Mailman-Users December 2006

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138 discussions

Add "sender's name/email" to BODY of mail as header?
by Mal 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

I want all mails sent to the list to come from the list's email address... But, in this case, if the user forgets to sign their name at the bottom of their mail body, effectively the mail to the list is anonymous...! Is there a way to add the user name (or email address) to the top of each mail so that the mails have the name of the sender, while the mail itself comes from the list address? I have looked high and low for an answer, but noone seems to have the solution. Thank you! Mal

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Setting MIME as default for new Non-Digest subscribers
by Steve Reiter 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hi - I have searched FAQ and archives to find an answer. Hoping you can help. I have a new list (with previously imported addresses) for announcements only, and wish these announcements to be received immediately. I set the defaults to allow non-digest and to not allow digest. I wish to send out announcements in html, and so wish to make the default for new subscribers be MIME. While I see a setting under Digest Options (MIME_is_Default_Digest), I don't see any equivalent option under Non-Digest Options... and new subscribers continue to come in as plain text. QUESTIONS: In order to avoid having to manually change this option for each existing subscriber, is there a way to force all existing subscribers to receive MIME in Non-Digest mode? If not, is there a way to force all NEW subscribers to be enrolled with MIME as their default? Also, is there a way to "lock" the MIME switch on, so that users who try to change their option to plain text will be prevented from doing so? Thanks - Steve

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Mailman/Qmail/Plesk Problem
by Douglas G. Phillips 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

OK, I've got another problem with Qmail/Plesk/Mailman (same customer, rebuilt server). Plesk is 7.5.4 reloaded. Mail delivered fails with "need GID 110 got 101" error. I set up the brute-force wrapper to deliver with GID 110, and set the permissions correctly for it to work. Now, I'm getting the following (broken up into multiple lines for courtesy): qmail: 1157518628.995172 delivery 726: success: group_mismatch_error._Mailman_expected_the_mail_wrapper_script_to_be/ executed_as_one_of_the_following_groups:/[mail,_nobody,_mailman],/ but_the_system's_mail_server_executed_the_mail_script_as_group:_"popuser"./ Try_tweaking_the_mail_server_to_run_the_script_as_one_of_these_groups:/ [mail,_nobody,_mailman],/or_re-run_configure_providing_the_ command_line_option:/'--with-mail-gid=popuser'./Failed_to_start_ /usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman./did_0+0+1/ I'm about ready to pull my hair out. I even added the popuser user to the mailman group in /etc/passwd. So, that being said, are there any ideas out there? I have been messing with this for a week, and have not come up with anything else to do. -- Douglas G. Phillips Simple Business Solutions ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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MSN and HotMail "Eating" Messages
by fshagan 24 May '07

24 May '07

Recently, my Mailman list users who use either a HotMail or MSN.COM email address have not received any messages. Mailman does not record a "bounce" from these email addresses, but they do not receive any of the list traffic. When trying to send a message to a Mailman list, the user gets the following error message: "This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed." And it lists the Mailman list email address. However, Mailman does not receive a bounce message. (My server is not listed with SpamHaus.org, or any of the other blacklists, so it should not be a spam filter sort of thing). One user requested help from MSN, and they responded with: "You are experiencing this issue because your .Net Passport <user's email address here> Profile (which is extensively used for authentication purposes) is corrupted (not updated). In order to resolve this issue, I would suggest you to Update your .NET passport profile." They follow that with instructions to go to their MSN .NET Passport profile and re-type all the information by hand (not by cut and paste). Then a 15-step procedure is given to delete all cookies, history and temporary internet files and re-set the disk cache (space for files) to 10MB. They believe that will solve the problem but alas, it has not for the 4 users I have with MSN or HotMail email addresses. Anyone else run into this and resolved it? I didn't see anything in the archives. If any of you have users with MSN or HotMail addresses, be advised they probably will not be able to receive emails, but you will not get "bounce" messages. They only way they will know is if they try to post to a Mailman list.

