Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Users

Mass setting of MODerate option?
by John 06 May '04

06 May '04

Is there any way, in a mass subscription txt file containing 'real-name <email-addr> ' to turn the MODerator option on at the same time? Doing it manually is a chore, as I have all MOD bits set to off in my list. ------------------------ John Weersing

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Help! mailman not processing received messages; sitting in qfiles/in
by Benjamin Lotto 06 May '04

06 May '04

Let me start by saying that I don't know much about mailman. I use the version that comes with Mac OS X server and it's worked fine until yesterday. All of a sudden, though, messages aren't getting through. I poked around and the messages are received OK, but they are sitting in /private/var/mailman/qfiles/in and I have no idea how to get them out of there and out to the folks that need them. Any help much appreciated!!! TIA, -Ben

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Case sensitivity for email addresses
by Ralph Siemsen 06 May '04

06 May '04

I'm using mailman 2.1 and have managed to get one of my lists into a somewhat odd state. A user fred(a)domain.com was originally added through the mass-subscription web interface. Later, I added fred(a)DOMAIN.com (note capitalization) with the add_member script on the commandline. Or perhaps it was the opposite way around. In any case, I now have the user subscribed twice, with the same email address, but different capitalization of the domain portion. Now the problem is trying to remove either or both of these entries. Regardless of whether I use the web interface or commandline, I am unable to remove the member without breaking the list completetly. All attempts seem to remove one of the members, and then I hit a consistency check that complains about the other entry being "not a member". All attempts to post to the list, etc., fail with the same error (only visible on commandline; web interface just says that an error happened). Is it possible to manually dump the database of list members, remove the offending email addresses, and then "undump" the database? Or some other way to fix the list? Thanks in advance, -Ralph Siemsen (Please cc: replies as I am not subscribed to this list!)

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Mailman Size Issues
by Kory Wheatley 06 May '04

06 May '04

I have a critical situation that I need addressed, and it deals with large messages being sent to mailman mailing lists. Currently, we have a lot of large mailing lists (some have 10,000 to 15,000 subscribers) and some of these lists is all Faculty/Staff email subscribers that have an account on our mail server. All messages sent to these lists are moderated. Here's the problem, when some of these pending messages are accepted to be sent, and one of the messages happens to be 5mb in size, that amount of email that is sent to our mail server all at once, "kills us", and someday if a larger one is sent, it will fill up our mail stores and corrupt our mail server. We can configure our mail server to not accept a message over 5 meg and that would solve the problem, but our University Advisory Committee would not allow that. They have approved that it be set to 10 meg, for messages be sent to only one recipient, but individuals who use the mailing lists, abuse this. Sometimes messages get approved that shouldn't and we run into this problem All get to my point, is there a way that if a moderator tries to approve a message that is over 1 meg, that maybe some custom python code could be developed to pop up a message and say "Only messages below 1 meg can be approved" and have the message discarded, or tell the user the only option they have is to discard the message. I know there's the "max_message_size" option you can set, but that still sends the message to the pending database and they can still accept the message, rather than discard the message when its above that size. Any Solution? I know you will want to say change your policy on your mail server, but at this point it's not a option. -- Kory Wheatley Idaho State University

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Python: High CPU Load
by Jason Shouler 06 May '04

06 May '04

We run an announcement only list of about 25K members on a IBM Netfinity 5500 (1 GB RAM) running SuSE 8.0. Mailman 2.1.4 performs very well except for the web interface which is slow at the best of times and can even time-out during an active mail shot. This is a snapshot of "ps aux" showing a cpu load of over 96% generated from doing a member search. wwwrun 7469 96.1 2.0 22680 20968 ? R 12:14 0:05 /usr/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver admin No errors in the error log. Would anyone like to comment on how "normal" they'd consider this? Regards, Jason. -- ============================= Jason Shouler DATAFLOW Tel/Fax : +44 (0)1202-722599 Mobile : +44 (0)7946-615718 www.data-flow.org.uk Linux integration specialists =============================

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Delete list archives
by Franco, Ruben 06 May '04

06 May '04

I have a list admin that wishes to delete all archives for a particluar list but the admin interface does not have such an option. Can I simply delete the files found in the "archives" sub-directory?

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Script to clean shunt directory
by David Vasil 06 May '04

06 May '04

Until I can figure out how to stop the UnicodeDecodeErrors and mail quits getting shunted, I figure it would be best to keep the shunt directory somewhat clean. To do this I wrote a script that checks each .pck in the shunt directory for the X-Spam-Level header to determine the liklihood of the message being spam. If it is highly likely the message is spam, the script removes the .pck and .db file, otherwise it warns the person running the script to investigate possible legit email that ended up in shunt. Can anyone see anything wrong with removing files in the shunt directory in this manner? The script I wrote is attached. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Vasil vasil(a)cs.utk.edu | | University of Tennessee Computer Science Dept. | | UTKCS Systems Administrator 865-974-8364 | +------------------------------------------------------------+

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Option for digest to only have subjects and links to archive?
by Goergens, Tim 05 May '04

05 May '04

Is there an option or a way to have mailman create digests of only the subject line with a link to the message in the archive? We are receiving multiple messages a day that we need to archive, but we will normally only be interested in a few of them. Some of the messages are large, so I don't want to send the content with the digest, only a list of the subjects and a link to the message in the archive. Has anyone done this? If I need to modify a file to do it, which one(s) should I start looking at? Thanks, Tim Goergens

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Mailman 2.1.5 without nls
by John Poltorak 05 May '04

05 May '04

How do I avoid installing support for lots of languages I don't need when installing Mailman 2.1.5? -- John

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No module named Japanese
by Poythress, Lynn 05 May '04

05 May '04

Hi, I'm a new subscriber and am having a problem installing Mailman 2.1.4. I am trying to install it on HP-UX 11.00. I was able to download Python 2.3.3 from HP's porting site. I was able to successfully run 'configure' for Mailman. When I try and run 'make install' I get an error message. I'm not sure if I should concern myself with it, since it's about a Japanese module. Listed below is the message. Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/update", line 45, in ? import paths File "/usr/local/mailman/bin/paths.py", line 55, in ? import japanese ImportError: No module named japanese *** Error exit code 1 Stop. Can I still continue? Will Mailman still run? Do I care about this Japanese module? I did look in the archives and found a few similar questions, but wasn't sure what I should do. I contacted the Python help group and they seemed to think that the HP porting site "seems to imply that all of Python is included in the package." Does that mean I need to install the 'developer's package'? I don't get it, why would all the pieces necessary NOT be there? Thanks for any insight you can give me. Lynn Poythress California State University, Sacramento

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