Mailman 3 July 2004 - Mailman-Users

Internal Server Error after installation
by Simon Weil 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Hi Newsgroup, I've got a problem with the Mailman-installation. I installed Mailman as root on a RedHat 9-Server. Everything seems ok, but when I visit /admin in my web-browser I get a 500-Error (Internal Server Error). I tried to execute the admin-script in the shell as root, then I got the failure-message: <title>Mailman CGI error!!!</title> </head><body> <h1>Mailman CGI error!!!</h1> The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: <pre> Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the CGI wrapper script to be executed as one of the following groups: [apache], but the system's web server executed the CGI script as group: "root". Try tweaking the web server to run the script as one of these groups: [apache], or re-run configure providing the command line option: '--with-cgi-gid=root'.</pre> I've searched the Mail-Archive and found a lot of entries, heading the same problem, but I couldn't find the answer. Can anybody help me and tell me what I have to do? I think I have to change something with the groups or owners, but I don't know exactly how and where. Thanks for your help! Simon Weil

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problem with Digest options
by Joseph Cain 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

I submitted a post to waverly-l(a)tfn.net Saturday and it appeared in the Archive. However, it was not sent out to the Digest mailing list until I triggered its so doing manually. However,in the Digest options I have the item checked for it to send out the digest daily even if the messages do not meet the limit. we are running 2.14 -- Joseph Cain cain(a)tfn.net (850) 385-0227 or fax after prior call to setup http://www.tfn.net/~cain

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Dating Ring
by zzizzle.com 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

I am building a dating system called Nerdlicious.com and I have a few questions: 1) I wanted to set it up so the emails of people posting to the group are covered up, but when members reply, it gets sent to the poster's email automatically - The replyer's email address is then revealed to that person only, and they can email from there if they are a good match. When I insert the reply address to use to cover up the anonymous posters' email address, I would guess I would lose that ability. Any suggestions? 2) I want groups separated by city, so people in Atlanta can join one group, people in NYC another, etc. And one each for straight / gay male / gay female, so I ended up creating many, many separate discussion lists. I get the feeling that I could be accomplishing this by setting up topics, or using the MAIL/NEWS gateways or some kind of content filtering, where people could choose which types of messages they want to receive. Any suggestions? 3) I was also curious how secure these lists are from hackers... if anyone has built them for kids, if the security is high enough to attempt that. Thanks a lot guys! Jonathan zzizzle.com - Adventures in Human Happiness.™

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mailman and windows
by JANDIN, Renaud 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Dear all, We would like to use mailman in a windows environment. Is it possible? Can you help? By using cygwin we cannot have private mailing lists but we need to have private mailing lists. Any hints on how we can do that? Thanks

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OS X Server 10.3.4 Issues
by James Hillhouse 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

I could be wrong about this, but I recalled about a month or so ago coming across something on the Mailman site about issues for OS X 10.3.4 users. Mailman is broken now that I upgraded from OS X Server 10.3.2 to .4. I know this isn't your problem (it's Apple's), but if there is some fix, I'd love to hear about it. The error I get when creating a new mailing list using my browser is enclosed below. Thanks, Jim Hillhouse jdhouse4(a)nwerx.com Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 55, in main process_request(doc, cgidata) File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line 217, in process_request sys.modules[modname].create(mlist, cgi=1) File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /private/var/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Variable Value sys.version 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python sys.prefix /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 sys.exec_prefix /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 sys.path /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 sys.platform darwin Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP_REFERER http://serverone.nwerx.com/mailman/create SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.29 (Darwin) DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.3.2 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.29 Server at serverone.nwerx.com Port 16080 REQUEST_METHOD POST SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING CONTENT_LENGTH 155 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/146.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/146 HTTP_CONNECTION close HTTP_COOKIE nwerx+admin=280200000069bae003417328000000336264306134663365343736643065 36336439353038396365356665383933666261653437613932; nwerx- list+admin=280200000069b029044173280000003038343263326637396130313265303 7316333623862646139303066306138323138626465613830 SERVER_NAME serverone.nwerx.com REMOTE_ADDR 209.198.147.174 HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR 66.68.98.59 SERVER_PORT 16080 SERVER_ADDR 209.198.147.174 DOCUMENT_ROOT /Users/nwerx/Sites PYTHONPATH /usr/share/mailman SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/mailman/cgi-bin/create SERVER_ADMIN admin(a)nwerx.com SCRIPT_URI http://serverone.nwerx.com:16080/mailman/create HTTP_HOST serverone.nwerx.com SCRIPT_URL /mailman/create REQUEST_URI /mailman/create HTTP_ACCEPT */* GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 REMOTE_PORT 49766 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en, ja;q=0.92, ja-jp;q=0.96, fr;q=0.88, de-de;q=0.85, de;q=0.81, es;q=0.77, it-it;q=0.73, it;q=0.69, nl-nl;q=0.65, nl;q=0.62, sv-se;q=0.58, sv;q=0.54, no-no;q=0.50, no;q=0.46, da-dk;q=0.42, da;q=0.38, fi-fi;q=0.35, fi;q=0.31 __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING 0x46:0:0 CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate;q=1.0, identity;q=0.5, *;q=0

