Mailman 3 February 2000 - Mailman-Users

Too many pending requests?
by Per Starback 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

I can't get to the pending request page for a mailing list. (My web clients just say "waiting for response" and finally give up.) I think it is because there are too many pending requests after some problems. (config.db is almost 10MB.) How can I do this some other way?

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a more uniform interface to private and public archives
by Todd Pfaff 13 Mar '00

13 Mar '00

for mailman-1.1, the installation documentation suggests to create, for example, an 'Alias' path for the web server to the mailman public archives and a 'ScriptAlias' cgi-bin path to the private archives. what i'd like to suggest is that we make the interface more uniform by eliminating the 'Alias' path and access both private and public archives via a single cgi-bin interface. if the archive is private we require authentication, if not we simply bypass the authentication. i've done this with my mailman installation by doing the following: - created a new version of the MailMan/Cgi/private.py program - in mm_cfg.py, set PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private' PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private' - these could then be collapsed into one ARCHIVE_URL - we could also replace PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = os.path.join(PREFIX, 'archives/public') PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR = os.path.join(PREFIX, 'archives/private') with one ARCHIVE_FILE_DIR, and we could also get rid of the public and private subdirectories altogether. in the new private.py i check listobj.archive_private and if it's set to 1 i do the usual private authentication as before. if it's not 1, i set is_auth to 1 and fall through. that's it. very clean and simple. does anyone see any problems with this? i think it certainly makes things more clear and straightforward. -- Todd Pfaff \ Email: pfaff(a)mcmaster.ca Computing and Information Services \ Voice: (905) 525-9140 x22920 ABB 132 \ FAX: (905) 528-3773 McMaster University \ Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M1 \

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mailman: moved from one host to another, archiver now broken
by frank＠netlojix.com 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Hi, moved mailman from one host to another. Now the archiver is broken. It thinks the archives for the lists are supposed to go into /usr/user3/u/m/mailman... but the new machine they are supposed to be in /home/mailman... I can't seem to find a way to change the directory for an _existing_ list. any ideas would be appreciated... thanks frank

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socket.error
by Nathan Stratton 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Feb 29 17:30:18 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: To nathan(a)robotics.net: Feb 29 17:30:18 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: socket.error / host not found (deferred) Feb 29 17:30:18 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: Maybe your MTA daemon needs restarting? Anyone know how to fix this? All my lists have been down for 2 weeks. ><> Nathan Stratton nathan(a)robotics.net http://www.robotics.net

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automatic bouce
by Robin Dunn 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

I started up a couple mailman lists on Sunday, with about 600 total subscribers. Since then I have gotten around 450 bounce messages that don't seem to be handled by the automatic bounce processor in Mailman. Is there a way to teach Mailman about these messages so it handles them automatically? (I checked the archives about this and although I found some threads discussing it there didn't seem to be any resolution that I could find...) Please help! -- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman robin(a)AllDunn.com http://AllDunn.com/robin/ http://AllDunn.com/wxPython/ Check it out!

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Proxy Problems
by Chuck Dale 01 Mar '00

01 Mar '00

Hi there, I had a number of problems when initially using mailman due to the cache hierarchy that I go through to access the web. I'm not sure if this has been discussed but I'll explain the problem anyway. The problem was that as I went through the Mailman admin site, the proxy which made the request would change almost every page I loaded. So, for example, if I was editing preferences then tried to press Save I would be returned to the password entry page. The annoying thing was that I could get it to work by submitting the form as many times until I got the same cache and things worked ok. I fixed the problem for the time being by changing my proxy to be one further up the hierarchy so it would be the same every time. This isn't really a long term solution though. My ISP cache hierarchy goes like this: remote webserver ^ | | connect.com.au caches - there are at least two on some sort of load balancing mechanism ^ | | my ISP's cache (just one at the moment) ^ | | my netscape What session tracking does mailman do that causes these problems? Cookies or what? Is there any setting to alleviate the symptoms? Or additional coding that needs to be done? This is a very annoying problem for new users and I know that a number of ISPs, at least in Oz, use a similar hierarchy as connect.com have a big customer base and big cache. Thanks for your time, Chuck

