Mailman 3 October 2000 - Mailman-Users

mailman-2.0beta6 Error message
by Robert Benites Oct. 23, 2000

Oct. 23, 2000

I am running the subject version of Mailman on a Compaq Tru64 UNIX system having recently replaced my mailman-2.0beta5 version. As administrator I've gotten serveral copies of the same message including the following error diagnostics: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/usr/users/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 198, in main lock.lock(timeout=0.5) File "/usr/users/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock self.__write() File "/usr/users/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 348, in __write fp.close() IOError: [Errno 5] I/O error I'm pretty sure I've seen another post regarding this particular error but I can't seem to find this in the archives. Has this been posted before, and is there a fix? I went to SourceForge to look at the patches, but I'm not sure any of them are applicable. Are there instructions of how to download/install patches from SourceForge? Thanks... -- Bob

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Mailman has serious problems. (Beta6) [repeated mail delivery]
by Simon Coggins Oct. 23, 2000

Oct. 23, 2000

Since my last post regarding this, I've had little response regarding possible problems. Those replies I did get suggested permission problems and a problem with qrunner. I've ruled both of these out. Every day now i get a mail loop and tonight it caused 1 (moderated) message to be delivered 10 times to a list with over 700 people on it. That isn't good. I wrote a wrapper script for qrunner to make sure it was locking properly and the problem persisted. I made sure all files were always owned in qfiles by mailman and the problem persisted. I'm out of ideas and patients. I cannot use mailman in a production environment without it causes *BIG* problems. I hope someone finds this problem and fixes it as I won't be recommending mailman until it is. As for my lists, I have to move them back to majordomo. -- Simon Coggins (SAGE-AU Member) Email: simon(a)uow.edu.au Network and System Management Officer Phone: +61-2-4221-3775 Information Technology Systems (ITS) Mobile: 0408 115861 University of Wollongong, 2522, Australia Fax: +61-2-4229-1985

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Showing recipient address not list address
by Nigel Metheringham Oct. 23, 2000

Oct. 23, 2000

JSharp(a)workforcehr.com said: > Is it possible to show a recipient's address in the To: part of a > message rather than the listname@whatever? We would like to use > Mailman as a newsletter service to begin with but the powers that be > insist that we cannot go live until this is sorted. Mailman just doesn't do that - it requires that you have a unique message per recipient which is not the way that mailman currently works. If that is a hard requirement for you then you are either going to have to start writing python (probably easiest to do by writing yourself a new MTA pipeline), or find an alternative package. Its just not going to be a 2.0 release item. 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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Showing recipient address not list address
by Jon Sharp Oct. 23, 2000

Oct. 23, 2000

Hi Is it possible to show a recipient's address in the To: part of a message rather than the listname@whatever? We would like to use Mailman as a newsletter service to begin with but the powers that be insist that we cannot go live until this is sorted. Apologies if it's a simple configuration setting. Jon Sharp

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Re: [Mailman-Users] how to change MM-Archive when externally archiving lists under virtual domains
by J C Lawrence Oct. 23, 2000

Oct. 23, 2000

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:43:34 -0700 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui(a)plaidworks.com> wrote: > At 9:33 PM -0400 10/19/00, Alex Aminoff wrote: >> I want to use an external archiving program (in this case >> MHonArc). I set the PUBLIC_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER and >> PRIVATE_EXTERNAL_ARCHIVER to appropriate strings in mm_cfg.py, >> but that only sets the default. > I worked with thsoe for a while, and finally decided to create a > mail alias for MHonarc and subscribe it to the list. I just never > got it working the way I wanted. I do similarly, tho for different reasons. The mail that Mailman passes off to the archiver (be it internal or external) is not the same as the mail it sends to subscribers in that some of the header munging, fotter adding etc hasn't happened yet. I didn't like this as I specifically wanted my archives to represent what my users saw. -- 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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Bug in 2.0beta5
by nbecker＠fred.net Oct. 23, 2000

Oct. 23, 2000

Using the admin general GUI web I/F, I was able to set an explicity reply-to. But I can't get rid of it!! Deleting the explicit reply-to and submitting the changes doesn't clear it!

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Sendmail Authentication Warning with v2.0b6
by s t a r b u x Oct. 21, 2000

Oct. 21, 2000

I am running v2.0beta6 under Linux with Sendmail 8.11.1 (was also using 8.9.3). Everything seems to work great except I am noticing a few things in the maillog from Sendmail. This warning occurs when someone posts to the list and it goes to send the message out to each subscriber ---- Oct 21 09:10 sendmail[24693]: e9LDAG124693: Authentication-Warning: Purerave.com: mailman set sender to <listname>-admin(a)lists.Purerave.com using -f This error appears in the maillog when someone goes to subscribe via the webpage --- Oct 21 09:16 sendmail[24765]: e9LDGff24765: Authentication-Warning: Purerave.com: nobody set sender to <listname>-admin(a)lists.Purerave.com using -f I am not sure if I should be worrying about it or not, but it also appears in the headers of the message --- X-Authentication-Warning: xtc.Purerave.com: nobody set sender to purerave-staff-admin(a)lists.Purerave.com using -f Any ideas?

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Archiving
by tim＠maths.tcd.ie Oct. 21, 2000

Oct. 21, 2000

We've recently gone over to Mailman (2.0beta5) from majordomo. Mailman seems to work very well, except that archiving does not appear to be implemented. That is, the archives remain empty even though messages have been posted to the list (and archiving is turned on -- that was the default -- on the admin screen). I wondered, if archiving is set to monthly does one have to wait till the end of the month for the archive to appear? Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim(a)maths.tcd.ie tel: 086-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest Mode separator
by stevefx＠us.ibm.com Oct. 20, 2000

Oct. 20, 2000

Very nice! Thank you much. Steve Fox IBM Linux Technology Center http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux http://stevefx.rchland.ibm.com (IBM Intranet) Please respond to Dan Mick <Dan.Mick(a)West.Sun.COM> Sent by: mailman-users-admin(a)python.org To: mailman-users(a)python.org, Steve Fox/Rochester/IBM@IBMUS cc: Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest Mode separator Looks like changing MIME_SEPARATOR in Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py would be all you need to do, although I'm not sure what "more distinctive" would be.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest Mode separator
by Dan Mick Oct. 20, 2000

Oct. 20, 2000

Looks like changing MIME_SEPARATOR in Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py would be all you need to do, although I'm not sure what "more distinctive" would be. > Greetings all, > > I received a request from a user that the separator for digest messages be > made more distinguishable. He claims that with people quoting other's text > frequently it makes it difficult to tell where messages start and stop. I > searched the -developers and -users archives but didn't find any discussion > of this topic. > > Is this something that would be considered? > > Steve Fox > IBM Linux Technology Center > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux > http://stevefx.rchland.ibm.com (IBM Intranet)

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