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Mailman on Mac OS X Server 10.3: Outgoing messages stuck in qrunner/in folder
by Pierre Igot 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi, I am running Mailman on an Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.3.9. The version of Mailman is the one included with Mac OS X Server 10.3.9. (It's 2.1.2.) I've just started experimenting with mailing lists on this server using Mailman. Things worked fine until I actually got to the stage of mass-subscribing a series of nearly 500 email addresses. I used the web-based Mailman interface to submit the list of 500 email addresses for new subscribers, through the "Mass Subscription" web form. I just copied the list of email addresses (separated by return chars) from a text editor and pasted it in the field and submitted. My mistake (I think) was that I submitted the entire list of 500 email addresses at once. Initially it SEEMED to work, i.e. I got a confirmation page listing all the subscribers that had been added to the list. But then I became unable to access the admin page for the list altogether. The server would simply not respond. I could still access other parts of the web-based Mailman interface, but not the pages for this particular list. After a bit of on-line research, I discovered that the problem was probably due to "locks" in the /var/mailman/locks/ folder. Indeed, when I looked inside that folder, I found a whole series of files named: enseignants.lock enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.421.1 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7150.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7166.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7216.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7228.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7286.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7470.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7696.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7819.0 enseignants.lock.www.cprp.ca.7918.0 ("www.cprp.ca" is my server and "enseignants" is the name of the list) The instructions for dealing with this were not exactly clear, so I just removed all these files so that the "locks" folder was empty. After that, I was able to access the list's admin pages again. So I thought everything was good. Then I tried to send a message to my subscribers. (It's a receive- only list, so I'll be the only one sending messages.) However, the message that I sent never got sent to the mailing list's subscribers. After more online research, I found out that my message was actually stuck inside the /var/mailman/qfiles/in/ folder. I also found that I could force Mailman to send the message by using the command: /usr/share/mailman/bin/qrunner -r All That worked and the message got sent out to the list (although I then had to control-C the process to return to the prompt). But I find that this now happens every time I want to send a message. The message never gets sent automatically as expected. Instead, it gets stuck in that /qfiles/in/ folder and I have to run the qrunner - r All command to get it sent. This never happened with this list before I added the 500 subscribers and had to fiddle with the /locks/ folder. Prior to that, when I was still in the stage of testing the mailing list with only a handful of test subscribers, everything worked fine and the messages would get sent automatically. My suspicion is that the problem is due to what I did in the /locks/ folder, that maybe I wasn't supposed to remove all the files. (I have kept them on a local disk in case I need to move them back to that folder.) But unfortunately further on-line research and a search through the mailman-users archives didn't return anything that would help me. I found people describing various similar problems, but the troubleshooting steps seem suggested totally foreign to my actual problem. Hence this message. I would REALLY appreciate it if someone could help me with this. I simply do not have the required Mailman expertise. I just want to use Mailman for a single announcement list. I suppose I could erase everything and start from scratch again, but maybe someone here has an easier solution. Thanks in advance for any help. Pierre Igot -- Pierre Igot, administrateur des systèmes / Systems Administrator www.cprp.ca 902-837-7391

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list names and virtual domains
by ubw＠gmx 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Having been charged temporarily of a certain service, I've been asked to solve in this period the following problem: on a machine running many different virtual hosts, each time that a new list is created with mailman, mailman adds to the list name the full virtual domain name. I mean: if I create a list called TEST(a)myhost.org in mailman it becomes TEST_MYHOST.ORG(a)myhost.org and I feel that this situation is quite odd. I tryed to browse in the archives, but -due to my inexperience- I'm not sure which is the correct definition of the problem, because I found among others the following answers that do not seem to fullfill exactly my situation: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg33883.html http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg27586.html http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg14528.html http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg23031.html http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg17300.html http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg29439.html http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.029.htp I'll be very thankful to anyone giving me a helping hand! thanks a lot for your patience UB Warren