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reply redirection - lists subscribed to other lists
by Danny Yee 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

I have two lists, one for announcements and the other for discussion. I have the announcements lists subscribed to the discussion list, so people only need to subscribe to one list. But messages sent to the announcements list appear to discussion list subscribers with To: announcement list which means that group replies go to that list instead of the discussion list. Is there any way to fix this, to make sure that followups don't go to the announcements list? Danny.

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Lost administrator password
by Douglas Bates 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

I really did look in the FAQ to see if this was mentioned but I didn't find it. How do I reset the administrator password on a list? We created a list and set the password and now neither of us can remember what it was set to. I do have root permission on the machine running mailman (it is running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 with the 1.0rc2-5 version of the Debian mailman package, in case that matters).

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Test List
by Lin Qiu 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

Hello all, I'm running Linux 6.1, Mailman 1.1, Python 1.5.1 and Apache 1.3.11 and sendmail. My project here is to setup a list server for faculty and students to create their own lists. I followed the Mailman installation instruction and run ./configure with all default options. my aliases file looks like this: /etc/aliases #Test mailing list test: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" test-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test" test-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test" owner-test: test-admin owner-test: test-admin I run newaliases after I update my aliases file. I also setup a test list. I was able to create the list, login the admin web page and subscribe to the list. I got a Confirmation email from test-request(a)lqldap.mydomain.edu. However, I was not be able to send mail to test-request(a)lqldap.mydomain.edu. Here is what I got : ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test" (expanded from: <test-request(a)lqldap.mydomain.edu>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs 554 "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test"... Service unavailable When I send a email to test(a)lqldap.mydomain.edu, I did not get rebound. from maillog it lists: lqldap smrsh: uid 8: attempt to use wrapper mailowner test lqldap sendmail[1234]: MAA01234: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test", ...miler=prog, stat=Service unavailable lqldap sendmail[1234]: MAA01234: MAB01234: DSN: Service unavailable lqldap sendmail[1234]: MAB01234: MAC01234: return to sender: Service unavailable I look up the installation guide, it said I need to "configure smrsh by creating a symbolic link from the mail wrapper to the directory identifying executables allowed to run under smrsh." I look up my /etc/smrsh, there is no files there in the directory. Would someone show me how to configure the smrsh and create the symbolic link ? Thanks. Lin

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lock and ownership roblems, but check_perms is fine.
by Nathan Stratton 29 Feb '00

29 Feb '00

Ok, I am having some strange problems with my mailman server. This started when I move from FreeBSD to Linux. I am currently running Mailman 1.1 on Redhat 6.1. Ok, the first thing is that when I run check_bd I get a error that the db files are messed up. I looked at them and notice they are owned by mail.mailman. It is odd, I change it to mailman.mailman and it works fine, but it gets changed back to mail.mailman when someone sends mail to the list. The next problem is that mail is not sent to the lists, if I look in error log file I get: Feb 28 23:27:04 2000 post: Traceback (innermost last): post: File "/home/mailman/scripts/post", line 73, in ? post: mlist.Post(msg, approved=fromusenet) post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1329, in Post post: self.ArchiveMail(msg) post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 206, in ArchiveM ail post: lock.lock() post: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/LockFile.py", line 245, in lock post: os.unlink(self.__tmpfname) post: OSError : [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/mailman/locks/clecl ist.archiver.lock.skipper.robotics.net.5454' The last problem is that I cant run arch. When I run it it just sits there forever and does not do anyting. If I hit control-C I get a lock file error. So, how do I fix my lockfile and permissions errors? BTW when I run check_perms everything checks out. ><> Nathan Stratton nathan(a)robotics.net http://www.robotics.net

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Mailman-Users February 2000