Mailman 3 October 2000 - Mailman-Users

Striping file attaches on messges sent to the list.
by Eduardo Jacob 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

I would like to strip file attachements sent to the list with Mailman 2.0rc1. I have tried to catch attachments by adding additional headers to in the Privacy Options->"Hold posts with header value matching a specified regexp:" But this doesn't solve my problem. I can block multipart messages (because there is in the headers section of the message such a header), but this disables both attachments and also rich,html-ized texts, which have an ascii part and a "rich/html" part. The rest of the message isn't parsed, so "content-type: application/" doesn't get caugth. Is there another possibility? A posibility would to simply scan instead of only the header also, the body. We have manually tried to do that modifying the function that scans for headers, but as we don't know anything about python, at least it doesn't gives error but it doesn't work. Eduardo Regards and Thankyou Eduardo PD: I have tried the searching of the list but it doesn't work for me. I have read the threads and I haven't find something better than this option. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Eduardo Jacob - Area de Ingenieria Telematica Departamento de Electronica y Telecomunicaciones ETSII y de IT Tel: +34 94 601 4214 UPV / EHU Fax: +34 94 601 4259 Alda Urquijo s/n E-mail: jtpjatae(a)bi.ehu.es E-48013 - Bilbao (Spain) PGP Key available: Send email w/subject: PGPKEY fingerprint : D8 FA 54 49 F7 40 BA AA 09 1A 73 40 A4 26 ED BD

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small bug in rc1
by Harold Paulson 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

Hi, the web interface wouldn't let me delete this address: "skb(a)succeed.net"@succeed.net Not sure how it even got in there... Anyway, bin/remove_members worked fine. - H Harold Paulson Sierra Web Design haroldp(a)sierraweb.com http://www.sierraweb.com VOICE: 775.833.9500 FAX: 810.314.1517

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mass subscribe user command line
by Dan Mick 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

~mailman/bin is your friend > I have a need to mass subscribe users as in the Membership Management screen > but outside of the web page. How do I accomplish this?

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Small bug...
by Jean-Sebastien Morisset 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm using Mailman 2.0 beta 6 and I've noticed a little bug... When people subscribe, the confirmation message they get back has a bad reply-to: address. When they reply, it goes to the list! Of course, since it's a members-only list, then I have to reject these message by hand. It's very annoying. I've noticed this behavior when using the "Explicit address" and "This list" selections. A friend just subscribed to one of my mailing lists, and it took 3 tries before his confirmation message had the right reply-to. So it looks like it's an intermitant problem. Anyone had the same problem? BTW, no, I can't use the "Poster" as the reply address. :-( Thanks, js. - -- Jean-Sebastien Morisset, Sr. UNIX Admin <jsmoriss(a)jsm-mv.dyndns.org> Personal Homepage <http://www.jsmoriss.dyndns.org/> UNIX, Internet, Homebrewing, Cigars, PCS, CP2020 and other Fun Stuff... This is Linux Country. On a quiet night you can hear Windows NT reboot! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.1i Comment: Personal Home Page <http://www.jsmoriss.dyndns.org/> iQA/AwUBOfmcdZxsiDnGGop4EQKu0wCdGX+veAm0zwYKXPOm3ReCJphWK3gAn3cW 2lngoyaDZq3YG/Eqor6BBJ1z =qsiT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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cannot open -lcrypto: No such file or directory
by sun 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

hello! I had installed openssl-0.9.6 and freeswan-1.5 . The Makefile of pluto like this: OPENSSLROOT=/usr/lib OPENSSLINCLS= OPENSSLLIBS= -lcrypto OPENSSLDEFS=-DOPENSSL When I am compiling the freeswan-1.5 the error like this: gcc -o pluto connections.o constants.o cookie.o crypto.o defs.o log.o state.o main.o server.o timer.o id.o ipsec_doi.o kernel.o kernel_comm.o demux.o packet.o preshared.o dnskey.o rnd.o spdb.o sha1.o md5.o gcryptfix.o g10_dsa.o elgamal.o primegen.o smallprime.o ../lib/libdes.a ../lib/libgmp.a ../lib/libfreeswan.a openssl.o xmap.o xmap_file.o xmap_dir.o xmap_db.o xmap_ldap.o x_sobj.o -lresolv -lcrypto -L/usr/local/lib -lldap -llber -Wl,-rpath /usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -ldb /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lcrypto: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [pluto] Error 1 can help me to solve this question? Thanks Guoxing

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Could not acquire qrunner lock
by Peder Godvik 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

