Mailman 3 July 2003 - Mailman-Users

[Fwd: Re: [Mailman-Users] .signature to posts]
by Solignani Tiziano 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

Charles Sebold said: > On 24 Shevat 5762, Clark Cooper wrote: > >> Is there a way in Mailman to append text to each posts as done with a >> .signature file? > > On the web admin interface, go to page "Regular-member (non-digest) > Options" and change the option labeled "Footer added to mail sent to > regular list members". Is that what you were after? > -- > Charles Sebold 25th of Shevat, BTW how can I add taglines, i.e. random strings picked frpm a text file where they lies every one on a separate line. ALmost every list manager has tag lines administration, but I did not find them in mailman... Cheers, ---- Avv. Tiziano Solignani via Bonesi n. 15 - Vignola (MO) tel. 059 76.19.26 - fax 059 77.04.535 mail: solignani(a)solignani.it web: http://www.solignani.it chat: avv_tiziano_solignani(a)hotmail.com PC Open magazine - www.pcopen.agepe.it "rarest jewel is a true heart" -- ---- Avv. Tiziano Solignani via Bonesi n. 15 - Vignola (MO) tel. 059 76.19.26 - fax 059 77.04.535 mail: solignani(a)solignani.it web: http://www.solignani.it chat: avv_tiziano_solignani(a)hotmail.com PC Open magazine - www.pcopen.agepe.it "rarest jewel is a true heart"

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Upgrade hell (Debian)
by Deirdre Saoirse Moen 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Upgrade script broke (not the first time). from Mailman import MailList from Mailman.LockFile import TimeOutError from Mailman.i18n import _ I'm getting error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 51, in ? from Mailman.i18n import _ ImportError: No module named i18n It doesn't balk on the line before, so it doesn't seem to be a path issue. When I comment that line out (for grins), it balks on: from Mailman.Queue.Switchboard import Switchboard from Mailman import OldStyleMemberships from Mailman.MemberAdaptor import BYBOUNCE, ENABLED Any clues? -- _Deirdre http://deirdre.net "Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This....is wrong tool." -- Zathras

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Fixed: Help with mailpasswds error in CRON job
by Tomas 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

I finally figured out my error - The missing configuration was in mm_cfg.py The mailman list was not defined. All is working now. 73 de Tomas, NW7US (AAR0JA/AAM0EWA) -- : Propagation Editor, CQ/PopComm Magazines : http://hfradio.org/ : : Brinnon, Washington 122.93W 47.67N : CW SSB DIGITAL DX-Hunting : : A creator of solutions -- http://accessnow.com/ -- Perl Rules! : : Washington State MARS Emergency Operations Officer - (AAM0EWA) : : WA State Army MARS Webmaster for http://wa.mars.hfradio.org/ : : 10x56526, FISTS 7055, FISTS NW 57, A.R. Lighthouse Society 144 :

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list of python variables for use in headers/footers
by Russell Uman 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

howdy. is there a list anywhere of variables that can be used in the headers and footers? i'm trying include the email address of the recipient in the footer... thanks!

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Translation Problems Fixed
by Michael 'Moose' Dinn 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

I had written earlier: > I'm hoping someone's seen this before - when I go to admin.cgi/listname, I > get a 500 Internal Server Error. From using strace, this appears to be due > to translations: > > 26862 stat("/home/mailman/messages/en_US.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", > 0xbfffef8c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 26862 stat("/home/mailman/messages/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", > 0xbfffef8c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 26862 stat("/home/mailman/messages/en.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", > 0xbfffef8c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) > 26862 stat("/home/mailman/messages/en/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", > {st_mode=S_ISUID|S_ISGID|0502000712, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 > 26862 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- > 26857 <... read resumed> "", 4096) = 0 > 26857 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) --- > > Anyone seen this before? Slackware version 7.0.0, libc-2.1.2... > Upgrading glibc to the lastest release version fixed the problem completely. -- Michael 'Moose' Dinn, Twisted Pair Network Consulting Incorporated dinn(a)twistedpair.ca // 902 423 4700 (voice) // 902 423 8407 (fax) Colocate your server in our underground bunker!

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security on an announce-only list
by Jeroen Valcke 07 Aug '03

07 Aug '03

Hello, I created an announce-only list. To do this in 'Privacy section' I set the moderation on, the poster receives a rejection notice which explains that this is an announce-only list. In 'membership management' I disabled moderation for people who should be able to send msgs to the list. There is however a potential problem with this approach. Suppose that the pc of one of these authorized posters gets infected with a virus. The virus could propagate on the list. Or somebody could pretend to be an authorized posters by spoofing the from address and the msg would be distributed on the list. I would like to activate an alternate moderation action for the members who are allowed to post to the list. However I don't immediately see a way to implement this. Any ideas? How are you handling this? Thanks in advance, Best regards, -Jeroen- -- Jeroen Valcke sst(a)belnet.be jeroen.valcke(a)belnet.be

