Mailman 3 November 2002 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question about sync_members
by Richard Barrett Nov. 8, 2002

Nov. 8, 2002

At 19:53 07/11/2002, Jim Tomasello wrote: >Good afternoon. I'm running a new setup of mailman, the version that comes >with Red Hat 8.0. My problem isn't with Mailman per se, but with the >sync_members script that comes with it. > Its better to specify the actual Mailman version number but lets assume that it is 2.0.x >I am trying to load members from a text file. The file has one email >address per line and contains 2,086 emails. When I run the script using >the following command while logged in as root, "./sync_members -n -w=no >-a=no -f members realtor-members", doing the dry run, everything seems >fine. When I remove the -n parameter to run it live, it gets through 2,043 >emails and then generates the following error: > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./sync_members", line 257, in ? > main() > File "./sync_members", line 240, in main > welcome, notifyadmin) > File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1054, in ApprovedAddMember > raise e, v >Mailman.Errors.MMBadEmailError >Now I've looked at the addresses around the one it appears to be dying on, >and they look fine. I have no idea what this is telling me the problem is. >I've looked in the /var/logs/mailman dir to see if I can find any evidence >of what's going on, to no avail. Anyone out there have any idea where I >should start looking to figure this one out? Any help would be appreciated. > Looking at the MM 2.0.13 code. The only circumstance that I can see where Errors.MMBadEmailError is raised without sync_members printing something like this and exiting: Invalid : <faulty email address>' You must fix the preceding invalid addresses first. is if the maillist's own email address is on the list., i.e. you are trying to subscribe the list to itself.. Could that be the case?? This error is generated at line 970 of $prefix/Mailman/MailList.py in function AddMember.

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multiple unsubscribes via email
by Davin Dahlgren Nov. 7, 2002

Nov. 7, 2002

Is there a way to unsubscribe multiple addresses via email? Is there a way to specify that individual unsubscribes via email should be executed without password authorization? Davin Dahlgren

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Password email headers question
by Stanley Weilnau Nov. 7, 2002

Nov. 7, 2002

I am having a problem with the headers in the password emails sent out on a monthly basis. The Sender: and Errors-to: fields are being set to the same list name for all the messages including ones for users that are not subscribed to that list. What would be the best way of either fixing this to be the a list the reciever is subscribed to or changing this so for the password reminders so that the Sender: and Errors-to: are set to mailman-owner. This is on Mailman 2.0.12. Thank you, Stanley Weilnau

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Question about sync_members
by Jim Tomasello Nov. 7, 2002

Nov. 7, 2002

Good afternoon. I'm running a new setup of mailman, the version that comes with Red Hat 8.0. My problem isn't with Mailman per se, but with the sync_members script that comes with it. I am trying to load members from a text file. The file has one email address per line and contains 2,086 emails. When I run the script using the following command while logged in as root, "./sync_members -n -w=no -a=no -f members realtor-members", doing the dry run, everything seems fine. When I remove the -n parameter to run it live, it gets through 2,043 emails and then generates the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./sync_members", line 257, in ? main() File "./sync_members", line 240, in main welcome, notifyadmin) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1054, in ApprovedAddMember raise e, v Mailman.Errors.MMBadEmailError Now I've looked at the addresses around the one it appears to be dying on, and they look fine. I have no idea what this is telling me the problem is. I've looked in the /var/logs/mailman dir to see if I can find any evidence of what's going on, to no avail. Anyone out there have any idea where I should start looking to figure this one out? Any help would be appreciated. James Tomasello Information Technology Specialist Central Virginia Regional MLS and The Richmond Association of REALTORS® voice: 804.422.5025 fax: 804.422.5069

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qrunner import error on regex module
by Dave Dribin Nov. 7, 2002

Nov. 7, 2002

Hello, My setup is RedHat 7.2 with the default Python RPMs installed, Postfix 1.1.10 (installed from source), and Mailman 2.0.13 (installed from source). I installed Mailman with these options: ./configure --with-mail-gid=mailman --with-cgi-gid=www \ --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.1 I'm using Mailman for 1 very small volume mailing list (a few messages per month). I installed it in early September, and everything worked for about a month. Yesterday, someone had sent a message that never got through. I check the error log (/home/mailman/logs/error) only to find this error: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): Traceback (most recent call last): Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 283, in ? Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): kids = main(lock) Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 253, in main Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): keepqueued = dispose_message(mlist, msg, msgdata) Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 121, in dispose_message Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): if BouncerAPI.ScanMessages(mlist, mimemsg): Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/BouncerAPI.py", line 57, in ScanMessages Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): mod = __import__('Mailman.Bouncers.'+modname) Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Bouncers/Catchall.py", line 34, in ? Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): import regsub Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): File "/usr/lib/python2.1/regsub.py", line 20, in ? Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): import regex Nov 06 11:29:01 2002 qrunner(8237): ImportError : No module named regex ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sure enough, there is no regex.py, and nor is the regex module compiled in: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Python 2.1.1 (#1, Aug 13 2001, 19:37:40) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-96)] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> print sys.builtin_module_names ('__builtin__', '__main__', '_sre', 'exceptions', 'gc', 'imp', 'marshal', 'posix', 'signal', 'sys', 'thread') ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I did some digging only to find that this error started to happen way back on Oct 10 (!) and I never noticed. Now, I've yet to find anything that changed on that day. The Python RPMs have not been upgraded. There were some RedHat libc upgrades right around that time, but I can't see any relation. Does anyone have any clue as to why this stopped working and what I can do to get this going again? Thanks, -Dave

