Mailman 3 September 2004 - Mailman-Users

Domain in the To: header
by Jolin M Warren 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

I am having a problem getting Mailman to use the correct domain in the list address for my lists. Here's the situation: -The domain for my lists is <lists.foe-edinburgh.org.uk> -The DNS entry for this domain maps it to <foe-edinburgh.dnsalias.net>, which resolves to the actual IP address: lists.foe-edinburgh.org.uk. 300 IN CNAME foe-edinburgh.dnsalias.net -the 'host_name' setting for this list is set to "lists.foe-edinburgh.org.uk" Here's my problem: when someone posts to the list 'example', they use the address: example(a)lists.foe-edinburgh.org.uk In every case I have checked, this is the address that is being entered into the 'To:' field of the sender's mailer. However, some MTAs seem to be automatically substituting the CNAME for the domain in the To: address, so the email that arrives at my server has the To: address of: example(a)foe-edinburgh.dnsalias.net I have checked all of the headers of these emails, and the received headers are as follows: Received: from xxx (xx.xx.xx.xx) by xx.xx.net (xx.xx.xx.xx) id xxxxxxxxxxx for example(a)lists.foe-edinburgh.org.uk In fact, all of the headers in the message use the <lists.foe-edinburgh.org.uk> domain (because the server considers this its hostname). The ONLY place that <foe-edinburgh.dnsalias.net> appears is in the To: header. Yet when I have the sender forward me the original email they posted, the To: header is in fact set to <example(a)lists.foe-edinburgh.org.uk>. Now, here's my question: Is there any way to get Mailman to recognise that the message was addressed to <example(a)lists.foe-edinburgh.org.uk> (as the Received: headers can see) and post the message with a To: header using that address? I would really prefer that list members never see anything with the <foe-edinburgh.dnsalias.net> domain. Thanks for any help with this. Cheers, Jolin

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Messages not going out to list members
by Doron Tordjman 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Hi, Hopefully someone can help. I created a list using admin web interface, but members are not receiving messages I am sending to the list. Running: Mailman 2.1.2 Installed from Mandrake 9.1 installation MTA is sendmail Thanks in advance, Doron

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Recovering data/virtual-mailman file
by Eric Pretorious 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Hello, All: As root I ran bin/genaliases this morning and it emptied my data/virtual-mailman file. Is there any way to recover this file? e.g., maybe from the data/virtual-mailman.db? -- Eric P., Sunnyvale, CA

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IOError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links:
by Jennifer Dostal 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Hello all! I'm using Mailman as my org's listserv. I didn't set it up, so I'm a bit lost with this error message. I get the error when I click on the Overview of all lists link at the bottom of the page. I need to add some more lists but I can't because I now get this message. I am using a hosting service, so I don't have a lot of acces to the nuts and bolts of the server and services. Thanks! Jen Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 42, in main listinfo_overview() File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 87, in listinfo_overview mlist = MailList.MailList(name, lock=0) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 629, in Load self.CheckVersion(dict) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 671, in CheckVersion self.InitVars() File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 372, in InitVars baseclass.InitVars(self) File "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 111, in InitVars fp = open(indexfile)IOError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/archives/private/announcements_isf.waglo.com/index.html' -------------------- When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before. -Mae West

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Ban List
by mehrab＠mehrab.org 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Dear Sir, I own a mailing list which I manage thru mailman software. I am quite new to this software. I actually used Yahoo Groups for more than theree years for my list but recently migrated to my own server with mailman to manage the list. I have difficulty in getting members ban from the list. The ban list screen says the following: "Addresses in this list are banned outright from subscribing to this mailing list, with no further moderation required. Add addresses one per line; start the line with a ^ character to designate a regular expression match." which means an address should be like ^x(a)y.z. But when I tried to directly subscribe this address (after banning) it gets added to the list. I also tried ot ban x(a)y.z but still able to add this address to the list. Could you please help me on this? I also could not figure out how to see the complete list of members as one file. I have more than 25000 members on my list. Same for the unsusbcribed members as I used to get these in Yahoo Groups quite easily. I have tried to find the info at university of washington pages but unfortunately the information given there did work with me. Thanks in advance.

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Probe Message Problem
by Gary Kaplan 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Untitled DocumentThe probe message that my list is sending out to members who have had messages bounce list all the other users addresses who have had bounces. How can I fix this. Thanks' -Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gary Kaplan GK Graphic Designs Web Design, Graphic Design, Photography http://www.gkgraphicdesigns.com

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Umbella lists
by Chris Barnes 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

I have a question about umbrella lists. I understand the concept (and use them on my Lsoft Listserv lists). But what I am unsure about is how they are implemented in MM. Please correct my thinking here. If you have an umbrella list, it has a group of sublists to which it will re-distribute its messages, right? Then it should do these 2 things: a) make sure that a person that is subscribed to multiple sublists only gets 1 copy of the message b) use it's own Subjectprefix (pre-empting the subject prefix of the sublists) The problem I have is that this is not what is happening. Our umbrella list is basically acting like the sublists are simple subscribers - meaning neither (a) nor (b) above is occurring. -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes chris-barnes(a)tamu.edu Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Membership Management Error
by Franco, Ruben 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

Unfortunately, the admin for this particular list was pretty upset and in a hurry so as a quick fix I extracted the membership listing (list_members) and rebuilt the list. Thanks for the information. I will keep it on file in case this issue reoccurs on another list. Ruben -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 11:27 AM To: Franco, Ruben; mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Membership Management Error Franco, Ruben wrote: > We are having a problem with one of our lists. When trying to access the "Membership Manangement" section, one gets the following error: > >---------------------------------------------------------- > >Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5 >We're sorry, we hit a bug! >If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! >Traceback: >Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main > main() > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 198, in main > show_results(mlist, doc, category, subcat, cgidata) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 498, in show_results > form.AddItem(membership_options(mlist, subcat, cgidata, doc, form)) > File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 870, in membership_options > all = [_m.encode() for _m in mlist.getMembers()] >UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128) It looks like you have a subscriber address with a non-ascii character. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.013.htp -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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A problem tying Mailman to my Sendmail Server
by Brent Shafer 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

I had initially had success with my first mailing list creation, except for the fact that it sent to @localhost.local instead of the SMTP server's true domain name mail.blackriver.k12.oh.us. When I made the adjustment, it will no longer send email through the SMTP server... requests can be made, the administration interface appears to work... it just won't verify via email that the list has been created. Thanks for any help or ideas as to where to look. Brent

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A problem tying Mailman to my Sendmail Server
by Brent Shafer 24 Sep '04

24 Sep '04

I had initially had success with my first mailing list creation, except for the fact that it sent to @localhost.local instead of the SMTP server's true domain name mail.blackriver.k12.oh.us. When I made the adjustment, it will no longer send email through the SMTP server... requests can be made, the administration interface appears to work... it just won't verify via email that the list has been created. Thanks for any help or ideas as to where to look. Brent

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