Mailman 3 February 2006 - Mailman-Users

virtual host in subscribe url
by Robin Rowe Feb. 26, 2006

Feb. 26, 2006

Configuring Mailman with Postfix and virtual domains. On old sever that someone else set up for me the subscribe path was: http://mydomain.com/mailman/subscribe/announce_mydomain.com On new site I configured it is: http://mydomain.com/mailman/subscribe/announce Is this merely a change across versions of Mailman or have I not configured something correctly? Thank you, Robin

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't Delete Corrupt Subscriber Address
by Allan Hansen Feb. 26, 2006

Feb. 26, 2006

If you maintain people's names on the list, then the same procedure can be used to remove someone based on some string in the name, in case you know the name but not the address (I often get such requests): bin/list_members -f <list> | grep -e "<string>"| wc <count check> bin/list_members -f <list> | grep -v -e "<string>" > <list> bin/list_members -f <list> <list> All this can, of course, be worked into a simple script that also does the count check and that will return 'ambiguous', 'OK', 'not found' as appropriate. Then you should be able to remove someone with just delete_member <list> <some_string_of_characters> As for adding to the FAQ, I'll respectfully bow out and leave it to more experienced users to do if they deem the above an appropriate addition. Yours, Allan At 9:42 -0500 2/26/06, Tim wrote: >Excellent! Worked like a charm. This should be in the FAQ. > >Thanks much! > >Tim > > >At 07:43 AM 2/26/2006, Allan Hansen wrote: >>How about: >> >>bin/list_members -f <list>|grep -v -e "xxx(a)xxx.com" > <list> >>bin/sync_members -f <list> <list> >> >>Allan >> >> >> >>>Tim wrote: >>>> >>>>We have a subscriber address that has /t on the end of it (xxx(a)xxx.com/t) which can only be seen when dumping the lists config file. The subscriber address looks normal (xxx(a)xxx.com) when looking for it using any other method (list members, etc). >>> >>> -- _________________________________________________________________ | Allan Hansen, Ph.D. | | P.O. Box 2423, Cypress, CA 90630, U.S.A. | | | | Work: Home: | | Phone: +1-714/952-6015 +1-714/875-8870 | | Fax: +1-714/952-6746 | | Email: allan.hansen(a)ugs.com allan(a)hansen-family.us | | WWW: http://www.ugs.com http://www.hansen-family.us/ | | | |_Anything is possible with the right tools and right information_| -- _________________________________________________________________ | Allan Hansen, Ph.D. | | P.O. Box 2423, Cypress, CA 90630, U.S.A. | | | | Work: Home: | | Phone: +1-714/952-6015 +1-714/875-8870 | | Fax: +1-714/952-6746 | | Email: allan.hansen(a)ugs.com hansen(a)rc.org | | WWW: http://www.ugs.com http://www.rc.org/ | | | |_Anything is possible with the right tools and right information_|

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Can't Delete Corrupt Subscriber Address
by Allan Hansen Feb. 26, 2006

Feb. 26, 2006

How about: bin/list_members -f <list>|grep -v -e "xxx(a)xxx.com" > <list> bin/sync_members -f <list> <list> Allan >Tim wrote: >> >>We have a subscriber address that has /t on the end of it (xxx(a)xxx.com/t) which can only be seen when dumping the lists config file. The subscriber address looks normal xxx(a)xxx.com) when looking for it using any other method (list members, etc). > > >Do you mean '\t', i.e. a tab character? Is the difference between '\t' >and '/t' a typo here or does it have something to do with your lack of >success? > >If you try the '-f' option with list_members, you might actually see >the <tab> between 'xxx.com' and the terminating '>'. > > >>I've tried to use reg exps using remove member with no luck > > >Do you mean bin/remove_members? It doesn't accept regexps, only literal >addresses, and it won't accept a '\t' escape - you'd need to give it >an actual tab character. > >You could try > >bin/remove_members listname 'xxx(a)xxx.com<tab>' > >where <tab> represents an actual tab character > >>and tried using the method described in the FAQ (3.13. How do I remove a user name or email address with an illegal character in it?) with no luck either. > > >Try bin/withlist -l listname > >and then at the '>>>' prompts type > >adr = 'xxx(a)xxx.com\t' (this should be the actual address of course) >m.removeMember(adr) > >If that throws an exception, try > >del m.members[adr] > > >Then in any case type > >m.Save() > >in order to save the changed list, and finally type control-D to a >prompt to end the interactive session. > >-- >Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> The highway is for gamblers, >San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan -- _________________________________________________________________ | Allan Hansen, Ph.D. | | P.O. Box 2423, Cypress, CA 90630, U.S.A. | | | | Work: Home: | | Phone: +1-714/952-6015 +1-714/875-8870 | | Fax: +1-714/952-6746 | | Email: allan.hansen(a)ugs.com hansen(a)rc.org | | WWW: http://www.ugs.com http://www.rc.org/ | | | |_Anything is possible with the right tools and right information_|

