Mailman 3 June 2000 - Mailman-Users

question on Attachment/MIME support
by oliver 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

Hi, I am new to both mailman and mailing list adm work. Here is an annoying things I run into: One of the list user sent out a message with several jpg attachments, when I see it through my netscape mail client, each attachment is fine as a hyperlink, just the way I want it. However, in the mailman's archive, the jpg file was expanded into large ascii file (see blow). I suspect it has something to do with MIME support. Can anyone tell me how to resolve this? Can mailman just treat it as a link instead of trying to decode it? Thanks a lot!! oliver This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004E_01BFCE24.B99ECD80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEBLAEsAAD/7QfCUGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNA+0AAAAAABABLAAAAAEA AQEsAAAAAQABOEJJTQQNAAAAAAAEAAAAeDhCSU0D8wAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAAOEJJTQQKAAAAAAAB AAA4QklNJxAAAAAAAAoAAQAAAAAAAAACOEJJTQP1AAAAAABIAC9mZgABAGxmZgAGAAAAAAABAC9m ZgABAKGZmgAGAAAAAAABADIAAAABAFoAAAAGAAAAAAABADUAAAABAC0AAAAGAAAAAAABOEJJTQP4 AAA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com

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Mailman breakdown
by Aaron La Mar 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

I've been using Mailman 1.1 with Python 1.5.2 on FreeBSD 3.1 for several months now with no problems, but today no Mailman functions seem to be working. I haven't made any changes to the system, and would greatly appreciate any advice. I'm getting the following message from the cron daemon constantly: Subject: Cron <mailman@access> /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 119, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 58, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 817, in Load raise Errors.MMBadListError, ('Failed to unmarshal config info: ' TypeError: __add__ nor __radd__ defined for these operands And the following error every time a Mailman web page is hit: Bug in Mailman version 1.1 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 59, in main FormatAdminOverview() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 192, in FormatAdminOverview l = MailList.MailList(n, lock=0) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 817, in Load raise Errors.MMBadListError, ('Failed to unmarshal config info: ' TypeError: __add__ nor __radd__ defined for these operands -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Environment variables: Variable Value DOCUMENT_ROOT /web/www.neww.org/html UNIQUE_ID OTqL8c8WfRMAAARdFao HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate REMOTE_HOST x.x SERVER_PORT 80 REMOTE_ADDR x.x.x.x HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 SERVER_NAME www.neww.org HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/x-comet, */* REQUEST_URI /mailman/admin PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin QUERY_STRING SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admin HTTP_HOST www.neww.org REQUEST_METHOD GET SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.6 Server at www.neww.org Port 80 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admin SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)neww.org SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.6 (FreeBSD) PHP/3.0.10 PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 REMOTE_PORT 61839

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Re: mass delete
by J C Lawrence 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 22:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Dan Mick <Dan.Mick(a)west.sun.com> wrote: >>> I think it's much more common to "remove 5 bozos", and the >>> web page allows that nicely. >> >> As it happens, I disagree with that, too. > ...but in a way you care not to explain? Given a list with a thousand or so members, it can be a pain finding and removing addresses from the web pages. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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A little Weird
by Mel Sojka 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

Folks: I am running mailman 1.0 from the red hat rpm and have one list set up as a virtual list. This list works great, but it seems that I can't add another list. I get the below when I send in the confirmation. I do have everything in the /etc/aliases and of course the wrapper link in /etc/smrsh. Any suggestions? ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 553 mail.nwla.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) 554 <snake-request(a)mail.nwla.com>... Local configuration error -- ------------------------------------- This Mail composed using Netscape 4.5 Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 Linux 2.0.36 ----------------------------------

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Re: [Mailman-Users] List swamped
by Chris D.Halverson 04 Jun '00

04 Jun '00

Jonah Baker <jonah(a)votenader.org> writes: > I am using mailman for Ralph Nader's presidential campaign. It has worked > wonderfully except for one thing. Our main announce-only list seems not to > be responding. It has 15,000 members subscribed. Are we a victim of our > own success? Any idea how I can send e-mails out to this group of people? I run a list that has about twice that many subscribers, and I can bet that some of the python.org or other big lists are much bigger than that. It too is an "annouce only" type of thing. No problems whatsoever. This is especially true after I switched from sendmail to postfix as the MTA. I would look at your MTA and/or system resources (memory, etc.) and see if you can tweak that a bit. Mailman should have no problem w/ this size of list (at least in my experience). cdh -- Chris D. Halverson Complete Internet Solutions PGP mail accepted, finger for public key http://www.CompleteIS.com/~cdh/

