Mailman 3 April 2003 - Mailman-Users

[Mailman-Users] Problem with multiple subscription confirmation messages
by S. Krishnan 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

Hi, I just upgraded my mailman 2.0.13 install to 2.1.1 by downloading and installing from source. The previous version worked fine. However, 2.1.1 has a major issue with subscription messages. Every time someone subscribes to a list, mailman sends them a mailing list subscription confirmation notice. With mailman 2.1.1, replying to this notice does not seem to work. Instead of confirming the subscription, it sends *another* mailing list subscription confirmation notice, with a different number. Replying to this results in yet another subscription confirmation notice! However, subscription confirmation off the web page works OK. It is only the confirmation by reply to the notice that is broken. Could someone please help? TIA, Krishnan

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Problems with large list
by Leonardo Sá 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

Hi everyone, I'm running mailman with a list of more than 15000 subscribers. The problem is that i can't log into the web admin interface and i also can't subscribe any new user throught the web, although the lists that have less users can be easly managed. I've checked the apache configuration and it seems to be ok (otherwise, the other lists would not be working). Rebuilding the list from scratch also didn't work, and i do have 401mb ram that i think is enough for this kind of job. Only the big list is not working through the web. Any suggestions? -- Regards, Leonardo Sá Recife-Brazil _________________________________________________________________ MSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. http://messenger.msn.com.br

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Text encoding issue
by Robert Costain 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

I'm running Mailman 2.1.1 on Mac OS X Server. My lists are primarily English, but a few of them are also in French and even the English ones sometimes have French accented characters. As a result, I would like Mailman to encode all messages as ISO-8859-1. Here's my problem: A few users (particularly one subscriber using Outlook on Windows XP) receive most of the messages as text attachments rather than a message body. Accents were not displaying correctly on the main listinfo page in certain browsers (e.g. Safari, Netscape), so I added the following to the mm_cfg.py file: LC_DESCRIPTIONS['en'] = ('English (USA)', 'iso-8859-1') While this solved the Listinfo page display problem, it caused the attachment problem I am observing now. In playing around with encodings, I tried adding the following to the mm_cfg.py file: DEFAULT_CHARSET = ['iso-8859-1'] VERBATIM_ENCODING = ['iso-2022-jp', 'iso-8859-1'] ...But this did not help. It's not a huge deal, but it is a real pain for the less 'Net savvy subscribers who think that list messages are coming in empty with an attachment (kind of scary for those who are virus-paranoid too.) Thanks in advance for any advice!

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What does this mean???
by Pete Holsberg 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

Suddenly, list_members is not working! --- /home/mailman/bin > ./list_members 4sam Traceback (innermost last): File "./list_members", line 139, in ? main() File "./list_members", line 113, in main mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 62, in __init__ self.Load() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 810, in Load raise Errors.MMBadListError, 'Failed to access config info' MMBadListError: Failed to access config info --- I need to be able to give the sysadm precise instructionson how to fix this. Can anyone help? Thanks.

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List of subscribers
by Pete Holsberg 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

The admin window of my list shows 272 members. However, when I run bin/list_members, the list is only 147. Where did the others go? How do I sync these? There should be 272 members. Thanks.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with large list
by Leonardo Sá 05 Apr '03

05 Apr '03

>On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 03:00:41AM +0000, Leonardo Sá (LS) wrote: >LS> Hi everyone, >LS> >LS> I'm running mailman with a list of more than 15000 subscribers. >LS> The problem is that i can't log into the web admin interface and i also >LS> can't subscribe any new user throught the web, although the lists that >have >LS> less users can be easly managed. > >Do you get an error message? If so, what is it ? > >If not ... can you describe in more detail what happens ? > >Gr, > >Nils. > No, I don´t get any error message. In Internet Explorer, when I click "let me in" on the form, the globe starts to move and the progress bar also starts to increase. But i don´t get nothing, no 404, no error messages... Just a blank page and the progress bar increasing without reach the maximum value. I´ve also tried on other browsers and machines but the same occurs. Note that if I type the wrong password, it goes very fast and show the "authorization failed" in red on the top of the page. Leonardo _________________________________________________________________ MSN Hotmail, o maior webmail do Brasil. http://www.hotmail.com