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Can't Delete Corrupt Subscriber Address
by Tim Feb. 26, 2006

Feb. 26, 2006

We are using Mailman v 2.1.4 on a Linux box with postfix and I am site admin. We have a subscriber address that has /t on the end of it (xxx(a)xxx.com/t) which can only be seen when dumping the lists config file. The subscriber address looks normal xxx(a)xxx.com) when looking for it using any other method (list members, etc). I've tried to use reg exps using remove member with no luck and tried using the method described in the FAQ (3.13. How do I remove a user name or email address with an illegal character in it?) with no luck either. Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks Tim

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Fwd: installation problems - newlist-issues
by Henrik Feb. 25, 2006

Feb. 25, 2006

*resend* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henrik <henleg(a)gmail.com> Date: Feb 24, 2006 2:24 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] installation problems - newlist-issues To: Mark Sapiro <msapiro(a)value.net> Hello Mark, > Do you have > > DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en-US' > > in mm_cfg.py? It seems that that is the problem. Mailman has no > language 'en-US'. Since the default setting in Defaults.py is > > DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en' > > you can just remove > > DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en-US' > > from mm_cfg.py, or if you want it for documentation, change it to > > DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en' No, I didn't have that setting, however I added mailman the good old fashion way. However, now I can't get it to interact with apache. I'm pretty sure that it's rolling otherwise. Thanks. / H

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delivery to Prodigy
by Jeff Donsbach Feb. 25, 2006

Feb. 25, 2006

Has anyone out there had any problems with their lists where messages were not being delivered to subscribers on Prodigy? I have one user on Prodigy (small lists) that says he hasn't received any list emails for a while now. I checked my Postfix logs and I can see that Prodigy accepted the messages successfully (return code 250). I'm at a loss of what to do next. Yes, I have told him to check any Spam filters & folders on his end to see if messages were getting caught somewhere. No luck. No messages found. Suggestions? Could Prodigy be silently dropping messages from my lists? Thanks in advance, Jeff

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Mailman won't send messages?
by Dennis Carr Feb. 25, 2006

Feb. 25, 2006

I've noticed that, on a new install of Mailman, list traffic is not being sent out - it seems that everything is just routing to nowhere in particular. What do I need to show in order to figure out what the problem is? Running Debian Sarge, installed through apt-get; MTA is postfix. -Dennis Carr

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Integrating Mailman with Spamassassin
by Jon D. Slater Feb. 25, 2006

Feb. 25, 2006

I've been using Mailman for some time, and just recently installed SpamAssassin on my Fedora Core 4, Linux machine. Where can I find instructions to integrate the two (so, that SpamAssassin analyzes the e-mail before sending a request to the moderator for approval)? Thanks! Jon

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email problem
by patrick siglin Feb. 25, 2006

Feb. 25, 2006

Finally figured out what was going on. The mx record on my inside dns was mai.memphistw.org instead of mail.memphistw.org.

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Archives not working (yes, I broke it...)
by Dragon Feb. 25, 2006

Feb. 25, 2006

I was doing some edits of the archive template files on my installation of Mailman 2.1.5 Long story short, I ran into some write permission problems when trying to upload my edited versions and in a fit of bone-headedness, I screwed up a bunch of permissions by over zealously using the -R option of chmod... This broke everything. I couldn't access the admin pages, the archives or post to my lists. I panicked. Then I tried to do a rebuild/reinstall from source. No luck there, and then I remembered the check_perms script and used that to fix the damage I did. After a restart of the mailman daemon using mailmanctl, I could now post to the list and get to the admin pages. So far so good. It's not a complete disaster anymore, just a minor one. But now the archive simply will not work. Nothing gets added to the archive mbox file when I post to the list nor can I access the archive web pages (and yes, I double-checked the list archive settings and made sure the archive files are all still there). I am using the built-in archiver, it seems to not be able to find the archive files because all I get when I try to view the archive is a page that says "Private archive file not found". I've looked at everything I can think of at this point and can't find a solution. What am I missing? Is there an obscure setting somewhere or a database file or something out there that needs to be told what lists are on the server? Help will be much appreciated. Dragon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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