Mailman 3 October 2005 - Mailman-Users

message shunted
by Gregory Mokhin Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Hello, I've got 2.1.6 installation that has been working perfectly for several months, but today a message was shunted, and I had to unshunt it manually. What can be the reason of the following errors? The last line (trailing garbage) appears when I run bin/unshunt. Regards, Gregory ========================== Oct 03 19:31:14 2005 (19797) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 5] Input/output error Oct 03 19:31:15 2005 (19797) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 111, in _oneloop self._onefile(msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 167, in _onefile keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 130, in _dispose more = self._dopipeline(mlist, msg, msgdata, pipeline) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/IncomingRunner.py", line 153, in _dopipeline sys.modules[modname].process(mlist, msg, msgdata) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 92, in process send_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 133, in send_digests send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 315, in send_i18n_digests msg = scrubber(mlist, msg) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 286, in process payload = part.get_payload(decode=True) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Message.py", line 223, in get_payload uu.decode(StringIO(payload+'\n'), sfp) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/uu.py", line 139, in decode sys.stderr.write("Warning: %s\n" % str(v)) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/MultiLogger.py", line 45, in write _logexc(logger, msg) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Utils.py", line 22, in _logexc sys.__stderr__.write('Logging error: %s\n' % logger) IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error Oct 03 19:31:15 2005 (19797) SHUNTING: 1128356560.2973039+4b942190224bf00c2f961bb06c0f123f9e79c412 Oct 03 21:27:43 2005 qrunner(6065): Warning: Trailing garbage

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HTML messages showing an attachment icon in Outlook Express
by Claire McLister Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Hi, When we send an HTML message through Mailman it is showing an attachment icon in Outlook Express even though there is no attachment in the message. In Mac OS X Mail application there is no attachment icon shown. Even in Outlook Express, when you open the message there is no attachment shown. This issue has been raised on this list a couple of years ago, but I did not see any response to those messages. Please let me know if you know of a way of handling this problem. Thanks Claire -- Claire McLister mclister(a)zeesource.net 1684 Nightingale Avenue Suite 201 Sunnyvale, CA 94087 408-733-2737(fax) http://www.zeesource.net

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How to alias /lists/mylist to /lists/mailman/listinfo/mylist?
by Matt England Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

How can I change/add to the RedirectMatch alias structures in my httpd.conf file excerpt below such that a "/lists/mylist" URL path gets redirected to "/lists/mailman/listinfo/mylist" while still supporting the "/lists" redirect to "/lists/mailman/listinfo"? I messed around with some grouping ( (.*) --> $1) RedirectMatch lines with no success. Thanks for any help -Matt ## ## GNU Mailman stuff as per ## http://forum.qmailrocks.org/viewtopic.php?p=3274#3274 ## <Directory /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/> Options ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /data/mailman/archives/public/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /lists/mailman /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin Alias /pipermail /data/mailman/archives/public RedirectMatch ^/lists[/]*$ https://mydomain.com/lists/mailman/listinfo/ RedirectMatch ^/lists/mailman[/]*$ https://mydomain.com/lists/mailman/listinfo/

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Will Mailman do what I want?
by David Teall Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

I am looking for suitable Mailing List software to use on a Sailing Club website. The features I require are: • The ability to utilise our on-line database, which includes a User Name, Password and email address for every member, as the basis for membership of the List rather than a separate inbuilt database. • The ability to configure the List so that clicking on ‘Reply’ addresses the reply back to the list *and* to the author of the message. • A web page where members can read current messages and archives. • The ability to customise which messages members can opt to receive to include the following options: • No Messages I will read all messages on the web. • Level 1 Delivery ‘Special Messages’ only i.e. messages from the List Manager(s) • Level 2 Delivery ‘Special Messages’ plus new questions from othermembers. • Level 3 Delivery All messages. I should be most grateful if someone could let me know which of these features Mailman provides as it stands and which it might be possible to provide by suitable mods. Note: As a Sailing Club we have a special consideration which is behind many of the requirements listed above. When our members are away cruising they only have access to email by the use of an expensive mobile phone link so they need to keep the number of messages down. Opting for Level 2 Delivery and receiving answers to their own questions direct would keep the number of messages to a minimum but still them fully in touch. DavidT

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Formatting
by Stefan Henrico Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Hi guys Does anyone know how mailman formats the emails? I'm getting the text files down from the server and inserting it into our local database, but having trouble formatting the text. Can anyone help me? :) Kind Regards, Stefan Henrico

