Mailman 3 March 2006 - Mailman-Users

Hostname confusion
by MacShane, Tracy March 24, 2006

March 24, 2006

I have a new Postfix 2.2 server and am trying to integrate Mailman 2.1 with it. The Mailman package is that provided by RedHat, and I followed their config instructions during installation. I'm also using the postfix-to-mailman.py (2.1) script to make use of virtual domains. I'm pretty much a n00b when it comes to *nix admin, although my Postfix server appears to be working happily. Now we come to the issue. My mail server's FQDN is server.domain.gov.au. I want to deliver mail to mailman(a)lists.altdomain.com. lists.altdomain.com does not exist as a DNS alias. I modified all the main.cf, transport and master.cf files for Postfix as specified in the script (eg. the transport file contains the line "lists.altdomain.com mailman:", and so on). When I try to send mail to my test mailman mailing list, the mail gets routed out to the MX server that is currently primary for the altdomain.com domain (and rejected there, since "mailman(a)lists.altdomain.com" doesn't exist on that server). I think the issue is with the mm_cfg.py configuration. At present, I have the standard settings: DEFAULT_URL_HOST = fqdn DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = fqdn Do I need to change DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST to server.altdomain.com (not server.domain.gov.au), and have a corresponding alias entry in DNS? We absolutely cannot "move" the server to the other domain. Can I "cheat" and put an entry in the local hosts file instead? This server is currently in place for testing purposes only. Thanks!

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about autosubscribing
by johanna lovett March 24, 2006

March 24, 2006

I hope I've found the right place to ask this question --- my website offers Mailman lists and I'm trying to figure out how to allow members to autosubscribe via my site (so that I don't have to manually add them). Would code below do it? Thanks very much for your help. J. <hr ALIGN="center" WIDTH="730"><br> <H2><B>Join the XYZ list</b></H2> <FORM Method=POST ACTION="<SERVER>/mailman /subscribe/<LISTNAME>"><br> Your E-mail address: <INPUT type="Text" name="email" size="30" value=""><br> Your Name (optional): <INPUT type="Text" name="fullname" size="30" value=""><br><br> <INPUT type="Submit" name="email-button" value="Subscribe"> </FORM> <p><p> <hr ALIGN="center" WIDTH="730">

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Not receive email when posting to list
by Jana Nguyen March 24, 2006

March 24, 2006

Hi there, I can subscribe to a list, both I and the owner of the mailing list get an email notifications. But I do not receive email when posting to any of the mailing list that I created. Thank you.

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Re: [Mailman-Users] Bounce issues with Yahoo - resolved
by Greg Lindahl March 23, 2006

March 23, 2006

FYI, it turns out that the biggest reason Yahoo was hoding up my emails was that my reverse DNS and the name of my mail server didn't look enough alike. When I changed them to be the same, my backlog quickly cleared. I also have a backlog with verizon.net, see http://blog.kloppmagic.ca/archives/2005/02/24/verizon-450-requested-mail-ac… That post is a bit old, I'm not sure what Verizon is doing right now, but the upshot is that spam emails are getting 450 responses instead of 5XX responses. Verizon also has a spam policy which affects mailing lists: http://www2.verizon.net/policies/spamming.asp To whit: 100 recipient max for single messages, 500/hour. I don't know if that's per from line or per server, probably the latter. Exceeding 500/hour shuts off emails for 24 hours. You can request to go on their whitelist at: http://www2.verizon.net/micro/whitelist/request_form.asp?id=isp Since these issues are common to different mailing list managers, is there a website that contains this kind of info? If not, should we make one and advertise it to other mailing list communities? -- greg

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Mailman using Sendmail
by Steven Jones March 22, 2006

March 22, 2006

Hi All, Hopefully anybody running mailman over sendmail will have got the CERT alert for a issue with Sendmail. RH have released patches and it looked urgent... Regards Steven

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wrong encoding in archive
by pal＠hkskole.no March 22, 2006

March 22, 2006

I'm using ISO 8859-1 encoding, and the Norwegian letters æøå are shown correct, except in the Archive. æøå are shown as ? and some chinese(?) characters in the archive. Ay ideas? -- Pål Monstad

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problems with .pck files
by james edwards March 22, 2006

March 22, 2006

After my server panicked and rebooted itself, when this cron runs: /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_new I get this error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 284, in ? main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 264, in main process_lists(lock) File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 199, in process_lists mlist = MailList.MailList(listname, lock=0) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 128, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 608, in Load raise Errors.MMCorruptListDatabaseError, e Mailman.Errors.MMCorruptListDatabaseError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/jid/config.db.last' The config files exist for this list: [root@jidmail init.d]# cd /var/lib/mailman/lists/jid/ [root@jidmail jid]# ls config.pck config.pck.last pending.pck request.pck >From what I read on the internet about this issue, this lists config files are now hosed and I should replace them from the last known good backup. Is this correct ? james

