Mailman 3 May 2001 - Mailman-Users

Re: "could not acquire qrunner lock", etc
by Mike Crowe 02 May '01

02 May '01

On 23 March 2001, Bill Bradford wrote: > 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: I'm suffering from a similar problem. I run a list with a few hundred members that has a handful of posts an hour throughout most of the day. About thirty people are on the digest list. I'm running the Debian unstable mailman package 2.0.3-7 recompiled myself on a stable (Debian 2.2) system. I contacted the maintainer of the package and he suggested I post here. The machine is only a P133 with 96Mb of RAM but I would hope it should handle such a list. The mailing lists are running fine, mails just take a long time (several hours) to pass through the system and it is putting an unreasonable load on the machine in my opinion. It has a knock-on effect of making the web interface unusable because the qrunner process perpetually has the list locked (maybe this is a clue). The python qrunner process seems to be running most of the time pushing my load average above one constantly - it runs for its fifteen minutes and then gives up. At some points during a lull of several hours in mailing list activity it will stop of its own accord and everything will settle down. Dave Klingler wrote in response to Bill Bradford: > Sounds like you've got some permissions set wrong, Bill. Having qrunner > run once a minute works pretty well, btw. It keeps the queue small and > the overhead is minimal. If permissions were the case surely it wouldn't work at all? I've had a look through and stuff generally seems to be owned by user list, group list or owned by root, group list with g+rwX permissions. I tried putting some extra logging in the qrunner script but wasn't really sure what I was looking at. If someone can advise me where it would be best to log then I am willing to hack the scripts a bit. TIA -- Mike Crowe <mac(a)fysh.org>

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Re: Funny...Re: Request to mailing list Linux-ipsec rejected
by Nigel Metheringham 02 May '01

02 May '01

gentijo(a)eyecatching.com said: > NOTE TO THE MAILMAN LIST: Does anyone have any ideas here. We are > having problems allowing people to unsubscribe from the list. Looks like the problem here is a straight case of people being able to use any address in their domain for filtering/sorting, and thus forgetting the subscribed address. Unfortunately I do not have reminder messages set on this list for good reason, so you can't even get your address from the monthly reminder poke :-) Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)InTechnology.co.uk ] [ Phone: +44 1423 850000 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

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password reminders
by Con Wieland 02 May '01

02 May '01

My monthly subscription reminder from the lists I am on, have the sender, error-to, and x-beenthere addresses as test@domain and not the specific listname or the site administrative address. Any help on where to look or how to correct this would be appreciated. Con

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Help! problem with link creation for archives
by arif 02 May '01

02 May '01

Hi, I'm having a problem with a list that I've set up. It all seems to be working fine on the email side of things, but my web interface is acting a little funny. The problem is that the link for the list archives has an extra / here's what it looks like: http://216.233.22.3/mailman/private//linc-hot-news/ what's interesting is that this extra / appears in every instance of a link to the list archives. Any ideas on how I can fix this? thanks much, -arif <---------------------------------> Arif Mamdani Circuit Rider LINC Project -- Welfare Law Center www.lincproject.org www.welfarelaw.org 212.633.6967

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Re: Funny...Re: Request to mailing list Linux-ipsec rejected
by John Gentilin 02 May '01

02 May '01

Nigel, When I said funny I though the message was manufactured by a list member to appear as if it was coming from the List Admin.... Anyway, the interface will not let me unsubscribe, I tried every thing but it just doesn't work. I even tried to subscribe using the same email address (from the web page) then immediately unsubscribing but that only got me in a mode where the traffic doubled for a bit. The mailman home page shows you a list of their subscribers is a slightly obfuscated way then makes you log into the account to change your information. Can you turn this interface one, if only for a few days to allow people to settle their accounts then close it up again ?? NOTE TO THE MAILMAN LIST: Does anyone have any ideas here. We are having problems allowing people to unsubscribe from the list. Thanks -JG Nigel Metheringham wrote: > johnglinux(a)eyecatching.com said: > > linux-ipsec-admin(a)exim.org wrote: > > My apologies - I got a whole heap of messages caught by the exploder > list's filters at a point where I was mentally obviously not equipped > to deal with them appropriately. I let my frustration a little too > much free rein. > > However long discussions on subscribing/unsubscribing from the list are > not good list material. > > You can sub or unsub from the filtered exploder list (obviously only > unsub if you are subed to the exploder :-) ), at > http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ipsec > > If you are subscribed via the exploder (which will have meant you > subscribed yourself to it ), then the posts you receive will have a one > line sig attached to the bottom:- > ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ipsec > FreeS/WAN details at http://www.freeswan.org/ ## > > Frequent posters to the main ipsec list are normally subscribed to the > exploder, but with their preferences set to not deliver mail to them > (this allows their postings to not be held for moderation). If they > wish to join the exploder then they will find it thinks they are > already subscribed. In that case ask it for your password and then set > your preferences to mail. > > Nigel. > -- > [ Nigel Metheringham Nigel.Metheringham(a)InTechnology.co.uk ] > [ Phone: +44 1423 850000 Fax +44 1423 858866 ] > [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]

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Question on certain command
by Anne Nasveld 02 May '01

02 May '01

Dear madam / sir, Apparently Majordomo has been replaced by Mailman. In order to get an overview of the lists that I am subscribed to I used to send the command 'which' to Marjordomo. Would you know what the equivalent is for this command in Mailman? I haven't been able to detect it. Thanks very much in advance. Kind regards, Anne Nasveld

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No attachment
by a.gutowski＠wut.com 02 May '01

02 May '01

Hi, my problem is that attachments are stripped from the eMails and no text is in the body. Emails without attachment are spread normaly. Maximum length in Kb of a message body is set to 0. I use Mailman 2.0.4 on Debian 2.2r3. Fetchmail polls the mail from our Mailserver an procmail sort them to the different lists. I think there is something wrong in the .procmailrc !?!? Here an example of of the .procmailrc: ---<snip>--- PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/var/lib/mailman/mail MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # you'd better make sure it exists DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox # completely optional LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log # recommended :0 c * ^To: test(a)foo.com |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post test :0 * ^To: test-admin(a)foo.com |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner test :0 * ^To: test-request(a)foo.com |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd test :0 * ^To: test-owner(a)foo.com ! blabla(a)wut.com ------<snip>------- Thanx. with best regards Andreas Gutowski Weiss Umwelttechnik GmbH EDV Organisation

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Mime Stripper
by Clayton, Robert 02 May '01

02 May '01

Does anyone know of a good Mime Stripper that can work with the latest Sendmail? It would be for a Solaris 2.8 system.

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Trying to move Mailman configs.
by Clayton, Robert 02 May '01

02 May '01

Does anyone know of a way to torch (delete) specific messages in a mailman database. I have clients sending test messages and they are very annoying. I've already stopped them from coming in, but the ones that already exist are numerous. thanks!

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Trying to move Mailman configs.
by Len Merikanto 02 May '01

02 May '01

Any ideas how to move currently running Mailman and its configuratiosn to new platform? now running mailman at FreeBSD and i am supposed to move all configs and lists to another mailman running under Solaris 8 is there a easy way to move configs to another platform? or do i do it the hardway? Len Merikanto, Phone: +358968691950 Tietoverkot Oy Mobile: +358409008494 Munkkisaarenkatu 2 Fax: +358968691935 00150 Helsinki, Finland

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