Mailman 3 June 2005 - Mailman-Users

Mailman 2.1.6b4 issues
by Darren G Pifer 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello, I am new to the list so if I miss something or is improper protocol, please let me know. Recently, we upgraded our mailman software from 2.0.13 to 2.1.6b4 and moved from a Solaris to Linux platform (RedHat AS 3 Update) on a different machine. The Apache Web server we are running is 2.0.52. We are successfully sending mail through the list server and the web server is generally working, except for a couple of issues. The first issue is that the software is sending unsubscription notices to user's e-mail addresses, even though the "Send unsubscription acknowledgement to the user" is set to No, under "Membership Management", "Mass Removal". Secondly, when I try to change one of the configuration settings on a list as the mailman administrator for any of the radio buttons under "Mass Subscription" or "Mass Removal" and click on submit, the settings revert back to the default setting. We were planning on installing the stable release of 2.1.6 but it did not appear that this version addressed any of the problems that we are having. Has anybody seen these problems? What can I check for? Is there any other information you need from me to get an answer for these issues? Regards, Darren Pifer Old Dominion University UNIX systems admin

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Improving SMTP performance?
by Paul Key 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Mailman 2.1.3 Solaris 9 Exim 4.43 I have a list with 2300 subscribers and have set SMTP_MAX_RECEIPTS = 0 to submit all the entire recipient list in one transaction to Exim. Looking in the Mailman SMTP log file I see the following line: smtp for 2300 recips, completed in 1921.891 seconds. This seems a long time to me ? Is it? Does anyone know how I can speed this up? Thanks Paul -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Help getting SuSE 9.3+Mailman 2.1.5+Apache2 working
by Michael Regoli 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello! I'm trying to get mailman and Apache2 working nicely from the stock SuSE distro. (YOU, Yast Online Update is current on the machine, so if there's new stuff for either mailman or Apache2, I've got it. mailman is version [2.1.5] and Apache2 is version [2.0.53].) Has anyone got the two working together? If so, could you shed some light on your Apache2 configuration? I've followed all of the instructions at http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node10.html, but cannot get Apache2 to "see" the mailman stuff in /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin (I'm getting 403: "client denied by server configuration: /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin" when I visit "http://servername/mailman/admin" for instance.) Web server is running fine. The machine has a few other virtual hosts on it, so I've put the mailman configuration into the default virtual hosts setup in /etc/apache2/default-server.conf: <VirtualHost xxx.xx.xx.x> ServerName www.servername.here:80 DocumentRoot "/srv/www/htdocs" ServerAdmin root(a)servername.org TransferLog /var/log/apache2/access_log ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error_log ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI +Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all < /Directory> </VirtualHost> I've even tried duplicating the <Directory ...> section above in the main "default-server.conf" file to allow CGI from within the mailman/cgi-bin directory. No luck. I think I'm putting the mailman configuration in the wrong place, as apache is clearly not letting me run anything from the mailman/cgi-bin directory. Thanks for any advice! --mike

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SuSe 9.3 / Mailman / Python 2.4-14: cannot read wrapper configuration file
by Poster 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Greetings everyone. I'm using SuSe 9.3 with the suppled Mailman and Python and I'm running smack dab into the dreaded "Cannot read wrapper configuration file" error. This is obtained when I try to send mail to aliases for a list, or when I try to execute any of Mailman's CGI programs through the web interface. I've checked the gid files and both are set to group 67 -- the mailman group. The gid files are owned by mailman/mailman, as is everything in the mailman cgi-bin directory (which I've moved under the apache cgi-bin just for convienience). Apache's configuration files give all users the ability to see and execute the cgi-bin scripts in /cgi-bin and in /cgi-bin/mailman. The log files are no help and there's not much info on this on the Net, or even in the archives. (All the mail error logs tell me is that it died on signal 8 because it was unable to read wrapper configuration file.) Any ideas? Thanks, ~Poster

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Can't Send mail to the list
by Benjamin Wise 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I am bit of newbie to mailman but here is the situation On Freebsd 4.11stable I'm running a jail called testjail.[domainname].com. Inside the jail I have used the ports to install mailman, webmin and sendmail The problem is every time I send an email to the list. list(a)testjail.[domainname].com <mailto:list@testjail.%5bdomainname%5d.com> I receive the following error message <list(a)testjail.[domainname].com>: [IP address] does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 <list(a)testjail.[domainname].com>... User unknown Giving up on [IP Adress]. Mail to users of the system work fine but for some reason I can't send to the list. Would appreciate any help Cheers Ben

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privacy alert
by Sean 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I was unable to find a template for the privacy alerts that Mailman sends out when an attempt is made to subscribe an address that is already subscribe to the list. Where is text that Mailman uses to generate these messages? I would like to edit the text to include the IP address that made the subscribe attempt like it is include in the verify.txt. Thanks, Sean

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Return Path
by Petra Humann 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello, I'm running mailman 2.1.5 with Sun Messaging Server. I noticed, that every mail has two "Return-Path" headers: > Return-path: <mylist-bounces(a)mylist.host.domain.de> > Return-path: <original-sender(a)some.domain.com> Running mailman version 2.1.1 with sendmail only one Return-Path header exists. > Return-path: <mylist-bounces(a)mylist.host.domain.de> Are two Return-Path headers okay? Some mails fail,the notifications to the postmaster include the reason, e.g.: > Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:25:08 +0200 (MEST) > Error reading SMTP packet; response to RCPT TO command expected I assume, that the two Return-Path headers are the reason. How do I correct this? Thank you very much. P.