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Hit a bug - only on this list - Memory does not appear to be the issue
by Rick G March 22, 2006

March 22, 2006

Advise please. Bug in Mailman version 2.1.4 We're sorry, we hit a bug! If you would like to help us identify the problem, please email a copy of this page to the webmaster for this site with a description of what happened. Thanks! Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main main() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py", line 236, in main print doc.Format() File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py", line 331, in Format output.append(Container.Format(self, indent)) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py", line 264, in Format output.append(HTMLFormatObject(item, indent)) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py", line 50, in HTMLFormatObject return item.Format(indent) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py", line 417, in Format output = output + Container.Format(self, indent+2) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py", line 264, in Format output.append(HTMLFormatObject(item, indent)) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py", line 50, in HTMLFormatObject return item.Format(indent) File "/usr/local/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py", line 200, in Format output = output + self.FormatRow(i, indent + 2) MemoryError _____ Python information: Variable Value sys.version 2.3.3 (#1, Jan 9 2004, 18:28:44) [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]] sys.executable /usr/local/bin/python2.3 sys.prefix /usr/local sys.exec_prefix /usr/local sys.path /usr/local sys.platform freebsd4 _____ Environment variables: Variable Value HTTP_REFERER http://kictribe.org/mailman/admin/clinic SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) PHP/3.0.12 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/admindb SERVER_SIGNATURE REQUEST_METHOD GET USER kictribe SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1 QUERY_STRING HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive HTTP_COOKIE clinic+admin=2802000000691d4420447328000000386231333436646537633432383834343 56262373162376461636537623938386565396137616432 SERVER_NAME kictribe.org REMOTE_ADDR 12.146.34.130 PATH_TRANSLATED /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/clinic SERVER_PORT 80 SERVER_ADDR 161.58.197.51 DOCUMENT_ROOT /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs PYTHONPATH /usr/local/mailman SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admindb SERVER_ADMIN webmaster(a)kictribe.org HTTP_HOST kictribe.org REQUEST_URI /mailman/admindb/clinic HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */* GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1 REMOTE_PORT 28304 HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate PATH_INFO /clinic Rick Grams

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Mail delivery bounces - why
by Jewel March 22, 2006

March 22, 2006

I just replaced an old mailman server last night and was sent an email saying that mail is bouncing. What could be causing this? Subject: Uncaught bounce notification From: mailman-bounces(a)bc01s12.washburn.edu Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:21:32 -0600 To: bna-uslawweeknews-owner(a)bc01s12.washburn.edu The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted from it. This mailing list has been configured to send all unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s). For more information see: http://lists.washburn.edu/mailman/admin/bna-uslawweeknews/bounce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Mail Delivery Problems From: <mailer-daemon(a)washburnlaw.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:21:29 -0600 To: <bna-uslawweeknews-bounces(a)bc01s12.washburn.edu> The following message from bna-uslawweeknews-bounces(a)bc01s12.washburn.edu, addressed to: admin(a)lists.washlaw.edu is still undelivered after 10 attempts, and will be deleted from message queue. 3/21/2006 10:03:11 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused 3/21/2006 10:05:13 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused 3/21/2006 10:07:15 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused 3/21/2006 10:09:17 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused 3/21/2006 10:11:19 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused 3/21/2006 10:13:21 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused 3/21/2006 10:15:23 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused 3/21/2006 10:17:25 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused 3/21/2006 10:19:27 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused 3/21/2006 10:21:29 AM - Winsock error when communicating with exchanger lists.washlaw.edu: 198.252.9.198: [10061] Connection refused -- Jewel

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Membership Management And Other Problems.
by multimedia-fan＠myrealbox.com March 21, 2006

March 21, 2006

Greetings, I cannot "Set everyone's moderation bit, including those members not currently visible" to on, in the membership management section in any list. I have set OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = 1 In /Mailman/mm_cfgy.py But still have the same problem. Also I cannot set or unset digest for all users, any thing I overlooked? This was happening before the changes made in the next issue explained below. In the last couple of days we had to reconfigure reverse mapping in DNS for the server, and now the URLs that Mailman builds in the list admin and info pages are pointing to the old host name, is there a way of correcting this, without re-installing mailman from scratch? Any pointers, clues will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your assistance.

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