Mailman 3 October 2001 - Mailman-Users

Overriding the subscribeack.txt file for my read-only lists...
by Jose L. Hales-Garcia 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

I want to have another set of .txt (template) files for a set of lists which are to be read-only (broadcast) lists. I don't want the subscription acknowledgment message mentioning anything about where or how to post to the list. The default acknowledgment file is subscribeack.txt. This file is fine for most purposes but I need to override it for this set of read-only lists. How do I do this? I've snooped around in the Deliverer.py file and mm_cfg.py file. It seems the .txt files are not overridable, is this true? Thank you in advance, Jose -- .............................. UCLA Department of Statistics Jose L. Hales-Garcia ..............................

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Sudden error
by Dan Mick 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

Your footer probably has a "%C" (where C is some format character) in it that you didn't intend. Use config_list to dump the footer text and post it. > The ~/mailman/logs/error file is too big because the data: > > Oct 30 08:10:00 2001 (11866) Delivery exception: not enough > arguments for format string > Oct 30 08:10:00 2001 (11866) Traceback (innermost last): > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, > in do_pipeline > func(mlist, msg, msgdata) > File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py", line 41, in > process > footer = string.replace(mlist.msg_footer % d, '\r\n', '\n') > TypeError: not enough arguments for format string > > Is being written to the file several times a second. > > Reference the first note I have changed code and received a different > error. > > Regards > MikeT > > > On 30 Oct 2001, at 15:43, Greg Ward wrote: > > Sounds like you have an out-of-control log file on a system with no > > large file support. (Or at least your Python doesn't have it; I think > > the kernel, filesystem, libc, and Python all need to cooperate for files > > > 2 GB to work.) > > > > The problem is not that Mailman is crashing because of a humongous > > log file; the problem is that you have a humongous log file in the first > > place! Take a look in ~mailman/logs -- it should be pretty obvious > > which the 2 GB file is. Take a look in it and see if you can figure out > > why it got so big. > > > > Greg > > > > > ****************************************************** > SciTech Software Inc, > Michael E. Todd > System Administrator > 505 Wall Street > Chico, CA 95928 > 530.894.8400 ext 151 > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users

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from majordomo to Mailman ... questions, please help.
by Paul L. Schumacher 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

I am about to leave majordomo and go with Mailman. (yeah! yeah!) A couple of questions .... 1. I have a lot of lists on majordomo to transfer to Mailman ... any suggestions on how to do this easily and quickly without sending a million notices to the addresses moved to Mailman. (I want the change to be transparent to the users, other than the added features of Mailman.) 2. I have years of majordomo archives that I would like to move to Mailman ... is this possible? And, if so, what is a quick and easy way to do this? thanks so much, Paul Schumacher Computer Science Department Winona State University

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Sudden error
by miket＠scitechsoft.com 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

My list server suddenly developed an error message that is all consuming. I now have an error message that is 2gig in size. This is only since the 18th of October, 01. I had found the error upon receiving the Cron Daemon message: ************************************************** ********** Logging error: <StampedLogger to '/home/mailman/logs/error'> Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 74, in write f.write(msg) IOError: [Errno 27] File too large Original log message: [Errno 27] File too large ************************************************** This error led me to editing the file "HandlerAPI.py" described below. I found no erro on the indicated lines and when I tried to alter the file the message got worse. The code preceding the error line is: def do_pipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline): while pipeline: modname = pipeline.pop(0) mod = __import__('Mailman.Handlers.' + modname) func = getattr(getattr(getattr(mod, 'Handlers'), modname), 'process') try: pid = os.getpid() func(mlist, msg, msgdata) #Error Line 82 I added ", pipeline" from above and the error changes to: ************************************************** Oct 30 11:28:07 2001 (31223) Delivery exception: too many arguments; expected 3, got 4 Oct 30 11:28:07 2001 (31223) Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pipeline func(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) TypeError: too many arguments; expected 3, got 4 ************************************************** Oct 30 08:10:00 2001 (11866) Delivery exception: not enough arguments for format string Oct 30 08:10:00 2001 (11866) Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pipeline func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Decorate.py", line 41, in process footer = string.replace(mlist.msg_footer % d, '\r\n', '\n') TypeError: not enough arguments for format string Any help is greatly appreciated Thanks MikeT ****************************************************** SciTech Software Inc, Michael E. Todd System Administrator 505 Wall Street Chico, CA 95928 530.894.8400 ext 151

