25 18:10:01 2000 (1315) Public-list v 16 - 2040 msgs, 22 recips (4 mime, 18 text, 0 disabled) Oct 25 18:10:01 2000 (1315) Public-list v 16 - 2041 msgs, 22 recips (4 mime, 18 text, 0 disabled) logs/qrunner has stuff like: Oct 25 16:17:02 2000 (30248) Could not acquire qrunner lock Oct 25 16:18:02 2000 (7653) Could not acquire qrunner lock Oct 25 16:19:01 2000 (14921) Could not acquire qrunner lock Oct 25 16:20:01 2000 (24286) Could not acquire qrunner lock Oct 25 16:21:01 2000 (19783) Could not acquire qrunner lock but I'm not sure it's related to the stuff in logs/digest. lists/public-list/next-digest is filling up with many copies of a few messages. Likewise, lists/public-list/next-digest-topics is filling up with the same 4 topics in rotation. Any ideas on what the problem might be? Better yet, any ideas on the fix? Please copy me on the reply. Thanks, George Dinwiddie -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- George Dinwiddie gdinwiddie(a)min.net The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span those hours spent in sailing. NEW URL => http://www.Alberg30.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Mailman-Users] the list admin overview page
by Dan Mick 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

\ > I just updated my server from 1.1 to 2 Orc.1 and everything went fine...I > think. > > However if I click on <the list admin overview page> the link points to > /admin/ instead of /mailman/admin/. If I type it in it works. Where is the > main page generated from so I can edit this? 1) what is "the main page"? mailman/listinfo, you mean? In my page that link points to an absolute path to DEFAULT_URL/admin. That gets to a page titled "<hostname> mailing lists - Admin Links". In any event, if you're talking about listinfo, it's generated by the listinfo script, which ends up calling listinfo.py in Mailman/Cgi. Note that DEFAULT_URL must have a trailing / to make that work right. Check that first. 2) try lookng at the source of the generated page (listinfo, if that's what we're talking about) to make sure you know what the link text really is. It might be wrong, but the way it shows up in the status line or in the destination URL isn't necessarily exactly what's in the page.

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Commercial Mailman?
by Tony Graham 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

Are there any webhosting services that also support Mailman mailing lists as a commercial service? If so, can anyone comment on the webhosts' competence and level of service? I can find plenty of webhosts offering Majordomo lists, but I'd rather have the option of using Mailman. Regards, Tony Graham ====================================================================== Tony Graham mailto:tgraham@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9632 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================

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Re: [Mailman-Users] searching archives
by J C Lawrence 26 Oct '00

26 Oct '00

On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 08:04:07 -0500 Nick Marouf <marouf(a)earlham.edu> wrote: > J C, I took your advice and got UdmSearch (mnoGoSearch) and am > able to index the public archives by putting /mailman/archive in > indexer.conf howerver for the private lists. is there a way that I > can index them without making them public. I haven't faced this problem as I use an external archiver rather than Mailman's Pipermail, and I keep all archives public. > I tried using > http://emailadress:sitepasswd@www.test.com/mailman/private/listname > in indexer, but that does not work. No, it wouldn't. That's for realm based authentication and in this case Mailman is handling authentication on its own as a CGI. > if that is not possible I would like to know, or if there is a > way, any help would be gratealy appreciated. I don't have time right now to dig into this in detail (sorry), but you should be able do something like (untested): https://.../mailman/private/users/?username=XXX&password=YYY The problem being of course that Mailman then wants to set a cookie to grant subsequent authentications. UdmSearch currently does not process or store cookies... -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Keys etc: finger claw(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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Upgrading
by Mico 26 Oct '00

26 Oct '00

I'd like to upgrade to ver 2.0rc1, is it possible ? How can I do ? Thanx ! Michele Consolo ICQ: 4512776 FAX: +39.02.700.404.932 MOBILE: +39.338.999.05.10 OFFICE: +39.02.806168.641

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Unexpected mailman error (part 2)
by Tino Dai 26 Oct '00

26 Oct '00

Hi! Some more information about my environment is mailman-1.1 linux 2.2.16-3smp apache_1.3.12 I hope this helps you to help me to figure out what is wrong. Thanks so much in advance -Tino

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Newbie install woes
by Nigel Metheringham 26 Oct '00

26 Oct '00

> <test-request(a)nlenet.net>: Command died with status 2: > "/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test". Command output: Failure to exec > script. WANTED gid 12, GOT gid 528. (Reconfigure to take 528?) How about we add the answer to this in some detail to the FAQ and add something like:- For further information see http://www.list.org/faq.html#GID to that error message to take people directly to the appropriate information. Nigel. -- [ - Opinions expressed are personal and may not be shared by VData - ] [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)VData.co.uk ] [ Phone: +44 1423 850000 Fax +44 1423 858866 ]

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Unexpected Mailman error
by Tino Dai 26 Oct '00

26 Oct '00

Hi There! I got this error from two of my mailing lists. I don't have any idea about how mailman works. Could somebody give me a clue on what is going on? An unexpected Mailman error has occurred in MailCommandHandler.ParseMailCommands(). Here is the traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py", line 214, in ParseMailCommands self.__dispatch[cmd](args, line, msg) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailCommandHandler.py", line 552, in ProcessSubscribeCmd self.AddMember(subscribe_address, password, digest, remote) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 893, in AddMember cookie = Pending().new(name, password, digest) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 74, in new self.__save(db) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 110, in __save self.__cull_db(db) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Pending.py", line 133, in __cull_db if v[-1] < too_old: TypeError: unsubscriptable object -Thanks Tino

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