Mailman 3 October 2004 - Mailman-Users

" Out of the office " admin / filtering policy question.
by demo Oct. 5, 2004

Oct. 5, 2004

Hi This is really an " Out of the office " admin / filtering question. I wondered what policy folks operated on " Out of the office " bounces. Frankly, I would want to drop their membership on a first offence and have not spent any time exploring the FAQs or any filtering options as I am still working with a lame Apple Mac version. But it does seem to be a good option to include in a next release; " automatically discard Out of the Office messages ". Thanks, MA

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Fwd: Re: [Mailman-Users] yet-another-sendmail-hates-me "list not found" problem
by p e y t o n Oct. 5, 2004

Oct. 5, 2004

all, many thanks for the suggestions. however, the original problem remains unresolved. per the mailer error and confirmed by jim tittsler's post, this is not a sendmail/aliases issue. mailman does not see the list "test" and therefore the "post" script is failing. however, when i execute "list.lists" i get a complete listing of every test list i have created while trying to troubleshoot this issue. unlike my other installations of mailman this situation is unique because i am not … [View More]providing dns for the domain. the host <lists.domain.com> where i want mailman to live is being pointed at me by another server running bind. to complicate matters further i have a single ip i use for all hosts on this machine. while apache is able to do vhosting for me (which is why i can access the admin/listinfo interfaces) i suspect that mailman can't do this. if mailman can't resolve that <lists.domain.com> lives on my machine even though it is defined in mm_cfg.py and via "host" then the only solution is for me to ask my isp to give me another ip. is there a light at the end of this tunnel? do people ever buy beer for the angel on this list that comes through with the right answer? -with kindness and respect, peyton >Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 19:18:15 -0700 >To: Brad Knowles <brad(a)stop.mail-abuse.org>, mailman-users(a)python.org >From: p e y t o n <mmm-mailman(a)peyton.org> >Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] yet-another-sendmail-hates-me "list >not found" problem >Cc: p e y t o n <mmm-mailman(a)peyton.org> > > >brad, > >as the error message below suggests, the alias is being expanded and an >error occuring when mailman is processing the post script. > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- >"|/public_html/mailman/mail/mailman post test" <<------ HERE > (reason: 1) > (expanded from: <test@DOMAIN HIDDEN>) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >post script, list not found: test <<------ AND HERE >554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 > >the unknown mailer error 1 that is being reported is from mailman >returning with a status of 1. > >i also did a quick test of /etc/aliases and it is working normally. > >-p > >At 12:58 PM 10/2/2004, Brad Knowles wrote: >>At 12:48 PM -0700 on 2004-10-02, you wrote: >> >>> thanks for the quick reply. i've compared the /etc/aliases entries for >>> the new list with old ones that i've been running for years and don't >>> see any difference. i even copied and pasted the entries below straight >>> from mailman when i created the list. >> >> Maybe your aliases file hasn't been rebuilt. Afterall, the >> /etc/aliases file is only used as input to build the database which is >> actually used by the MTA, and the database won't be updated until you >> run "newaliases" after changing the /etc/aliases file. Alternatively, >> perhaps the aliases file you're actually using is somewhere else, so >> changes to this file are not relevant anymore. >> >> But both of these problems are specific to your MTA, not >> Mailman. You'd be better off using the resources which are dedicated to >> your MTA (and your platform) to help you track down these problems. >> >>-- >>Brad Knowles, <brad(a)stop.mail-abuse.org> >> >>"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little >>temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." >> >> -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania >> Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 >> >> SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info. [View Less]

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Please help
by Layne Meier Oct. 5, 2004

Oct. 5, 2004

I am very new to Mailman - we've been a long-time user of Majordomo. I like the idea of being able to manage lists with a web interface, rather than something such as Webmin. I installed Postfix, Apache and Mailman on a test system (Sun Sparc, Solaris 8). I got all to compile and install properly. However, and I have to apologize because I know you all have probably discussed this a million times over by now, but I can't get Apache to work and recognize the cgi-bin directory. Here's a … [View More]

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Approval
by Derrick Seymour Oct. 5, 2004

Oct. 5, 2004

Would there be any reason why I am receiving two approval emails for every post on a list. Should I receive an approval email for every post? If yes or no, why am I receiving two? OSX Server 10.3.4 Pretty new still, any help would be great..sorry for the greenness Derrick Seymour

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Email command upgrade
by demo Oct. 5, 2004

Oct. 5, 2004

Hi Just some humble feedback on the response message; This is one area where I find users fall over and die and the complexity of the response and don't know what to do. [ And it is usually normal users that are trying to use it to unsubscribe ]. It is very techie. Little things might help, like a few actual examples, so that something like [address=<address>] means something to them, and spaces between the " < > " or " [ ] " so they are not confronted by strange signs. [] looks … [View More]

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admindb: 500 error
by Zebee Johnstone Oct. 4, 2004

Oct. 4, 2004

Suddenly - as in it has been working fine, but some time in the last week it has failed - the admin interface of all my lists is giving a 500 error. listinfo is fine, mail is flowing freely. Mailman version 2.05 httpd log: [Tue Oct 5 12:04:47 2004] [error] [client 218.214.72.52] Premature end of script headers: /home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin That;s the only log line. Nothing in any other logs that I can see. I don't recall installing any software since the last time I know it worked. If I … [View More]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] admindb: 500 error
by Tokio Kikuchi Oct. 4, 2004

Oct. 4, 2004

> I know bugger all about python, if it was a perlscript I'd try putting > in debugging info.... Hmm. Since it is (admin|admindb)/listname, cookie might be a cause of problem. I suggest clearing your browser's cookie and access the URL. And, you can put code like this in the python mailman script: from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog syslog('error', 'Oh, I got reach here!') -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/

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Heads Up: RoadRunner rejecting listmail
by Paul H Byerly Oct. 4, 2004

Oct. 4, 2004

Last Friday afternoon RoadRunner systems across the US began blocking e-mail send via my mailman lists. The logs show: "Deferred: 452 Too many recipients received this hour." (The reason I caught this is I saw a build up in my outgoing Sendmail queue.) The odd thing is I send relatively few e-mails to RR users - less than 30 users total. The mail flow over the weekend was low, no more than a few hundred message total for Saturday and Sunday were sent to rr.com addresses. I … [View More]

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2.1.5 Mail-News gateway moderation feature or bug?
by David L Brown Oct. 4, 2004

Oct. 4, 2004

Under 2.0.8 messages to a members-only-posting list entering from the News gateway would be held for non-members. With 2.1.5 we were alarmed to see such messages being posted without any moderation control even though generic_nonmember_action was set to 'Hold'. We could find no ther settings to control it. Unfortunately some Spam messages from the News group was distributed to the list's membership. The only work-around we could find was to use the Spam filter to hold messages with headers … [View More]

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Both Mailman and Majordomo
by Frank Torres Oct. 4, 2004

Oct. 4, 2004

Queston, I have been unsuccessful at getting mailman and majordomo to run on the same host. I am using sendmail and the mailman mm-handler. Mailman is working great its just that majordomo is not. I did put an 'A' in the mailer table for alias expansion but that does not seem to work completely. If some body has done this and can share this info that would be great. I have been scouring the web to no avail. I need to transition majordomo out but I can not do it abruptly. Best Regards, Frank

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