Mailman 3 December 2003 - Mailman-Users

soem error
by Mariusz Handke 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

hi there, i'm getting this error : --- From: mailman(a)alice.oiram.net (Cron Daemon) To: mailman(a)alice.oiram.net Subject: Cron <mailman@alice> /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/usr/local/mailman> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=mailman> X-Cron-Env: <USER=mailman> Status: Site list is missing: mailman --- any idea how to fix it? (re: oiram(a)oiram.net) ---=[ Mariusz *OiRaM* Handke ]=--- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.543 / Virus Database: 337 - Release Date: 26/11/2003

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Turn off MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin for outbound Mailman posts?
by Gary Goldberg 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hello. I have Mailman 2.13 configured on Red Hat Linux 9 with Sendmail 8.12.9, MIMEDefang 2.39, SpamAssassin 2.60. I have a separate sendmail -bd daemon running on a high level port with DeliverMode=defer to avoid the DNS efficiency problem. All mail inbound to the system is scanned with MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin, and then re-scanned when the outbound Mailman message is sent. Is there any way I can turn off MIMEDefang/SpamAsssassin for the outbound Mailman only? It's tagging my digests as spam (score 5.5) even though the posts that make up the digest all passed inbound. Thanks in advance. -Gary -- -- "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/>

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How to set nomail flag from command line
by Gabriel Schillaci 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi. I developed an interface from my Content Manager to Mailman so people can create lists, subscribe and unsubscribe using my CM front end. Some subscribers want to post from different accounts, and obviously want to receive just one copy to one (main) account, not to all of them. Then, looking for a workaround, I found that this would work if I set the nomail flag to those alternative e-mail accounts. Now, my question: how can I set the nomail flag from a command line? I browsed the documentation and found nothing to do that. Any ideas? Gabriel

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RE: [Mailman-Users] RE: [IPCop-user] ADSL MTU on Pulsar
by Jeremy Gilbert 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Sorry, wrong list, please ignore my last.

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RE: [IPCop-user] ADSL MTU on Pulsar
by Jeremy Gilbert 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

> Has anyone had problems sending email from Windows over ADSL? > I think my > maximum transmission unit is too big, is there any way of setting it > according to my ISPs instructions? > > Thanks. I've not had trouble sending mail, but if you think the MTU is your problem, you should start by setting the MTU on all machines to 1492 if your ISP uses PPPoE. If that doesn't help, or you want to do more detailed diagnostics, head over to broadbandreports.com and use their tweak test to check your Windows machines. Make sure that if you do change the MTU than you set the MTU to the same value on every machine on your network. Jeremy Gilbert zhq9eva02(a)sneakemail.com

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Downgrade/migration problem
by Stephen Gran 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hello all, I am having a little bit of a hard time with what is essentially a downgrade. Some background: the company I work for recently took over the backend sysadmin work for an ISP that runs about 50 mailman lists on one of their servers. After some looking around and getting accustomed to things in their set-up, we noticed a lot of exim and mailman errors. It turned out there was a very strange set-up, based loosely around mailman 2.1b2+ and exim 4.0x, but with lots of bits still left from older versions. There were exim cron jobs calling exim v.3 binaries, cronjobs calling other mailman paths, so on. A total mess of misinstallation, and unlikely to be sorted out any time soon. So, we decided that the easiest path might be to migrate the whole thing over to another box, running Debian Woody. This has exim 3.35 and mailman 2.0.11, so it is in effect a downgrade for both. The transition was made with a combination of rsync'ing the various directories under mailman/ and some scripts to dump the config's and memberships on the old machine and import them on the new machine (not for all the lists, though - only those that didn't have config.db, but only a config.pck - that is, only the lists added since the last admin upgraded mailman). We expected some problems, but most were resolvable. I'm stumped over this last one, and I'm hoping somebody might be able to shed some light on it. Mail coming in to the lists and going out to users works just fine. Mail going to admins is accepted by exim, and passed to mailman, but mailman never delivers list-admin mail. I see this in logs/error: Dec 01 21:38:06 2003 (15951) Delivery exception: bad marshal data Dec 01 21:38:06 2003 (15951) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 82, in do_pipeline func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 152, in process hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, NonMemberPost) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py", line 218, in hold_for_approval mlist.HoldMessage(msg, reason, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 145, in HoldMessage self.__opendb() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 69, in __opendb self.__db = marshal.load(fp) ValueError: bad marshal data I'm guessing that something is wrong with the data in a config.db, but I see no way to tell which one, or what's the matter with it. config_list and dumpdb don't show any error messages, so it seems that it can read the various files. I have no idea how to proceed further, so if anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it. Thanks, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | It's the Magic that counts. | | steve(a)lobefin.net | -- Larry Wall on Perl's apparent | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | ugliness | --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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admin fuction discard not working.
by Chris Johnson 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi, running Mailman v 2.1-8 here on rh7.3 w/ python 1.5.2-43.73. Simply, the Discard function on the list admin page isn't working. As I understand the process, I click on Discard and th Submit all and it's supoosed to dump the message or messages. Ain't happenin'. Message is still being held and won't go away. Would very much like to get ride of this message so the now annoying alert notices that tell mail daily there is a held message in the queue is still there would stop. Help appreciated. Tnx. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Johnson |Internet: johnson(a)nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Systems Administrator |Web: http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~johnson NMR Center |Voice: 617.726.0949 Mass. General Hospital |FAX: 617.726.7422 149 (2301) 13th Street |I'm continually amazed by mankind's seemingly Charlestown, MA., 02129 USA |infinite capacity for stupidity. Me -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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server hostname in List address?
by donovan 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Greetings How can i create a list with out having the hostname of the server displayed in the list? example: I create a new list and it shows up as " newlist(a)server1.mydomain.com " How can i get it to create newlist(a)mydomain.com by default? I am using OSX 10.3.1 TIA --jeff