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BoundaryError: No terminating boundary and no trailing empty line
by Noah 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

freebsd-4.11 sendmail-8.13.8 mailman-2.1.9_1 python-2.4.3 any clues why mailman keeps dumping the following error trace in /usr/local/mailman/logs/error ? Happens about every hour or so or sometimes minutes apart. --- snip --- Dec 26 08:27:28 2006 (75889) Ignoring unparseable message: 1166121349.6141329+c811d30798575d4ca57b9a0552a1d394a95c8ff1 Dec 26 08:27:28 2006 (75889) Uncaught runner exception: No terminating boundary and no trailing empty line Dec 26 08:27:28 2006 (75889) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 100, in _oneloop msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 164, in dequeue msg = email.message_from_string(msg, Message.Message) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/__init__.py", line 51, in message_from_string return Parser(_class, strict=strict).parsestr(s) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 75, in parsestr return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 240, in _parsebody msgobj = self.parsestr(part) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 75, in parsestr return self.parse(StringIO(text), headersonly=headersonly) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 265, in _parsebody msg = self.parse(fp) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 64, in parse self._parsebody(root, fp, firstbodyline) File "/usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser.py", line 206, in _parsebody raise Errors.BoundaryError( BoundaryError: No terminating boundary and no trailing empty line --- snip ---

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OS X Permissions Help.
by Chris Florio 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello all, I'm trying to get mailman working on my intel based Mac Mini running 10.4.8 (NOT OS X Server). I'm running Postfix configured using http://cutedgesystems.com/software/MailServe/ I have configured and installed mailman using some instructions I found here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-July/045697.html The problem is, it looks like i have a group or ownership problem somewhere. As the instructions said, I configured using: sudo ./configure --prefix=/Applications/mailman --with-cgi-gid=www -- with-mail-gid=mailman Using the instructions from the list I found, I am getting this error posting to a list I created: ... The Postfix program <alumni(a)citadel97.com>: Command died with status 2: "/Applications/mailman/mail/mailman post alumni". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "mailman", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "www". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "mailman", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=www'. ... So, I tried again using: sudo ./configure --prefix=/Applications/mailman --with-cgi-gid=www -- with-mail-gid=www And then I get this error: The Postfix program <alumni(a)citadel97.com>: Command died with status 2: "/Applications/mailman/mail/mailman post alumni". Command output: Group mismatch error. Mailman expected the mail wrapper script to be executed as group "www", but the system's mail server executed the mail script as group "mailman". Try tweaking the mail server to run the script as group "www", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=mailman'. .... Any ideas? Thanks!

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removing members with non-standard characters
by Anne Ramey 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

I'm not sure how one of my list admins managed to do this, but they have four members on their list that look like this in the membership list: b <http://lists.ncmail.net/mailman/options/nciin-network-ops/%00b%00r%00i%00a%…>

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Using demime with Mailman
by Hank van Cleef 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

I'm in the process of setting up a system to host Mailman lists which will replace another system at another site. The other site has sent me a copy of their /usr/lib/mailman tree, so I can examine their configuration and copy list-specific files, and have a Beta-test version running. Major problem with all of the funny-formats included in mails these days. Mails from specific users are just being passed through with no reformatting. On the old site, it's clear that Demime is being used. However, I can find nothing in the old Mailman tree indicating that it's installed. Hank For reference: Mailman 2.1.9 Python 2.5 Solaris 8 9/05 on Sun Ultra 10 (Sparc system) Sun Studio 11 devsys used to compile. Old configuration: Mailman-2.1.4 Migration was to build a new 2.1.4 tree, create the list, than move the old list's config.pck to the new one. Then install 2.1.9 as an upgrade to the 2.1.4 tree. -- Hank van Cleef (vancleef(a)lostwells.net, hvanclee(a)nyx.net)

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