Mailman 3 December 2003 - Mailman-Users

Changing domain
by david.gordon 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hello I'm running Mailman 2.0.13 with two lists. When I set the lists up I used the domain name epuk.thenexus.co.uk (a sub-domain at our host) in order to run the list immediately and not have to wait for the DNS to update our epuk.org domain. I subsequently updated the "Base URL for Mailman web interface" to http://www.epuk.org/mailman/ and everything works fine and as expected. However the monthly password reminder and other administrative messages still come from the epuk.thenexus.co.uk address. As we have now moved away from this host I need to change the domain mailman-owner sends mail from - but where and how? -- david.gordon

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Configuration Question
by Justin W. Pauler 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

To Whom It May Concern: I'm trying to get my mailman configuration correct, but I'm having trouble selecting the right options. More or less, I need to configure the list to allow anyone to post and then receive a notice saying that the post was sent to the 'Support Team'. Only those people whom I have subscribed manually will receive the message, but most importantly, this message will forward directly to the list without requiring moderator approval. I'm trying to set this up for users to forward trouble tickets directly to our staff of volunteers. Any ideas? -- Justin W. Pauler E-Mail: justin(a)jwpauler.org WWW: http://www.jwpauler.org

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Multiple/Redundant Mailman servers
by Charlie Watts 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

What's the "Best Current Practice" for running Multiple or Redundant Mailman servers? I have a distributed mail system - centralized local message store, and many SMTP/POP heads. I'd *like* to be able to run Mailman on all of them, with the same lists and configs. Currently I NFS mount the configs for many other software packages, and it works well. I've tried NFS mounting /usr/local/mailman, and making qfiles a symlink to a local directory on each machine. This doesn't work; I get messages shunted because of Stale NFS filehandles and permission errors, even though check_perms says I'm good. If this simply isn't possible, I can shunt all of the mail to a central list server, and just back-up mailman so I can bring it up elsewhere if necessary. But I'd love to have a way to do this. -- Charlie Watts Brainstorm Internet 970 247-1442 x113 cewatts(a)brainstorminternet.net http://www.brainstorminternet.net/

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test mail if mailman work or not?
by b udhi19 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

Hello there, i'm new to mailman, i have installing mailman 2.1.3 on my FBSD 5.1 machine and have postfix as my MTA, everything work well till i add my e-mail to list, but when i'm trying to send mail to my list, it sent, but it's not sent to other members i've try this : jalak# ps -aux | grep mailmanctl | grep -v grep mailman 14157 0.0 0.0 7408 12 ?? Is 7:54AM 0:00.04 /usr/local/bin/python ./mailmanctl start jalak# ps -aux | grep cron | grep -v grep root 416 0.0 0.3 1300 200 ?? Is 12:09AM 0:00.30 /usr/sbin/cron and set newaliases, any idea what's wrong...? i've been looking for archives and manual but maybe i'm not smart enough, so i still get stuck... any suggestion? regard, Budhi

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Upgrading lists 2.0.X -> 2.1.X
by Morgan Fletcher 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

Do I need to update the data under $prefix/lists/ when upgrading from 2.0.X to 2.1.X? If so, how? I don't see any mention of it in the 2.1.3 INSTALL or UPGRADING document, but when I try the upgrade with 2.0.8-era lists/ data, I get errors about missing properties. (fields?) Morgan Fletcher

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The & causing a problem
by gagel＠cnc.bc.ca 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

I have a list with a & in the name, is this a dis-allowed character in the list names? I have recieved a message back indicating a problem with the use of the "&" see below: Final-Recipient: rfc822; arts&science-request(a)avas.cnc.bc.ca Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command died with status 127: "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request arts&science". Command output: sh: science: command not found mailcmd script, list not found: arts Suggestions,comments,fixes?... ==================== Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator (250) 561-5848 local 448 (250) 562-2131 local 448 -------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. --------------------------------------------------------------

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qrunner fails to start
by Erick Mechler 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

