Mailman 3 November 2001 - Mailman-Users

Problem with archiver after updating server.
by Paul Rubin Nov. 26, 2001

Nov. 26, 2001

I very recently upgraded my server, in the process I went from exim to sendmail, I went from redhat 7.0 to redhat 7.2 I re-formatted the drive and restored the mailman files from the backup. I appear to have a problem of some sort with the archiving. can someone tell me how to diagnose this problem further, so that I can fix it? Thank you. admin(10855): [----- Traceback ------] admin(10855): Traceback (innermost last): admin(10855): File "/var/mailman/scripts/driver", line 96, in run_main admin(10855): main() admin(10855): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 152, in main admin(10855): ChangeOptions(mlist, category, cgidata, doc) admin(10855): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 940, in ChangeOptions admin(10855): mlist.DeleteMember(user) admin(10855): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1184, in DeleteMember admin(10855): self.Save() admin(10855): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 861, in Save admin(10855): self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir() admin(10855): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 256, in CheckHTMLArchiveDir admin(10855): makelink(privdir, pubdir) admin(10855): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 42, in makelink admin(10855): os.symlink(old, new) admin(10855): OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory admin(10855): [----- Python Information -----] admin(10855): sys.version = 1.5.2 (#1, Jul 5 2001, 03:02:19) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2 admin(10855): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(10855): sys.prefix = /usr admin(10855): sys.exec_prefix= /usr admin(10855): sys.path = /usr admin(10855): sys.platform = linux-i386 admin(10855): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(10855): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/html admin(10855): SERVER_ADDR: 216.27.160.51 admin(10855): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip admin(10855): CONTENT_LENGTH: 3166 admin(10855): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded admin(10855): PATH_TRANSLATED: /var/www/html/dialingdave/members admin(10855): REMOTE_ADDR: 199.34.24.169 admin(10855): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.6 mod_perl/1.24_01 admin(10855): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(10855): HTTP_COOKIE: dialingdave:admin=280200000069487f013c73280000006334316636656136386238616539 6433643835633531343263323665303335373264393130346232 admin(10855): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en admin(10855): REMOTE_PORT: 1450 admin(10855): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(10855): HTTP_CONNECTION: Keep-Alive admin(10855): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (Win98; U) admin(10855): HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8 admin(10855): HTTP_ACCEPT: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */* admin(10855): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/admin/dialingdave/members admin(10855): QUERY_STRING: admin(10855): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.0 admin(10855): PATH_INFO: /dialingdave/members admin(10855): HTTP_HOST: www1.rubinsoftware.com admin(10855): REQUEST_METHOD: POST admin(10855): SERVER_SIGNATURE: <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.20 Server at www1.rubinsoftware.com Port 80</ADDRESS> admin(10855): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/admin admin(10855): SERVER_ADMIN: root@localhost admin(10855): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /var/mailman/cgi-bin/admin admin(10855): PYTHONPATH: /var/mailman admin(10855): HTTP_REFERER: http://www1.rubinsoftware.com/mailman/admin/dialingdave/members admin(10855): SERVER_NAME: www1.rubinsoftware.com

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Script for archiving digests?
by Melanie Dymond Harper Nov. 25, 2001

Nov. 25, 2001

Hi folks, I've just installed 2.0.7 to take over the running of mailing lists here. At the moment we have archives done by digest for those lists which have archives. I like the pipermail interface and don't want to replace it completely, but the weekly mailboxes are likely to be pretty large for some lists (and switching to daily volumes would make it hard to follow discussions by thread for those using the web interface to do so). Does anyone know of a handy script which I could use to receive digests and dump those into a different archive directory? Writing one wouldn't be an especially big deal but I suspect it might be a wheel-reinvention... Cheers Mel

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need assist/pointer to add-ons for automations...
by David Calafrancesco Nov. 25, 2001

Nov. 25, 2001

Greetings, I have succesfully installed a 2.07 under Solaris 8. No problems so far creating lists, or even tying them into newsgroups. Things working as expected. I have checked the archives of this list, at least as far back as a few months, as well as other docs and FAQs and don't see anyone addressing automating list creation. Looking to have a webpage that would only be accessable to users in my domain, perhaps requiring a confirmation email or even a full login, that would allow the users to create their own lists without my intervention. I know I would need a CGI to accept the new list info, verify the user is OK, then run newlist and add the aliases to the /etc/mail/aliases file and run newaliases. I can write something like this, but figure that someone somewhere has to have beaten me to it and I could benefit from their experience. Anyone know of a full automation setup like I describe and where I might find the glue to put it all together? Dave David Calafrancesco Vassar College SysAdmin dcalaf(a)vassar.edu 845-437-7892 845-437-7050 Fax 845-455-1342 pager

