Mailman 3 October 2001 - Mailman-Users

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by JT Whitlock 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Since downloading your service last night I have received at least a dozen letters from all over the nation with questions on how to best use your service. I am just a flunky at computer use, so most of the questions asked are totally unknown to me. This sudden turn out of emails makes me think of a chat line, is that part of your service. Like I said, I am for the most part computer dumb jtwhitlock(a)kih.com

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qrunner: "ValueError : bad marshal data"
by Jos Vos 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hi, Since some days I see the following errors appearing in the error file every time qrunner runs (and all messages stay in the queue since then): Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): Traceback (innermost last): Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 283, in ? Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): kids = main(lock) Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 252, in main Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): keepqueued = dispose_message(mlist, msg, msgdata) Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 164, in dispose_message Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): return HandlerAPI.DeliverToList(mlist, msg, msgdata) Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 149, in DeliverToList Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): pipeline = do_pipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 78, in do_pipeline Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): mod = __import__('Mailman.Handlers.' + modname) Oct 01 15:03:01 2001 qrunner(7804): ValueError : bad marshal data >From the outside, this message is not very informative about what's really wrong. Can someone help me out here? It has worked fine before and we are not aware of haning changed anything. Thanks, -- -- Jos Vos <jos(a)xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204

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footer doesnt appear
by Ben-Nes Michael 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hi I noticed that when I send HTML page to a mailing list the footer does not appear. What can be done ? Is it a bug with mail formating ? -------------------------- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-4-6991122 http://sites.canaan.co.il --------------------------

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Why https only works from remote hosts ?
by Oliver Egginger 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Hello, from remote hosts everything works fine. I'am using mailman 2.0.6 (with Apache 1.3.20 and OpenSSL 0.9.6b in the back). List subsciption (and so on) works very well (remote and local), but when I visit the list-owner admin page (via https) from my local machine ( https://<my_host>/mailman/admin/test ), I receive this error message by trying to send the passwort: -------------------------------------------------------------- Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please. -------------------------------------------------------------- The causer is the obversely Post Action in the (generated) adminpage-URL: ACTION="http://<my_host>:443/mailman/admin/test"> (This throws away the https://<...> suffix.) :-( So I thought (at first) it would get into general trouble, but when I doing the same from a remote host everything works fine, cause the post action looks (in this case) like this: ACTION="/mailman/admin/test"> (This preserves the https://<...> suffix.) :-) Why mailman works in this manner ? Do I something really stupid ? I can't see my fault, so if you could give me a clue, I would be very greatful. regards Oliver

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Few questions for the Mailman list...
by AE Somerville 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

G'Day, I'm currently compiling a list of prospective MLM software for the QUT Messaging Project (redesigning the Queensland University of Technologies email systems). We are running a mail system for approx 53,000 users supporting approx 1,500 lists. The lists are generated by the Universities student database systems at this time. I was particulalry interested in: 1. How your software stores and accesses the mailing list information (List Members, Administrators, Moderators, Members). 2. What command line tools or non-web-broswer methods are available to administer the lists. 3. What tools are available to make a mass upload of lists members and owner/moderator details? 4. Can we link in authentication (C code) to authenticate to our password systems? 5. Is there a webbased interface for administrator of the mail list service. 6. I'd also like to know what way the lists are stored... Are they in a flat file/DB/Hash? How's this achieved for your product? 7. And even though we can add our own adjustments to the code for the purposes of authentication, are there plans for adding support for industry supported authentication mechanisms such as Cyrus SASL? <http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/sasl/doc/> -- Antony Somerville Messaging Project Queensland University of Technology Brisbane Queensland, Australia Ph: +61 7 3864 4434 Fax: +61 7 3864 2921

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Scaling Mailman
by Chris Greer 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

We've been using Mailman for a while now, (still actually running Version 1.1). We've started to hit some problems with high message volumes to individual list. We are seeing multiple python processes trying to deliver to the same mailing list, and getting hung waiting on CPU. As we start loking into ways to solve this problem, I thought I'd send a note out to see if other people are seeing this type behavior and what they are doing to solve it. Can Mailman be run on multiple receiving mail servers and safely NFS mount the mailman directory ? Or do we only get more CPU capacity by going to a bigger box? Have there been any performance enhancements between the current version and the 1.1 version that we are running? I've been trying to find a Changelog, and haven't found what I'm looking for so far. We are also using python 1.5.2. I'm not sure what has changed in that distribution as well. We are seeing some python processes seem to have a fairly high memory footprint. Right now we are running on Solaris, and for political and financial reasons, that will probably not change in the next year or so. We are also running our lists on the mail server with users. We are strongly considering moving the lists to a separate list server. If anyone has any suggestions, I would appreciate them. Thanks Chris G.

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Is there any way to restrict posting on only one email address?
by Peter Lee 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

For an annoucement list I would like subscribers not to be able to post. Is there any way to restrict posting on only one email or few address? Thanks. Peter ================================================ >>>>>>>> Visit http://www.acosmo.com <<<<<<<<<

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