Mailman 3 September 2004 - Mailman-Users

OT: *Recommended* Mailman Hosts
by Hunter Hillegas Sept. 3, 2004

Sept. 3, 2004

Hello, I know that there is a page on the mailman site that talks about list hosting... I am interested in anyone's recommendations as to a specific host. Please contact me off-list as I would rather not fill the list up with off-topic traffic. Thanks, Hunter

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Mailman CGI error!!!
by Takahiro_Horie＠nidek.com Sept. 3, 2004

Sept. 3, 2004

Hello I downloaded the debian mailman package and tried to run it. But when I go to http://www.thorie.com/mailman/listinfo, I get this error: -------------------------------- Mailman CGI error!!! The expected gid of the Mailman CGI wrapper did not match the gid as set by the Web server. The most likely cause is that Mailman was configured and installed incorrectly. Please read the INSTALL instructions again, paying close attention to the --with-cgi-gid configure option. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 33, GOT gid -1. (Reconfigure to take -1?) -------------------------------- I looked on the mailman FAQ, but it says to reconfigure with some options. I didn't compile from source. I checked the mm_cfg.py file, but I don't see anywhere to set gid to -1. I'm not sure what to do at this point. By the way, I'm running Apache 2.0.50 and it is installed from source in /home/tak/httpd Can someone help me? Thanks, Takahiro

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Security in an nnouncement only list
by Jeff Pflueger Sept. 2, 2004

Sept. 2, 2004

Hi. I'm setting up an announcement only list on mailman 2.1: Only one email address announcing to an audience of several who receive messages. Everything is working great, but there seems to be a glaring security hole: Somebody can fake the From: in the email and post to the entire list. The best way around this (available in the Listserv software) is an email confirmation sent to the poster. Is there a way to set this up in mailman? Could I set up the poster to be moderated by himself or something like that? Thanks! Jeff

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sudden "group mismatch error"
by Ben Byrne Sept. 2, 2004

Sept. 2, 2004

Hey everyone. I just joined the list and this is my first post, so I apologize if it's out of sync with what's going on. I've been running Mailman happily on our server (mac os x server on an xserve) for months. But suddenly today things have gone awry. Specifically, I'm now getting this error when I try to post to a list: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post staff" (reason: 2) (expanded from: <staff(a)freepress.net>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 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 group "daemon". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=daemon'. Like I said, I've been running mailman for several months without problems, and am very surprised to get this message. Yesterday I made a minor change to our sendmail configuration (activated a feature), so I'm wondering if something hasn't changed in sendmail? I understand I can rerun the configuration, as it says, but I'd prefer to "tweak the mail server" back to however it was before (de-activating the feature didn't seem to help). I don't believe the change I made should have affected who sendmail runs scripts as, all I did was activate FEATURE(`relay_mail_from'), but here I am with a problem. Any help would be appreciated, I've got several live, active lists that are down as a result of this (!) Ben Byrne Information Coordinator Free Press 413.585.1533, x11 Support the media reform movement, become a member of the Free Press Action Fund! Visit http://www.freepress.net/support

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.5 subject line problem
by Rimgaudas Laucius Sept. 2, 2004

Sept. 2, 2004

Hello, i am sorry i was not very consistent describing problem because i was looking at the problem from the user point at first. That is why i said that mailman does not pass letters with national characters in subject line. I was not talking about encoded letter's source. After i investigeted sent letter's source i described problem differently: from system view point. I tried to switch on some encoding methods in my MUA and made hypothesis that problem is not related to encoding. But now i see that it is related only to windows encoding (with other encodings: ISO, UTF is all right) and i guess it is not python problem because i have installed 2.2.1 version.

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qmail vs mailman again
by David Cake Sept. 2, 2004

Sept. 2, 2004

The problem seems to be that mail to a list (say test@mailhost) is attempted to be delivered to mailman@mailhost, and that when the qmail-to-mailman.py script reads LOCAL with ( local = os.environ["LOCAL"]) it gets mailman, rather than list name. Any suggestions? /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains is mail.readylist.com.au:mailman, ~mailman/.qmail and .qmail-default are |/var/qmail/bin/preline /usr/bin/python /usr/local/mailman/qmail-to-mailman.py Regards David

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Re: Getting Mailman to work properly
by z002161 Sept. 2, 2004

Sept. 2, 2004

I believe i followed all the directions properly, but now when i send out an email to the mailing list i get the following error back: The Postfix program everyone(a)chemtool.be: Command died with status 2: "/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post everyone". Command output: Failure to exec script. WANTED gid 65533, GOT gid 67. 65533 is nobody, and 67 is mailman >digests.mbox is where posts are collected for eventual inclusion in the >digest. It has nothing to do with why the subscribers aren't receiving >mail unless they're all subscribed in digest rather than message mode. > >Visit the FAQ wizzard at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py and >see article 3.14 for some other things to check.

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mmsitepass broken in v 2.1.5?
by hesco＠greens.org Sept. 2, 2004

Sept. 2, 2004

These are the errors I get. Any clues? bash-2.05$ ./mmsitepass New site password: Again to confirm password: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./mmsitepass", line 105, in ? main() File "./mmsitepass", line 96, in main Utils.set_global_password(pw1, siteadmin) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 328, in set_global_password fp = open(filename, 'w') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/mailman/data/adm.pw' bash-2.05$

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Update batch of users?
by Brendan Chard Sept. 2, 2004

Sept. 2, 2004

I'm running a MM 2.1.4 server with 40 lists on it. One company that has many members subscribed to many lists has changed its domain name. Is there a way to easily update all members subscribed to lists with @domain1.com to make them @domain2.com or will each user have to log in individually and update their own address? -Brendan

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subject prefix missing
by Christian Wix Sept. 2, 2004

Sept. 2, 2004

Hi, The subject prefix is missing on one of my lists. Even if I use config_list to copy the settings of another list where the subject prefix is working. (Ofcourse I change listname and so forth). How can that be. // Chr. Wix -- M.Sc. Student Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering, DTU

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