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reject explanation send to owners ?
by Christophe Meessen 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hello, we have a list currently managed by two moderators. We use moderation and some time we reject mails and provide a specific explanation. The ennoying feature in our current configuration is that the other moderator does not know the explanation given unless the moderator send by hand an explicit message to the other moderator to explain what he did. There is an option to send mail to owner, but this function won't send the explanation sent back to the original sender. Is it possible that the reject message is sent also to the owners so that they can see the explanation given ?

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Message Unparsable
by Dennis Putnam 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

This problem seems to be a little more serious then I thought. It appears that no HTML attachments are getting through mailman. In addition to the unparsable error I am also getting a "non-text attachment was scrubbed" error and one message went into a black hole (no message distributed and nothing in any Mailman logs). There is only a message in the SMTP log showing the message was passed to the Mailman command string. I desperately need some help resolving this problem. Is there some filtering going on here that hoses HTML attachments that needs to be turned off. How can I debug this when there is nothing in the logs? Is there a verbose mode switch I can turn on? 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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problems with permissions?
by Eduardo Jaime Quiros Batres 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

I have mailman 2.1.4 on a mandrake 10.0 and have upgraded msec to version msec-0.44.2-1mdk but I still get a bug error when I try to confirm a subscription to a list. I runned check_permissions -f and it didn't work, I gave a chwon apache.mail on all the /var/log/mailman subdirectory and it still didn't work and I also gave a chown 664 on /var/mailman/log and the error is: Jun 23 19:57:00 2005 admin(3952): @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ admin(3952): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.4 -----] admin(3952): [----- Traceback ------] admin(3952): Traceback (most recent call last): admin(3952): File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 101, in run_main admin(3952): main() admin(3952): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 110, in main admin(3952): subscription_confirm(mlist, doc, cookie, cgidata) admin(3952): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/confirm.py", line 333, in subscription_confirm admin(3952): op, addr, pw, digest, lang = mlist.ProcessConfirmation( admin(3952): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1120, in ProcessConfirmation admin(3952): self.HoldSubscription(addr, fullname, password, digest, lang) admin(3952): File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/ListAdmin.py", line 391, in HoldSubscription admin(3952): assert not self.__db.has_key(id) admin(3952): AssertionError admin(3952): [----- Python Information -----] admin(3952): sys.version = 2.3.3 (#2, Feb 9 2005, 13:57:58) [GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrakelinux 10.0 3.3.2-9mdk)] admin(3952): sys.executable = /usr/bin/python admin(3952): sys.prefix = /usr admin(3952): sys.exec_prefix = /usr admin(3952): sys.path = /usr admin(3952): sys.platform = linux2 admin(3952): [----- Environment Variables -----] admin(3952): HTTP_REFERER: http://www.listas.ufv.br/mailman/confirm/asav/4fdab990332551dc8a6efa940996d… admin(3952): SERVER_SOFTWARE: Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.48 (Mandrake Linux/6.8.100mdk) mod_perl/1.99_11 Perl/v5. 8.3 mod_ssl/2.0.48 OpenSSL/0.9.7c PHP/4.3.4 admin(3952): SCRIPT_NAME: /mailman/confirm admin(3952): SERVER_SIGNATURE: <address>Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.48 (Mandrake Linux/6.8.100mdk) mod_perl/1.99_1 1 Perl/v5.8.3 mod_ssl/2.0.48 OpenSSL/0.9.7c PHP/4.3.4 Server at aton.cpd.ufv.br Port 80</address> admin(3952): admin(3952): REQUEST_METHOD: POST admin(3952): PATH_INFO: /asav admin(3952): SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1 admin(3952): QUERY_STRING: admin(3952): CONTENT_LENGTH: 116 admin(3952): HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET: iso-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5 admin(3952): HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) KHTML/3.2.3 (like Gecko) admin(3952): HTTP_CONNECTION: Keep-Alive admin(3952): SERVER_NAME: aton.cpd.ufv.br admin(3952): REMOTE_ADDR: 200.131.231.97 admin(3952): PATH_TRANSLATED: /var/www/html/asav admin(3952): SERVER_PORT: 80 admin(3952): SERVER_ADDR: 200.131.233.133 admin(3952): DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/html admin(3952): HTTP_PRAGMA: no-cache admin(3952): PYTHONPATH: /usr/lib/mailman admin(3952): SCRIPT_FILENAME: /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/confirm admin(3952): SERVER_ADMIN: root@localhost admin(3952): HTTP_HOST: www.listas.ufv.br admin(3952): HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL: no-cache admin(3952): REQUEST_URI: /mailman/confirm/asav admin(3952): HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html, image/jpeg, image/png, text/*, image/*, */* admin(3952): GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 admin(3952): REMOTE_PORT: 33031 admin(3952): HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: pt, en admin(3952): CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded admin(3952): HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: x-gzip, x-deflate, gzip, deflate -- Eduardo Jaime Quirós Batres - dojai(a)ufv.br

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Mailman-Users June 2005