Mailman 3 March 2003 - Mailman-Users

AOL HTML Filtering
by Ken Kyler March 4, 2003

March 4, 2003

Mailman v2.1.1 On the [Content filtering] page... "Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the settings below?" is set to "Yes" "Remove message attachments that have a matching content type." is set to 'image' "Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type." is empty "Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text?" is set to "Yes" Problem: Mail from users of AOL V8 is sent as HTML with Content-Type: multipart/alternative. The … [View More]

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Moderation flag and version 2.0
by Screenwriters Online March 4, 2003

March 4, 2003

"Turn on the moderation flag for all your existing users. Go to the membership management page, and use the Additional Member Tasks to turn on the mod flag for all users." I'm trying to turn off the post to list header in the email. I have not found moderation flag in membership management page in version 2.0 Is it there? I could not find additional member tasks. in v 2.0 , is it there? Would some one kindly tell me how to make a newsletter/announce only list in Mailman Ver 2.0? … [View More]

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New mail server setup
by Steve Huston March 4, 2003

March 4, 2003

I'm setting up a new mail server, and Mailman is one of the softwares installed. Currently I have the defaults set for DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST and DEFAULT_URL_HOST to be the actual hostname of the machine (mercury), but when it goes online there will be an alias which should be used instead (mail). The email_host should actually then point to the domain, not the hostname (ie, astro.princeton.edu instead of mercury.astro or mail.astro). As I've created lists to replace old alias exploders, … [View More]

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Group mismatch error
by James Jones March 4, 2003

March 4, 2003

I have 2.1.1 installed on a RH8 box with Sendmail (sendmail-8.12.8-1.80). I dealt with the smrsh issue by creating a symbolic link in the /etc/smrsh directory. However, I'm not getting this problem. ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mail". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run … [View More]

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Duplicate Welcome messages
by Prem Veeramani March 3, 2003

March 3, 2003

Hi, We subscribed a bunch of people on our list. It looks like each of them received many copies of the welcome message. In the subscriber log , each person has many entries for their email id. Has anyone encountered such a problem. Or any suggestions why this might have happened. Prem.

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compiling mm2.1.1 with sendmail
by Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist March 3, 2003

March 3, 2003

I'm having the devil of a time getting mailman to work with sendmail. It compiles and installs ok but contstantly bickers about Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "other", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "other", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. Details; have mailman account,group, homedir sgid, ./configure --prefix=/… [View More]etc/mailman --with-mail-gid=mailman --with-cgi-gid=mailman make make install cd $PREFIX/bin ./check_perms -f ./check_perms -f first time finds and corrects all the template errors, second runs clean web page is accessible, can create list eg listname mailman but no notification is sent to the list owner ln -s /etc/mailman/mail/mailman /var/adm/sm.bin Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain sm-mta[29735]: [ID 801593 mail.info] h23GvO5302973 5: from=<dave@anotherhost>, size=660, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200303031656.h23 Guc7x027829@anotherhost>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=anotherhost [128.8.120. 201] Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain Mailman mail-wrapper: [ID 702911 mail.error] Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain the system's mail server executed the mail script as Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain group "other". Try tweaking the mail server to ru n the Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid =other'. Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain sm-mta[29736]: [ID 801593 mail.info] h23GvO5302973 5: to="|/etc/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman", ctladdr=<mailman(a)myhost.domain> (1/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=30902, dsn=5.3.0, stat =unknown mailer error 2 Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain sm-mta[29736]: [ID 801593 mail.info] h23GvO5302973 5: h23GvP53029736: DSN: unknown mailer error 2 Mar 3 11:57:25 myhost.domain sm-mta[29736]: [ID 801593 mail.info] h23GvP5302973 6: to=<dave@anotherhost>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=31926, relay=anotherhost. [128.8.120.201], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (h23Gucm8027833 Mes sage accepted for delivery) % ls -l /etc/mailman/mail/mailman -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 25736 Mar 3 11:45 /etc/mailman/mail/mailman Even tried modifying sendmail.cf to use O DefaultUser=mailman but I REALLY don't wanna do that. Tried rebuilding with --with-mail-gid=other. Anyone else come across this? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David Stern University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies [View Less]

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digest log
by Rich Ramos March 3, 2003

March 3, 2003

In mailman 2.1, given a digest number, how can I tell when that specific digest was mailed out? I have the digest number but I can't find a log that tells me when it was sent. The file <mailmanhome>/logs/digest doesn't seem to be used anymore under 2.1. -Rich

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solaris 8 & Mailman
by jsingh March 3, 2003

March 3, 2003

Can anyone tell me if they are having any problems using solaris 8 as their OS and handling approximately 100,000 mails a day. Thanks jack

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Sendmail vulnerability - update now.
by Jon Carnes March 3, 2003

March 3, 2003

http://www.sendmail.org Even older versions of Sendmail apparently need to be patched for this problem... might be a good time to look at Postfix! Wishing you a happy upgrade - Jon Carnes

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First-timer
by Luke Pascoe March 3, 2003

March 3, 2003

I'm setting up Mailman 2.1.1 on my test debian box in preperation for putting it on our live mail server. My MTA is Exim 4.12. I've compiled and installed mailman with no hassles (awesome walk-through setup guide!) and it all seems to be working fine (web interface, command line apps) _except_ that it won't send email. For example if I send an email to mailman-owner(a)mymachine.com I can watch it go through Exim, get piped to /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman like it's supposed to, exim is happy … [View More]

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