Mailman 3 November 2003 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied on archive
by Brian Craft Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:21:53AM +0100, Sasa Stupar wrote: > Brian Craft wrote: > > >I just went through the INSTALL doc and set up the /pipermail/ alias. > >The archive links now give me a permission denied error. > > > >The permissions on the directories are as shown: > > > >drwxrws--- 6 root list 4096 Nov 25 18:05 private > >drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 Nov 25 18:05 public > > > >Is this correct? If I … [View More]

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newsletter
by Szederyesi Iosif Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

Hello, I have a question regarding the functionality of the Mailman application... Presuming this situation: I want to use Mailman for a newsletter on my site. As an administrator, I can add a new user to the newsletter list. When I want to send the weekly e-mail, I will send a single e-mail to the mailing list, which will send the message to all subscribed users. I need to configure Mailman to accept e-mails only from the administrator...so, the subscribed users cannot send e-mail to the … [View More]

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Mailman 2.13/Sendmail/the Python "mm-handler" like patch vs. "User unknown"
by Gary Goldberg Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

[the following is looong but has lots of supporting docs...] [BACKGROUND] Hello. I am trying to implement a dedicated Mailman system on a RedHat 9 server. I really want to get this working, but I am having some problems with "User unknown". The software revs involved include Mailman 2.13, Sendmail 8.12.8-9.90 (from patched RPM), the mm-handler contrib, MIMEDefang 2.38, SpamAssassin 2.60, Razor 2.36 and all the required perl modules. Except for sendmail, everything was compiled from source. … [View More]Mailman is installed in /home/mailman, varprefix is /var/mailman, and cgi-gid = "apache", mail-gid = "mail". (I have suexec running on this apache 2.0.40 (RPM) webserver, but no SuexecUserGroup line for the mailman virtual site.) The mailman URL is "http://lists.digimark.net/mailman/listinfo". The mail domain is lists.digimark.net and this is dedicated to the installation. I am also setting up "lists.snpp.com" in the same system. [The PROBLEM] The problem is that every message to the system is being rejected with a "User unknown" message. Specifically: Nov 26 03:27:48 cello sendmail[20336]: hAQ8RlUt020336: <simpsons-l(a)lists.snpp.com>... User unknown Nov 26 03:27:48 cello sendmail[20336]: hAQ8RlUt020336: from=<xxxxxx(a)xxxxxx.com>, size=1609, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mailsrv1.tranzpeer.net [202.180.66.207] (simpsons-l is one of the lists in lists.snpp.com, but it is doing it for all lists.) >From tests and logs, it appears that Sendmail is configured OK, Mailman is installed and running fine, SpamAsssassin, MIMEDefang etc are all working. I've implemented the mm-handler contrib -- mm-handler is installed in /etc/mail and is executable, the MM variables in the script are set $MMWRAPPER = "/home/mailman/mail/mailman"; $MMLISTDIR = "/var/mailman/lists"; $SENDMAIL = "/usr/lib/sendmail -oem -oi"; $VERSION = '$Id: mm-handler,v 1.2 2002/04/05 19:41:09 bwarsaw Exp $'; Since this wasn't making the right connection between sendmail and mm-handler, I started installing the Python patch from patch #644810, but got stopped after applying both the existstatus and mailer patches, because I couldn't find the replacment proto.m4.patch to apply. I need to stay with this installation, can anyone offer help? Thanks in advance. -Gary [CONFIGURATION] /etc/mail/mailertable is lists.digimark.net mailman:lists.digimark.net /etc/mail/access is lists.digimark.net RELAY /etc/mail/local-host-names includes lists.digimark.net, mailman's /home/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py has these changes (Defaults.py unchanged): DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.digimark.net' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.digimark.net' VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear() add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) add_virtualhost('lists.snpp.com', 