Mailman 3 May 2003 - Mailman-Users

Deleting messages held for approval
by Con June 3, 2003

June 3, 2003

Hello Does anyone have a way to mass delete messages held for approval ( without selecting them all individually). Con Wieland

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Weird lock error
by William R. Dickson June 2, 2003

June 2, 2003

Hurm -- I just chmodded the entire archives directory to 777, and the error persists. This has me totally stumped. -Bill On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 04:16 PM, William R. Dickson wrote: > It looked that way to me, too. But the "mailman" user and group owns > the directory, and both user and group have write privs. > > -Bill > > On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 03:13 PM, Jon Carnes wrote: > >> Looks like a permissions problem in the archives: >> /usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/archives/public/ncihc-list >> >> On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:32, William R. Dickson wrote: >>> At least, it looks weird to me. No lockfiles are present. I once >>> had >>> something like this happen with a corrupt .msg file, but I tried >>> removing all files from the qfiles directory, and the problem recurs >>> with all new mail. >>> >>> This began after moving the lists to a new server, running FreeBSD >>> 4.8 >>> rather than 4.4, and Python 2.2.2. I have multiple Mailman >>> installations so I can handle virtual domains (one installation per >>> domain, allows me to have both "foo(a)domain1.com" and >>> "foo(a)domain2.com"); I'm reluctant to upgrade to 2.1.2 until I figure >>> out how the new qrunner scheme is going to work with this setup. >>> Only >>> one of the domains seems to have this problem; the rest are working >>> fine. I've tried reinstalling mailman for this domain, removing >>> lockfiles, removing queue files, removing the archives and creating a >>> new directory, checked permissions on the directories. Any thoughts? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -Bill >>> >>> >>> May 28 14:24:05 2003 (50423) Delivery exception: >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 (50423) Traceback (most recent call last): >>> File >>> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/Mailman/Handlers/HandlerAPI.py", >>> line >>> 82, in do_pipeline >>> func(mlist, msg, msgdata) >>> File >>> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", >>> line >>> 77, in process >>> mlist.Lock() >>> File "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/Mailman/MailList.py", >>> line >>> 1339, in L >>> ock >>> self.__lock.lock(timeout) >>> File "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/Mailman/LockFile.py", >>> line >>> 266, in lo >>> ck >>> raise AlreadyLockedError >>> AlreadyLockedError >>> >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): Traceback (most recent call >>> last): >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): File >>> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/ >>> cron/qrunner", line 283, in ? >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): kids = main(lock) >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): File >>> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/ >>> cron/qrunner", line 264, in main >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): mlist.Save() >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): File >>> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/ >>> Mailman/MailList.py", line 861, in Save >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): self.CheckHTMLArchiveDir() >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): File >>> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/ >>> Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 253, in CheckHTMLArchiveDir >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): breaklink(pubdir) >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): File >>> "/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/ >>> Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 50, in breaklink >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): os.unlink(link) >>> May 28 14:24:06 2003 qrunner(50423): OSError : [Errno 1] Operation >>> not >>> permitte >>> d: '/usr/local/mailman/diversityrx.org/archives/public/ncihc-list' >> >

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PROBLEM with Administrative Requests
by Kory Wheatley June 2, 2003

June 2, 2003

I've sent this email twice and no one has responded to this problem, I would really appreciate a response. I receive this below error when I go into the Administrative Interface and check "Preserve messsages for the site administrator" and then I check the discard option. Once I click submit this is what I receive below. BUG in Mailman version 2.1.1 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 "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 163, in main process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 681, in process_form forward, forwardaddr) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 184, in HandleRequest forward, addr) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 262, in __handlepost msg = cPickle.load(fp) ValueError: could not convert string to float Kory Wheatley

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MySQL?
by Angel Gabriel June 2, 2003

June 2, 2003

I remember reading somewhere that mailman can operate with a MySQL backend? If that is so, they it should be possible to develop a diffrent front end, to interface with users, add users to mailman etc etc. Is there any truth to this??

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upgrade from 2.1beta3 to 2.1 final
by Marius Scurtescu June 1, 2003

June 1, 2003

Hi, I am running Maiman 2.1 beta 3 and I would like to upgrade to the final release. Could someone point me to the proper documentation or just quickly tell me what I need to do? Any information is more than welcome. Thanks, Marius

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VirtualHosting and Mailman
by Ram Prasad June 1, 2003

June 1, 2003

Hi I have installed mailman successfully, and would like to know how I can do virtualhosting... The scenario is: 1) the client wants to have his own listman page ( for the lists of his domain, say, news(a)abc.org) 2) now, since we also run lists for other domains, the address news(a)abc.org is conflicting with news(a)xyz.org. I am using sendmail as my MTA. I would like to know how I can do virtual hosting with mailman. Any pointers to articles on the net is also fine.. Please help Ram Prasad. P http://www.megalinux.net

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Possible bounce processing bug
by Links＠Momsview May 31, 2003

May 31, 2003

I'm running mailman version 2.1.1 I used config_list -i to set a group of lists to bounce_processing = 1 bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings = 0 bounce_you_are_disabled_warnings_interval = 0 I then verified thru the gui that these values were set properly AND used config_list -o to again verify the values. However, this morning I noticed that mailman is sending "you are disabled warnings". Many (or possibly all) of these addresses had received bounces before this configuration change. Prior to this config change the lists WERE set to send "you are disabled warnings". Why is this list setting not operating correctly? Any help is appreciated.

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Using Mailman with httpd listening to ports other than the default of 80?
by Dean Hayes May 31, 2003

May 31, 2003

Port 80 is blocked by the cable company. I've been successful in running the apache server on port 2080 to serve up web pages. Is there any way to configure Mailman to build it's internal URLs to append :2080 at the end of the domain name? I tried running configure with the switch --with-urlhost=mydomain:2080 which almost works. When I try to create a list from the web site, the URLs in the pages don't have the port number included which causes an error.

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Mailman 2.1.1/ OpenBSD 3.3 / setgid problems
by Rachel Willmer May 31, 2003

May 31, 2003

I'm trying to install the MailMan 2.1.1 package on OpenBSD 3.3 in the default 'chroot'-ed Apache environment. It looks to me as though the setgid on the cgi scripts isn't working. An example would be, ~mailman/cgi-bin/admin has these permissions: -rwxr-sr-x 1 mailman mailman 41626 Mar 20 07:36 admin Which to my mind means that when this file is executed by the webserver (uid: www, gid: www), that it should take on the group-id bit of the 'admin' program and execute as 'mailman'. But it fails with this error: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/spool/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck' But this file is -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 3338 May 31 05:38 config.pck Has anyone tried this configuration and got it working? Anyone got any pointers? Thanks for any suggestions Rachel

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list naming and admin Q
by Nyx Wolfwalker May 31, 2003

May 31, 2003

Greetings, I have just set up a with a new web hosting company, and mailman is part of the package (which is great). When I used mailman on my previous host the urls for finding the join area and the like was easer for people to find, now for some reason the server i'm using appends an extenion to the group to find it .. such as usergroup_yourdomain.ca Is there a way for me to change this? or is it all on the servers admin side? Also .. is it possible to add multiple admin accounts to a list? or even sub admin accounts that allow a lesser admin (not the god admin) to update, add ppl, etc, but not delete the list or anythng drastic such as that? Well take care and thanks Nyx Wolfwalker Nyxstiium http://www.nyxstium.ca

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