Mailman 3 November 2003 - Mailman-Users

Partial list mail delivery
by Rod Neep 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

A really strange problem.... I wonder if anyone has seen anything similar, or can offer any clues. (Mailman 2.1.1) I have over a hundred mailing lists. List members can all post OK to the list The messages all appear in the archives for each list. However..... User A receives mail from some lists, but not from others User B ditto (but not the same lists necessarily). Therefore there is nothing wrong with the user's address or ISP. The problem exists with hundreds of users, (but not all). Some lists post messages out to all users Some lists post messages out to *some* users Some lists do not appear to post out any messages There seems to be no reason, and no logic to the thing? When a user doesn't receive list mail, unsubscribing, and then subscribing again doesn't make any difference. Nothing has been changed in any configuration in MailMan, and no new lists have been added for a few months. Hard disks are nowhere near full. The problem began about a week ago. Does anyone have any ideas?? Regards Rod -- Rod Neep Archive CD Books : http://www.archivecdbooks.org British-Genealogy: http://www.british-genealogy.com

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Problems with outgoing mail
by John Poltorak 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

How do I try and identify why outgoing mail does not get processed? Does qrunner have any trace or debug options? And is there and equivalent of 'sendmail -bp' for display what is held in the queue? -- John

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RE : Returned mail: see transcript for details
by Didier Galland 29 Nov '03

29 Nov '03

After installing mailman (2.1.3), I finally got this after some nights wiht my best ennemy sendmail... I don't understand. All files in the dirs are mailman.mailman with w rights on group... [begin of error message in mail] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/post", line 69, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/post", line 64, in main tolist=1, _plaintext=1) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 132, in enqueue msgfp = open(msgfile, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/in/1070083973.7610739+614114862895f0e4774ceb3 03250771e29ba9cc3.msg' 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 [end of error message in mail] If someone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated !!! Regards, Didier

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my mailing lists?
by Inbusinessforyou＠aol.com 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi I have the mailman mailing list and have it all set up but ive run into a prob. I cant get it to send email...I did a few fake signups to see if it was gonna work and it hasnt yet...what can I do ? Please help? Tammy webmaster(a)pandanews.com

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Re: Web interface to mailing list
by Paul H Byerly 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

At 02:25 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote: >I'm wondering if there is some software that is a web interface to a gnu >mailman mailing list that would allow people to log in and send/read >messages to the list.. and mailman would of course retain its original >functionality where users could do everything from their email client as >well. Davy, I've been working on this since last Christmas. I have a prototype that is running some lists on my server, but I'm still trying to work out some minor problems and inconveniences. I intend to make the modifications available at some point, but I am going to have to extract the changes for the web interface from the other modifications I've made. The former does not change any of Mailman's python files, the latter do. I've got a test list at http://svr01.thcwd.com/mailman/listinfo/mm-p-f-a - feel free to join it and play around a bit. It's currently inactive, but there are some beta testes subbed. There are a few improvements/changes I've made to production lists that are not here yet, but you will get the idea. <>< Paul