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qfiles?
by Kris Gybels Oct. 3, 2005

Oct. 3, 2005

Hi all, We're having some problems with our mailman-based mailinglists, everything worked fine until some time ago, when a problem started where mails sent to the lists sometimes get lost. We have no idea yet whether this is due to smtp setup problems or something or mailman itself. I'm looking into this problem but my knowledge of mailman is limited so I have questions, one is: what is the "qfiles" folder for? Is it normal for this folder to contain about 10000 .msg and 10000 .db files? Based on the name I would assume this is the queue of unsent messages, and I would expect it to only contain messages that still have to be sent, the fact that there are files still in there might explain or missing mails option, though it's not like 10000 messages got lost ... but still, what is qfiles for then and does it really need to be so big??

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How to??
by Doc Schneider Oct. 2, 2005

Oct. 2, 2005

Anyone know how to disable "Your membership has been disabled for excessive bounces" Running MM 2.1.4 with Sendmail 8.13.4 I've searched through the FAQs and nothing in there about this issue. I realize it is a nice feature but seems running a newsletter and having the bounces come in right away causes this to happen when a users mailbox is full then just confuses the heck out of them when they do get the disabled message. Any ideas? Thanks, -Doc

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mmdsr -- Mailman Daily Status Reports (Bourne shell script, updated)
by Brad Knowles Oct. 1, 2005

Oct. 1, 2005

Folks, Just wanted to let you know that I've updated the version of the script attached to the patch at <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1123383&group_id=…>. This is the latest version, and we're currently using this to monitor the mailing lists on python.org. Any comments you may have will be appreciated. Thanks! -- Brad Knowles, <brad(a)stop.mail-abuse.org> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.

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new posts not going through
by Con Wieland Oct. 1, 2005

Oct. 1, 2005

I'm getting these every 3 minutes in the logs/post file and I am unable to receive new posts any ideas? Oct 01 12:27:33 2005 (2883) post to physics-astronomy-seminars from physics-astronomy-seminars(a)uci.edu, size=4208, message-id=<4339B35A. 6070309(a)uci.edu>, 22 failures Oct 01 12:30:40 2005 (2883) post to physics-astronomy-seminars from physics-astronomy-seminars(a)uci.edu, size=2727, message- id=<1127856169.3060.5.camel(a)localhost.localdomain>, 22 failures Oct 01 12:33:47 2005 (2883) post to physics-astronomy-seminars from physics-astronomy-seminars(a)uci.edu, size=9452, message- id=<016201c5c3ca$b4ee3f90$0a00a8c0@Dee>, 22 failures Oct 01 12:36:55 2005 (2883) post to physics-astronomy-seminars from physics-astronomy-seminars(a)uci.edu, size=3393, message- id=<p0610051ebf60863b24cb(a)[128.200.81.33]>, 22 failures Oct 01 12:40:02 2005 (2883) post to physics-astronomy-seminars from physics-astronomy-seminars(a)uci.edu, size=3106, message- id=<p06100520bf6087a07861(a)[128.200.81.33]>, 22 failures Con Wieland Network and Academic Computing Services University of California at Irivne

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Using mailman usernames and passwords as apache2 auth
by The Doctor What Oct. 1, 2005

Oct. 1, 2005

I want to provide some extra services for people who sign up for specific mailman lists. Is there a way to have apache2 Auth* directives query username and password from mailman? I was imagining something like: <Location /foo> AuthType Basic AuthName "Some service" AuthMailManList FooList require valid-user </Location> Thanks for your help! Details: Specifically, I wanted to let mailing list subscribers access a matching TRAC project. This way, I don't have to let anonymous have write access to everything (I know the search-engine-linking idiots and spammers will fill the wiki and such with crap). But at the same time, I can let nearly anyone edit the wiki and I know that the user has a valid email address. I could just write a "registration" application to send the email, verify the result, write it to a DB and all that junk myself, but mailman *has* all this code and the database of users is nearly the same, if not the same. So why write duplicate code to duplicate the data! I have one possible work around which I'm not keen to impliment. I could just write a python script to do a "list_lists" and then pull out the users and passwords and put them in a database compatible with Apache (either a postgresql db or a .htpasswd file or something). That *is* assuming I can pull passwords out of mailman, either as plaintext or something I can hash to (like md5sum) to put in the apache source. Ciao!

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