Mailman 3 June 2004 - Mailman-Users

mailman 2.0.11 problems
by Joachim Schwendtner 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

when I send a mail to the mailman-list nobody of the list gets the mail but the list owner gets this information every 15 minutes. 2004-06-01 18:23:02 1BVALM-0000Bq-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/var/lib/mailman/mail/wrapper post mailman I installed mailman 2.0.11 with apt-get on a debian-woody / with exim. I did the configuration changes in exim.conf like it is described in http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman.html there is a user called exim and a group called exim on my server. who can help me? joachim

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Change user
by Eric Gropp 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Can I change the user that runs mailman? After installing mailman and Apache (and successfully running it for a few months), I have discovered that nobody is not a suitable user for this (PHP-Nuke isn't happy). Can anyone offer any suggestions short of reinstalling and migrating the existing list? Thank you in advance.

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Problems with news2email gateway after upgradingfrom 2.1.2 to 2.1.5
by Eric McDonald 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

OKAY-- So thanks for pointing me at the FAQ. I looked at the crontab.in file in <sourcetree>/cron and I find the following entry in there: 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news Funny thing is, it started working all by itself. No more errors? Just how I like it. Thanks! Eric -----Original Message----- From: Todd [mailto:Freedom_Lover@pobox.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:02 PM To: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with news2email gateway after upgradingfrom 2.1.2 to 2.1.5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 8:14 PM -0400 2004/06/01, Todd wrote: >> >> The qrunners aren't called via cron anymore, but there are still other >> functions that Mailman 2.1+ uses cron for. From the INSTALL file for >> 2.1.5: > > Sorry, I completely spaced out. I don't know what I was smoking > at the time I said that Hehe, I won't ask -- I'll just drool jealously. > Beats the hell out of me why I didn't remember that.... Perhaps 'cause you're busy answering tons of questions here and being an all around helpful fellow? :) - -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xD654075A | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. -- Alfred Adler -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: When crypto is outlawed bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. iD8DBQFAvScmuv+09NZUB1oRAq7fAKDBQOkkwf4CtqNChGdGk2IqJmbkAwCgl26e x2iG1L5oYKlC2A6xcyDCQu0= =srOk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users(a)python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ ************************************************************************************************** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. It is intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any one or make copies. ** eSafe scanned this email for viruses, vandals (DBSB) and malicious content ** **************************************************************************************************

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Problems with news2email gateway after upgrading from 2.1.2 to 2.1.5
by Eric McDonald 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hi Guys: I'm getting the following errors in my log after upgrading to mailman 2.1.5 from 2.1.2 I need this news to email gateway functionality as we are the de facto proxy for users on the soc.org.nonprofit list. Please advise ASAP on how I can get the list server linked back up to my news server. Thanks, Eric Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): Traceback (most recent call last): Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 284, in ? Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): main() Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 264, in main Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): process_lists(lock) Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 208, in process_lists Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): conn, first, last = open_newsgroup(mlist) Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): File "/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 94, in open_newsgroup Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): nntp_host, nntp_port = Utils.nntpsplit(mlist.nntp_host) Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): AttributeError : 'module' object has no attribute 'nntpsplit' Jun 01 16:33:04 2004 (6937) Uncaught runner exception: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_sender' Jun 01 16:33:05 2004 (6937) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 159, in _onefile sender = msg.get_sender() AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_sender' Jun 01 16:33:05 2004 (6937) SHUNTING: 1086127558.5522461+433e09262469428e6a5b0db171f88cc065c4a323 ************************************************************************************************** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. It is intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any one or make copies. ** eSafe scanned this email for viruses, vandals (DBSB) and malicious content ** **************************************************************************************************

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Problems with news2email gateway after upgrading from 2.1.2 to 2.1.5
by Eric McDonald 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hi: Thanks for getting back to me. Python 2.3 on Solaris 2.6 It was working fine with version 2.1.2? Which I just upgraded from? Yes, I do have an entry in my crontab file for this: # crontab -l mailman # At 8AM every day, mail reminders to admins as to pending requests. # They are less likely to ignore these reminders if they're mailed # early in the morning, but of course, this is local time... ;) 0 8 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/checkdbs # # At 9AM, send notifications to disabled members that are due to be # reminded to re-enable their accounts. 0 9 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled # # Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold delivery. 0 12 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests # # 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders. 0 5 1 * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds # # Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail. You can comment this one out # if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right now, # or want to exclusively use a callback strategy instead of polling. 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news # # At 3:27am every night, regenerate the gzip'd archive file. Only # turn this on if the internal archiver is used and # GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES is false in mm_cfg.py 27 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip # Remove any camp held message more than three days old 0 0 * * * /usr/local/mailman/bin/removecampheld.sh 0 1 * * * /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s stop 1 1 * * * /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -s start _None_ of these entries are needed anymore? Including sending out passwords and digests? Thanks, Eric -----Original Message----- From: Brad Knowles [mailto:brad.knowles@skynet.be] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:52 PM To: Eric McDonald Cc: mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Problems with news2email gateway after upgrading from 2.1.2 to 2.1.5 At 1:38 PM -1000 2004/06/01, Eric McDonald wrote: > Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): Traceback (most recent call last): > Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): File >"/usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 284, in ? Mailman 2.1.x doesn't use cron anymore. The fact that "cron" appears in this URL would seem to be an indicator that you are upgrading from version 2.0.x to 2.1.5, not 2.1.2 to 2.1.5. Is that correct? > Jun 01 14:50:12 2004 gate_news(27744): AttributeError : 'module' >object has no attribute 'nntpsplit' > Jun 01 16:33:04 2004 (6937) Uncaught runner exception: 'str' object >has no attribute 'get_sender' > Jun 01 16:33:05 2004 (6937) Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop > self._onefile(msg, msgdata) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 159, in _onefile > sender = msg.get_sender() > AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get_sender' You don't tell us anything about the OS you're using, what version of Python you have, etc.... However, I would ask if you've seen the FAQ entry at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq05.008.htp>? -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles(a)skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info. ************************************************************************************************** The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential. It is intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any one or make copies. ** eSafe scanned this email for viruses, vandals (DBSB) and malicious content ** **************************************************************************************************

