Mailman 3 January 2005 - Mailman-Users

cpoying lists into mailman via commandline
by Meike Reichle 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

Hi all I am currently in the process of moving all my university's mailing lists from majordomo to Mailman. I think I got most things figured out, I wrote a few scripts that generate the new lists and add all the members, no problem there. But there's one thing I am still unsure about. It seems that per default new members in a list are moderated for their first few posts. I also know there is an option somewhere in the webinterface to switch that off. However, it's quite a lot of mailing lists, so I'd rather not switch them all to unmoderated by hand but rather include it in my script or change the Default alltogether. Is there anything I could do to solve that? Thanks very much in advance, Meike

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mailmanlistinfo without slash
by John Fleming 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

I haven't seen this mentioned - When I look at the Archives of a list, I get the CORRECT message below: No messages have been posted to this list yet, so the archives are currently empty. You can get more information about this list. <----underlined link The [albeit minor] problem is that the link above is missing a "/" in the linked URL like the following example: http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/mailmanlistinfo/listname Note - Should be mailman/listinfo instead of mailmanlistinfo Can I correct that somewhere? Thanks! - John -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.7.6 - Release Date: 1/27/2005

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vette log/discarded messages
by Christopher Adams 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

I am following up a previous message about failure to post to a list. As I said, the Postfix/maillog shows that it was sent. However, the mailman/post log shows nothing. The mailman/vette log shows: Jan 28 11:32:23 2005 (20467) Message discarded, msgid: <41FA9591.5030606(a)wherever.com I am sending as a non-moderated member and have tried changing various options for sending from non-members, moderated members, etc. It is set to discard automatically from a non-member. However, it looks like it is just discarding everything from everyone. I have many other lists and have never seen this behavior. The only thing significantly different about this list is that there are 38,000 members and the list is updated monthly by a script. It is possible that file permissions were changed, but I checked that and it doesn't seem to be anything that would affect this. Any ideas? Christopher Adams

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cron for which user?
by Glen Low 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

Hi All, I had followed the Mac OS X install instructions at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-September/ 039600.html which say to install the crontab under su -- is that correct? should not the crontab be under the mailman user instead? Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com

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ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
by Wil Cooley 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

I'm having problems which I have solved but in doing so I've identified a problem in both Apple Mail and Mailman. I found this post which pointed me in the right direction: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-October/040337.html After going through all my shunted files, I've isolated it to one message send with Apple Mail with a PDF attachment. The message contains these surprising MIME headers (> quoted for safety): > --Apple-Mail-1--377637739 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Type: application/pdf; x-unix-mode=0644; > name="Software Application Enhancement For Metro's Urban Growth > Simulation Model.pdf" > Content-Disposition: inline; > filename*0="Software Application Enhancement For Metro's Urban Growth > Simula"; filename*1="tion Model.pdf" This, I suspect, is the cause of the problem. If Tokio or other MM developers would like access to the .pck, I can provide it (but I'd rather not publish it to the entire world). Wil -- Wil Cooley wcooley(a)nakedape.cc Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc * * * * Linux, UNIX, Networking and Security Solutions * * * *

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Re: [Mailman-Users] We're sorry, we hit a bug!
by Johan Barelds 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

Hi Dan, Thanks for the quick reply. Just found out that the Python module xml wasn't installed. After i installed it the bug was gone. Strange that this isn't checked in the update indeed! (running SuSE 9.2) Thanks anyway. Grz. Johan Op vrijdag 28 januari 2005 20:22, schreef u: > On Jan 28, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Johan Barelds wrote: > > It seems that there is something wrong with python module > > xml.sax.saxutils. > > Anyone any clues? > > I don't remember the exact answer, but this has been discussed and a > fix given on this list just within the last few days, so a quick search > of the archives should find the answer. This is on SuSE? I believe the > RPM you used to update mailman doesn't check for dependencies. > > > Dan -- Kind Regards / Met vriendelijke groet, Johan Barelds Good-IT! Tel.+31(0)70-3965230 Strijplaan 320 Mob.+31(0)6-54253750 2285 HZ Rijswijk(ZH) j.barelds(a)good-it.com http://www.good-it.com

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We're sorry, we hit a bug!
by Johan Barelds 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

Hi all, I am running mailman 2.1.5 and when i try to enter the listinfo site i get this message in my browser: =========================<START>================================================== 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: Content-type: text/html We're sorry, we hit a bug! Mailman experienced a very low level failure and could not even generate a useful traceback for you. Please report this to the Mailman administrator at this site. ========================<STOP>===================================================== When i look in the apache errorlog i find the following error-message: =========================<START>================================================== Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ [Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.5 -----] [Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] [----- Traceback ------] [Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] Traceback (most recent call last): [Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 241, in ? [Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] run_main() [Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 69, in run_main [Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] import xml.sax.saxutils [Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] ImportError: No module named xml.sax.saxutils [Fri Jan 28 20:07:11 2005] [error] [client 62.251.80.209] [Mailman: low level unrecoverable exception] ========================<STOP>===================================================== It seems that there is something wron with python module xml.sax.saxutils. Anyone any clues? -- Kind Regards / Met vriendelijke groet, Johan Barelds

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'anonymous list ' setting
by Grisel Montes 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

I'm running ver 2.1.1 in my general settings i have this option set to no, however when a poster sends a message, its not displaying senders name. its displaying the list name. its acting as if i had this option set to yes Hide the sender of a message, replacing it with the list address (Removes From, Sender and Reply-To fields) (Edit anonymous_list) is their another setting that i'm overlooking ? is this a bug that got fix in a later edition? Help!!! Grisel Montes Information Systems Mgr NYS Trial Lawyers Association 132 Nassau Street 2nd Fl New York, NY 10038 p 212.349.5890 f 212.608.2310 gmontes(a)nystla.org www.nystla.org

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Customizing listinfo
by Glen Low 29 Jan '05

29 Jan '05

Hi All, I've successfully customized listinfo.html but that seems to only take for the individual lists and not the overview page, e.g. http://www.pixelglow.com/lists/listinfo/ is not custom but http://www.pixelglow.com/lists/listinfo/macstl-dev/ is customized The listinfo.html I used was in templates/en, and I'm using English (US) throughout. What gives? Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com

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sequence number patch
by Reilly Sean-A6500C 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

Hi I was trying to get the patch that adds sequence numbers to the subject prefix with mailman2.1.5 Do you have a version/patch for this realsease. (*Also in english is possible*) <http://mm.tkikuchi.net/> from: http://mm.tkikuchi.net/ Cheers Sean _____ Seán Reilly IT Systems Support Australia SoC Technology Centre Freescale Semiconductor Australia Pty Ltd. 2 Second Ave, Mawson Lakes, Adelaide 5095, Australia. a6500c(a)Freescale.com <mailto:a6500c@Freescale.com> Phone: +61-8-8168-3637 Fax: +61-8-8168-3501 This e-mail, and any associated attachments have been classified as: General Business Information Freescale Internal Use Only Freescale Confidential Proprietary _____

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