Mailman 3 February 2003 - Mailman-Users

Another upgrade problem (2.0.13 -> 2.1); pending admin request page hosed
by Ed Osinski 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Hi, I upgraded from 2.0.13 to 2.1, and I run into a problem when trying to access the "Tend to pending moderator requests" page of a pre-existing list. I get: Bug in Mailman version 2.1 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 226, in main num = show_pending_subs(mlist, form) File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 264, in show_pending_subs pendingsubs = mlist.GetSubscriptionIds() File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 161, in GetSubscriptionIds return self.__getmsgids(SUBSCRIPTION) File "/usr/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 150, in __getmsgids for k, (type, data) in self.__db.items(): ValueError: unpack tuple of wrong size Any idea what I can do to get rid of this? - Ed

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after 2.0.13->2.1 upgrade, files needed?
by Jeff A. Earickson 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Hi, I've noticed that the following files in my web mailman space, eg /web/data/mailman/lists/[listname], that the following files no longer seem to be in use: config.db*, *.html. I've noticed that mailing lists that I've created after the upgrade only contain config.pck, config.pck.last, and request.db. Can I assume that the config.db and html files are left over from 2.0.x and can now be deleted? ----------------------------------- Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D Senior UNIX Sysadmin and Email Guru Information Technology Services Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill, Waterville ME, 04901-8842 phone: 207-872-3659 (fax = 3076) -----------------------------------

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RE;Cron/senddigests bug
by Dan Phillips 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Tried that and it reported no problems. The problem definitely seems to be in digest.mbox, although I can't see anything wrong. I renamed it and sent a test message to create a new one, the ran cron/senddigests -l, and it went out fine. when I moved the original mbox back it generated the same error. I also ran bin/cleanarch on it and it reported no problems and the correct number of messages. Where's the best documentation on the structure of an mbox file? thanks! On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 06:00 PM, Jon Carnes wrote: > Run a check_db on the offending list and see if the problem lays in the > Database for the list... > > On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 17:54, Dan Phillips wrote: >> Any idea where this error is coming from? This error is coming from >> only one list; a manual running of senddigests -l on other lists >> functions perfectly. /lists/problemlist/digest.mbox appears to be >> fine. Any ideas? anyone? what else should I be checking? >> >>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File "/Users/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 94, in ? >>> main() >>> File "/Users/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 86, in main >>> mlist.send_digest_now() >>> File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Digester.py", line 60, in >>> send_digest_now >>> ToDigest.send_digests(self, mboxfp) >>> File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 129, in >>> send_digests >>> send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) >>> File "/Users/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 290, in >>> send_i18n_digests >>> g(msg, unixfrom=0) >>> File "/Users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 100, in >>> flatten >>> self._write(msg) >>> File "/Users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 128, in >>> _write >>> self._dispatch(msg) >>> File "/Users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 154, in >>> _dispatch >>> meth(msg) >>> File "/Users/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 212, in >>> _handle_text >>> raise TypeError, 'string payload expected: %s' % type(payload) >>> TypeError: string payload expected: <type 'list'> >>> >>

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Error: Incorrect padding???
by David Gibbs 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

I'm getting a huge amount of these messages ... any ideas? Jan 30 12:47:18 2003 (9406) Uncaught runner exception: Incorrect padding Jan 30 12:47:18 2003 (9406) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 129, in _dispose status = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 152, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 89, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 130, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 317, in send_i18n_digests t = str(p.get_payload(decode=1)) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 189, in get_payload return Utils._bdecode(payload) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 75, in _bdecode value = base64.decodestring(s) File "/usr/src/build/143041-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/base64.py", line 44, in decodestring return binascii.a2b_base64(s) Error: Incorrect padding Jan 30 12:47:18 2003 (9406) SHUNTING: 1043952417.326993+00515217dc9bf5375a676ba39e87f425e7eb45bb

