Mailman 3 February 2003 - Mailman-Users

[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1 + qmail + vpopmail = alias tremendous problems
by r.sand＠new-net.net 02 Feb '03

02 Feb '03

Hello As a lot of qmail+vpopmail+mailman users, I get the famous "Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)" error message. I have gathered here the 3 alias creation methods i found reading the archives, in the hope one of a goodwill soul to help. Here is my setup: FreeBSD 4.7_Stable - sources and ports from 02.02.2003 Mailman 2.1 (from port tree) Qmail (from port tree) Vpopmail (from port tree) Qmailadmin (from port tree) I did read and follow mailman/docs/README.QMAIL i also made the setup of a virtual "mm.domain.com" for mailman's use. list creation / web access / email notifications (on subscribe, list creation) all those work perfectly. During my browsing i found at least 3 different ways to setup those: 1) according you previously edited ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py with > MTA_ALIASES_STYLE = 'qmail' mailman should give the correct syntax to create qmail kind of alias files; just copy paste (watch out to paths), that's it. 2) using qmail-to-mailman.py by editing the /usr/local/vpopmail/domain.com/.qmail-default file - by the way is it: > |preline /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py or > | preline /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py or > |/var/qmail/bin/preline /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py or > | /var/qmail/bin/preline /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py or > |/usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py that should be used ?!- Also regarding qmail-to-mailman.py file, some people suggested to replace "mailman-" by "mydomain.com-".. due to some ways vpopmail handles the emails adresses .. or so.. Either way it doesn't work. 3) there is a small script supplyed at the end of the README.QMAIL i did a little adjustments for mailman 2.1 (i hope i did no mistakes.. and again i assume the |preline or |/var/qmail/bin/preline isn't an issue here...): -------- start cut --------- #!/bin/sh if [ $# = 1 ]; then i=$1 echo Making links to $i... echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post $i" > .qmail-$i echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin $i" > .qmail-$i-admin echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces $i" > .qmail-$i-bounces echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm $i" > .qmail-$i-confirm echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join $i" > .qmail-$i-join echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave $i" > .qmail-$i-leave echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner $i" > .qmail-$i-owner echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request $i" > .qmail-$i-request echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe $i" > .qmail-$i-subscribe echo "|preline /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe $i" > .qmail-$i-unsubscribe fi -------- end of cut ------- I assume this script should be run in /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/domain.com/ in order to have the proper alias files created for the right virtual domain.. Final note: the best i could get from qmail-to-mailman.py was an error message in /var/log/maillog: Feb 2 05:07:16 freaks qmail: 1044158836.094343 delivery 27: failure: TO_ACCESS_THE_MAILING_LIST_SYSTEM:_Start_your_web_browser_on/http://domain.… That message was bounced 3x times. If you need more infos to troubleshoot my config, please tell me witch, and i'll provide them. ps: please forgive my sloppy syntax and spelling, english is not my main language :/ Feel free to contact me anytime. Regards. df(a)dune.org

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Site-wide header in HTML pages
by Paul Kleeberg 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

I asked this one a while back but am still having trouble. I would like a header to appear at the top of all the HTML pages. I have gone into mailman/templates/en and modified the following: archidxhead.html archtoc.html listinfo.html article.html emptyarchive.html admlogin.html options.html private.html roster.html subscribe.html But there are still pages that I cannot seem to change. I recognize that some will only appear if the page is created after the above have been modified. Pages that have not changed for example are: http://site/mailman/admin/listname[/any-directory] http://site/mailman/listinfo My skills are marginal at best so forgive my ignorance. Paul -- Paul Kleeberg paul(a)fpen.org

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Re: Digest Topic Lists
by Paul H Byerly 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Bob wrote: >Hi Barry and Gang, > >We're getting closer with the Digest Topic list! It looks better per line, Yes it does, thanks. >except now there is an extra blank line between each entry, as demonstarted by >this latest one: Funny, I like it better that way. Can't make everyone happy at once! <>< Paul

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Additional Mailman 2.1 info
by Albert E. Whale, CISSP 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Following up on my previous Email, I (finally) found the trouble shooting guide on the FAQ , and I have located what may be the problems in my installation: ns.ABS-CompTech.com mailman [/home/mailman] /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 89, in ? from Mailman.Handlers import HandlerAPI File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", line 26, in ? from Mailman.pythonlib.StringIO import StringIO ImportError: No module named pythonlib.StringIO Does this follow with the missing Python 2.2 Development RPM (Note that LM 8.2 does not have a Python-development rpm). Do these errors shed any additional light on the matter? -- Albert E. Whale - CISSP http://www.abs-comptech.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ABS Computer Technology, Inc. - ESM, Computer & Networking Specialists Sr. Security, Network, and Systems Consultant Board of Directors - InfraGard - Pittsburgh, PA

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footer
by jsingh 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Which file do I need to tweak in order for me take out the url for list info in the footer of the email ? Thanks jack