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New mailman admin questions
by Rob Stampfli 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

I am a new administrator of a mailman 2.1.5 package on a Linux Fedora Core 1 box, as well as being new subscriber to this group, so my apologies in advance if my questions have been asked and answered elsewhere. I have looked through the FAQ at www.python.org (excellent document, btw) and didn't really find any answers to the following there. So... 1. Is it possible to cause 'config_list -i' to take input from stdin instead of a file? 2. I can force a list to be associated with a particular virtual host by using 'config_list' to modify "web_page_url" (but it complains when doing so). Is there a better way to do this? And, while we're on the topic of "web_page_url", why is "web_page_url" not listed among the parameters reported by 'config_list -o'? 3. Is there any reason to have the "News" qrunner active if I'm not passing any mail to a news server? (I have turned it off in my mm_cfg.py.) 4. Can I invoke the qrunner task from cron ('qrunner -o -r All') on a regular basis in lieu of running qrunner as a background daemon? I think this is the way it used to work. It would seem this might be a reasonable tradeoff of CPU cycles for memory for me in my slice of a low-memory VPS. (It appears to me that running qrunner as a daemon, with the associated processes takes about 25 Megs of memory.) Will this cause any problems (besides making the cron logs balloon)? 5. The FAQ discusses several ways of forcing mailman to use a secure apache connection (https). Is there a way of forcing the admin functions to a secure connection, without requiring the same for the list users? (Actually, this may be moot, as it appears one can explicitly use https initially to protect the admin password when logging in; encrypting the rest of the session is less important to me. But, I'd like to force all administrative users to use a secure link, at least during the authentication phase.) Thanks in advance, Rob

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list not found
by Peter Chen 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

I get Mailman from my hosting service as a web-only interface. Recently, they moved me to a new server, and I've been getting this error on all my lists: list not found: mylist_mydomain This is coming from /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman post I snooped around a bit (I do not have shell access), and found that my lists reside in a drectory called /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/mylist_mydomain In there I find a request.pck file. Looking ar other lists for other domains (presumably they work), it seems they have a config.pck file as well as a config.pck.last. How can I fix this problem? It's been a week and my hosting support doesn't seem to have a clue. Did they somehow not copy these files over when they moved me? Can these files simply be copied over from the old server? Thanks for any help! Peter

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Probs with Mailman 2.1 & Redhat 9.0
by Alec Bennett 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

I'm going crazy and wondering if anyone can figure this one out. I'm trying to get Mailman 2.1 running on Redhat 9.0, almost there, but still one humungous problem: none of the list emails get sent out, and nothing is recorded to the archives. Interestingly, administrative emails (subscription notifications, etc.) work fine. Anyone have any idea about this? Thanks tremendously for any help. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

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FC1 update to 2.1.5 leaves me with -1 requests waiting
by Trevor Cordes 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

I just updated my FC1 to the latest mailman version. I followed the instructions in the notice that said to stop mm first and start it again after. However, I seem to still be getting the "-1 requests waiting" bug. All my lists reported this last night. How can I clear this up? (I searched July's archives and google and found now reference to this???)

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How to delete a thread or message.
by Tim Placek 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

I am the manager of a list at Auburn University. When we initially configured our list we allows "anyone" to post to the list (without review). This produced several messages in one thread that we would like to delete. Is there any facility within Mailman for this operation? Thanks! Tim Placek -- Timothy D. Placek, Ph.D. Undergraduate Program Committee Chair Department of Chemical Engineering 230 Ross Hall Auburn University, AL 36830-5127 Phone: (334)844-2022 Fax: (334)844-2063 Email: tplacek(a)eng.auburn.edu Webpage: <http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/tplacek> http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/tplacek

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