Mailman 3 December 2004 - Mailman-Users

discard nonmembers in 2.0.7
by Andrew Watson Dec. 30, 2004

Dec. 30, 2004

I am on an isp (verio) which has not upgraded mailman beyond 2.0.7, and has no plans to do so. I am desperate for some method that will discard posts from non-members (spam); 2.0.7 won't do that, I gather 2.1.5 will. I already adopted the nice script that checks the discard button on all messages, but I still have to look at the subject line of each one of several hundred, and mailmain crashes if I don't tend to this daily. Verio offers an expensive vps server on which I could install my own mailman 2.1.5, but I am not confident I could do the installation. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to survive in a spam infested world with 2.0.7. Is there a script I could install, or something of that ilk? -Andrew

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Backing up list with a cronjob command
by Greg Hays [webforcedesign.com] Dec. 30, 2004

Dec. 30, 2004

Hello all, I've been told I can back up my list addresses by running a cronjob. What command do I put in and that will run a mailman backup? It only gives me one line. Thanks for your help? Greg Hays

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Messages aren't delivered
by Samuel Kvarnbrink Dec. 30, 2004

Dec. 30, 2004

Hi all, I've ran into a weird issue... I guess it all boils down to me being a total newbie when it comes to Mailman (in that case I apologize for the noise), but I feel completely lost at the moment. The problem is that I don't get any output at all from my Mailman installation. No list messages, no administrative messages, no error messages, no log entries, nothing! I've created a list, added myself as a member and tried to send a few messages to the list. The messages seem to arrive at the correct destination, and a new file is created in the qfiles directory each time a message is sent to the list. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I'm running Mailman 2.1.5 under OpenBSD 3.6, with exim 4.41 as my MTA. cheers, Samuel Kvarnbrink

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can't unsubscribe user
by Ronnie Taylor Dec. 29, 2004

Dec. 29, 2004

hello all... i am using Mailman installed from an rpm (mailman-2.1.5-6) on a fedora core 1 system.... one particular list has been going along just fine....until the other day when I recieved a complaint from a user that they were unable to get off the list...I tested the scenario out from another email address (on a Mac Outlook 2001 client) and i am cannot unsubscribe... when I send to testlist-unsubscribe@mydomain.com....i get a message saying that my email address is not in the member list and can't be unsubscribed... I've check the error logs on the server and I've manually searched for my email in the member list and even grep'd the entire mailman install from the cli for the address to no avail... thanks... RT

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TypeError: unicode() argument 2 must be string, not None
by aaron Dec. 28, 2004

Dec. 28, 2004

Hello. I'm getting the following error when rebuilding the archives (using /mailman/bin/arch) for a list. I was unable to find anything relevant in the mailman-users archives and would greatly appreciate any suggestions. I'm running Mailman 2.1.2 on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p11 with Python 2.1.3. Updating HTML for article 7152 Updating HTML for article 7151 Updating HTML for article 7153 Updating HTML for article 7155 Updating HTML for article 7154 Pickling archive state into /home/mailman/archives/private/listname/pipermail.pck Traceback (most recent call last): File "./arch", line 187, in ? main() File "./arch", line 175, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/home/mailman//Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 544, in processUnixMailbox m = mbox.next() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.1/mailbox.py", line 30, in next return self.factory(_Subfile(self.fp, start, stop)) File "/home/mailman//Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 89, in scrubber return mailbox.scrub(msg) File "/home/mailman//Mailman/Mailbox.py", line 109, in scrub return self._scrubber(self._mlist, msg) File "/home/mailman//Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 257, in process url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir) File "/home/mailman//Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 348, in save_attachment fnext = os.path.splitext(msg.get_filename(''))[1] File "/home/mailman//pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 707, in get_filename return unicode(newvalue[2], newvalue[0]) TypeError: unicode() argument 2 must be string, not None

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Mailman contractors
by Barry Warsaw Dec. 28, 2004

Dec. 28, 2004

From time to time I get requests for Mailman installation or customization help, often for compensation. This is not something I do so I usually have to turn people down cold, or tell them to email these two mailing lists. However, such requests are coming in more often these days, so I wonder if it makes sense to try to collect a list of people willing to provide Mailman services. I would not be willing to recommend anyone specifically, but I would be happy to point such requests at say, a wiki page where people can self-register. What do you think? We can either use the FAQ or we can use the Python.org wiki. I'd rather not be in the loop so I don't want to use the static list.org pages. I think we as a community can self-regulate this list. -Barry

