Mailman 3 February 2005 - Mailman-Users

auto mail list creation
by Noah 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hi there, has anybody written something out there for auto mail list creation? where new mail lists automatically get added to the /etc/aliases file. clues please? cheers, Noah

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RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman error was emailed to user mailman
by Terry Allen 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

> File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 497, >in __save > os.unlink(fname_last) >OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: >'/usr/local/mailman/lists/mailman/config.pck.last' > This error is occurring when Mailman is trying the save the current configuration for the mailman list. It has saved it to a temp name and now is trying to rotate the files - i.e. remove config.pck.last, and rename config.pck to config.pck.last and the temp name to config.pck, but its attempt to unlink config.pck.last results in the above. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-January/041634.html and the reply at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-January/041646.html or see the following google search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=site%3Amail.python.org+%2… -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net> The highway is for Hi again, Thanks Mark, that was pretty much what I thought. I am running OSX 'client' 10.3.8, so it's a stock source installation of Mailman 2.1.5 on Postfix, not anything Apple has modified. Have you any suggestions as to how to prevent this happening in the future. It's the first error Mailman has generated since it was installed some months ago. -- 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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name not defined
by Tzaia 25 Feb '05

25 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 ------- End of forwarded message -------

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Use of " in footer
by John Fleming 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Uh, sorry for the simple question (but it will be easy to answer). In non-digest mode, footer option - How do I get a doublequote to appear instead of &quote? Like if I wanted it to read "This is a test." Thanks! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.4.0 - Release Date: 2/22/2005

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List name not displaying in Mailman archives
by Carol Cronin 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I've looked through the FAQs and attempted to search, to no avail-- this sounds like a simple option that I've setup incorrectly. When I view threads in our Mailman archives, I cannot see exactly which list the mail was sent to. I have nested lists, and the mail may appear in both archives. I need to see exactly which email address was used in the thread when I view the archives. Is there a setting for that? Thank you, Carol Cronin carolc(a)wolfram.com

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messages not archiving
by Wade Preston Shearer 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I moved my list(s) to a new server. I now have everything set up and running correctly, except saving new messages in the archives. I moved the old archives over and those are coming up fine. New messages are not being saved in the archives however. I assume that there is just a setting somewhere that is not correct? or a path that is wrong? wade

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howto ignore body of join/subscribe requests
by Yinen Yang 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hi, I have recently installed mailman and have it all working except for this one small problem. I use a web-based Form to get user information on my website. When the form is submitted a copy of all the input goes to my email address and I also have a copy going to list-subscribe@mailman. This automates the joining of my list. The problem is that my web form sends text in the body of the email. Mailman is accepting the subscribe request like it should, but then it attempts to read the rest of the email as commands. Since the email isn't filled with commands it bounces the "failed" commands back to the subscriber. This means the automation process generates an ugly email of "failed" commands each time somebody joins my list. Is there a way to make Mailman not try to read the body of a subscribe/join request as more commands? Thanks for any info. Matt ------------------------------------- matt(a)sputnix.net _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/

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Qrunner Error
by Young, Darren 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Mailman 2.1.5 on RedHat EL 3.0... Getting the following error, any thoughts? [root@gsblms bin]# ./qrunner -r Outgoing:0:1 -v Traceback (most recent call last): File "./qrunner", line 270, in ? main() File "./qrunner", line 230, in main qrunner.run() File "/home/mailman-2.1/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 70, in run filecnt = self._oneloop() File "/home/mailman-2.1/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 99, in _oneloop msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase) File "/home/mailman-2.1/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 143, in dequeue fp = open(filename) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/mailman-2.1/qfiles/out/1109280212.391001d7f7d15bdb848c85faae16b96 6639956aee33bd6.pck' Checked, that file really does not exist. Is there an outbound queue database that can get corrupted? ------------------------------------------------------------- | Darren Young | http://www.chicagogsb.edu | | Senior UNIX Administrator | darren.young(a)chicagogsb.edu | | University of Chicago GSB | darren.young(a)gsb.uchicago.edu | -------------------------------------------------------------

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Reply-to problem
by Joakim Nomell 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hi all. I have switched on the filter on all my lists. I have only set it to filter and convert HTML to plain text, all other settings are default. In the general settings for all lists, I have set reply-to "this list" instead of sender. I only want replies go to the list, not to the members directly. The rpely-to stuff worked just fine before I switched on the filters. But now, some mails from the list don't have the reply-to-header. It looks to me that mails that has been converted from HTML don't get the reply-to-header. Others emails has the header. Are there any solutions on this? Thanks in advance. -- ___________________________________________________________________ Joakim Nomell Phn: +46 70 771 31 00 MSN : joakim(a)nomell.nu Unix engineer Fax: +46 70 711 31 00 Web : http://nomell.se -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Found new Subscriber Moderate box unchecked and MIME attachments now appearing
by HPA 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hello- I've searched the Mailman Users FAQ and archives and cannot find an answer to my issue below. Our moderated Mailman list (running on Mailman 2.1.4) had been chugging along just fine for the past five months. Then abruptly this week we found several new subscribers posting to the list unmoderated! When I investigated Mailman admin settings I found the new subscriber moderate box unchecked! How could this setting be changed without human interaction? Anyway I re-checked it and re-set all accounts to moderated. At the same time this occurred, and thus may be related, some posts to the list began showing up with attachments. Before this time we had been successfully filtering attachments, without a single attachment making it through to the list. Example of a recent post which included attachments is included below (with relevant headers). Note the two attachments in the post below appear as a graphical rule (horizontal line), one separating the header from the body and the other between the body and the footer (see below). (At least this is how they appear in Outlook Express, which by necessity I use to view messages posted to the list). We have the list setup to convert all HTML to text. Below is the lists current 'Content Filtering' settings. Any thoughts on why we are suddenly observing the appearance of attachments and any recommendations to filter them out? We're just happy with straight text. Thanks, Woody -- Current 'Content Filtering' settings: Should Mailman filter the content of list traffic according to the settings below? Yes Remove message attachments that have a matching content type. None listed. Remove message attachments that don't have a matching content type. multipart/mixed multipart/alternative text/plain Should Mailman convert text/html parts to plain text? yes. Action to take when a message matches the content filtering rules. Discard --------------- Below is example of list message including HTML (with relevant header info). --------------- MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00A9_01C518E5.D82AFB00" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:42:03 -0800 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.4 Cc: X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00A9_01C518E5.D82AFB00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline News list: ------=_NextPart_000_00A9_01C518E5.D82AFB00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable BODY of message... ------=_NextPart_000_00A9_01C518E5.D82AFB00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Footer... ------=_NextPart_000_00A9_01C518E5.D82AFB00--

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