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Re: [Mailman-Users] too many log-files
by J C Lawrence Nov. 7, 2002

Nov. 7, 2002

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 13:41:59 +0100 Frank Olaf <frankose(a)ifi.uio.no> wrote: > Every now and then my harddisk gets filled up with about 200000 files > in the /var/log/mailman dir. Use logrotate. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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RE: [Mailman-Users]
by Lucas Albers Nov. 7, 2002

Nov. 7, 2002

Deleting lists I run the program rmlist, and the lists still show up when I view it on this page: http://localhost.blah.blah/mailman/admin Any idea what else I need to do, to delete a list? > --Luke > --Computer Science Sysadmin, MSU Bozeman > --admin(AT)cs.montana.edu 994-3931 -----Original Message-----

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Ways to prevent mailman loops?
by Richard F. Man Nov. 7, 2002

Nov. 7, 2002

Some odd reasons, mailman went crazy today and sent out the digest repeatedly on one of the lists. I'm not whether it is a mail loop or just a bug in the system. Is there a way to set a timed delay between digests are sent? // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> <http://www.dragonsgate.net/mailman/listinfo> On-line orders, support, and listservers available on web site. [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]

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Removing messages unread
by Timothy Murphy Nov. 7, 2002

Nov. 7, 2002

I have a fast number of messages in various mailman lists I run, virtually all of them spam. I now run SpamAssassin on the lists, so hope this is over. But now I would like to remove all old, unread messages from these lists. I looked this up in the FAQ, and found an item (1.12) which seemed to address this problem; but unfortunately I did not understand the first step: 1) Delete all current requests for the list using the web Admin. This will make the file request.db empty for that list. What exactly is the "web Admin"? Does it mean I have to go through all 1000 messages on the web?. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim(a)birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: 00353-86-233 6090 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Re: [Mailman-Users] relay host
by peter schoch Nov. 7, 2002

Nov. 7, 2002

Michael, It sounds like you are having the same trouble I am. My first fix, for the 'Test' list was to explicitly put in RELAY lines in the access file for the domains of all my subscribers to try and eliminate the relay problem. This worked on the test list, and since my subscribers are from a narrow number of ISP's, I did it for my "live' lists. Either way, I'm still only getting email to go to the archives but not to the list members. Let me know if you get it to work. Luck, Peter Schoch ***************************************** Peter Schoch Physics and CIS Sussex County Community College 1 College Hill Newton, NJ 07860 Office: 973-300-2342 pschoch(a)sussex.cc.nj.us FAX: 973-579-1620 >>> michael shiloh <michael(a)makingthings.com> 11/06/02 02:25PM >>> hi all, configuration: redhat 7.3 with most updates linux 2.4.9-21 python 1.5.2 sendmail 8.11.6 mailman 2.0.13 Apache 1.3.22 i'm having a bit of trouble getting mail sent out from my recently-installed list server. according to my sendmail documentation i'm allowing relay from my local host, and in fact in /etc/mail/access i have: # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.6/README.cf file for a description # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file) # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail-8.11.6/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc # package. # # by default we allow relaying from localhost... localhost.localdomain RELAY localhost RELAY 127.0.0.1 RELAY the symptom is that i can access my list's subscription website and subscribe. i get the next page that says: Confirmation from your email address is required, to prevent anyone from subscribing you without permission. Instructions are being sent to you at michael(a)ecsd.com. and then i see in my /var/log/messages: Nov 6 11:17:06 magritte sendmail[22687]: gA6JH6J22687: ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<michael(a)ecsd.com>, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], reject=551 5.7.1 we do not relay normally from this same host i can send email anywhere (including to michael(a)ecsd.com) so it is something that mailman is adding (or perhaps leaving off?). normally i send email from pine, and i have in pine specifically set my domain. it occurred to me that i've never told mailman what domain to use. perhaps it's picking up some default which i never bothered setting? where would it get this info? not hostname, since that gives a valid address: # hostname magritte.magrittesystems.com any ideas gleefully accepted, with much appreciation. michael

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