Mailman 3 October 2006 - Mailman-Users

Re: [Mailman-Users] Still can't send out from Mailman
by Mark Sapiro 27 Oct '06

27 Oct '06

Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: > >The output from /var/log/mailman/smtp-failures includes the following: > >Oct 26 17:22:40 2006 (13140) delivery to patient1(a)uswest.net failed with code >-1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor >Oct 26 17:22:40 2006 (13140) delivery to patient2(a)earthlink.net failed >with code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor >Oct 26 17:22:41 2006 (13140) Low level smtp error: [Errno 9] Bad file >descriptor, msgid: ><mailman.1.1161620763.30237.sanchiro-patients(a)fyrenice.com> >Oct 26 17:27:41 2006 (13140) delivery to >sanchiro-patients-owner(a)fyrenice.com failed with code -1: [Errno 9] Bad file >descriptor >Oct 26 17:27:42 2006 (13140) Low level smtp error: [Errno 9] Bad file >descriptor, msgid: <mailman.0.1161751998.20463.test(a)www.fyrenice.com> >Oct 26 17:27:42 2006 (13140) delivery to scott(a)fyrenice.com failed with code >-1: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor >Oct 26 17:27:42 2006 (13140) Low level smtp error: [Errno 9] Bad file >descriptor, msgid: <20061026231232.GA17574(a)xmission.com> > >The list, with the first two lines, includes failed attempts to every one of >the 280 or so entries on my 'sanchiro-patients' mailing list, all ending >with the same error code. See the *entire* thread beginning at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-October/053942.html> I think both you guys should be talking to Debian, and if you find a resolution there, post it back here so we know what it is. -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Still can't send out from Mailman
by Mark Sapiro 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: > >I changed my mm_cfg.py to read as last two lines: > >SMTPHOST = 'localhost' >SMTPPORT = 0 This does no harm, but putting those lines in mm_cfg.py doesn't really do anything as you are just resetting them to the same values they already have from Defaults.py. >I have since run /etc/init.d/mailman restart, which responded as follows: > >fyrenice:/etc# /etc/init.d/mailman restart >Restarting mailman queue runner: mailmanShutting down Mailman's master >qrunner >No child with pid: 17469 >[Errno 3] No such process >Stale pid file removed. >Starting Mailman's master qrunner. This indicates that Mailman may have been improperly shut down in the past (maybe from your crash?). Now, do 'ps -fAw | grep python' or however you spell that on your system. You should see exactly one mailmanctl process and exactly 8 qrunner processes with names ArchRunner, BounceRunner, CommandRunner, IncomingRunner, NewsRunner, OutgoingRunner, VirginRunner and RetryRunner. If this is not what you see, see <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.068.htp> for a procedure that will clean things up. Also, are you still getting the same smtp-failure entries when Mailman sends, and are you getting any log messages from smtplib in Mailman's 'error' log? -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Still can't send out from Mailman
by Mark Sapiro 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: >> >> You can try the following: >> >> Give the command >> >> /usr/lib/python2.x/smtplib.py >> > >fyrenice:/var/log/mailman# /usr/lib/python2.3/smtplib.py >From: scott(a)fyrenice.com >To: sanchiro(a)gmail.com >Enter message, end with ^D: >this is a test message, at M. Sapiro's suggestions. >This is only a test. >Message length is 74 >send: 'ehlo localhost.localdomain\r\n' >reply: '250-fyrenice.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1]\r\n' >reply: '250-SIZE 52428800\r\n' >reply: '250-PIPELINING\r\n' >reply: '250 HELP\r\n' >reply: retcode (250); Msg: fyrenice.com Hello localhost [127.0.0.1] >SIZE 52428800 >PIPELINING >HELP >send: 'mail FROM:<scott(a)fyrenice.com> size=74\r\n' >reply: '250 OK\r\n' >reply: retcode (250); Msg: OK >send: 'rcpt TO:<sanchiro(a)gmail.com>\r\n' >reply: '250 Accepted\r\n' >reply: retcode (250); Msg: Accepted >send: 'data\r\n' >reply: '354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself\r\n' >reply: retcode (354); Msg: Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself >data: (354, 'Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself') >send: "this is a test message, at M. Sapiro's suggestions. \r\nThis is only >a test.\r\n.\r\n" >reply: '250 OK id=1GdCfZ-0002XR-Fc\r\n' >reply: retcode (250); Msg: OK id=1GdCfZ-0002XR-Fc >data: (250, 'OK id=1GdCfZ-0002XR-Fc') >send: 'quit\r\n' >reply: '221 fyrenice.com closing connection\r\n' >reply: retcode (221); Msg: fyrenice.com closing connection > >>From all the OK items, is it safe to say that worked correctly, aside from >my failure to end with a '.' on a line by itself? Actually, you did just what you were supposed to do. Terminating the data with '.' on a line by itself is part of the protocol and smtplib did that - that's the '\r\n.\r\n' at the end of the data. So the above test worked. Now the question is why doesn't it work when Mailman does it. Things to check/try. Defaults.py should have SMTPHOST = 'localhost' SMTPPORT = 0 These should not be changed in mm_cfg.py. If the above test was not run as the Mailman user, run it as the Mailman user ('mailman' or what ever it is on your system). Try the above as an ordinary user, not root, no special permissions. BTW, is Mailman using Python 2.3? I.e. is there another Python version on the machine that Mailman might be using? -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