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Digest Topic Lists
by Bob Puff＠NLE 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hi Barry and Gang, We're getting closer with the Digest Topic list! It looks better per line, except now there is an extra blank line between each entry, as demonstarted by this latest one: Today's Topics: 1. [Mailman-Users] postfix 2.0 (Dan Phillips) 2. Re: [Mailman-Users] postfix 2.0 (Jon Parise) 3. Re: [Mailman-Users] Additional Mailman 2.1 info (Jon Carnes) 4. Re: [Mailman-Users] All addresses are being bounced... (Jon Carnes) 5. [Mailman-Users] Links for AOHell users? (Todd) 6. [Mailman-Users] bug in creating list via web-admin (Keith Mastin) 7. [Mailman-Users] squirrelmail sends mailman message as attachment (Keith Mastin) 8. Re: [Mailman-Users] bug in creating list via web-admin (Matthew Davis) 9. [Mailman-Users] Partial Restriction (ajit k jena) 10. Re: [Mailman-Users] squirrelmail sends mailman message as attachment (Matthew Davis) There's probably just an extra \n somewhere. Bob

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IRC
by Jim LaSalle 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Is there an IRC for users of this mail list?

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squirrelmail sends mailman message as attachment
by Keith Mastin 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hey all, I'm running mailman-2.1 on a redhat 7.3 box with postfix-1.1.7-2, courier-imap-1.6.2-1.7.3, squirrelmail-1.2.10, php-4.1.2-7.3.6, and python2-2.2.2-3.7.3 When I send a message to the mailman list from SM, the test of the message is in an attachment, not in the text area of the message. When I send a message to the list from pine-4.44-7.73.0, the test of the message shows in the text area of the message. This is a brand new mailman deployment with thousands of potential users and an invite to join the list already sent to a huge announce list, so getting this fixed is critical. I'm curious about the server-side configuration for this list and what the problem could be. Any information needed to debug will be sent on request. Thanks Kindest Regards, Keith Mastin

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Partial Restriction
by ajit k jena 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hi All, Recently Richard Barrett had posted a response to someone about partially restricting the list. The regular expression he had given restricts the members to the domain your.domain.com. I want to expand this a little. I want to reject all subscription requests (as well as postings) from users who donot fall into one of the two possible patterns: user(a)your.domain.com user(a)subdomain.your.domain.com Is such a thing possible ? Please help me out in constructing a regular expression for this check. I am new to Python RE and so I have been struggling with this for a couple of days now. Thanks for your time. --ajit |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Ajit K. Jena Phone : (Office) +91-22-25768750 | | Computer Centre +91-22-25767751 | | Indian Institute of Technology (Home) +91-22-25768068 | | POWAI, Bombay Fax : +91-22-25723894 | | PIN 400076, India Email : ajit(a)cc.iitb.ac.in | |------------------------------------------------------------------|

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bug in creating list via web-admin
by Keith Mastin 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hey all, I was creating a testlist via the web-admin thingy, when I got the following error after hitting the "create list" submit button. No message was sent to me about the new list, even though I requested it. I cross-tested this by using the bin/newlist command, which was successful (no errors) and sent me a message regarding the new list. This seems to be a python permissions problem from the last line of the output. I'm running postfix on a redhat 7.3 box. I'm more than comfortable adding all the lists via command line, but since this come up I guess someone else should know about it. Kind Regards, Keith Mastin ============= Error: 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 "/web/mlib/data/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/web/mlib/data/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/web/mlib/data/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1) File "/web/mlib/data/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 226, in create _update_maps() File "/web/mlib/data/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 47, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /web/mlib/data/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.2.2 (#1, Nov 22 2002, 17:25:34) [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-112)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python2 sys.prefix /usr sys.exec_prefix /usr sys.path /usr sys.platform linux2 Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP_ACCEPT text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1 CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP_REFERER https://www.mcleodlakeindianband.com/mailman/create SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_auth_pam/1.1.1 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 mod_perl/1.26 PYTHONPATH /web/mlib/data/mailman SCRIPT_FILENAME /web/mlib/data/mailman/cgi-bin/create SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)mcleodlake.com SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create SERVER_SIGNATURE REQUEST_METHOD POST HTTP_HOST www.mcleodlakeindianband.com HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300 HTTPS on SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING REQUEST_URI /mailman/create CONTENT_LENGTH 171 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive HTTP_COOKIE testlist+admin=280200000069fc623b3e732800000031656461623332376361316334663639313839313637336464616231326666616533663366666161; members+admin=28020000006994643b3e732800000037356534326339353866386137386363383064336439636430303838303462666331653666393138 SERVER_NAME www.mcleodlakeindianband.com REMOTE_ADDR 216.138.194.32 REMOTE_PORT 63243 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us, en;q=0.50 SERVER_PORT 443 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 SERVER_ADDR 216.113.197.175 DOCUMENT_ROOT /web/mlib/html

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Mailman-Users February 2003