Mailman 3 September 2004 - Mailman-Users

Problem with incorrect link to archives: It links to someone elses site!!
by Chanchao Sept. 6, 2004

Sept. 6, 2004

Hi, I'm not quite sure if this is a know bug or a configuration issue somewhere.. Problem is that the "Go to list archives" link points to a completely different site that I've never heard of. Note that this happens no matter how I set the archiving settings (archiving on or off, public or private, it makes no difference) Now my users are worried that users of this other site are having access to our mail. Any thoughts? The link is here: http://bkknights.netasia.org/mailman/private/list_bkknights.netasia.org/ And somehow this results in some San Fransisco based astronomers website that I have nothing to do with. Virtual internet worm hole? :-) It's possible that the SF based site is hosted on the same hosting provider as my domain is; that's the only connection I can think of. Cheers, Chanchao

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couple quick questions - mailman on obsd
by Will Yardley Sept. 6, 2004

Sept. 6, 2004

So I installed Mailman from ports on OpenBSD 3.5, and added the following to mm_cfg.py after "from Defaults import *" DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mailman.code404.com' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mailman.code404.com' add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST) yet messages that are sent out still reference localhost.my.domain. I restarted mailman via mailmanctl just in case that was necessary (I don't think it should be anyway), and tried reversing the order too. Nothing weird in the Mailman logs that I can find. Must be missing something dumb... anyone have any ideas? Also, I should know this one, but what is needed for Apache (1.3.29) to recognize the stuff in cgi-bin/ as executable without the .cgi extension? I don't see anything weird in the Apache config on a FreeBSD machine w/ a similar setup, yet if I go to the appropriate link on the new machine, it just spits out the contents of the file rather than executing it. Didn't see anything in the install documentation that suggests the need to add anything for this. In the VirtualHost container, I have: DocumentRoot /usr/local/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ ServerName mailman.code404.com ServerAlias mailman.code404.com UseCanonicalName off Options Includes Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Alias /pipermail/ "/var/spool/mailman/archives/public/" <Directory "/var/spool/mailman/archives/public/"> AllowOverride All AddDefaultCharset Off </Directory> Since I want it to show up at the base domain, there's no ServerAlias. I'm sure I'm probably missing something important here too - someone want to clue me in? -- "Since when is skepticism un-American? Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same..." (Sleater-Kinney - "Combat Rock")

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Using mailman with dial-up Internet access
by Steve Mansfield Sept. 6, 2004

Sept. 6, 2004

I understand that it's perfectly possible to use mailman on a server that has only dial-up access to the Internet. However, I'd like to get a firm grasp of the downsides of doing this before I go to the effort of installing it. My setup is this: Linux box running Fetchmail, Postfix, Procmail, Qpopper, Apache. This sits on a LAN and access the net through an ISDN router. My plan was to have list messages go to a POP server at my hosting provided from where I would download them with Fetchmail, which would then forward them to user 'mailman' on this server. Any problem with that? Now, obviously I'm going to lose the web-based features for users, so it's going to be an email-only system. What I'd like to know is how much of a loss that would really be. I can get a list of the features I'd be missing from the manuals etc - what I really want to know is how important people feel this is - ie, a subjective response. Am I really crippling the system this way (and would therefore be better off opening a group on Yahoo), or would I be losing only moderately useful features? All informed opinions would be gratefully received. -- @+ Steve

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Redirecting from one list to another
by Bruce Embrey Sept. 5, 2004

Sept. 5, 2004

Mailman Users: I am running Mailman 2.1.5. I have several lists where one is allstudents, and several others that are a subset such as commuters, residents, etc. Sometimes messages are sent to the allstudents list which should have been sent to one of the other lists. How do I redirect the message to the subset list without it going to the allstudents list? Can this be done through the admin interface? If not then how? Thanks, Bruce Embrey

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announce only
by desi6n Sept. 5, 2004

Sept. 5, 2004

Sorry to bother you - I'm having trouble with one of my client's mail list. It should be set up so no one except the administrator / moderator can post to the list - but people have been responding to the email and it is getting distrubuted to everyone else on the list. How can I make it so the list is announce only and can't be responded to? Also how do I set it up so the footer does not get sent? Right now it is being sent as an attachment and my client doesn't want that. Thanks _______________________________________________ No banners. No pop-ups. No kidding. Make My Way your home on the Web - http://www.myway.com

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error in posting message
by teuku hasbullah Sept. 5, 2004

