Mailman 3 December 2003 - Mailman-Users

RE:mailman wont send mail
by Zimmermann Christian 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

Hello, thanks for all the Tipps folks. But when I say what the mistake was you all gona beet me up. mailman wasn´t startet. I could bite in my ass, I spend a lot of time to find whats wrong an then..... argh. I thought the service starts automaticly but.... anyway. Thank to all. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian Zimmermann _\|/_ (@ @) -----oOOo-(_)-oOOo----- VitaNet GmbH Industriestr. 50b 69190 Walldorf Tel: 06227-35676961 Fax:06227-3567989 www.virtuelle-apotheke.de <http://www.virtuelle-apotheke.de/> c.zimmermann(a)virtuelle-apotheke.de

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error on start mailman
by Alvaro Jesus Hernandez Arteaga 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

Hi I install Mailman on a Mandrake/Linux 9.2, when try to start mailman show this error: Starting mailman qrunnerSite list is missing: mailman I make a search in FAQ Mailman and no found anything about this somebody are able to tell me where this the problem Thank you in advance -- Alvaro Jesus Hernandez Arteaga alhernan(a)uc.edu.ve Linux Counter: 122569 Key fingerprint = 4FA5 CFCD 9AD9 8A1E CB10 5C53 7F31 C83B 2DF9 BB6A

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Mail Send Limits : ? Max # of members ?
by Michael Jasinski 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi - to whom it may concern : We have maillist and are using the program provided by our hosting company. However they seem to have limited knowledge so I need to ask someone ASAP.... What is the mail list size limit: Max # of members? Max # of members that one list can send? If limited, by how much and what happened to excess members. We are on ver. 2.1.3 We currently have something like 10,000 + members in one list, however, I don't feel all are getting them. I which I could tell. Anyway we were told the max was 1,000 per list so to break the 10,000 into sub groups? True? We are not high tech here, but are heavy mailman users for our private database / membership. THANK FOR ANY DIRECTION or HELP IN ADVANCE ! Michael Michael(a)Jasinski.com (Email not for public distribution)

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How to change the system-wide maximum message size?
by Mark Edwards 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

I'm running mailman for small lists (under 10 people) but the server is on DSL connection with a slow outgoing speed (128Kbps). How can I alter the system-wide maximum message size? Under no circumstances do I want list members to post messages larger than a few hundred K, and I don't want to be bothered with notifications when people try it. I just want to lower the system-wide max from the rather-large 3MB limit to more like 300K. I've searched for an hour in vain, but I imagine this number can be changed somewhere. Anyone know where? Thanks!

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Mailing list
by bo.karlsson＠chello.se 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hallo I have create a mailing list, but hove can I add mail-adress to the list. Can I convert from a Excel-file ?? Please help me. Rgds / Bosse

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qrunner error
by Andrew Watson 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

My lists appear to be working fine, but... In preparing for an upgrade, i was scanning the files in my mailman directory. In the logs directory, I found one named qrunner, 52 MB in size. In looking at the contents, I found a pattern of error reports, about 2 per minute, of the following form: Dec 01 18:59:01 2003 (68374) Exception reading qfile: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/7a7baddd735b00123d23c50888c8cdc435105eee [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/7a7baddd735b00123d23c50888c8cdc435105eee.db' Dec 01 18:59:01 2003 (68374) Exception reading qfile: /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/869fcb5218865c09d37a448a3259b014a7e6ee4d [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/qfiles/869fcb5218865c09d37a448a3259b014a7e6ee4d.db' My questions are: 1) what is this error? 2) can it be fixed? 3) can it be ignored? -- -Andrew

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Can I prevent all members, except list manager, from sending mail to the list??
by Mike Hogsett 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Alternatively... replace the "|mailman post <LIST>" alias with a LIST: /dev/null or other destination (which does not go to mailman post) and then create an unadvertised aliases such as LIST-really-send: "|mailman post <LIST>" perhaps that will do what you want.

