Mailman 3 August 2003 - Mailman-Users

Keeping process count low
by Amardeo Sarma Aug. 6, 2003

Aug. 6, 2003

Hi, since a larger number of lists are hosted on our server, I am running into a problem with the number of processes on the server, which is limited. I get a number Is it a way out to set some limit on: SMTP_MAX_SESSIONS_PER_CONNECTION or MAX_DELIVERY_THREADS Any other suggestions to keep the number of concurrent processes down, even if delivery takes a bit longer? Typical errors I get are: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces abc" (reason: 2) (expanded from: <abc-bounces(a)xyz.tld>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 2 It seems to me that this indicates that the maximum number of allowed processes has been exceeded. Amardeo. -- Amardeo Sarma sarma(a)gwup.com

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Upgrade from Mailman 2.1.1 -> 2.1.2
by Jan Banan Aug. 6, 2003

Aug. 6, 2003

Hi, I'm quite new to Mailman and for some time ago installed Mailman 2.1.1 . Now I think it's time to upgrade to 2.1.2 :-) I looked at mailman-2.1.2/UPGRADING but couldn't find anything about going from 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 . So I made a new clean installation av 2.1.2 beside 2.1.1 and compared them. It seems like there is a new file data/sitelist.cfg that was not available in 2.1.1 . How should I treat that file? I suppose I should keep it in that directory. Also I saw you have changed alot options in Mailman/Defaults.py like 1/0 to instead Yes/No so I made the appropriate changes to my Mailman/mm_cfg.py . As to what I can see it looks like I only need to keep one file (Mailman/mm_cfg.py) and these six directories: archives data lists locks logs qfiles Also I see the file data/last_mailman_version ... should I use the one from 2.1.1 or 2.1.2 when I move to 2.1.2 ? When I tested to keep the one from 2.1.1 then Mailman didn't do anything to that file even after I started 2.1.2 (it is still the same as from 2.1.1). Thanks for your answers. Regards, Jan

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Python error message...
by Christian Schoepplein Aug. 5, 2003

Aug. 5, 2003

Hi! Yesterday I upgrated python 2.2 to 2.3 on our mailinglistserver. Now I get some python errors: as-2:/usr/lib/mailman/bin # ./config_list -o xyz as-news /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/korean/c/euc_kr.py:24: RuntimeWarning: Python C API v ersion mismatch for module _koco: This Python has API version 1012, module _koco has version 1011. import _koco /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/japanese/c/euc_jp.py:3: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module _japanese_codecs: This Python has API version 1012, module _japanese_codecs has version 1011. import codecs, japanese.c._japanese_codecs as-2:/usr/lib/mailman/bin # Allthog I don't have any Japanese or Korean lists on my server, I'd like to correct this errors. How can I do this? Ciao, Schoeppi -- Christian Schoepplein | Beste Rockband der Welt: http://www.lily-rockt.de mail(a)schoeppi.net | Linux fuer Blinde: http://www.blinux.suse.de

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changed domains, need to change list url
by Kirk R. Wythers Aug. 5, 2003

Aug. 5, 2003

I need to change the url on a list (we have switched domains and I want the list web pages to reflect that change). I have tried the fix_url.py script, but it just wants to set the list url to the name of the local_host (probably getting it from uname or something). I have changed 'ServerName' in httpd.conf to the new domain name, also changed DEFAULT_HOST_NAME in mm_cfg.py. What else needs to be done so that fix_url can change the list url? Thanks, Kirk

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Re: [Mailman-Users] changed domains, need to change list url
by Todd Aug. 5, 2003

Aug. 5, 2003

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Kirk, Reply to the list. That way more folks can take a stab at offereing help and then others can benefit from the answers if they search the archives. Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > Sorry to be such a ditz... I tried changing mm_cfg.py to this: > > > DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'neighborsunited.net' > DEFAULT_URL = 'http://www.neighborsunited.net' > MAILMAN_OWNER = 'mailman-owner@%s' % DEFAULT_HOST_NAME > add_virtualhost(neighborsunited.net, neighborsunited.net) > > must be right... when I run mailmanctl restart I get: > > lorax[/usr/local/mailman/bin]$ ./mailmanctl restart > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "./mailmanctl", line 105, in ? > from Mailman import mm_cfg > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 49, in ? > add_virtualhost(neighborsunited.net, neighborsunited.net) > NameError: name 'neighborsunited' is not defined > lorax[/usr/local/mailman/bin]$ You want to literally use: add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) I think (and someone more knowledgeable will correct me if I'm wrong here, I hope), that you could use neighborsunited.net in the add_virtualhost function if you quoted it. So this *should* work as well: add_virtualhost('neighborsunited.net', 'neighborsunited.net') - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ============================================================================ Some people are like Slinkies... not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iD8DBQE/L/Pluv+09NZUB1oRAmuaAKDBZ3WW0jnmDjTMfaxFI7yBxT3uXACgiwa6 GYD3xnq12mE28KSEBu6InU0= =zOI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Charset conversion
by Christian Schoepplein Aug. 5, 2003