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Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 questions about mailman
by McKeever Chris 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 02:05:50 , McKeever Chris <tech-mail(a)prupref.com> sent: > >>>But, looking at the privacy options->subscription rules, I have one more question. >>> >>>There I only show "List of addresses which are banned from membership in this mailing list. >>>(Details for ban_list)" field. Where can I use regular expressions to limit the domain names that are allowed to subscribe? I only have to >>allow one Domain. And what is regular expression? >>> >> www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex ^.*(a)(?!.*?\.?domain\.com$) not positive if it works correctly >>>------------------------------------------- >>Chris McKeever >>If you want to reply directly to me, please use cgmckeever--at--prupref---dot---com >>http://www.prupref.com >> >>---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com >> > > > >---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com > ---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 questions about mailman
by Damar Thapa, ICT Technician 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi Chris, Thanks for your very helpful answers; both answers were what I was trying to find. Damar ----- Original Message ----- From: McKeever Chris To: mailman-users(a)python.org ; ICT Technician @prupref.com Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] 2 questions about mailman On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:22 , Damar Thapa, ICT Technician <tech(a)kennedy.edu.hk> sent: >Hi, > >I just completed mailman installation under RH9.0, and seems it is working fine. While I go through the documentations, I would like to ask the list the following questions: > >1. Not all our list users are capable of going to the list URL and subscribe to the list. Can List Manager/Administrator simply put the list of email addresses as subscribers? If possible,how and where it can be done? not sure what you are speaking of, can you rephrase..do you mean entering it in as one big list? yes, mass subscrption > >2. As a school, we would like to keep some of our lists within our domain (subscriptions to be allowed only from our school email addresses!). Is it possible? you can use regular expressions to limit the domain names that are allowed to subscribe (privacy options->subscription rules) > ------------------------------------------- Chris McKeever If you want to reply directly to me, please use cgmckeever--at--prupref---dot---com http://www.prupref.com ---- Prudential Preferred Properties www.prupref.com ___________________________________________________________ Kennedy School http://www.kennedy.edu.hk/ uses MessageLabs Skyscan service in the war against all computer viruses. This email has been scanned. http://www.messagelabs.com ___________________________________________________________

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Problems on NetBSD/MIPS with Mailman
by Udo 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi, I've tried find some hints in the FAQ but it doesn't help with my problem. After installing Mailman (version 2.0.12) out of a NetBSD source package, I encounter this problem, that can be tracked in the logs: error: Nov 28 00:37:01 2003 qrunner(18564): Traceback (most recent call last): Nov 28 00:37:01 2003 qrunner(18564): File "/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 283, in ? Nov 28 00:37:01 2003 qrunner(18564): kids = main(lock) Nov 28 00:37:01 2003 qrunner(18564): File "/usr/pkg/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 205, in main Nov 28 00:37:01 2003 qrunner(18564): os.unlink(root+'.msg') Nov 28 00:37:01 2003 qrunner(18564): OSError : [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/db/mailman/qfiles/.msg' and in qrunner logfile: Nov 28 00:36:04 2003 (18557) Unlinking orphaned .msg file: /var/db/mailman/qfiles/.msg Nov 28 00:37:01 2003 (18564) Unlinking orphaned .msg file: /var/db/mailman/qfiles/.msg Nov 28 00:38:01 2003 (18571) Unlinking orphaned .msg file: /var/db/mailman/qfiles/.msg Does anyone have an idea what this means ? thanks and regards Udo --

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Reply-To in header issue
by W.D. McKinney 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Thanks to some excellent help I now have MailMan working with one of my servers. What I am wondering is to how to stop the "A terse phrase identifying this list." text from the General Options Admin URL from appending itself to the Reply-To in the message header ? It looks like this: Reply-To: This is a list for people with Porphyria. Friends, families and caregivers are welcome. <porphyria(a)lists.akwireless.net We'd like just the return address. Any pointers ? -- W.D.McKinney (Dee) | Affordable E-Mail and Internet Solutions Alaska Wireless Systems | for Schools, Libraries, Clinics & Businesses http://www.akwireless.net | Call 1-907-349-4308

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Mailman still fails after upgrading to version: 2.2a0
by Fuzzy 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

FreeBSD 4.7-release Mailman 2.2a0 (from CVS) Python 2.2.1 Sendmail 8.12.6 Apache 1.3.23 Would updating Python help? A few of the lists now can be listed with list_members, list_lists still returns this error... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled", line 219, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled", line 149, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(listname) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 126, in __init__ self.Lock() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 163, in Lock self.Load() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 590, in Load dict, e = self.__load(file) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 563, in __load dict = loadfunc(fp) cPickle.UnpicklingError: member is not safe for unpickling Is there anyway to repair or regenerate the .pck files so normal service will work again? thanks -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Fuzzy, SysAdmin, \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | ASARian.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | fuzzy @ ASARian.org / \

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