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new install question
by Ivan Dimitrov 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Hi list I've been trying to install mailman-2.1.2 following the INSTALL file and at configuring the list I've created here is the message I got: [root@phtest1.bastun.net]:/usr/local/mailman# bin/config_list -i data/sitelist.cfg mailman Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/config_list", line 339, in ? main() File "bin/config_list", line 334, in main do_input(listname, infile, checkonly, verbose) File "bin/config_list", line 240, in do_input mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=not checkonly) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 122, in __init__ self.Lock() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 159, in Lock self.Load() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 613, in Load self.CheckValues() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 644, in CheckValues if '' in urlparse(self.web_page_url)[:2]: File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urlparse.py", line 53, in urlparse tuple = urlsplit(url, scheme, allow_fragments) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/urlparse.py", line 83, in urlsplit i = url.find(':') AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find' Can You please help me fix the problem. Thanks in advance -- Hi! I'm your friendly neighbourhood signature virus. Copy me to your signature file and help me spread!

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Analysis of reasons for bounce responses
by Richard Barrett 03 Aug '03

03 Aug '03

This is not my problem but one soemone approached me about off list. I'll summarise their situation and I would appreciate any thoughts, comments, sanity checking on my analysis. Situation: 1. List admin's domain is hosted by a server run by a hosting company. 2. The server is (probably) running Linux 3. Mailman 2.1.2 is provided on the server with, I believe, CPanel 4. The server's MTA appears to be Exim 4.20 handling both incoming and outgoing messages to/from Mailman 5. Mailman list's basically work OK much of the time 6. Periodically messages out from Mailman are being bounced en masse leading to the subscriber accounts being disabled 7. The bounce response attached to the bounce action notice produced by Mailman when subscribers are disabled in these circumstances is from the server local MTA. The MTA lists what appears to be all the addresses to which the outgoing message was sent with a note against each saying "unrouteable mail domain maildomain.tld". The bounce response asserts that this is a permanent failure. The messages are each being sent to a number of different mail domains not just a single one 8. The list admin with the problem has no access to either the Mailman or MTA logs 9. The server administrator is supposedly claiming that these bounces are a result of "a bug in Mailman for which no patch is available" My analysis is: 1. The problem is not obviously due to any bug in Mailman 2. The problem is more likely due to an IP routing problem which periodically afflicts the server and its ability to reach the MTAs for the mail domains addressed by the outgoing messages 3. The MTA is accepting the outgoing messages from Mailman and then finding it has problems of its own in delivering mail which are unrelated to Mailman as the origin of the messages But I have to concede I know nothing about Exim 4.20. I know even less about CPanel. Any thoughts or anatomically feasible suggestions welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Richard Barrett http://www.openinfo.co.uk

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I guess it's my week for problems, sorry :(
by Glenn Sieb 02 Aug '03

02 Aug '03

When I search two lists, I get this error: (Note: htdig is working for other lists just fine, just not *these two* lists...) htdig Archives Access Failure The requested list cannot be accessed. list:list.htsearch If you want to make another attempt to access a list archive then go via the list users information page. If this problem persists then please e-mail the following information to the mailman(a)lists.wingfoot.org: https://www.wingfoot.org/mailman/private/list/ /mailman/mmsearch/list Again, I run FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE, MM 2.1.2, Postfix 2.0.10, postfix-to-mailman.py (for 2.1), and Apache 1.3.27 w/mod_perl. I did the following steps: 1) check_perms -f (didn't find anything) 2) went to /usr/local/mailman/archives/private and did: chown -R mailman:mailman * 3) Restarted apache, same error 4) did /usr/local/mailman/bin/blow_away_htdig -v list 5) posted to list 6) did /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig -v list 7) restarted apache (for good measure), same error I have a /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/htsearch.. it works for other lists.. :-/ If I just go to the archives and click "Search" on these broken lists, I get: htdig Archives Access Failure CGI problem. -5-Field count -4- fields: method,format,sort,config If you want to make another attempt to access a list archive then go via the list users information page. If this problem persists then please e-mail the following information to the mailman(a)lists.wingfoot.org: https://www.wingfoot.org/mailman/private/list/ /mailman/mmsearch/list I even found an obscure reference and did the following: for list in `./list_lists | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v 50`; do ./withlist -l -r fix_url $list;done That also didn't fix it.. :-/ This is happening in both Mozilla and IE on my system... Help? *makes offers of chocolate* Thanks in advance, Glenn --- The original portions of this message are the copyright of the author (c)1998-2002 Glenn E. Sieb. ICQ UIN: 300395 IRC Nick: Rainbear "All acts of Love and Pleasure are Her rituals"-Charge of the Goddess

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Edit rejection notice text
by Todd Felmly 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

Is there a way to edit the text contained in _non-member_ rejection notices? I.e., if a non-member posts to a list and the Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined setting is set for reject, this is what the user gets: "You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at xxx(a)dom.ain." Where is this template at? I've searched through the archives/en directory and can't find it. Thanks! Todd

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