Mailman 3 February 2001 - Mailman-Users

getting "mail forwarding loops"
by Bob Puff＠NLE 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

Hello gang, Running Mainman 2.01 with Postfix, with many different domains. Occasionally when looking at the mail logs, I see a "Mail forwarding Loop" messsage for <listname>@machine.hostname. Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary otherwise... I can go thousands of messages without seeing this, and other times I see quite a few. Could this be related to messages bouncing? It's right in the log during a mass send, and almost looks like Mailman is sending itself the message. Ideas? Bob

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Installation problem - FreeBSD
by Thomas Speight 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

Can anyone help me? I am trying to install Mailman for two (2) different domains on the same server. We tried setting GID to 91 but that did not work! Any advice is greatly appreicated. Thomas -------------------------- studebaker# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mailman/travelhacker.com --with-mail -gid=mailman --with-ownergroup=mailman creating cache ./config.cache checking for --with-python... no checking for python... /usr/local/bin/python checking Python interpreter... /usr/local/bin/python checking Python version... 2.0 checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for true... /usr/bin/true checking for --without-gcc... no checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes checking for --with-var-prefix... no checking for --with-username... mailman checking for mailman UID... 1005 checking for --with-groupname... mailman checking for mailman GID... 999 checking permissions on /usr/local/mailman/travelhacker.com... configure: error: ***** Installation directory /usr/local/mailman/travelhacker.com is not configur ed properly! ***** Set-gid bit must be set for directory: /usr/local/mailman/travelhacker.com

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Sprache
by edulap＠t-online.de 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, als ältere Seniorin bin ich recht ungeübt im Englischlesen. In Deutsch wäre es weitaus vergnüglicher. Gibt es eine Möglichkeit die Meldungen auf Deutsch zu lesen? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Edula Platte

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Upgrade: Templates and whatnot (Chuq?)
by J C Lawrence 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:13:39 -0800 (PST) Jeme A Brelin <jeme(a)brelin.net> wrote: > I know for a fact that none of the web pages have been customized. > What can I do to bulk-update my pages? You (or someone) is going to have to do the merge by hand. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Massive list prevents other lists' posts?
by J C Lawrence 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:54:02 -0800 Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)ActiveState.com> wrote: > We're using Mailman to manage many lists. Our announcement list is > very large, 50,000+ users. > Whenever we post a message to the very large list, posts stop > flowing from the others. This is a performance tuning problem. You need to do a flowpath analysis to see where your bottlenecks are and what is causing them. Probable causes: -- Bad choice of MTA (eg Sendmail) -- Bad configuration of MTA (eg list posts are DNS verified upon receipt) -- Bad name resolution support (eg no system-local DBS cache) -- Bad RCPT TO size bundling (mailman config) > I've looked through the Mailman source to figure out why, and I'm > stumped. It seems to me that nothing should be impeding the other > lists from injecting their messages into the queue, interleaved > with the mass mailout from the announcement list. Without knowing the version of Mailman being used and a host of other system particulars, this is impossible to answer. My best guess however would be choice of MTA and bad MTA configuration as the likely causes. -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--

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Exim using wrapper
by Thomas Engelschmidt 27 Feb '01

27 Feb '01

Hi, I'm having this problem with mails sent to the list, it seems that Exim can't probably forward them to the wrappper. The wrapper has the following permisions: -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 31419 Feb 27 22:47 wrapper Exim is running as a deamon under root. I have implemented the exim specific items as specified in the README.EXIM Except, that I have no exim user, so instead I've used mailman as the user in the configuration exim.conf If you point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it very much. best regards Thomas Engelschmidt I have included a part of a message that bounced. ------------------------------------ This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: bongo(a)?????.dk: Child process of list_transport transport returned 2 from command: /home/mailman/mail/wrapper ------------------------------------

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mailman 2.0beta6
by Matt Holtz 27 Feb '01

27 Feb '01

Hello Everyone, We use mailman for an internal mail server. Recently several of the mail list addresses have been getting a ton of spam. I would like to know if it is possible to include an entire domain as acceptable addresses to send to a list? i.e. there are 10 @voyager.net users on a specific list, but many employees on the list (hundreds and it changes daily) need to be able to send to this list, but no one from outside @voyager.net needs to send to this list. Is it possible to just allow @voyager.net to send to the list? I didn't see anything in the docs about it. Putting just "@voyager.net" didn't work, and neither did *(a)voyager.net. I am using 2.0 beta 6. Thanks, -- Matt Holtz Systems Engineer CoreComm, formerly Voyager.net

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Upgrade: Templates and whatnot (Chuq?)
by Jeme A Brelin 27 Feb '01

27 Feb '01

I just upgraded from 1.1 to 2.0.1. I just read about the html templates not getting updated. I know for a fact that none of the web pages have been customized. What can I do to bulk-update my pages? Thanks. J. -- ----------------- Jeme A Brelin jeme(a)brelin.net ----------------- [cc] counter-copyright http://www.openlaw.org

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REPOST: Lock files
by Ashley M. Kirchner 27 Feb '01

27 Feb '01

When does mailman create file locks, and for how long do they exist? (i know they will linger around if the program crashed, but under normal operation, how long?) AMK4 -- W | | I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tape somewhere. |____________________________________________________________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . 303.442.6410 x130 SysAdmin / Websmith . 800.441.3873 x130 Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . eFax 248.671.0909 http://www.pcraft.com . 3550 Arapahoe Ave #6 .................. . . . . Boulder, CO 80303, USA

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New Installation Problems
by John Graf 27 Feb '01

27 Feb '01

I hate to ask a question that has probably been asked a dozen times, but I have not been able to find an answer by searching the archives, the readme files, or the web. I have a new installation of Mailman (2.0beta5-1) on a Redhat 6.2 box with Sendmail. I moved my list of 218 members from a listbot server, and everything SEEMS to work fine, except that a large number of the 218 members aren't getting messages. There is nothing in the error log, but the bounce log is filling up with entries. I did a grep on a few addresses that aren't getting the mail and I see: name(a)hotmail.com - 2 more allowed over 278543 secs name(a)hotmail.com - 1 more allowed over 2xxxxx secs name(a)hotmail.com - 0 more allowed over 2xxxxx secs name(a)hotmail.com - 0 more allowed over 2xxxxx secs etc . . . I can use sendmail to get to these addresses just fine, btw. Any help would be appreciated! John

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