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Timeout on visiting pending moderator requests
by Morgan Fletcher Dec. 28, 2004

Dec. 28, 2004

I have a netbsd 1.6 machine running Mailman 2.1.5 serving about twenty lists. One of my lists has a problem where it's pending moderator requests page can't be viewed, it just times out. I'm speaking about the URL that ends in admindb/<listname>. I see the vette log increase by about 320Kb everytime I visit the pending moderator requests page. There are 629 files named data/heldmsg-<listname>-* using 3100Kb of disk space. I haven't been able to decipher the problem. The farthest I've gotten is to run 'dumpdb pending.pck' for that list. I can't make sense of the output, but if it would be useful in debugging the problem I could mail it to this list or one of you as an attachment. I can individually reject messages via the email-to-reject reply mechanism for held messages. This is the contents of the lists/<listname> directory: -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 1706 Apr 13 2002 admindbpreamble.html -rw-rw---- 1 morgan mailman 47410 Jul 26 06:05 config.db -rw-rw---- 1 morgan mailman 56959 Jul 26 06:05 config.db.last -rw-rw---- 1 nobody mailman 53170 Dec 28 01:12 config.pck -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 53170 Dec 28 01:11 config.pck.last -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 14402 Dec 28 00:51 digest.mbox -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 189 Apr 13 2002 handle_opts.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 1026 Apr 13 2002 headfoot.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 3136 Apr 13 2002 listinfo.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 2961 Jul 25 16:59 next-digest -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 49 Jul 25 16:59 next-digest-topics -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 4106 Apr 13 2002 options.html -rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 7304 Dec 28 01:11 pending.pck -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 547352 Jul 26 06:04 request.db -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2975275 Dec 28 01:11 request.pck -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 1169 Apr 13 2002 roster.html -rw-rw-r-- 1 morgan mailman 198 Apr 13 2002 subscribe.html I've run 'check_perms' and 'check_db' and everything checks out OK. Got anything for me? Morgan -- Morgan Fletcher, morgan(a)hahaha.org Oakland, CA

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How may I convert Majordomo lists to mailman?
by KENNEY, William P. (Info. Tech. Services) Dec. 28, 2004

Dec. 28, 2004

Hello, I have finally gotten mailman running on RHES 3.0. I need to move and convert MD lists from an old Alpha/DU system to my current server. Has any one done this before? I seem to recall a link in the archives but can no longer find it. TIA, Bill William P. Kenney Unix Systems Manager Eastern Connecticut State University (860) 465-4688 (860) 465-4675 fax RAM disk is "not" an installation procedure.

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Question
by dansociety＠earthlink.net Mail Account Dec. 28, 2004

Dec. 28, 2004

I currently run a private mailing list on the mailman server. My network members can send and received mail to this network that is moderated by me. Current, inclusion into this mailing list is manual. This means I must manually add an e-mail address because this is a private network. I want to automate this mailing list. I want a list that automatically sends password info after a membership payment is made to a payment processor. Can mailman be used in this way? R.W.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Timeout on visiting pending moderator requests
by Tokio Kikuchi Dec. 27, 2004

Dec. 27, 2004

Hi again, Morgan Fletcher wrote: > Tokio Kikuchi <tkikuchi(a)is.kochi-u.ac.jp> writes: > >>% cd <prefix> >>% find data -ctime +7 -name heldmsg\*.pck | xargs bin/discard > > > Thanks, this worked... to a point. Then I got: > > Discarded held msg #9196 for list fj55 > Discarded held msg #9197 for list fj55 > Discarded held msg #9198 for list fj55 > Discarded held msg #9199 for list fj55 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "bin/discard", line 120, in ? > main() > File "bin/discard", line 110, in main > mlist.HandleRequest(id, mm_cfg.DISCARD, '', False, False, '') > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 156, in HandleRequest > rtype, data = self.__db[id] > KeyError: 8752 > > One heldmsg*.pck remains that is +7 days old. A problem? I believe this message can safely removed by: % find data -ctime +7 -name heldmsg\*.pck | xargs rm You can't handle it anyway. -- Tokio Kikuchi, tkikuchi@ is.kochi-u.ac.jp http://weather.is.kochi-u.ac.jp/

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