Mailman 3 June 2004 - Mailman-Users

Uncaught bounces
by Kevin W. Gagel June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

What information do the developers need to add detection for unknown automated messages? Where do I send that information? I am using Netwin's DMail package with their DRespond for automated messages. It adds a header is that all Mailman needs to know about? ==================== Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator (250) 561-5848 local 448 (250) 562-2131 local 448 -------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca … [View More]

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Monitoring MailMan
by mail June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Hey everyone, I am looking for a way to monitor mailman so that if the service crashes or stops then it will be restarted. I have been looking into watchdog but i am not sure if it will work for this. Anyone used watchdog? How does it know if the service is halted and not still running. I have also been thinking about using webmin. Anyone used webmin to monitor mailman? Basically I am look for a good way to keep this service up and running for my users. Thanks for the help, Vince

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Regular expressions/whitelists
by Robert G. Brown June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Dear Mailman users (and hopefully administrators and/or programmers), We have some campus lists that we'd like to leave open to members and everybody with addresses such as (in regexp form) .*@.*duke\.edu but cause all postings from non-duke.edu addresses to be held for the moderator. I cannot see how to do this with mailman's current privacy settings -- I had thought one could "whitelist" by domain at the administrator interface level with a suitable regular expression, but when I try … [View More]

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Subscribe Commands
by Mike Phillips June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Isn't it possible to configure MM such that a message sent to listname- request(a)domain.com subscribes a new member? I thought it worked that way, but I cannot get it to work. The Help message shows that subscribe is an option. Maybe something is set wrong.

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Server set up Doc.
by Billy Jack Dial June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Hello, Do you need to set up a dns entry for list.host.com? Do you need to set up a new web site for list.host.com, or a alies. I set up mail man and all works fine just can't access the web site list.host.com. says unable to locate server?? Thanks.

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Group Mismatch
by Patrick Savelberg June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Hi, i'm new to the mailman ... i installed it with my macosx server 10.3.4 ... and i put back the database from the early installation ... When i want to sent a mail to the mailing list i get this error <dkvall(a)dkv.nl>: Command died with status 2: "/usr/share/mailman/mail/mailman post dkvall". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as … [View More]

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Problems...
by Tommaso Leonardi June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Hi, I've a little problem, i hope you can help me :) I've a Linux Mandrake 10 server with Postfix and Apache. The problem is tha when i create a new ML i get this error: Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 226, in process_request sys.modules[modname]… [View More].create(mlist, cgi=1) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /usr/local/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.3.3 (#2, Feb 17 2004, 11:45:40) [GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python sys.prefix /usr sys.exec_prefix /usr sys.path /usr sys.platform linux2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP_REFERER http://itm5.homeip.net/mailman/create SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.31 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.31 Server at itm5.homeip.net Port 80 REQUEST_METHOD POST SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING CONTENT_LENGTH 140 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive HTTP_COOKIE comunicazioni+admin=280200000069ebaab940732800000032633638333230353362666130373464383833623231323335643935333162626635343836363737; primah+admin=28020000006917d5b940732800000063643765366330356536666436623730373533306663623035663531623034313164636135356365; primah+user+tleonardi--at--fastwebnet.it=; qwe+admin=280200000069acd8b940732800000066336236663966646362393233323563346464353762316236653238373466373466353938646634; lang=italian; phpbb2mysql_data=a%3A2%3A%7Bs%3A11%3A%22autologinid%22%3Bs%3A0%3A%22%22%3Bs%3A6%3A%22userid%22%3Bs%3A1%3A%222%22%3B%7D; user=MjpGZWFybGVzczpkM2JkNTBhODFmZWFjMzE3ZjZhYWY2OTBkMjkwYmFiODoxMDo6MDowOjA6MDo6NDA5Ng%3D%3D; admin=RmVhcmxlc3M6ZDNiZDUwYTgxZmVhYzMxN2Y2YWFmNjkwZDI5MGJhYjg6aXRhbGlhbg%3D%3D SERVER_NAME itm5.homeip.net REMOTE_ADDR 62.101.126.217 SERVER_PORT 80 SERVER_ADDR 82.105.56.188 DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/web/itm5 PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/create SERVER_ADMIN itm5(a)fastwebnet.it HTTP_HOST itm5.homeip.net HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL no-cache REQUEST_URI /mailman/create HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, */* GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 REMOTE_PORT 34207 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE it CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded REMOTE_HOST 62-101-126-217.fastres.net HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate The first list i create, even if i got the same error, works very well. The other lists i create are able to sends massages, but whe i try to write to list@domain i receive a MTA error saing that the local user doesn't exist... I'm sorry if i write in the list with a bad english and without waiting some days after the subscription, but i absolutely need the list working in few days. Thakyou very much, Tommaso [View Less]

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Errors running check_db
by Bruce Embrey June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Mailman Users: When running check_db -av I get an error on some lists "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/mailman/lists/listname/config.db.last'. Some of my lists have a number of files in their directories and some have only two (config.pck and config.pck.last). Is this a problem and what can be done to correct it? Also is it safe to tar up the entire mailman directory while mailman and the MTAand the HTTP servers are running? Bruce Embrey

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Adding a user via email
by Brad Knowles June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

At 12:37 PM -0400 2004/05/27, Albert Clawson wrote: > We have people who call us up and ask to be placed on our mailing list. > Is there a way we can send an email command to the list that will then > send out a confirmation request? Sure. You'll have to pretend to be the person who called you up, but anyone can use the e-mail interface to Mailman. See the documentation. -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles(a)skynet.be> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a … [View More]

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Web admin interface (permissions) problem
by Alexandra West June 1, 2004

June 1, 2004

Hello everybody, We're running Mailman 2.1.4 with Python 2.2 on Woody (kernel 2.1.43), Apache 1.3.26. I have no problem configuring the lists from /var/lib/mailman/bin and viewing the results in the web admin interface. However, whenever I try to change anything through the web interface, all changes are lost after hitting the Submit changes button. I've checked permissions and compared it to the setup of Mailman 2.0.11 on another machine where the interface is working, but to no avail. I'm … [View More]

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