Mailman 3 February 2005 - Mailman-Users

Populating member name in Mass Subscription
by Pantejo, Barbara FTL 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

I noticed in the Member Management->Membership List section that a member name can be associated with the member address. Can I populate the member name using an uploaded file in the Mass Subscription? In other words, in the upload file can I place the member name after the member address, with a space between the email addres and the name? For example, in the upload file it would look like this: tsmith(a)emailaddress.com Tom Smith bjones(a)emailaddress.com Bob Jones wbell(a)eamiladdress.com William Bell If this cannot be done, how can I populate the member names along with the member addresses in a Mass Subscription method? I appreciate any feedback, Barbara

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mailman bug
by Mark Ballard 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Mailman has been working fine for a couple of week now and it just stopped with a bug. Below is what it tells me when I go to admindb on any list. any ideas??? Bug in Mailman version 2.1.2 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/share/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 176, in main mlist.Save() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 515, in Save self.__save(dict) File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 487, in __save os.unlink(fname_last) OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/private/var/mailman/lists/bulletin/config.pck.last' Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] sys.executable /usr/bin/python sys.prefix /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 sys.exec_prefix /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 sys.path /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3 sys.platform darwin Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP_REFERER http://bert.elmolino.org/mailman/admindb/bulletin SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) DAV/1.0.3 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admindb SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/1.3.33 Server at bert.elmolino.org Port 16080 REQUEST_METHOD POST PATH_INFO /bulletin SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING CONTENT_LENGTH 37 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12 HTTP_CONNECTION close SERVER_NAME bert.elmolino.org REMOTE_ADDR 10.170.33.13 HTTP_PC_REMOTE_ADDR 24.5.54.96 PATH_TRANSLATED /Library/WebServer/Documents/bulletin SERVER_PORT 16080 SERVER_ADDR 10.170.33.13 DOCUMENT_ROOT /Library/WebServer/Documents PYTHONPATH /usr/share/mailman SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/mailman/cgi-bin/admindb SERVER_ADMIN admin(a)example.com SCRIPT_URI http://bert.elmolino.org:16080/mailman/admindb/bulletin HTTP_HOST bert.elmolino.org SCRIPT_URL /mailman/admindb/bulletin REQUEST_URI /mailman/admindb/bulletin HTTP_ACCEPT */* GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 REMOTE_PORT 64105 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en, ja;q=0.92, ja-jp;q=0.96, fr;q=0.88, de-de;q=0.85, de;q=0.81, es;q=0.77, it-it;q=0.73, it;q=0.69, nl-nl;q=0.65, nl;q=0.62, sv-se;q=0.58, sv;q=0.54, no-no;q=0.50, no;q=0.46, da-dk;q=0.42, da;q=0.38, fi-fi;q=0.35, fi;q=0.31 __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING 0x46:0:0 CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate;q=1.0, identity;q=0.5, *;q=0

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I'm looking for a new server to host my discussion lists.
by Andy 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Hello! I am a list-owner of several popular science discussion lists (about meteorites, mineralogy, chemistry, mushrooms, and LexOS project (law open source)). The server pengus.net where my lists are hosted is going to be decommisioned. Therefore I am looking for a new server for my lists. If you could host my lists (all or some of them at least) along with their web pages free of charge I would be most grateful. I would need the Mailman program (http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/ ) to be installed on your server (if you still haven't one installed), and to have a full access under the shell to the mailman directory (in order to run mailman commands to reformat lists archives etc.). Because the lists are quite specialist, there is no high volume of messages sent and therefore there is no high load for processor or high bandwidth usage. Thus even servers with 486 type processor with slow connection to internet would be fine for the lists. It's hard for me to offer something in exchange for your kindness (apart perhaps from a note on the lists web pages that you host them, if you would like to advertise your server). I just hope that some of you would think that it would be good if those list would still exist and not just vanish along with the current server. If you'd like to help please contact me to the e-mail: minerals-owner [at] list.pengus.net Thank you very much indeed in advance! Kind Regards Andy

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Cannot List Members
by Jeremi Bergman 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

I'm trying to use the list_members script to list the members in the list, but it says the list doesn't exist, even though it does! root@bounty [/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin]# ./list_lists 6 matching mailing lists found: Cbmvols - [no description available] epistle - Paul's E-Pistle Mailman - Mailman site list ogniwapat - Ta-Pa-Win-Go Fans PaulsEpistle - [no description available] Prayer - [no description available] root@bounty [/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin]# ./list_members epistle No such list: epistle root@bounty [/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin]# Any Suggestions?

