Mailman 3 January 2002 - Mailman-Users

Posting to a list while being a memeber form another list
by Lafleur Maurice Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

I have the following situation: List A is a generic, plain ML to which members can post List B is an "announce" type list: only one person can post, members read only. Members of B want to post to A without being members of A, but *have to* be members of B. In other words, they dont want the traffic from A but still need to post to it. What set up should I use for this? Thank you. MGL -- Maurice G. Lafleur +------------------------------------------------+ Teacher + Voice: +1(819).778.2270 X1412 + Heritage College + Fax: +1(819).776.7364 + 325 Cite des Jeunes + mailto: mlafleur(a)cegep-heritage.qc.ca + Hull. Qc. +------------------------------------------------+ Canada J8Y 6T3

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Delays and Lag-Outs from AOL?
by Johnathan Vail Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

This is an odd one to pin down but I thought I would fly it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes... I recently upgraded both my server (from Red Hat 6.2 to 7.2) and Mailman (to the latest 2.0.8). I am getting complaints from people using the admin and archives pages (mostly from AOL I think) that the pages are real slow and often time out. I have checked for stale locks and tried to replicate it. I actually was able to replicate the problem from AOL and while it was lagging I still had quick response locally and using lynx from a remote site. At the time AOL was lagging on the mailman pages it was able to get straight pages from the apache server. While it seems like an AOL problem it also seems to have been something that the recent upgraded is triggering. Any ideas? thanks, jv Newt Mailing Lists http://newts.org/mailinglist.html

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Sudden problems
by Rob Brandt Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

I've had Mailman 2.05 installed and running on my linux box for many months, but now all of the sudden it's having problems. When I try to get into list administration, or if a user tries to get into their options page, or if a new user tries to subscribe, it reports an error: "We're sorry, we hit a bug! Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even generate a useful traceback for you. Please report this to the Mailman administrator at this site." This is the case for all lists. The main interface pages work; I can get to the list description pages, message archives and admin login pages, but no farther. The last time that I'm certain it worked was Monday, and I did some work last night (installing OpenSSH) that I suppose could be related. But where do I start in diagnosing the problem? I'm no linux expert.... Rob --

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Auto-Reply to: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #17
by peter.bengtson＠noteheads.com Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

This is an automated reply. Peter Bengtson, the founder of NoteHeads Musical Expert Systems AB and the designer of Igor Engraver, can no longer be reached on this e-mail address. You can contact him at: mailto:peter.bengtson@musikelit.nu Please resubmit your e-mail message to the above address. Further contact information, including telephone numbers and snail mail addresses, is available from Peter Bengtson's personal web site at: http://bengtson.musikelit.nu Thank you.

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Auto-Reply to: Mailman-Users digest, Vol 1 #17
by peter.bengtson＠noteheads.com Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

This is an automated reply. Peter Bengtson, the founder of NoteHeads Musical Expert Systems AB and the designer of Igor Engraver, can no longer be reached on this e-mail address. You can contact him at: mailto:peter.bengtson@musikelit.nu Please resubmit your e-mail message to the above address. Further contact information, including telephone numbers and snail mail addresses, is available from Peter Bengtson's personal web site at: http://bengtson.musikelit.nu Thank you.

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Weekly Digests
by Lafleur Maurice Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

I need to have digests from the same list to be produced on a daily basis and on a weekly basis. Is this possible? MGL -- Maurice G. Lafleur +------------------------------------------------+ Teacher + Voice: +1(819).778.2270 X1412 + Heritage College + Fax: +1(819).776.7364 + 325 Cite des Jeunes + mailto: mlafleur(a)cegep-heritage.qc.ca + Hull. Qc. +------------------------------------------------+ Canada J8Y 6T3

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Fw: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
by Anne Strebe Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

