Mailman 3 June 2005 - Mailman-Users

SMTPDirect issues (Name or service not known)
by Meike Aulbach 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hello all, I'm currently in the process of setting up a mailinglist with mailman. The installation process worked fine, mails are correctly delivered to mailman by exim: mainlog.1:2005-06-09 22:00:38 1DgTCg-0000LI-Im ** xx-ml(a)zzzzz.net F=<sender(a)xyz.net> R=mailman_router T=mailman_transport: Child process of mailman_transport transport returned 2 from command: /var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman In fact mailman fails to deliver mails to any recipient. The smtp-failure log says for each subscriber: Jun 09 22:00:35 2005 (32666) delivery to xxx(a)zzzz.net failed with code -1: (-2, 'Name or service not known') As I googled a lot yesterday, I know that this is an issue on the name resolving level. It appears when doing a telnet connect to an unknown hostname. But I fail to reproduce this error when connecting manually to the configured hostname or localhost with telnet or even python and smtplib. I have added the following lines from Default.py to mm_cfg.py: DELIVERY_MODULE = 'SMTPDirect' SMTPHOST = 'localhost' SMTPPORT = 0 Now these are the default values, but I tried a lot of other values on them, e.g. 'mx-name', 'mx-IP', '127.0.0.1' for SMTPHOST, 25 for SMTPPORT). After every change to the values in mm_cfg.py I did a restart of mailman. (/etc/init.d/mailman restart on Debian, or is there anything else that needs to be restarted?) localhost, mx-name etc. are in fact resolvable. Their IP-addresses are in /etc/hosts, /etc/host.conf is set to order hosts,bind. I connected to python manually like suggested in the thread on this list only recently ([Mailman-Users] Mailman just doesn"t send the messages... :-(): zzzzz:~# python Python 2.3.5 (#2, Feb 9 2005, 00:38:15) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import smtplib >>> SMTPHOST = 'localhost' >>> SMTPPORT = 0 >>> x = smtplib.SMTP() >>> x.connect(SMTPHOST,SMTPPORT) (220, 'mx.zzzzz.net ESMTP Exim 4.50 Fri, 10 Jun 2005 09:58:50 +0200') >>> x.quit() >>> zzzzzz:~# So the default values (localhost,0) _should_ work for me, but apparently they don't. I tried the manual python connect with mx-name and additionally sent out an e-mail with the smtplib-module, and I simply cannot reproduce the "Name or service not known" error at any step of the mail sending process. The hostname of the machine (/etc/hostname) is also in /etc/hosts and can be resolved (checked with telnet hostname 25). I went so far and edited SMTPDirect.py just to find out whether the values of SMTPHOST and SMTPPORT maybe are not reached through to the module from mm_cfg.py: #self.__conn.connect(mm_cfg.SMTPHOST, mm_cfg.SMTPPORT) self.__conn.connect('localhost', 0) But mails are still not delivered. I really know nothing about python, so maybe this is due because SMTPDirect.py is compiled to SMTPDirect.pyo and SMTPDirect.pyc, so my changes to SMTPDirect.py are never regarded by the program? I don't really want to make changes to the SMTPDirect- module, so maybe anyone here can point out to me where and how I could go on with debugging this issue? :) I'd be very glad to hear from you! Best wishes, Meike -- Meike Aulbach <sonne(a)sunduin.net>

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XHTML Compliant Web UI - 2.1.6 Patch
by Bryan Carbonnell 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

I have just uploaded an updated patch that will make the web UI for MM 2.1.6 XHTML 1.0 strict compliant. This patch allows for some CSS formatting as well. I have tried to make all the pages compliant, but I may have missed some combinations of pages and options, so if you find some that aren't compliant, please let me know which page isn't compliant and under which circumstances it's not. It it patch 1160353 in the Sourceforge Mailman patch repository. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1160353&group _id=103&atid=300103 If anyone has any feedback on it, I'd love to hear it,since this is my first attempt at creating a patch. -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb(a)sympatico.ca The man who claims to be the boss in his own home will lie about other things as well.