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Just upgraded from 1.1 to 2.0.7
by Paul Tomblin Nov. 25, 2001

Nov. 25, 2001

And I can't say I like the one minute delay before the mail actually goes out. Is there any way to eliminate the qrunner step and have it mail out immediately? I use a good MTA that is extremely fast and doesn't load down the system much, and I liked getting the message back from the list as soon as I hit send. -- Paul Tomblin <ptomblin(a)xcski.com>, not speaking for anybody "and by God I *KNOW* what this network is for, and you can't have it." - Russ Allbery draws a line in the sand for Usenet. (http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html)

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news-mail-gateway with password for newsgroup
by Jonas Meurer Nov. 25, 2001

Nov. 25, 2001

Hey ho, I've a problem with the news-mail-gateway. The server where the newsgroup is provided is free, but the newsgroup itself is not free. You need a password to read the group. You have to use the password as server-passwd, so that the server has a password, and only with this passwd you can read the group. Now, where in mailman can I define user and passwd? Thanks + bye Jonas -- | .-. | 2nd mail: bilbo.beutlin(a)mail.de | jmeurer.dnsalias.org | /v\ | ****************************************************** | /( )\ | **** Linux is like a wigwam: **** | ^^ ^^ | **** no windows, no gates and an apache inside! ****

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gate_news -crontab error
by Jonas Meurer Nov. 25, 2001

Nov. 25, 2001

Hey ho, I try to use the gate-news-function of mailman, but I get an error-message every time cron execs the '/usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/gate_news' command: -------------Top of message------------- X-From_: mailman(a)server.server0.de Sat Nov 24 13:38:15 2001 From: root(a)server.server0.de (Cron Daemon) To: mailman(a)server.server0.de Subject: Cron <mailman@server> /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/gate_news X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/mailman> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=mailman> Traceback (innermost last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main process_lists(lock) File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 148, in process_lists conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 75, in open_newsgroup password=mm_cfg.NNTP_PASSWORD) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 111, in __init__ self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port)) socket.error: (110, 'Connection timed out') -------------Bottom of message---------- How can I fix this bug? Bye Jonas -- | .-. | 2nd mail: bilbo.beutlin(a)mail.de | jmeurer.dnsalias.org | /v\ | ****************************************************** | /( )\ | **** Linux is like a wigwam: **** | ^^ ^^ | **** no windows, no gates and an apache inside! ****

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(no subject)
by sumanth Nov. 25, 2001

Nov. 25, 2001

X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00003291, 00003429, 00003578 Subject: Help Needed Message-ID: <3BFE6015(a)webmail.colostate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-WebMail-Urgent: Y X-Priority: 1 Return-Receipt-To: sumanth <sumanth(a)bach.cs.colostate.edu> X-Confirm-Reading-To: sumanth <sumanth(a)bach.cs.colostate.edu> X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.61 Hi, In Mailman for maintaining the list of the users other than the wbeinterface. Is there any primitive level datastructure to edit the users list. So that I can use vi and manipulate the userlist. thanking you, Sumanth.

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Blocking a Domain
by Jonathan Andrew Sheen Nov. 25, 2001

Nov. 25, 2001

Is there any way I can set Mailman to refuse subscriptions from a particular domain? I have a net.abuser who seems to want to make himself unpleasant, and I'd like to set things so that his personal domain simply isn't allowed to subscribe, period, so I won't have to make a career of unsubscribing him. Jonathan Andrew Sheen http://www.leviathanstudios.com Leviathan of the GEI (Detached.) jsheen(a)leviathanstudios.com "What'dya expect? I'm a New Yorker!" -Anonymous New York Firefighter, 9/12/01

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RE: Contents of Mailman-Users Digest...
by Feroz Musa Nov. 24, 2001

Nov. 24, 2001

-----Original Message----- From: mailman-users-admin(a)python.org [mailto:mailman-users-admin@python.org] On Behalf Of mailman-users-request(a)python.org Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 1:01 AM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #1598 - 9 msgs Send Mailman-Users mailing list submissions to mailman-users(a)python.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mailman-users-request(a)python.org You can reach the person managing the list at mailman-users-admin(a)python.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mailman-Users digest..."

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Just one quick one
by mel Nov. 24, 2001

Nov. 24, 2001

Is there a quick and dirty way to remove a person from a list without just going to the admin page and setting the no mail option. I can't seem to find an unsubcribe option anywhere on the admin pages, maybe I missed it. Is this possible? -- -------------------------- System Janitor/Network Plumber http://www.nwla.com Linux User #25446 Linux 2.4.7 --------------------------

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