Good morning, since yesterday morning, we are having trouble with three mailing lists, installed on our server (Linux system) In the early hours (7.00 EST - 11.00 am EST) the tolefriends list server was down, but started to function again until around 4.00 pm EST, when all three servers went out of order the lists are: tolefriends(a)tolefriends.com cookbook(a)tolefriends.com tf-board(a)tolefriends.com When trying to access the list URL an error page with the following text appears: ********* tolefriends.com Mailing Lists No such list tolefriends_tolefriends.com There currently are no publicly-advertised mailman mailing lists on tolefriends.com. To visit the info page for an unadvertised list, open a URL similar to this one, but with a '/' and the right list name appended. List administrators, you can visit the list admin overview page to find the management interface for your list. (Send questions or comments to mailman-owner(a)hydro.sourcedns.com.) *********** When checking our control panel last night, the former cpanel4 came up as cpanel3 (our main host is Liquid Web) and no mailing lists are registered. My experience is not enough to know if this could be the reason. My partner in the USA (I live in Venezuela), will be contacting this morning our host to find out, if this is part of the problem. Also, if these lists are lost, is there any way to access the message files and the members list? For two of the lists, the member's list is easy to re-construct, each has less than 10 members; the third list, tolefriends(a)tolefriends.com has over 600 members and, if we need to re-build this list, it would be very convenient to have access to the former information in order to re-install a list with all members and to set for each member the former delivery options. Thanks in advance for any help in this matter Anne Anne Strebe, SDP, FPDA Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela arcas(a)cantv.net http://tolefriends.com http://arcas.paintwebs.com http://paintwebs.com ****************************** Rom. 8:28 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mail Delivery System" <Mailer-Daemon(a)hydro.sourcedns.com> To: <arcas(a)cantv.net> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 9:00 AM Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper post tolefriends_tolefriends.com > generated by Tolefriends(a)tolefriends.com > Child process of virtual_address_pipe transport returned 1 from command: > /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper > > The following text was generated during the delivery attempt: > > ------ pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/wrapper post tolefriends_tolefriends.com > generated by Tolefriends(a)tolefriends.com ------ > > Mailman error: post got bad listname: tolefriends_tolefriends.com > > ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ > > Return-path: <arcas(a)cantv.net> > Received: from rs4s1-b.datacenter.cha.cantv.net ([200.44.32.60] helo=rs4s1.datacenter.cha.cantv.net) > by hydro.sourcedns.com with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) > id 16WGpI-0004bS-00 > for Tolefriends(a)tolefriends.com; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:00:28 -0500 > Received: from computer (nas2-073.ras.poz.cantv.net [161.196.213.202]) > by rs4s1.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.10.2/8.10.2/2.0) with SMTP id g0VD0P613410 > for <Tolefriends(a)tolefriends.com>; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:00:26 -0400 > Message-ID: <001701c1aa57$46546fe0$cad5c4a1@computer> > Reply-To: "Anne Strebe" <arcas(a)cantv.net> > From: "Anne Strebe" <arcas(a)cantv.net> > To: <Tolefriends(a)tolefriends.com> > Subject: > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:57:25 -0400 > Organization: Arcas del Arte > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 > > The server was down for a couple of hours, we are testing it right now > > > > > > Anne Strebe, SDP, FPDA > Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela > arcas(a)cantv.net > http://tolefriends.com > http://arcas.paintwebs.com > http://paintwebs.com > ****************************** > Rom. 8:28 > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 1/11/2002 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.314 / Virus Database: 175 - Release Date: 1/11/2002

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Mailman List Archives and attachments ...
by Harald Prettner Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

dear folks, is there an easy way to download attachments of archived mails ? It would be nice for some people to have a link for downloading an attachement from a mail in a list archive ... thanks in advance, H. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dipl.-Ing. Harald Prettner | Fax: +43 316 873 7699 Graz University of Technology | Voice: +43 316 873 6393 Network Manager | http://www.zid.tu-graz.ac.at

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Edit pending posts
by Stefan Allemann Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

On the wishlist of Mailman 2.1 we found the following: "Allow the moderator to edit posts being held for approval (make it evident, either through a header or other means that the message was edited by the moderator)." Will this feature be added to version 2.1? Is there a date for the release of it? Thank you for your help. Kind regards, Stefan -- Stefan Allemann Phone: +41 41 348 01 48 BBI Informationstechnologie AG Fax: +41 41 348 01 49 Kuonimatt E-Mail: al(a)bbi.ch Industriestrasse 13 WWW: http://www.bbi.ch CH-6010 Kriens PGP Public-Keys: http://www.bbi.ch/pgp/

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Issue with cron in new installation
by Erik van der Meulen Jan. 31, 2002

Jan. 31, 2002

Dear Mailman people - I am new to this list, new to Mailman and not too much off a wizz in this respect, so I hope my question does not upset anyone. I have just installed Mailman 1.1 on my Debian/GNU box (2.2). The packaging system seems to handle that quite well. I have made a 'test' list and things seemed to work. Next I tried to figure out the frequency of resending the posts, and I found a script 'mailman' in /etc/cron.d which reads: 12,42 * * * * list [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f \ /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue ] && /usr/bin/python \ /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue */5 * * * * list [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f \ /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news ] && /usr/bin/python \ /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news Next I have changed this first '12,42' into '/3' because I hoped to execute the queue every 3 min rather than every half hour. Since I have touched that script, I receive error mails to root every 3 minutes (quite sure I did not get them every half hour before) saying: Subject: Cron <root@souterrain> list [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f +/usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue ] && /usr/bin/python +/usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> /bin/sh: list: command not found and also a mail that I made to the test list resulted in: From: test-admin(a)avondel.nl Subject: Mail sent to Test To: root X-Mailman-Version: 1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Testlijst <test.avondel.nl> Your mail to 'Test' with the subject: Cron <root@souterrain> list [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue ] && /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Implicit destination I have tried to find the reason in the doc's, but did not manage. Any suggestions or pointers are much appreciated! -- Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen(a)avondel.nl>

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