'lists.snpp.com') add_virtualhost('reactor.snpp.com', 'reactor.snpp.com') add_virtualhost('lists.rrlc.org', 'lists.rrlc.org') # Because we are using the contrib'd mm-handler for Sendmail. MTA = None # define alternate SMTP port SMTPPORT = 3333 and I added this startup command to /etc/init.d/sendmail: # Start extra run of sendmail for mailman defer queue on port 3333. /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=defer \ -ODaemonPortOptions=Name=MSA,Port=3333,M=E,Addr=127.0.0.1 The machine's sendmail.mc file is as follows: include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl VERSIONID(`(a)(#)digimark.mc 8.12.10 (DigiMark) 10/08/2003')dnl OSTYPE(linux)dnl DOMAIN(generic)dnl FEATURE(`limited_masquerade') FEATURE(`always_add_domain')dnl FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl FEATURE(`use_ct_file')dnl FEATURE(`nouucp',`reject')dnl FEATURE(`redirect')dnl FEATURE(`relay_entire_domain')dnl FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl FEATURE(`mailertable')dnl FEATURE(`virtusertable')dnl FEATURE(`access_db',`hash -T<TMPF> -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl FEATURE(`local_procmail',`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`lists.digimark.net')dnl INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang',`S=unix:/var/spool/mimedefang/mimedefang.sock,F=T,T=S:360s;R:360s;E:15m') TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1,Name=MTA')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Post=smtp,Addr=65.37.199.195,Name=MTA')dnl define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/etc/mail/aliases,/etc/mail/lists')dnl define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN')dnl define(`confCOPY_ERRORS_TO',`postmaster')dnl define(`confDELIVERY_MODE',`background')dnl define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',`True')dnl define(`confEBINDIR',`/etc/smrsh')dnl define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN',`50')dnl define(`confMAX_QUEUE_CHILDREN',`25')dnl define(`confMIN_FREE_BLOCKS',`1000')dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN',`1d')dnl define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'')dnl define(`confTRUSTED_USER',`smmsp')dnl MAILER(`local')dnl MAILER(`smtp')dnl MAILER(`procmail')dnl dnl By default, sendmail applies virtusertable mapping, if at all, for dnl all interfaces for which it accepts mail -- i.e., all domains in dnl $=w. Mm-handler relies on your having a single domain (hostname) dnl that serves only lists, with no users. To avoid potential namespace dnl conflicts, you need not to have this list domain included in $=w. dnl As a result, virtuser mapping does not apply for the Mailman dnl list domain. However, you can pre-empt this rule by defining dnl $={VirtHost}: if there are domains in this class, they will be dnl mapped before $=w is mapped. VIRTUSER_DOMAIN() defines this class. VIRTUSER_DOMAIN(`lists.digimark.net lists.snpp.com')dnl dnl dnl Our Mailman-specific local mailer. dnl MAILER_DEFINITIONS #################################### ### New Mailer specifications ### #################################### ## Special flags! See ## http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.10/op-sh-5.html#sh-5.4 ## Note especially the absence of the "m" and "n" flags. THIS IS ## IMPORTANT: mm-handler assumes this behavior to avoid having to know ## too much about address parsing and other RFC-2822 mail details. Mmailman, P=/etc/mail/mm-handler, F=rDFMhlqSu, U=mail:mail, S=EnvFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, A=mm-handler $h $u [END] -- "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin Gary Goldberg KA3ZYW <og(a)digimark.net> V:301/249-6501 F:301/390-1955 AIM:OgGreeb Digital Marketing/Bowie MD/Systems & Networks Consult <http://www.digimark.net/> [View Less]

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Elizabeth Dunnagan/Raleigh/IBM is out of the office.
by Elizabeth Dunnagan Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

I will be out of the office starting November 26, 2003 and will not return until December 1, 2003. For emergencies during my absence, please contact Kimberly Brantley for search and IA and Jack Pizzolato for anything else.

