Mailman 3 January 2005 - Mailman-Users

Interference from Cpanel mailman?
by Glen Low Jan. 28, 2005

Jan. 28, 2005

Hi All, I've successfully implemented a fetchmail + mailman solution on my server, so that fetchmail will poll my web host for new mail and pipe it directly to mailman on my server. I've set up some PHP scripts on my web host server to "reverse proxy" the CGI interface from my server to the web host server, and I will regularly (or automatically) FTP up the archives. So far the setup seems to hang together fairly well, except for one thing. I subscribe to the list and get a confirm … [View More]message. I reply to the confirm message and the thelist-request mailbox receives it, and eventually I can see fetchmail delivering it to mailman, and the interface reports that I am subscribed, plus I get the "welcome to the list" message -- however -- I also got a Mail delivery failed message back, presumably from the (installed on my webhost?) Cpanel version of Mailman. I can't see how it would have intercepted the message. BTW, my instance of mailman is at www.pixelglow.com/lists/listinfo, whereas the Cpanel version is at www.pixelglow.com/mailman/listinfo. Perhaps I haven't created all the mailboxes at the web host that I need? mailman mailman-admin thelist thelist-admin thelist-bounces thelist-confirm thelist-join thelist-leave thelist-owner thelist-request thelist-subscribe thelist-unsubscribe Is the Cpanel mailman trying to intercept a mail going to one of the mailman-xxx mailboxes that I haven't created? Here's a partial listing of the spurious email, names changed to protect the innocent :-) ... From Mailer-Daemon(a)ESC13.midphase.com Thu Jan 27 23:36:09 2005 Return-path: <> Envelope-to: xxx.yyy(a)pixelglow.com Delivery-date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:11 -0600 Received: from mailnull by ESC13.midphase.com with local (Exim 4.43) id 1CuBRL-0006jn-OB for xxx.yyy(a)pixelglow.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:11 -0600 X-Failed-Recipients: thelist-request(a)pixelglow.com Auto-Submitted: auto-generated From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon(a)ESC13.midphase.com> To: xxx.yyy(a)pixelglow.com Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: <E1CuBRL-0006jn-OB(a)ESC13.midphase.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:11 -0600 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman request thelist_pixelglow.com generated by thelist-request(a)pixelglow.com local delivery failed The following text was generated during the delivery attempt: ------ pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/mail/mailman request thelist_pixelglow.com generated by thelist-request(a)pixelglow.com ------ mailcmd script, list not found: thelist_pixelglow.com ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------ Return-path: <xxx.yyy(a)pixelglow.com> Received: from [202.154.92.226] (helo=tibor.swiftdsl.com.au) by ESC13.midphase.com with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CuBRK-0000NB-Ut for thelist-request(a)pixelglow.com; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:11 -0600 Received: (qmail 25165 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2005 15:24:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [218.214.12.138]) ([218.214.12.138]) (envelope-sender <xxx.yyy(a)pixelglow.com>) by tibor.swiftdsl.com.au (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for <thelist-request(a)pixelglow.com>; 27 Jan 2005 15:24:07 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <mailman.0.1106838849.4362.thelist(a)pixelglow.com> References: <mailman.0.1106838849.4362.thelist(a)pixelglow.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <E2E93E1C-7076-11D9-A360-000D9337BC48(a)pixelglow.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Glen Low <xxx.yyy(a)pixelglow.com> Subject: Re: confirm 0baaec9e8c3fbe754367e0add1846eed8d097681 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:19:49 +0800 To: thelist-request(a)pixelglow.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) ======== It's all very puzzling since the thelist-request obviously got through the system! Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com [View Less]

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Font customization in Pipermail archives
by Glen Low Jan. 28, 2005

Jan. 28, 2005

I can add things like Google Adsense code to the templates/en/article.html template, but as soon as I try to use FONT tags or STYLE tags, the archiver refuses to subsitute anything -- so my articles all end up with the % variables in them. Am I doing something wrong or is this a known problem? Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com

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Question about config.log
by Mike Smith Jan. 28, 2005

Jan. 28, 2005

I posted a problem earlier, and I was wondering, here is an excerpt from my config.log > configure:2623: checking for --with-username > configure:2637: result: mailman > configure:2642: checking for user name "mailman" > configure:2690: result: okay > configure:2695: checking for --with-groupname > configure:2709: result: mailman > configure:2715: checking for group name "mailman" > configure:2763: result: okay > configure:2767: checking permissions on /… [View More]

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Outgoing qrunner looping
by Richard Lamont Jan. 28, 2005

Jan. 28, 2005

I admin (voluntarily, for a non-profit .org) a Linux box (Mandrake 9.2) which is running mailman 2.1.2 and postfix. It's a dual 2.6GHz Xeon with 512MB RAM. Its main job is as a web server, but it also runs a few lists. The biggest list has about 400 subscribers, and the total number of posts to all the lists is typically 30 a day. Monthly archives are small and have never exceeded a single index page for any list. The box is lightly loaded. Load averages hover close to zero, and there's … [View More]

