Mailman 3 September 2002 - Mailman-Users

catastrophic error
by Patric Sept. 29, 2002

Sept. 29, 2002

Hi folks... Something you should be aware of... When using rmlist to delete a list containing a LEADING whitespace character, and using the -a option, the entire archives directory is deleted. Do that just ahead of the cron job which handles the regular maintenance, and you lose the list archives, the list lists, and of course the userbases for all of them... Bummer. Mailman v2.0.8 command: ./rmlist " badlist-l" (The quotes are to enclose the whitespace so the script can find the list in the first place.) Patric AIM -> bleustar patric at simegen.com

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Qmail & Mailman (yet again)
by Brian Reichholf Sept. 29, 2002

Sept. 29, 2002

right, i'm having some problems with qmail and mailman i've set up mailman, and it seems to work fine. i log in to the administrative interface, and subscribe some users (mail-addresses) and it sends out the information with out a problem (if i want it to) well, now comes my problem though: i've created the alias files (/var/mailman is the home dir, and info is the listname) in /var/qmail/alias (yes, that is the alias homedir) .qmail-info |preline /var/mailman/mail/wrapper post info .qmail-info-admin |preline /var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailowner info .qmail-info-request |preline /var/mailman/mail/wrapper mailcmd info .qmail-info-owner info-admin but if i send a mail to info(a)mydomain.com then it won't forward them furthermore my mm_cfg.py contains: SMTPHOST = 'localhost' SMTPPORT = 25 MTA_ALIASES_STYLE = 'qmail' what am i doing wrong? help would be greatly appreciated!! regards, -Brian Reichholf

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What happened to my administration login?
by Beachfrontads＠aol.com Sept. 29, 2002

Sept. 29, 2002

I paid someone to install Mailman for me in March of this year. Everything has been fine til now. I'm getting this error message when I try to login to the administrative page: Mailman CGI error!!! The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by the Web server.The most likely cause is that Mailman was configured and installed incorrectly. Please read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close attention to the --with-cgi-gid configure option. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 99, GOT gid -1. (Reconfigure to take -1?) ---------------------------------------- I have not changed the script. What happened and how can I fix it? I have no knowledge of scripts. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Julie

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Re: [Mailman-Users] removing host name
by Adrian James Lester Sept. 29, 2002

Sept. 29, 2002

Aha! I see my problem. I was following the method of the default setting which I found there and just putting the hostname part of list(a)hostname.domain.co.uk into that box. Having put in domain.co.uk everything is fine. Thanks, Adrian.

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removing host name
by Adrian James Lester Sept. 29, 2002

Sept. 29, 2002

Firstly, hello all. I am using Mailman 2.0.11. Is there a way to disable the "preferred host name" entirely as part of the list addresses? Our subdomains are not registered on the internet and so I need e-mail to come to and go from: list(a)domain.com rather than: list(a)host.domain.com if it is ever to get beyond our intranet. If I set the "preferred host name" blank then the address turns into: list@.domain.com which isn't very helpful. Many thanks in advance, Adrian Lester.

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mailman on openbsd 3.1-stable
by julien Touche Sept. 28, 2002

Sept. 28, 2002

Hi i'm trying to install mailman from the openbsd ports (with mailman-2.0.12 pkg, ports build, or build from 2.0.13 src. In each case, no problem for building but in web cgi-bin python 2.1 is installed (same with 2.2 pkg) and i've followed README.OpenBSD, but i have in apache error_log: @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ [----- Mailman Version: 2.0.13 -----] [----- Traceback ------] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0.13/scripts/driver", line 66, in run_main from Mailman.Logging.StampedLogger import StampedLogger File "/usr/local/mailman-2.0.13/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 18, in ? import time ImportError: No module named time [----- Python Information -----] sys.version = 2.1.2 (#1, Apr 12 2002, 18:58:54) [GCC 2.95.3 20010125 (prerelease)] sys.executable = /usr/local/bin/python sys.prefix = /usr/local sys.exec_prefix= /usr/local sys.path = /usr/local sys.platform = openbsd3 [----- Environment Variables -----] DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/htdocs SERVER_ADDR: 192.168.2.2 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 SERVER_PORT: 80 REMOTE_ADDR: 192.168.2.11 SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-us, en;q=0.91, fr;q=0.83, fr-fr;q=0.74, zh;q=0.66, zh-cn;q=0.58, ko;q=0.49, ja;q=0.41, zh-hk;q=0.38 GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 SERVER_NAME: netclust HTTP_CONNECTION: keep-alive HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 HTTP_ACCEPT: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jp1 REQUEST_URI: /intranet/mailman/listinfo HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL: max-age=0 QUERY_STRING: SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE: 300 HTTP_HOST: netclust REQUEST_METHOD: GET SERVER_SIGNATURE: SCRIPT_NAME: /intranet/mailman/listinfo SERVER_ADMIN: root@netclust SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/local/mailman-2.0.13/cgi-bin/listinfo PYTHONPATH: /usr/local/mailman-2.0.13 REMOTE_PORT: 3049 the problem seems to be in import time when i try it in command-line $python -v ... Python 2.1.2 (#1, Apr 12 2002, 18:58:54) ... >>> import time dlopen("/usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib-dynload/timemodule.so", 1); import time # dynamically loaded from /usr/local/lib/python2.1/lib-dynload/timemodule.so so it's ok i've check google and mailman mailing-list. some people have asked for the problem but nowhere is a response ... So have you an idea ? thanks in advance Regards Julien Touche