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Re: Spanish Mailman List Member Manual available! - reviewers needed!
by Evelyn V. Stevens Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 "pchamorro" <pchamorro(a)ingeomin.gov.co> wrote: > > Dear Mailman Users, > > I finished the Spanish translation of 'GNU Mailman - List Member Manual' > written by Terri Oda. If somebody knows about spanish-fluent mailman users, > please forward this message to him/her. The translated manual is available in > both HTML and PDF formats at the below addresses. > > I already contacted to the Spanish Internationalization leader, but he seems … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] permission denied on archive
by Brian Craft Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:34:12AM -0600, Dan Phillips wrote: > > On Nov 26, 2003, at 11:25 AM, Brian Craft wrote: > >It reports no problems, but I still get "permission denied" on the > >archive > >from apache. > > > > "Aha!" he said. This is an Apache error, as in "indexing not allowed?" > Are there any posts to the list yet? If not, then there are no > archives, and no index files. If your apache setup prohibits directory > indexing, that … [View More]

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RE: [Mailman-Users] wrapper script run as nogroup
by Jeremy Gilbert Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

> The wrapper script will run as the GID that it was compiled to run as; > this has nothing whatsoever to do with Postfix. > > The postfix-users list will just tell you to come back here, I expect. > > You'll have to recompile Mailman with the correct --with-mail-gid > option. The option to give to --with-mail-gid is the group > that Postfix > runs as... > > You could choose to be obtuse and recompile Postfix to run as > the group > nogroup, but I … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Easy Install Instructions for Mailman and (exim, postfix or sendmail)
by Mike Gifford Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

Howdy Todd, > Mike Gifford wrote: > > I've got a pretty vanilla Red Hat install and am trying to get > > Mailman set up, but I'm stumbling on getting a mail program up > > running so that I can receive mail. > What version of Red Hat? What version of Mailman? RH 8.0 - upgraded with apt-get mailman-2.1.1-4 sendmail-8.12.8-9.90 postfix-1.1.12-1 > > I've started to install exim (but their docs are overly > > complicated). Sendmail & postfix were … [View More]

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Totally Newby - Virtual Host Problem
by Liz Marr Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

I'm going to be debugging a Mailman install that has gone bad without much previous "root" experience or Mailman except as a list owner. I have worked with Apache some, but not enough to entirely understand the whole picture. Here are the symptoms - sorry that I don't have the actual files to show. The lists were running on another server, then the service provider upgraded and moved to a new server. The lists quit parsing the virtual domains at that time, but the list control panel was … [View More]useable enough to be able to insert the IP address of the hosting server under the default URL and then all of the web interface and mail worked fine as it inserted the IP address appropriately. Not too long after that Mailman was updated and then the IP "fix" went away. Now, the web interface resolves to the virtual host when anything is "clicked". I can get to the admin interface for the list I am working with, but whenever I try to make changes, it defaults back to the virtual host - giving me a "file not found" error. I've tried to "hack" it by taking apart the source to get the appropriate CGI string - but it has not happened. I can't change the named host to the IP address because when I click the box it tries to send it through the virtual domain. I did go and try to use a redirect to solve the addressing, but Mailman is run prior to address resolution, so this doesn't work either and the redirect is useless. My goals are the following: 1) Temp solution - locate and change the "host" to the IP address so that links will work correctly (not the best solution) 2) Check all of the alias and virtual host entries and see what need to be changed and make the changes and try to solve it this way. Either solution, here is my problem. What changes need to have a recompile before going into affect, what changes need a program restart, which changes are simply to edit a configuration file where it will be parsed and used automatically, and which changes don't go into effect without a server restart . Here are some of the files that I have researched that I need to check on - can you help me with which will go into effect immediately, which are needing recompile, which need a program restart (and which program) and which need a server restart. As it is a large production server and I'm not where I can actually do the restart, I need to coordinate server restarts with the server owner. Files to configure: httpd.conf /usr/local/etc/exim/configure Mailman/mm_cfg.py Do these changes need to be done each time a virtual domain is added to the server? Is there a variable to make this happen automatically (come to think about it - I haven't debugged to see if this might already be working fine by adding a new domain) Also, do I need to run this program for every existing list on the server? If so, is there a way to batch this? ./bin/withlist -l -r fix_url <listname> [View Less]

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Need Help
by djgury＠dholnbass.com Nov. 26, 2003

Nov. 26, 2003

I would like some help on Mailman. 1). When I send an email to my entire mailing list, why is it that some people get my email and some don't, I don't even get a bounce back msgs for the email addresses that did not get it. Although I do get bounce back msgs. Is there a setting that or something that I need to recheck. 2). Is there a way I can get a log of all the email addresses that have been delivered and such. Thanks for all the help.

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