Mailman 3 January 2004 - Mailman-Users

Bug in Mailman version 2.1.3.htm
by Michael P. Kolotila, Ph.D. 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi; I have received this page of error messages. Other notable item is /usr/local is full. I don't know what I can safely delete or dev/null. Please advise. TIA Michael Michael P. Kolotila Programmer/System Analyst ACIS Northern Essex Community College Haverhill, MA 01830 e-mail mkolotila(a)necc.mass.edu phone 978-556-3747 fax 978-556-3155

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Need help diagnosing bounce processing and logging problems
by Dave Fisher 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi, A few of my list members are failing to receive the occasional posting. I'd really like to look at the individual bounce/error messages sent back, to diagnose where the problem might lie. The list is very small, so I'm not at all worried about being bombarded with vast numbers of MAILER-DAEMON messages. I thought of turning off bounce_processing, but when I went to do so I found the admin page saying: "By setting this value to No, you disable all automatic bounce processing for this list, however bounce messages will still be discarded so that the list administrator isn't inundated with them" That does _not_ sound like what I want, unless I've misunderstood the type of message being referred to here. Is it only referring to Mailman's own bounce messages, i.e. not to list members' mail server messages? I want to see _all_ the delivery error messages that my members' mail servers may be generating, but I haven't received a single such message as the list administrator. From what I can tell from the terse mailman bounce log, the automatic bounce processing does seem to be successfully managing most problems, so I don't want to turn it off unless that will help me get to the information I need. I can't find any relevant bounce messages in my MTA's (Exim) logs. It's entirely probable that I can't find the relevant error messages, because I've made a mistake somewhere in configuring Mailman and Exim to work together, but I'm at a loss as to where to start fixing it. From what I can see, Exim simply uses /etc/aliases lines to pipe all admin messages to /var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman on Debian, but I've no idea what Mailman does with them after that. Any help in understanding how error logging and bounce processing work between the two apps would be gratefully received. Dave

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multiple (virtual) domains
by michael＠offroadgeek.com 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hello - I seem to be having trouble with my mailman install. We have a single mailman install on a server with multiple domains. When I go into the list admin (general) page for any list on the server, it shows scighera.badgerracing.com for host_name. I've changed this to zaurususergroup.com (for the list that I'd like to have for that site). But when I test subscribing to the site, I don't receive a confirmation email, nor do I see my address in the membership management page. Here's my setup: mailman 2.14 sendmail 8.12.10 slackware 9 I've been reading as much as I can on the FAQs and documentation that I can find. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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Subscription/UnSubscription withoug a password
by Andrew Stebakov 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi, I was wondering if it's ever possible in mailman not to use any password when the user subscribes or unsubscribes? If no, what's the reason for that? I've seen many newsletters subscription that didn't require a password. A confirmation email/click should be just enough to subscribe, same goes for unsubscribe. Thanks, Andrew --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

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administrivia not working
by George Andrews 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi, I have checked the appropriate box under General Options for the administrivia filter. Is there a trigger word list somewhere to edit? Am I out of sync with another group of settings. perhaps? Thank you in advance. Jane version 2.1.2 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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"Error: Unknown virtual host" when creating a new list
by Andrew Stebakov 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hello, I can create a new list using the newlist command (mailman v 2.1.4), but when I go to the web interface with http://mydomain.com/mailman/create, type in all the info, the I have the result as "Error: Unknown virtual host: mydomain.com". Could anyone shed some light on this? Thanks a lot! Andrew --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

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Member Options Page
by Hannes Calitz 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi I don't know if anyone can help, but when I edit the Member Options HTML page, everything displays fine. For 10 minutes that is. After that, if I go check, it has reverted back to the original page. When I go to the edit page to change it again, it is still how I left it. Then if I click the "Submit your changes" button, and check the page, it is how I changed it, albeit for only 10 minutes. Any help would be greatly appreciated. PLEEEEEEAAAAASE!!! Tx Hannes

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locks
by Brian Haines 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I am very new to all of this including using Mailman, Linux, Sendmail, etc... I have Mialman 2.0.13-1 on Red Hat Linux using Sendmail as the MTA. It has worked a few times, but right now when I send my announcement it fails. Why I don't know but here are some things I can see: There are files in the /var/mailman/locks folder called qrunner.lock and qrunner.lock.www.domain.name. When I delete them and refresh the list I can briefly see listname.lock and listname.lock.www.domain.name and the above, but the listname items disappear after a few minutes. Here is the TOP output. I don't know what else to look for. Nothing is going out anywhere. 20010 root 16 0 696 696 600 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 CROND 20012 mailman 15 0 35840 35M 1612 S 0.0 6.9 0:07 /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/qrunner 20114 root 16 0 696 696 600 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 CROND 20115 mailman 15 0 35840 35M 1612 S 0.0 6.9 0:06 /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/qrunner 20130 root 16 0 696 696 600 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 CROND 20131 mailman 15 0 35840 35M 1612 S 0.0 6.9 0:06 /usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/qrunner 20224 root 16 0 2300 2296 1636 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 sendmail: server [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] child wait 20225 root 15 0 3060 3056 1664 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 sendmail: i0UDC4e20225 [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: rcpt TO:<EMAIL(a)DOMAIN.NAME> 20279 root 16 0 2300 2296 1636 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 sendmail: server [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] child wait 20297 root 16 0 2300 2296 1636 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 sendmail: server [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] child wait 20298 root 15 0 2528 2524 1664 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 sendmail: i0UDGfe20298 [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: rcpt TO:<EMAIL(a)DOMAIN.NAME> 20299 root 16 0 2300 2296 1636 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 sendmail: server [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] child wait 20300 root 15 0 2564 2560 1664 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 sendmail: i0UDGoe20300 [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: rcpt TO:<EMAIL(a)DOMAIN.NAME> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is our IP address. I mention this because we are using something else I am unfamiliar with called IPTables to assign the outgoing mail to one of our other IP addresses like so: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 25 -j SNAT --to-source xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I don't even know enough to know if xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in TOP should be our IP or the receiving server IP. I do appreciate any hep at all. Brian

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re: Member Options Page
by Lee 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

hello, I was just thinking about your message - make sure you have (all) cookies enabled in your browser, for your changes to work. lee --------------- Hi I don't know if anyone can help, but when I edit the Member Options HTML page, everything displays fine. For 10 minutes that is. After that, if I go check, it has reverted back to the original page. When I go to the edit page to change it again, it is still how I left it. Then if I click the "Submit your changes" button, and check the page, it is how I changed it, albeit for only 10 minutes. Any help would be greatly appreciated. PLEEEEEEAAAAASE!!! Tx Hannes ___________________________________________________________ BT Yahoo! Broadband - Free modem offer, sign up online today and save £80 http://btyahoo.yahoo.co.uk

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Problems with newlist command
by Andrew Stebakov 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Hello, I just installed mailman 2.1 from the source. Now when I try to use newlist "test" command it says that test@MyDomain is illegal. I checked Mailman/mm_cfg.py for the default domain. It points to the right domain. Looks like mm_cfg.py settings are not being used by newlist command. Please, any suggestions! Thanks, Andrew __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

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