Mailman 3 March 2004 - Mailman-Users

How Can A User Be "Hidden" from a List Adminstrator
by Lloyd F. Tennison April 3, 2004

April 3, 2004

Since the only way to get a copy of a Mailman list is to use the view subscribers (unless you have root access) I usually view and cut and paste. Now I have a comment that one is "hidden". Seems like nothing should be hidden from the list administrator. Is there an easy way to change - or do I have to scan the list and change manually? Thanks. Lloyd F. Tennison lloyd_tennison(a)whoever.com No trees were harmed in the transmission of this message. However, a rather large number of electrons were temporarily inconvenienced.

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Re: Please help - I need to add a new list
by Paul H Byerly April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

On 11:02 AM 3/31/2004, mailman-users-request(a)python.org wrote: >I am in a huge bind. I am a low-level administrator of the mail.rx2000.org >lists and the man >that set all of it up in the beginning is nowhere to be found. I know how >to administer the >lists, but beyond that, I'm at a loss. .... My organization needs me to >add another >list and I'm totally stuck... The web interface for adding a list is at http://domain.tld/mailman/create . As you would need (to reset?) the main mailman password, and would need to change the administrator address, using the command line is going to be necessary - so I'd just create from the list command line. Use: # <prefix>/mailman/bin/newlist listname Where <prefix> is the path to the mailman install, and listname is the name of the desired list. Copy the aliases entries to the appropriate location on your server. <>< Paul

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some lists are down
by Denis April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

Hi, I have some lists who are down and i can't find where is the problem. Can someone help me ? There is my error message. Thanks Denis Mar 23 19:43:35 2004 (31096) Uncaught runner exception: expected string, unicode found Mar 23 19:43:36 2004 (31096) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 82, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 123, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 295, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 296, in process t = part.get_payload(decode=1) File "/root/mailman-2.1.1/debian/mailman/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 187, in get_payload File "/root/mailman-2.1.1/debian/mailman/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email/Utils.py", line 39, in _qdecode TypeError: expected string, unicode found Mar 23 19:43:36 2004 (31096) SHUNTING: 1080067414.30584+82afa209072fdb34579d33f697e18e66f5e28888

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HELP! web server + mailman server
by Ana Carolina Alonso de Armiño April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

I should configure my web server (called webhost who has nfs mounted the mailman page from another server) and my mailman server (called emailhost) . How shoul I configure my mm_cfg.py??? I have: DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'emailhost.mydomain' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'webhost.mydoain' DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/' # DEFAULT_HOST_NAME has been replaced with DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST, however some # sites may have the former in their mm_cfg.py files. If so, we'll believe # that, otherwise we'll believe DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST. Same for DEFAULT_URL. DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'emailhost.mydomain' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://www.mydomain/mailman/' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) I have do a lot of test, changing this values but it dosen`t work. The problem is next: I see the first page at: http://www.mydomain.edu.ar/mailman/listinfo/mylist The link here go the mailman server instead the web server!!: http://emailhost.mydomain.edu.ar/mailman/listinfo/mylist What is wrog?? Is posible to do the configuration that I need???? Thanks. Ana

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Mailman settings
by Tim Faircloth April 1, 2004

April 1, 2004

Is there a way to export settings for a list so I can use them for other lists? /tim -- Tim Faircloth, System Administrator GSW OIIT Office: (229) 931-5076 Beeper: (229) 928-1458

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Quick question
by Joshua Capy March 31, 2004

March 31, 2004

I am interested in your mailing list program,but I need to be able to pragmatically send it administration commands via email from a database application that will control subscribes, unsubcribes and changes in email addresses. Can this be done with your program? Thanx Joshua __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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installation on solaris
by Lenny Shovsky March 31, 2004

March 31, 2004

Hi everybody. I'm trying to install mailman on solaris. It builds fine and creates subdirectories in /usr/local/mailman/, but stops with permission errorswhen trying to copy files to those directories. Which is kind of strange, because the directory has group write permissions and the user 'make installing' is in that group. Also I have a question about the web interface. Is setting ScriptAliases to cgi-bin in mailman directory enough to get that working or is there a step missing from the readmes ? thank you in advance

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MM-2.1.2 shunting of message with unicode error
by Mark T. Valites March 31, 2004

March 31, 2004

Hi all - been a long time since I've been a member of, much less posted to the list. Since going to 2.1.2 this past summer, I haven't had a single problem with it. I'm running it on Solaris 8, with python-2.2. I've also got James Henstridge's spamassassin patch integrated into the setup. I'm currently having a problem with one single list out of the 500 I currently have here at my site. I had this same exact problem a couple weeks ago with the very same list, but removing all traces of and then recreating the list seemed to at take care of the problem until this week. Right now, when one of the list members (who just happens to be my department head...) posts to the list, her posts get thrown into the shunt directory. From the errors, I suspected that there was a problem with MIME encoding of the message or attachment, but the shunting also occurs when I sent a message with no attachment in plain ascii text (charset=US-ASCII). Attempting to unshunt them results in the following error: Mar 30 09:58:47 2004 (492) Uncaught runner exception: unicode() argument 2 must be string, not None Mar 30 09:58:47 2004 (492) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 89, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 130, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 303, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 257, in process url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 348, in save_attachment fnext = os.path.splitext(msg.get_filename(''))[1] File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 707, in get_filename return unicode(newvalue[2], newvalue[0]) TypeError: unicode() argument 2 must be string, not None Mar 30 09:58:47 2004 (492) SHUNTING: 1080245714.8998311+831a776c645dd047b03c0ff638f6ad34259c3d9a Mar 30 09:58:55 2004 (492) Uncaught runner exception: unicode() argument 2 must be string, not None Mar 30 09:58:55 2004 (492) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 155, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 89, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 130, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 303, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 257, in process url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir) File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 348, in save_attachment fnext = os.path.splitext(msg.get_filename(''))[1] File "/usr/local/mailman-2.1.2/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 707, in get_filename return unicode(newvalue[2], newvalue[0]) TypeError: unicode() argument 2 must be string, not None Mar 30 09:58:55 2004 (492) SHUNTING: 1080611446.4363999+d55aefdcc3b109eb386229538e349f8e747163a0 I've dug through the mailman-users archive and the bug tracker on sourceforge, but couldn't find anything that looked exactly like what I'm seeing. The closest I found was: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=871050&group_id=10… And also bug 834486 mentioned in the Changelog for 2.1.3 looked similar to, but not quite what I'm seeing. And suggestion are appreciated. -Mark -- Mark T. Valites Unix Systems Analyst CIT - SUNY Geneseo >--))> >--))>

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HTML but no images?
by Paul H Byerly March 31, 2004

March 31, 2004

I have asked this twice in the past 9 months of so - never received any feed back. I though it was a bug in the version I was running, but version 2-1-4 does the same thing. I have several lists that want to allow HTML styling but not allow images. I have tried all the content filter combinations I can think of to get this to happen, but nothing works. It seems that the following settings for the contentfilter page would work: Yes image multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain No ... however these settings strip html formatting. The ONLY way I can get HTML formatting through to the list is to set the first option to No. I realize html formatting is the scourge of the universe, but it looks like what my users want should be possible. Can someone confirm that Mailman can't allow html while rejecting images so I can just give up? Thanks <>< Paul

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qfiles
by jsingh March 31, 2004

March 31, 2004

I have some files in qfiles directory, should I delete them. I looked for the process id from the last number on the lock file but didn't find any such process, what should I do. thanks Jaskaran Singh University Systems & Security Fairleigh Dickinson University 1000 River Road, Mail Stop TBH1-01 Teaneck, NJ 07666

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