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Mailman wont send mail
by Zimmermann Christian 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. I have made the changes in my httpd.conf and createt a new list called gfn-nasen. The needed entries In my /etc/aliases are also there- I think so. gfn-nasen: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post gfn-nasen" gfn-nasen-admin: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin gfn-nasen" gfn-nasen-bounces: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces gfn-nasen" gfn-nasen-confirm: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm gfn-nasen" gfn-nasen-join: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join gfn-nasen" gfn-nasen-leave: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave gfn-nasen" gfn-nasen-owner: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner gfn-nasen" gfn-nasen-request: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request gfn-nasen" gfn-nasen-subscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe gfn-nasen" gfn-nasen-unsubscribe: "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe gfn-nasen" When I send a mail to gfn-nasen-request(a)mail.virtuelle-apotheke.de the mail is accepted by my postfix server. Dec 1 08:22:48 service postfix/smtpd[9718]: connect from pop.gmx.net[213.165.64.20] Dec 1 08:22:48 service postfix/smtpd[9718]: B28653A5A0: client=pop.gmx.net[213.165.64.20] Dec 1 08:22:48 service postfix/cleanup[9728]: B28653A5A0: message-id=<17059.1070262968(a)www30.gmx.net> Dec 1 08:22:48 service postfix/qmgr[9648]: B28653A5A0: from=<chris612(a)gmx.de>, size=811, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 1 08:22:49 service postfix/smtpd[9718]: disconnect from pop.gmx.net[213.165.64.20] Dec 1 08:23:06 service postfix/pickup[9647]: BAC0B3B44A: uid=501 from=<chris612(a)gmx.de> Dec 1 08:23:06 service postfix/cleanup[9720]: BAC0B3B44A: message-id=<17059.1070262968(a)www30.gmx.net> Dec 1 08:23:06 service postfix/pipe[9721]: B28653A5A0: to=<gfn-nasen-request(a)mail.virtuelle-apotheke.de>, relay=filter, delay=18, status=sent (dummy) Dec 1 08:23:06 service postfix/qmgr[9648]: BAC0B3B44A: from=<chris612(a)gmx.de>, size=1146, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 1 08:23:07 service amavis[9755]: starting. amavis 0.3.12pre8 Mon Mar 17 18:52:54 UTC 2003 Dec 1 08:23:07 service postfix/smtpd[9735]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Dec 1 08:23:07 service postfix/smtpd[9735]: 9437C3B453: client=localhost[127.0.0.1] Dec 1 08:23:07 service postfix/cleanup[9728]: 9437C3B453: message-id=<17059.1070262968(a)www30.gmx.net> Dec 1 08:23:07 service postfix/qmgr[9648]: 9437C3B453: from=<chris612(a)gmx.de>, size=1402, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Dec 1 08:23:07 service postfix/smtpd[9735]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Dec 1 08:23:07 service postfix/pipe[9730]: BAC0B3B44A: to=<gfn-nasen-request(a)mail.virtuelle-apotheke.de>, relay=vscan, delay=1, status=sent (mail.virtuelle-apotheke.de) Dec 1 08:23:07 service postfix/local[9759]: 9437C3B453: to=<gfn-nasen-request(a)mail.virtuelle-apotheke.de>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent ("|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request gfn-nasen") But after that nothing happens anymore. Mailman doesent answer :-(. Even when I invite someone from the webinterface Mailman says "you successfully invited user(a)host.de " but I get no mail, and can´t see anything in the logfile. Does anyone know where the mistake is? Sorry for my english, I´m german sorry for that to ;) TIA Christian 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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Can I prevent all members, except list manager, from sending mail to the list??
by Damar Thapa, ICT Technician 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi, I am planning to use mailman simply to inform the website update to the members, so that the members should not be able to send mail to the list address. Can I do this? Regards, Damar Thapa ICT Technician, Kennedy School _________________________________________________

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