Mailman 3 August 2003 - Mailman-Users

mailman won't send out mail
by Justin Rush 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

Hi, I am trying to get mailman working on my new redhat 9 servers and mailman refuses to send out mail. I tried copying my mailman directory from the working server (running redhat 7.3), but that didn't work. I also tried installing the newest rpm 2.1-8. I see in the maillog that it does recieve the mail: Jul 31 09:12:36 hundo sendmail[20921]: h6VECahH020921: from=<jrush(a)somedomain.org>, size=866, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<Pine.LNX.4.44.0307310927460.24367-100000(a)xuthus.somedomain.org>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mail.scout.wisc.edu [144.92.170.199] Jul 31 09:12:36 hundo sendmail[20922]: h6VECahH020921: to="|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post test", ctladdr=<test(a)hundo.scout.wisc.edu> (8/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, pri=31090, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent However, nothing follows after that line. Sendmail will work just fine if I telnet to it and send mail, so mailman must be the problem. Does anyone have any ideas? -- Justin Rush Technical Specialist Internet Scout Project jrush(a)scout.wisc.edu

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Weird Triple post problems
by J C Lawrence 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 06:41:05 -0700 Heather J Lubinsky <heather(a)pcgal.com> wrote: > She has sent me the emails and they are all identical. Were they identical down to the exact content of the all Received headers? -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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Weird Triple post problems
by Heather J. Lubinsky 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

I have an earthlink user. She belongs to several of our lists but one of our lists - gives her 3 posts. I recently had her unsubscribe and subscribe a hotmail account - she had no problems. So she resubscribed and she even received 3 confirmation requests. When she gets the posts whether digest or standard she gets 3 of them - but only with the one list. At first I thought it was at her end like downloading problems - but it is always 3 and only with this one list. I mean even her confirmation to subscribe was 3 of them. She has sent me the emails and they are all identical. No one else on the list seems to have this problem - does anyone have any ideas of log files to check or anything that might account for this? Like I said it is only this one user on this one list even the user doesn't have problems on our other lists and they are identical setups (at least I think they are) Oh and originally it was NOT happening to her when she signed up but at one point she started getting the problem it has never gone away and it is with EVERY post from ONLY that list. Even having her unsubscribe for 3 weeks and using another account did not work. Heather Lubinsky heather(a)pcgal.com

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Help with installation of mailman
by Darryl Cook 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

I didnt get any replies the first time so Ill post once more in hope that someone can provide some insight to the problem.......... Im trying to install mailman on a Compaq ES40 running Tru64 5.1b. I have installed it successfully on a linux box but cant get it to run on my production box which is the Tru64 box. Apache 2.0.46 is running fine and mailman compiled fine. Ive made all the changes to the httpd.conf file in regard to the cgi scriptalias so it knows where the pages are. I created a new test mailing list and did get an email telling me where to go to etc etc. When I point the web browser there though I get the following: ******* Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webmaster(a)cs.appstate.edu and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. ******* When I look at the log file it says: Premature end of script headers: admin any ideas appreciated........

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Re: [Mailman-Users] I guess it's my week for problems, sorry :(
by Richard Barrett 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

Begin forwarded message: > From: Richard Barrett <r.barrett(a)openinfo.co.uk> > Date: Fri Aug 1, 2003 7:45:31 am Europe/London > To: "Glenn Sieb" <ges+lists(a)wingfoot.org> > Cc: mailman-users(a)python.org > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] I guess it's my week for problems, sorry > :( > > > On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 04:33 am, Glenn Sieb wrote: > >> Richard Barrett wrote: >> >>> I suggest you try the following procedure for the two problem list: >> >> Hey Richard... as always, I appreciate your efforts :) I did what you >> outlined, but it didn't work :( >> >>> Were you originally running a version of the htdig integration patch >> earlier than that installed by htdig-2.1.1-0.2.patch? If so this may >> be >> the cause of problems with archived lists created under that earlier >> regime. The upgrade issue was covered in the INSTALL.htdig-mm file for >> htdig-2.1.1-0.2.patch or later and I am wondering if you have tripped >> over this issue. >> >> Correct, I was running the htdig-2.1-0.1.patch. >> >> Unfortunately, now none of my searchables are working. Archiving seems >> fine, but searching any list is producing (given a blank search term): >> >> htdig Archives Access Failure >> >> CGI problem. -5-Field count -4- fields: method,format,sort,config >> > OK. I just got onto a system with search integration installed. You will get this if you did not enter any words to search for on the search form. The browser does not transmit the 'words' field in the CGI request if the field is empty. I will look at a revision for the patch to produce a more user friendly response about missing search-for words to deal with this situation. > The error response is saying that a field in the search form that > mmsearch.py insists be present is missing. > > The required fields are called: 'method', 'format', 'sort', 'config' > and 'words'. > > The 'words' field appears to be missing, this being the text field in > which the words to be sought are entered on the form. > > The template for the search form is in templates/en/TOC_htsearch.html. > > The default value for the words field is the empty string with the tag > for the field defined as 'input type="text" size="30" name="words" > value=""' > > Take a look at the HTML form definition source of a list TOC page for > a list that is suffering this problem and compare it with > templates/en/TOC_htsearch.html. > > This may give some clue as to the cause of this problem. > > The blow_away_htdig etc routine I described and as described in > INSTALL.htdig-mm should renew per-list search forms from the > TOC_htsearch.html template. > > Let me know how you get on. > >> 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/pipermail/listname/ >> /mailman/mmsearch/listname >> >>> The major change introduced by htdig-2.1.1-0.2.patch was that >>> htsearch >> is not called directly by the search forms. For security reason a CGI >> called mmsearch is called which in turn uses htsearch. This is >> described >> in INSTALL.htdig-mm >> >> *nod* I see that... nifty :) >> >> Again, thank you for your help... :) >> Glenn >> >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Barrett http://www.openinfo.co.uk

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cannot strip html, here are my settings.
by schuetzen 01 Aug '03

01 Aug '03

****ok, the html did not get stripped off as seen below. Message snip>=========== 3. Go the extra mile ... drive home in the dark. Oh, and put off buying a television set as long as you can. Now, if you have any idea at all what's good for you, you will get the hell out of here and never come back. Class dismissed. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <TABLE id=INCREDIMAINTABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0> excerpt snip>=========== ***headers of message are Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail2.aus1.texas.net id h710Ljj00314 ***even with my ISP converting it still left the html code ***here are the settings from my list's content filter box Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the settings below? (Edit filter_content) No X Yes Remove message attachments that have a matching content type. (Details for filter_mime_types multipart/mixed multipart/alternative image jpeg gif html .*octet .*oda .*audio .*image .*alternative .*digest .*mixed .*related .*rich .*html .*video .*vcf .*dat ***and for the Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. Leave this field blank to skip this filter test. (Details for pass_mime_types text/plain multipart/mixed multipart/alternative ===== Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? This conversion happens after MIME attachments have been stripped. (Edit convert_html_to_plaintext) YES ***and under Pass filters, only text/plain is left in the box what is set wrong?? chas

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