Mailman 3 February 2006 - Mailman-Users

Unwanted Unsubscribe Notifications
by Matthew O'Malley Feb. 3, 2006

Feb. 3, 2006

Hello all - thanks in advance for any suggestions. My list moderators are receiving unsubscribe notifications for the list, and I don't know how to turn that off. I have (under General Options) "Should administrator get notices of subscribes and unsubscribes?" set to "No", but I'm wondering if there's another setting I need to turn off. I have (under General Options) "Should the list moderators get immediate notice of new requests" set to "Yes" because it's a fully moderated list, and … [View More]

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Include full name or description to the From address
by Tony Sciortino Feb. 2, 2006

Feb. 2, 2006

Is there a way to add a full name or the mail list description to the from adress. Instead of seeing From: mylist(a)mydomain.com You would see From: My List [mailto:mylist@mydomain.com]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Creatng a new list
by Ronnie Napster Tash Feb. 2, 2006

Feb. 2, 2006

Hi am geting this error when am creating a new mailing lists. Bug in Mailman version 2.1.7 We're sorry, we hit a bug! Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs. Any body with the idea?? -- & Ronnie Tash says, there's a method to my madness, its called being insane Everything can be achieved as long you can do what … [View More]

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How to manage archives
by Paul Williams Feb. 2, 2006

Feb. 2, 2006

We have about 500 lists and the archives keep growing. We are now over 12 Gigs and are rapidly running out of space. How does one go about trimming back on the older archives. Here is what I have been doing with a list with the name test but just realized my logic was flawed. I have a script that each month gzips the ./test.mbox/test.mbox file and it keeps 5 copies of the most recent months (it discards the oldest). But the files in ./test do not get truncated. Is there a way to tell it … [View More]

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generate web page of addresses in different format
by Christopher Adams Feb. 1, 2006

Feb. 1, 2006

I would like to be able to generate a list of subscribed addresses from the list information page. I can do this, but the address format is 'joe.blow at wherever.com'. Currently, all 500+ lists at our site only give the Administrator the ability to do this. Consequently, the security risk of a user harvesting email addresses isn't really much of a possibility. Is there a way to generate the page so that it uses the '@' instead of 'at'. -- Christopher Adams

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman giving a 500 error when trying to open theadministartor web page for a list.
by Steven Jones Feb. 1, 2006

Feb. 1, 2006

-----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:msapiro@value.net] Sent: Thursday, 2 February 2006 10:53 a.m. To: Steven Jones; mailman-users(a)python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman giving a 500 error when trying to open theadministartor web page for a list. Steven Jones wrote: >All the other lists work fine, just this one list seem to timeout, quite >possibly due to the shear volume of mail awaiting moderation? Do you know there is a huge volume of mail waiting … [View More]moderation for this list? If there is, it seems a possible cause. You could look at the data/heldmsg-listname-nnnn.pck files ======== No such files under /var/mailman/data/ Doing a find under /var/mailman/ reveals none.... ======== with bin/dumpdb and delete what you don't want with bin/discard (the clean way to do it) or you could just make a list of all the data/heldmsg-listname-nnnn.pck files older than a couple of days and feed that to bin/discard. Another thing you could try is just bin/dumpdb on the lists/listname/request.pck file to be sure it can be read. ======== Looks like it can be read. [root@vuwunicosmtp004 bin]# ls -l ../lists/mailerdaemon/request.pck -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 20 Feb 2 08:15 ../lists/mailerdaemon/request.pck [root@vuwunicosmtp004 bin]# ./dumpdb -n ../lists/mailerdaemon/request.pck [----- start pickle file -----] <----- start object 1 -----> {'version': (0, 1)} [----- end pickle file -----] >While trying to open this page, I can open other list admin pages >quickly without issue.... ======== So your web server isn't choking waiting for this one Cgi to respond. ======== Doesn't look like it, one CPU (of four) seems totally utilised...but that leaves me 3. >Where to start looking for why this particular list is faulting please? In addition to the above, there may be clues in Mailman's error log or the web server logs. ========= I get this from the mailman error log, [root@vuwunicosmtp004 bin]# more /var/log/mailman/error Feb 01 13:05:33 2006 (16068) Uncaught runner exception: No terminating boundary and no trailing empty line Feb 01 13:05:33 2006 (16068) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 99, in _oneloop msg, msgdata = self._switchboard.dequeue(filebase) File "/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Switchboard.py", line 151, in dequeue msg = email.message_from_string(msg, Message.Message) File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/__init __.py", line 52, in message_from_string File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 75, in parsestr File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 64, in parse File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 240, in _parsebody File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 75, in parsestr File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 64, in parse File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 265, in _parsebody File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 64, in parse File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 240, in _parsebody File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 75, in parsestr File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 64, in parse File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 265, in _parsebody File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 64, in parse File "/usr/src/build/526417-x86_64/install/var/mailman/pythonlib/email/Parser .py", line 206, in _parsebody BoundaryError: No terminating boundary and no trailing empty line ========= And I get this from the httpd log, [Thu Feb 02 09:33:34 2006] [error] [client 130.195.20.33] Premature end of script headers: admindb [Thu Feb 02 09:34:12 2006] [error] [client 130.195.20.33] Premature end of script headers: admindb [Thu Feb 02 09:35:38 2006] [error] [client 130.195.20.33] Premature end of script headers: admin, referer: http://lists.vuw.ac.nz/mailman/admin [Thu Feb 02 10:28:13 2006] [error] [client 130.195.20.33] Premature end of script headers: admin, referer: http://lists.vuw.ac.nz/mailman/admin [Thu Feb 02 10:36:14 2006] [error] [client 130.195.20.33] Premature end of script headers: admin, referer: http://lists.vuw.ac.nz/mailman/admin [Thu Feb 02 10:40:36 2006] [error] [client 130.195.62.121] Directory index forbidden by rule: /var/www/html/ ========== Is this a bug or a config error on my part? Regards Steven -- Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan [View Less]

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Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman giving a 500 error when trying to open theadministartor web page for a list.
by Steven Jones Feb. 1, 2006

Feb. 1, 2006

This is the message, Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, its-unix(a)xxx.ac.nz and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Apache/2.0.46 (… [View More]

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mailman giving a 500 error when trying to open the administartor web page for a list.
by Steven Jones Feb. 1, 2006

Feb. 1, 2006

All the other lists work fine, just this one list seem to timeout, quite possibly due to the shear volume of mail awaiting moderation? While trying to open this page, I can open other list admin pages quickly without issue.... Where to start looking for why this particular list is faulting please? Thanks Steven

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Emails delaying
by Hala Al Haddad Feb. 1, 2006

Feb. 1, 2006

Hi, I am using the mailman software through our web hosting orientplanet.info which we got from Livehost.net. Since 3 months we are suffering a problem which we didn’t know yet what is it, the server went suddenly to the high load indicator and the server staff kept all out emails on halt. Since that day we were not able to use the mailing list normal as we did for more than 8 months. If we are sending to 4 of our mailing list now, the server is hanging up although we have a 500 … [View More]

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changing email content for moderated add user
by Porter Feb. 1, 2006

Feb. 1, 2006

I am using mailman on an ISP hosted server via cpanel. Subscription to the list requires "Confirm and approve". Is there any way to add the subscriber's name to the email that goes to the moderator? Example of existing email below. It would be nice to have the name that was entered during the subscription process along with the email address. -------------- Your authorization is required for a mailing list subscription request approval: For: myaddress(a)domain.com List: … [View More]

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