Mailman 3 June 2005 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Message Unparsable
by Dennis Putnam 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

After some research I have concluded that the errors I am getting from Mailman are because of a malformed MIME content. Since I am creating the message myself with a php page I am not surprised (my first time). Since this probably is a MIME issue I know this is not the correct forum. However, I am posting the suspect raw data here in the hopes someone is familiar enough with MIME to spot the problem. At the very least perhaps someone can point me to a good MIME forum. TIA. Here is the MIME format message body for the problem message (I omitted the routing headers): MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundry="!!!---===123_4567_890===---!!!" Message-Id: <20050623155729.64EDAAC70E(a)aimwebserver.aimaudit.com> --!!!---===123_4567_890===---!!! Content-Type: text/html; x-unix-mode=0644; name="application.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; name="application.html" <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><title>Application for Employment</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body><br><br> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body onLoad="window.resizeTo(770,920)"><h2 align="right">test, test test</h2> . etc, etc, etc . </body></html> --!!!---===123_4567_890===---!!! Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 content-type: application/msword; name="IT Labels.doc" 0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/ CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAKwAAAAAAAAAA EAAALQAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAACoAAAD//////////////////////////////////////// ///// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ///// . etc, etc, etc . AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA --!!!---===123_4567_890===---!!!-- End of MIME formatted message body 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 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

I reported a problem with mailman 2.1.4 and mandrake 10.0 that after I applied the correction on msec it still didn't work. Well I removed the lists created recently and created again and all went well. thanks to all. ------------------ original report follows ---------------- 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: ... (....) ... -- Eduardo Jaime Quirós Batres - dojai(a)ufv.br

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mailman configuration
by Jean-Philippe GIOLA 24 Jun '05

24 Jun '05

Hi all I'm configuring mailman and I have this error : "Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mail", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "nobody" Does someone have un idea ? reguards -- Cordialement, Jean-Philippe Giola - 6577

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txt files and database
by Jean-Philippe GIOLA 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

Hi all! nobody has answered me so I ask my question an another time...! I want to know why the mailman's developpers have choosen to store mail for the archives in txt files and not in a database like forums thanks for your answers! reguards -- Jean-Philippe Giola - 6577

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HTML woes
by Michael Linval 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

I have read all the past posts I can find. All I want to do is allow html messages. Is there any documentation other than the posts that talk about this?

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Message unparsable
by Dennis Putnam 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

I am having a problem with some message not being distributed. When I look at the error file I can see this: Jun 23 11:34:34 2005 (3512) message is unparsable: 1119540873.457257+d314fcd9d886c11a670875a479fab98a5fdbde1e Jun 23 11:34:34 2005 (3512) lost data files for filebase: 1119540873.457257+d314fcd9d886c11a670875a479fab98a5fdbde1e I don't know where the message went so I can look at it but the copy the poster sent direct to me looks fine. How do I figure out what is wrong with either the message or Mailman? 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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Re: [Mailman-Users] Need assistance trouble shooting problem after moving Mailman from one box to another moving Mailman from one box to another
by Bill Landry 23 Jun '05

23 Jun '05

----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas Waters To: Bill Landry Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Need assistance trouble shooting problem after moving Mailman from one box to another moving Mailman from one box to another On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Bill Landry wrote: You should have an entry in your Postfix main.cf like (pointing to your correct aliases paths): alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/usr/local/mailman/data/aliases This may be a part of the problem. I looked at the file and neither of these exist. But the lines allso have # so I thought those were comments... This will report any incorrect file/group permissions, or, to correct any file/group permissions issues, run as root: check_perms -f This seemed to work I believe. a number of lines said fixed. How do I rebuild the aliases.db file? bin/genaliases Here is what I get here: rxweb:~ tcwaters$ sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases postalias: fatal: open /private/var/mailman/data/aliases.db: Permission denied Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases", line 116, in ? main() File "/usr/share/mailman/bin/genaliases", line 106, in main MTA.create(mlist, nolock=True, quiet=quiet) File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create _update_maps() File "/usr/share/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr) RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /private/var/mailman/data/aliases (status: 1, Operation not permitted) Hmmm, where exactly do your Mailmail aliases files live? There appears to be some be some conflict in the paths shown above. Try executing the genaliases command from the mailman top-level directory as: sudo bin/genaliases and see if that works for you. Also, please keep posts and replies on the list, helps to build the archive for future reference. Thanks, Bill

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How to set up a simultaneous unmoderated and moderated forum.
by Don Saklad 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

How do you set up a forum so that a version is available that is unmoderated along with a version that is moderated, the choice up to subscribers?... Subscribers could alternate back and forth between the unmoderated and moderated versions of the forum depending on the threads that are of interest.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Need assistance trouble shooting problem after moving Mailman from one box to another
by Thomas Waters 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

Thanks to everyone who has emailed me with assistance so far. I have some follow up questions: Following FAQ 3.1.4, I ran check perms. I see a print out of perms. does this command just tell you what they should be; does it fix them? As per Aliases, the FAQ is confusing to me, but may be the cause of my problems. I do not understand how to tell if postfix is recognizing the ~mailman/data/aliases file. How do I rebuild the aliases.db file? Thanks, On Jun 21, 2005, at 2:10 PM, JC Dill wrote: > Thomas Waters wrote: > >> I posted last week before moving our distribution lists from a >> Panther Server (Mailman 2.1.3) to Tiger Server (Mailman 2.1.5). >> Instructioins, esp those from Mark Sapiro were very helpful. I >> was able to move the lists, and the archives. Everything in the >> OS X Server Admin UI looks fine and the Mailman Web UI looks >> fine. I can add members, delete members. But none of the >> transfered lists appear to work- mail sent to any of them seems >> lost. >> I can add a new list, add members, and that list works fine, so >> Mailman is functioning. >> On the transfered lists- I did these steps: >> Stop mailman on old server >> Stop mailman on new server >> copy lists and archives >> > > What about alises? > > >> edit mm_cfg.py to show correct host name >> ran fix_url.py although told me to run as bin/withlist -l -r >> fix_url listname >> >> This appeared to all run successfully. >> What to do next? >> > > Look at the list archives. > > If the message makes it to the archive, then mailman is getting the > message, so the problem would be with mailman sending the message > back out. Check to make sure the new mailman server has permission > to send thru your mail server etc. > > If the message doesn't get to the archives then the problem is with > the message getting to mailman, or with mailman processing the > message on the incoming side, e.g. broken alises not delivering the > mail to mailman or mailman treating the message as spam and > discarding it. > > Also look at the mailman logs and the mail server logs. > >

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strange change to email lists
by Thomas Hillson 22 Jun '05

22 Jun '05

I just moved my server to a new box with RedHat Enterprise and I have a strange change in all my lists now. Rather than coming from the list-name they are all coming from the list-name-bounces. What would make that happen, I tried taking the alias list-name-bounces out of my my alias list. Mailman still is sending email as list-name-bounces. Where do I find the parameter to change this back to being sent from list-name? thanks, -- --Tom /---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Tom Hillson Agriculture Computer Services Manager |(515) 294-1543 College of Agriculture | Iowa State University ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |"The only thing I have too much of is too little time"

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