I'm getting this error when I try to start the mailman qrunner daemon after upgrading to 2.1.3 from 2.0.13. Actually, I get this 10x, each one causing the qrunner process to die and spawn anew: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 270, in ? main() File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/qrunner", line 230, in main qrunner.run() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 65, in run filecnt = self._oneloop() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 93, in _oneloop msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 158, in dequeue data = self._ext_read(dbfile) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 264, in _ext_read dict = marshal.load(fp) EOFError: EOF read where object expected The corresponding entries in the qrunner log is this: Dec 03 12:42:52 2003 (24329) IncomingRunner qrunner started. Dec 03 12:42:52 2003 (24300) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit (pid: 24329, sig: None, sts: 1, class: IncomingRunner, slice: 1/1) [restarting] Dec 03 12:42:52 2003 (24300) Qrunner IncomingRunner reached maximum restart limit of 10, not restarting. This is on FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE (Tue Dec 2 16:27:33 PST 2003), mailman 2.1.3, and Python 2.3.2 (both from ports). Has anybody seen this before, or perhaps know how I can do more debuggin'? Cheers - Erick

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Re: [Mailman-Users] The & causing a problem
by gagel＠cnc.bc.ca 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

I'm getting more confused by the second... I've removed the list and re-created it without the "&" in the name. What happend is I'm transfering from an old server to a new mailman server. The list created just fine and displays just fine. It seems postfix is recieving the list name seperated as two names instead of a single name. Messages to the old list server using the list name with the & in it are not a problem with postfix. But mailman must be doing or not doing something with postfix that caused the error. ----- Original Message Follows ----- > While this is all true to some degree, don't overlook something even > more obvious with regards to mailman, the web interface in trying > to display that list name would actually be trying to display a > page that takes a parameter. Apache / IIS would be significantly > confused for sure. &'s are not valid in HTML file names as they > specify a part of a parameter list on the url. > > It's always a good practice to stick with a-z 0-9 _-. only in names > and you'll never have any sort of issue with email servers or web > servers. > > just my 0.02 worth > --Ed > > At 03:08 PM 12/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >>>>> "SW" == Simon White <simon(a)caperet.com> writes: > > > >SW> The & in shell has a special meaning, it would have to be > "escaped", >SW> because > > > >If you read Business Week, the "Tech & You" column has a comment > email >address of tech&you(a)businessweek.com > > > >Just because the unix shell does something with & doesn't mean it > is >invalid for local part of email addresses. The Mailman aliases > should >protect that in any case, because it could be used as a > vector for >attack, even if it does require sysadmin assistance ;-) > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------ > >Mailman-Users mailing list > >Mailman-Users(a)python.org > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > >Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > >Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > >This message was sent to: ed(a)easent.net > >Unsubscribe or change your options at > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/ed%40easent.ne > t > > ______________________________________________________________ > EAS*Ent.Net - World Class Web Hosting and Email Box Services > www.easent.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: gagel(a)cnc.bc.ca > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/gagel%40cnc.bc.ca ==================== Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator (250) 561-5848 local 448 (250) 562-2131 local 448 -------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. --------------------------------------------------------------

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a little help?
by kenny mathieson 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

dear folks, i'm sorry to bother you with this but i really need some help here. i am a complete layman when it comes to complex emailing, and am trying to set up a mailing list (by the term mailing list, i mean to simply send newsletters to a large group of people without disclosing everybody's email address). this is not for spamming purposes, i have set up a website for a band and need to learn this for legitimate mailshots to a list of addresses we have collected whilst on tour. i briefly checked the mailman user lists and couldn't make head nor tail of them, let alone search for pertinant info. firstly, do i need to use mailman for this purpose or is there another (simpler) way? i'm not looking for you guys to spoon-feed me through this process (i understand you have better things to do with your lives), but if there was a place i could get easy to understand instructions on how to set up a mailshot system i would be greatly appreciative if you could point me in the right direction. yours, kenny mathieson

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htdig intregration problems
by Paul Key 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

solaris 9 mailman 2.1.3 htdig 3.1.6 patches: indexing-2.1.3-0.1 and htdig-2.1.3-0.4 htdig is working. from the command line i can do: #/opt/www/htdig/bin/htsearch -c /usr/local/mailman/archives/htdig/mailman.conf as users root , mailman and nobody and get the html search results correctly returned. When I try and search from the web archive form i get: htdig Archives Access Failure search failed -12- If you want to make another attempt to access a list archive then go via the list users information page <http://mailman.sghms.ac.uk/mailman//listinfo/mailman>. If this problem persists then please e-mail the following information to the mailman(a)mailman.sghms.ac.uk <mailto:mailman@mailman.sghms.ac.uk>: http://mailman.sghms.ac.uk/pipermail/mailman/ /mailman/mmsearch/mailman if i run the nightly_htdig script from the command line it hangs with 'rundig failed for list mailman, exit code 134' has anyone got any ideas where i can look to put things right... thanks paul -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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