Mailman 3 July 2000 - Mailman-Users

N-Plex with Mailman!
by Gaston Franco 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Hi! Does anyone probe Mailman with InScribe Messanging Server (formerly know as N-PLEX ) ?? (It's a CriticalPath product...) Thanks in advanced.

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Nplex
by Gaston Franco 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Hi! Does anyone probe Mailman with InScribe Email Messaging (or NPLEX)..? (It is a Mail Server product of CriticalPath Corp.[http://www.criticalpath.net]) Thanks in advanced.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] broadcast-type lists
by Dan Mick 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

> >The real answer is to allow private templates files per-list. > >Let me see what I can figure out. > > Yes that sounds perfect. Patch #100953 (on sourceforge) allows list-specific files; you put them in ~mailman/lists/<listname/ , and they're used in preference to the ones in ~mailman/templates for that list. It was a bit dodgy how I had to do it; the list object wasn't previously passed to Utils.maketext(), so I had to find all the callers of maketext and add the list object to the call params. Mostly, the change is in Utils.py, but there's a slight touch to a lot of other files. I'll submit this over on mailman-developers and see if anyone has any comments, but it seems to work. Of course it's only valid against the current CVS snapshot as of right now (Barry's been changing a lot tonight preparing for beta5).

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Crontab problems
by J C Lawrence 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:14:08 +0100 (BST) GreenNet Outreach <outreach(a)gn.apc.org> wrote: > Generally it seems quite slow to process requests, e.g. I have a > very big list to transfer and it takes about five minutes to > process 20 subscriptions (i have 2000) and can't seem to handle > more than that - is this normal? The web interface is pathalogical for subscribes. Avoid it for bulk work. Use the provided command line tools add_members and remove_members instead. Much faster and FAR more effective. > Your "cron" job on news /usr/local/bin/python > /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests Run check_perms and fix anything it finds. -- 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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Need some help with Mailman and Sendmail
by Matt Starnes 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

I had Mailman working, then went and updated to RH 6.1 which added the secure sendmail which I didn't know it would do. This immediately broke Mailman. After number recompiles, I gave up and reinstalled RH 6.1 from scratch. I have followed all the instructions in INSTALL. Here is my aliases: test: "|/etc/smrsh/wrapper post test" test-admin: "|/etc/smrsh/wrapper mailowner test" test-request: "|/etc/smrsh/wrapper mailcmd test" test-owner: test-admin mailman: my email address mailman-owner: mailman I have linked /etc/smrsh/wrapper /home/mailman/mail/wrapper Here is the error I am getting: The original message was received at Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:28:16 -0500 from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <test-request(a)unix.ltlb.com> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 553 unix.ltlb.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) 554 <test-request(a)unix.ltlb.com>... Local configuration error I didn't get any ./configure error nor any during make install. The first time I ran check-perms it found 0 errors. I did the make install as mailman with the source tar ball in a /home/mailman/test directory. If more info is needed let me know. I've been beating my head against this for a week now. Thanks, Matt

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron <mailman@saturn> /usr/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/run_queue (fwd)
by J C Lawrence 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:37:57 -0400 (EDT) Pete Holsberg <pjh(a)mccc.edu> wrote: > Could someone please explain this message to me? I began getting > these after adding a 6000-member mailing list. You need to up the number of file handles available per process. For Linux you just echo the new value to the appropriate point in /proc (sorry, I don't have time to check which right now). -- 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] File Attachments
by J C Lawrence 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:57:22 +0200 Thomas Franosch <thomas(a)franosch.de> wrote: > i have some problems with the Mailman software. At first there ist > no option to disable file attachemnts. For our list it`s not > enough that you can change the max. kb size of an mail. Perhaps > you have an idea what i can do. As has been discussed here (check the archives) you can put a filter that stips MIME (or does anything else yo want) in your aliases file jsut ahead of the call to Mailman's wrapper. Check the archives for details. -- 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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File Attachments
by Thomas Franosch 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Hello ... i have some problems with the Mailman software. At first there ist no option to disable file attachemnts. For our list it`s not enough that you can change the max. kb size of an mail. Perhaps you have an idea what i can do. We try mailman at the moment with 10 persons in a list. But sometimes mails with file attchments don`t come to us. This happend in the last time with two or three without attchemnts too. We use the 2.00 beta 2. thanks for your help thomas franosch

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Cron <mailman@saturn> /usr/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/run_queue (fwd)
by Pete Holsberg 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Could someone please explain this message to me? I began getting these after adding a 6000-member mailing list. Thanks, Pete ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:46:54 -0400 From: Cron Daemon <root(a)saturn.mccc.edu> To: mailman(a)listserv.mccc.edu Subject: Cron <mailman@saturn> /usr/bin/python /home/mailman/cron/run_queue Logging error: <StampedLogger to '/home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures'> Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 55, in __get_f IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures' Original log message: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/mailman/logs/smtp-failures' Jul 26 08:46:53 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: To 73304.2605(a)compuserve.com: Jul 26 08:46:53 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: socket.error / host not found (deferred) Jul 26 08:46:53 2000 TrySMTPDelivery: Maybe your MTA daemon needs restarting? Logging error: <StampedLogger to '/home/mailman/logs/error'> Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 55, in __get_f IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/mailman/logs/error' Original log message: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/mailman/logs/error' Jul 26 08:46:53 2000 processQueue: Processing of queue file /home/mailman/data/mm_q.25887.941 failed: Jul 26 08:46:53 2000 processQueue: exceptions.IOError / [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/mailman/data/mm_q.25887.941' Logging error: <StampedLogger to '/home/mailman/logs/error'> Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 55, in __get_f IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/mailman/logs/error' Original log message: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/mailman/logs/error' Jul 26 08:46:53 2000 processQueue: Processing of queue file /home/mailman/data/mm_q.25887.942 failed: Jul 26 08:46:53 2000 processQueue: exceptions.IOError / [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/mailman/data/mm_q.25887.942'

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user cannot subscribe via webpage
by Feri Zsuppan 26 Jul '00

26 Jul '00

Hi, This is a new install of mailman. Everything seems to be ok( I can create lists, subscribe via email, modify list parameters etc.) except subscribing to the list via form. I get the "There was no response. The server could be down" message. The log shows the connection to .../mailman/listinfo/mylist, but I get no error message. The web server(Apache) is of course ok. This might be a FAQ, but I have been unable to find the answer so far. Thanks for any pointers with this, --Feri

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