Mailman 3 July 2001 - Mailman-Users

Normal people (microsoft users) having a hard time confirming?
by John Ruttenberg 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

I have a list and it seems that nobody has ever succeeded in subscribing to it. Finally somebody complained to me. The confirm mail he tried to send had all kinds of MIME and HTML suff it in and the error message he got back from mailman was like: Command? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Command? ------=_NextPart_000_0039_01C102E6.40053020 Command? Content-Type: text/plain; Command? charset="iso-8859-1" Command? Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> >>>>> Too many errors encountered; the rest of the message is ignored: > > confirm 729307 > I told him that he had to send plain mail, but I don't think he understood me or could tell if he had actually done this. Is there a solution to this short of opening the mailing list or changing the subscribe policy to "require approval"?

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Exim doesn't forward messages to mailman
by Moacir 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

My mailman setup, which has been running fine for months now, suddenly stopped working on the 13th. That is to say, I had all the directors, etc., set up in exim already, and everything was working fine. Suddenly, it has all stopped. It seems at first glance like an exim problem, but exim is handling all mail fine-- including unsubscribe messages! When I send a message to a list, I get this in /var/log/exim/mainlog: 2001-06-19 21:54:25 15CY8P-0008Sd-00 <= moacir(a)zuikis.uchicago.edu H=zuikis.uchi cago.edu [128.135.57.157] U=moacir P=esmtp S=982 id=20010619214935.A11301@zuikis .uchicago.edu 2001-06-19 21:54:28 15CY8P-0008Sd-00 => test <test(a)mydomain.com> D=list_director T=list_transport 2001-06-19 21:54:28 15CY8P-0008Sd-00 Completed It never goes from there to actually funnel the messages. My one hint that I've already got is this: > exim -v -bt test user "test" for file existence test not found test(a)mydomain.com deliver to test in domain mydomain.com director = list_director, transport = list_transport yet ~mailman/lists/test/config.db exists, which is, I think, how exim tells if a list exists. This has me completely stumped, and I don't even know where to look on the mailman side of things for help. Error logs end on the 13th--the same day the lists stopped working ;) I upgraded from 2.0.3 to 2.0.5 and nothing changed. I made a completely new installation of mailman (and changed the web and exim.confs accordingly) and nothing changed. In short, and to repeat, I'm stumped. So I have mailman 2.0.5, exim 3.22 (built Apr 10) and debian (though the mailman install was done by hand). --m

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Relocating Mailman 1.1 lists
by Dave Sherohman 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

I've recently had a drive go flaky on me and when the machine died, several files were corrupted. I'm now trying to bring everything back up on a new machine, copying over only what I must. This is turning out well, except that I haven't been able to get my mailing lists working. I've cpio'd over /var/lib/mailman/* and cp -a'd /etc/mailman/*, which seems like it should be sufficient. (The references I found to this sort of thing in the archives generally mention copying /home/mailman, which doesn't exist in the debianized version.) However, sending mail to one of my existing lists from the old system dies with Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/post", line 73, in ? mlist.Post(msg, approved=fromusenet) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1362, in Post footer = self.msg_footer % d) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Deliverer.py", line 162, in DeliverToList cmdproc.write("%d\n" % self.num_spawns) AttributeError: num_spawns and attempting to access any of their admin pages produces Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 168, in main FormatConfiguration(doc, lst, category, category_suffix) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 306, in FormatConfiguration form.AddItem(FormatOptionsSection(category, lst)) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 361, in FormatOptionsSection AddOptionsTableItem(big_table, item, category, lst) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 376, in AddOptionsTableItem val = GetItemGuiValue(lst, kind, varname, params) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 463, in GetItemGuiValue return TextBox(varname, getattr(lst, varname), params) AttributeError: num_spawns The listinfo pages and archives remain intact and newly-created lists are functional in all respects. check_perms and check_db claim that the old lists are fine and list_members goes off without a hitch also, so I'm fairly confident that I've just failed to copy some part of the configuration of my existing lists. But what is this missing piece?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] re
by Detlef Neubauer 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Matt Martin <lightningkid(a)mac.com> writes: > How do I make my list read only, so the members can't reply to the entire > list. So it will act like a newsletter. It's a FAQ. Take a look in the listarchive. Last week i post the URL. Gruß Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://germany.keyserver.net/ Oo.

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How can i send the admin of a list the first informationmail again?
by Detlef Neubauer 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Hello, i'm a mailmanserveradmin. How can i send the admin of a list the first informationmail again? Gruß Detlef Neubauer Sorry for my english. -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://germany.keyserver.net/ Oo.

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forward and mailman
by Jørgen Ruud 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

I want all email to adress to be forwardet to an mailman list. mymail(a)domain.no (.forward with --> list(a)list.mydomain.no) This works in a way, but i get a message saying: ... snip The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision. Is there a way for mailman to accept this message, but not all messages with implicit destinations, or do i have to use procmail and edit the headers? -- Jørgen Ruud jorgenru(a)stud.ntnu.no

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman
by Detlef Neubauer 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

"diego" <dsa(a)pucesa.edu.ec> writes: > Please, What do i have to do to run Mailman? > > I have finished the install process, but and now? > > How can I run Mailman?. Read the README, FAQ and INSTALL file from the sourcetree. Follow the instructions and it works fine. If you have a special problem ask. Gruß Detlef Neubauer -- .oO GnuPG Key auf http://germany.keyserver.net/ Oo.

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Mailman FRENCH Version
by LONJON Roger 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Hello Have you information or adress (Url or email ) about r French developpers , using Mailman in french version Thank's R LONJON France rlonjon(a)compuserve.com

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Using Mailman
by Enriko Groen 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

-----Original Message----- From: diego [mailto:dsa@pucesa.edu.ec] >Please, What do i have to do to run Mailman? >I have finished the install process, but and now? >How can I run Mailman?. If you followed the install procedures then Mailman should be running already. Please add more detail to what you mean by 'How can I run Mailman'. -- Enriko Groen, Hosting manager -------------------------------------------------------- netivity bv www.netivity.nl enriko.groen(a)netivity.nl 038 - 850 1000 van nagellstraat 4 8011 eb zwolle --------------------------------------------------------

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Qmail - huge performance increase (fwd)
by claw＠kanga.nu 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

I'm not a QMail user and so can't verify or confirm the truth of this. However, we have enough performance and scalability discussions here that it may help someone: http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp-0106/msg00221.html --<cut>-- To: <debian-isp(a)lists.debian.org> Subject: Qmail - huge performance increase From: "Jason Lim" <maillist(a)jasonlim.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:45:23 +0800 Reply-To: "Jason Lim" <maillist(a)jasonlim.com> Hi, Anyone that has followed this list knows I've been trying to boost Qmail's outgoing mail performance greatly. Just thought I'd let everyone know that increasing the number in the "conf-split" drastically improves performance. One of the problems I was having earlier was that the customer's server had a HUGE number of emails, and even just doing "ls" in each directory in the qmail queue directories would take ages, as there were so many individual emails queued. SO... by increasing conf-split to 97 (from the default of 20 something afaik), each directory ends up only having a hundred or so files. Doing "ls" now is far speedier. I couldn't find any documentation anywhere stating this, so I'll share it with you all :-) Sincerely, Jason --<cut>-- -- J C Lawrence claw(a)kanga.nu ---------(*) http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ The pressure to survive and rhetoric may make strange bedfellows

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