Mailman 3 May 2004 - Mailman-Users

Modifying Email Text and other pages.
by ARaacing＠aol.com 20 May '04

20 May '04

How do you access and modify the text that is sent out to list members? I know that a small amount of it can can be accessed from the website interface, but it is extremely limited. Also, is it possible to customize the other pages created by Mailman such as the confirm subscription request page, member option page, subscription request confirmed page, etc. Also, I cannot get the msg_header (prepended) or msg_footer (appended) text to show up in my list emails. Any solutions? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Thank you in advance, Michael Johnson (Mailman novice)

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corrupted subscribers file
by Con Wieland 20 May '04

20 May '04

I recently update to 2.1.4 and several of my subscribers files are corrupt. They show email addresses with a ? at the end. The members page will not display and the remove_members command will not remove them. I've tried quoting them also with no luck. Any ideas on how to remove them? Even trying to remove the entire subscribers file does not work (remove_members -a). Con Wieland

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Group mismatch error
by David Blomquist 19 May '04

19 May '04

I am getting the following error message but my mail server (Postfix) is not set up as group "apache". Anybody have an idea why I am getting this error message? This is the Postfix program at host 'my.mail.host. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <mb_two-request(a)my.mail.host.com>: Command died with status 2: "/var/mailman/mail/mailman request mb_two". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as one of the following groups: [mail, nobody, mailman], but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "apache". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups: [mail, nobody, mailman], or re-run configure providing the command line option: '--with-mail-gid=apache'. Thanks, David

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Group mismatch error
by David Blomquist 19 May '04

19 May '04

I am getting the following error message but my mail server (Postfix) is not set up as group "apache". Anybody have an idea why I am getting this error message? This is the Postfix program at host 'my.mail.host. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program <mb_two-request(a)my.mail.host.com>: Command died with status 2: "/var/mailman/mail/mailman request mb_two". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as one of the following groups: [mail, nobody, mailman], but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group: "apache". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as one of these groups: [mail, nobody, mailman], or re-run configure providing the command line option: '--with-mail-gid=apache'. Thanks, David

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Problems with MailMan Help
by Bartosz Jozwiak 19 May '04

19 May '04

Hello, I have just installed MailMan and I am expriancing some problems. Can somebody help me ? bartek:/usr/local/mailman/bin# ./genaliases Traceback (most recent call last): File "./genaliases", line 116, in ? main() File "./genaliases", line 106, in main MTA.create(mlist, nolock=True, quiet=quiet) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 229, in create _do_create(mlist, ALIASFILE, _addlist) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 213, in _do_create func(mlist, fp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 84, in _addlist loopaddr = Utils.ParseEmail(Utils.get_site_email(extra='loop'))[0] File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 647, in get_site_email hostname = mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_HOSTS.get(get_domain(), get_domain()) AttributeError: get Thank you in advance! bartek

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Auto-Responder to "Request"
by Marina 19 May '04

19 May '04

More newbie questions :-) I forgot to say earlier that I have v2.1.3. I'm not sure I fully understand how the auto-responder system works. For instance, "Should Mailman send an auto-response to emails sent to the -request address? If you choose yes, decide whether you want Mailman to discard the original email, or forward it on to the system as a normal mail command." If I choose "No" (with or without my own text) and someone sends a message to listname-request, with "help" in the subject line, they still get an auto-response with a load of email commands that will be totally meaningless and confusing to the majority of them. If I choose "Yes, w/forward" and I enter my own text, it sends both the canned response and my text as separate emails. If I choose "Yes, w/discard" and I enter my own text, it sends nothing. How do I get it to send my text without the canned response? TIA Marina

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Mailman and xmail
by Bob Escher 19 May '04

19 May '04

I just set up mailman and am pretty new to all three Linux, mailman and I use xmail as my mail server. When I create a new list it asks if I want to send a message to the list owner/administrator I tell it yes but it doesn't go anywhere. Where in mailman (other then in the mm-cfg.py file do I tell it where or what the mail server is Thanks and a lot of questions thiscoming this way Bob Escher

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Problem accessing membership management
by Sean 19 May '04

19 May '04

>While running 2.1.4 I get the following when trying to access the >Membership Management module from the admin page. This only happens on >one list on a server with ~400 lists. > >ideas? >Con Wieland > >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main > main() > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 198, in main > show_results(mlist, doc, category, subcat, cgidata) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 501, in >show_results > form.AddItem(membership_options(mlist, subcat, cgidata, doc, form)) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 873, in >membership_options > all = [_m.encode() for _m in mlist.getMembers()] >UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in position >16: ordinal not in range(128) Sounds like there are addresses subscribed with non-ascii characters. Run ~mailman/bin/list_members -i to get a list of invalid addresses. Also running ~mailman/bin/find_member -l listname "[^\w\-+@.%]" > badaddresses will turn up some bad addresses. The regular expressions("[^\w\-+@.%]") may need to be tweaked a little. Sean

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Mailman and Spamassassin
by Doc Schneider 19 May '04

19 May '04

Can someone please let me know how to intergrate spamassassin with Mailman? Running both 2.1.4 and 2.0.13 on different servers. Thanks, -- -Doc --- MomNDoc Online Consultants http://www.maddoc.net/ momndoc(a)maddoc.net

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content of host_name
by monty 19 May '04

19 May '04

I am experimenting with host_name in the General Options. It seems to work equally well if I leave off the w3 before the domain name or use the w3. Is there some preference for this? I would prefer to leave the w3 off so that the posting address on the list info page does not include the www in the posting address. Thanks, Monty

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