Mailman 3 November 2000 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Information
by Moshe Zadka 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

> - How many users and members does mailman support Mailman has been known to supports 100s of users. A complete answer would require knowledge of your OS, CPU, hard drive and MTA. Of course, it would also depends on the number of messages/day. All in all, it's likely you'll have to test yourself, since no one (likely) has a platform just like yours. -- Moshe Zadka <sig(a)zadka.site.co.il> This is a signature anti-virus. Please stop the spread of signature viruses!

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Pride before a fall...
by David 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

Having been very happy about my initial install, I decided it was time to upgrade to v.2 final, using all the same directories etc as for my beta install. What I got is below. Why does configure not like my python version. Can anyone help? David. [mailman@fast mailman-2.0]$ pwd /usr/local/mailman-2.0 [mailman@fast mailman-2.0]$ ./configure ./configure: ./config.log: Permission denied ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor ./configure: confdefs.h: Permission denied creating cache ./config.cache ./configure: ./config.cache: Permission denied checking for --with-python... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor no checking for python... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor /usr/bin/python checking Python interpreter... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor /usr/bin/python checking Python version... ./configure: 5: Bad file descriptor ./configure: conftest.py: Permission denied /usr/bin/python: can't open file 'conftest.py' cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory configure: error: ***** /usr/bin/python is too old (or broken) ***** Python 1.5.2 or newer is required [mailman@fast mailman-2.0]$ python Python 1.5.2 (#1, Feb 1 2000, 16:32:16) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- on linux-i386

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Error Mailman 2.0
by Jose Hernan Ramirez Ramirez 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

Hello./ When i send an message to test list i recived tihs error The original message was received at Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:11:49 +0400 (GMT) from veillon [150.185.156.1] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/local/mailman-2.0/mail/wrapper-mailman post test-mm" (reason: 1) (expanded from: <test-mm(a)forest.ula.ve>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0//scripts/post", line 94, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0//scripts/post", line 73, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0/Mailman/MailList.py", line 79, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0/Mailman/MailList.py", line 868, in __load fp = open(dbfile) IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman-2.0/lists/test-mm/config.db' 554 5.3.0 "|/usr/local/mailman-2.0/mail/wrapper-mailman post test-mm"... unknown mailer error 1 And de crontab genera: Your "cron" job on veillon /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman-2.0//cron/qrunner produced the following output: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0//cron/qrunner", line 271, in ? lock.lock(timeout=0.5) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 219, in lock self.__write() File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 350, in __write fp = open(self.__tmpfname, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman-2.0/locks/qrunner.lock.veillon.13287' Thank you.. ___________________________________________________________ /\ J. Hernan Ramirez R. \ \_| Forestal - RedULA - Admire Tel: +58 74 401560 | | ________________________________________________________|_ \_/_________________________________________________________/

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full raw archive
by H. Wade Minter 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

How do you enable the link to "download the full raw archive"? I'm running 2.0beta5. Thanks, Wade

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delete following lists
by Atle Rustadbakken 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

Could you please delete the following mailing-lists: osidans-liste(a)osi.uio.no osidans-listeansvarlig(a)osi.uio.no osidans-madlemmer(a)osi.uio.no They are not longer in use by OSI Dans. Thanks Atle ------------------------------------------------------------------- Atle Rustadbakken tlf : 62 45 29 77 Korsbergsvegen 26 mob : 916 39 398 2420 Trysil e-mail : atle(a)rustadbakken.com url : http://www.rustadbakken.com/atle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <>< <><

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Password Authentication Problem (2)
by Torjus Jensen 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

In an earlier e-mail we had asked for help with a problem where the site admin password would not authenticate. SInce we did not get any response, we began looking into the code. We have determined that the problem is either that writing to the adm.pw file fails, or reading from it fails: >From Utils.py: def SetSiteAdminPassword(pw): fp = open_ex(mm_cfg.SITE_PW_FILE, 'w', perms=0640) fp.write(Crypt.crypt(pw, GetRandomSeed())) fp.close() def CheckSiteAdminPassword(pw1): try: f = open(mm_cfg.SITE_PW_FILE) pw2 = f.read() f.close() return Crypt.crypt(pw1, pw2[:2]) == pw2 # There probably is no site admin password if there was an exception except IOError: return 0 If we substitute def CheckSiteAdminPassword with: #def CheckSiteAdminPassword(pw1): #return 1 we are able to log in (obviously). We have checked permissions on the adm.pw, and noted that it is indeed written to when calling mmsitepass. Our guess is therefore that the problem is either in reading from the file, or in the Crypt.crypt function. Since we are not at all familiar with Python, we would appreciate some help. Thanks. -------------------------- Torjus Jensen http://www.edudex.com <http://www.edudex.com>

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Hallo Deutschland ist da wer?
by KatelA 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

Ntschuldigung, hier soll irgend wo ne Liste sein?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: Information
by J C Lawrence 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 04:00:10 +1100 Bek Oberin <gossamer(a)tertius.net.au> wrote: > J C Lawrence wrote: >> The largest list I've heard of being successfully run under >> Mailman has ~1.5Million subscribers. > I'm intensely curious as to what on earth they were DOING with > that many subscribers ... I believe it was a daily joke list. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) : http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Information
by J C Lawrence 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:58:56 +0200 Moshe Zadka <moshez(a)zadka.site.co.il> wrote: >> - How many users and members does mailman support > Mailman has been known to supports 100s of users. The largest list I've heard of being successfully run under Mailman has ~1.5Million subscribers. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) : http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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authentication failed problems with mailman 2.0rc1
by Erin Karper 30 Nov '00

30 Nov '00

I've checked the FAQ, the troubleshooting, and the rest of the site, and I haven't found anything that addresses this problem, so I'm writing to you in the hopes that you can help me figure it out. If it is covered somewhere, please feel free to send me there. I am running Mailman 2.0rc1 on a machine (linnell.english.purdue.edu) running Red Hat Linux release 6.0 Kernel 2.2.14, Python 2.0, Sendmail, and Apache. When I attempt to access the administrative interface for several lists (http://linnell.english.purdue.edu/mailman/admin/pwadmins, as well as pw-mentor, owl-bwtutors, pita-l, and labstaff), I get "authentication failed" errors, even though I am entering the correct password. I have not made any changes to the list or to mailman that could have caused this problem, and the password was working before; I just suddenly get "authentication failed" errors when trying to get to the administrative interface for some of the lists. However, I can get into the administrative interface for other lists, so it is not a problem that is affecting the entire program. I also can't think of anything that the lists have in common; the error has happened to lists that don't have a single message, and lists that get plenty. The lists themselves still function fine; users can subscribe, unsubscribe, send mail, and read the archives. It's just that I can't get in to the administrative interface to do things like approve posts or change settings. I have my browser set to accept cookies. I have tried this on a number of different browsers on a number of different platforms to make sure that it was not a browser error. I can't find any entries in my syslog, the httpd error logs, or the mail logs to indicate where the problem could be. Can you help? Let me know what other information you need, and I'd be glad to supply it. Thank you. Erin Karper karper(a)expert.cc.purdue.edu

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Mailman-Users November 2000