Mailman 3 March 2001 - Mailman-Users

Going Platinum
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March 23, 2001

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Migration from Majordomo to Mailman ?
by Philippe Rodriguez March 23, 2001

March 23, 2001

Hello, I'm actually testing Mailman, maybe to replace Majordomo on my server. My questions are the following : - will Mailman be able to manage 700 or more mailing lists ? (is it reasonable ?) - how can I migrate all my lists (I can write scripts, but I won't migrate more than 700 lists by hand !!) Thank you for you help, Phil ;)

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe/posts disappear into black hole
by Dan Mick March 23, 2001

March 23, 2001

> One question for anyone who might know... > > Why isn't qrunner mensioned in the "install" document? It is: - IMPERATIVE! IMPORTANT! DO THIS! YOU'LL BE SORRY IF YOU DON'T! Set up the crontab entries. Mailman runs a number of cron jobs for its basic functionality. You need to be user `mailman' (or whatever you specified as --with-ownername) to perform this step. Add $prefix/cron/crontab.in as a crontab entry by executing these commands: % su - mailman % cd $prefix/cron % crontab crontab.in

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Mailman2.0.3 on AIX4.2
by Daniel Carlos Souza de Jesus March 23, 2001

March 23, 2001

Hello, I am trying to install mailman 2.0.3 on AIX 4.2 with apache-1.3.19 and Python 2.0. My hardware is a RS/6000 G30. My webserver is running with group nobody and I configured the mailman with --with-cgi-gid=nobody. The following error occurs when I try to run mailman in my browser: "Mailman CGI error!!! The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by the Web server. The most likely cause is that Mailman was configured and installed incorrectly. Please read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close attention to the --with-cgi-gid configure option. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Permission denied" What's the problem ??? Daniel Carlos Universidade Federal da Bahia Brazil

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"could not acquire qrunner lock", etc
by Bill Bradford March 23, 2001

March 23, 2001

I've got some fairly high-traffic mailing lists (sunmanagers, with ~3K members, sunhelp with ~1K, and 3 or 4 others with ~500 members). Upgraded to Python 2.0 this morning, and recompiled/reinstalled mailman 2.0.3 along with it (had already been running this version, but I figure recompiling/installing it along with the new python wouldnt hurt). I started getting a lot *more* of these in /usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner than normal: Mar 23 10:47:06 2001 (29208) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 10:48:03 2001 (29234) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 10:49:01 2001 (29246) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 10:50:04 2001 (29272) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 10:51:02 2001 (29300) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 10:52:02 2001 (29313) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 10:53:03 2001 (29325) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 10:54:02 2001 (29336) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 10:55:03 2001 (29381) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 11:01:03 2001 (29527) Could not acquire qrunner lock At this point, I looked at the crontab, and changed the qrunner line to this (I figured it was trying too often): # Retry failed deliveries once per minute. 1,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner Now, I'm seeing this in qrunner: Mar 23 11:15:03 2001 (29811) Exception reading qfile: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/ 32cc45c1b567ea4a21478ea362d26fe7cfae5560 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/32cc45c1b567ea4a 21478ea362d26fe7cfae5560.db' Mar 23 11:30:04 2001 (199) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 11:45:02 2001 (426) Exception reading qfile: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/32 cc45c1b567ea4a21478ea362d26fe7cfae5560 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/32cc45c1b567ea4a 21478ea362d26fe7cfae5560.db' Mar 23 12:01:04 2001 (784) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 12:15:02 2001 (1043) Exception reading qfile: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/3 2cc45c1b567ea4a21478ea362d26fe7cfae5560 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/32cc45c1b567ea4a 21478ea362d26fe7cfae5560.db' Mar 23 12:30:04 2001 (1422) Could not acquire qrunner lock Mar 23 12:45:02 2001 (1644) Exception reading qfile: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/3 2cc45c1b567ea4a21478ea362d26fe7cfae5560 [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/32cc45c1b567ea4a 21478ea362d26fe7cfae5560.db' Mail is getting through, although sometimes mail I sent to a small list (< 100 members) might take 5-6 hours to arrive - and this is to my account on the *local machine*. Any suggestions? Seems I've been seeing these delays since upgrading > 2.0.1. MTA is Sendmail 8.11.x, local delivery agent for local mail is procmail. OS is Solaris 8, on a 300Mhz SPARC AXe-based machine with 128MB of RAM, and plenty of drive space. Thanks. Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