Sept. 5, 2004

I use mailman 2.1.5, solaris 5.9 o/s, python 2.2 and sendmail for MTA i have install mailman and have no problem in subscribe or unsubscribe member, but when i try to post message to one of milis, the members cann't receive a message. i have look to MTA log, like this : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sep 1 09:37:05 telkomisc sendmail[26082]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i812b50P026082: from=uci, size=103, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid= <200409010237.i812b50P026082(a)telkomisc.localdomain>, relay=uci@localhost Sep 1 09:37:05 telkomisc sendmail[26083]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i812b5QD026083: from=<uci(a)telkomisc.localdomain>, size=361, c lass=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200409010237.i812b50P026082(a)telkomisc.localdomain>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA-v4, relay=localhost [127. 0.0.1] Sep 1 09:37:05 telkomisc sendmail[26082]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i812b50P026082: to=test(a)telkomisc.localdomain, ctladdr=uci (1 012/1), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30103, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (i812b5Q D026083 Message accepted for delivery) Sep 1 09:37:07 telkomisc sendmail[26084]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i812b5QD026083: to="|/home/mailman/mail/mailman post test", c tladdr=<test(a)telkomisc.localdomain> (1/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=prog, pri=30581, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- its seem oke, then i try to looking for other log in mailman, there is no error can some body help me, please, a have try everything but still can'y post message than's for help --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!

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Mailing list sends multiple copies of itself
by Benedetta Manocchio Sept. 5, 2004

Sept. 5, 2004

Ooops. I created a mailing list, but when I send a test email to the mailing list, multiple copies arrive in the inboxes. What did I do wrong? How do I correct this? Thanks, B --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone.

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Unauthorized Access to APPL Mailing list
by Nancy Kotz Sept. 5, 2004

Sept. 5, 2004

Hello - APPL uses Jaguar PC as our web host and we have 2 mailing lists set up through their service. We use 1 of those mailing list for our electronic newsletter. When the newsletter went out today I received a call that when it was forward to several other people by one of our subscribers those that received the forward also received an unauthorized attachment that was pornographic in nature. Needless to say we are very upset by this incident. I did notice that on the public html page when I chose to view the mailing lists for APPL.ORG, there was an unauthorized list and none of our real lists were there. That unauthorized list is Immagina_percorsiumanisti.net. When I clicked on that list the public html was all in Spanish. Fortunately, when I did the same thing from the password protected administrative page, our real mailing lists were there. Your immediate attention to this matter is greatly appreciated. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions or need additional information. Nancy C. Kotz Member Services Coordinator Association of Partners for Public Lands Strengthening Public Land Partnerships nkotz(a)appl.org or appl(a)appl.org Phone: 301-946-9475, extension 24; FAX: 301-946-9478 See you in Portland, Oregon! Portland Pathways 2005, March 6-10th http://www.appl.org/conventions.html

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[PATCH] Charset.py
by David Relson Sept. 5, 2004

Sept. 5, 2004

Fix typo. --- mailman-2.1.5/misc/email-2.5.5/email/Charset.py.orig 2004-09-05 11:37:31.984281632 -0400 +++ mailman-2.1.5/misc/email-2.5.5/email/Charset.py 2004-09-05 11:37:39.941072016 -0400 @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ 'ks_c_5601-1987': 'korean.cp949', 'iso-2022-kr': 'korean.iso-2022-kr', 'johab': 'korean.johab', - 'gb2132': 'eucgb2312_cn', + 'gb2312': 'eucgb2312_cn', 'big5': 'big5_tw', 'utf-8': 'utf-8', # Hack: We don't want *any* conversion for stuff marked us-ascii, as all

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Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding
by David Relson Sept. 5, 2004

Sept. 5, 2004

Greetings, Yesterday morning I learned that my mailing lists weren't processing messages. When I checked, I discovered that qrunner wasn't running. That was easily fixed with "mailmanctl restart". This morning I decided to investigate and looked at /var/log/mailman/errors where I found Sep 02 04:38:56 2004 (27368) Uncaught runner exception: unknown encoding: gb2312 Sep 02 04:38:56 2004 (27368) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 239, in _dispose res.do_command('join') File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 137, in do_command return handler.process(self, args) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Commands/cmd_subscribe.py", line 87, in process h = make_header(decode_header(realname)) File "/home/relson/tmp/RPM/mailman-buildroot/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email /Header.py", line 144, in make_header File "/home/relson/tmp/RPM/mailman-buildroot/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/email /Header.py", line 272, in append LookupError: unknown encoding: gb2312 Sep 02 04:38:56 2004 (27368) SHUNTING: 1094114335.1847119+d8738c5b43545415c1f7eaa818f52c7289f1a8ea The FAQ don't mention this problem, so I googled for "LookupError: unknown encoding:" and didn't find a solution. FWIW, I've checked email/Charsets.py and it does have a gb2312 entry I'm running mailman-2.1.5 on Mandrake 10.0 on Intel with kernel-2.4.22. Any other info needed?? Regards, David

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