Mailman 3 August 2001 - Mailman-Users

Message body is too big
by Laurian Gridinoc 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

Hi there, After a bounce with: "Reason: Message body is too big: 1841456 bytes but there's a limit of 512 KB" all my lists are dead, ven if I rejected the mail as admin; all the mails come in by the wrapper, and no mail is sent. I wiped the list with the original problem and recreated it from scratch but no help. Any ideas? Thanks, -- Laurian Gridinoc Chief Web Developer GRAPEFRUIT DESIGN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- e-mail: laur(a)grapefruitdesign.com ICQ: 73831683 mobile: +40 95 304379 voice/fax: (032) 233068 (Romania) voice/fax: (646) 349-2916 (United States) voice/fax: (0845) 127-5996 (UK) web: www.grapefruitdesign.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Problem with Netscape We Server
by Syed Muhammad Arif 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

Hi, I installed mailman on my server running sun solaris 8 and netscape web server 4.. and post office (email software ) on same server ... if any one guide me where i can get the information for configuring mailman with netscape web server and how can i integrate mailman with post office ,, pls if some body have experience this pls help me Regards Arif

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman with Sendmail
by Ben Burnett 30 Aug '01

30 Aug '01

At 07:06 PM 8/29/2001 -0400, Huy K Dung wrote: >Hi, > >I followed the INSTALL and README.SENDMAIL instructions to install Mailman >2.0.6 on my Redhat 7.0. I have python version 1.5.2 release 27 and >sendmail 8.11.0 release 8. > >Everything seems to be okie. I can create a new list and the server sends >me information to access the list as well as the administration. I can >subcribe to it and the server sends back a confirmation request e-mail. >However, when I reply to the confirmation e-mail, nothing happens. It >seems like the server doesn't get the confirmation e-mail, but there is no >delivery error e-mail sent back. I also looks at the logs/subcribe file, I >can see all of the e-mail subcribed are still pending. Please help!!! I >exhaust all my resources and ideas but still can't make it work. Did you set up the crontab entries? Did you manually add the list addresses to your /etc/aliases file AND run newaliases as root? - Ben

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Sendmail and slow sending to large list
by Schlachter, Kristofer 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Hi, The FAQ mentions that for poor sending performance "You need to turn off synchronous DNS resolution for messages originating from the local host." Well I don't know how to do that with sendmail and I couldn't find out how on the web or in the archives of this list. Can anyone tell me how to do it? Further detail (for anyone interested): I have mailman 2.0.6 running on a freebsd 4.3 box running sendmail 8.11.3. The smtp log has 104 messages going out every 50 minutes. The machine sits behind a firewall that allows dns from the mailman server to the dns server but is blocking all traffic that is not on port 53 from the dns server to the mailman server. I am a beginner at unix sys admin. I am not spamming anyone, they opted into our mailing list. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kristofer Schlachter

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Bounce exception
by Mike Orr 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

I installed Mailman 2.0.6 (from the Debian package) last week, and certain bounce messages are causing the qrunner to abort: Aug 29 15:01:03 2001 qrunner(19529): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/DSN.py", line 46, in process if string.lower(msg.gettype()) <> 'multipart/report' or \ TypeError : read-only character buffer, None When this happens, it seems to stop up all the other list messages and they don't get through. My /var/lib/mailman/qfiles directory contains 212 pairs of *.db / *.msg files, which I assume are unprocessed messages (mostly bounces it looks like). I ran qrunner under pdb and found that the offending section is: (in Mailman/Bouncers/DSN.py:) 45 def process(msg): 46 -> if string.lower(msg.gettype()) <> 'multipart/report' or \ 47 string.lower(msg.getparam('report-type')) <> 'delivery-status': 48 # then 49 return None msg.getparam('report-type') is returning None, which string.lower() chokes on. msg is a mimetools.Message instance. mimetools.py (Python 1.5.2) says self.getparam() looks in self.plist[] , etc, like this: 1) Message.__init__() calls Message.parsetype(), which reads the 'content-type' header and sets self.plisttext. (Pdb) p msg.getheader('content-type') 'multipart/report; boundary="---Multi-Part-Report-Level-1-1-29853"' (Pdb) p msg.plisttext '; boundary="---Multi-Part-Report-Level-1-1-29853"' 2) Message.__init__() calls Message.parseplist(), which builds self.plist[] from self.plisttext. (Pdb) p msg.plist ['boundary="---Multi-Part-Report-Level-1-1-29853"'] 3) Later, our unfortunate method calls self.getparam('report-type'), does not find 'report-type' (since the list contains only 'boundary'), returns None, and the qrunner dies. The first time it happened, I went up a few steps in the debugger, found that the "mlist.Unlock()" call [qrunner.py line 256 (main()] contains a 'file' variable with the current message filename ('8e1e772dc6e98db0e84fec6e4d3444eab7ddfa1a.msg'), unsubscribed the offending address, and deleted the message in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles . Then the qrunner ran without error and one of my earlier messages made it through. But then I looked in the logs a little later and found the same error, this time from a different message. Is this a known problem? Is it worth upgrading to 2.1a2 ? Is the message header incorrect MIME? But shouldn't Mailman be able to handle problems like this gracefully? Does anybody have any ideas, or do I have to write myself a patch to work around this? -- ________________________________________________________________ Mike Orr, mso(a)ssc.com | SSC, publishers of Linux Journal Technical Staff | PO Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155-0549 ----------------------------------------------------------------

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help
by Andrew Gilchrist 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

How do I send a message to my list using Mailman? Andy

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RE: [Mailman-Users] bug?
by Ivy Wang 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

where is request.db? When I try command: bin/dumpdb, I got: These are always marshaled dictionaries. Usage: ./dumpdb filename Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Mick [mailto:dmick@utopia.West.Sun.COM] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:18 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org; ivy(a)theiceberg.com Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] bug? Looks like request.db is corrupted. Try dumping with bin/dumpdb; if that fails too, just remove it. (You may lose a held message or two; IMO, that's not a big deal.) > When I go to our mailman admin page, and click "Tend to pending administrative requests", I get: > Bug in Mailman version 2.0.4 > > We're sorry, we hit a bug! > Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. > > I checked error log file, and it has a lot of : > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 92, in ? > main() > File "/home/mailman/cron/checkdbs", line 43, in main > count = mlist.NumRequestsPending() > File "../Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 96, in NumRequestsPending > File "../Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 69, in __opendb > EOFError: EOF read where object expected > > Anybody here has the same problem with me? Your help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Ivy >

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RUNNING MAILMAN SCRIPTS FROM WITHIN OTHER SCRIPTS
by Brian Barbour 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

I am attempting to use a Perl CGI script to add members to my mailman lists, but the script will not execute the add_members command, it just seems to skip over it. I also had similar problems when attempting to execute mailman scripts from within UNIX shell scripts. Any suggestions? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Brian C. Barbour Advanced Technologies & Applications Specialist Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (978)646-4056 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---

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server q
by Christopher Stark 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Hi, Can Mailman be installed onto my Hosted Server. I do not have a dedicated server, only FTP to my space on their server. I don't have access to the root of that server. Thank you, Christopher Stark

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Diff of subscribe.py
by J C Lawrence 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:08:28 +0200 Marc Logemann <mlogemann(a)morelogs.de> wrote: > I modified it, that from now on, the subscribe.py is doing the > same way than listinfo.py, which has no problems regarding > templates. Not to slight your patch, but it would do better sent to -developers instead of -users. mailman-developers(a)python.org -- J C Lawrence )\._.,--....,'``. ---------(*) /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. claw(a)kanga.nu `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly

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