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Can't figure out problem, makes no sense.
by Mike Smith Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

I have read all the postings I could, but this is really weird. apache runs as nobody, so I used --with-cgi-gid=nobody, as I'm supposed to. now I always get this, no matter what I do: Mailman CGI error!!! The Mailman CGI wrapper encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your syslog: Failure to find group name nobody. Try adding this group to your system, or re-run configure, providing an existing group name with the command line option --with-cgi-gid. the … [View More]

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Disappearing SPAM filters
by Steve Burling Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

Mail to our mailman lists is pre-processed by Brightmail, which inserts a header of the form "X-Spam-Flag: YES". If we, from the admin web interface, go to Privacy options->Spam filters, and add a Spam Filter Rule for that header pattern, with an action of delete, and save the changes, they appear to be correctly saved, but if we then return to that page some time later, the rule has mysteriously disappeared. Any idea why this would be happening? Mailman 2.1.4, running on Solaris, … [View More]

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Please review this procedure for sendmail integra tion
by Pantejo, Barbara FTL Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

Ed, This works great! Thank you very much!!! I tried David Champion's mm-handler method and it was too complicated (for a non-experienced sendmail person, like me) so I couldn't get it to work. Your procedure is simple and easy to implement! Thanks again for sharing your method! I recommend it to anyone wanting to integrate sendmail to mailman. Regards, Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- I've worked this up. I'd appreciate some … [View More]constructive comments, yea or nay, on this procedure. Using the postfix MTA functionality to do automatic sendmail alias handling ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- In order to add a list to mailman on a sendmail based system, you need To add a bunch of aliases for that list to the alias file. In this customization, we implement a second alias file and teach sendmail about it. We use a mailman feature that was designed for the postfix mail program - a replacement for sendmail. This feature creates /home/mailman/data/aliases 1. We have a script that will copy the alias file and then process it. We need to do this since sendmail doesn't like alias files to be in directories that don't meet very specific permission requirements. /home/mailman/data doesn't meet this requirement. Our script will copy the alias file from /home/mailman/data to /etc. It uses a different name in order not to clash with the existing /etc/aliases Create /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases with these commands: /bin/cp /home/mailman/data/aliases /etc/mailman.aliases /usr/bin/newaliases 2. We have to tell mailman that it is using postfix. We lie. Add these to mm_cfg.py: MTA='Postfix' POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases' POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [] 3. We have to tell sendmail about the new alias file. in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc find this line: define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl and change it to: define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases,/etc/mailman.aliases')dnl Run a make (or otherwise refresh sendmail.cf and then restart sendmail Now when we run newaliases, it will rebuild both alias files. 4. We need permission for apache and mailman to run our script from step 1. In the /etc/sudoers file (use the command /usr/sbin/visudo) we need two lines: apache ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases mailman ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases Note that your web server may not run as 'apache' It may run as 'www' or 'nobody'. Whatever it runs as is what you need where it says apache. 5. As mailman, run /home/mailman/bin/genaliases Check for a file /home/mailman/data/aliases and also TWO files /etc/mailman.aliases and /etc/mailman.aliases.db 6. Test creating a list using /home/mailman/bin/newlist Check for the appearance of aliases for that list in /etc/mailman.aliases Add some users and test the list 7. Test for creating a list using http://domain.com/mailman/create Check for the appearance of aliases for that list in /etc/mailman.aliases Add some users and test the list Ed Greenberg edg at greenberg.org 6/19/2004 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ [View Less]

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mail format question
by Vikki Jankowski Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

I am using Mailman as a mass emailer for my non-profit org and would like to use it to send out our monthly newsletter, except that the newsletter is HTML. I've tried to send the email as a test to myself and it just comes back as text code, not HTML. Is there a special way to do this? (FYI - Mailman is preinstalled by my host, so its nothing I can "configure" or change on the server end except for what I can change in the Mailman admin section.) Thanks, Vikki

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Strange bounce messages - why is it allowed through and how do I find out?
by Lars Bungum Jan. 27, 2005

Jan. 27, 2005

I'm running a list of about 500 people, and have encountered a strange problem lately, namely that bounce messages from an address "dummy(a)not.exist" are being sent to the list. The subject is like this: Autoreply: {digest-subject} and body like this: "This email adress do not exist" so it appears to be bouncing the digest. The address does not exist, and obviously is not a subscribed to the list. And the posting policy is subscribers only. A lot of messages are being held for … [View More]

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mailman & squirrel mail
by Julie S. Lin Jan. 26, 2005

Jan. 26, 2005

BlankHi Does mailman work with SquirrelMail ? I'm having permissions problems creating a mailing list in the web interface and want to see if anyone has experience with this particular setup. Julie S. Lin

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