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cron (fwd)
by Philippe Rodriguez March 23, 2001

March 23, 2001

Hello, I'm now testing mailman-2.0.3, it's working well, but each minute I'm receiving an email (see below). Maybe this problem more a Python problem ? I've installed Python from a package, and could find no informations about $PYTHONHOME. Did someone had this problem ? Thank's for your answers. Phil. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:00:03 +0100 (MET) From: root <root> Subject: cron Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] ************************************************* Cron: The previous message is the standard output and standard error of one of your crontab commands: /opt/python/bin//python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner

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Mailman and Plesk
by Jens W. Skov March 23, 2001

March 23, 2001

Has anyone succeded in installing Mailman on a boc running Plesk? - Jens W. Skov - JS Consult - Phone: 45884077 / 23254077 - E-Mail: jens(a)jsconsult.dk - Web: http://www.jsconsult.dk http://jnet.dk - FASTNETTELEFONI TIL LAVPRIS? EXTRA LAV KØBENHAVNERTAKST?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Translation of web page.
by Detlef Neubauer March 23, 2001

March 23, 2001

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "a.marcedone(a)portamagica.it" <alberto(a)portamagica.it> writes: > I have try to translate in italian language the "listinfo" and the other page of Mailman. > > But in the page are some messages that are NOT in the html code. > > E.g.: Afther the e-mail address. and before the password, at the end of the html message > mailman add: . Once a month, your password will be emailed to you as a reminder. > > Where are this small messages to translate it? ~/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py Gruß Detlef Neubauer - -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://germany.keyserver.net/ Oo. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Weitere Infos: siehe http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6u201GuezSNJMgPoRAnR1AJ9k0H71suyw3Aw7+5/D2aKd1hmxzgCdHCbv Mvuy1gGLeAt4yCHgNB55gVY= =i2th -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Users being disabled.
by Stu Ekins March 23, 2001

March 23, 2001

Hi all, One of the lists on my server currently has in excess of 1000 users. Every so often, some users have their delivery automatically disabled for no apparent reason, although it seems to happen after they post. So far it seems only to be happening to digest members but it may be that regular list members have simply not complained. I'd say there are about 5 or 6 accounts that are regularly affected in this way and perhaps a couple more that have had it happen just once or twice. The box is RedHat 7.0 with mailman 2.0.1 and using a sendmail version 8.11 Has anybody had any similar problems? The logs show very little that I can see -- although the affected users all appear in the bounce log from time to time, so do many others who don't get disabled. That said, I only ever see "first" for the affected users, not "first fresh". Does anybody know how the bouncing stuff works in detail? Any help appreciated, Stu.

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe/posts disappear into black hole
by Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK] March 23, 2001

March 23, 2001

One question for anyone who might know... Why isn't qrunner mensioned in the "install" document? Regards, Simon. -----Original Message----- From: Philippe Rodriguez [mailto:Philippe_Rodriguez@bevoux.grenoble.hp.com] Sent: 23 March 2001 09:22 To: Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK] Cc: 'mailman-users(a)python.org' Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Subscribe/posts disappear into black hole Did you set up the crontab ? I suggest that you try : <python home>/bin//python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner (I had the same problem when I tried mailman at the first time ... and forgot to set up the crons for mailman user) Phil. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Blandford, Simon [BSS Audio UK] wrote: > When I confirm the subscription to a mailing list I am setting up or try to > post to it I get no response. No error, nothing appears on the list, no new > subscribers in the list, zip. I have set up /etc/virtusertable and > /etc/aliases correctly, as far as I can tell, and if I change the lines in > /etc/aliases that say (for an example mailing list called "news") from... > > mailman: <my admin email address> > mailman-owner: mailman > news: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post news" > news-admin: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner news" > news-request: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd news" > news-owner: news-admin > > ...to say... > > mailman: <my admin email address> > mailman-owner: mailman > news: <my home email address> > news-admin: <my home email address> > news-request: <my home email address> > news-owner: news-admin > > ...then I do indeed get the subscription requests and posts directed back to > me. So Sendmail must be doing it's stuff OK. So why doesn't Mailman respond? > > Mailman is installed as user "mailman" with prefix "/home/mailman/". > > Regards, > Simon Blandford. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users >

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