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4 times !!!
by Denis 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi, I have upgraded mailman on debian from 2.0.3. to 2.1.1-5.1 Since this upgrade, i have a big problem. All the request messages, reminder of subscription, ... are sending 4 times. I don't no who i can resolve this problem. Someone have an idea ? Thanks Denis

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Mailman Preprocessor Available - seeking feedback
by Darwin Sanoy 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hello, Below is the description of a preprocessor script I wrote for mailman. I was looking to emulate the Topica.com features of "<list>-subscribe", "<list>-unsubscribe" and "<list>-post-<password>" in an efficient and extensible manner. I am seeking feedback on the script and I have two areas that are troubling right now: *) I still get a succesful completion AND an error message back from mailman when sending to "<list>-unsubscribe" (yet I don't get one when sending to "<list>-unsubscribe" which *should* process exactly the same way. I know I coiuld re-write the entire message - but I am wondering if there is a way to make unsubscribe work the same way as subscribe and post - by doing replacements to the inbound message. *) I am wondering if there is a way to alter all the messages sent out by mailman to match my configuration. There are some in "Templates" - but others seem hardcoded. Right now I am tied to Mailman 2.0.13 due to needing to stay compliant with the RedHat 2.1AS distribution. The script can be found at http://desktopengineer.com/mmpreproc Thanks for any time anyone can take to send feedback, D. # This script pre-processes mail commands to mailman to faciliate announcement lists and easy subscribe and unsubscribe. # It modifies the list behavior as follows: # *) unsubscribes only made through the alias <list>-subscribe(a)domain.com and automatically sets users password to their email # *) unsubscribes only made through the alias <list>-unsubscribe(a)domain.com and automatically unsubscribes with no confirm, email=password is assumed # *) posting to the list can only be done through a special alias that includes a password component such as <list>-post-<password>@domain.com. # The list can be configured for moderation and only allow a specific list of emails to be automatically approved. Since it is recommended # that you delete the <list>@domain.com alias, using this method prevents the need to moderate messages that try to use the standard posting # alias - even if you do not allow auto approval of posts to specific email addresses. # *) This script accomplishes its objectives by having the mail message piped to it and then it pipes the message into the standard mailman wrapper for # processing. This is more efficient than re-mailing back to the same system. In addition, since the program simply does regex substitutions to # inbound message headers, the posting password alias can work easily with complex messages that include mime sections because the entire message does not # need to pass through mail again and therefore be disassembled, reassembled and then emailed correctly. # *) Many other modifications could be made for preprocessing mailman commands and posts - the script design is modular and dynamic - it pulls apart the # mail aliases components (seperate by "-" character) and decides what to do with the message based on these components. # Install # *) Tested with mailman 2.0.13 (Redhat 2.1AS Version) # *) Ensure you have Mail:Mailer (mailtools) installed if you wish to have error notification or debug emails sent, or rewrite the email section # to suite your system. # *) Copy mmprepoc.pl to <mailmanroot>/mail (e.g. "cp mmpreproc.pl /path/to/mailman/mail") # *) Change ownership to the mailman user (e.g. "chown mailman mmpreproc.pl") # *) Change security to be executable (e.g. "chmod 755 mmpreproc.pl") # *) For sendmail create a link in the /etc/smrsh directory (e.g. "ln -s /path/to/mailman/mail/mmpreproc.pl") # *) Set $mailmanpath - this should be the directory with all your mailman subdirectories (including "bin") in it. # *) Set $blockrequests - if set to "1" this script blocks all <list>-request(a)domain.com messages except replys to # subscription confirmations. # *) Set $emaildiscards, $emailerrors, $emaildebug and $emailnotifyaddress if you wish to use email notification. # Configure Mailman (note your lists cannot have a "-" character in their name): # *) add the list alias <listname>-subscribe: "|/path/to/mailman/mail/mmpreproc.pl" # *) add the list alias <listname>-unsubscribe: "|/path/to/mailman/mail/mmpreproc.pl" # Configure Mailman: If using the post-password alias feature # *) add the list alias <listname>-post-<password>: "|/path/to/mailman/mail/subprocessor" # *) remove the list alias <list> or send it to null so that you don't have to moderate messages sent there. # *) in mail man set posting to the list to be only allowed from members of the list and setup any auto-approval email # addresses. It won't matter that users can see your auto approved email when receiving messages because they cannot # tell that you used a special alias to send the message rather than <list>@domain.com

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman wont send mail
by Jeremy Gilbert 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

> Hello to all, > > I´m new to this list. > > I have a problem with mailman and postfix. > I set up mailman out of the box on my suse 8.2 system. This list needs a searchable archive. I posted the same thing only two weeks ago. Anyway, the way I had to fix it was to add /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailman start to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. Even though mailman was executable and in init.d, it wasn't starting. This is with Slackware 9.1. I'm not familiar with SuSe, but the situation is probably similar. This new line fixed it for me _most_ of the time. Sometimes, when I reboot, it still doesn't start and I have to manually type that command as root, but since I don't plan to reboot very often, it's not a big deal for me. Hope this helps, Jeremy Gilbert zhq9eva02(a)sneakemail.com

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