Mailman 3 January 2006 - Mailman-Users

Invalid : @hotmail.com
by Munzir Taha Jan. 3, 2006

Jan. 3, 2006

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi sirs, # /usr/lib/mailman/bin/sync_members -w=no -f myfile.list mylistname Invalid : @hotmail.com Any hint why I got this error? I checked the myfile.list and can't see any mail without the username part. $ grep '^@' myfile.list $ - -- Munzir Taha Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Maintainer of Fedora Arabic Translation Project https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-trans-ar Maintainer of the OpenBugs project page at http://www.arabic-fedora.org/munzir/OpenBugs.html Master CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS, Linux+, LPI 101 Riyadh, SA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDuZ1+OBlicvBnGCERAsJsAJ9gWG6mMNV0K9Eql+u/uRnMblAplACfbuX1 1Ip1iDaiCZDF1J1tGeoMdxY= =+SOs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Logging Archive Creation in MM2.1.7
by Bryan Carbonnell Jan. 3, 2006

Jan. 3, 2006

Does Mailman log anything when you try and rebuild the archive from the commandline? The reason I am asking is that I have just installed MM2.1.7 on a test box and tried to rebuild the archive and I get an error with every archive I try and rebuild and I would like to try and track down what is causing the error. The error I get is: Pickling archive state into /var/mailman/archives/private/dba-vb/pipermail.pck Traceback (most recent call last): File "./bin/arch", line 200, in ? main() File "./bin/arch", line 188, in main archiver.processUnixMailbox(fp, start, end) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 585, in processUnixMailbox self.add_article(a) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/pipermail.py", line 626, in add_article filename)) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 1116, in write_article f.write(article.as_text()) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperArch.py", line 579, in as_text '\g<1>' + _(' at ') + '\g<2>', body) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/sre.py", line 143, in sub return _compile(pattern, 0).sub(repl, string, count) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xa3 in position 2025: ordinal not in range(128) I have looked through the mbox file and all the ascii characters greater than 128 are in the body of the e-mails. The 2 characters that i can find are the British Pound sign and what appears to be a MS "smart" single quote. I even brought the mbox over to my Windows box (I only know how to read a text file in a windows environment) and examined each character individually and didn't find any invalid characters in the headers. Can anyone help me try and debug this? Thanks, -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb(a)gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!"

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Problems with Archives, please help
by Hugh Esco Jan. 3, 2006

Jan. 3, 2006

Hey folks: Looking forward to trying out the 2.1.7. But in the mean time, I'm debugging an archiving issue with 2.1.6. At: http://<ourhost>/mailman/admin/<listname>/archive I've set a list configuration to: Publicly archive with weekly volumes. The cron jobs are loaded and at least some of the configured lists are sending mail. (The others have not yet been tested). And my apache configuration includes a line like this: Alias /pipermail/ /<install/path>/mailman/archives/public/ But now when there should be four or six messages available in the archive, I'm seeing only a browser message reading: The requested URL /pipermail/<listname>/ was not found on this server. Afraid I have no real background in python, except to have administered a few mailman installations over the years. I'd appreciate any clues folks here might share about why my list is not archiving its traffic. Thanks, -- Hugh -- RCK Computer Services http://reclaimedcomputers.ca/

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messages not being sent
by Ira Rosenblum Jan. 2, 2006

Jan. 2, 2006

I set up a mailing list using Mailman 2.1.6 and all the configuration seems correct, yet some messages sent to the list are not making it to the group members (even though the messages appear in the list archives). Has anyone else had this problem and if so, what did you do to solve it? I am not a "tekkie" so the simpler the instructions, the better! I.R.

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Shunting msgs.
by Thomas von Hassel Jan. 2, 2006

Jan. 2, 2006

Hi i have a mailman 2.1.6 installation on freebsd 4.9 Many of the msgs. to my lists are beging shunted with this error: Uncaught runner exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 18: ordinal not in range(128) Most of these msgs. are normal, plaintext msgs. Is there a way to force these msgs to the list, or is there something i could look at so these msgs. don't get shunted. /thomas -- Thomas von Hassel thomas(a)elements.dk "If it's not on fire then it's a software problem"

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RELEASED Mailman 2.1.7
by Tokio Kikuchi Jan. 2, 2006

Jan. 2, 2006

I'm pleased to announce the release of GNU Mailman 2.1.7. This is a significant release, which includes security enhancement fixes, a new language (ia: Interlingua) support, a couple of new features, and many bug fixes. Mailman is free software for managing email mailing lists and e-newsletters. This release enhances the fixes for CAN-2005-0202 and CVE-2005-3573 which were fixed in mailman release 2.1.6, and reduces the chance of list admin privilege abuse. Because of these and other fixes, it is highly recommended that all sites update to 2.1.7. For more information, see: http://mailman.sourceforge.net/ For links to download the Mailman 2.1.7 source tarball, see: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103 Best regards and a happy new year! -- Tokio Kikuchi

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List not archiving, please help.
by Hugh Esco Jan. 2, 2006

Jan. 2, 2006

Hey folks: Looking forward to trying out the 2.1.7. But in the mean time, I'm debugging an archiving issue with 2.1.6. At: http://<ourhost>/mailman/admin/<listname>/archive I've set a list configuration to: Publicly archive with weekly volumes. The cron jobs are loaded and at least some of the configured lists are sending mail. (The others have not yet been tested). And my apache configuration includes a line like this: Alias /pipermail/ /<install/path>/mailman/archives/public/ But now when there should be four or six messages available in the archive, I'm seeing only a browser message reading: The requested URL /pipermail/<listname>/ was not found on this server. Afraid I have no real background in python, except to have administered a few mailman installations over the years. I'd appreciate any clues folks here might share about why my list is not archiving its traffic. Thanks, -- Hugh -- RCK Computer Services http://reclaimedcomputers.ca/

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Reducing/redistributing the effort in moderation for general lists
by R. Bernstein Jan. 2, 2006

Jan. 2, 2006

I've recently become aware that a number of GNU bug and help mailing lists have gotten bogged down because of the continuous work needed in modereration. However there is reason to believe that this is problem is not just related to either GNU or bug and help mailing lists. If folks have solutions, thoughts or ideas or on this matter, I'd like to hear them. In general I think what is needed is a way to reduce the moderation effort or make such lists more self-sufficient or "self moderating" to weed out spam. Some of this has already been discussed a little on the mailman-developer list. I guess the main thread on this starts here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1394592&group_id=1… (Note: some of the thread above strays a little from the above topic)

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Msg Delivery Problem
by Web Developer Jan. 1, 2006

Jan. 1, 2006

Hi, I am a new user here and this is the first time that I use mailman as mailing list solution. I have a dedicated server on a German ISP (Strato) and mailman was preinstalled on my system. I just made settings for users and status of service as described below. - I have Plesk 7.5 on a Suse 9.3 - Mail man was activated direct on Plesk interface. I do not installed anything manulaly. - When I create a list, list owner gets a notification msg. - When I add a user, this new user gets welcome msg. - Users would login direct web interface for mailman and can do any action direct there. - BUT when a user sends a msg to the list THERE IS NOT MSG DELIVERED TO THE LIST. - There is also no information list admin for any action. Is that a configuration problem, or general what is the problem and what can I do now? TIA! Cenk Eder

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