Mailman 3 August 2003 - Mailman-Users

Attachements saved as bin
by Ram Prasad Aug. 4, 2003

Aug. 4, 2003

Hi all My attachements (Msword) to my list are getting saved with .bin extension. I would like to have them saved with the original extensions. How do I do it ..? Thanks - Ram _________________________________________________________________ Go down memory lane. Revisit the cool times. http://www.batchmates.com/msn.asp Reconnect with old friends!

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Customising Languages per Virtual Host
by Amardeo Sarma Aug. 3, 2003

Aug. 3, 2003

Maybe someone knows the solution to this one: I would like to customise different virtual hosts to use different languages when showing the lists available for the virtual host, e.g.: https://lists.engdom.org/mailman/listinfo to show the general text in English, and https://lists.gerdom.org/mailman/ to show the general text in German. Customising each individual list is no problem, nor is the default language. But how does one customise the language of the welcome texts that show the lists available for the virtual host? Amardeo. -- Amardeo Sarma sarma(a)gwup.com

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Analysis of reasons for bounce responses
by Richard Barrett Aug. 3, 2003

Aug. 3, 2003

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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"Set date in archive to time resent" gone?
by Andrew Klaassen Aug. 3, 2003

Aug. 3, 2003

In 2.0, there was a 'Set date in archive to when the mail is claimed to have been sent, or to the time we resend it?' option. I can't find it anywhere in 2.1 (2.1.1, to be precise). Where did it go? Thanks. Andrew Klaassen

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OoooOOookay.......
by Glenn Sieb Aug. 2, 2003

Aug. 2, 2003

Mailman-owner(a)host.whitworks.com said: > 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 > Mailman-owner(a)host.whitworks.com. Errr?? Who's "whitworks.com" and why are they doing a terrible job of masquerading as the owner of this list? G. --- 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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Mailman Bug?
by Mark Symonds Aug. 2, 2003

Aug. 2, 2003

Hi, Trying to figure this one out. Twice now in the past month, a mailing list has died here. You cannot login to the administrative interface and posts go into into a logjam. >From the logs I see: [root@tx mailman]# tail error NotLockedError: Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): Traceback (innermost last): Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 283, in ? Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): kids = main(lock) Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 262, in main Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): dequeue(root) Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): File "/var/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 184, in dequeue Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): os.unlink(root + '.db') Aug 02 16:38:52 2003 qrunner(28147): OSError : [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/spool/mailman/qfiles/bd017b27880b174879a46d4f624c8e2cce1a5399.db' [root@tx mailman]# and [root@tx mailman]# tail qrunner Aug 02 16:49:02 2003 (28748) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 02 16:50:03 2003 (28820) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 02 16:51:02 2003 (28830) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 02 16:52:02 2003 (28847) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 02 16:53:03 2003 (28905) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 02 16:54:02 2003 (28939) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 02 16:55:04 2003 (29006) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 02 16:56:03 2003 (29123) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 02 16:57:03 2003 (29138) Could not acquire qrunner lock Aug 02 16:58:02 2003 (29145) Could not acquire qrunner lock [root@tx mailman]# ...any ideas? I've been able to get around it by going into /var/spool/mailman/qfiles and deleting what's in there. This "resets" things, but it also results in a few posts getting lost. What would cause it to bail like this? Any other information you need, let me know and I'll post it. -- Mark

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403 Forbidden error accessing public archives
by Pat Holland Aug. 2, 2003

Aug. 2, 2003

I need information about the 403 Forbidden error. I tried to submit secure information and got this message. Does that me the information was received. I really need to know as I found out the sender was fraudulent and if my information was sent I am the victim of identity theft. Thanks, Pat

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Mailman Looping
by Marc Perkel Aug. 2, 2003

Aug. 2, 2003

Mailman started looping - using up a lot of processor and resources. I ran an strace and this is what it's doing. What do I have messed up? It's very busy doing nothing. munmap(0x401bc000, 4096) = 0 unlink("/etc/mailman/qfiles/out/1059668916.586032+8c61dda9317d5ea99d9c330ae73482eaede0d693.db") = 0 open("/etc/mailman/qfiles/out/1059668916.586032+8c61dda9317d5ea99d9c330ae73482eaede0d693.pck", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 6 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0660, st_size=1608, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x401bc000 read(6, "(cMailman.Message\nUserNotificati"..., 4096) = 1608 unlink("/etc/mailman/qfiles/out/1059668916.586032+8c61dda9317d5ea99d9c330ae73482eaede0d693.pck") = 0 close(6) = 0 munmap(0x401bc000, 4096) = 0 stat64("/usr/mailman/messages/en_US.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", 0xbfffee80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/mailman/messages/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", 0xbfffee80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/mailman/messages/en.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", 0xbfffee80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat64("/usr/mailman/messages/en/LC_MESSAGES/mailman.mo", 0xbfffee80) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) gettimeofday({1059841437, 482524}, NULL) = 0 gettimeofday({1059841437, 482615}, NULL) = 0 umask(07) = 0 open("/etc/mailman/qfiles/out/1059668916.586032+3fe9305e11f8dcd259ddd30b1fc9f6e7cdb340fb.pck", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 6 umask(0) = 07 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0660, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x401bc000 write(6, "(cMailman.Message\nUserNotificati"..., 1608) = 1608 close(6) = 0 munmap(0x401bc000, 4096) = 0 umask(07) = 0 open("/etc/mailman/qfiles/out/1059668916.586032+3fe9305e11f8dcd259ddd30b1fc9f6e7cdb340fb.db.tmp", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 6 umask(0) = 07 fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0660, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x401bc000 write(6, "{s\4\0\0\0langs\2\0\0\0ens\10\0\0\0listnames\n"..., 426) = 426 close(6) = 0 munmap(0x401bc000, 4096) = 0

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reply-to?
by Schwarzenberg, Weiffenbach Aug. 2, 2003

Aug. 2, 2003

hi, i just installed mailman 2.1.2. because of problems with my old 2.0.? version. in this new version there is one thing i don't understand: if i switch on the anonymous_list feature and additionalö define an EXPLICIT reply_to_address, in the messages from that list appears a repüly-to with BOTH the list-address and the 'explicit' reply-to address in it. this ist no good. i there a way to get mailman to use only the reply_to_address? please send a copy of your answer to my email address. thanks, u. --- The Thing, http://www.thing.de Ulf Schleth, Rosenthaler Str. 39, D-10178 Berlin fon +49-30-44650705 fax +49-30-44650704

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I guess it's my week for problems, sorry :(
by Glenn Sieb Aug. 2, 2003

Aug. 2, 2003

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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