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name not defined
by Tzaia 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hello list, I've been working on this for 4 days and haven't been able to resolve it. System with Fedora Core3 installed. All patched up FQDN is stinson3.amys-answers.com hostname is stinson3 modified the mm_cfg.py to reflect changes I will say that I'm completely new to the linux OS. I've been running NT and LISTSERV since 1997, but I wanted to be able to run discussion lists in tandem with one of my web sites, so I'm looking at Mailman. Here is what I get: 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/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 63, in run_main from Mailman.Logging.StampedLogger import StampedLogger File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/StampedLogger.py", line 20, in ? from Mailman.Logging.Logger import Logger File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Logging/Logger.py", line 24, in ? from Mailman import mm_cfg File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 81, in ? DEFAULT_URL_HOST = stinson3.amys-answers.com NameError: name 'stinson3' is not defined Fedora installs Mailman differently than what any of the Mailman instructions say, but I've been able to find all the necessary files. I have no idea where it's getting the information to throw the error. Where do I "define" the DEFINE_URL_HOST except in the mm_cfg.py file? Any help would be appreciated. Tzaia

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Mailing List
by webmaster 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hi there. I'm looking for some sort of mailing list where I can group topics of the same interest from within my Adress book, and just mail these individuals. It must allow for simply add ins and alterations to keep my supporters up to date via mail Tx & regards DES

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Filter replies that contain the digest
by Chris Ericksen 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hello, I've searched around the web for this answer and haven't found anything. My problem is this: I have a list that sends out a digest monthly, so if one of my users reply to that digest and include the entire digest in their reply the list is blasted again with a large "digest size" email. When other's reply to their email, it continues to grow (I already filter on size, but I'd rather be more specific to just emails that contain the digest). I'd like to prevent users from replying with the entire digest in the body of their email. My initial impulse was to add a header to the digest and filter on that header, but I wonder if there's a better way to control this behavior using mailman. Any ideas/comments are welcome. Thanks, CE

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman
by Terry Allen 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Hi again, I was looking into this error & tried this command - when I tried check_db it gave no errors - I then added --all which still gave no errors - however, I then added --verbose, which gave the following output - is this necessarily a problem & should I worry? [server:local/mailman/bin] root# ./check_db --all --verbose List: mailman /usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck: okay /usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck.last: okay [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.db' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.db.last' List: serverfriends /usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.pck: okay /usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.pck.last: okay [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db' [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/local/mailman/lists/testlist/config.db.last' -- Bye for now, Terry Allen ___________________________________________________________________ hEARd Postal Address: hEARd, 26B Glenning Rd, Glenning Valley, NSW 2261, Australia Internet - WWW: http://heard.com.au http://itavservices.com EMAIL: hmag(a)ozemail.com.au Phone: Australia - 02 4388 1400 / International - + 61 2 43881400 Mobile: Australia - 04 28881400 / International - 61 4 28881400 ----------------------------------------------- Non profit promotion for new music - since 1994 -----------------------------------------------

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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4
by Camila Canto 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hello, This bug appear when I try to use the tool listinfo in Mailman. What can I do? Thanks Camila Canto <>________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4*<> 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/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/roster.py", line 85, in main password, addr) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 220, in WebAuthenticate ok = self.CheckCookie(ac, user) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 300, in CheckCookie ok = self.__checkone(c, authcontext, user) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 310, in __checkone key, secret = self.AuthContextInfo(authcontext, user) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/SecurityManager.py", line 105, in AuthContextInfo secret = self.getMemberPassword(user) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/OldStyleMemberships.py", line 102, in getMemberPassword raise Errors.NotAMemberError, member NotAMemberError: div_d-g ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.2.2 (#1, Mar 6 2003, 13:36:19) [GCC 3.2.2] sys.executable /usr/bin/python sys.prefix /usr sys.exec_prefix /usr sys.path /usr sys.platform linux-i386 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Environment variables: Variable Value PATH_INFO /div_d-g CONTENT_LENGTH 100 CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded HTTP_COOKIE div_a-c+admin=28020000006910871c42732800000036363638623066643538633438646662626131396432366538353937333533383731323731383038 SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/roster PYTHONPATH /usr/lib/mailman SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.0.45 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.45 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.3 SERVER_ADMIN you(a)your.address SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/roster SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/2.0.45 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.45 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP/4.3.3 Server at www.cps.softex.br Port 80 REQUEST_METHOD POST HTTP_HOST www.cps.softex.br HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE 300 SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING PATH_TRANSLATED /srv/www/default/html/div_d-g REQUEST_URI /mailman/roster/div_d-g HTTP_ACCEPT text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pt-BR; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040930 HTTP_CONNECTION keep-alive HTTP_REFERER http://www.cps.softex.br/mailman/listinfo/div_d-g SERVER_NAME www.cps.softex.br REMOTE_ADDR 192.168.1.249 REMOTE_PORT 33439 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE pt-br,pt;q=0.5 UNIQUE_ID 31jHgciIoRMAADq4Va0AAAAE SERVER_PORT 80 GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip,deflate SERVER_ADDR 200.136.161.19 DOCUMENT_ROOT /srv/www/default/html

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mailman stoped sending mails :-(
by Christian Schoepplein 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hello! I'm using a self compiled mm 2.1.5 installation on a suse 8.1 box. The installation worked for mor then a half year without problems, but now mailman doesn't send out mails anymore :-(. The mailsetup seems to be ok, because mails that were not sent to lists are delivered. I can't find anny error message in the logs, the only thing I see is in the logfile for mailman posts. Feb 26 04:46:20 2005 (21607) post to iscb from xyz(a)abc.de, size=2 951, message-id=<000901c51b4e$90a9e6e0$fe7aa8c0@pc1>, 276 failures ^^^^^^^^ Where could this failures come from? I didn't change anything on the system. I have no more ideas where or what to look for :-(. Thanks for anny hint! -- Gruss / Regards, Christian Schoepplein <chris at schoeppi.net> Linux for the blind: http://www.blinux.suse.de

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