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Default Listinfo Page
by Mitchell 03 Jun '00

03 Jun '00

I was wundering if there is any way of changin the html on the default listinfo page ie if someone browses to http://www.myurl.com/mailman/listinfo and doesn't provide the name of a mailing list a default page comes up showing what lists are available etc. Can that particular page be altered at all? Thanks >From Mitchell -- Mitchell Smith Blitz Technology Email: mjs(a)blitz-technology.net Phone: (07)55 723 307 or 0402 095 432 Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis. It makes sense, when you don't think about it.

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List swamped
by Jonah Baker 03 Jun '00

03 Jun '00

I am using mailman for Ralph Nader's presidential campaign. It has worked wonderfully except for one thing. Our main announce-only list seems not to be responding. It has 15,000 members subscribed. Are we a victim of our own success? Any idea how I can send e-mails out to this group of people? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship." -Ralph Nader Vote Nader http://votenader.org Paid for by the Nader 2000 Primary Committee, Inc. P.O. Box 18002, Washington, D.C. 20036

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latest CVS: errors: AttributeError: LogMsg
by Mentor Cana 03 Jun '00

03 Jun '00

Just updated the CVS tree to the latest (@ 19:31 EST). Below is the error I get. I sent a message to the test list (on different installation then the production one) and got many many copies of the same messages. They just kept coming and coming. Different date stamp with bunch coming with the same date/time stamp. Only ne copy goes into the archives though, with approval or without. To stop the messages coming, I had to delete all the files in /qfiles . later, mentor --- Jun 02 19:59:16 2000 (8724) Delivery exception: LogMsg Jun 02 19:59:16 2000 (8724) Traceback (innermost last): File "/opt/home/mmtest/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 74, in DeliverTo$ func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/opt/home/mmtest/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 53, in process failures = deliver(mlist, msg, chunk) File "/opt/home/mmtest/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 128, in deliver mlist.LogMsg('smtp', AttributeError: LogMsg

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Re: mass delete
by Dan Mick 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

> > > I'm sorry, but it's fair for a list admin not to know Unix, > > > > It may be fair, but it's a long way from optimal. > > "Optimal" would be: everyone I ever deal with knows Unix at the same > level I do. Tell Mr McNealy that no matter how hard he dot-coms us, he > will not get a world full of Unix users, and -- surprise -- a lot of > those people who will never be Unix users have valid group > communication needs. Okay, I really don't think gritching at either Scott, Sun or me is appropriate to this conversation; we are having a disagreement, not a slinging contest. Ease off, 'kay? > > I think it's much more common to "remove 5 bozos", and the > > web page allows that nicely. > > As it happens, I disagree with that, too. ...but in a way you care not to explain? <sigh> I guess it's safe to say that you're voting for mass-delete through the web page, however disagreeably, so I'll take everything else with the salt probably intended. I agree it would be an easy feature to supply, easier than "mass sub with passwords", so if more than one person wants it (they do) it should probably be added. As I said, I'll take a shot at coding it.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Feature Request -- Again
by J C Lawrence 02 Jun '00

02 Jun '00

On Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:53:16 -0600 Richard Pyne <rpyne(a)kinfolk.org> wrote: > I am finding more and more all the time that people are using > email addresses that have absolutely NO relationship to their name > and most of my administrative requests are of the nature "Hi, I'm > John Doe and my new email address is hiphop(a)webmail.net. Can you > please update my address?". I handle those with an equally simple reply: This is one of those things that is far easier for you to do than I. Just unsubscribe your old address and then subscribe the new. To do this just go to the list page, plug in your subscription address at the bottom. On the next page is a button to unsubscribe. You can of course re-subscribe at the list page. A variation of the same indicating the send-me-my-password button handles the, "Please unsubscribe me as I've forgotten my PW" please. -- J C Lawrence Home: claw(a)kanga.nu ----------(*) Other: coder(a)kanga.nu --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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