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Digest Help
by James Becker Sept. 28, 2002

Sept. 28, 2002

Hello, I am using your mailman software to distribute my website newsletter, I have a written a front page to the command that allows for subscribe and unsubscribe however my newsletter is in HTML format and when subscribing I would like it to default to "not" plain subscription as default, is there a command switch that I can append to the subscribe command to do this? Or do I have to fire off another email with the switch commands in? Any help would be great! Thanks James Becker

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Digests mess up attachments
by J C Lawrence Sept. 28, 2002

Sept. 28, 2002

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:18:19 -0600 Mark Lohaus <lmark(a)cires.colorado.edu> wrote: > When digests are not selected then the individual email come though > fine. Is there any way to avoid this problem? MIME digests. -- 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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Errors installing mailman-2.0.13 / Python-2.2.1 / Solaris 8
by Friedman, Jeff Sept. 27, 2002

Sept. 27, 2002

./configure returns errors installing mailman-2.0.13 with Python-2.2.1 under the Solaris 8 operating environment, Ultra 5. The initial errors I encounter were with the UID and group ID checking. I fixed these by following the advice from the post below: Re: [Mailman-Users] Solaris install problem ================================ "David Sammons <sammons_david(a)yahoo.com.mx> writes: DS> You have a module "pwd" in python2.../Modules/Setup which it's commented, just uncomment that and re-compile python and if it's necessary MM too... But the odd this is that with Python 2.2.1, it should auto-detect and automatically build the pwd module, without hacking Setup. If id doesn't do that, then there's a problem with the Python build process, but I didn't see that when I built it on SourceForge's compile farm. -Barry" ================================== Now the script runs until this point: checking for mail wrapper GID... 60001 checking for CGI wrapper GID... 60001 checking for CGI extensions... no Traceback (most recent call last): File "conftest.py", line 2, in ? from socket import * File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/socket.py", line 41, in ? from _socket import * ImportError: No module named _socket > pwd Anyone have an idea how to edit the /Python-2.2.1/Modules/Setup file, or should I look for another combination of source codes? Thank you, -Jeff Friedman jfriedman(a)ndwcorp.com

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'import site' vs. qrunner
by chil＠titan.kyndig.com Sept. 27, 2002

Sept. 27, 2002

Greetings, I've had some waves pop up during my installation of mailman, concerning the invocation of python with -S when calling qrunner. Here's the main info concerning the problem: OS: RedHat 7.2 i386 Python: python2-2.1.1-2 Mailman: mailman 2.0.13 (installed from source) I installed mailman following instructions in INSTALL, and set up a test list (devel-news) for which everything seems to work except for archiving. Messages get added to archives/private/devel-news.mbox/devel-news.mbox just fine, but the pipermail archives (archives/private/devel-news/) are ignored altogether, with nothing being generated. Checking logs/error, I see this: Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): Traceback (most recent call last): Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 219, in ArchiveMail Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): import HyperArch Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 47, in ? Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): from Mailman import EncWord Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/EncWord.py", line 21, in ? Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): import base64 Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): File "/tmp/32444-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.1/base64.py", line 7, in ? Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): import binascii Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 qrunner(1912): ImportError: No module named binascii Sep 27 17:05:01 2002 (1912) CORRUPT ARCHIVE FOR LIST: devel-news However, binascii is available in the python lib directory, under the site packages: [root@devel /]# ls -l /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/binascii* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57103 Aug 13 2001 /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages/binascii.so After poking about, I noticed that qrunner is called with python -S (don't imply 'import site' on initialization, according to the manpages) from the default crontab.in: * * * * * /usr/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner Removing the -S allowed the binascii module to be found, and now mail is archived happily with no problems. Is there any particular reason why site packages were disabled? Is this change "safe"? -- Bobby Bailey | "The only source of knowledge is experience." MUD Developer | -- Albert Einstein Internet Junkie | PGP Keys: http://chil.kyndig.com/pgp http://www.kyndig.com/ -- Mud & Online Text Game Community

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