Mailman 3 June 2002 - Mailman-Users

Web Mail Agents Generate "Suspicious Headers"?
by Creighton MacDonnell June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

I have a project at SourceForge where Mailman is used for its mailing list. It seems that posts to the list from SquirrelMail or IMP get blocked. Mailman at SourceForge says they have "suspicious headers". I cannot see any way to get mailman to tell me what the suspicious header is, or how to say that is is OK. Any ideas? Thanks. Creighton MacDonnell http://macdonnell.ca/

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How to handle single quote in subscriber email address
by Cassandra Fleetwood June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

cron logs the following error message from qrunner when attempting to send the subscription confirmation message to a user that has a single in their address (i.e. "john.o'reilly(a)domain.com"). sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file How do I get Mailman to handle addresses that contain a single quote? My configuration: RedHat 7.2, Apache 1.3.23, Python 1.5.2, Sendmail 8.11.6, Mailman 2.0.11 -Cassandra

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Re: HowTo: [Mailman-Users] Cleaning the archive by a list-owner
by Jon Carnes June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

Did you ever get a solution figured out for you? The simplest of solutions is to stop cron, or at least to comment out qrunner in the cron for the user mailman (if you are running 2.0.x version - as I am... otherwise simply turn off the mailman deamon...). Then go in and edit your Archive Mbox files. Even if it takes you half a day to edit the darn things, you won't be getting any new messages added to the Mboxes since Mailman is not running. Once you've got the Mboxes pared down to a managable level, delete the old HTML archive files and regenerate them with the ~mailman/bin/arch command as detailed below. If you need more help, let me know and I'll try to generalize one of my scripts for your use (also let me know what version of MM you are using!) Take care and good luck, Jon Carnes On Tuesday 28 May 2002 07:34 pm, Danny Terweij wrote: > Jon Carnes <jonc(a)nc.rr.com> Wrote a while ago: > > Hi, Jon, all readers... > > I did work something out, but it is for me very difficult to create. > I deleted my created scripts because it looks ugly and it wont do what i > want. > > When editing the mbox, and there is a new message processed .. it screws > up all the stuff. > I'll think it is better to use MySQL for storing messages. > Then it is easy to create a protected webpage in PHP to read the messages > and delete/edit them. And after all doing a new bin/arch listname to read > the messages from the sql database and generate the html output.... > > I am now not seeing any clue to create a webpage/script for > deleting/editing messages. > (Because i do not know where to start). > > My mbox files are over 300mb in size. It is not easy to read the file in > and proccess some stuff in the file .. my linux box is not fast enough > and it has 96mb memory and 172mb swap size. > > So i need another concept. > > I am not a good programmer, so please give me more example code to play > with. > > > Straight Mailman (unmodified) won't let you do this. > > > > I have some simple scripts that are password protected that do it for > > my admins. They were a piece of cake to write. Your sysadmin would > > have to install them for you. > > > > For the sysadmin to modify the archives... > > - edit ~mailman/archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox > > - delete/modify any emails you want (normally delete older mail) > > - delete the old archive html files... > > rm -rf ~mailman/archives/private/<listname>/.* > > - recreate the archive html files... > > cd ~mailman > > bin/arch <listname> \ > > archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox > > > > The email for the list is stored in mbox format (straight text) in a > > file in the archive directory. You can easily edit this mailbox and > > then re-run the archives so that your changes are pushed out to the > > HTML area. > > > > If you want to find the top of an email based on date: > > F_DATE="12 May 2002" > > grep -n "^From: " | grep $F_DATE | top -1 > > > > This gives you first line of an email that came in on that date - and > > it prints out the line number in the file for that line... > > > > To print out a file starting at a given line and continueing on to > > the end: F_NAME="~mailman/archive/private/mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox > > START=4093 > > sed -n "$START, \$ p" $F_NAME > $F_NAME.bak > > > > === > > There are several ways to automate this, the easiest is via email, > > but html is not too much harder - especially if you are willing to > > allow simple CGI's. I leave this up to your imagination! Take care, > > > > Jon > > > > --- Original Message: Sunday 12 May 2002 05:58 am --- > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> How can a list-owner clean out the archive? Delete messages? > >> When not, can the developers program it? > >> It would be nice. > >> > >> > >> Groetjes Danny Terweij

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bin/arch
by LuKreme June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

% bin/arch mylist mylist.mbox figuring article archives 2002-June figuring article archives 1999-February figuring article archives 1999-February figuring article archives 1999-March . . . *** malloc[3189]: error: Can't allocate region Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/arch", line 129, in ? main() File "bin/arch", line 118, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, Article) File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 526, in processUnixMailbox a = articleClass(m, self.sequence) File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 202, in __init__ self.__super_init(message, sequence, keepHeaders) File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 223, in __init__ self.body = message.fp.readlines() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py", line 69, in readlines line = self.readline() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py", line 62, in readline data = self.fp.readline(length) MemoryError Is the archive mbox funcky? (It's a mail.app mailbox) I opened it with mutt and had no errors or troubles. -- You are responsible for your rose. "Rule 5: Get Kirsten Dunst wet" (p 74 of Time 20-05-02)

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(no subject)
by Steven Schermerhorn June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

I am currently running Redhat 7.2 and mailman2.0.8 was working perfectly for me. Then out of the blue I get these errors that I am not sure of. I have double and triple checked the configuration. Please help me if you can. I have the symbolic link setup here: /etc/smrsh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Mar 19 17:06 slocal - >/usr/lib/nmh/slocal lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 31 11:34 wrapper - >/home/mailman/mail/wrapper The link is correct ... but I am still getting the following messages: "|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post test" (reason: service unavailable) (expanded from: <test(a)readinks.info <../src/compose.php? send_to=test(a)readinks.info>>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- smrsh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable My sendmail configuration has this line in it as well: FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl I have restarted several times.

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Virtual Hosting puzzle
by Nils Vogels June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

Hi all, I've been looking through the archive and read the two FAQ's (one on list.org, the other one on python.org amd I have a question: I'm trying to setup a virtual hosting mailman site, but im running into the following issue: 1) VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW is on, and im running mailman from the ports tree, version 2.0.10 2) The FAQ says i need to create a unique listname on the 'default' host, which I do using the newlist command. Lets say the name is 'foobar-vhostdotcom'. Next, I change the weburl and mail domain to vhostdotcom. This will make the list show up in the listinfo of the mailman interface on vhostdotcom. Yay! 3) When I try to change the name to 'foobar' (since I no longer need the vhostdotcom in its name) the interface denies me. This means the list is still only accessible using 'http://vhostdotcom/mailman/listinfo/foobar-vhostdotcom .. which seems a bit redundant ;) 4) Also, when I am at the vhostdotcom listinfo page, and click to the 'list admin overview' page, I will see all lists, both on vhostdotcom and the default host. Why ? I really dont need all people on vhostdotcom to know the existance of all lists ;-) Could someone please give me a hint ? I'm sure I did something wrong, being new to mailman and all ;) Gr, -- Nils Vogels PGP:0xC26BD15F Available on keyservers. S@H:4465WU/6.100yr --> setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu. Will you find aliens? My other computer is your windows box.

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