Mailman 3 April 2004 - Mailman-Users

Re: options page error
by Paul H Byerly 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

John Hamlin wrote: >We're hosted by pgHoster.com, which wisely has "personalization" turned >off for Mailman. This makes sense -- saves processor, etc. -- but it >leaves me with no python variable for the "addressed_to" recipient to >append to the URL for the options page. Thus instead of: > >http://my.com/mailman/options/xxlist_my.com/JoeBlow@xxx.com > >I use: http://my.com/mailman/options/xxlist_my.com/ > >This works, of course, in that it goes to the right page and the user >can type in their e-mail address. No sweat. BUT ... since I have no >email_address appended to the URL the user sees the error message >stating this obvious fact!! > >Is there a way to avoid the error message at the top of the options >page? It can be done - but you would have to hack a file and you many not have the ability to do that. The error message is found in <prefix>/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/options.py . I'd suggest modifying it to cover your situation rather than removing it. <>< Paul

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disable set options
by jsingh 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Is there a way by which I can turn off the user's ability for set options. I would like for them to have the ability to retrieve his/her password , run who or unsubscribe but besides that I want no user intervention. Is this possible ? thanks Jaskaran Singh University Systems & Security Fairleigh Dickinson University 1000 River Road, Mail Stop TBH1-01 Teaneck, NJ 07666

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Mailman Scheduling
by Eddie Willcox 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Is it possible to set up schedules for when mail should be sent out? Regards, Eddie

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SMART Archiver Interface Extensions Feedback PLEASE HELP!
by Iain Bapty 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Hey, I've been working on a few extensions for the SMART archiver revolving around creating a Zest-like interface which serves as a basis for a Wiki Page. This is my third year project at University and as part of the project I need to get some feedback from potential users. I see feedback as either practical or ideological, alternatively 'is it useable?' or 'is it a good idea?', I am looking for both kinds of feedback. I would appriciate a lot if a few people from here could spare a few minutes to have a look at what I have done and give me some feedback on it. If you would like to help me please E-Mail me directly and I shall send more details. Thanks Iain Bapty

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Monthly Password Reminder Sent Twice
by Adam Kessel 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

For quite a while now (more than year) mailman has been sending all monthly password reminders twice on my server. I am currently using mailman from Debian sid, version 2.4.1-1. I have checked all cron jobs and I can only find one call to mailpasswds. I.e., # grep -r mailpasswds /var/spool/cron/* /var/spool/cron/crontabs/mailman:0 5 1 * * /usr/bin/python -S /var/lib/mailman/cron/mailpasswds This problem has been discussed before and elsewhere: http://shorl.com/bebrigrukojeno http://shorl.com/favakofemopre And of course the suggestion has always been to look at cron, but in other instances the posters have checked the cron jobs and found no problem. I haven't found any other proposed solutions. The duplicate messages occur very close together, with the same timestamp in the date part of the header and a 5-20 second gap in the "received" part of the header. The two messages have message IDs that are about 8 apart, e.g.: Message-ID: <mailman.182.1080813615.17112.mailman(a)lists.bostoncoop.net> Message-ID: <mailman.182.1080813615.17120.mailman(a)lists.bostoncoop.net> I have no further ideas about how to track down why this is happening. Can anyone make a suggestion? -- Adam Kessel http://adam.rosi-kessel.org

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Uncaught runner exception: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range
by Derek Atkins 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Hi Jon, I'm running mailman-2.1.4 and I just received one of these exceptions this morning while mailman was sending out a reminder mail. So I'm not sure this bug is necessarily fixed as you suggested in October. My (2.1.4) trace is at the end of the message. -derek On Thu Oct 9 09:00:41 EDT 2003 Jon Carnes was reported to have said: > I'm fairly certain that there is a patch that handles this problem, but > you might want to simply update to the latest version of Mailman. > > I believe that problem is caused by a character that is out of range for > the expected values. The character is probably one used by a different > language. Your particular problem occurs when trying to archive the > message. > > You could simply remove the message from queue, or edit it to remove any > ascii characters that are out-of-range. > > Best of Luck - Jon Carnes > > BTW: you can search the archives for this list to find the patch and > other relevant information about this problem > > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 16:18, michael dunston wrote: > > For the second time in a few weeks, one of my lists has stopped > > delivering mail. (Mailman 2.1.1 w/ sendmail) Can anyone possibly > > provide some ideas on what the error below might mean and how I might > > solve it? Last time I ended up deleting and recreating the list as the > > solution. Could this possibly be the result of a malformed message? If > > so, is there a way to remove it without deleting everything? Thanks in > > advance for any suggestions.. > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > Oct 07 18:44:48 2003 (485) Uncaught runner exception: > > ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128) > > Oct 07 18:44:48 2003 (485) Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 105, > > in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) [snip] My 2.1.4 trace: Apr 01 05:07:27 2004 (1416) Uncaught runner exception: ASCII encoding error: ord inal not in range(128) Apr 01 05:07:27 2004 (1416) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 110, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 160, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/OutgoingRunner.py", line 74, in _dispose self._func(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 152, in process deliveryfunc(mlist, msg, msgdata, envsender, refused, conn) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/SMTPDirect.py", line 351, in bulkdeliver msgtext = msg.as_string() File "/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 113, in as_string g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom) File "/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 103, in flatten self._write(msg) File "/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 131, in _write self._dispatch(msg) File "/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 157, in _dispatch meth(msg) File "/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Generator.py", line 203, in _handle_text self._fp.write(payload) UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128) -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warlord(a)MIT.EDU PGP key available

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No e-mail is sent to the list..
by PiCo 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

I'm still tring to configure mailman on my server. The problem seems to be if I try to send e.mail to the list.... Infact all the e-mail I send to the list is sent only to the list administrator. No mail is sent to members list.... But if I try (as a member) to "remember" password, for example, the email is sent regularly to member. Do you have any idea of what can be the pproblem?? In using a PC with no addree, I have only a fixed IP. ciaoooo ------------------------ PiCo ICQ # 105570291 Tel.: +39 335 1234 475 Fax.: +39 06 233 2401 88 ------------------------

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Earlier List Problem
by Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

I have taken care of my earlier list problem, thanks for all the help. -- Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. http://joseph-a-nagy-jr.homelinux.org Political Activist Extraordinaire Peace, Life, Liberty "The only fallacy is the inaction on our part to stave off the worst of horrors, the stripping of personal freedom." -- Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. January 2004

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see who is on the list
by jsingh 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

Hey guys I am using the command Who 'password' address=listname(a)fdu.edu And trying to retrieve the list of members in the list but I get a response back say I am not allowed to exact message is 'You are not allowed to retrieve the list membership' I looked at the config and it is setup for list members; private_roster=1 What am I doing wrong ? thanks Jaskaran Singh University Systems & Security Fairleigh Dickinson University 1000 River Road, Mail Stop TBH1-01 Teaneck, NJ 07666

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How do I post on several lists?
by daniella krause 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

I would like to post a message on serval lists It is about a piece of furniture which I believe people in manybyishuivim may be intersted in How do I do that? Thanks Daniella Krause danielak(a)netvision.net.il

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