Mailman 3 November 2003 - Mailman-Users

Mailman won't work - can you help?
by John Barrus 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

I just installed Mandrake 9.1 and also installed Mailman 2.1.3 and Apache 2. I'm trying to get mailman to work, but having no success. Symptons: When I go to http://www.llef.org/mailman/admin/, I get: ---------------- Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. ... Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.47 (Mandrake Linux/1.4.91mdk) mod_perl/1.99_08 Perl/v5.8.0 mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.1 Server at www.llef.org Port 80 ------------------ The error in the error_log file is: --------------- [Sat Nov 01 19:00:52 2003] [error] [client 192.168.1.30] Premature end of script headers: admin --------------- So, I try to run the admin script in /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admin and I get: --------------- [root@www cgi-bin]# ./admin Content-type: text/html <head> <title>Mailman CGI error!!!</title> </head><body> <h1>Mailman CGI error!!!</h1> The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: <pre> Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper script to be executed as group "apache", but the system's web server executed the CGI script as group "root". Try tweaking the web server to run the script as group "apache", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-cgi-gid=root'.</pre> -------------- (Not surprising) I su to user "apache" and try it again -------------- [root@www cgi-bin]# su apache [apache@www cgi-bin]$ ./admin sh: ./admin: Permission denied -------------- Well, why won't it run? I check the permissions... -------------- [apache@www cgi-bin]$ ls -l | grep admin -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 36849 Nov 1 18:50 admin* -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 36857 Nov 1 18:50 admindb* [apache@www cgi-bin]$ ls -l .. | grep cgi drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Nov 1 18:50 cgi-bin/ [apache@www cgi-bin]$ ls -l ../.. | grep mailman drwxrwsr-x 13 root root 4096 Nov 1 18:50 mailman/ -------------- Seems like everything is setgid as it should be. I also chown'ed and chgrp'd the files to the apache owner and group, but of course I had the same result. bin/check_perms -f made all the files owned by "mail" again. Just for fun, check the version I'm running... ------------- [root@www mailman]# bin/version Using Mailman version: 2.1.3 ------------- Here is my mailman.conf file that is "Included" in my httpd2.conf file. I verified that it was included by putting a deliberate error in the file and watching httpd not be able to start. Fixed the error and httpd started up just fine. mailman.conf --------------------- # # Configure Mailman's CGI scripts # ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ <Directory /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin> Options -Indexes -FollowSymLinks -Includes ExecCgi AllowOverride None order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> # # Configure the public archives # Alias /pipermail/ /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory /usr/local/mailman/archives/public> Options -Indexes FollowSymlinks -Includes AllowOverride None order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> -------------------- Any suggestions? I've reinstalled mailman several times, tried various apache settings, and still no luck. I'm pulling my hair out over this - any help would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, John Barrus

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Problems with Sun ONE Webserver
by Ihsan Dogan 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Hi, I'm using Mailman 2.1.3 and Sun ONE Webserver 6.1. Most parts of the webinterface are working fine. But when I try to subscribe on a mailinglist, I got server error. Error log: [01/Nov/2003:18:53:36] failure ( 8211): for host defiant.kinali.ch trying to POST /mailman/subscribe/mailman, cgi_scan_headers reports: HTTP4044: the CGI program /opt/mailman/cgi-bin/subscribe did not produce a valid header (name without value: got line " file "/opt/mailman/mailman/logging/logger.py", line 67, in __get_f") Has some an idea, what is going wrong here? Regards, Ihsan... -- Swiss Unix User Group: http://www.suug.ch/ Software Packages for Solaris: http://www.blastwave.org/

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Tired of seeing my footers posted back to the list
by Paul H Byerly 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

I'm sure I'm not the only one who sees my list footers twice on some posts because the clueless individual who sent the e-mail did not edit them out. I'm trying to educate folks, but you know how that goes. There should be some way to edit the footers out when they pass back through Mailman. Encase the footers in some fairly unique characters, search for those characters on incoming e-mail, then remove the characters and everything between them. Something like the "  " html comment code. Probably the best start and end code would be something that looks like a fancy dividing line. A specific number of asterisks and dashes for example. Unfortunately I don't have the programing skill to do this. Anyone care to offer some code, or at least some direction? <>< Paul

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changing log rotation
by Craig Isdahl 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Hello Everyone, How do I change the log rotation interval for mailman (specifically the post logs)? Running v2.1.3 on RH 8.0 with full root access. Thanks! Craig

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about verp and qmail
by Alexis 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Ok, ive readed and configured verp. Im using mailmain 2.1.3 and qmail Reading the faq ive configured verp like it shows. With full personalization marked, i receive the messages with the recipient address but also receive a Cc: with the list address. Selecting Yes in the personalize option, i receive a msg with the list address in To: field. In my test list some messages has arrived in the right way, it is, real sender and recipient. But then ive configured the test list with config_list -i and cannot get it working again. Please, any help? The only thing i need is to configure 11 lists as distribution lists, we have aroung 5000 subscriptors by list. And we need the To: field be the real recipient email address. Thanks in advance. -- A man in black on a snow white horse, A pointless life has run its course, The red rimmed eyes, the tears still run As he fades into the setting sun

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Virtual domains
by Merle Reine 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

I have our domain setup via mailman and all of our lists work fine. I can not however figure out how to add a second domain to mailman. I need domain2 to be able to have mailing lists. I edited the mm_cfg.py file as instructed and added to main.cf hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/virtual_mailman . virtual_mailman has: domain2 in it. ran genaliases /postfix reload . When I go to add a new mailing list in mailman, I see no option to select which domain the list should be on. I want to create sales@domain2 as a list but see no option in mailman to choose between the various virtual domains for lists. Any ideas?

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Re: optionsurl not using full domain
by Paul H Byerly 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Michael Alberghini wrote: >For some reason my new subscriber messages are going out with only >my hostname, not the full domain name in the urls. > >For example the welcome messages tells people to click > >http://mailbox/mailman/listinfo/galileo > >instead of > >http://mailbox.gsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/galileo > >I can't find a way to set the optionsurl variable to the full domain name. It should be the full domain - I would say there is something set wrong someplace. The web links to the list info page, and to your administrative interface have the same error. I checked a few other lists on the server and they do not have this problem, so it seems to be something that was set or changed for this list. <>< Paul

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question about destination address
by Alexis 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

Im running mailman 2.1.3 at my box, and i need to change a setting related to destination address, ive been reading and trying but i cannot get it working. I have a list called test. when i send a post to this lists, i need that the destination address in the msgs that subscribers receive be the real address and not the list address. Example: my subscriber es bill(a)foo.com, and the list is test. When bill get his mail, i need bill to see that the To: field is bill(a)foo.com instead test(a)mydomain.com How can i achieve this? Thanks in advance. -- A man in black on a snow white horse, A pointless life has run its course, The red rimmed eyes, the tears still run As he fades into the setting sun

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Would like to move or remove some headers
by Michael Wood 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

All of our lists are closed and our members are internal; they don't need or want to subscribe or unsubscribe, etc. As it is, the headers and the subscribe/unsubscribe, etc. lines are filling the page. We'd like to either remove them or move them below the message area. Is there a way to do this? Does it require programming? If so where can I hire someone to make the modification? Mike

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