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by nikos 05 Apr '03

05 Apr '03

Hello there! I have an Red Hat 7,2 linux local server an I install mailman program come with the distribute. Where can I find a good documentation for the configuration and where are the configuration files? Mr Chris Kolar's documentations didn't help my much. Thanx -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Qbit Γατσής Νίκος - Gatsis Nikos Web developer tel.: 2108256721 - 2108256722 fax: 2108256712 email: nikos(a)qbit.gr http://www.qbit.gr

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Re: [Mailman-Users] New Mailman list administrator
by ghhalley 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

Howdy Melissa I'm not positive, but I think this will work. Every web pages is made up of smaller python routines. Your webhost can give you copies of the html pages and probably the python routines. After modifying these files put them in the /lists/listname/en directory. I know this will work for straight HTML replacements and it may work for the smaller python routines. For example, if one list changes its list info page, the changes will be stored in that directory as listinfo.html. When requested for that list, this modified version overrides the system defaults. Maybe the real guru's on this list can give more insight. Peace, G --- 10:58:52 AM, you wrote: > Hello, > My webhost has recently transitioned my majordomo lists to Mailman version > 2.0.13. I have customized the four pages available to me from the > administrative interface to match our website. I would really like to > customize the archive pages as well. > Also, there are numerous other pages that I'd like to customize to match > the UI of the hosting website. The list of subscribers, the results page > for viewing other subscriptions, to name two off the top of my head... > Does anyone know how I can go about doing that without affecting the other > domains using Mailman? > Cheers! > -M > _____________________________ > Melissa Oringer > http://www.tigote.com * http://www.bbzzz.com * http://www.jewitchery.com > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > Mailman-Users(a)python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > This message was sent to: GHHalley(a)earthlink.net > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/ghhalley%40earthlink.n…

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Hotmail problems
by David 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

Dear gurus, My server and my Hotmail subscribers are in a loop right now. They are getting one specific mail posted to a list of mine over and over again. How can I stop this? I'm running Mailman 2.1.1 and Postfix 2.0.4. I have restarted the qrunners and flushed the Postfix mail queue. Please give me some advice how to track down this kind of problem :) Blue Skies, /David

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Using Mailman in a corporate environment with Exchange 5.5...
by jbrouhard＠ci.st-joseph.mo.us 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

Okay, I got myself a problem I need some serious help with. I run various mail servers that run RedHat Linux, and a variety of MTA's (Postfix, Sendmail namely) and some have Mailman on them. They all work wonderfully. However where I work we have an Exchange 5.5 server for our mail, and I've got a problem getting Mailman/Sendmail to work with it. Every time I send an email to a test list (for example, test-l(a)listbox.corporate.net), the Exchange server replies saying "Unknown User" or "Unknown Receipient". Now I have no clue what is causing this, aside from the explaination I've been given: Exchange Server 5.5 strips the "hostname' from the email address: list(a)listbox.corporate.net becomes list(a)corporate.net. The Listbox is running RedHat 8.0, Sendmail, and MailMan 2.0.13 The full error when I try to send from my corporate account is (I have blanked out our listserv's domain for security reasons): Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: test Sent: 4/4/2003 2:23 PM The following recipient(s) could not be reached: 'test-l@xxxxxxx" on 4/4/2003 2:23 PM The recipient name is not recognized The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=us;a= ;p=city of st. jose;l=STJOSEPHMAIL0304042023210THHRM MSEXCH:IMS:City of St. Joseph:CITY:STJOSEPHMAIL 0 (000C05A6) Unknown Recipient If anyone can help out, it'd be appreciated. I've NEVER had these problems with Mailman in the past, and I'm of the opinion it's Exchange. Thanks in advance... --- Joe Brouhard, MCP, A+ Computer Support Technician City of St Joseph jbrouhard(a)ci.st-joseph.mo.us http://www.ci.st-joseph.mo.us

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