Mailman 3 July 2004 - Mailman-Users

Trouble with mailman and apache 2
by C. P. July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

Hello everybody: I new to this list and to mailman too. Im running away from majordomo. Installed mailman and seems to work ok, but cant make it work with apache2. It worked with apache 1.??. My search via google didnt find anything useful. In my first attemp with apache 1.??, it didnt work but tell me about /etc/mailman.cgi-gid and mailman.mail.gid and i fixed them. I tried with the original and the set that worked with apache 1.??. Didnt work, but i think that the problem is near the … [View More]ownership. Thank you for your help, Carlos Pantelides Here is my data: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cpu: Pentium II 266 memory: 96 MB real, plus 200Mb swap hard disk: 6G half free, reiserfs linux 2.4.21, suse 9.0 apache2-2.0.48 prefork postfix 2.0.14 amavisd-new-20030616 spamassassin-2.55 ClamAV version 0.74 (all but clamav from suse 9.0 rpms) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Mailman/mm_cfg.py------------------------------ ################################################## # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line. DEFAULT_NNTP_HOST = 'www.xxxxxx.com' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'xxxxxx.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.xxxxxx.com' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://www.xxxxxx.com/mailman/' MTA = 'Postfix' POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/sbin/postalias' POSTFIX_MAP_CMD = '/usr/sbin/postmap' DELIVERY_MODUL = 'SMTPDirect' SMTPHOST = 'localhost' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) Note: configured via /etc/sysconfig and SuSEconfig ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------mailman/bin/check_perms------------------------------ No problems found ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------/etc/httpd/mailman.conf--------------------------------- ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/> Options +FollowSymLinks </Directory> Note: i think that it is working because it gives me another king of error if i point www.xxxxxx.com/mailman/no_page ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------ls -l cgi-bin---------------------------------------- total 240 drwxrwsr-x 2 root mailman 344 Mar 11 13:47 . drwxrwsr-x 15 root mailman 392 Jul 29 16:37 .. -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17095 Oct 15 2003 admin -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17103 Oct 15 2003 admindb -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17103 Oct 15 2003 confirm -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17095 Oct 15 2003 create -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17119 Oct 15 2003 editarch -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17119 Oct 15 2003 edithtml -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17119 Oct 15 2003 listinfo -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17103 Oct 15 2003 options -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17103 Oct 15 2003 private -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17095 Oct 15 2003 rmlist -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17095 Oct 15 2003 roster -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mailman 17127 Oct 15 2003 subscribe Note: i tried with root.mailman, wwwrun.mailman and mailman.mailman ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------http://www.xxxxxx.com/mailman/admin------------- Access forbidden! You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server. Error 403 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------/var/log/apache2/error.log--------------------------- [Thu Jul 29 08:29:43 2004] [error] [client 200.80.154.105] client denied by server configuration: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/admin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus [View Less]

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Instructions: Upgrading Mailman On Mac OS X Server 10.3
by Richard Plotkin July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

Hi, After a ridiculous amount of struggle, I've successfully upgraded Mailman on Mac OS X 10.3 Server where it will work with Apple's Server Admin application and also by the web interface. There may be a better way, but here's what I did, which at the very least shows the essential files (two of them apple-specific, which is why it's been a pain to upgrade from source). 1) Backup your current Mailman folders in case you screw this up. Mailman is split between two locations: /usr/… [View More]

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2 questions
by Tilo Jandt July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

Hi, is it possible to get mail with fetchmail and forward it to a local maillinglist? and second question: how and where could i change te design of the pipermail output? I wan't to insert my own CSS File to every generated archivepage but i don't know where. thanks and cya, Tilo ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Send mail through web interface.
by Paul H Byerly July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

On 05:01 AM 7/29/2004, mailman-users-request(a)python.org wrote: >I want to add some functionality to send an e-mail to a list in MailMan >through a web page. For anyone to reach this web page they will have to >be authenticated as a subscriber of the list. The web page will send an >e-mail to the list from a hidden e-mail address which will be the only >e-mail address that is allowed to post messages to the list. The reason >for this is that the list should be as private as … [View More]

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Send mail through web interface.
by Paul H Byerly July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

On 05:01 AM 7/29/2004, mailman-users-request(a)python.org wrote: >I want to add some functionality to send an e-mail to a list in MailMan >through a web page. For anyone to reach this web page they will have to >be authenticated as a subscriber of the list. The web page will send an >e-mail to the list from a hidden e-mail address which will be the only >e-mail address that is allowed to post messages to the list. The reason >for this is that the list should be as private as … [View More]

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Admin login problems
by Terry Robbins July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