Hi, I'm having problems with messages not being delivered.. In the logs/qrunner it says like this: Oct 27 09:43:06 2000 (645) Could not acquire qrunner lock Oct 27 09:44:04 2000 (765) Could not acquire qrunner lock Oct 27 09:45:03 2000 (768) Could not acquire qrunner lock Oct 27 09:47:02 2000 (842) Could not acquire qrunner lock .. I've tried to delete the locks/* files.. but that doesn't help (and maybe shouldn't?) In the qfiles/ I see the following: [root@list qfiles]# ll totalt 2652 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mail mailman 118 okt 27 09:19 1648bb07e69af863fe4cf8b708d7fba86af590d7.db -rw-rw-r-- 1 mail mailman 1939 okt 27 09:19 1648bb07e69af863fe4cf8b708d7fba86af590d7.msg -rw-rw-r-- 1 mail mailman 230 okt 27 08:37 51755e5c9a88e9d79a028de6bc527ec876442260.db -rw-rw-r-- 1 mail mailman 2678927 okt 27 08:37 51755e5c9a88e9d79a028de6bc527ec876442260.msg -rw-rw-r-- 1 mail mailman 118 okt 27 09:19 74869bb4d259dc31edb73767e62331a45daf015e.db -rw-rw-r-- 1 mail mailman 2536 okt 27 09:19 74869bb4d259dc31edb73767e62331a45daf015e.msg -rw-rw-r-- 1 mail mailman 118 okt 27 09:00 c4589ffc0e6c80036146462a5d3e289c57f1d2fe.db -rw-rw-r-- 1 mail mailman 1795 okt 27 09:00 c4589ffc0e6c80036146462a5d3e289c57f1d2fe.msg .. so there are messages to be delivered. I'm running on Red Hat Linux 6.2 and installed Mailman 2.0beta6. I also seem to have problems with the web pages hanging quite often.. Then I need to kill python processes and delete lock-files.. This may be totally wrong of me.. -But I would be very happy for some help :) ............................................. Vennlig hilsen/ Best regards Peder Godvik Systemkonsulent Tel: +47 23 17 14 36 Helio Gruppen Norge AS Tevlingveien 15 1081 OSLO Norway Tlf. +47 23 17 14 00 Fax: +47 23 17 14 01 www.heliogruppen.com

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Mailman not mailing, man
by Harold Paulson 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

Hey, My Mailman install hasn't posted an email to any lists in 12 hours. If I subscribe a user though the admin console, it sends out an email ok. but posting to any os the lists fails. The emails just build up in ~/qfiles. I have tried every silly trick I could think of including: Updating to Mailman 2.0rc1 Updating to Python 2.0 My server is running: FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE Sendmail 8.11.1 Only weird thing in ~/logs is qrunner says something like: Oct 26 22:22:02 2000 (31904) Could not acquire qrunner lock twice per minute. deleteing the contents of ~/locks had no effect. crontab looks good, btw. Any ideas at all? - H

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Perm Hosery in 2.0rc1?
by wcooley＠wirex.com 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

I'm trying to set up 2.0rc1, and I can't seem to get it working. There seems to be a problem with permissions. I've run check_perms and it only bitches about the docs/ directory, which I created (for HTML docs). I've found, however, that I get an error when I try to use the admin CGI, and it leaves a lockfile in locks/ that causes any subsequent attempts to hang. I've found I can make modifications through the admin CGI if I change the owner of lists/<listname>/config.db* to nobody (the user&group of Apache). However, if I do that, qrunner and the other cronned jobs fails with a permission error. Changing the ownership to 'mailman' lets these run. I created the list as root; the install doc didn't say it needed to be run as 'mailman'. Also, I just tested running 'newlist' as 'mailman', and it still failed with a permission error. It /appears/ that the CGI needs to use mail/wrapper, but maybe Apache does not let CGIs run Set[UG]ID programs? What it looks to me like Here's how I installed: $ ./configure --with-mail-gid=nobody --with-cgi-gid=nobody \ --with-cgi-ext= && make (As non-root, non-mailman user) # make install This is an Immunix 6.2 system, which is basically a Red Hat 6.2 system rebuilt with the StackGuard compiler. I've replaced Sendmail with Postfix. The above GIDs are correct for Postfix and Apache. Just so you don't think I'm crazy, here are some perms that seem to be relevant: /home/mailman/lists/test] # ls -l total 22 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1706 Oct 26 17:14 admindbpreamble.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 2815 Oct 26 17:14 config.db -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 2815 Oct 26 17:16 config.db.tmp.mithra.wirex.com.19740 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 189 Oct 26 17:14 handle_opts.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 900 Oct 26 17:14 headfoot.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 3136 Oct 26 17:14 listinfo.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 0 Oct 26 17:14 next-digest -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 0 Oct 26 17:14 next-digest-topics -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 4106 Oct 26 17:14 options.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 1169 Oct 26 17:14 roster.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 198 Oct 26 17:14 subscribe.html # ls -l mail total 33 -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 32464 Oct 26 11:35 wrapper # ls -l locks total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 2 nobody mailman 52 Oct 26 2000 test.lock -rw-rw-r-- 2 nobody mailman 52 Oct 26 2000 test.lock.mithra.wirex.com.20052 And here's the backtrace from the CGI error: Oct 26 17:53:43 2000 admin(20362): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(20362): [----- Mailman Version: 2.0rc1 -----] admin(20362): [----- Traceback ------] admin(20362): Traceback (innermost last): admin(20362): File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main admin(20362): main() admin(20362): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 138, in main admin(20362): mlist.Save() admin(20362): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 842, in Save admin(20362): self.__save(dict) admin(20362): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 818, in __save admin(20362): os.link(fname, fname_last) admin(20362): OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted (I'll assume you don't need the rest of it. I can send it if you do.) Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley, Esq. wcooley(a)wirex.com

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Mass subscribe user command line
by sylvia nicole 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

I have a need to mass subscribe users as in the Membership Management screen but outside of the web page. How do I accomplish this? ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/webmail

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Re: [Mailman-Users] empty archives
by Dan Mick 27 Oct '00

27 Oct '00

Each message should be adding to .mbox; is it? Each time a message is added, digesting should be occurring (assuming you haven't turned it off). Are there clues in any of the logs? > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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