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Problem With DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN
by Jon Forrest 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

(Mailman 2.1.9 on Fedora Core 5 Linux) In mm_cfg.py I have DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/' However, when I go to my mailman/listinfo page the links to my lists are wrong. They're https://https//mailman.ce.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/listname instead of https://mailman.ce.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/listname If I enter a corrected link (without the extra "https//") into my browser I get to the right page. This is happening even though I (believe) I followed the instructions in section 4.27 of the FAQ by running bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url I'm not sure if it matters by in Defaults.py I have DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'https://mailman.ce.berkeley.edu' add_virtualhost( 'mailman.ce.berkeley.edu', 'martin.ce.berkeley.edu' ) What am I doing wrong that causes the incorrect URLs to appear? Cordially, -- Jon Forrest forrest(a)ce.berkeley.edu Computer Resources Manager Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept. 305 Davis Hall Univ. of Calif., Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1710 510-642-0904

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trying to change default_url_pattern
by Anne Ramey 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I put this setting in my mm_cfg.py: DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman_ldap/' and my httpd.conf contains this: # This alias is for mailman mailing lists ScriptAlias /mailman_ldap/ "/usr/local/mailman_ldap/cgi-bin/" I can log into the list fine, but all of the links on that page are /mailman/ not /mailman_ldap/ and if I try and type in the correct link it works. How do I change this so that it changes what links it creates in my web interface?* * -- Anne

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Still can't send out from Mailman
by Dr. Scott S. Jones 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

AFAIK, my mailman failure to send out issue, resides solely at the pathway from mailman -> exim. All other email traffic, i.e., exim->mailman and all other email traffic, seems to work just fine. I have included the debug line in my SMTPDirect.py file, and yet nothing shows up in /var/log/mailman/error, i.e., no debug messages. Scott

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LDAP auth for admins
by Anne Ramey 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

Has anyone done this already: change the login page to accept email address and password and then (1) check to be sure the email address is an owner of the list then (2) if so, authenticate them off an LDAP? This would really reduce our forgot password type support calls. -- Anne

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How does mailman/mail/wrapper get created?
by Jon Ferraiolo 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I am working with my ISP to get Mailman installed on a private domain. I believe we have followed all of the Mailman setup instructions correctly. We are at the point where we mail lists with subscribers. However, when attempted to send email to one of the lists (e.g., foo(a)bar.com), we are now getting an error message that says: sh: line 1: /home/bar/mailman/mail/wrapper: No such file or directory Looking at my installation, there is no mail/main/wrapper file. Should there be one? Should it have been created by "make install" or is this something that needs to be created manually? Thanks. Jon Ferraiolo <jferrai(a)us.ibm.com>

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Leave
by Tom Brennan 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

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Change content filter rejection text
by Blatter, Nicholas 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I'm wondering if there is any way to change the message sent by the content filter when a message is rejected. I'm trying to move away from letting users send HTML messages to the lists I manage, and instead of saying "The message's content type was not explicitly allowed" I would like it to explain that only plain text messages are allowed. I saw there are language directories in messages/ with this field, but there are no English directories there (as I assume it's compiled into the program). Is there any way to change this message? Thanks.

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