Mailman has been working fine on our Mac OSX Server 10.3.4 for months. This morning when attempting to log in to the Admin interface Mailman is suddenly returning an error. Can anyone point me in the right direction to resolve this issue? Log in attempt returns the following: Bug in Mailman version 2.1.2 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/… [View More]

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Send mail through web interface.
by Thomas Bruusgaard July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

Hi, I want to add some functionality to send an e-mail to a list in MailMan through a web page. For anyone to reach this web page they will have to be authenticated as a subscriber of the list. The web page will send an e-mail to the list from a hidden e-mail address which will be the only e-mail address that is allowed to post messages to the list. The reason for this is that the list should be as private as possible. Could anyone give me some hints as to where to start? … [View More]

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Involuntary attachment archiving bug
by Christian Balzer July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

Hello, Versions first, this is Debian Sarge, so mailman 2.1.4-5 and python 2.3.4-1. And I'm perfectly fine to take this up with the Debian package maintainer, but I believe this to be not entirely distribution specific. 2 days ago a mailing list here stopped working while all other lists on the same server continued to work. All new mails to it wound up in qfiles/shunt and a typical error.log entry looked like this: --- Jul 28 16:06:58 2004 (27374) SHUNTING: 1090998399.1266079+… [View More]7ffb6a7f9ae96f08b57292134da84fc995792442 Jul 28 16:10:07 2004 (27374) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 36] File name too long: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/abuse/attachments/20040727/f9525c89/iso-2022-jpBSRskQicwGyhCNSAtIDVJIC0gODYgLSAbJEInISdfJ1QnXSdaJ20bKEIiso-2022-jpBGyRCJ2MnXCdaJ1sbKEIgGyRCJ2MbKEIgGyRCJ2EnYidWJ2EnYCdVGyhCiso-2022-jpBGyRCJ1EnUydRJ2QnViddJ3EnXidaGyhCIBskQidaGyhCiso-2022-jpBGyRCJ1kbKEIgGyRCJzMbKEIgGyRCJzobKEIgGyRCJyEbKEIuZW1s.mht' Jul 28 16:10:07 2004 (27374) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 110, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 160, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 91, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 132, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 306, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 240, in process url = save_attachment(mlist, part, dir) File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 447, in save_attachment fp = open(path, 'w') IOError: [Errno 36] File name too long: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/abuse/attachments/20040727/f9525c89/iso-2022-jpBSRskQicwGyhCNSAtIDVJIC0gODYgLSAbJEInISdfJ1QnXSdaJ20bKEIiso-2022-jpBGyRCJ2MnXCdaJ1sbKEIgGyRCJ2MbKEIgGyRCJ2EnYidWJ2EnYCdVGyhCiso-2022-jpBGyRCJ1EnUydRJ2QnViddJ3EnXidaGyhCIBskQidaGyhCiso-2022-jpBGyRCJ1kbKEIgGyRCJzMbKEIgGyRCJzobKEIgGyRCJyEbKEIuZW1s.mht' --- Note that: a) archiving is turned off for list. b) it rejected ALL mails like this, no matter if they actually had attachments or not. An unshunt of course did not fix things and in the end I "fixed" things the M$ way by blowing away the original list and re-creating it. After that the unshunt worked and new mails did get through fine, too. Alas it's still archiving (just) attachments, so I can foresee this happening again... So my question is: What the heck is causing it to archive those attachments in the first place? I don't want this stuff archived, esp. not considering it might trigger the above bug again. Of course somebody who understands the code might also want to take a look what caused it to create these oversized filenames (again, even for mails w/o attachments), since some lists do use archiving here. A guess would be something in a .db or .pck of that list did overflow, it sees a LOT of traffic (1000 mails/day). Regards, Christian Balzer -- Christian Balzer Network/Systems Engineer NOC chibi(a)gol.com Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Network Services http://www.gol.com/ [View Less]

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Moderating from the command line
by David Richards July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

Hi all, I need to bounce messages automatically to certain lists - at the moment they sut waiting for moderation. These lists have a select number of senders, the rest I just need to bounce. Can I write a script to bounce these using the command line or something? Any ideas, anyone?? Thanks, David Richards Senior Network Programmer Information Technology Services Queensland University of Technology

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Postings From AOL - Problems
by Hunter Hillegas July 29, 2004

July 29, 2004

We are running 2.1.5 with Sendmail on RHEL 2.1. We have a announce-only list. The announcer is sending from AOL client v8. This client CAN ONLY send HTML mail. There is no way (according to AOL) to get it to send plain text. The list is setup to filter the content and convert to plain text. We don't want any HTML going out, just plain text. He always sends from the same machine. Sometimes the messages are unreadable by a large group of the list members. When they are unreadable, the content … [View More]

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