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[Mailman-Users] [URGENT][Subscribers Vanished, No entries in the log]
by Ganeshh 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Dear Lists I am running 30 lists on mailman 2.0.8 and out of which 20 to 25 of them are really active. The mailing system is working fine , but i like to share with you a strange behaviour with mailman, or maybe i dunno it could an human error. I added my 31st list on 23rd January and please find the below log, as it routine exercise of creating lists and mass subscribing the members, i didnt check the list members status on a daily level. To my surprise of out 9 members subscribed, only 3 of them exist. Log data for /home/mailman/logs/subscribe file Jan 23 16:27:19 2003 (29002) ow-ti: new ghh(a)domain.com Jan 23 16:27:19 2003 (29002) ow-ti: new user1(a)domain.com Jan 23 16:27:19 2003 (29002) ow-ti: new paul_r(a)domain.com Jan 23 16:27:20 2003 (29002) ow-ti: new bosco(a)domain.com Jan 23 16:27:20 2003 (29002) ow-ti: new quality(a)domain.com Jan 23 16:27:20 2003 (29002) ow-ti: new claus(a)domain.com Jan 23 16:39:56 2003 (29838) ow-ti: pending roz.sutton(a)domain.com 192.168.0.3 Jan 23 16:41:03 2003 (29913) ow-ti: pending claire.paszkiewicz(a)domain.com 192.168.0.3 Jan 23 16:42:23 2003 (29989) ow-ti: pending robert.faulkner(a)domain.com 192.168.0.3 Jan 23 19:25:01 2003 (6969) ow-ti: new robert.faulkner(a)domain.com Jan 23 20:43:01 2003 (9498) ow-ti: new roz.sutton(a)domain.com Jan 29 17:58:02 2003 (16885) ow-ti: new claire.paszkiewicz(a)domain.com My subscribe log was not modified by anyone or tampered, and i dont find any logs of members who arent existing anymore with stamp "deleted" What could be cause of this problem... Thanks in Advance Ganeshh

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[Urgent][Subscribed members vanished]Looks to be simple Problem, though Strange]]
by Ganeshh 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Dear List The below mail is critical for me, let me know the possible cause. Warm Regards Ganeshh

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Losing text from Outlook emails.
by Pat Finnerty 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

I've noticed that emails that are sent from Outlook with embedded objects lose any text when archived by pipermail. Example. This appears in the archive: _________________________________________________ Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 31368 bytes Desc: disk_layout.jpg Url : http://soggey.ilo.cpqcorp.net/pipermail/test/attachments/20030203/8a290e49/… ________________________________________ The embedded object - in this case a jpeg file - is stripped out as an attachment. Thats fine, but where's me text gone? Anyone know of away around this? - Pat. -- p: +353-91-754722 e: pat.finnerty(a)hp.com

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman Security.
by Adam 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:47:48 +0000 Adam <lists(a)monkeez.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:44:10 -0000 > "dino" <dinouk(a)orange.net> wrote: > > > Actually he did it this way: > > > > Noticed that mydomain/mailman was browsable. > > > > Telneted to port 80 and sent a get request from there...ouch. > > > > Sorting that now > > > > Dino > > > The fact that telnet is open pretty much says everything about this sysadmin's approach to security. -- Public Key available from www.monkeez.co.uk/public_key.asc

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Mailman Security.
by dino 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Hi All, I was just wondering what kind of security mailman offers, as far as protecting user passwords goes? A techy friend of mine has just kindly emailed me a list of all users and their passwords! Looking at my server logs it would appear that he snuck in somehow via anonymous ftp. Would closing the anon. ftp service stop mailman working in anyway, or dya reckon he got in some place else? Cheers Dino

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Password reminder
by Adam 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

Yesterday I got reminders from lists that I am a member of, but am not an administrator. However, the box that I administer (for the past 3 days) didn't send out any reminder. Does it do it automatically on the first day of the month, or rather a month after being setup? Also, is there a way of sending out the reminders manually? I've looked in the bin dir, but nothing strikes me as being obvious. Thanks in advance. adam -- Public Key available from www.monkeez.co.uk/public_key.asc

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