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TypeError via config_list
by Paul Makepeace 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hi, Attempting to edit a list I haven't looked at in a while generated errors on the /mailman/admin form. I then tried to peel open the config but config_list failed: # config_list -o /tmp/events events Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/config_list", line 348, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/config_list", line 341, in main do_output(listname, outfile) File "/usr/sbin/config_list", line 117, in do_output do_list_categories(mlist, k, None, outfp) File "/usr/sbin/config_list", line 127, in do_list_categories info = mlist.GetConfigInfo(k, subcat) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 428, in GetConfigInfo value = gui.GetConfigInfo(self, category, subcat) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Gui/General.py", line 53, in GetConfigInfo optvals = [mlist.new_member_options & bitfields[o] for o in OPTIONS] TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for &: 'list' and 'int' # I've seen this on Google but nothing with a result. This is mailman 2.1.4-4 Debian/testing. The list was created Oct/03. What can I do to recover the list? Even just pulling out a list of members would be enough. Thanks, Paul -- Paul Makepeace ................................ http://paulm.com/ecademy "If you are not on top, then sharks would get some barbecue." -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

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detecting certain file types in attachments
by Andy Rowan 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hi group, I am running mailman 2.1.2 and sendmail. I've got amavisd plugged in as a milter in sendmail, so everything passing through the server is scanned for viruses. My concern is that with the proliferation of variants that often hit us pretty hard in the few days it can take for the antivirus software to get updated, I want to block certain types of files from coming through as attachments. But I want to allow other types. For the ordinary mail being delivered to our users, we do that with a set of procmail rules. I'd like to be able to do the same kind of filtering on mailman messages. I am operating under the assumption that the content-type field isn't to be trusted, since the virus writer could make a bogus one of those. My experiments indicate that one can fake that field to look like something benign, even putting a benign file name there, and if the content-disposition field has a different file name with a different extension, Eudora at least will favor the content-disposition field. So if content-type says it's a pdf and has a filename ending in pdf, but content-disposition says the filename ends in .zip, Eudora will launch winzip. I assume .exe and .scr and so forth would work the same, but I haven't tested that explicitly. So what I want to be able to do is filter based on the content-disposition field. This is trivially easy to do in procmail, but in the normal mailman sequence, messages never see procmail. So, can I (a) recreate this capability in mailman, or (b) cause mailman to invoke procmail somehow? The content filtering option on the web interface seems to look at content-type, not content-disposition. I'm hoping to find a way to do it one of those two ways rather than having to add a whole other package like mimedefang into the mix, just to keep things simpler. The relevant parts of the procmail expressions look like this: filename=".*\.(ad[ep]|ba[st]|chm|cmd|com|cpl|crt|dll|dot|eml|exe|hlp|hta|in[fs]|isp|jse?|lnk|md[aetwz]|ms[cipt]|ocx|ops|pcd|pif|prf|pot|reg|sc[frt]|sh[bs]|sys|vb[es]?|ws[cfh]|xl[abdmtv]|\{[-0-9a-f]+\}.*)" filename=".*\.(ace|ar[cj]|bh|bz(ip)?2|cab|t?gz|lha|lzh|[jrt]ar|uue|xxe|zip|zoo|z)" Any thoughts? Thanks. -Andy

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Startup issues after upgrade (2.1.4 - 2.1.5)
by Chip Cuccio 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Hi. I upgraded my installation of MM from 2.1.4 to 2.1.5. I followed the instructions/tips mentioned in the 'UPGRADING' file. After I had upgraded, and attempted to start MM, I receive the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 547, in ? main() File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 340, in main check_privs() File "/var/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 287, in check_privs gid = grp.getgrnam(mm_cfg.MAILMAN_GROUP)[2] KeyError: 'getgrnam(): name not found' Anyone have any tips to help my troubleshooting effort? I am running MM on a Red Hat Linux 7.3 server with Python 2.3.3. MM was compiled against Python 2.3.3. Thanks. -- Chip Cuccio | <chipster(a)norlug.org> NORLUG SysAdmin & Webmaster | <http://norlug.org/~chipster/> Northfield Linux Users' Group | Northfield, Minnesota USA

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Problems with Spanish lenguage
by Sebastián Balboa 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

I have been installed mailman version 2.1.5, and work fine, but when I put the Spanish language in any configuration list, mailman give me a bug html page, or if a message include a la Spanish letter like "ñ", it give me a bug page too. I want to know if it possible how can i solve this problem. Well, thank you very much. Sebastian Balboa

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Corrupt subscribers file
by Con Wieland 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

After upgrading I have lists that now have invalid addresses, for example: mb@poisson@usc.edu Also some have ? marks at the end also causing problems When running: https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/admin/soe-enewsletter/members I get the following error: 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 22: ordinal not in range(128) The list works otherwise and folks can continue to subscribe and unsubscribe. The only way I have found to remedy this is to remove the list and add it back. Does anyone have any ideas on an easier way to recover? Con Wieland Network and Academic Computing Services UC Irvine

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