Aug. 5, 2003

Hello! I'm using mailman 2.1.2 that uses AFAIK email 2.5.1 for messageprocessing. However, I have a problem with some emails in mailmanlists :-(. If the listlanguage is set to German (iso-8859-1) and a message is posted with this characterset to a list, everything works fine. If the posters use another characterset I get multiparted messages..., messages with attachments. For example a poster uses 7bit us-ascii in its mailer, in my lists appears a message with tow parts: The text from the poster in us-ascii and the listsignature in iso-8859-1. Such a meeeage looks like this: ----- >From lh2-bounces(a)test.dom Sat Aug 2 15:49:00 2003 Return-Path: <lh2-bounces(a)test.dom> X-Original-To: test(a)toshiba.schoeppi Delivered-To: test(a)toshiba.schoeppi Received: from toshiba.schoeppi (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by toshiba.schoeppi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621DC1047B; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 15:48:58 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-To: lh2(a)test.dom Delivered-To: lh2(a)test.dom Received: by toshiba.schoeppi (Postfix, from userid 503) id F247F109C0; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 15:48:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 15:48:56 +0200 From: Christian Schoepplein <test(a)toshiba.schoeppi> To: lh2(a)test.dom Message-ID: <20030802134856.GE3587@toshiba> Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: [Lh2] test X-BeenThere: lh2(a)test.dom X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: <lh2(a)test.dom> List-Id: <lh2.test.dom> List-Unsubscribe: <http://localhost/mailman/listinfo/lh2>, <mailto:lh2-request@test.dom?subject=unsubscribe> List-Post: <mailto:lh2@test.dom> List-Help: <mailto:lh2-request@test.dom?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://localhost/mailman/listinfo/lh2>, <mailto:lh2-request@test.dom?subject=subscribe> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============64836026195830321==" Sender: lh2-bounces(a)test.dom Errors-To: lh2-bounces(a)test.dom [-- Anhang #1 --] [-- Typ: text/plain, Kodierung: 7bit, Größe: 0,1K --] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline messagetext [-- Anhang #2 --] [-- Typ: text/plain, Kodierung: quoted-printable, Größe: 0,1K --] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline -- listfooter ----- My idea was to convert messages, that are not written with charset iso-8859-1 into this characterset. Most users are using charset windows-1252 in their mailers or their operatingsystem... So a big help would allready be, if windows-1252 is converted into iso-8859-1. I tryed to set this up with the email-pakage by editing the file Carset.py, but I had no sugces :-(. Is it possible to do such a conversion with email and how do I have to set this up? Allthough I don't know if my idea is good and mailman will do things right after changing the configuration of email, I'd like to have a try... Have yo heard of this problems and do you konw a better solution? Thanks and best regards, Schoeppi -- Christian Schoepplein | Beste Rockband der Welt: http://www.lily-rockt.de mail(a)schoeppi.net | Linux fuer Blinde: http://www.blinux.suse.de

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mm_cfg.py
by david.gordon Aug. 5, 2003

Aug. 5, 2003

I've just updated to MM 2.1.2. All now working as expected - thanks to those who helped! I'd like to add personalisation to the mail footer (as this list does). As I understand it I have to edit the mm_cfg.py file. Looking at it, it appears to be an old version from my MM 2.0.x perhaps. Anyway there's no lines about VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = 1 which I expected. I think the mm.cfg.py is not updated - correct? Whatever, do I have a correct version to replace the old one with? What should I be doing? I assume when I find these lines and enable them I'll see a change in the web interface? Thanks -- david.gordon

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Administrative requests for mailing list
by mercenary＠mail.ru Aug. 5, 2003

Aug. 5, 2003

Hello, All, We use Microsoft Outlook as mail client, it place e-mail as "name" <address> or <address> instead adress And mailman generate Administrative requests, that I must approve every time :-( Reason: Message has implicit destination General posting filters Must posts be approved by an administrator? No Restrict posting privilege to list members? No My users is in the "Addresses of members accepted ..." list Please, help. -- Best Regards, BelEuroFreight.com Mail Admin mailto:maillists-admin@beleurofreight.com ICQ# 40912331

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No documentation for ver 2.1-8?
by Mark Champion Aug. 5, 2003

Aug. 5, 2003

I just installed RH9.0 with mailman v 2.1-8. I was surprised to see there is zero documentation. rpm -qdf /var/mailman/bin/newlist returns nothing! I have v 2.0.13 on my RH7.2 system which has a complete directory of documentation in /usr/share/doc/mailman-2.0.13, but there is nothing similar for v 2.1-8. And, I'm having lots of trouble setting it up. I think I have it setup and working, but no messages get sent out - not even to the mail-list administrator. Can somebody point me to any documentation? Mark

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help on converting Lyris archive
by Zhang Qu Aug. 5, 2003

Aug. 5, 2003

Hi,folks Does anyone have experience of converting a Lyris mailing list archive to mailman? I am trying to convert a mailing list from Lyris to Mailman. I used exp-arc.pl(which came with Lyris) to extract archive to a .mbox file and strip those CR/LF. I created a list in mailman with the same name and put this .mbox under archives/private/hdfnet.mbox/hdfnet.box,then I run "arch" command from mailman/bin like this ./arch hdfnet /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/hdfnet.mbox/hdfnet.mbox I got such error message Updating HTML for article 182 Updating index files for archive [2002-December] Date Subject Author Thread Computing threaded index Updating HTML for article 183 Pickling archive state into /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/hdfnet/pipermail.pck Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/arch", line 186, in ? main() File "bin/arch", line 174, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 544, in processUnixMailbox m = mbox.next() File "/usr/lib/python2.2/mailbox.py", line 33, in next return self.factory(_Subfile(self.fp, start, stop)) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 79, in scrubber return mailbox.scrub(msg) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 99, in scrub return self._scrubber(self._mlist, msg) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 132, in process dir = calculate_attachments_dir(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 93, in calculate_attachments_dir datedir = safe_strftime(fmt, now) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 77, in safe_strftime return time.strftime(fmt, floatsecs) TypeError: argument must be 9-item sequence, not None and in mailman web interface, I only got monthly archive up to 2002 Dec. anyone can help me? thanks a lot in advance! -- Best regards, Zhang mailto:zqu@bellanet.org

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