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Crontab of Mailman user ...
by Alessandro Luiz Petrocino 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

Dear friends: Accidentally, I erased the crontab of mailman. How I make to restore it ?? Thanks a lot ! Alessandro Luiz

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getting a lot of qrunner errors
by Justin Albstmeijer 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

Hi, using: mailman 2.0.6 Everything seemed to work fine (for weeks), till I got these errors: logs/error: Oct 30 14:44:58 2001 qrunner(3684): Traceback (most recent call last): Oct 30 14:44:58 2001 qrunner(3684): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 282, in ? Oct 30 14:44:58 2001 qrunner(3684): kids = main(lock) Oct 30 14:44:58 2001 qrunner(3684): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 202, in main Oct 30 14:44:58 2001 qrunner(3684): os.unlink(root+'.db') Oct 30 14:44:58 2001 qrunner(3684): OSError : [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/ac70488999dddaa6a224570774c18abd9c7a6be4.db' logs/qrunner: Oct 30 14:44:58 2001 (3684) Unlinking orphaned .db file: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/ac70488999dddaa6a224570774c18abd9c7a6be4.db What's happening here? How to fix this? Justin

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Re: [Mailman-Users] billing for mailing lists
by J C Lawrence 31 Oct '01

31 Oct '01

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:53:24 -0600 Albert Everett <aeverett(a)webintl.com> wrote: > Anyone have any magic formulas for how to bill for mailing lists > so that it's fair for the client and covers hardware and bandwidth > costs? Nope. > Is the file that has the list membership countable by line? ~/bin/list_members listname | wc -l > That wouldn't consider how busy a list might be, though. Parse your MTA logs. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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billing for mailing lists
by Albert Everett 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Anyone have any magic formulas for how to bill for mailing lists so that it's fair for the client and covers hardware and bandwidth costs? Is the file that has the list membership countable by line? I could see a monthly script that counts the membership file and bills per member. That wouldn't consider how busy a list might be, though. Albert

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mailman and qmail using virtual domains
by Chris Nestrud 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Hello all. I'm trying to set up mailman 2.0.6 using qmail as my MTA. I'm using qmail's virtual domain feature to send all mail from subdomain mailman to user mailman, and using the included qmail-to-mailman python script to route mail to the correct place. I have the mailman subdomain in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts and /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains, and sending mail to a created list works. The mail is delivered into the list's mbox file. However, the message is not resent to anyone who is not a user of the local machine. The ~mailman/logs/smtp log says the messages are sent, ~mailman/logs/error has no errors, and the qmail logs don't show any mail being sent out. I've gotten everything else to work, but this problem is baffling. I'm using user mailman's group, mailman, as the mail-gid and not getting any errors. Any suggestions? Chris

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mailman and qmail using virtual domains
by Chris Nestrud 30 Oct '01

30 Oct '01

Hello all. I'm trying to set up mailman 2.0.6 using qmail as my MTA. I'm using qmail's virtual domain feature to send all mail from subdomain mailman to user mailman, and using the included qmail-to-mailman python script to route mail to the correct place. I have the mailman subdomain in /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts and /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains, and sending mail to a created list works. The mail is delivered into the list's mbox file. However, the message is not resent to anyone who is not a user of the local machine. The ~mailman/logs/smtp log says the messages are sent, ~mailman/logs/error has no errors, and the qmail logs don't show any mail being sent out. I've gotten everything else to work, but this problem is baffling. I'm using user mailman's group, mailman, as the mail-gid and not getting any errors. Any suggestions? Chris

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