Mailman 3 March 2001 - Mailman-Users

Mailman & Procmail recipies
by Bob Puff＠NLE March 27, 2001

March 27, 2001

Hello, I have a couple users on one of my lists that are not receiving any mail. After doing a bunch of debugging, I have found that indeed the mail is getting to the destination server, but it looks like the destination server has a "catch-all" account that gets the mail, then has a procmail recipie that looks at the "To: " field, and forwards the message on to the appropriate person. THe problem is that Mailman puts the list address in the "To: " field, and thus the message fails the procmail script. What is the work-around for this situation? I suspect blind CCs to the person would also fail - are there other situations where this configuration is poor? Bob

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Re: More spam :-( Was Re: [Mailman-Users] Would you like to receive information on registering your pet online for free?
by J C Lawrence March 26, 2001

March 26, 2001

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:40:20 -0800 Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui(a)plaidworks.com> wrote: > On 3/26/01 10:14 AM, "J C Lawrence" <claw(a)kanga.nu> wrote: >> There is a logn standing tradition for support lists for products >> to not be closed to non-subscribers. > And ther's a long-standing tradition that this tradition causes > people like me to give up in disgust and leave, and when enough > people leave, all you have left are the spammers. Umm, you'll notice that I didn't try and justify the tradition, just observed its presence and apparent application to this instance. -- 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] qrunner.lock file date in future?
by Dan Mick March 26, 2001

March 26, 2001

> root@ohno:~> su - mailman > bash-2.03$ cd locks > bash-2.03$ ls -al > total 8 > drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 512 Mar 26 16:01 . > drwxrwsr-x 19 mailman mailman 512 Mar 23 10:21 .. > -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 59 Mar 27 2001 qrunner.lock > -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 59 Mar 27 2001 qrunner.lock.ohno.mrbill.net.23449 > bash-2.03$ date > Mon Mar 26 16:03:57 CST 2001 > > qrunner.lock was created *tomorrow* ? Yes. def __touch(self, filename=None): t = time.time() + self.__lifetime try: # TBD: We probably don't need to modify atime, but this is easier. os.utime(filename or self.__tmpfname, (t, t)) except OSError, e: if e.errno <> errno.ENOENT: raise It's a method for determining if a lock is likely to be stale, and therefore breakable.

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qrunner.lock file date in future?
by Bill Bradford March 26, 2001

March 26, 2001

This is just strange, but seems to be operating fine: root@ohno:~> su - mailman bash-2.03$ cd locks bash-2.03$ ls -al total 8 drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 512 Mar 26 16:01 . drwxrwsr-x 19 mailman mailman 512 Mar 23 10:21 .. -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 59 Mar 27 2001 qrunner.lock -rw-rw-r-- 2 mailman mailman 59 Mar 27 2001 qrunner.lock.ohno.mrbill.net.23449 bash-2.03$ date Mon Mar 26 16:03:57 CST 2001 qrunner.lock was created *tomorrow* ? This happens even if I manually delete the lockfile. Bill -- Bill Bradford mrbill(a)mrbill.net Austin, TX

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Would you like to receive information on registering your pet online for free?
by hermag＠excite.com March 26, 2001

March 26, 2001

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please help :)
by Aleksandra Witkowska March 26, 2001

March 26, 2001

Dear List Users/Admins, I'm in a bit of a quandary as to how to solve a problem regarding a list admin tool. I'm working for a non-for-profit technology community trying to help a team build a user-friendly admin tool for signing up for our community. We're trying to make a tool that tracks people who sign up and gives them a login as well as signs them up to a list or two (at their discretion of course :) Now, I am not a Unix-program, but I have administered Mailman lists through the web-interface admin tools. I would like to know a few things if possible. First off, we're sending commands to the list via-e-mail when a person registers, but we've run into a couple serious hitches. 1.)Is there were a way to set nomail at the same time as subscription in the same e-mail? Or another way to do this? For example (in the e-mail body to the list): subscribe myPassWd nomail I know the body above _doesn't_ work :(, but I have some hope for a variation, since there IS the "subscribe myPassWd digest" possibility, which means that Mailman CAN set SOME options during subscription. Perhaps there is some way the admin can customize the list that I am unaware of... if so, how? 2.)Can a request email include ANY kind of notice to the list admin? Like a "comments" line? subscribe myPassWd // set this person to nomail when approving This way the admin goes in and sets the option if mailman can't. I apologize if these are very basic questions, but I'm not a true list admin (but a web programmer here :) Thanks in advance for any light on this issue. If you can even point me to some references/sources on this subject that would help too, Aleksandra aleksw(a)ameritech.net

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Is it possible to restrict list posting from within domain
by Bosco Tsang March 26, 2001

March 26, 2001

I am new to the administration of an existing mailman list server ... I am wonder if it is possible to set it so that posting is only allow within the same domain? I can only found the restrict by list member option which seems not good enough. Any idea? Bosco. ----- Bosco Tsang, System Administrator, PCS Department of Physics, University of Toronto M5S 1A7 Tel: (416)978-3818 Fax:(416)978-8221 Email: bosco(a)physics.utoronto.ca (or bosco.tsang(a)utoronto.ca) Web: http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~bosco

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digests en masse
by Kaja P. Christiansen March 26, 2001

March 26, 2001

We've had a major problem with a digest which was sent in hundreds of copies; it started yesterday, sunday, at noon (when digests are being mailed). I found the digest 'stuck' in qfiles and, after removing it, along with all postings with the digest inside, it finally looked like the situation was back to normal. My question is: what could cause this problem in the first place? The first of (many) error messages shows: Mar 25 12:01:01 2001 (10003) Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/local/mailman20/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pip eline func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman20/Mailman/Handlers/Sendmail.py", line 87, in process status = fp.close() IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe We're running Mailman 2.0.3, postfix_pl13-2 on redHat 6.2. Regards Kaja

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Server's list change
by efernandezor＠antena3tv.es March 26, 2001

March 26, 2001

Hi again. Sorry, I want to know how change one list of machine, but I don't want to put all users again. I want to change the list and the list's users at time. Do you know ?? Thanks very much.

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by bousebata hicham March 26, 2001

March 26, 2001

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