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changing mailing list name
by Cassie Ferguson 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Is there a way to change the name of a mailing list using the administrator's web interface? If not, is there a relatively simple way to do it by logging into my machine? I'd rather not have to bother with resubscribing people, plus it would be nice to move the archive from the old list into the newly named one. Thanks, Cassie

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Insert character to footer
by Terry Allen 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Hi all, I'm not really having any problems as such with Mailman currently, but I do have a minor question that some searching has not revealed an easy answer to. I wish to insert an ampersand (&) into the footer, but when I use plain &, it generates & into the footer. Should I enclose it in some way? Also, I am running 2.1.5 with the security update. Could someone please outline the easiest way to update to 2.1.6? I am currently running Mac OSX 10.4.1 if that's of any consequence. Many thanks. -- 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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htdig integration or other searchable archive methods for v2.1.6?
by michael dunston 11 Jun '05

11 Jun '05

Is there any way to get (internally) searchable archives within the recent 2.1.6 release? (the most recent mailman/htdig integration patch #444884 is listed for 2.1.5) <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=444884&group_id=10…> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

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Public Mailing list
by Dennis Putnam 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I cannot see how to create a public mailing list. I want to create a list that allows anyone to post a message (non-subscribers) but distribute the message to list members. Can someone point me in the right direction? TIA. Dennis Putnam Sr. IT Systems Administrator AIM Systems, Inc. 11675 Rainwater Dr., Suite 200 Alpharetta, GA 30004 Phone: 678-240-4112 Main Phone: 678-297-0700 FAX: 678-297-2666 or 770-576-1000 The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is strictly confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, dissemination, distribution, or duplication of any part of this e-mail or any attachment is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete all copies, including the attachments.

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messages without Date:
by Meike Reichle 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Hi all maybe you can help me with a small problem: When creating a new mailing list using the web interface I receive two emails, the confirmation email and another one telling me which aliases I have to create. The latter however comes without a Date: line in the header. I am not sure whether this is a mailman issue or rather a flaw in my system/MTA configuration. It's more an inconvenience than an actual problem but I'd like to fix it anyway. So, if anyone can provide a hint ... Regards Meike -- Meike Reichle - University of Hildesheim mail: mrei0999(a)uni-hildesheim.de www: www.uni-hildesheim.de/~mrei0999

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Auto discard non-members messages
by Daevid Vincent 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I'm starting to see a lot of spam sent to my two lists. Both are members only. I'd like mailman to automatically discard any messages sent to the list from non-members. However, I would like to accept (and send to me/admin) any subscribe request messages (otherwise, how would I get new members ;-) Can someone tell me how to do this?

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Mails are not deliver for one mailing-list
by Julien Francoz CoCoZ 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I have another problem on one mailing-list. It was working fine, but since 2 days, all mails to list departement-linux(a)minux.esi-supinfo.com are not deliver. All others mailing lists are working fine. Here are the logs of mailman for this list post:Jun 09 12:07:49 2005 (23711) post to departement-linux from julien.francoz(a)supinfo.com, size=6134, message-id=<42A81532.6060503(a)supinfo.com>, success smtp:Jun 09 12:07:49 2005 (23711) <42A81532.6060503(a)supinfo.com> smtp for 40 recips, completed in 2.202 seconds There is no error in postfix logs. Have you got an idea ? (it's the mailman package on MacosX server) -- Julien Francoz CoCoZ

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subject_prefix is missing
by Julien Francoz CoCoZ 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I have a list with subject_prefix=[dept-linux/pedago] , but since a few hours, this prefix is not added to the subject of mails of this list. Is there an options to allow/deny the subject_prefix ? Note: This prefix is added to all mails in the mailing-list archive, even for mail which are delivered without subject_prefix. Thanks -- Julien Francoz CoCoZ

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